thanks for having me here. >> you talk about wilson's role as a scholar and thinking of american government. you say that he was strangely -- wrote a treatis that questioned the ability to lead in a system in which the legislature outweighed the branch. >> he was in his 30s when he wrote that and extremely -- one of our first political scientists in this country, the only president with a ph.d.. he knew what he was talking about. but he also knew that the presidency was the least defined office in the constitution. and that it was basically up to the president himself to define what the president can do. >> some of the early scholarship brought up in contact with henry cabot lodge. >> it's a great irony of history, wilson's first published piece, which got published just after he graduated from princeton, was about the government and it went
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