today i'm talking about benjamin henry latrobe's capitol. i am an architectural historian, and i hope that i have watered down a little bit of my rhetoric enough so that i can understandable to you all. the burning of the capitol on august 24th, 1814, was a are pref rather than a disaster for benjamin henry latrobe. he now had the unexpected opportunity to repair some of his capitol's interiors and rebuild others into exemplars of greek revivala tu architecture. during his first tenure, latrobe was constrained by william thornton's 1792 winning design for the exterior envelope and steven hallot's for the interior's. a succession of short-term architects finished much of the senate wing before latrobe's arrival. the capitol latrobe inherited was that wing and the orven, th oval hall built in 1801 to accommodate the house of representatives. all these designs were a fusion of 18th century ne-yo class simple derived from roman and renaissance architecture as interpreted by italian, french, and english sources, as well as ancient ones depending

and then that's how they would light that fire and here is the actual account and this is by benjamin henrybe. there was no want of material for the con figration. the old platform was left in its place giving an additional quantity of dry and loose timber. all of the stages and seats of the galleries were of timber and yellow pine. the ma hog knee desks, tables, and chairs were in their place. at last, they made a great pile in the center of the room of the furniture and retiring said fire to the quantity of rocket stuff in the middle. it was soon ablaze and the glass of the lights was melted. i love that rocket stuff. obviously americans didn't know much about these rockets and they didn't know how to describe them but that would have been the propel lent that would send the rocket through the air. now we have three different accounts as to how the british burned these public buildings and it's possible all three might have been used. i suspect it's more likely that maybe two of those three were used and one is a slight alteration of the other and it's already been mentioned and so i can

benjamin franklin parkway. let's get more on that announcement from local officials and the vatican, david henry is live at the art museum with more on the announcement that happened are a short time ago. david? >> reporter: hi, sarah they held the announcement at the art museum, this will be the backdrop for the eyes of the world on the pope as he celebrates the first event on saturday september 26 and mass on sunday, september 27. among those bursting with pride, mayor nutter relishing the idea of the eyes of the world being on philadelphia. >> philadelphia is world class city and looking forward to showcase our culture and community ascertain for people around the world welcome them to the most welcoming city in united states of america, philadelphia. >> reporter: the world meeting of families will be a five day event, but pope francis will be here for the last two days, there will be a festival of families and concerts and that kind of thing of on saturday, and sunday the stage will be transformed into a alter where the people will celebrate mass in front of well off e over a million people. this presents

benjamin harrison. the fact the president is forgotten does not mean they are bad. henry adams, who disliked harrison personally, rank him among our best president. adams was no easy critic. he signed the sherman antitrust law. he created the federal circuit courts, the supreme court's. and he had four supreme court appointments. tell us about why he was so influential. >> this is remarkable for a man who most people actually personally disliked. but it was because he was actually somebody who would try to get laws through that he thought with the right laws to get done. he would have weekly meetings with members of congress -- had them over to the white house for dinner. he would try to work with congress to get these laws through. it was almost revolutionary at the time. he is getting a lot of what were then pretty progressive laws through. the sherman antitrust act, for example. and the difficulty he has got is he just was such a difficult character. didn't like people. which is a real problem for a president. and so, that came through. it also came through to leaders

benjamin netanyahu. i know the world looks messy and the administration is on the defensive, but recall what the world looked like when president nixon and henry kissinger were conduct i conducting foreign policy. america was losing a war in asia in which it had deployed half a million troops. the soviet union was on the march. domestic opposition and troubles were mounting. nixon and kissinger had to initiate a major retreat, but as was pointed out, they combined this with the seize of bold, positive, assertive moves, arm control deal was the soviet union, the opening in china, shuttle diplomacy in the middle east. the result was that by 1973 people were dazzled by the energy and ingenuity of american foreign policy. the historian john gaddis has described this as one of the most successful rereversals of fortune for american foreign policy in modern history. to achieve a similar kind of legacy, it's now time for a foreign policy presidency. for more, go to cnn.com/fareed and read my "washington post" column this week. and let's get started. >>> on november 9th, 1989, the east german minister of propaganda gunter shabowski gave a press confer