breckenridge. who is the youngest man ever to be vice president of the united states. being vice president under james buchanan, and the confederates are feeling good. now, lincoln had kept construction going on the capitol dome. the dome has been completed. you can see it from the soldier's home, and they are debating, because breckenridge had been expelled from the senate in october 1861 as when he left the vice presidency and then the senate. as they get more and more influenced by what they are drinking, they boast, tomorrow we'll march down massachusetts avenue and we'll escort general breckenridge into the capitol, into the senate chamber, which he had presided over and place him back there. well, the president is going to pay a visit out here again on the wealth. he's going to arrive out here and he's going to bring mary with him. now mary and he, there have been causalities out here, and close to the walls of fort stevens is a hospital. they go in and visit several wounded union soldiers there and then mary sits down. out here also is the secretary of state. th

breckenridge. who is the youngest man ever to be vice president of the united states. breckenridge had been expelled from the senate in october 1861 as when he left the vice presidency and then the senate. as they get more and more influenced by what they are drinking, they boast, tomorrow we'll march down massachusetts avenue and we'll escort general breckenridge into the capitol, into the senate chamber, which he had presided over and place him back there. well, the president is going to pay a visit out here again on the wealth. he's going to arrive out here and he's going to bring mary with him. now mary and he, there have been causalities out here, and close to the walls of fort stevens is a hospital. they go in and visit several wounded union soldiers there and then mary sits down. out here also is the secretary of state. the secretary of state, of course, is william seward. soon to arrive is going to be gideon wells, secretary of the navy, and his wife. now mary gets the one cabinet member that mary gets along well with, mrs. wells. she doesn't get along with oth

he ran the delegate and pledged to john breckenridge. i don't know who had the job in virginia to talk about this task and potentially dangerous task of course lincoln received no votes in the south and very few in the border states. so abraham lincoln obviously the winner this was the first election of a branded new america where they know more. the expansion of slavery, no more capitulating to the interest every time they threatened to leave the union. of course lincoln embodied in that policy like the tremendous pressure to compromise in the run-up to the civil war with the multiple states considering secession the most popular compromise is named after the sponsoring kentucky and it's a pretty simple measure that looks at the pacific go from places le arizona and new mexico. they thought i would buy them time. they said we give the southerners of this and they are going to come back for more. they will want to reopen which had been closed for half a century. they will want to acquire or territory to increase the number of the states

breckenridge. who is the youngest man ever to be vice president of the united states.en completed. you can see it from the soldier's home, and they are debating, because breckenridge had been expelled from the senate in october 1861 as when he

breckenridge is to shift on down below hoke. and portions of a.p.hill's third corps, two divisions of it under ma hone and wilcox are to tack on to the lower end of the confederate line. so these lines are now expanding the entire battle is shifting down here to cold harbor. grant wanted to make his big attack here. he had several reasons for wanting to do it. he realized, of course, first, that stalemate was not going to sell very well. the -- he was whetted to the idea of a mobile campaign. the last thing he wanted to do is to be stuck in earth works at cold harbor. confederate position now is anchored on a -- toward the creek. and down toward the river. really no way to flank lee's position. the army of northern virginia as grant saw it was now -- had been reinforced somewhat. but there are a lot more reinforcements that can come. now is the time to make an attack before lee could reinforce his lines. finally, richmond was only seven or eight miles to the rear. so if he could break through the confederate works, he could take richmond. the confed

breckenridge. who is the youngest man ever to be vice president of the united states. breckenridge had been expelled from the senate in october 1861 as when he left the vice presidency and then the senate. as they get more and more influenced by what they are drinking, they boast, tomorrow we'll march down massachusetts avenue and we'll escort general breckenridge into the capitol, into the senate chamber, which he had presided over and place him back there. well, the president is going to pay a visit out here again on the wealth. he's going to arrive out here and he's going to bring mary with him. now mary and he, there have been causalities out here, and close to the walls of fort stevens is a hospital. they go in and visit several wounded union soldiers there and then mary sits down. out here also is the secretary of state. the secretary of state, of course, is william seward. soon to arrive is going to be gideon wells, secretary of the navy, and his wife. now mary gets the one cabinet member that mary gets along well with, mrs. wells. she doesn't get along with oth

breckenridge. who? the youngest man ever to be vice president of the united states.ckenridge had been expelled from the senate in october 181.1 when he left the vice president, he entered the senate. as they get more and more influenced by what they're drinking, they will vote. tomorrow we will march down massachusetts avenue and we'll escort general breckenridge in to the capitol, in to the senate chamber, which he had presided over and place him back there. well, the president is going to pay a visit out here again. well, he's going to arrive out here and he's going to bring mary with him. now mary and he, there have been casualties out here, and close to the parapit walls of ft. stevens is a hospital. they go in and visit several wounded june onsoldiers there. and then mary sits down. out here also is the secretary of state. the secretary of state, of course, is william sureward. soon to arrive is the secretary of the navy, and his wife. that's the one cabinet member that mary gets along well with, mrs. wells. she doesn't get along with others. the president will

breckenridge is to shift on down below hoke. and portions of a.p.hill's third corps, two divisions of it under ma hone and wilcox are to tack on to the lower end of the confederate line. so these lines are now expanding the entire battle is shifting down here to cold harbor. grant wanted to make his big attack here. he had several reasons for wanting to do it. he realized, of course, first, that stalemate was not going to sell very well. the -- he was whetted to the idea of a mobile campaign. the last thing he wanted to do is to be stuck in earth works at cold harbor. confederate position now is anchored on a -- toward the creek. and down toward the river. really no way to flank lee's position. the army of northern virginia as grant saw it was now -- had been reinforced somewhat. but there are a lot more reinforcements that can come. now is the time to make an attack before lee could reinforce his lines. finally, richmond was only seven or eight miles to the rear. so if he could break through the confederate works, he could take richmond. the confed

breckenridge, the former vice president of the united states under james buchanan, he was from kentucky, a confederate general. he had been in that house before and knew where the wine cellar was, so early and his men drank up the blair wine, had a nice dinner and decided the next morning, july 12th, they'd come here bright and early and decide whether or not to attack. they did that and this time early could see that the 6th corps was here. they had a distinctive patch, it was a white cross. so he did not, again, did not invade. however, there was more fighting. there was skirmishing, there was artillery exchanges. men were killed. there were 300 union causalities and we're going to go to the union cemetery later. 300 dead and wounded, we don't know officially how many confederates were wounded, never made the records, but had to be that many or many. that fighting went all of july 12th, or most of the night. july 13th, they looked out here and early's army was gone. they retraced their steps, went back through montgomery county, poolsville and crossed the potomac at whites ford and if

breckenridge is to shift on down below hoke and portions of a.p.l's 3 rd corps, two divisions of it are to shift down behind them and tack onto the lower end of the confederate line. so these lines are now expanding. the entire battle is shifting down here to cold harbor. grant wanted to make his big attack here, and he had several reasons for wanting to do it. he realized, of course, first that a stalemate was not going to sell very well. he was wedded to the idea of a mobile campaign. the last thing he wanted to do was to be stuck in earthworks at cold harbor. the confederate position now is arngorred toward the creek. really no way to flank lee's position. the army of northern virginia, as grant saw it, was now -- had been reinforced somewhat but there were a lot more reinforcements that could come so now was the time to make an attack before lee could reinforce his lines. and finally, richmond was only seven or eight miles to the rear. so if he could break through the confederate works, he could take richmond. the confederate army would have to

breckenridge, the former vice president of the united states under james buchanan, he was from kentucky, a confederate general. he had been in that house before and knew where the wine cellar was, so early and his men drank up the blair wine, had a nice dinner and decided the next morning, july 12th, they'd come here bright and early and decide whether or not to attack. they did that and this time early could see that the 6th corps was here. they had a distinctive patch, it was a white cross. so he did not, again, did not invade. however, there was more fighting. there was skirmishing, there was artillery exchanges. men were killed. there were 300 union causalities and we're going to go to the union cemetery later. 300 dead and wounded, we don't know officially how many confederates were wounded, never made the records, but had to be that many or many. that fighting went all of july 12th, or most of the night. july 13th, they looked out here and early's army was gone. they retraced their steps, went back through montgomery county, poolsville and crossed the potomac at whites ford and if

tomorrow we will march down massachusetts avenue and distort general breckenridge in through the capital hospital. they go in and visit several wounded soldiers there, and the mary sits down. also, secretary of state, secretary of state,th of coursei is william seward. soon to arrive is going to be gideon wells.well secretary of the navy and his wife. now, mary gets -- that's the one cabinet member that mary gets wh alongwell with, mrs. wells. wi she doesn't get alongwell with p others. the president w will go up and stand on that parapet wherein t the 1906s, they'll put up a wi monument there, the principle rn speaker there willri be one of breckenridge's soldiers that they put up that monument to commemorate where lincoln is to standing there. his top hat 7 feet tall lookingo out over the sloping ground in front of him where other confederates have taken sheltern in a house on a road about a gr quarter of a mile away. as he's standing there, there's a spat. standing next to him is dr. crawford of the 102nd pennsylvania. he's shot in the thigh and blood spurts over the president. what n

breckenridge was the former vice president of the united states under buchanan. he was a confederate general. he had been in that house before and knew where the wine cellar was some so early and the men drank up the blair's wine that night and decided on the next morning, july 12th they would come here bright and early and decide whether or not to attack. they did that. he this time early could see that the sixth corps was here. they had a distinctive patch. he again did not invade. however, there was more fighting, there was squirmishing, artillery exchanges. men were killed. there were 300 union casualties. we're going to union cemetery a little later. we don't know officially how many confederate dead and wounded. but it had to be that many or if not more. when the union troops got up on the morning of july 13th, they looked out here and early's army was gone. he retraced his steps, went through montgomery county and crossed the potomac at white's ford. there's a ferry boat now that goes across the potomac and the name of that ferry boat is called jubal early

where general breckenridge is positioned but lee has a lot of reserves. one myth about cold harbor is leaf didn't have any reserves. his line was thin. that's simply not true. some parts had an entire divisions with hind them and that was the situation down down the lower end of the battlefield where hancock made his attack. the confederate reserves pull in and drive hancock's men out and the union second corp finds nits an untenable position. men spread across the fields, wounded men, men not one wounded but can't get back to their lines throw up dirts, digging under can teens, all the horrors of cold harbor take place along hancock's line south of where we are right now. in this area what the union's sixth corp was to make its attack, very little happened. as a matter of fact, one of the confederate generals near where we were right now, later wrote that he had no idea that an attack was even being made. the reason is, wright's men had attacked this same position on june 1. they knew what they were facing and now knew that the confederates had two more

breckenridge, the former vice president of the united states under james buchanan, he was from kentucky, a confederate general. he had been in that house before and knew where the wine cellar was, so early and his men drank up the blair wine, had a nice dinner and decided the next morning, july 12th, they'd come here bright and early and decide whether or not to attack. they did that and this time early could see that the 6th corps was here. they had a distinctive patch, it was a white cross. so he did not, again, did not invade. however, there was more fighting. there was skirmishing, there was artillery exchanges. men were killed. there were 300 union causalities and we're going to go to the union cemetery later. 300 dead and wounded, we don't know officially how many confederates were wounded, never made the records, but had to be that many or many. that fighting went all of july 12th, or most of the night. july 13th, they looked out here and early's army was gone. they retraced their steps, went back through montgomery county, poolsville and crossed the potomac at whites ford and if

adviser stephen rice, deputy national security adviser ben rhodes, deputy chief of staff, anita breckenridge, and very capable communications professionals. there are, of course, ongoing complicated situations in the world, and that is why you have seen the president stay engaged. saturday, he spoke with prime minister cameron, prime minister hollande, give an update from the south lawn and took questions. while here, he spoke with prime minister erdogan and prime minister renzi. he also had multiple national security briefings. there's never a perfect time for the president to take some time away with his family, but i think we can also all agree that it is valuable to recharge your batteries. i do not think the american people begrudge their president were taking some down time with his family. >> josh said last week we might learn more about emergency meetings. care to shed some light on that? >> the president is still planning on returning to washington sunday for meetings at the white house. i don't have too much more detail about that. we'll have more as the time comes. the president w

general breckenridge, who had defeated seagal in the shenandoah valley is now freed up and is pouringirection, who reaches the army of northern virginia and takes up a position on the creek. lee also positions -- i'm sorry, petitions richmond for reinforcements from that area. now general butler is out of the picture, that should free up confederate troops there. the decision is made to send him general hoke's division. so during the 29th, these various reinforcements will be moving into this area. may 30th is a big day as we move toward cold harbor. if you take a look at the map, here's the pamunkey river. below it is the creek. and then there's two roads just below the creek. one of them is called shady grove road. that's near palgreen church. down below that is another road called old church road. what lee decides to do on the 30th of may is to launch an offensive. he realizes that part of the union army, the union 5th corps, has now crossed the creek, and is on his side of the creek. this is lee's chance to catch an undetached part of the army of the potomac. and wipe it out. basi

i suns quently contacted the office of deputy chief of staff anita breckenridge.i also did not receive a response. until after receiving notification from ms. sherry williams that she was contacting me on behalf of the acting secretary and mr. neighbors. this surprised me that ms. williams would do this because she's a former o.i.g. official. to this date new york action has been taken to reprimand ms. williams for her behavior. this goes to the very heart of the question whether or not v.a. should be allowed to police itself and whether or not an outside agency should be brought in to fully conduct an investigation to the actions taken at v.a. the last thing i will say that i did receive an email from the white house office of white house counsel directing me to contact the office of special counsel. that was the official position from the white house, there would have been no need for anyone to contact ms. williams about my complaint. >> you also in your testimony, you describe the possible purging of over 10,000 veteran health records at the health eligible cen

from them at one spot, they make a breakthrough in a salient in the federal line where general breckenridge is positioned. but lee has a lot of reserves. one myth is that lee did not have reserves, that his line was thin. that's not true. some parts of the confederate line this entire divisions behind them and that was the position on the lower end of the battlefield where hancock made his attack. the reserves pour in, drive hancock's men out and the union's second core find themselves in an untenable position. wounded men across the fields, men who are not wounded, but can't get to their lines, burrowing behind besides, all of the horrors of cold harbor are taking place along hancock's line, south of where we are right now. in this area, where the union's sixth core, horatio wright's men was to attack. very little happened. as a matter of fact, one of the confederate generals where we are right now, wrote that he had no idea an attack was even being made. the reason is, wright's men had attacked this same position on june 1. they knew what they were facing and they now knew the confederate

i suns quently contacted the office of deputy chief of staff anita breckenridge.i also did not receive a response. until after receiving notification from ms. sherry williams that she was contacting me on behalf of the acting secretary and mr. neighbors. this surprised me that ms. williams would do this because she's a former o.i.g. official. to this date new york action has been taken to reprimand ms. williams for her behavior. this goes to the very heart of the question whether or not v.a. should be allowed to police itself and whether or not an outside agency should be brought in to fully conduct an investigation to the actions taken at v.a. the last thing i will say that i did receive an email from the white house office of white house counsel directing me to contact the office of special counsel. that was the official position from the white house, there would have been no need for anyone to contact ms. williams about my complaint. >> you also in your testimony, you describe the possible purging of over 10,000 veteran health records at the health eligible cen