alexander hamilton's great-great-grandson is behind the project. when it is pointed out to them that the work they are doing, which in the statue of liberty, forgets to mention latin american migration into the united states, he says, well, my great grandfather comes from the caribbean so we got ourselves covered. so i love that you bring him up because there is a way in which what you are saying, they are maintaining the status quo. right. these are white men who are perpetuating narratives and they are changing the language but they are maintaining the power. and one of the things that i find, in my own research, or the silence that i find, ingig us -- is that of indigenous population counter to this narrative, right? in the research, i find that there is an attempt of an occupation of ellis island in a similar fashion. which is not really successful. but in the attempt to try and occupy the land, it is not withsarily in conversation of this popular narrative that takes hold in the 1960's and my 1970's. question is basically that -- what have you

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alexander hamilton's late great-grandson is behind the project. >> oh. >> and when it is point out parn toearch, i look at the american them, that what they are doing statute of liberty forget to mention latin american into the united states, he says, well, my great great grabbed father comes from the caribbean so we got i lovees tethered, so that you bring him up because there is a way in which what you are saying, they are maintaining the status quo. right. these are white men who are but theythe language are maintaining the power, and things that i find,able, in my own research, that i find,e ingig us now population counter tutive to this narrative, right? in the research, i find that there is an attempt of occupation of ellis island and more fashion and he'll catarase which is not in theful, um, but try to occupy the ind, it is not necessarily conversation with this popular takes holden the 1960 he and '70's. my question is basically that -- have you found is the indigenous response to this narrative? >> to what? thendigenous response to narrative of the nation of immigrants? mary w

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four of those letters were written to alexander hamilton, two of the letters were written into his secretary of war, and one was written to a personal friend of his. this is a document that has never been seen, that is now in this home and it will be prominently placed here and always be with the health -- house, even if it sells. i grew up in alexandria. i have had nine homes in the of alexandria. i married a beautiful woman and my wife is related to george washington. we were in the house on duke and we had run out of room. we had our third daughter and we needed more space. we started to look. when i was at church at st. paul's episcopal church, i talked to one of the members and told her i was looking to move. she said there is a property across the street that you might want to look at. i asked her about the house and my wife and i came by the house. we took a walk across the street , took a five minute tour of the house and put a contract on the house. the historian wanted it to get back into the washington property and name, we had to she is related to andge washington, washington had

set up guillotines and thomas jefferson thought alexander hamilton was a british agent. i mean, this is a man who spent the war fighting against britain, but that's what jefferson thought. and all their followers, you know, thought the same. and i think with them, for them, it was the fact that it was all so new. you know, political parties are mentioned nowhere in the constitution. and they all said that parties are a bad thing, parties would be a bad thing. oh, i don't belong to a party. i would never belong to a party. but they almost immediately began to set up a two-party system, and they weren't comfortable with what they had done. it made them anxious, so there's the stress of contention and then there's the anxiety over the fact that they're doing this. also, there's a world war going on. you know, the bastille falls four months after washington's first inauguration. no, three months. july 1789. and that begins a 25-year world war which will only end at waterloo. so, the first 25 years of america under the constitution were this little country. when the two super

alexander hamilton. her father was a general. she had access. she said, i heard george washington pray passionately for his country. even the london chronicle. i think it was 1777. describing the enemy camps as , it is well-known that george washington has daily prayers in his tent for his men. even the enemy had to admit that in their newspapers. the last thing any enemy newspaper wants to do is build up the integrity of your enemy. did he pray at valley forge? this is the great scene. how about an eyewitness account? the first lutheran missionary to he becomes a preacher and ends up going off to fight. he becomes an officer at valley forge. this is written in the missionary's personal diary. it was not written for anybody but his own record. notice what he says. as he came to visit his son at valley forge. this scene is only seven miles from my house. i walk there regularly to have a moment of prayer and to think of the history that occurred a few miles from where i live. i often do it in my tennis shoes in the snow. i haven't done in bare fee

his book, "alexander hamilton" was published in 1999, and rick brookhiser was chosen to be the curator at the new york historical society in 2004 and 2005 titled "alexander hamilton, the man who made modern america." i hope some of you saw it. i hope i never forget the life-size bronzes of the statues of hamilton and bure pointing their guns at each other. on 2012, the anniversary of hamilton's death, there was a ceremony at his final resting place, trinity church in new york, where brookhiser received the hamilton legacy award in recognition of his two decades of work. rick suffered from cancer in the early 1990s, which thankfully he successfully beat. he spoke at a national review institute meeting in chicago that i was chairing and i noticed that he didn't look very well. he told me he was fighting cancer, and with great sincerity he said, marijuana helped rid him of the horrible nausea and pain. he was one of the very first people to testify before the house judiciary committee about how much it helped him, and he was an ardent advocate for legalizing marijuana for medical purposes

he is the author of republican empire, alexander hamilton on government and the cognitive with brad lee after tragic logic and rational to. he currently is writing a book on the history of the peloponnesian war. please help me and welcoming professor karl walling. [applause] >> before i begin i have to say this. nothing in this talk with next official views of united states naval war college, the department of navy, department of defense or any other government entity. in the handout i passed around, i have two quotations at the top. one is from sun tzu, know yourself, know your enemy, in 100 battles you will never be defeated. that strikes me as a bit optimistic. sometimes it in me has so much superior force that it doesn't matter how much you know, you're still going to lose. but in most cases, knowledge of your strengths and weaknesses relative to your opponent are a crucial component of devising a strategy. those of you who know american football or perhaps even played it, know that after sunday game or a friday night game on high school, you take a break and then you watch game fil

codes online and then new primary source collections online includes the papers of alexander hamilt hamilton, benjamin franklin and susan b. anthony. i visited libraries and communities this past year in many congressional districts. i have been interneuroscienener interest and enthusiasm and expressed need for greater connection of resources and researches for the library. we have to take care of fundamentals first. i would like to express my gratitude for your support in the two previous physical year for mission critical work. that has helped with our modernization of information technology and congress service that we are very proud of. special thanks for your support for initiative to revitalize and enhance the visitor experience in the thomas jefferson building through a public private partnership and also deeply appreciative and the acting deputy library mark sweeney joins me in this for the story module that are apart of the architect of the capital's budget. i am happy to report as we look at the report of the committee of i.t. modernization, and storage program, the library has clo

. >>> alexander hamilton is getting an honor and a family is coping with a tragedy. the "vc star" says a father randomly stabbed to death at a restaurant leaves behind a mourning family. 35-year-old anthony mele jr. was stabbed in the neck whiles he 5-year-old daughter sat in his neck. his wife was there too. a homeless man is in custody charged with a murder. mele is being remembered as an honest man who worked hard to provide for his family. >>> the "chicago tribune" reports on the condition of white sox pitcher danny farquhar. he collapsed in the dugout during a game friday after pitching moments after leaving the pitching mound. he suffered a brain hemorrhage but was in critical condition. he was helped by medical personnel and on-site emts. >>> "the new york times" reports a professor apologizes for giving information to cambridge analytica. aleksandr cogan was on "60 minutes" last night. he defended his role and said how his information was to be used. he said he never heard a word of objection from facebook. he never thought obtaining data for a political cons

the show, which premiered on broadway in new york in 2015 is about us founding father alexander hamiltont new musical and best actor. a team of scientists has just returned from a pioneering deep—sea expedition of an area where no man has ventured. the scientists have been mining the rich seascape for living treasures, diving 500m to 2km deep, off the southern coast of west java. the team of 30, led by professors from singapore and indonesia, discovered new species and learned more about the earth's biodiversity. earlier i spoke to dr tan koh siang from the tropical marine science institute at the national university of singapore about their discoveries. well, it is a place where there is not much really known about the deep waters over there. it is not unexpected to find new species and we have found probably already nine or ten, and we expect to find more. all right, well, tell us a bit more about these discoveries. well, it is easier to determine whether they were new or not, the bigger things. there were some crabs and shrimps, also because our team consists of quite a number of peop

this year, hamilton, the american hip—hop musical based on the life of alexander hamilton, leads therecord in the olivier history. the ferry man has eight nominations making it the most nominated new play. our arts editor will gompertz is on the red carpet, of course the olivier awards are about separating british theatre which has had a good year, ticket sales are up, but in reality, eve ryo ne sales are up, but in reality, everyone is talking about an american production, hamilton has been nominated for a record number of 13 awards, the question is whether it will win anything like that? i know a man who has an inkling, michael billington. how is hamilton going to do, will it take the party by storm? it will do very well, it did well at the tony awards. the kind of show that sweeps all before it with massive audiences, people applauding loudly. i think it will an enormous number of awards. this is about british theatre. is there a situation where british theatre is being overtaken by american theatre on our own patch? we talk about the brits on broadway, was about broadway coming h

the west end production tells the story of one of america's founding fathers, alexander hamilton.v series, breaking bad, was named best actor for his portrayal of howard beale in the national theatre production, network. the ferryman picked up three awards including best new play, best director and best actress. that's a summary of the latest bbc news — more at 9.30. sport now and mike bushell has the latest from the commonwealth games. yes, thank you. as dusk falls on the gold coast, australia, i can tell you that nile wilson has just won his third gold medal of the commonwealth games. the english gymnast has just claimed victory in the horizontal bar final. wilson had already won two golds and two silvers including one silver earlier today in the parallel bars. gold also this morning for alice kinsella on the beam, adding to the all—around bronze she won earlier in the games. she was joined on the podium by compartriot kelly simm, who won bronze. england's adam gemili has withdrawn from the 100m final after struggling with a thigh injury. the 24—year—old won silver in glasgow an

"alexander hamilton" has a lot of critics who feel that what distinguishes us from the old world is precisely the old autonomy. then like child labor and pollution people think that's manufacturing. they want to avoid that for political reasons. these mills were waterpower is available they don't have children and where to get workers from. the united states has a labor shortage. they think of young women coming to age to come. after sure there parents that this is a respectable safe thing to do. one contemporary newspaper i found the head at boarding houses with rules. they have to choose the employment and they set out to make it attractive. so i have to make it attractive. for a while people like dickens come from the united states. they'll go this is amazing. for a while and may have been a little oversold. it changes. >> when the air is filthy using one country some of avoid the creation of a -- i thought that was a fascinating thought. again it's pretty early in a different kind of society. there should be no great social distinction or a huge economic distinction. the system meets a lo

titled, "alexander hamilton" i hope some of you see it. the life size of hamilton and burr pointing their guns at each other. the 2012, the anniversary of hamilton's death. there was a ceremony in new york where brookhiser received the hamilton award. rick suffered from the cancer in the early 1990s which he beat. he spoke at a national meeting in chicago that i was chairing. and i notice he didn't look well. he told me he was fighting cancer and he said marijuana helped rid him of the horrible nausea and pain. he was one of the very first people to testify before the house judiciary committee about how much it helped him. and he was an ar den advocate for legalizing marijuana for medical purposes. i was worried about rick and asked if he would like to visit us in palm beach and see the turtles on our beach where they lay their eggs. he and his wife who is wis us today blown away by a huge female turtle who corrallrawled the beach to lay his eggs next to rick brookhiser. he finished his most recent book. the fourth chief justice john marsha

president said he had the authority to do that dates back to 1215 and our constitution and so alexander hamiltonformidable instrument of tyranny and just days later on september 17 but what's interesting about that decision by the commander-in-chief of the armed president --dash the armed forces in 1775 george washington sat at his camp in cambridge massachusetts the northern expeditionary force in canada and general george washington said we shall injure any prisoner that basically brought to such punishment as those crimes deserve up to and including death because they bring shame and disgrace upon themselves and on our country and that was the reaction of general george washington 26 years earlier to engage in a battle that would have led to his death but on september 17 president bush made another remarkable decision that authorized the cia program the interrogation program and was interesting about that date 12 or 14 years to the day earlier the day our constitution was signed. george washington at the top so on that day of september 17 there was a decision to abandon the tried and true tac

at the dawn of time, alexander hamilton used to write anonymous editorials praising himself and so onn journalism, this is something that you don't see. you don't see this kind of just kind of political log rolling of this sort. again, in an organization that presents itself, that wants to be seen as a "we report, you decide" news organization. it wants to have it both ways, being grouped with everybody else when convenient and then having this sort of side branch of the white house press office. and i think that may be becoming commercially beneficial to them but unsustainable for everybody else who is not on the team. >> i was at fox when george w. bush was president. and i don't ever remember there ever being such an alignment between the white house, it's almost like hannity is working for donald trump, or that "fox and friends" is working for donald trump, that they're boosters. i don't remember that. i don't even remember it with hannity, who was there to spout the conservative line unabashedly every night. it's just bizarre to kind of watch it, how they are just -- it's like th

you know, alexander hamilton thought that thomas jefferson was a jacko bishbinanjackobinan guillotines, but that is what jefferson thought, and so, all of the followers at one time thought the same, and for them, it is also the fact that it is all so w, and political par parties are mentioned nowhere in the constitution. and so they all said that the parties are a bad thing, and oh, i don't belong to a party and i would never belong to a party, but they almost immediately began to set up a two-party system, and they were not comfortab comfortable, and made them ainge shoushgs and the stress of the contention, and the anxiety over there is the fact that they are doing this, and there is a world war going on. and you know, the bastille falls four months after washington's first inauguration, and three months. july 1789 and that is beginning a 25-year real world war that ends at waterloo. and so the first years under the constitution was this little country when the super power es of the world are duking it out and also an ideological war, and not just two kings going at it, and the old o

but it was a hip hop musical from across the atlantic about the us founding father alexander hamiltonf america's founding fathers in a way that's never been told before was in line to win a record—breaking 13 olivier awards. that didn't happen, although with seven oliviers, it was still last night's biggest winner including a best actor in a musical award for giles terera. ijust focused on the man and his life and his circumstances and tried to do that the best i can. all the other stuff is a distraction and i think that paid off. best actor went to bryan cranston for his performance as a news anchorman having a nervous breakdown in network. oh, it's very difficult to be mad as hell when you're holding an olivier. tonight i would like to dedicate this award to the company of network actors and crew who i'm giving a huge hug to tonight and maybe sometime tomorrow, will let go. it was another american win, noted the guardian's theatre critic, michael billington. roughtly half of the awards, if you look at them, are work of american origin. that's very nice in some ways, but we always he

fact that it is hard to remember presidents from the 19th century is what james madison and alexander hamilton and all the framers of the constitution asked what we were aiming for. we want these people to be unmemorable. the stars of the show are going to be members of congress. i decided to look in on the three most noted members of congress during the first half of the 19th century. this was part of my continuing recovery from writing biographies. some of you who have been here ill know that for a while, had this long-term project of writing the history of the united states through biography. i eventually wrote six volumes in this collection. the six volumes begin with the new year and franklin and went to -- began with benjamin franklin, and went to ulysses grant, and abraham lincoln. they linked together to form a history of the united states from the 18th century to the 21st century. i thought this was going to be a great idea. i recommend it to all of you. every house should have the set. concluded byings i the time i got to the end was there are certain stories that are hard to tell if

the show about the us founding father alexander hamilton, won seven awards from it's 13 nominations.ireland during the troubles also did well winning three awards. have you seen it? i haven't seen it. i suspect it is like facebook, i am one of the three people in the world who has not seen this musical. maybe ijust do not get out on a foray do not have enough friends. i do like hamilton. you'll have to ask for an massive pay raise. i do like hamilton is in bundles of ten in my pocket! do you get that? that was terrible. it was. president obama did say... christian fraser! he has got lots of hamiltons in his pocket, he isa got lots of hamiltons in his pocket, he is a very rich man, in fact, he has on his yacht now. i think he is swanning around the mediterranean smoking a cigar and drinking champagne. christian fraser said last week that i should be fired from this programme. he has not been fired, he is off on some very big holiday. i have been lucky to meet lin—manuel miranda and i have seen hamilton and it is fantastic. he is one of those people who are super creative, super succes

other thing that brings these two men together, they oth had a deep and abiding hatread of alexander hamilton. he point about the letter, the thing, adams apologizes to jefferson, i'm writing so many not writing ou are as many. he comes to realize, maybe busy.rson is how many letters did you receive last year, i think 1820. efferson says i got 1200-something. only got stounded, i 120, he's getting a tenth of the correspondence jefferson is getting. jefferson is an international superstar. the czaresponding with alexander, the reat nationalist, alexander humbolt, he's a celebrity world from adams, he still is. is kind of, it is difficult for adams to accept that, but he true.zes that is i'm not in his realm. -- his is very jefferson everything he says is true, except it's tilted. [laughter] >> that is that if you teach 30 , as i've taught it, say times, they always, the students always think, i'm going to read more impressed with his writing and his thinking and that doesn't happen. i had one young woman who went she said,showtime and .efferson is this adams is this. okay. well, ally -- you th

we had a sitting vice president killed alexander hamilton of all people in a duel.that's pretty polarized, right? [laughing] we have fistfights on the floor and canyons on the senate. it's been worse, but what's different about today is it's not just us. it's everywhere in the world. look at the european elections that happened recently. they are very polarized in the populism that exists is driving that among the electorate. a good thing about social media is it to driving people to be aware of issues but it's also driving action. look at the arab spring that occurred in 2011. there's that type of thing building again in the middle east and again you are seeing it in your. it's shaking out, right, they're been a struggle examples of when it's been worse. but i would caution you to think that the entire country is polarized. i have not found that. maybe caitriona you could, and on that. think most people are normal folks who may be the vote republican or democrat and usually vote that way that they want a functioning government. they want a congress that can work to

everybody said, except alexander hamilton, the only institution that can take us from a state of peace to war is congress. we don't trust the president. he's got a conflict of interest. you bring war, you get monuments , footprints in the sands of time, the glory, and that's all history shows. the executive branch runs these things. the legislative person who's got a monument because they voted for war? and yet the whole thing is ignored. just like the first amendment, i suppose. i want to underscore, although there has been a lion's share of focus on what happens with the current occupant of the white house, the dysfunction is far more profound. it needs a more sustained repair drop. thank you. >> now onto professor david vladeck, who will talk about what to do. colleagues in my underscoring the importance of congressional oversight. checks and balances are vital to our constitutional scheme. when there are none, mischief takes place. i served in the executive branch. i have been subject to those uncomfortable oversight hearings where i am the piÑata and congress looks like 12-year-ol

alexander hamilton. have you ever heard of her? you know her husband. he is famous. i think he is still on some of our american currency. she recorded -- today, i had the privilege of kneeling and taking communion with the newly inaugurated president of the united states. that was just one example. there are others. he owned slaves. yes. tragic. so did many others. they do know that george washington was the only slave owning president that freed his slaves on his own initiative. everyone else that did, it happened during the civil war. if we had followed his repentance regarding slavery throughout his life, there never would have been a civil war. he determined to end it. even where we might most attack him today, history shows us how people were addressing the moral failure in his own life. in a remarkably honorable way. the treaty with tripoli is often raised because it says that they write to the muslims -- we are not founded in any way as a christian nation. that clause cannot be found in the original treaty. and thirdly, none of us would claim we were founded o

alexander hamilton, a long time ago warned against leaders who simply ride the whirlwind after sewingfusion. this can only hurt him in his case because if there are ever obstruction of justice charges against donald trump one of the most important parts of making the case for obstruction is the mind of the person, what do they intend and the more trump attacks james comey in this way, the more trump is making the case that he didn't fire james comey for being incompetence, he fired him because he was worried about the russia investigation. so this is creating a narrative for him with the minority of americans who support him, but it's not helping his case at all and i think that's why his own aides are so uncomfortable with a lot of this. >> can i make a quick point? in the rally last night trump implied that the lawyer was taking orders from vladimir putin so that's not really going to help his case either. >> absolutely. at the same time, we have now both james comey and donald trump putting so much of the record on the record publicly that i wonder how much of his hair mueller migh

but it was a hip hop musical from across the atlantic about the us founding father alexander hamiltonbest i can. all the other stuff is a distraction and i think that paid off. best actor went to bryan cranston for his performance as a news anchorman having a nervous breakdown in network. oh, it's very difficult to be mad as hell when you're holding an olivier. tonight i would like to dedicate this award to the company of network actors and crew who i'm giving a huge hug to tonight and maybe sometime tomorrow, will let go. it was another american win, noted the guardian‘s theatre critic, michael billington. roughtly half of the awards, if you look at them, are work of american origin. that‘s very nice in some ways, but we always hear about the brits conquering broadway but we never talk about the americans colonising our theatre. and i think that‘s starting to happen. the lamp's on fire. don't change the subject. just pointing it out. jez butterworth‘s the ferryman, a story set in rural northern ireland during the troubles, shows there is still plenty of good work being made on this s

. >> alexander hamilton once worried about ex-presidents wondering among the people like -- wanderingple like disconsented ghosts. actually, i think we seem pretty happy. one reason is we have wonderful first ladies at our side. [clapping] >> hillary and rosalind, thank you for your service and generosity. mother and laura, you know how i feel. >> maria: she is survived by her husband, five children, 17 grandchildren, seven great grandchildren and her brother, scott, scott pierce. president trump has ordered flags to be flown at half staff until saturday when bushies scheduled to be buried. joining me right now is the former chairman of the council of economic advisors under president george w. bush. he's the senior fellow at the hoover institution, ed lazere. thank you for joining us this morning. >> a pleasure. >> maria: so much to talk about in terms of the economy, where you see growth. first, how are you remembering barbara bush this morning? >> well, of course i remember her well. most of the time i got to be with mrs. bush was in family gatherings, parties. i remember 4th of ju

research and faculty fellow at and alexander professor at the school of education and social policy there. she is also research associate. and director of the hamilton project at brookings. that is an initiative to promote policy to enhance broadway -- broad-based economic growth. and a senior legal fellow at the me center for legal and judicial studies. civil rights, a lecture and integrity, and government regulation. at theed for two years government election commission and before that worked at the justice department. my colleague here is director of economic policy studies here in the john g searle scholar at aei. mike oversees the broad portfolio with his work and economic policy, financial, poverty studies, tax policy, energy economics and health care policy. mike worked at the census bureau. we will begin today with john thompson. >> thank you very much, i'm delighted to be here. the five minutes but the census in context to describe the readiness so i'll attempt to do that. i think everyone knows that the census is constitutionally mandated article i, section two, including rear porti of the congress, drawing a big district by cgressiis dts

research and faculty fellow at northwestern and the marker walker alexander professor of social policy there. director of the hamilton project of routines that is an initiative to promote broad-based economics. pekoske as manager of the heritage foundation's election law reform initiatives and the rico follow for legal and judicial studies. he writes about civil rights, election integrity, immigration and government regulation. he served for two years at the federal election commission and before that he worked at the justice department. my colleague here at aei is director of economic policy studies here in the john g searle scholar at aei. mike oversees the broad portfolio with his work and economic policy, financial, poverty studies, tax policy, energy economics and health care policy. mike worked at the census bureau. we will begin today with john thompson. >> i'm delighted to be here. the five minutes but the census in context to describe the readiness so i'll attempt to do that. i think everyone knows that the census is constitutionally mandated article i, section two, including rear portion of the congress, dr

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in federalist paper 776 alexander hamilton wrote it was the job of the president to stop unfit characters. to make sure unfit characters do not have roles of power and influence within our government. the nominee who is before us, andrew wheeler, for the number-two job at the environmental protection agency, raises a series of questions and concerns related to whether or not he is fit for office. he's a man whose entire career working for the fossil fuel industry stands in direct opposition to the mission of the environmental protection agency. the mission to protect the health of the american people and the well-being of our planet. at such a volatile moment for the e.p.a., an agency plagued by scandal and ethical misbehavior and pandering to polluters, this nomination deserves the closest of scrutiny. after all, it is quite possible that before long whoever fills the role of number two at the e.p.a. could be acting in the number-one spot. and it is clear that andrew wheeler is not fit to be that person. when president richard nixon created the environmental protection agency in 1970, he