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i'll never vote. there's no need for me to vote. and she does. she casts her first ballot, i believe, for her son for governor. but smith's hook on women's suffrage is, he gets bill mos cowits and a lot of these people involved and he starts to realize, these are new voters. and they said, how do i talk to these people? they said, talk to them like you would talk to a chamber of commerce. like you would anybody else in a campaign. smith starts to realize that women suffrage is a good idea. i can enlighten these people. i can get them to vote democratic. that's where he gets the brain...

phobia. some came back to anti religion, his accent. it was almost a kind of way for them to say you're foreign, you're not like us. >> we'll get to calls going to in just a minute. he went to work in about 1886 at 13 years old. where did he go to work? >> he had probably one of the toughest careers i've ever heard of. he starts by leaving early and he goes and sells newspapers. he goes to start -- after school i'm going to sell newspapers. he makes a few dollars that way. it's not enough. his mother incidentally had to go and get a job the day that they buried his father. she comes ...

talking about. immigration, nativism, all of these sorts of issues. and he really calls the question -- he takes a very sort of powerful stand about who's going to be an american. who ought to be included as an american. and becomes a great symbol for that. i think within the democratic party, he is also a very powerful figure and sort of consolidating what we now talk about as the roosevelt coalition, but it's really something that begins with al smith bringing this urban core into the democratic party. >> yale university history professor beverly gage and john evers, former new yor...

i was elected 20 times and defeated twice. i've worked for the county, i've worked for the city. i have worked for the state. and you will probably remember that i tried to get a job down in washington but something happened to me at that time. [laughter] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> "the contenders" continues with wendall wilkie. [cheering] >> we want willkie! we want willkie! we want willkie! ♪ >> i stand before you without a single pledge or promise or understanding of any kind except for the ...

some people here are pulling for me. [applause] i am delighted to see you here tonight, hillary. [laughter] >> i was thrilled to get this invitation. i feel right at home here because it is often said i share the politics of alfred e. smith and the ears of alfred e. newman. [laughter] it is an honor to be here with al smith iv. obviously, i never knew your great-grandfather. but from everything senator mccain told me - [laughter] the two of them had a great time before prohibition. [laughter] >> of course i am delighted, but not surprised, by the final repeal of the 18th amendment. i...