ida tarbell becomes the first woman he hires. a some way, she was always little in love with him and maybe he in love with her. her,tory of when he finds he has read an article that he has written -- she has written, she went on her own to paris after college. never wantsat she to get married because she has ambition to be something. she is starving in paris. just writing little articles. suddenly, he bounds of 80 steps says, i have to see you. we have 10 minutes. he tells her about the stream of the new magazine. she is the first one that he brings on board. >> where was she from and how did she get into writing? >> she had grown up in pennsylvania. her father had originally been a teacher. when the oil was discovered as an independent oil producer. he was making more money than he ever dreamed. suddenly, rockefeller comes down to standard oil, destroys her father's business. her mother who had wanted to be a teacher and had been one had to stop to take care of the family. that is why ida dreamed she had -- would be something ot

ida tarbell becomes the first woman he hires. in some way, she was always a little in love with him and maybe he in love with her. the story of when he finds her, he has read an article that she has written, she went on her own to paris after college. she prays that she never wants to get married because she has ambition to be something. she is starving in paris, just writing little articles. suddenly, he bounds up 80 steps says, i have to see you. we have 10 minutes. he tells her about this dream of the new magazine. she is the first one that he brings on board. >> where was she from and how did she get into writing? >> she had grown up in pennsylvania. her father had originally been a teacher. he got involved when the oil was discovered as an independent oil producer. he was making more money than he ever dreamed. suddenly, rockefeller comes down to standard oil, destroys her father's business. her mother who had wanted to be a teacher and had been one had to stop to take care of the family. that is why ida dreamed she would be

. >> ray baker, lincoln steffens, and ida tarbell. what were their individual relationships with president roosevelt and president taft? >> ida had more of a relationship than the others did. but she kept herself more in new york. she didn't go to washington as much as the others did. ray baker saw them dozens of times. went to saginaw hill. lincoln steffens had a long relationship even though it was fraught with tension. at one point, they wanted to study the corruption of the federal government. roosevelt gives him a little piece of paper. you can do whatever you want. whatever it is, i'll take care of it. he gives it to lincoln steffens. he said i want everyone to see this letter to know it was the truth. they could not get them to talk as much as they hoped they would. he would never write about the corruption of federal government. he wrote corruption on the state government and city governments. >> five total, we start out with sam mcclure, william allen white of emporia, kansas. >> that's amazing. a country editor in emporia, k

i knew about ida tarbell and william allen white. and i didn't know mcclure, so he came into my life. >> roosevelt, taft, and the muckraker sunday night with doris kearns goodwin. >>> all weekend long, american history tv is featuring ann arbor, michigan, where gerald ford's presidential library is located. he attended and played football for the university of michigan. hosted by our comcast cable partners, c-span's local content vehicles visited many sites, exploring the city's rich history. learn more about ann arbor all weekend long on american history tv. >>> this is the story of willow run, one of the ford farms that vicini virtually overnight became the largest aircraft plant that had ever been built. story that can now be told in full. >> we're presently in what is known as hangar 1 at willow run airport. we're in bay 8. and if you look out at about a 45-degree angle from here, we see the two doors where the bombers would come off the assembly line after they were built. there's a lot of stories that lead up to the building of

i knew about ida tarbell and william alan white but i didn't know the others and i didn't know mcclure so he came into my life. >> roosevelt, taft and the muckrakers tonight with the bully pulpit author doris kearns goodwin on c-span's q&a. >>> next on the civil war, author historian and co-director of the lincoln study center douglas wilson talks about the gettysburg address delivered by president abraham lincoln 150 years ago on november 18th, 1863. he considered several facets of the address including its context in the war and how it would have sounded when delivered by president lincoln versus how it reads on paper and how its meaning and interpretation have evolved over time. the lincoln group

so tarbell come wowtz something on standard oil, and it leads to the disintegration of standard oil. >> jon: they break up the monopoly. glai break up the meat business. >> isn't that great? wouldn't you love to live in that time? >> jon: and the people of the country are following these stwrs greacenters with great ind it has a great efficacy to it. >> people would read these and press their congressman. they felt if you reg lailtedly the economy the economy will fall apart and this was the beginning of government having a real role. it just makes me sad to see where we are today. our attention span is limited-- is that your attention span? ( laughter ). >> jon: i was just thinking, oh, you know what i love? ( laughtelove?laugh ( laughter ) you're dead on right. and the idea that these institution how these institution however corrupt they've become-- have become the enemy of the people when they're made up of people is the great tragedy of this more modern era. >> guy mcclure said in the end there's no one left but all of us, which is the people. and right now we the people have to

i knew about ida tarbell, and william allen white, but i did not know about the others. >> tonight with doris kearns goodwin on c-span q&a. informationut the that facebook has on over a billion people. they know your political preference, your sexual preference, all these things. one security analyst said that if the government directed -- ask you directly to that information, it would take money, lawyers, maybe even guns to get you to cough up that information. but we were to reduce on social networks. we also don't think about the fact that our google searches are tracked. books, and history my google searches, would be very incriminating. andok at date rape drugs things like that for my mystery books. people sitting there with their computers inc. that they are engaged in some the great therety, not knowing that is a big eyeball on the other end. they keep track of what you do. lorir laurie andrews -- andrews on "the communicators." night, we will look at the life and legacy of lady bird johnson. live at 9:00 p.m. eastern on c- span. r,spoke with linda johnson the daughter of lady bi

i knew about ida tarbell and william alan white but i didn't know the others and i didn't know mcclure so he came into my life. >> roosevelt, taft and the muckrakers tonight with the bully pulpit author doris kearns goodwin on c-span's q&a. >>> next on the civil war, author historian and co-director of the lincoln study center douglas wilson talks about the gettysburg address delivered by president abraham lincoln 150 years ago on november 18th, 1863. he considered several facets of the address including its context in the war and how it would have sounded when delivered by president lincoln versus how it reads on paper and how its meaning and interpretation have evolved over time. the lincoln group of the district of columbia hosted this event. it's ban hoabout an hour and te minutes. >> thank you very back here. i remember when i first made my brash entrance into the lincoln field, one of the first invitations i got was from this group. and i remember that -- what i had to say astonished many people, but they were polite. and steve carson made me squirm for my dinner by asking hard q

one of the most glorious piece is about wilson was written by qaeda tarbell. in fact, it was so wonderful i find myself not quoting it because i thought it made me look too partisan in wilson's favor. but i think is quite true we have been suggesting about this great actualization of the media because what we have lost the, and you really articulated it. we just don't think as much anymore. we react from the get some much. that is why we flock to that cable station bespeaks what we think we think even though we have not body yet. but i think that is a big factor today. wilson had a very good relationship with the media up to and just into the first world war which wilson ultimately brought us into. and at that point -- is because one of the great ironies in the story, the most progressive president that we had today, not even for getting tiara, but that this president became the most suppressive of the press, which he did during the war, revitalizing the sedition acts which really had been quiet certainly since the days of atoms and someone with lag in they we

one of the most glorious piece is about wilson was written by qaeda tarbell. in fact, it was so wonderful i find myself not quoting it because i thought it made me look too partisan in wilson's favor. but i think is quite true we have been suggesting about this great actualization of the media because what we have lost the, and you really articulated it. we just don't think as much anymore. we react from the get some much. that is why we flock to that cable station bespeaks what we think we think even though we have not body yet. but i think that is a big factor today. wilson had a very good relationship with the media up to and just into the first world war which wilson ultimately brought us into. and at that point -- is because one of the great ironies in the story, the most progressive president that we had today, not even for getting tiara, but that this president became the most suppressive of the press, which he did during the war, revitalizing the sedition acts which really had been quiet certainly since the days of atoms and someone with lag in they we