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so ellen wilson and woodrow wilson had very different views on racial equality. do we know if that caused any friction between them? i don't know about friction now. ellen, as i said, was not the most progressive on this issue. but her ally, bill, was one area where she did do something. she was a southerner. she had come from a family that historically had enslaved other humans. and we know woodrow was not progressive on this issue. so other than that particular bill, she didn't speak out on anything else. and to and from what we know, she really did approach him and tried to get him to do anything, especially about the jim crow laws. she remained silent and didn't talk about that. okay. so we have a question from genevieve, who's actually a peace corps volunteer in belize. thanks for tuning in, genevieve. how many first ladies besides mrs. obama have ancestry that includes african-american heritage, to your knowledge, no one else to my knowledge. don't. michelle obama was such a you know, like i said, huge leap forward from where we were before. but not only wa
so ellen wilson and woodrow wilson had very different views on racial equality. do we know if that caused any friction between them? i don't know about friction now. ellen, as i said, was not the most progressive on this issue. but her ally, bill, was one area where she did do something. she was a southerner. she had come from a family that historically had enslaved other humans. and we know woodrow was not progressive on this issue. so other than that particular bill, she didn't speak out on...
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who would have thought woodrow wilson would be so spicy? yeah. so what is another letter that you read that when you were researching that you came across that genuinely surprised you? well, i think of the letters that surprised me most at first was the letter from richard nixon, because richard nixon's letters to pat are really poetic and very deeply touching. on his first date, he proposed to her. he said he fell in love with her. at first sight and you can see this is the letter he wrote afterwards. they met. they were they met in a amateur, dramatic present tation. they were both in a play together. okay. he wrote to her, and this is sometime in 1938. and he was then a 25 year old lawyer. patricia, somehow on tuesday, there was something electric in the usually almost stifling air in whittier, california. that is. and now i know an irish gypsy who radiates all that is happy and beautiful. was there. she left behind her a note addressed to a struggling barrister who looks from a window and dreams. and in that note he found sunshine and flowers
who would have thought woodrow wilson would be so spicy? yeah. so what is another letter that you read that when you were researching that you came across that genuinely surprised you? well, i think of the letters that surprised me most at first was the letter from richard nixon, because richard nixon's letters to pat are really poetic and very deeply touching. on his first date, he proposed to her. he said he fell in love with her. at first sight and you can see this is the letter he wrote...
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watch the woodrow wilson center discussions live today at 2 p.m. eastern on c-span2, c-span now our free mobile video at, or online at c-span.org. >> celebrating the 20th 20th anniversary of her annual studentcam documentary competition this year c-span asks middle and high school students across the country to look forward while considering the past. participants were given the option to look 20 years into the future or 20 years into the past. in response we received inspiring a thought-provoking documentaries from over 3200 students across 42 states. top award of $5000 for grand prize goes to nate and jonah, tenth graders at weston high school in connecticut. their documentary innocence held hostage navigating past and future conflicts with iran. >> and it is evident that the next 20 years the united states must make more policy that faces heavy restriction on all americans traveling to iran. not only will we see a less hostage taking but the trip with a lawyer to participate such considerable negotiations with iran. >> congratulations to our win
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thank you goes to the woodrow wilson center for hosting us today. it's been a truly exemplary cooperation we have been having, thank you for your support of this visit. you probably wondered why are we here? and let me start with what i think critical information. never in history have there been a polish, french, german parliamentary delegation to congress. never have our security interests aligned to the extent that we would be speaking in one voice and going to convince the u.s. congress to the very critical security interest of the entire transatlantic alliance. we have come a as a weimar triangle delegation come first and foremost of course meet congress, meet senators but also do everything for the committee on come subcommittee on your tomorrow to speak about the necessity of the united states remaining in your come remaining at key transatlantic partner. we will also speak mainly about ukraine who today is not being wheeled but is being out shop does everyday because of the lack of antimissile defense shields because of a lack of ammunition
thank you goes to the woodrow wilson center for hosting us today. it's been a truly exemplary cooperation we have been having, thank you for your support of this visit. you probably wondered why are we here? and let me start with what i think critical information. never in history have there been a polish, french, german parliamentary delegation to congress. never have our security interests aligned to the extent that we would be speaking in one voice and going to convince the u.s. congress to...
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wilson. fired, resigned opposing world war one. he was probably right that's a war we shouldn't have been. he will become a key advocate of women's suffrage and helped push that through. but he is going to become a leading figure in the campaign to drive teaching of evolution from the public schools. william jennings bryan. huge. everyone would knew. william jennings bryan. there. there's made by his statue in the rotunda. remind me never to do that again. and he did not like darwin and reasonable some of the reasons he didn't like darwin is he particularly didn't like the way he did teaching had been used. he actually really believed that part of the german militarism that to world war one came from the germans coming to believe that darwin's principles were part would play into human society and that the global would be a struggle of survival for the fittest and helped cause a war that would cause 16 million deaths. and he didn't like that. darwin initially never. the term survival of the f
wilson. fired, resigned opposing world war one. he was probably right that's a war we shouldn't have been. he will become a key advocate of women's suffrage and helped push that through. but he is going to become a leading figure in the campaign to drive teaching of evolution from the public schools. william jennings bryan. huge. everyone would knew. william jennings bryan. there. there's made by his statue in the rotunda. remind me never to do that again. and he did not like darwin and...
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woodrow wilson when he became the first president in office travel outside the western hemisphere. think of that to supervise the creation of 14 new countries that the at the this a peace process found himself down his hands and knees scrambling over maps a very great deal but the solutions of course were toxic to the germans who still claimed as this map shows that a large part of the central landmass of germany of europe should be part of a greater germany and the convention of german geographers. as early as 1921 passed a resolution that any maps and atlas is used in school should show these greater borders rather than the present borders of germany. so that schoolchildren should not lose a sense of grievance about what had happened at the end of the first world war. you. want to come on now to prisoners of war who? of course, they ultimate captive audience for books and many of read incessantly my individual choice. here is second lieutenant francis, who was captured in june of 1940. so was a prisoner of war for almost five years now. many prisoners of war kept a journal. and i
woodrow wilson when he became the first president in office travel outside the western hemisphere. think of that to supervise the creation of 14 new countries that the at the this a peace process found himself down his hands and knees scrambling over maps a very great deal but the solutions of course were toxic to the germans who still claimed as this map shows that a large part of the central landmass of germany of europe should be part of a greater germany and the convention of german...
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and he's begging woodrow wilson to be a soldier in world war one at age 58. i mean, he'd lost his mind, but he pushed of his sons in the war, one of whom got killed, and the other one got badly wounded. of course, he grieved over that. what have i done? why did i do this? and then at age 64, you go to sagamore hill is home. my wife is here and he notices on the medal and sagamore hill over the mantle. the axle of the airplane that his son quenton was flying when he was shot down. it's like a when i when i took tour of the home, the fact that stood for me was the person who gave me the tour said. every morning he would drink a gallon of coffee and half was a dozen and he would eat a dozen eggs. and he died at 58. and no, he died at 66. but but but he did obviously get fatter and fatter and fatter. but i mean, you know, you think of how juiced up you'd be if you drank a gallon coffee every morning fdr talked to us a little bit about polio the impact of polio on him. well i believe that the way fdr ultimately overcame may be the greatest story in american of any
and he's begging woodrow wilson to be a soldier in world war one at age 58. i mean, he'd lost his mind, but he pushed of his sons in the war, one of whom got killed, and the other one got badly wounded. of course, he grieved over that. what have i done? why did i do this? and then at age 64, you go to sagamore hill is home. my wife is here and he notices on the medal and sagamore hill over the mantle. the axle of the airplane that his son quenton was flying when he was shot down. it's like a...
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and the idea was, i mean, he had been actually a propagandist in the woodrow wilson administration, and he saw that as a disaster, came to regret that, saw that world war one had led to a slaughter and absolute slaughter. and he felt that the press was complicit in that. and so objectivity was designed to counter propaganda efforts, not to promote propaganda efforts to counter them. and the idea was that we need to all of us have our own opinions. we have our preconceptions, our preexisting points of view. and when we're doing reporting that we should we need to overcome those. we need to be open minded. we need to talk to all people. we need to look at all the evidence we need to a rigorous job, a comprehensive job, a thorough job. and in the same way that a scientist the idea was to try to replicate as best we could, what a scientist does in a laboratory where you have an hypothesis. hypothesis about what you're experiment will show. but let the evidence lead you to the conclusion you don't ignore the evidence and you don't manipulate the evidence. you let the evidence tell you what's
and the idea was, i mean, he had been actually a propagandist in the woodrow wilson administration, and he saw that as a disaster, came to regret that, saw that world war one had led to a slaughter and absolute slaughter. and he felt that the press was complicit in that. and so objectivity was designed to counter propaganda efforts, not to promote propaganda efforts to counter them. and the idea was that we need to all of us have our own opinions. we have our preconceptions, our preexisting...