one of the stops was the andrew johnson homestead in greenville, tennessee. a site owned and operated by the national park service. johnson served as vice president under president lincoln. and succeeded him when lincoln was assassinated. here's park guide daniel luther portraying president johnson and telling the story how andrew johnson met abraham lincoln. >> in 1847, i went into the 30th congress for my third term representing the people of the first district, and while i was there i met an extremely tall raw-boned young man representing the prairie state of illinois. and his name was abraham lincoln. and we fell into conversation and i introduced myself and told him that i was from northeast tennessee and he replied that he had relatives in northeast tennessee and perhaps i knew some of them. he identified his great uncle isaac as having owned a farm. at which his father thomas lincoln has something of a hired hand in the 1790s. and he also identified another great uncle, a gentleman named mortgage i kye, who lived in the town of greenville. to which i r

that said andrew johnson, president of the united states, unmindful of the high duties of his office and their dignity and propriety thereof, did make and deliver with a loud voice certain inflammatory and scandalous harangs and did their utter loud threats and menaces as well against congress as the laws of the united states. and which said utterances deck larations, they are peculiarly indecent and unbecoming of the chief magistrate of the united states. andrew johnson brought the high office of the president of the united states into contempt and ridicule and disgrace to the great scandal of all good citizens. well, there is only one modern president that had an inkling. first president of the television age. lot of the aides thought he should take advantage of the new median. it is also -- notable that eisenhower is the only president since napoleon began in the '30s whose approval rating never dropped below 50%. they chalked it up to a war hero. i wonder if his receipt sans about not overexposing himself to the public is not part story. often when -- advisers would try to persua

it's nearly forgotten one of the bills of impeachment against andrew johnson, when you strip it down it was that he was talking too much and in too partisan of a way. here's the language itself. that said, andrew johnson, president of the united states, unmindful of the high duties of his office and the dignity and propriety thereof, did make and deliver with a loud voice certain intemperate, inflammatory and scandal louse who are rangs. he did that in bit ter men nations against congress as the laws of the united states. which said utterances, declarations and harangues highly spends several in any are peculiarly indecent and unbecoming of the chief magistrate of the president of the united states. he's brought that office into contempt, ridicule and disgrags to the great scandal of all good citizens. well, there's only one modern president who thought he might be better served by being like coolidge. dwight eisenhower. a lot of his political analysts thought he should take advantage of this new medium, tv. it's notable that his public approval rating never dropped below 50%. people

. >> for more information about the andrew johnson national historic site, visit their website at nps.gov/anjo, and to learn more about tours with historian and author richard norton smith, go to presidentandpatriots.com. you're watching american history tv, all weekend, every weekend on c-span 3. >>> abolitionist john willis menard was elected to congress in 1868. although he was never seated, he was the first african-american who addressed the house chamber. we heard more about him from phillip magness from george mason university, and matthew wasniewski, historian of the u.s. house of representatives. this is about an hour from the u.s. capital historical society. >> before we begin, before i introduce the speakers, let me introduce congressman danny davis of illinois to make a welcome to the audience. congressman. [ applause ] >> thank you very much. and let me just say how delighted i am to be here. as a matter of fact, the last time i was at a meeting, i was so inspired by a woman who made a presentation of a book that she has written that i have been trying to get that book into sc

. >> for more information about the andrew johnson national historic site, visit their website at nps.gov/anjo, and to learn more about tours with historian and author richard norton smith, go to president's & patriots.com. you're watching american history tv, all weekend every weekend on c-span 3. >>> between 1861 and 1868, clara barton, known as the angel of the battlefield and founder of the american red cross, lived in this washington, d.c. building. she employed 12 clerks on the third floor in her missing soldier's office where they received over 60,000 letters from families searching for lost sons and husbands. in 1996, richard lyons, a carpenter for the generaler is verses administration, was helping to prepare the building for demolition when he discovered this office sign in the attic. american history tv visited the building on seventh street. to learn about the missing soldiers office and to hear the story of richard lehr yons who worked alone for months to save the building from demolition. >> hi. i'm susan rosenvold and i work for the national museum of civil war medicine in

but it was changed very quickly by andrew johnson because it was so worn out. and this is the lincoln east room. this is where it was as -- more or less as finished by andrew jackson in 1829-30. it was completely remodeled by general grant. and all the parts in '73 for his daughter's wedding. and all the ports vanished. nobody knows where those light fixtures and things were. but some of the furniture has surfaced and is back at the white house. when lincoln dined in the state dining room they used the plateau which james monroe had bought in the era of good feelings in france, had his agents buy. it's rarely ever been assembled the whole way since lincoln's time. it's 13 1/2 feet long. and it's -- they had candles on it that reflected. and of course the dining room in lincoln's time didn't go this direction. it went the other direction. the long direction toward the fireplace. there's a fireplace at each end. but this plateau was all decorated with wax flowers in the early days and then finally flowers. and a part of it is still in use today. as are those compo

president andrew johnson revealed the drawings, which are lost today, and gave his enthusiastic blessing. general grant came to the presidency in 1869, seeing the white house as historic and a useful feature of the reconciliation of the north and south he espoused. he spoke of the associations of the house, meaning of course lincoln, washington, and all those associated with it. president and mrs. garfield asked the librarian of congress how best they might restore the house. yet garfield's successor, president arthur, attempted to secure its demolition in 1882. congress and the public rose in opposition to arthur's proposal. noisily. no one thereafter dared mention the demolition, although a sirs of expansion plans for remodeling were brought forth by the corps of army engineers over the years. none made it. the last try was an ill-fated one in the fall of 1900, expanding the house into a palatial place six times its size. this plan might have worked. though it had its opponents, including mrs. mckinley, who was taken in her rolling chair to see it, the model, and said to all assembled,

an assessment from andrew edgecliff-johnson of the financial times, and john burns of "the new york times". >> i think that the big, thought maybe murdoch himself has because he talked a lot about democracy, that i think he was genuine about that. he is a scrappy australian as i said in the first place. he doesn't -- he doesn't like toughs. he doesn't like the establishment but he became the establishment in all of this. he became enormously powerful. he became divorced from his own, the roots of his own empire, and as we have seen throughout history, and goodness knows this was a lesson that the founding fathers of the united states clearly understood, if you allow power to be concentrated things will go bad and ultimately they will go very bad. and i think that that is what has happened here and that is likely to be the principal conclusion in my view of the judicial inquiry. >> rose: we continue with eric liu and nick hanauer, their book is called the garden of democracy, a new american story of citizenship, the economy, and the role of government. >> americans rightly refer by two to

andrew johnson, lyndon johnson. there's something about the democratic coalition that limits that.k obama could be all things to all people in 2008 and can't be anymore. the reasonable assumption is that he'll get less than 52%. >> isn't that guaranteed? >> of course, it's going to be a very tight race. >> this so much reminds me, having been very involved in it in 2004, the numbers were exactly where they were in 2004 as they are today. the president obama's approval rating is close to 50%. that's exactly where george bush was in 2004. one thing that we had to constantly had to worry about, abu ghraib, the scandal broke, not like the secret service, you can't be responsible for, but stuff happens on your watch. but now, we have interestingly enough, an incumbent president in the same situation, running against someone from massachusetts that has a problem with authenticity. it's a very similar pattern to 2004. i was at a meeting in 2004, in april or may, people were saying we're going to win by a huge amount and i said, listen, if we win this race, it's going be a two-point, three

the lucky lego builder is andrew johnson. rest of his life in a cubicle. he majored in history at depaul university and he started his new job this past monday at legoland. >>> up next here, we will change gears to an investigation by our colleagues at cnbc where safeguards meant to prevent d instead used to gain the system? is i your boss. great newswent very very well. asia is on board. too bad you couldn't participate. probably you were worried about overages on that limited data plan you use. perhaps you shouldn't have uploaded so many vacation photos. ooh. ah. these shorts are for a younger person wouldn't you say. [ male announcer ] why limit your iphone? switch to sprint the only network with truly unlimited data for your iphone. it's time to get real about what happens in the bathroom. and start talking about what you really want from your toilet paper. it's time to talk about clean. feeling clean is so important. i use quilted northern. quilted northern soft & strong. stronger than the leading rippled brand. for a co

the answer, andrew johnson. when he first appointed him the milita military governor of tennessee in 1862. take that all of you folks that said we were wrong. you are watching "the daily you are watching "the daily rundown" on msnbc. to keep the car you reserved or simply choose another. and it's free. ya know, for whoever you are that day. it's just another way you'll be traveling at the speed of hertz. >>> want to bring back the panel, clarence page, ruth marcus, beth reinhardt. we don't get to have music. i don't know what's going on today. but i have to point this out, there was a republican senate primary debate in nebraska, give me a minute to set it up, and john bruining, john stenburg, it does matter, people think of bob kerrey's only shot at holding that senate seat for democrats, if don inawins the primary. john bruining somehow found out his opponent was trying to follow his 14-year-old daughter on twitter and it became a point of contention in the debate. here it is. >> it's not an attack. my daughte

the answer, andrew johnson.l when he first appointed him the milita military governor of tennessee in 1862. take that all of you folks that said we were wrong. you are watching "the daily you are watching "the daily rundown" on msnbc. to keep the car you reserved or simply choose another. and it's free. ya know, for whoever you are that day. it's just another way you'll be traveling at the speed of hertz. like in a special ops mission? you'd spot movement, gather intelligence with minimal collateral damage. but rather than neutralizing enemies in their sleep, you'd be targeting stocks to trade. well, that's what trade architect's heat maps do. they make you a trading assassin. trade architect. td ameritrade's empowering, web-based trading platform. trade commission-free for 60 days, and we'll throw in up to $600 when you open an account. >>> want to bring back the panel, clarence page, ruth marcus, beth reinhardt. we don't get to have music. i don't know what's going on today. but i have to point this out, there

cambridge, england is john burns of "the new york times", here in new york, and andrew, andrew edgecliff-johnson of the financial times, i am pleased to have both of them, i go first to john burns and what he said today, in an e-mail to me, i found so interesting that i wanted to repeat it and i have asked his permission, he says i am not one of those inclined to be rupert barbers, his testimony was fascinating for many reasons, as british newspaper stumbled on to the mire, but also for what we learned of a character of a man who is indisputably the preeminent media mogul of our time. it would be easy to characterize him as a hypocrite and peddler of nontruths but what struck me is how australian he is after all of these years in the uk, unsentimental, anti-elitist and he made a billion-dollar forth fortune, $60 billion fortune out of those qualities. saving uk newspapers along the way and now it is all at risk because of those who worked for him, allowed those competitive win at all cost instincts to run riot. >> i see him as a tragic figure, more than as one to be pillared and condemned. john,

together he was the great united he he had a guy from the opposite party as his vice president andrew jackson. johnson excuse me and and what was to become an eight hundred eighty s. they were captured the republican party literally bought out by the railroad barons and ever since the eighteen eighties the republican party has been the party of the fat cats and the plutocrats and the only guards america is truly treasure the next comment of the night comes from athena post in our tom hartman facebook page this is her response to friday's great minds segment about the self-made myth she says this is a lot of b.s. the government definitely helps big companies we know that but to say that self-made is a myth is a lot of crock by the left i know many many individuals who work their butts off and become successful without the government government funding the corporations who fund their campaigns they get their handouts etc ryan miller is full of it ok so she's saying on the one hand. government corporations they can but on the other hand successful people they got that way on their own and he didn't get p

andrew bynum. nba playoff record 10 blocks. first postseason triple-double since magic johnson 21 years ago. other. >> tony parker and the spurs had no problem with the jazz. 28 points, eight acysts -- assists. tim done -- spurs win game one, 106-91. >> from the court to the ice, game one between the devils and flyers. briere, the blast inside the blue line. beauts brodeur. >> let's tee it up in new orleans. jason dufner had to make a choice. play husband ball with a gator lurking or take a stroke. he takes the stroke and then rolls in a 43-footer for par the hard way. tied with ernie els. sudden death. dufner misses a six footer for bird. then ernie els, misses. oh, my. second playoff hole, dufner, the tap-in for birdie, ending a 163 event drought. and he is getting married next saturday. >> more playoff action from the nba and hmm hundred. -- nhl if you like ferraris, and who doesn't, we have just the race for you. >> ama: superheros making a splash. en in publish >> trying to get back over the wall or trying to save it. >> ama: saving the world. the aven jersey isn't playing in the u.s. y

andrew bynum. tying an nba playoff record with ten blocks, ten points, 13 boards, the first triple-double since magic johnson 28 years ago. >> tony parker tuning up the jazz. spurs by seven at the half. duncan shaking out jefferson for the throwdown. spurs win big, 106-91. >> let's tee it up in new orleans. where third-round leader jason dufner has to make a choice. play his ball with a gator lurking or take a stroke. he takes a stroke. then has this 43-footer for par the hard way. are you kidding me? then sudden death. dufner misses the six-footer, ernie's first win possible since 2005. oh, my. ending 163-event drought for his first victory or tour, and is getting married next saturday. >> coming up at 6:00. a couple of free agents and collegiate athletes. >> ama: when was the last time you did anything just for the fun of it. that's the point of this event. we're going to take you abab >> ama: coming up at cf 6:00. the fight over foie gras. and online apps get ugly. the new app stirring up controversy. join it as 6:00. >> alan: finally, kid got in on a flash mob today, a bubble flash mob. >> ama: people ga

johnson is now the primary suspect in the case. at this point police have not said what he is charged with. >> andrew, because you're down in north carolinachool and we just heard from one of the teachers. have you ever heard of anything about what kind of student she was? we know that she was on honor roll but any plans she had had for college or anything of that nature? >> reporter: as you said she was an honor student and did have plans of going to college and we interviewed students and teachers here and every time they always spoke very highly of her. >> one other question for you andrew. this has been such a big story here in baltimore and maryland. it changes the way that the state is going to be looking for and reporting missing children. and i know that there was a huge community effort to find her even though she was not a maryland native. how has the story been down in north carolina? has it been such a huge story there as well? >> reporter: it really has and i think a lot of people in the community and certainly at the school have been wanting that sense of closure and wanting to know exactly what happened to her. there was ce

johnson was number one. >> the colts confirming what everybody is predicting. they will take andrewutz in the topic of tomorrow's graft. the redskins expected to take heisman winner robert griffin. brian kilmeade will have this. he will have on new york giant's player og fox and friends. then he will talk to top draft prospect. >> sounds like a good time. 42 mints after the hour. a driver pushes his porsche to top speed. here's the problem. the car can't stop. we will tell you how he man amminged to survive. >> stick around we have major news on the housing market. we will be right back. >> it's 46 after the hour. we are spanning the globe to see what stories are making headlines overseas. we begin in columbia where devastating mud slides and flooding leave dozens of people dead and thousands more injured and homeless. several roads also washed out. now to australia. a race car driver very lucky to be okay after his porsche goes airborne. the porsche catapults through the air after a crash. even more amazing the driver 63-year-old ryan tailor was only bruised. >>> now to germany aft

johnson, alex gorsky. plus, starbucks troy alstead and last but not least, andrew liveris will talk about what we're seeing in this economic recovery globally. first, let's get down to the new york stock exchange. gary, as we approach the final stretch, gary? >> yes. we're seeing a big blue chip average within a striking distance of a new four-year high. texas financials come as they take their cue from the fed chairman ben bernanke who left the door open for mormon tear stimulus yesterday. let's take a look at where things stand right now. dow up 121. nasdaq up almost -- nasdaq up 24 points. the s&p, as we said, essentially 1400, up three-quarters of 1%. a big rally day post the fed, maria. >> it really is. we like to come to trading floors because we get the different information flow. today we're at the alliance bernstein trading floor. more than $400 billion as a whole of assets undermanagement. in new york, the big business is fixed income. last year, for example, this floor traded $2.5 billion of face value in the fixed income and securities options. we know that's where the action has been. of cours

andrew bynumb, the first triple double in lakers history in the playoffs since magic johnson in 1991. finish and take the series lead. the other game today was the san antonio spurs played against the utah jazz. and spurs led wire to wire in this one as well. and san antonio has been, they haven't won game six and they won with ease and take a 1-0 lead going into game 12. >> nhl? >> eastern conference playoffs are very interesting this year, because you have the new york rangers playing the washington capitals and you have the new jersey devils playing the philadelphia flyers, like one big excelo road and all of these teams are close together. this went to overtime. 3-3 and the annual scores for the flyers, take a 1-0 series lead and this is a great game. all right in overtime. we've had 12 overtime games already. >> harris: i know, the people who don't no, the acelo train and i'm from new jersey and who i might be rooting for. and andrew luck and robert griffin, jr., some picked up players we haven't heard around. >> super bowl teams are built on the third day, on 4th he, 5th, 6th an

johnson. the news conference is expected for later on this morning and we will of course be there. >>> first round of the nfl draft begins today in new york at radio city music hall. andrew luck from stanford is expected to be the first pick going to annapolis from baylor's robert griffin iii is going to the washington redskins likely. >>> a big event for the o's this weekend. a series of statues are being unveiled honoring six of the greatest of all time. the first the happening this weekend. so we of course need a preview for all of that and here's abc2 news anchor charlie crowson. >> reporter: good morning to you. you know one of the great things about the orioles is its storied history and the legends of the game. starting this weekend as you said the team is going to begin unveiling six sculptures of the six legends of the game and they start at 5:00 this saturday night by unveiling number 20, frank robinson. now some of the great things about this sculpture and the presentation is sort of the secretive nature of it megan. they're not revealing what pose or stance these players are going to be in when they live in immorality out here at -- immortality out here at ca

johnson joins us with more on what to expect today. >> reporter: well, today is a huge day for federal prosecutors trying to convict john edwards of violating campaign fine finance laws. andrew young will be on the stand to tell what he knew about edwards affair with rielle hunter. the government accuses the former senator of an illegal scheme to hide hunter from voters and his wife who was dying of cancer. all of this during the 2008 presidential campaign. prosecutors intend to play voice mails he left on young's phone in 2007 as the scandal was unfolding. but young is not a perfect witnessch the judge revealed the former aide improperly contacked other witnesses in the case to ask about the testimony. he also claimed he fathered a baby with rielle hunter which we learned was john edwards child. >> i will regret for the rest of my life the pain and the harm that i caused to others. but i did not break the law, and i never, ever thought i was breaking the law. >> the difficulty here is compiling the evidence necessary to prove that this type of payment was indeed for campaign purpose. >> reporter: if john edwards is found guilty the charges could put him behind bars for up t

johnson in washington, thank you. >>> and also in washington is andrew o'connell, ceo of guidepost solution. >> former secret service agent and federal prosecutor. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> what do you make of the new rules? >> i think they put in principles that have been and for a long time in the secret service. the secret service goes back 150 years and the culture is really a culture of professionalism. and i think the american people have seen that for a long time. >> andrew, have i to ask you, do you really think those principles have been in place, given what we've seen over the past couple of weeks? >> yes, they have been. general principles have been in place. the specifics that you see in the newly released guidelines are new. principles aren't new. agents have been expected to follow those principles since the beginning of the secret service. and i think they have. you know -- >> but why have they not been followed in colombia and potentially other places? >> well, i mean, again, there are allegations. i don't know what -- i have no firsthand knowledge of what happened down there. and ther

johnson. does alex gorsky plan to grow the company with internal positions. >>> and we'll talk with chairman and ceo andrew liveris. back in a moment. ♪ there'll be the usual presentations on research. and development. some new members of the team will be introduced. the chairman emeritus will distribute his usual wisdom. and you? well, you're the chief life officer. you just need the right professional to help you take charge. ♪ mcallen, texas. in here, heavy rental equipment in the middle of nowhere, is always headed somewhere. to give it a sense of direction, at&t created a mobile asset solution to protect and track everything. so every piece of equipment knows where it is, how it's doing or where it goes next. ♪ this is the bell on the cat. [ male announcer ] it's a network of possibilities -- helping you do what you do... even better. ♪ >>> welcome back to "closing bell." brian shactman here at the markets. i want to take a looj at western digital. a huge pop on earnings right after the bell. 5% plus. it pulled back and now it's up but not up as much. they had blowout numbers but when you compare it t