business wasn t so high. we can talk about the policies one by one and state did they help or hurt growth? i think he also advocated policies that said he would help growth, they clearly did not. i kind of wonder what was going on in the heads of the economist that told them that they would would like cash for clunkers and so on that didn t have much effect at all. but say he destroyed the economy or something like that, that s not what the cia chair should be doing just playing off of his question go separately because i will forget the first one. you coming out talking about the economic numbers, it seems like it might be be at times wh president obama s speeches. is that why you are here today? thank you for asking because sarah can tell you that i ve been pushing her to let me show the slides for quite a while, that we ve updated them for recent data.
joining us now is political historian allan litchman. there are those who know that woodrow wilson was simply a product of his time and now we are applying today s values to what was the product of, or shall i say values of his time. i don t buy this product of the times argument, there is something to it. but there were many, many people in wood drrow wilson s times wh are challenging segregation, challenging racism, trying to move the nation forward in its race relations. woodrow wilson did a lot for princeton university. he even challenged the old boy power structure there, he reformed the curriculum, he advanced opportunities for catholic and jews, a although not african-americans. as you indicate, he was a transformational president who really moved the democratic party into its present day