e. lee white's wife. and two of white's friends, lawrence scott and william brown, were also beneficiaries. brown had been convicted a few years earlier for fraud. >> lawrence scott and william brown both had affiliations with the funeral home and with mr. white, also were beneficiaries on the policy. and the familial relationship that was cited there was one of being cousins. they weren't cousins. >> coincidentally, the insurance policies also contained an accidental death provision, meaning there was an extra payout of $350,000 if frankie pullian died in an accident. the last of the policies was issued just five days before frankie's death. frankie's medical records indicated he was released from the military because he was neurologically impaired. >> i think within six to eight months, he was released, discharged from the service because he couldn't pass the particular tests that were required of him. >> yet, the man who underwent the physical examination for the life insurance policies was not neurolo

piece i want to include any here is white southerners during the march and immediately after june compared to his between sherman's march to the sea and robert e. lee's invasion of maryland in 1862 in pennsylvania. they often quoted lee's general order in which he reminded them that the duties expected of us by civilization and christianity are not less obligatory in enemies than our own. and lee's language "we make war only upon armed men and we cannot take vengeance for the wrongs our people have suffered without lowering ourselves in the eyes of all the atrocities." he is often praised. that is a pretty selected reading of course of what actually happened and many of these defenders of lee. ignoring the many roads are betrayed by his men, especially they kidnapped african americans to sell into slavery. we will set that aside. i got a little ahead of myself. let's talk specifically about sherman and his march. despite many allegations to the contrary, sherman himself was very well aware that war was governed by rules. these charges against sherman, is sherman a war criminal? generally focus on two events. the march obviously which i will talk abou

e lee followed by brooks simpson on ulysses s. grant. burning of chambersburg this weekend on american history tv on c-span 3. white housegoing press secretary jay carney talks about the most difficult aspect of his job. he was the featured guest of the "christian science monitor" breakfast series. it's about one hour. >> peter? we've got a space. p come on, brother. , brother.g-- come on you can be on tv with me. thank you for coming. just this morning is jay carney, president obama's departing press secretary and we are delighted to have him as a guest on the day he is traversing the polar extremes of the media world starting with the monitor breakfast and moving to new york for the "colbert report." hare asecretary to say high cholesterol breakfast with us. shareis the 12th to breakfast with us. he has degrees in russian and european studies. career in journalism began with the miami herald. he moved to time magazine and was with the moscow bureau and in 1993 came to washington where he was reporter, deputy chief, and bureau chief at which point he left to become vice president communications director. he steppe

e. lee followed by arizona state university professor brooks simpson on ulysses s. grant. >>> a discussion now on the global economic outlook with white house council of economic advisors chair james fuhrman. it was part of the "wall street journal" chief financial officers network conference. >>> good morning, everyone. thanks to you both for being here. mr. furman, i would like to start with you. talk about the u.s. economy. beyond the painful long recovery, there is increasing concern that the long term growth rate is slower than we thought. over the past half century it averaged about 3%. now the imf is out with a report that says it will be 2% and that's down from the 2.8% they predicted just in april. what's going on and is our future a bit darker than we thought? >> if you look at economic growth, you could look where we are right at this moment. and we don't want to look in the rear view mirror at the first quarter. we want to look where things are now. job growth picked up. we are adding about 220 jobs a month. if we add jobs for the month of june, we'll have 52 consecutive months of private sector job growth. that will be th