he is going to be killed by ehrenberg -- aaron burr. and a little bit about his military are countless months. here is a portrait. like alexander hamilton, he also at one point served as an aide to general george washington during the revolutionary war. he serves the shortest. he was there about three weeks. there is the entire full-length portrait. it's it's in new york's city hall. i hope you take away an appreciation of his roles. not just as an aid to washington. he starts out as a captain. later he is a lieutenant colonel. this is probably one of the best-known portraits of him in uniform. that is the hat of a light infantry officer in yorktown late in the war. this is the portrait you probably have not seen. how many of you know that he was a major general in the u.s. army? we will get to that story and while bit. there is someone else who comes from humble beginnings, rose up on a remote island, and then comes to the mainland. becomes an incredibly famous military leader. napoleon bonaparte. there is an interesting comparison you

we know how the story ends, he will be killed by erin burke -- by aaron burr. there are scandals and so forth, and a little bit about his military experiences. that is what we tend to not know. it was a portrait by john trumbull. like alexander hamilton, he also at one point served as an aide to general george washington during the revolutionary war. he serves the shortest. he was there about three weeks. he was a very talented artist, during the siege of boston. this is the portrait that was used for the $10 bill. there is more to him than just that head. there is the entire full-length portrait. it sits in new york's city hall. my wife and i had permission to reproduce this to hang in our house. i hope you take away an appreciation of the accomplishments of hamilton in his buried roles as military commander, not just as an aide to washington. that is a portion of it but you will see more than that. he starts out as a captain. later he is a lieutenant colonel. this is probably one of the best-known portraits of him in uniform. alexander hamilton in uniform of

aaron burr wanted to be a brigadier general. he is politicking for position. he is playing footsy with the federalists. he is like, maybe i do not like those jeffersonian republicans so much after all. i want to be a brigadier general. problem is, he had already been so critical of george washington that that effort did peter out. there is a portrait of major general hamilton that is not well known. we don't know who the artist was, we don't know when it was painted, even what decade. he does have a federal era uniform on with the high collar. we don't know what the medal is on his lapel. it was donated around 1960 by john lawrence hamilton -- john laurens hamilton, who went by aurie, and it hangs in washington, d.c., otherwise known as anderson house. one general who was not mentioned nearly as much as jockeying for position is the second owner of our house, jedediah huntington's half-brother ebenezer huntington, who writes to his friend alexander hamilton and successfully receives an appointment from john adams to serve as a brigadier general in the war. thi

secretary alexander hamilton was killed in a duel following a dispute with the former vice president, aaron burr. even george washington wasn't immune to the slings and arrows of critics who among other things accused him of monarch a aspirations. i am optimistic for other reasons. today more than any time in the last 400 years, all-americans, all-americans have the opportunity to participate in shaping our country's future. to put their shoulder to the wheel, to be in america unstuck and moving forward again together. our diverse city today has deep roots in pain and prejudice, from african slaves to the irish fleeing the potato famine, east european and russian jews fleeing pogroms, chinese coming to build our railroads, koreans and vietnamese fleeing war and oppression, and hispanic seeking opportunity and safety and others who have come from every continent, country and island. the founders adopted the country's motto e pluribus unum, one out of many. although they were referring to the 13 colonies becoming one country the motto applies in a different way today. it captures the reality that

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the united states shot and killed the leader of the opposition party, alexander hamilton shot by aaron burr when jefferson became president, he's a strong anti-federalist, so you soon see impeachment proceedings coming through. first judicial impeachment of john pickering was that situation. a problematic judge, but it was initiated for largely political reasons, an opportunity for the jeffersonian parliament to remove a federal judge from the bench. >> article one, section three of the constitution says the senate shall have the sole power to try all impeachments. mr. president, i announce on the part of the house to conduct impeachment proceedings. narrator: removing officials from office for treason, bribery, or high crimes and misdemeanors is perhaps the senate's ultimate tool in the checks and balances system. while 15 of their 19 trials are of federal judges with eight convictions, it is when they sit as a court of impeachment of two presidents which gripped the nation. >> the impeachment trial of andrew johnson was an absolute sensation. it was for the johnson impeachment trial that

. >> host: aaron burr did not get elected governor of new york. >> guest: he did not. he -- i mean, hamilton was very effective at helping to smash various aspects of burr's career. burr has a reason to be ircanned. don't think burr wanted to kill hamilton. don't think that was his purpose. and first of all most duelists, unless maybe you're andrew jackson, most of them don't go to a dueling ground wanting to kill. and i don't think burr did. sometime before the duel he is asked about a doctor, like what doctor he normally -- duelist ways to dueling group with doctors and he said we don't need doctors. just get it over with. i think he assumed it would be a typical duel. you shoot at each other, prove you're a man of honor, shake hands and leave. but tragically it has become a veil lab for killing hamilton and i don't think that was his, sad to say, aim. too many gun worded in english lang but not his purpose at the dueling ground. >> what was his life like after that. >> guest: not easy. he flees because at that point although dueling is common enough, all of burr lazy

a delegate out of withdrawing a vote with erin -- aaron burr which through the election for jeffersonif we're doing it correctly, states would not be finding the electorates if they voted their conscience. and we would allow the electors to have security clearance. so they could be informed of what is happening. they ask for a briefing and they were denied one in the 2016 election, thanks to mitch mcconnell. if they had known, two voted for colin powell, several did vote for others and it was a very courageous thing to do, but are electors have a terminus amount of responsibility. host: ok. congress returns next week with the stories in the papers this morning talking some of the topics they have heard as they were home on their recess. one of the topics, impeachment. pair writing, enying more than two doz interviews, some voters said they wish their representative in congress would hurry up and endorse an impeachment inquiry in order to send an unmistakable signal that mr. trump's actions were illegal and unacceptable. to be sure that many democrats around the country have confronted