washington. the results of their partnership revealed a new side of washington's biography. and this was always the goal for pauling to tell a more intimate story of george washington. chapman wrote. spalding painfully detailed accounts of his conversations with people like lawrence lewis and jeremy prophet, a man enslaved by washington, his brother john august. in washington. pauling then repeated these stories in his book sometime verbatim. pauling hoped that this content would help his book stand out, especially against those by person. weems and jared sparks. weems book had been published in 27 editions by the time pauling and chapman began working together, but it was also well-known for its romantic liberties, including the story of a child. washington chopping down a cherry tree. jared sparks had only just begun publishing his 11 volumes of washington's papers in the early 1830s, but they promise to be foremost a collection of annotate. the primary sources pauling used chapman's research to ensure that his biography would be distinguished from these projects. not only by being true, but also by its accessibility in both content and cost. harper and brothers.

washington's death, tobias lear chronicled washington's deathbed in his diary. lear explained washington was resigned to. he also explained how washington prepared for death by ensuring that missouri's washington had possession of his will and. by giving instructions for his burial. mount vernon in the family tomb. lear also explained that washington died a good death. according to lear, washington died, quote, without struggle or sigh in quote. he also wrote that washington ends, quote, patience, fortitude, resignation, never forsook him for a moment. in all his distress he uttered, not sigh, nor a complaint, end quote. this was a secular deathbed narrative. it was the deathbed narrative of an elite episcopalian land owner in virginia. lear's deathbed narrative for washington followed the pattern of other episcopalian deathbed narrative. as such, it provided to the living that washington died. the good of an episcopalian who rested in the hope of salvation after death and the future. resurrect him. on tuesday a lear cut, lots of washington's from his corpse. while it was laid out in the large room downstage chairs. that day the coffin and burial shroud arrived from alexandria. attendants dressed washington in

of. and so people want to see general washington soon to be president. washington in routes to new york city. and so this is also part of a little bit of a delay is, you know, finding places to stop, dining with people. you know, being sure to, you know, make your public appearances. you don't want anyone to feel offended. and so all of this takes a little bit longer to get washington to new york city. and as soon as he gets there, you know, then he realizes that, you know, they haven't really planned out his inaugural and how that's going to work. so that's something that he has to then set in motion with the members of congress. well, in a letter to henry knox, a revolutionary war general, george washington wrote my movements to the chair of government will be accompanied with feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution. he didn't seem too thrilled about this. no, it's a fascinating note because, you know, is is this is this how washington truly feels or is this, you know, washington trying to, again, be the very humble repub

washington continues working with its western allies and with ukraine as well. it's all part of a large ongoing process including says that he will also inform russia's partners within brooks, telling them that moscow and washington have agreed to join efforts in resolving the ukrainian question. in fact, again, last night here in saudi arabia, they agreed to put together a special teams which will join efforts to find a diplomatic, sustainable, and final solution. most importantly, final, they're not talking about something temporary. they're not talking about freezing the conflict. they want to bring an official diplomatic, and so this conflict together, the overnight will set, wants to bring you and have because a lot of my parents and did make a comment about what's happening on the front lines. that seemed to be quite a recent, quite dramatic because that of a could you just tell us what we know at the stage? absolutely. the flooding air pollution announced that the russian armed forces are advancing on old run, said that he was informed that and this is the much a way to use for russia, that the army have crossed the border with ukraine in the curse creech and take a listen to this, somebody busted me and i don't want to look at the latest information i was told just an hour ago, is that tonight, soldiers of the 800 tense brigade across the border of the russian federation. and moved into the enemy's territory. and our troops are advancing across the whole front line. scott, since the minutes. and so the key of regime invaded occurs. great, jen, they've lost over 60000 soldiers. in fact is closer to 62000. as, according to the russian defense ministry, apart from that more than 300, thanks, 50 multiple loans, rocket systems, and thousands upon thousands of various armored vehicles and all the ukranian and nato equipment was destroyed that. meanwhile, they, you create an attack on the caspian pipeline consortium. in russia's across the region, looks like it was coordinated with europe according to a lot of their food. and now this times, an excuse me, lessons have actually targeted american and some european interest on monday. ukrainian drones filled with metal projectiles and explosives attacks a facility which pumps and mainly oil from american and european companies for projects on the pipeline uh mainly collects a crude from large oil fields in western kazakhstan and shake the shareholders of the cvc while they include international companies where they us ownership amounts to $24.00 and a quarter percent for $62400000.00 tons of oil were pumped for the cdc last year, 11.7 percent of which came from russia and $88.00 from catholic stand. and last year, us companies control some 40 percent of uh, oil supplies, they ship via this cdc. and this to draw strike on the car park. these guys, station there for which american oil was pumped, could zip provoke high energy prices on the world markets, according to the russian president vladimir approach. and also noted that there were no russian air defense systems at the cdc facility because it is well, it is an international facility, in fact, to take a lesson to thank you for the attacks of this kind are impossible without satellite reconnaissance and high precision data of such reconnaissance towards the targets ukraine only receives from its western allies are seeing who exactly provided them with that data with satellite images on the facilities of the caspian pipeline consortium. so you don't know that so far, but i can say for sure that ukrainian armed forces cannot do that by themselves because they have no satellite fleet to do that. meanwhile, a more use coming uh from uh, europe, from brussels, where the european union ever having posed as succeeds package of functions, i guess, russia now this time, they include a band on the primary on the menu in ports sales of gaming consoles and the listing of $73.00 shadow fleet vessels, which allegedly carry russian oil change department cost row you go pick an off, bring us over very nice. i suppose from then. yes. for public on people that on the left speaking to us from the re, uh to i think it's probably on stand by waiting for that summit, the best teasing and teasing. but what, give us a concrete uh, date full. thank you very much sense of taking the flight from ukrainian battlefield to a u swell rush as a foreign intelligence office is wanting the key of prompting to carry out terror attacks in europe, particularly in those countries. sympathetic to most got one and a bid to dwell the current, peaceful according to information available to the europeans. one of the options considered by the ukranian regime for disrupting negotiations involves carrying out a series of terrorist attacks against russian diplomatic emissions in european countries. ukraine is most likely to attempt similar attacks in germany, the baltic states and scandinavia, according to information available to the europeans. one of the options considered by the ukrainian regime for disrupting negotiations involves carrying out a series of terrorist attacks against russian diplomatic emissions in european countries. ukraine is most likely to attempt similar attacks in germany. the baltic states in scandinavia, although crossing loc now to alter, will correspond to thomas. so rough uh, um, told us good to get. you will take on this obviously, because you've seen so much. you'll solve the russian intelligence out this morning about is terror attacks on your pin soil? apparently it says in order to disrupt peace negotiations, do you think that this is a modus operandi that you associate with t f? is it possible? well, everything is possible happening in mind that the group instead themselves, i'm not very happy about the negotiations which are going on. um, well, it's quite up is that if there will be some kind of a tear of tech in europe against the russian diplomatic, whatever consulate, or i'm to see. and then to, however, blame russia. but we have seen to which extent that can be absorbed into western media. and when we look at the integration of an option too. so i don't exclude anything in this at this point. um, keith is quite desperate and they can try whatever they want. so i think everything is possible, or, you know, we saw recently, obviously terrible scenes in, you know, when a call rammed into a demonstration, just the full, the muted security conference that took place. uh, we do see tower attacks. unfortunately, happening, especially on european soil, does not suggest to us that you are isn't prepared adults and how the infrastructure will maybe the intelligence to prevent them. this is a good question. um, different topics. do you see? uh, for example, if we take the last incident in germany, all the people who did this terra attempts were known by the police by the police. so the question was really why the german security services didn't react and didn't do anything with that knew these people on the other hand, it would be quite complicated having in mind the really uncontrolled mcgrath to europe, to crow control these 1000000 of people, millions of people who are that to really have full control them. but yeah, regarding the german and security services, i have many questions regarding the fact that they knew all the people who did these tara techs last month, it was from them. i also want to go back to just what we've been hearing from the bottom appear to not donald trump over the last 24 hours because the intelligence office is obviously suggesting. the key of is resulting potentially to terror tactics precisely because it feels that as new is in control of the situation, it's losing the attention of the global community. what did you make of donald trump's comments? yesterday? i thought he was very blunt. he said, you create and you have 3 years to took peace and you just didn't do it. in fact, you find it you made, it enables us to let us get to talk to parents. and do you think the kids at this point feels that it's inevitably going to have to settle for tubs that it would never have accepted wanted to accept to 3 years ago as well? we are at this stage already when your key has no talks about um okay, lets negotiate that even says well, okay, lets freeze the config, get the contact contact line. um 7 months ago it was we went back all our carriers . so they already on positions which were excluded some months ago. um you said the key if it was with the intention of the world wide audience. uh well, i would say uh key for most of the all the time. um they, they have attention in the west. the global sold is already very long time shut up with this box because of the other problems. but regarding trump, um yeah. what can i say he's right. uh, we have disney investigations and march april 22. and there was the possibility to, to get a quite good agreement that quite could be left trumpeted or to put it. and key refused. so a trump is you may like it or not, but he is right. and he said, you had 3 years to make it to you and say about possibilities. what i also want to get just from your a pin perspective, we're obviously saying a as in, you know, as a, as towards the says, the big boy sitting installed to raise. yeah. what us up the kids table in paris. a few you need to come together in an echo chamber. is that the way that you see it at the moment that the e u is just not on board with what's coming out of the trump teams office? this is this mostly for everybody to put it. i would put it even more harsh. yes. um, as we see it right now, we see we saw the last week when x of was in brussels and told that you were being spelt and your ukraine is your problem. we would look at a china and then we had to meet you on a conference with the speech of friends. we have this meeting in front of him on monday with, with a metronome which didn't get any results. and they, you opinions a good to know from the phone call of putting and, and from, from the media, not from the americans. they are, well, i will not pay the, at the kitchen table right now, the, even the room. so it gets to the point where we are, how it will continue, we will see, but at the moment that your parents are not in the room, they get to that they get not informed before something happens. they did know about the protocol and events. so yes, um your opinions of no recognize they have a problem. what is the you're thinking at the state which i don't, how does it go from here? it's all 15th. so entrenched in the conflict, diplomatic pay finance in the military as well. if trump comes out and says, we've come to an agreement, ukraine will have to sign it because without us 8 you quite and cannot fight. what's that you go through? is that going to see what's own independent policy? is that going to send us some people to 2nd, a russet off a couple of heroes? that's an interesting question. um, i also wonder what will happen when russia and the us come to an agreement and how would really have to maybe at the final stage when they know and where to go. they will take europe and then you kind of a tables so that they can, let's say confirm it. um, but anyway, what they would do in europe when the us leaves the conflict and what they would do a key if i don't know because you can't, this is key and the way without the us. so this will be quite interesting. and that's my, um, well i'm looking with a quite big interest in all directions and you're right. know why the rush and, and do you guys are talking about, or maybe even lift extensions into economy because a cooperation, you know, is working on the 16th a package of 6 inches. so i think 2 people didn't really get what is happening and maybe they need some time and maybe it will be very hard credit for them when they recognize where we are at this summer. well, i think that's what you would agree with me, but the last 24 hours have been a bit of a whirlwind when it comes to the news and is this momentum keeps cutting. thomas, i'm not sold at all, managed a loss until the end of the week. well, the energy is if this appearing from what party i feel about what's dealt with robert olva and we'll correspond to thank you very much for your time today. thank you. but it was a party looking to drop 700000000000 euros on age to kids under revamp. opens defenses. berlin, as opposed to the driving this, unprecedented spending on the tubs, apparently by concerns that your could be facing a financial crisis. but the pot has sparked strong reaction from tommy's opposition . we cannot be as careless with all public finances as perhaps some others and even with others. i'm starting to get very worried. the next financial crisis is coming to a me now the end of this course on top of this, for my greek ambassador, joining us from athens. it's good to see you. i'm the fast thing. let's talk about that. number 700000000000 years. does brussels have a 700000000000 euros to send to a foreign country will boost its defense capacity? you know, it doesn't. and as they had discussions yesterday in paris, by about having a about issuing a hero bond through it. but there was no consensus about that. many people, many leaders, or so called dieters are against it. but as a basic issue, is that why continuing? why should should take, why should the you continue to pour money into ukraine in view of the fact that everything is, is changing. and i just heard that before that the, you adopted the 16th package of sanctions, which i also find ridiculous at this present moment. i mean, they have not understood that they have lost this war and they are trying to find a way to save face. but what is going to happen is that these people, these governments who are in power, had been in power for the last 2 or 3 years. they are going to change. and it's the new governments that are going to take care of, of the situation. and i hope in a much logical way. sure video, of course has problems at all of these problems that at germany has in other countries we in we, in degrees to his service as a result of the sanction. so that you adopt it against russia and sanctions that the people of europe page rather than rather than russia. so it creates a serious issue for the you. and of course there's going to be a, a large discussions among the e u. member states because there's not an agreement on this one. you know what i found very interesting. this is a party of john many uh that seems to be driving this unbelievable spending on a truck. i mean, generally obviously has elections coming up, but it's also the german economy, which has massively suffered and always going into industrial decline because it caught itself off from russian energy. why is it the foot, lynn? is that the full front of this push? do you think that some sort of political move ahead of next week's elections? i think so, i think so because they want to show it to the, to the curb and people that it's stuck germany who is going to mission, who's going to pay most of the money that weird or is that will go to ukraine. but the whole concept of continuing supporting financially and media terry li, ukraine is ridiculous at the ball, but that peace negotiations have started so that they have not yet understood that the european so being that the situation as dramatically changed. and i don't think that that they will understand that only 2 days ago, cost of the, the head of the president of the european union continued say that russia is, is the biggest threat to europe, natasha, put in this the biggest threat to your, to, to europe and these are statements that show that these people have not understood that ones that they have lost the war. and to that the situation is still gonna be changed. so you know, i hugs, yesterday i was told to save the top. so going on in saudi arabia, i had some volume, a told the job and defense manufacturing company. and he said, europe has bluffed out here. it's pretty the out, the kids table. well, the big lanes as a sitting, installed your rape. yeah. and macy piece, um, how does europe move forward now? kind of have an independent policy from washington of washington lift sanctions that say, do you see brussels say no, actually we're going to keep the functions in place. it is. that's what they will do at the outset. but uh, but uh, i think such a popular pressure within the e u. countries will oblige brussels to start a lifting the sanctions by step by step. they won't do it immediately. but as this, i hope that will, that will happen. but they, but the ease you have to realize that they have lost the war and that they should adapt to the new conditions. and i told you about nothing just so sorry, and that is okay. so the new conditions obviously, is also a new world, isn't it? you know, over the last 2 years we've been talking about the end and the decline of p, the unit po, to wild, and the rise of multiply ritchie. this local south is pushed foot piece that is looking for co operation without press uh, without you know, punitive economic tools like sanctions. is it part of what's going on with that? and you're still backing key u

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of george washington. he had to backpedal on that. we are pass this moment. i am not surprised, a lot of ill-fated ideas come out of washington 19 row lost his life, or the autonomous zone free of cops. how did that work out? speak of the washington is the speak -- >> the problem with washington is the seattle city council is incompetent -- this is all coming from a tiny group of people in olympia speaking for the rest of the state, which has zero care about this. the biggest issue i see with this flag is that it is university of oregon colors instead of washington. it should be purple and gold. [laughter] bottom line, the irony to me is washington's history is based on the independent logger, the skin and even, and also these tribes, so none of what they're talking about, these dem libs crying about diversity, equity, and inclusion, none of that has to do with the real history in washington. >> i'm with you guys. i think it is -- on the couch. >> we will see what happens. >> i drive across the george washington bridge every day, he doesn't have a sign reflect -- hope you know what it is. coming up, we are so excited that lar

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of our time. it was for his birthday. he was -- he wrote these galvanizing pamphlets that washington very much relied on and this is -- to talk about washingtonics in a nutshell, they were the best of friends when washington really needed him. and then he next went to the french revolution and america inspired a global reaction, a sort of age of revolution. we had one of the least bloody, which was credited to george washington, but thomas paine got in trouble with the french during a time of a lot of unrest and was in jail and roach to washington and washington could not intervene. james monroe was the ambassador and working to help him, but then thomas paine wrote an open letter to washington. he wanted to send it on his birthday and munro, -- monroe talked him out of it. paine wrote, one day people will figure out where you ever in apostate or decent leader? only time will tell. it was the first -- they were the first presidential tell all's, but they were very important to our country. host: let me try to get one or two more calls. this is in arizona, independent. caller: good morning. this is very refreshing this morning. i woke up and i

in about one third of those little bit more than one third our located in washington dc. about 70000 washingtonts out of all the soap is a huge impact to people jobs affected. so our focus on making sure that were being supportive of our residents and calling on the government to not use the chainsaw but figure out which jobs we need an which we don't be done in an orderly way and also any humane way. >> we follow up on that question quickly with another question from the press reporter. we respect impact to be a dc regime as you mentioned thousands of federal workers are losing their jobs now in terms of things like unappointed rates in healthcare marketplace when you think that will hit the system and are you prepared for it. >> its winning the system and i suspect probably next week to start talking to the community in a way about the impacts so far i think what we've seen in the plymouth system is suspected when there's change of administration. socially wins a different party so that's what we see by now but we know that over the next month,no more more people will e impacted. the things t

president's day is a national holiday that marks the birthday of george washington. washingtonually born on february 22nd, but congress fixed the holiday on the third day of february. if you want to know more about the nation's leaders, you can visit one of the nearly 30 presidential libraries around the country, the newest one being built to mark the life of president theodore roosevelt is already sparking controversy. barry petersen reports. ♪ >> reporter: the lakota nation called what's translated into the badlands. so serene, it can heal slowly. and healing is what a broken 25-year-old teddy roosevelt sought after his mother and wife died on the same day in the same year, hoping physical strength could rebuild inner strength. >> he tested himself physically, mentally, and he proved that he could do it. >> reporter: edward o'keefe wrote "the loves of theodore roosevelt: the women who created a president." >> as he later said, it's better to wear out than rust out. >> reporter: o'keefe is also ceo of the theodore roosevelt presidential library now under construction. it will

of introduction from lafayette and others. and he finds himself at mount vernon to meet george washington. he and george washington spend a night together. washington is taken. michaux he's one of those stories where as far as we can tell, washington had no idea michaux was going to show up on his doorsteps. but he shows up and he's carrying a letter introduction from lafayette. so, of course, washington's going to invite him in. and then washington, all these stories about the middle east that michaux is regaling him with. and he says, you know, if you need any help, if you want to use mount vernon as a site for experimentation, i can give you some area if you if you'd like it. so they really hit it off. and michaux eventually sends washington a number of pistachio nuts and other plants that that washington plants are. well as he's traveling throughout north america, he eventually lands in charleston, south, and he realizes the charleston, south carolina, provides with the base that he wants to work. and so he opens a botanical garden in charleston, south carolina. and about the same time, he also opens a second

finish the war. leads to a transatlantic rupture, that there is such discord between washington and kyiv, between washington ofventually says, you guys, you're on your own. he said today, by the way, there is a big ocean between us and europe. who has started off with an important initiative to open a dialogue with russia, follows through with a serious strategy. part of the dispute between president trump and president zelensky centres on ukraine's mineral reserves. mr trump wants access in exchange for america's past mineral resources. as you can see from this map from ukraine's geological survey, the country is rich in raw materials as well as oil and gas. more than $11 trillion. this includes critical minerals such as graphite, lithium, "rare earth materials". from mobile phones to electric vehicles, to missiles mineral resources. for example, it says it produces 7% of the world's has identified as critical. now, last year — as part of his peace plan — president zelensky suggested american firms could get access to some of these rare earth deposits in return for continued us military support. translation:

washington. his puppet of washington, and that's basically the whole just of it. all right, regularly with their thomas pen r t contributor thomas. thank you. thanks for having in a conference. germans, provocative comments about by doing buying gas from moscow, failed to get the desired reaction from the chinese foreign minister who chose to underscore his country's comprehensive partnership with russia and response today. and resar has become what's um, john mccain. uh, once the site is here at the munich secuity conference, china gas station, i would add, it's a gas station with, with an army. and this means you have a, you have a lot of an influence on, on, on ukraine. do you see a possibility now that there is more pressure and finally more pressure to finish this or that form from your end to? so let me assure you, headed out on quote, china and russia are 2 neighbors with a long borderline in the past. are relations have gone through twists and turns, and then the 2 sides drew on those lessons and decided against confrontation or targeting any 3rd country. and based on our mutual trust, we have built a comprehensive strategic partnership. so about china ending gas purchases from russia, or i'd like to ask this if china does not buy gas from russia, what country will be able to provide then with so much gas product, you don't as to meet the needs of chinese people. it's not possible. and it's not safe because, you know, some countries tend to politicize economic and trade issues and treat them as a tool to suppress china when it comes to regional hotspot issues. china has its own positions all along. we have advocated that all disputes and disagreements should be settled through dialogue. because force and sanctions cannot truly and completely solve the issue. we hope that the us will work in the same direction with us. however, if the us is not willing, if it is bent on suppressing and containing china, then we have no choice but to play along to the end. we will resolutely uphold china sovereignty national dignity and our legitimate development rights. and we will resolutely respond to the unilateral bullying practices of the us since you attempted to well as cross live now to our, to contributor carl john carl, we just heard there from chinese for mr. wong, the defending his countries relations with russia after quite a provocative question and certainly giving an answer. the west did not want to hear. what are your thoughts on his response? the quality is just stating the facts. china and russia had a strategic partnership law for a long time now. and when president, she's in p and visit him off. copied specifically said the relationship between trying to china. russia is a no limit strategic partnership. and it's always, it's, it's ridiculous for europe to expect china to stop having our normal tre relationship was right. yes. i mean, if, if china, to not buy gas from russia, where is europe going to get rushing gas? you know, as we all know, lot of the rushing gas is being sold to china. india gets repackage and re sell it to europe. whereas, and you have to pay a premium if they stop china from purchasing gas from russia. where is europe going to get his gas? mm. yeah, absolutely administer wrong. you said no country couldn't supply china with as much gas as rush. so badging when we stopped the imports in china looking out for its own interest. how crucial our russian energy supplies to china is economy. the rock . sure right now is one of the largest supplier of oil and gas to china. let's see . this is very important to china because u. s. navy has stated it, u. s. navy stated, aim is to choke off the side of this energy supplies through the straight on the lock of where is lot of the oil from middle east goes to china. whereas this, the supply line coming from russia is very secure because there's no way for us navy, during the year. are you intercept the gas and oil coming from russia to china because russia and china are neighbors. so this is very strategically important for china itself to mean to, to keep that pipeline open. one, you also accused other countries of politicizing economic issues to try to put pressure on china. i'm wondering, do you think he was referring to any country specifically? well we, we know that it's traditionally that it's caesar united states or g u on behalf of the united states malware. but in a very interesting time, because trump has specifically said, do you want to wrap up the war in ukraine? and this has throw a lot of european leaders into a tailspin because they, they don't know what to do now for 4 years. they have followed the washington line on ukraine and in regards to their relationship to russia. and now trump is saying, you know what, it was a mistake, the green worries, the mistake we should make peace. and so i think it's still very hard for a lot of european leader to make that adjustment. he also warned that if the us doesn't consider resolving all disputes to dialogue and continues trying to make time to submit to his will, then badging will respond. was this a threat that he was making, or we're looking at a risk of a potential confrontation in the pacific ocean and shouts out, tennessee between these 2 powers? well, i mean, china has the, has tipped it's powder dried you. china is sold far as size didn't respond to the footpad, sanction against the us sanction. i'll try, you know, well, china has to be very selective on each sciences or mo, most of which are symbolic, which means china has a lot more room and leverage to apply counter sanctioning against us when push comes to shop. speaking of the recent c

of women who live in washington. some of them are cabinet wives who just arrived. some of them are women who live permanently in washington, who choose and deliberately choose not to associate with one of the cabinet wives o was there, a woman by t name of margaret eaton. margaret was the wife of johnny, who was jackson's secretary of war. that treatment of margaret really sets the tone, not just socially, politically, because of the controversy over margaret and john egan's marriage. and that is something that's really going to consume jackson more than it should have over the next couple of years. mark cheathem but how would you describe the social and economic conditions of the united states in 1829? united was certainly a nation that was not a world power. i think many times as americans we look back, we that we've always been a great power. and that certainly wasn't the case. and there are american eyes there who thought, you know, that the united was the equivalent of great britain and france economically, militarily, socially and all that. we're really just a very up and a country very up and coming nation trying t

washington d.c. didn't want virginia to succeed. >> isn't that the most incredible irony. not incredible but. >> in your book you write about the great panic of 1861 in washington d.c. what was going86 on? >> well, once the four extra border states joined the confederacy on the fort sumpter. thatade washingtonery venerable. the only way lincoln could get any of the 75,000 men ta washington to defend washington, davis chose to advance from very beginnia was through maryland. maryland had not succeeded and never did succeed but their were many people in maryland that were slave owners. it was a difficult state especially in baltimore. to get troops to defend washington would have to bring them by train. that was the only rail access and they would have to come by sea. that was a total panic. after all, he was right. you look the south couldn't do it with the army. lincoln spent a difficult week while the troops from massachusetts that came from baltimore were attacked by people in baltimore they were basically pro confederate the governoror of maryland said please, no more. no more troops. things have to settle down here. lincoln was left with a number of regular troops congressman, they weren't actually in session. dressing up soldiers and holding guns. they were extremely venerable in the w

of you may know, was founded here in washington. lee and december of 1865, which is the first semester that robert e lee was here as president of what was then washington college and. i'm proud to say that i'm a k, so k a special place to me. for those of you who don't know, robert e lee is known as the spirit, all founder of the kappa alpha order. so is pledges ks are taught to emulate general lee's character, which i think is something everybody should do. the world will be a better if we all emulated general lee's. well, let me let me tell you. prompted me to write this on counsel robert e lee. it was in response to cancel culture, particularly when that, of all things passed, made its way here to lexington, virginia, to my alma mater washington. and lee, as i mentioned, lee devoted the last five years of his life to washington college. and as president, the school he saved it from insolvency, it was it was down to about three professors and 40 students. and in a very short period of time, lee turned the school around, saved it, and took the enrollment up to 400 students and, built it into one of the top schools in the south. but more importantly, h

of diplomatic foot work was given an exemption from trump's tariffs. australia was trying to discern where washington will land on a number of questions. trying to read the tea leaves in washington. what is the general shape of washington's foreign policy. who are the key players. what'll china's foreign policy look like? there were also questions about what policy will look like toward other allies like japan and south korea and how engaged washington will be in southeast asia and whether the u.s. will continue its increased engagement in the pacific island region. that last question you asked, the pacific island engagement carries significant implications for australia. just in case people are not -- the u.s. has opened or just opened a specific u.s. initiative in fiji in 2023 held as a huge win for u.s.-pacific relations and washington announced it would open new u.s. embassies in tonga and -- and all of this, australian objectives are two-fold. at vocting for their interests, of course and working to ensure that the u.s. is as anchored in the region as possible. in terms of what australia might be willing to put on the table, there is an evolving conversation. canberra wants

, a now kept company by a later portrait, i think the 1870s of martha washington, so, so figuratively. the washingtonsver this room, which i think in so many ways he inspired it. is this painting of george washington that is the only portrait hanging in the white house on november 1st, 1800, the day his successor, john adams, becomes the first president to occupy the home. the house was woefully incomplete. no rooms were furnished very few rooms were even plastered. the roof leaked. there was no running water. there was an outdoor privy next to the house. the grounds were littered with what you'd find on any construction site and you had to be very careful if you were walking around at night. there was no light, of course, so it was not a very livable house inside this unfinished home. abigail adams uses the east room for anything but what washington envisions as a stage for the president. she did use it as a drying room, as she called it, because it was unfinished the bare brick walls. in fact, it was leaking like crazy. and she set up the clotheslines in there. apparently, garnishes have made it int

of our time. it was for his birthday. he was -- he wrote these galvanizing pamphlets that washington very much relied on and this is -- to talk about washingtonics in a nutshell, they were the best of friends when washington really needed him. and then he next went to the french revolution and america inspired a global reaction, a sort of age of revolution. we had one of the least bloody, which was credited to george washington, but thomas paine got in trouble with the french during a time of a lot of unrest and was in jail and roach to washington and washington could not intervene. james monroe was the ambassador and working to help him, but then thomas paine wrote an open letter to washington. he wanted to send it on his birthday and munro, -- monroe talked him out of it. paine wrote, one day people will figure out where you ever in apostate or decent leader? only time will tell. it was the first -- they were the first presidential tell all's, but they were very important to our country. host: let me try to get one or two more calls. this is in arizona, independent. caller: good morning. this is very refreshing this morning. i woke up and i

report to the president was that he, i believed, had the picture in his mind of covid era washington, d.c. that's the washingtonthat he left. we did have some impacts of covid closures on public safety and homelessness. so, i wanted to make it clear that the washington that he has returned to is, is, is coming back from covid era impacts. i developed a comeback plan, our five-year economic development strategy that has a lot of investments in the downtown, for example. how we bring more residents and activity and vitality to the downtown in the federal workforce is a big part of that. i have always believed that trump viewed washington from the eyes of a developer. that was kind of how we approached him in his first term. turns out, he didn't get that involved in real estate, i think they are more interested in that in this term. so, we are looking for ways that investments can be made in our national parks in underutilized federal buildings with the government as well. mr. balsamo: i wanted to ask you about the federal workforce in just a second, but as you know we take questions from the audience, so james le

policy by the will of constituents in his inaugural address, which jacksonian leap on as an indication he's an elitist. he's a washington insider, son of a president. you know, washington's always been his game. and so all these things kind of come together to create a narrative, rightly or wrongly that adams doesn't care about will of the people. he doesn't care what american voters think he's going to do, what he wants to do, which is sort of create this intellectual, elitist administration that is not going to be responsive to the real needs, the american people. and so that is the main narrative that the jacksonian focus on is all these missteps that the adams makes and he makes others throughout his four years that solidify this this this belief that he simply doesn't care what americans voters want. whereas jackson does. he is a man of the people, even though in many that's not true. mark cheathem is it fair to say that andrew jackson came into the presidency in 1829, a bit angry about what happened four years prior? oh, my goodness. yes jackson it's interesting. if you look at jackson's initial response when he loses the 1825 house election, he's he's a little bit

katherine graham, the great publisher of the "washington post" and it goes to the question of, in watergate, the knicksen people had made clear that they wanted to ruin "washington post." they had -- knew that the broadcast licenses of the post stations which were the financial life blood of the "washington post" company were up for renewal before the f.c.c. and they wereout to make sure that those licenses were not renewed and right around the time of that john mitchell story, i got a call from a security guard downstairs at the post saying there's somebody from the committee for re-election on the president here, a subpoena server who wants your notes under subpoena. i said just a minute. i ran upstairs and i called ben bradley in his office and i said the guard has somebody with a subpoena for our notes down there and bradley said don't let them upstairs. i'm going to go talk to katherine and he ran upstairs to katherine graham's office and then he came back to my desk and he said they're not your notes. katherine says they're her notes and that if anybody is going to go to jail it's going to be katherine graham. it gives you a notion of what was at stake. bo