This is CBS Eye on the World. I'm John Batchett with Neil Langto. The book is the approaching

storm. This is progressivism at the beginning of the 20th century. Roosevelt, Wilson and Adams

defined progressivism between them. They're at odds over the first war, but really over

the style of governance that Wilson practices, which is a one-man think tank, and the style

of government that Roosevelt proposes, which is a one-man cavalry charge, and the style

of government that Jane Adams is pleased to advance, which is peace, peace is better than

war. No matter the issues, we can settle this. The mass murder that's, they're witnessing

in Europe in 1916. The Battle of the Somme alone undermines the ability of Great Britain

to produce a generation for the next 50 years. That's how bad things have become in the

summer of 16. However, the election is decided in these last, in the last days, by specifying

and by loyalty of the Democrats. It isn't resolved until the California votes are finally

all in, and with a few thousand difference between them, the electoral college goes to Wilson.

He is now re-elected president of the United States. The inauguration won't be till the

late winter of 1917. So there are months here. Wilson is the president-elect and the Wilson

and the president at the same time. Neil, this is the time for a peace note from Wilson.

He sends one to both war, to all warring parties on December 18th. What has happened that

he moves towards a peace note, now associating himself with the pacifists? And what is in that

note that he hopes will be action? Well, a little background is important to understand

this. By the fall of 1916, the Germans pretty much understood that they cannot win a long

war. So what they're hoping to do is find a way to end the war fairly soon, ideally with

them, still in the lead. Because at this point, they probably were winning, winning the war.

It had certainly had more territory. So the thing of the way to get the war won, it won and ended,

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