i'm the martha washington chief curator here at george washington's mount vernon, and i'm going to bering with you george washington's inaugural coat that's made of wool from the hartford woolen manufacturing. this is the coat that george washington was wearing when he was sworn in as the nation's first president on april 30th, 1789. it is an incredible object that has a number of really wonderful stories about it. the piece itself is made of wool, wool broad cloth, which would have been the cloth that most coats were made out of in the 18th century, for wearing outside. washington was sworn in at federal hall on that day in 1789. and it was an outside event, so he was on the piazza there or the loggia that's right in front of that building. this piece has an incredible history because it represents washington really wanting to support american manufacturing. it is made of wool from the hartford woolen manufactury in hartford, connecticut, and the story behind this piece is really significant, because before during the american revolution -- before the american revolution, the history

of george washington alexander is washington's adopted hometown washington also surveyed the as a teenager this is washington a teenage washington survey of the city of alexandria and mount vernon was only ten miles away just just south. so this was his city that he was heading into when came back to america in 1784. i mentioned before the majority of that trip was to spend time with george washington in of 1784 lafayette and washington come to alexandria and they have a at lomax's tavern was a tavern on princess street that unfortunately no longer exists. but there was a public perception out there, a lot of his reasons for wanting to come back had a lot to do with george washington. george washington dies on december 14, 1799 of a very sudden and unexpected illness. it was so sudden and unexpected that washington had already been buried before. the majority of americans even knew that he had died. there was a private funeral, family funeral held, held, held. mount vernon on, december 18th. but first city to know about the death of washington was here in alexandria alexandria post the ver

and so he turned to washington. and i'm going to say washington was not helpful and again, this also this thing that you have of development, executive power also not so helpful. yeah. so in addition to having to follow washington, adams, the rare experience of being president while washington was still alive, which is a uniquely different thing because no other former president has cast a shadow like washington, has no other former president lingering in sort of just off scene or just over his shoulder like washington was for adams. and so for the american people, i think a lot of them felt that they genuinely had like two presidents in mind. so when there was the threat of war, adams, i believe, felt that he had no choice. washington would be a unifying force. he would bring the american people together as, as you said. adams didn't have any military experience, which he knew. and so he felt like it would be useful to have someone who had been the commander in chief of the continental army back in charge of the ar

territory and washington state. my son jack's full name is jackson murray ferguson, named after two everett men of integrity. scoop jackson and my late father, murray ferguson. now, i tried to convince -- now, i tried to convince colleen to name our daughter edith. true. colleen quite recently pointed out that edith in the 21st century is an old-fashioned name and she's right as she usually is and we agreed on katie. i sometimes call katie edith anyway. [laughter] >> and i probably always will because i like to remind her about someone very important in our family history, and because i want her to know that the name edith maybe old-fashioned, the qualities like resilience, hard work, common sense, patriotism, practicality, about faith, frugality, service, and sacrifice, qualities of her great-grandma's edith had in abundance. they will never be out of style. indeed, those are the qualities possessed by generations of washingtonians that made our state and territory great. elijah ferry, clarence martin, dan evans, t

washington. so what happens is that those pits get covered over and forgotten and they were awaiting our archeologists to discover them. and it really was one of the most exciting things that we found. we also found something maybe didn't appeal to the popular media very much, but for us, it was pretty interesting. you see behind me what looks like a well, that's only about three feet deep. it's a sump and it is part of a larger drainage system that washington had installed in this new cellar, probably in the 1780s. and so we found trenches dug into the soil, lined with brick, and they all ran out to a major trunk drain that then exited the house to the south and went down to the dung repository. so it was draining any rainwater or any groundwater that got into the cellar. and we've had a lot of water here this week. and if you look here, you can see that this is where that drain was. it is still full of water because we've been getting rain and groundwater coming in because of all the rain. so t

, lafayette, to live with the washingtons. so that was they were he was nervous about accepting it because he thought it would be seen as like a statement against france. and and so that was his way of kind of protecting a part of lafayette. but there's no grand sweeping kind of statement from the american government. i think i think hamilton's letter is kind of like at least the federalist point. that's where they were standing. jefferson very much disagreed with this and he thought we should do something. and when when he was at liberty in 1797, we were just on the brink of that unfortunate a conflict during john adams administrate should be two united states and france that quasi war on the high seas from 1797 to 18. i wondered, is there any evidence of lafayette's, you know, reaction to that or wistfulness or anything like that? i'm not sure off the top of my head, but now i will go home and look it up immediately. thank you. yes i'm i'm pascale. i am a french citizen coming here on my own to celebrate with you the the far

i have not spent my life trying to get to washington.o here's what folks are going to find out about me. i am a lifelong conservative. pro- second amendment. pro- trump, pro- military and pro- wall. [cheering] [applause] [applause] i make no apologiesfo for my conservative values and i look forward to supporting president trump's conservative judges. i am strongly pro life the abortion on demand agenda is a moral. in the senate i look forward to supporting s1 68 senator lindsey graham's 20 week abortion ban. [applause] whenes it comes to protecting innocent life, i look to god because every life is a blessing. in washington i will work with president trump to continue the incredible economic progress our nation has seen. because of our president's policies we are growing our economy and jobs at a record pace every day new jobs are created for working moms and dads. for young graduates and for that waitress just looking for a chance. i've been called soft-spoken but i've also been called a lot worse. and in congress i may not be the loude

he is on his way right now to washington, d.c. this is him actually in washington, d.c. he's soon going to get out of the hearse and then taken by horse carriage to the capitol rotunda where he will begin lying in state within it. we're going to bring you there in just a moment. don't go anywhere. we will be back in 90 seconds. s. r for it becoming severe. it does not prevent covid-19. my symptoms are mild now, but i'm not risking it. if it's covid, paxlovid. paxlovid must be taken within the first 5 days of symptoms... and helps stop the virus from multiplying in your body. taking paxlovid with certain medicines can lead... to serious or life- threatening side effects or affect how it... or other medicines work, including hormonal birth control. tell your doctor about all medicines, vitamins, and herbal supplements you take as certain tests or dosage changes of your other medicines may be needed. tell them if you have kidney or liver problems, hiv-1, are or plan to be pregnant or breastfeed. don't take paxlovid if allergic to its ingredients. stop taking and call your d

it takes place at the national if here in washington. from there, jimmy carter's washington.rter�*s casket washington. from there, jimmy carter's casket will travel back to plains, georgia, where he grew up. she will be laid to rest alongside his wife, who died at the age of 96. they work the longest presidential couple ever, they were married for 77 years. he was 100 when he died, an extraordinary life. more than 44 years of a life after being president of the united states, in which he accomplished so much in terms of his charitable work, his work with democracy around the world, his world with supporting elections and human rights around the world. i think that's one of the parts of his legacy people will focus on quite a lot. back in the 70s when he was president, the whole movement around human rights and normative values was very new, and love something he introduced into the world dialogue. mil introduced into the world dialogue-— dialogue. all of that lies ahead. but _ dialogue. all of that lies ahead. but you - dialogue. all of that lies ahead. but you can - dialogue

i can assure you would not be seen in what washington, d.c. who doesn't believe the same things we stood up and believed for, not only life at conception and slasher but also all through life. r-value of life when it comes to adoption reform, foster care reform in protecting the elderly. that's what this fight is about. it is about our values that we believe here in georgia that make us the greatest date in the country to live, work and raise her founders and that is exactly what kelly will be fighting for in washington, d.c. [applause] [inaudible question] thank you for asking that. obviously being raised on a farm i am very close to my family still who continue to farm. i'm very supportive of fair trade and being tough on china. and making sure we get usmca past and that all farmers have fair treatment under our trade law. >> i'll just say this about farming and aggie. we've been in a really tough fight. i have great appreciation the more i learn about the trade fight with china, with the fight the president has taken each and every day prob

he said, no, you have to give this to washington. washington refused it. he wasn't going to take that sort of number two. he said, you have to give it to general lincoln, who is on the white horse. his back story is that he surrendered to the british one year before when they took the charleston in a siege. he had been denied the honors of war, which is when the defeated armies get to march out with their arms still flying. now, the british are not allowed to do that here. and also, lincoln gets the sword. and this painting, i feel it is lighthearted. the flags are snapping. there is light in the sky. if you look closely at washington's face, he is almost smiling. as well he might. and if trumbull's series were all military, this would be the end. but it doesn't. there's one more painting which he does many years -- it vanished. there we go. he does this painting in the late 1820s. there is gap of many years between when hestarted this project and when he finished. and this, as you heard, is the resignation of general washington, handing his commission con

the, the neutral in washington dc. the the, [000:00:00;00] the, the body is the former us president candy console being moved now slowly from us into the national cathedral in washington, dc. steven, just give us a sense, care of how important, what are, or how significant the moment this is under. there are very few reasons why their state honors would be held in the united states or very few individuals who receive state, funerals and presidents are among the very, very few. this happens very rarely. as you can see here, we look at the former presidents. we see how unusual it is that you can all gathered in one place. usually they are divided by party because they're going certain conventions, certain rallies, things like that. but here they are altogether beautiful name and unity. we're seeing right now. we absolutely, and that's what makes this special um, the last funeral i believe was 18 or 2017 for george h. w. bush is do happen obviously occasionally. and it is a moment in which you see a very divided country c

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your front row seat to washington, anytime, anywhere.ing donald trump's inauguration. they share their vision of the next four years of his administration. >> i came here from arizona after helping the trump campaign there. trying to experience this amazing moment. this is something we've been waiting for a very long time. my generation started out in a very rough spot as we reached adult hood with covid and inflation on the rise and really no opportunities job-wise so now that we have president trump back, we have four years of greatness, like he says, we're in a golden age. the economy is going to get better. we're going to get back to manifest destiny. >> the last years under democrat little. we've just failed. nobody is proud to be an american anymore. i'm glad to be here to watch it happen live. >> i'm chase from kansas. i'm a college student, a senior at the university of western kansas and just these past four years, president biden, hasn't been as affordable going to college. hopefully with president trump it will be something di

and washington resigning as commission.re are a few of those in there although there are also portraits of jefferson, of madison, of elbridge jerry, there are some real faces in there, too. the first question, remind me of the first question. just say the word? oh, yes, yes, the saba. there are two black soldiers in the bunker hill painting. in the left background. it's kind of hard to see, but there is peter samuel who is credited with killing major pitcairn, and you can just make him out. he's firing in the direction of major pitcairn on the other side of the canvas who has been mortally struck. the two figures in the lower right are thomas gravener who is the lawyer from connecticut and his slave asaba. in the 1790s census asaba is listed as a freeman. so at some point he was free, but in the battle of bunker hill he's fighting alongside gravener, and they both have clearly been in the action. gravener is wounded. he's got a bandaged hand. asaba's stockings are disarranged and these are active participants. trumbull, i d

they are washington outsiders. but when you get past that, i think you could not imagine two more different leaders from the things you were talking about. and stuart eizenstat mentioned earlier, he he cut the white house staff down. he didn't want senior staff to have car services. and also, if you think about jimmy carter after the white house, one of the most enduring images that i think most americans have of jimmy carter and rosalynn carter had to do with, did i lose a microphone here? uh, there we go. the, uh, habitat for humanity. uh, president carter and rosalynn carter worked with habitat for humanity for, i think, about 35 years. they helped to build, repair, renovate, about, uh, i think it's 4500 houses in 14 countries with more than 100,000 volunteers. and the reason for doing that was because of the importance of affordable housing, something that jimmy carter cared about. and so from habitat to humanity to going back to his home in plains, georgia, where he lived, this very simple life, two very diffe

escuchemos lo que dijo la policÍa de washington.de su juramentaciÓn porque va a dar detalles de estas Órdenes ejecutivas. sobre todo de inmigraciÓn que todo el mundo quiere saber. tambiÉn te cuento que en el senado habrÁ una sesiÓn especial. se espera que varios miembros de su gabinete sean confirmados hoy. fÉlix: esa distribuciÓn serÁ interesante. la cercanÍa es poder. sobre todo cuando un presidente. te doy un ejemplo musk va a tener la propia oficina en la casa blanca y no es funcionario oficial. eso te muestra la cercanÍa y el poder que tendrÁ. marÍa: vamos a seguir hablando de todo eso, pero ahora vamos a la arena con edwin. volvemos contigo. habÍamos visto en tu primer envÍo que hay gente ahÍ. edwin: sÍ, hay mucha gente que desde muy temprano estaban trabajando arduamente para que todo estÉ preparado para que cerca de 20,000 personas pueda presenciar la ceremonia de juramentaciÓn del todavÍa presidente electo, muy pronto el ser presidente 47 donald trump. a las afueras las filas son interminables. es que eran 240,000 personas

dozens of public safety agencies will be in washington d.c. over the next few days to help us keep our community and the government safe. the cooperation in this region is as good as it gets anywhere in this country. i will turn over to assistant director in charge of theio fbi. >> thank you chief major good morning assistant director of the fbi's washington field office. i appreciate the opportunity to be your today to discuss the fbi partnership with federal and local agencies to prepare for the upcoming national special security event here in the district of columbia. forth these events the fbi has e lead federal law enforcement responsibility for crisis management, response or to terrorist threat, and intelligence. leading up to and during these events fbi intelligence analysts havesp been and will be or will continue to assess and share event related intelligence withh all of our partners. at this time we are not tracking any credible or specific threats associated with these events. with that being said, we are certainly operating in a h

and we did a scene washington's favorite play cato and. we use this to illustrate the moment at newburgh. when he talks his officers from a mutiny on. the scene in the play shows cato similarly ending a mutiny and his own roman troops. and we wanted to do this in front of an audience of descendants of revolution officers. so this was the place. it's also the perfect place tonight. john trumbull was a member of the society from the connecticut chapter. he wanted to be a painter since he was a child. he grew up in lebanon, connecticut, north connecticut. he was the of six children, four boys, two girls. his sisters were sent to an instructor of young ladies in boston and. there they were taught to paint and embroider. and if you read jane austen, you know that emma woodhouse paints and lady de timberg is scandalized. elizabeth bennet does not paint, but the trumbull sisters learned to paint and embroider and. their works were hung over the mantel in the parlor of the family house. and john remembered as a boy lying on the floor and drawing,

events about to happen in washington. in washington, so the inauguration vents have been moved indoors for the first time in quite a long time, so we will keep an eye on the plane and should see it take off sometime during the bulletin. returning to the middle east. so far, we've not had any response from hamas to mr netanyahu's comments. we have had one other development however — egypt, one of the countries which helped to mediate the ceasefire deal, has said that israel will release 1,890 palestinian prisoners in exchange for 33 israeli hostages in the first phase of the ceasefire. and our correspondent jonah fisher had further analysis from jerusalem. the overwhelming message from mr netanyahu in his address was that this was going ahead, but it certainly didn't feel like peace in our time, did it? i mean, part of the reason that he, mr netanyahu, is not talking about this being a permanent ceasefire is because by getting to that point of permanent ceasefire, it throws up all sorts of difficult questions, both for him

what is the field, generally, of washington? spoken with colleagues in the house, i know you have been very busy lately, getting the 119th congress underway, nonetheless, the 39th president died and i am sure there are discussions about his legacy. how do you think washington feels about him? >> i think washington looks at him today in 2024 times in a lot of different ways. some people like me appreciate his legacy and all the work that he does, he gives you humility and with grace. i would say in 2024 where politics are so divided, washington watching this moving service really brought it home to me. i was in high school when jimmy carter served as president of the u.s. i think of the climate then, even if people were in disagreement or from different parties, it was never personal because you trusted whoever served as president really did want to do his best. i think about what is happening today and i compare the transgression of richard nixon compared to president trump and i think to myself, wow, the standards have really c

i doubt he ever thought of himself as being of washington.t an outsider. he was an outsider who disdained politics. he didn't think of himself as a politician and while he was a superb retail politician, that is what got him elected, great and small groups so savvy about how to get elected president. he thought once you got there you should stop looking at everything through a political lens and try to do the right thing as you saw. that cost him dearly because as we know a lot of times, you know, the right thing is not politically popular, so people told him, you know, if you bomb iran, you will win the election. but he said it'll kill the hostages. i will not do it. or the panama canal treaties. he said we have to do this now or we will have a war. we have to do it. not all the time. i mean, sometimes he played the angles to try to get reelected but most of the time he was trying to look to history and to be a visionary leader rather than a successful one. >> joining us now is the ceo of the carter center. while you were in this beautiful s

c-span now, your front row seat to washington anytime, anywhere. washington journal continues. host: welcome back. for more on president elect trump's inauguration tomorrow and the moment we are in american politics we are joined now by post-truth indication strategist frank months. welcome back to washington journal. guest: i enjoy the phone calls, i enjoyed the give-and-take. i don't enjoy the anger. going to try to get through the segment lowering the decibel level between america and their political leaders. host: i know we've got some special content for you to help us do that. what is your take on this moment? president elect trump is going to be the first presidency grover cleveland to have a nonconsecutive term. put his margin of victory in context rest. 49.9% of the vote, just 1.5% above vice president harris. with this in mind, how should president-elect trump proceed tomorrow and also his first 100 days? guest: i will tell you that i was surprised. it's going to be dramatic. this is an administration that is going to hit the ground running. i know that some callers a

washington convention center in downtown washington, d.c., site of two of the three official inaugural balls that president donald trump and first lady melania trump plan to attend. on your screen is the commander in chief ball. we expect that the president and first lady will attend this ball first. let's listen in and watch. >> ♪ what is proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight o'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming and the rocket's red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there o say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave ♪♪ [cheers and applause] host: the u.s. marine band warming up the crowd at the commander in chief ball here in washington, d.c. we expect that president trump along with the first lady will attend this ball in honor of the nation's military and service members first, and then they'll go on to the liberty ball which is for the president's supporters. later in the evening we e

by moving up to richmond, he would be barely 100 miles from washington. mean, you know, what more of a magnet could you create in terms of inviting you north to invade you than move your capitol to richmond, 100 miles from the enemy capitol? why would you do it? jefferson davis was against it. and his congress voted against it. and they retired for the day but they forgot to go through the a bureaucratic procedure for ending the day's efforts. and somebody who'd been absent came into town, came to the congress building and said, hey, wait a minute, i want a re-take of the vote. so they had to re-take the vote. i think it was after midnight. the vote then swung the other way. so, in one of those incredible accidents in history, the has to move from montgomery all the way up to richmond, where it will be forever under the shadow, if you like, of the u.s. capitol. host: nigel hamilton, i know i keep going back to this timeline, but it was may 29 that jefferson davis arrived in richmond. july 4 1861, abraham lincoln sent a message to a special session of cong

washington insiders. governors from around the country, a bipartisan group of people waiting gathered, as well as american citizens to pay tribute to the late president, who prided himself as an outsider. we are watching this procession on an absolutely just the light of this at this time of day and the winter. a beautiful light to watch this casket on that caisson, horse drawn carriage approached the capitol kyberd in your years, as a biographer of carter, approaching this capitol, not a place that he loved in terms of his dealings with capitol hill. i was reading peter, peter baker's great piece in the new york times today. he had spoken to you and you were saying, you know, he was an outsider. jimmy carter ran against the establishment. when he gets into the oval office. you note he declined more than one dinner invitation from the georgetown set. peter talks about how he didn't want to have dinner in the home of the publisher of the washington post, katharine graham. who knows what he'd think about th

and government, politics, and public policy from washington, d.c.oss the country coming up tuesday morning, wool look at president trump's day one executive orders and policy priorities related to immigration and border policy with the america first policy institutes chad wolf and carey of immigration hub. c-span washington journal join the conversation live at 7 eastern tuesday morning on c-span, c-span now or online at c-span.org. up next ohio governor mike introduces lieutenant governor john houston as choice to replace vice president elect jd vance in the u.s. senate. the two took questions from reporters after the announcement. [silence] >> baby -- good to have a baby. >> good afternoon everyone. we all know this coming monday at 12, noon ohio own jd vance will be sworn in as vice president of the united states. we're very proud of him. we're very proud of the fact that ohioan will be vice president of the united states we wish him all of the best and we certainly wish president trump all of the best as well. vacancy in the united states senate

that is what the backyard of it being in washington, d.c.ld really draw the contrast. >> i disagree that because they voted for trump they bought into his whole agenda. i mean, really, abortion was a key issue that bishops in this country push their parishioners on. and some supposedly, is pro-life. and they seem to lean toward him based on that issue. i would not say to say they bought his whole agenda. >> i don't think there one issue voters and i think you seem to be keying in on immigration is a key issue. >> the environment is another issue, i said. >> the pope francis -- >> the catholics know the difference between trump and harris on climate change. >> pope francis is not a one issue pope . he especially told parishioners not to put all of their wait on abortion. at the spence of all the other issues like immigration and climate and in fact he has been a very political pope. and that cuts both ways. during the election he told parishioners you must make the choice between the lesser of two evils. he called kamala harris and evil becau