They helped shape Public Opinion over the three years that america remained neutral in the conflict. Finally, in 1917, president wilson led the nation in what was hoped to be the war to end all wars. Welcome to the president Woodrow Wilson house here in washington, d. C. This home was finished in 1916 and was the home to which the president and misses wilson moved the very day that they left the white house. Both of them lived here the rest of their lives. President wilson had three more years. Edith,ly, his widow, lived until 1961 in this home and had a front seat in American History during that entire time. In our collection, we have a large number of gifts of state that were given to the president and mrs. Wolff. One reason is because of the reason isole one because of the pivotal role that the president had an ending world what i. It was 100 years ago that world war i broke out. President wilson faced to crises in his life. One was the aroutbreak of war. Hisjust four days later, wi
Live. Are we going to end up in ohmless shelters homeless shelters . As far as obamacare goes, i understand it was a law passed, and i understand and i stand behind that. However, i do not like the fact that the president can change things at will. Were so worried about what the republicans want to do, its obama who made the first move. Hes the one that started giving all these exemptions. If thats good enough for me, why is it not good enough for them . If we had the british system, we would dissolve congress as they would dissolve parliament or some entity that theyre got getting the dollars. My greatest concern is theres no discussion of ways to increase revenue into the federal government. In all my years of balancing a budget, ive always had to look at increasing work time, working overtime, getting a second job. All my children have worked two and three jobs to be able to get through school. I feel that the, all the congressmen need to consider the opportunities of revenue increa
Many use the radio. And then talk a little bit about how this will help the Hoover Family and their approach . [inaudible] [inaudible] this is a recent account. And so the way it goes. [inaudible] [inaudible] we are helping so valiantly and you are going to be helping as delicately as well as long as the need lasts. Ever faithful to trust is a constantly diminishing demand. In some way, this included his tracks to the nation. Absolutely. She is the first first lady to make a National Radio talk and to try and push this voluntarist message, which is very much something that Herbert Hoover is doing at this time. And its interesting that she is doing these talks about the girl scouts movement, which in 1932, she comes up with a plan after the formulation. They formulated it. But its basically this effort to try to muster the resources of the girl scouts into a more coordinated and organized effort to help out coordinating with state Police Agencies and she actually has an individual who a
Your Credit Rating goes dowfnlt the tragedy of this is that were not only going to add to the deficit and debt of this country by playing this brinksmanship, we are going to hurt every american, every american who relies on credit, whether it is a mortgage, whether it is car loan, a student loan. Weve now linke link student loo this problem. Think about the dollars and think about whats happening to the American People when we dont do the things that we need to do. We shut down government but wont let people go to work, serve the public, but then say, oh, dont worry, were going to pay you. And then we cost by shutting down this government we have cost millions and millions a and millions and billions of dollars, adding to the deficit and debt. Dollars that we didnt have to spend. And now were going to play this brinksmanship in our debt limb. Debt limit. Were going to shake up not only the american markets, were going it add to the interest costs not only of the American People and of
Please let them find another word that hostage. Both parties share responsibility for the discourse. We have to get back to greater stability where we can respect each others opinions, still have differences, have lively debate about the future course of our country, but lets make it less personal. I agree with you. We have to learn how we can disagree without being so disagreeable. And it is not just elected representatives. This course that we see is all over the country right now, especially on talk shows, pushing those hot buttons. People get riled up all the time. We have a lot of work to do to reach a level of conversation that is conducive to Good Government again. Is next in iowa. Democratic caller. Caller i have a lot of savings bonds. Down, government shuts will i lose them, will i lose the interest on them . The savings bonds you have should be safe and secure. The real danger is on thursday when we run out of the ability to pay our bills, what the government chooses to defa