wilcox, it is here where he takes the presidential oath of office. i theodore roosevelt dashed do solemnly swear that i will faithfully execute the office of the president of the united states. and will to the best of my ability and will to the best of my ability preserve, protect, and defend the constitution of the united states preserve, protect, and defend the constitution of the united states. and thus i swear. host: we are at six: 41 delaware avenue, the home of ainsley wilcox, a prominent buffalo attorney who was friends with theodore roosevelt when roosevelt was in the new york state assembly. roosevelt as vice president did not have all that much to do. he was actually in buffalo three times. he came to open the his wife, ida, who was in ill health, prevented him from coming, so roosevelt substituted for him in may of 1901. of course, when mckinley was shot on september 6 of 1901, roosevelt was looking for a hotel room, and just by chance bumped into
tom: up mount marcy, down mount marcy, across saranac lake. unbelievable. jon ferro still on sabbatical. people say, why are you here? to be honest, it s because i was moving. there s a lot of that going on. while you were gone, we got some housing data. one of the things we got out there is a booming housing market with the haves. lisa: people who can buy houses will, although people who can be at work and avoid being tormented for being off for one week may do so. maybe jon will prolong his vacation in order to not be lambasted for being on a sabbatical. what about you? aren t you going to do some portage? i heard you love that. tom: no, we are going to try to get the kids back to school and move forward. we welcome you back on bloomberg television, bloomberg radio. everyone hearing about this challenge of virtual learning, back in the classroom. simply getting people back to the office. the summary is it is not happening, is it? lisa: no. my youngest kid is beginning schoo
in that it had been a colony of japan s sense 1910. during the second world war, there was fighting in korea, the u.s. and the soviet union jointly occupied korea and they agreed to divide korea. now, northern korea, that is what we call today north korea, was very much communist influenced. southern korea, which we now call south korea, was a very different situation. with the assistance of the u.n., they sponsored elections in south korea and south koreans elected a democratic government. north korea, however, wanted to unite under its terms and so it sent insurgents into south korea to try and overthrow that government and they failed to do so. then, in january of 1950, the u.s. secretary of state dean achison made a significant error. in a speech talking about the areas of influence and positions that were vital to the united states s interest, he mentioned japan and the philippines and omitted south korea. the north koreans interpreted that as a statement that the u.s. w
was a dutch knickerbocker here from new york and a mother from the bullet family. she came from georgia. 1858 you all know something about history. the civil war is upon us. in the roosevelt family, you have a feud, a mother who loved robert ulee and a father who loved grant. t.r. decided to love the west instead. as i talk about some of his formative years in the dakota territory, it will be clear what the west meant. if i focus for a moment on 1858, one year after he was born 1859 was darwin s on the origin of species. theodore roosevelt s father was one of the founders of the institute next door, the american museum of natural history, but he had an uncle robert barnwell roosevelt who was called the audubon of the civil war era and went on to write books like fishing on lake superior and a book on the waterfowl of florida. uncle rob was an ardent darwinian and wrote seminal things about eels and frogs. she ran for congress to save the shad, because they were being fi