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but this evening, of course, will focus on ulysses, the man who literally saved the union ulysses grant. it was 202nd birthday. we celebrate this evening. we do so, professor, noting that, as frank mentioned, wrote a great book on grant's vicksburg campaign, which was rightly given many awards and you're now finishing the book on grant and lincoln, picking up where your vicksburg book left off. and that is tentatively titled the reckoning. we look forward to that. and so let's get started. i'd like to begin actually by asking about an aspect of grant's command, the west, which we haven't often covered here over the last decade. and that was, of course, how effectively he used. rivers and you highlighted this, of course, in your book on him, and i'd love to have you expand on that with the audience, if you would. yeah, i'm one little personal story about grant and water first. my wife and i were driving through southern virginia and we came to the james river and it impressed me. i didn't think of it as that powerful a body of water and a little shelf of land across there. and there's a
but this evening, of course, will focus on ulysses, the man who literally saved the union ulysses grant. it was 202nd birthday. we celebrate this evening. we do so, professor, noting that, as frank mentioned, wrote a great book on grant's vicksburg campaign, which was rightly given many awards and you're now finishing the book on grant and lincoln, picking up where your vicksburg book left off. and that is tentatively titled the reckoning. we look forward to that. and so let's get started. i'd...
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help me understand why why that wrong and why we really should be looking at john quincy adams ulysses grant and william. all right, i'll try. thanks for the question. i don't think presidential power has expanded. i know those the regular touchstones, but put more positively. my main argument in the book is that an 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 recent research that the federal government is doing much more in the 19th century than we used to think. there have been tremendous studies on westward expansion land pension policy, disaster relief, infrastructure development, indian affairs, wars, diplomacy, customs enforcement enforcement, all of these various aspects of policy were overly or many of them were overlooked for many years, as we used to cover 19th century hist
help me understand why why that wrong and why we really should be looking at john quincy adams ulysses grant and william. all right, i'll try. thanks for the question. i don't think presidential power has expanded. i know those the regular touchstones, but put more positively. my main argument in the book is that an 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...
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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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so you had the stalwart parts who were very pro ulysses grant. they loved the patronage system. and to their credit, they were very, very dedicated reconstruction and to ensuring safety and security for formerly enslaved people in the south. then there were that what they sort of derisively called the half three republicans who really weren't that different, but were willing to talk about civil service and also did not want grant to again in 1880. so garfield is considered a half breed because he was not in favor of running again in 1880. chester arthur owes his entire political career to the patronage system he had been the collector of the port of new york. at one point. that position i mentioned earlier that caused the rift between garfield and roscoe conkling. arthur had been fired from that job by president rutherford hayes for corruption. arthur was an acolyte of roscoe conkling, so he and congress were like this, arthur was put on that in 1880 purely as kind of, you know, a gesture toward the other faction of the party. but as well, garfield president and conkling is work
so you had the stalwart parts who were very pro ulysses grant. they loved the patronage system. and to their credit, they were very, very dedicated reconstruction and to ensuring safety and security for formerly enslaved people in the south. then there were that what they sort of derisively called the half three republicans who really weren't that different, but were willing to talk about civil service and also did not want grant to again in 1880. so garfield is considered a half breed because...
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but how could the great general of the confederacy be, beaten by someone like ulysses s grant? and so they have to kind of tear down grant as they lift lee up in order to to explain away the fact that lee could possibly be beaten by guy by the mid 1880s. reconciliation in north and south is actually going really well. there a lot of good feelings between north and south. the shared experience of these men on the battlefield does a lot to bring them together. it also them to brush a lot of things under the rug such as the centrality of slavery to the civil war. but after grant died, is this lost cause mythology? he's able to kind of take on this greater and greater responsibility or a greater, greater influence. and it's sort of a eclipses. some of those positives that grant would have been able to defend. that's one of the reasons he takes the presidency, is that he can defend what they won on the battlefield. so the rise of the lost cause does a lot to diminish. grant's both as a general and a president. and finally, he never gets a chance to write his presidential memoir. he
but how could the great general of the confederacy be, beaten by someone like ulysses s grant? and so they have to kind of tear down grant as they lift lee up in order to to explain away the fact that lee could possibly be beaten by guy by the mid 1880s. reconciliation in north and south is actually going really well. there a lot of good feelings between north and south. the shared experience of these men on the battlefield does a lot to bring them together. it also them to brush a lot of...
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his name is hiram ulysses grant, and he gets to west point and they're like, oh, ulysses s grant because mother's maiden name was simpson. and he was like five feet tall. he weighed 100 pounds. he's this 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 a water colorist, which surprises 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. but after the us-mexico war, he goes to the pacific northwest, to oregon and washing tin and makes notes and observations like all army officers do. and
his name is hiram ulysses grant, and he gets to west point and they're like, oh, ulysses s grant because mother's maiden name was simpson. and he was like five feet tall. he weighed 100 pounds. he's this 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...
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of the most potent examples of reconciliation being spawned by a presidential death and funeral is ulysses s. grant's, because grant had died 20 years after the civil war, so a generation after the civil war when the country is still greatly divided, north and south, but grant was really, perhaps, the one individual that was beloved, north and south of the mason dixon line -- and dying a generation after the civil war, the nation was really ready for reconciliation, so, he was really the perfect man at almost the perfect time to really bring about some of that reconciliation. during his funeral, there confederate marchers who march with, predominantly, union, would also confederate marchers. there's two former confederate generals, pallbearers, and his funeral, and his tomb, which comes 12 years later, in 1897, really becomes a place where all sections of society come to mourn and pay respects at the same location. again, this north and south of the border, there's white americans, african americans, men and women, democrats, republicans, and he is really the one man -- and this becomes, p
of the most potent examples of reconciliation being spawned by a presidential death and funeral is ulysses s. grant's, because grant had died 20 years after the civil war, so a generation after the civil war when the country is still greatly divided, north and south, but grant was really, perhaps, the one individual that was beloved, north and south of the mason dixon line -- and dying a generation after the civil war, the nation was really ready for reconciliation, so, he was really the...
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american president ulysses grant rode about the consequences of aggression against mexico several decades later. the, the chess willis, i was the, nobody's telling me that the human was part of this was the 4 digits of bill about authority. and still there are some of it from the resort within the number of what it says. this woman hides her face and identity because of the nature of her job special she's been working for almost a year and a team gathering evidence on the existence of sync with us lives in ukraine. the russian interior ministry suspects that we use to test biological weapons play. the 1st step is that then they saying that she's the real quick. it was say we shift anybody on the have to escalate to expedite, didn't.
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the groveland cleveland birthplace memorial association and author of grant's tomb the epic death of ulysses s grant and the making of an american pantheon. and nicola longford executive director of the sixth floor museum at dealey plaza, nicola. thank you for welcoming. so many of our guests the other day to your wonderful museum, please welcome us. and our panel as we continue the mornings program. thank you so much stewart as stuart mentioned he and i've had the chance to work. in the past both at the red cross and stuart was just an absolutely remarkable head of the reagan centennial in 2011. he has saved me from one disaster another weather at the right. for at the reagan library wonderful to be with you all this morning. i you know, i had a little trepidation when stuart told me that what he wanted me to discuss with our panels is death and destruction and tragedy and and i thought okay this this will be quite a challenge but when i saw who are pan were that shall be hearing from this morning? it's it's really this is i think you're going to learn a lot and this you'll find this to be
the groveland cleveland birthplace memorial association and author of grant's tomb the epic death of ulysses s grant and the making of an american pantheon. and nicola longford executive director of the sixth floor museum at dealey plaza, nicola. thank you for welcoming. so many of our guests the other day to your wonderful museum, please welcome us. and our panel as we continue the mornings program. thank you so much stewart as stuart mentioned he and i've had the chance to work. in the past...
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american president ulysses grant wrote about the consequences of aggression against mexico several decades later. a boy of course the scene is a $150.00. if that's good, then that's the story. it indeed showed decided to one of the memory of his comrades and for the very 1st time in 25 years, climbed amounts to the very place when the depleted uranium bomb fell. the rug kush. this is the correct and this is totally a bonus. is it better than you've done some drug or game like leg supplemental? really small. yeah. to get ok. this is our 3rd system all in the method on the day. and then you'll know customers while a passcode and this was the touch, the bill house that i what they were just told by the name of the program color is the easiest. i trusted that i the the symbol with are trish and the municipal another the guidelines source or cit. emotional around noon. both less, most size and all they've cost more. they some yeah, probably be on the let's, it was like, well i guess the push to those to, to, to some of those tauriel cool, i guess is basically the more than 3 decades the us army
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the epic death of ulysses s grant in making an american pantheon. and the director of the sixth floor museum at daley plaza. thank you for welcoming so many of our guests the other day to your wonderful museum. please welcome us and our panel as we continue the mornings program. rk. in the past both at >> thank you rso much, stuart. as stuart mentioned, he and i have had the chance to work together in the past, both at the red cross and stuart was absolutely ahead of the reagan centennial in 2011, saved me from one disaster after another. or at the lake -- reagan library. wonderful to be here with you all this morning. i had little trepidation when stuart told me that what he wanted me to discuss with our panelists is death, destruction and tragedy, and i thought okay. this will be quite a challenge, but when i saw who our panelists were that you'll be hearing from this morning, it's really -- this is -- i think you're going to learn a lot. you will find this to be a real pleasure, even though the subject is a difficult subject for all americans. yo
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i mean, ulysses, what if a publisher would have said, well, i don't know there's no book like this out really. you know, where's the precedent for this? and this is going to offend. so i don't know. i mean, that the right to offend is a fundamental right a it's a foundation for freedom of speech. and it's the foundation for a lot of literature. i mean, books in most books are going to offend someone. i think especially in this day and age, this is the age of getting offended by things. and the idea of not publishing a book because it might offend someone is, is enormous. it's a well, it's a sea change in how books published a word winning children's author jonah winter author of over 40 children's books. we appreciate your time on book tv. thank you very much.
i mean, ulysses, what if a publisher would have said, well, i don't know there's no book like this out really. you know, where's the precedent for this? and this is going to offend. so i don't know. i mean, that the right to offend is a fundamental right a it's a foundation for freedom of speech. and it's the foundation for a lot of literature. i mean, books in most books are going to offend someone. i think especially in this day and age, this is the age of getting offended by things. and the...
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but you go back to joyce and ulysses and say he puts everywhere into dublin just, you know, for thathat i mean? you come back to the same issues and problems, no matter what the society is like around you. and you still feel, as you continue to write and continue to set the stories in ireland, that you can get everything into ireland and ireland into everything? oh, wow, that's an interesting question. uh, yeah, yeah. well, i mean, the research is easy. it's on your doorstep. it's light on research and it's light on accents. and i love...| love irish voices. anne enright, we're going to end with your irish voice. thank you very much for being on hardtalk. thank you. thank you very much indeed. hello. thanks forjoining me. well, july, statistically, is our warmest month of the summer, but thisjuly — at least, the beginning — is looking very different. mother nature has decided to put a pause on the summer heat. it's going to be rather on the cool side, even really windy at times in the north of the uk and, of course, there is some rain on the way. so, let's have a look at the forecast
but you go back to joyce and ulysses and say he puts everywhere into dublin just, you know, for thathat i mean? you come back to the same issues and problems, no matter what the society is like around you. and you still feel, as you continue to write and continue to set the stories in ireland, that you can get everything into ireland and ireland into everything? oh, wow, that's an interesting question. uh, yeah, yeah. well, i mean, the research is easy. it's on your doorstep. it's light on...
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american president ulysses grant wrote about the consequences of aggression against mexico several decades later the i was about to travel to texas. and unfortunately, our entire family had come down and you know, in large families it just travels down from one child to the next to that and this time that was here it, it hung on a little bit longer than the others. so we took her pediatrician and he took a look at her and he said, she's fine. it's just a bad flu this year. don't worry about it. and the next day she got worse. everything had changed with her daughter. she was completely lent. she was having trouble breathing. i called my husband. i was in total panic with.
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. >> the toddler has died after falling out of a window in san francisco. 15 month old ulysses gonzalez rodriguez fell from an apartment on mission street last wednesday. he's being described as the sweetest boy who loved to play with his parents, aunts, uncles and cousins, friends are hoping to raise money for the funeral and other family expenses. >> the san francisco sheriff's office has hired the largest number of new deputies since the pandemic. sheriff paul miyamoto, making that announcement today, saying it marks a major milestone for the sheriff's office. after years of struggling to find enough qualified candidates, 34 new recruits are set to join the force by the end of august. the sheriff says the goal is to get 75 new deputies on board this fiscal year, and he says he believes the department will meet that goal. >> county officials in arizona, making it a point to protect election workers in tonight's west coast rap with fentanyl is a main concern, and officials in nevada issuing a warning after multiple people experienced burns on their feet from those extreme temperatures.
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american president ulysses grant rode about the consequences of aggression against mexico several decades later. the are okay with all that said, with the tables set as we like to say, i want to welcome you back. i'm rick sanchez. joining us now from cairo a turkey is dr. hassan, now he is a renowned scholar and professor there of political science. uh dr. hassan. thank you so much for joining us, sir. well, that's my pleasure. thank you very much for you. mind to me. so here's the situation and it's pretty weird, right? that within these past 72 hour period, from like friday through the weekend, suddenly we have a nato that is so damaged because they had this important message they wanted to get out in their 75th annual celebration or commemoration. and it was not even most people, if you ask people around the world about nato, they don't even know what happened. they have no idea what their messages. instead, they came away with. god bless them, a president of the united states who was our president. but that fumbled and mumbled, then forgot everything, and basically became a humiliatin
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and electric city and who stands out in a lightning with a key but whatever you george washington a ulysseswho was obviously during civil war. i mean, he was the only president to everactually on hos president. ■so him and would get along gret thesebut these people really maa mark on society and we have we have a culture now that is trying to strip everything about history out of our thing, out of our, i guess, the repertoire of our kids growing up. and, you know, i have three kids. i don't want them to grow up in a world that forgets some of the greatest moments. but sooments, because the worst moments in life are the ones that shape us the best college, i always tell people that the mt matches i lost and if we erase/Ñ those the stories, we're doomed to repeat it. you know, every country through the history or every, i should ntry, every empire through the history of the world downfall. you know, is americanot. can we fix it? well, if we learn from history, we society, when they've gotten there's a saying that actua had a general on this evening who took the words right out of my mouth and
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dollar bill and electric city and who stands out in a lightning with a key but whatever washington a ulysseso was obviously only president to ever get arrested twice actually on hpresident. so him and would get along great these days. but these people really made a mark on society and we have we have a culture now that is trying to strip everything about history out of our thing, out of repertoire of our kids growing up. and, you know, i kids. i don't want them to grow up in a world that forgetsst moments. but i also don't want them to forget the worst moments, because the worst moments in life are the as wrestler in high school and college, a the most i learned was from the matches i lost and if we erase those those stories, we're doomed to repeat it. you know, every country through ther every, i should say, every country, every empire through the history of the world has always had some sort of next. i sure hope not. can we fix it? well, if we learn from history, we will but every single when 'n weaker and weaker and weaker, they've become this problem. actually we had a general on this ev
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schuyler colfax was ulysses s.e importantly, born on march 23rd, he was an aries. and that's today's... ♪ "schuyler col-facts." ♪ it's really an educational show. vance wasn't always the obvious choice. for many years, he was a self-described never-trumper, calling the former president "cultural heroin" and speculated that trump might be "america's hitler." yikes. how do you get the job after that? "just lookin' at your resume, mr. smith, it says you called me "satan incarnate," voldermort's ugly unstable brother, and a slightly more perverted jared from subway. oh, but you are proficient in excel! welcome aboard." [applause] now, for day one of the rnc, trump got a special present from one of his biggest fans. federal judge and doll you keep throwing away but always turns up in your kids' room, aileen cannon. because, this morning, the trump-appointed judge dismissed the classified documents case against donald trump. that is fragrant bull crap! [cheering] aileen cannon is one of the most woefully unqualified, bia
schuyler colfax was ulysses s.e importantly, born on march 23rd, he was an aries. and that's today's... ♪ "schuyler col-facts." ♪ it's really an educational show. vance wasn't always the obvious choice. for many years, he was a self-described never-trumper, calling the former president "cultural heroin" and speculated that trump might be "america's hitler." yikes. how do you get the job after that? "just lookin' at your resume, mr. smith, it says you...
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we here at "the late show," exclusively broke, the actual last vice president with a full beard was ulyssesveep, schuyler colfax. a man so genial that his republican colleagues gave him the nickname "smiler" colfax. and that's tonight's... ♪ schuyler col-facts ♪ thanks, schuyler. washington post! aside from his beard, most people probably know vance from his memoir "hillbilly elegy," which of course disney later adapted into the "country bear jamboree." at one time, vance was an adamant never-trumper, but he changed his tune to get trump's endorsement in 2022. now he's full metal maga. in fact, he's been called the maga heir-in-waiting. "he's like the son i never had. what? how many? okay, then he's the bearded son i never had. what? how many?" in his speech, vance tried to claim america's political center. >> we have a big tent in this party. >> stephen: "it's a holding area where we will eventually keep the immigrants before we deport them. but tonight we're gonna let rudy giuliani sleep there!" now, there's a lot of downsides to vance, but here's the biggest danger of making him vice pre
we here at "the late show," exclusively broke, the actual last vice president with a full beard was ulyssesveep, schuyler colfax. a man so genial that his republican colleagues gave him the nickname "smiler" colfax. and that's tonight's... ♪ schuyler col-facts ♪ thanks, schuyler. washington post! aside from his beard, most people probably know vance from his memoir "hillbilly elegy," which of course disney later adapted into the "country bear...
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it hasn't been expanded since 1869 and that was a political gift to ulysses grant.unken 1866 in response to andrew johnson and what he was trying to do, two radical reconstruction, undermining the efforts to bring the former slaves into the body politic. we understand what happens when politics intrudes. part of what we need to talk about, simply expanding the court but we need to talk about term limits. talking about age limits. talking about impeachment. these folks who have violated ethics over and over. we need to talk about regulatory capture. what does it mean for corporate interest to capture the supreme court and the supreme court is delivering for those interests. understand who the opponents are and stop acting like feckless democrats. feckless people who don't have commitments, and start fighting at the same level of intensity for the principles that these people are fighting for the principles they hold. that is power that they hold. >> to your point, you had alexandria ocasio-cortez from new york posting, the supreme court has become consumed by a corru
it hasn't been expanded since 1869 and that was a political gift to ulysses grant.unken 1866 in response to andrew johnson and what he was trying to do, two radical reconstruction, undermining the efforts to bring the former slaves into the body politic. we understand what happens when politics intrudes. part of what we need to talk about, simply expanding the court but we need to talk about term limits. talking about age limits. talking about impeachment. these folks who have violated ethics...
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the first of these presidents from this this period of time is, of course, ulysses. and we've already discussed his background when we we talked about him in the civil war. we learned, of course, that he was a really great general. not really such a great president, though. in fact, he ended up running is objectively one of the most corrupt administrations in u.s. history. now, i want to make it very clear grant himself was not corrupt. grant was not on the take grant, was not profiting from this. grant's fault. is that he had terrible taste in friends he would appoint his friends to office and his friends took advantage of his trust and got into all kinds trouble. and there were a number of scandals during the grant administration. and one of the most famous was the whiskey ring, where whiskey producers bribed government officials to evade liquor taxes. there's the new york customs house scandal, the new york customs was by far the most important and profitable from the port of york in in the united states and government appointees who ran this were skimming money f
the first of these presidents from this this period of time is, of course, ulysses. and we've already discussed his background when we we talked about him in the civil war. we learned, of course, that he was a really great general. not really such a great president, though. in fact, he ended up running is objectively one of the most corrupt administrations in u.s. history. now, i want to make it very clear grant himself was not corrupt. grant was not on the take grant, was not profiting from...