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at that time his name was hiram ulysses grant. he later became known course as ulysses us grant the two of them partici painted in a debate society. there are records of their debates and the subject m■atteri talk about in the book some of it's very ironic. but then grant's father decided he wasn't paying enough attention. his studies for what he was paying into with and for him. so he sent him off to west point where tuition was free and the two of them in 1838 sort of separated separated. marquand went on to go augusta college in kentucky and to study the law and became a steamboat clerk and then in 1848, he and, his father went to washington, d.c., where they each became clerks in different offices and mark then became a clerk in the pension, which dealt with the pensions for revolutionary soldiers still alive at that time. and soldiers the war of 1812. he a busy, busy young man but. 1850 he married the daughter of a wealthy developer in washington, d.c. his name sampson simsndartha sims is n see.tiful young woman, as you we tt
at that time his name was hiram ulysses grant. he later became known course as ulysses us grant the two of them partici painted in a debate society. there are records of their debates and the subject m■atteri talk about in the book some of it's very ironic. but then grant's father decided he wasn't paying enough attention. his studies for what he was paying into with and for him. so he sent him off to west point where tuition was free and the two of them in 1838 sort of separated separated....
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well, who knew that ulysses grant was the founder of the united nations. i mean, that is the vision that he's got there in does indeed foreshadow what came to pass in a in a in a certain fashion or aspirationally perhaps after the second world war. that is what he's thinking of are i mean, grant was an extraordinary individual. he was not an actual politician. he was he was much better educated than he was often given credit for. he thought serious certainly about issues he had about public. and as you your the questioner suggested even international issues it's it's what says in that of of course he had no effect he had no effect whatsoever. but it was aspirational. it was a statement of values and hopes it was akin to the policy he pursued with respect to native americans, american indians, grant's policy initially was a pacific policy. by today's standard, nobody very few people approve of the establishment of reservations and so on. within the context of his time, his policy aspired, aspired to peaceful relations with the tribal nations. okay, that fel
well, who knew that ulysses grant was the founder of the united nations. i mean, that is the vision that he's got there in does indeed foreshadow what came to pass in a in a in a certain fashion or aspirationally perhaps after the second world war. that is what he's thinking of are i mean, grant was an extraordinary individual. he was not an actual politician. he was he was much better educated than he was often given credit for. he thought serious certainly about issues he had about public....
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ulysses grant is a player notably in the civil war, but also a direct in the tenure of office act fight between president andrew johnson and congress after the civil war. and taft was theodore roosevelt's secretary of war and right hand man and. it's important to remember that taft earlier on in his career is civilian governor of the philippines. there's a tendency to think of taft primarily as judge, but his work in the philippines suggests a deep experience in executive authority that then translates into the presidency and to put this all together, i think the new understanding of what the state was doing gives us a host of issue areas to look for presidential power and looking for presidential power throughout the 1800s reveals extensive exercises of presidential power by numerous presidents. the this fascinating is also lindsay as historians you know, we love ranking presidents, right with every year there's a you know, a new ranking and things don't change all that much. but the three presidents that stephen is talking about so usually ranked very high on that list of presidents.
ulysses grant is a player notably in the civil war, but also a direct in the tenure of office act fight between president andrew johnson and congress after the civil war. and taft was theodore roosevelt's secretary of war and right hand man and. it's important to remember that taft earlier on in his career is civilian governor of the philippines. there's a tendency to think of taft primarily as judge, but his work in the philippines suggests a deep experience in executive authority that then...
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ulysses grant is a player notably in the civil war, but also a direct in the tenure of office act fight between president andrew johnson and congress after the civil war. and taft was theodore roosevelt's secretary of war and right hand man and. it's important to remember that taft earlier on in his career is civilian governor of the philippines. there's a tendency to think of taft primarily as judge, but his work in the philippines suggests a deep experience in executive authority that then translates into the presidency and to put this all together, i think the new understanding of what the state was doing gives us a host of issue areas to look for presidential power and looking for presidential power throughout the 1800s reveals extensive exercises of presidential power by numerous presidents. the this fascinating is also lindsay as historians you know, we love ranking presidents, right with every year there's a you know, a new ranking and things don't change all that much. but the three presidents that stephen is talking about so usually ranked very high on that list of presidents.
ulysses grant is a player notably in the civil war, but also a direct in the tenure of office act fight between president andrew johnson and congress after the civil war. and taft was theodore roosevelt's secretary of war and right hand man and. it's important to remember that taft earlier on in his career is civilian governor of the philippines. there's a tendency to think of taft primarily as judge, but his work in the philippines suggests a deep experience in executive authority that then...
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each of my case studies john quincy adams, ulysses grant and william taft use tools in all five of theseories to try to get done what they want to get a large and influential federal state. and these three presidents make something this because first of all, the scope of their lives extends throughout the first part of american history. john quincy adams as a child witnesses, the american revolution. he writes of w■itnessinth bunke, william taft serves as chief justice into the 1920s. ulysses middle of those two john quincy adams son, one of john quincy adams sons, and william howard taft, father, are in grant's administration. and so with three presidents, we get a that runs from the earliest days of the revolution right through the 1920s more over each of these presidents was witness to exercises of presidential authority by. so adams is in congress for the louisiana purchase and jefferson's embargo. adams, of course, writes nroe doctrine for james monroe. ulysses grant is a player notably in the civil war, but also a direct act fight between president andrew johnson and congress after
each of my case studies john quincy adams, ulysses grant and william taft use tools in all five of theseories to try to get done what they want to get a large and influential federal state. and these three presidents make something this because first of all, the scope of their lives extends throughout the first part of american history. john quincy adams as a child witnesses, the american revolution. he writes of w■itnessinth bunke, william taft serves as chief justice into the 1920s. ulysses...
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understand why why that wrong and why we really should be looking at john quincy adams ulysses grantd william. all right, i'll try. thanks for the question. i don't thinknded. i know those the regular touchstones, but put more positively. my main argument in the book is th a active, independent and influential presidency has been a core element of american governance since the george washington administration and throughout 19th century. and what i wanted to do with this book was to link presidency studies with the now robust on american state development and american political development. we now know thanks to a lot of doing much more in the 19th century than we used to think. there have been tremendous studies land pension policy, disaster relief, infrastructure development, indian affair dipls enforcement enforcement, all of were overly or many of them were overlooked for many years, as we used to cover 19th century history studies have focused on policy areas, land policy and indian affairs and so on. what i wanted to do with this book was see how our new understand of the 19th
understand why why that wrong and why we really should be looking at john quincy adams ulysses grantd william. all right, i'll try. thanks for the question. i don't thinknded. i know those the regular touchstones, but put more positively. my main argument in the book is th a active, independent and influential presidency has been a core element of american governance since the george washington administration and throughout 19th century. and what i wanted to do with this book was to link...
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abe lincoln a biography, an american ulysses, a light the life of ulysses grant. he is also the author of lincoln's speech the second inaugural, the eloquent president, a portrait of lincoln through his words and lincoln in private, which won baroness lincoln award. his most recent book, which speak about this morning, is on fields the life and unlikely heroism of joshua lawrence chamberlain. please give join me in giving a lincoln forum forum welcome ron white. thank you, john, for your friendship and your leadership then harold for the invitation to be here and all of you already we've had wonderful conversations. we will certainly have more as the time goes forward. as i prepared biography of joshua lawrence chamberlain and i received a telephone call from, brunswick, maine the woman herself as a consultant charged with rewriting the script to for visitors to see the remarkable chamberlain. after we talked for a while i asked her at the end of the conversation well, who comes to the chamberlain home? well, she said about 60% are chamberlain fans. they just pack
abe lincoln a biography, an american ulysses, a light the life of ulysses grant. he is also the author of lincoln's speech the second inaugural, the eloquent president, a portrait of lincoln through his words and lincoln in private, which won baroness lincoln award. his most recent book, which speak about this morning, is on fields the life and unlikely heroism of joshua lawrence chamberlain. please give join me in giving a lincoln forum forum welcome ron white. thank you, john, for your...
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i'll follow up segway in federal ulysses grant the vote in the wake of emancipation and the the decision to stay as long as they did and when they pulled out it's like hell continue to break loose that didn't seem to be any stays of systems to assure any of social anything. so you take on grant after and emancipate. knowledge knowledge. okay. all right. yeah. you know, the traditional story has been that grant's record is bad on reconstruction, but ron chernow's book biography of grant that came out a few years ago, i don't think i he wasn't you know, he wasn't trying to make excuses for grant, but he i think he kind of rebuilt hated grant a little bit in. grant's commitment to black civil rights. and i think he i think he's right you know in that grant really did take this seriously but but you know by the 1870s there is there there is so much against this, right. that even, you know, even grant is having trouble negotiating and grant had his problems. let's face. and i don't mean the alcoholics. i mean politically. right. he wasn't terribly astute in many respects. and so he did he did
i'll follow up segway in federal ulysses grant the vote in the wake of emancipation and the the decision to stay as long as they did and when they pulled out it's like hell continue to break loose that didn't seem to be any stays of systems to assure any of social anything. so you take on grant after and emancipate. knowledge knowledge. okay. all right. yeah. you know, the traditional story has been that grant's record is bad on reconstruction, but ron chernow's book biography of grant that...
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ck he wrote when he was a president was to pay for his willard hotel bill ulysses grant also at the willard. however, when he appeared to check in with his son, he didn't have on his uniform. he looked disheveled and unfortunately one recognized him. so his room wasn't very nice. we're lucky, though, he doesn't hold a grudge because he came back to the willard multiple times. he liked to smoke a cigar, sit by the fhe favors, and president grant called themas made a word that's common in our picture. we learned today. juliet ward howe was also a guest at willard. she was the sister, the famous lobbyist, sam ward, and he had recommended she and her husband at the willard. the willard was one of the few hotels that offered stationery to his guest. it was on one of these pieces of stationery. early one morning, she penned the to the battle hymn of the republic. it was originally a poem, but when added to the music, it became the patriotic and national caay a patriotic song throughout our land we also had colonel logan stay with us and had decided that a day should be dedicate it in the memory o
ck he wrote when he was a president was to pay for his willard hotel bill ulysses grant also at the willard. however, when he appeared to check in with his son, he didn't have on his uniform. he looked disheveled and unfortunately one recognized him. so his room wasn't very nice. we're lucky, though, he doesn't hold a grudge because he came back to the willard multiple times. he liked to smoke a cigar, sit by the fhe favors, and president grant called themas made a word that's common in our...
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and he he actually predicted his at it the night before ulysses grant was supposed to have been his guestght who h bail at the last and on president lincoln's desk in the oval office night, he was alegislation to create tt service, albeit not presidential protection, primarily for counterfeiting purposes, but i thought that was kind of ironic. he was also a world class wrestler in than 300 matches, losing only one of them. someone told me that he is enshrined in the like the world wrestling hall fame, which i thought was interesting interesting. coincidentally, i want to show you something over here. of all 42 sculptures, the only one to take a spill off of a flatbed. abe. that hole in the back of his was not in, although the one on the top when he fell off of the flatbed, which i thought was pretty ironic. so that's a little something about these three. the remaining 39 statues are kind of clustered and this patch summertime, you can't see the hole side of this entire cluster because it's so overgrown and basically becomes a forest. at first i had a problem with that because it was obscu
and he he actually predicted his at it the night before ulysses grant was supposed to have been his guestght who h bail at the last and on president lincoln's desk in the oval office night, he was alegislation to create tt service, albeit not presidential protection, primarily for counterfeiting purposes, but i thought that was kind of ironic. he was also a world class wrestler in than 300 matches, losing only one of them. someone told me that he is enshrined in the like the world wrestling...
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ulysses s grant becseand he was like five.scrawny little. he was like, yep, that's right. that's my name. no further questions. and thank goodness he did because otherwise his initials would have been hug and don't think a guy with the initials hug really could have won the civil but u.s. grant unconditional surrender grant that's a guy who can take you to victory. but he's noted at west point as people and also as a horseman, he held jumping records, horsemanship records, west point that stood for decades after left the military academy. he topped out at five foot eight, about 180. so he had a bit of a growth, but he was an average size century american. but he, like army explorers, he sent he's he is in mexico with winfield and zachary taylor. e goes to the pacific northwest, to oregon and washing tin and makes notes and observations like all army officers do. and the the primary source that you all are going to reading for this class is an army officers journal, right lawrence camps journal, the pacific northwest in the 185
ulysses s grant becseand he was like five.scrawny little. he was like, yep, that's right. that's my name. no further questions. and thank goodness he did because otherwise his initials would have been hug and don't think a guy with the initials hug really could have won the civil but u.s. grant unconditional surrender grant that's a guy who can take you to victory. but he's noted at west point as people and also as a horseman, he held jumping records, horsemanship records, west point that stood...
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grant also at the willard., when he appeared to check in with s son, he didn't have on his uniform. he looked disheveled and unfortunately one recognized him. so his room wasn't very nice. w' lucky, though, he doesn't hold a grudge because he came back to the willard multiple times. he liked to smoke a cigar, sit by the fireplace, and entime in the lobby. a lot of businessmen decide to take the opportune a sitting in theobby at the willard to ask for favors, and president grant called them loyis. the term lobbyists originated in london, but it was president grant who made a word that's common in our ct learned today. juliet ward howe was also a guest at willard. she was the sister, the famous lobbyist, sam ward, and he had recommended she and her husband at the willard. the willard was one of the few hotels that offered stationery to his guest. stationery. early one morning, she penned the to the battle hymn of the republic. it was originally a poem, but when added to the music, it became the patriotic and nati
grant also at the willard., when he appeared to check in with s son, he didn't have on his uniform. he looked disheveled and unfortunately one recognized him. so his room wasn't very nice. w' lucky, though, he doesn't hold a grudge because he came back to the willard multiple times. he liked to smoke a cigar, sit by the fireplace, and entime in the lobby. a lot of businessmen decide to take the opportune a sitting in theobby at the willard to ask for favors, and president grant called them...
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american president ulysses grant wrote about the consequences of aggression against mexico several decades later. the, the, the world's largest muslim nation, indonesia likes the new president and to hold for unity as the results are challenged by the runner up who claims the vote was ranked or used. the official responsible for policies in asia is forced to the 9 meddling in pakistani elections . that's despite lead state department cables, exposing washington's direct influence on politicians. there at no point at no point. does it choose united states government or me personally of taking steps against him? wrong con, doctors and journalists are reported late, detained and blindfolded by these rarely army.
american president ulysses grant wrote about the consequences of aggression against mexico several decades later. the, the, the world's largest muslim nation, indonesia likes the new president and to hold for unity as the results are challenged by the runner up who claims the vote was ranked or used. the official responsible for policies in asia is forced to the 9 meddling in pakistani elections . that's despite lead state department cables, exposing washington's direct influence on...