remarkably chester arthur turned out to be a far better president than anyone including chester arthur, could have predicted. he owed more than any man in the country he owed to the system. he was corrupt, he was fired from that. first thing he did was broke off contact with konkling. said you are corrupt i want nothing to do with you. konkling felt totally anchored by this to put it mildly. pendleton was asked ultimately to draft and pass the civil service act creating tests for people to get jobs and to create the civil service commission. only 10% of federal jobs were covered at the beginning, but obviously, it set the whole stage for everything that we have here in washington now. and it passed january of 1883. it is the legacy of garfield that came because, obviously, his passing. konkling was furious with him. to his amazement, when they met, chester arthur told him, your behavior with is outrageous. he realized he was powerless to control the man who he had created and he went back in his room sick with rage. he felt this betrayal was even worse than when the legislature hadn't

guest: chester arthur and his wife did.he garfields really did not at the time -- in later years mrs. garfield was well known and well respected. i would not doubt that she would've had contact with them. caller: thank you. was there a big age difference between the president and mrs. garfield? guest: i do not recall. i think it was five years or less. i don't remember their specific birth dates. host: but not large. the president was shot again july 2 and he lingered until september. the decision was made to move him to the jersey shore. guest: to the very place he had been headed to see her. that is where he dies, in her presence. what's interesting is that, among the many letters she received, she gets a letter from former first lady julia tyler. she says, "i wanted to emphasize" -- she used the word "sister" in talking about an almost sorority of presidential spouses. host: the funeral. 250,000 people came. set the stage for this victorian-era funeral. guest: what says it all is the way the white house looked. photograp

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>> chester arthur and his wife did.ould not doubt that she would've had contact with them. >> thank you. was there a big age difference between the president and mrs. garfield? >> i do not recall. i think it was five years or less. >> the president was shot again july 2 and he lingered until september. the decision was made to move him to the jersey shore. >> the very place he had been headed to see her. that is where he dies, in her presence. she gets a letter from julia tyler. i wanted to emphasize that -- a sorority of presidential spouses. >> the funeral. set the stage for this victorian-era funeral. >> what says it all is the way the white house looked. mrs. garfield was strong throughout. she did not break down, unlike mary lincoln, who was unable to emotionally withstand the public display of this. mrs. garfield began designing and working with the ideas of what his tomb would be like in ohio. >> jacqueline kennedy took that model and became very much involved in the planning of the funeral process. >> with that,

chester arthur -- lived his permanent home was in new york city on lexington avenue. and he himself was still in a state of very deep mourning, very deeply depressed, because his wife, ellen, ellen herndon arthur, had died only in january of 1880. so it wasn't yet two years that he had lost his wife. she had come from a very powerful well-connected virginia family. she grew up in washington, d.c. she knew dolley madison when she was a little girl. they went to st. john's church on lafayette square. and for about five years between the time she was 5 and 10 years old, she knew dolley madison. her father was a very famous naval commodore who took a commercial ship, the central america, on a commercial trip. it went down, but it was a great act of bravery, because he made sure that all of the passengers who were onboard got off first. and so his widow and his daughter, ellen, who was an only child, then living in new york city, were given all sorts of honors, awards. it was a place -- a monument to him at annapolis naval academy. and ellen arthur is a really interesting -

and after the assassination, the next person to come into the white house, chester arthur, who did so without a first lady, and we'll learn how he handled that. to help us understand this interesting period in american history, carl anthony, who is the historian at the national first ladies library in canton ohio, he's also the author of "america's first families." well, carl anthony, the circumstances of the garfields' election in 1880 really helped to seal the president's fate. so tell us the story of where the party politics were at that time. anthony: well, you know, so many of the large issues that had continued in post-civil war era were really in large measure put to rest. you know, the transcontinental railroad had by this time, of course, been completed. the troops had been removed from the south during reconstruction. a lot of focus was basically on power and money. and that struggle within the republican party for who would control the party, which meant who woul

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in fact the first pole after he left office ranked him 22nd, tied with chester arthur which gives you some idea of where they were coming from and politics. then five years later, we, we began to get access to eisenhower's papers and very quickly we discovered what we thought, who who played golf during the 50s, was in fact a much more manipulative and skillful leader. today i don't don't think you'll find any presidential polls where he is outside the top ten. when you look at barack obama, some things we know, obviously. we know that he is a consequential president. that's not always the case. we know that true to what he told us, he has pursued big ideas, he has taken big risks whatever you think of the affordable care act, for example, history, history will record that he managed to do something that a whole spring of his predecessors had been unsuccessful in doing and he did it in a political climate. there was intense polarization and frankly a great submission of government in general and governmental authority in particular. >> the headline in the wall street journal says the

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chester arthur becomes president and his sister fills the role of first lady and establishes white house social etiquette used by future first ladies for decades. this sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span's original series "first ladies: influence and image." from martha washington to michelle obama. sundays at 8:00 p.m. eastern. american history tv on c-span 3. >> thursday in the u.s. house, leadership pulled the environment and spending bill from the floor following a disagreement that would allow the current national park services follows stand which allows national cemeteries that to decorate the greys of civil war veterans with confederate flags. here are the washings against the amente amendment. >> i have an amendment at the desk. for what purposes does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> i have an amendment at the desk. >> the clerk will report the amendment. offered by mr. calvert of california. at the end of the bill insert the following. notwithstanding any other provision of this act none of the funds made available by this act may be used to display the

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chus chester arthur becomes president and his sister becomes first lady. lucretia gar lead and mcarture mcadams. sundays at 8:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span3. >> next a look at recent action taken by the epa and their potential impact.al" from washington journal, this is 40 minutes. >> a freshman member at this point, representative bruce wester westerman, a member of the spice science and technology i committee. before we start talking about policy and legislation, i want to talk a little bit about your for background particularly, your biosays you're a forester by trade. >> yes.e. i did my undergraduate work in engineering and then i went back to graduate school in forestry ent to and did a lot of work in the signed forest products industry and renewable energy.nk we >> i think we all have a . perception of what a forester is. what do you define as far as how it works?reet >> when i was in forestry school, there was a gentleman there he was a medical doctor. he was actually a doctor in the larg med school and he had a large piece of for

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chester arthur, a widower, becomes president and his sister, mary arthur mcelroy fills the role of firstady and establishes white house social etiquette used by future first lady's for decades. lucretia garfield and mary arthur mcelroy this sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span's original series, first ladies: influence and image. from martha washington to michelle obama. sundays at 8:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span3. washington journal continues. greta wodele brawner: we are back. here to talk about the fiscal health of the states in this country is eileen norcross. she is state and local policy project erector at george mason university's mercatus center out with a new report looking at the ranking of which states are doing the best and worst. let's talk about what categories you looked at to determine who is doing the best and worst. eileen norcross: we ranked them based on their own financial reports and we looked at short and long-term. the short term is does the state have enough cash to pay short-term bills? budgetary solvency is looking at revenues matching

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chester arthur becomes president, and his sister fills the role of first lady and establishes white houseial etiquette used by future first ladies for decades. lucretia garfield and mary arthur mcelroy. "first ladies: influence and image." examining the first ladies and their influence on the presidency, from martha washington to michelle obama. american history tv on c-span3. announcer: washington journal continues. host: we are back with senator mark warner, democrat from virginia. you are here to talk about the gig economy. how big is it? guest: the gig economy -- not everybody agrees with the term. where there it is called the on demand economy, sharing economy. think of the idea of someone who is a uber driver for some of the time, ambien be. it is two or three revenue streams coming together to form a type of employment. some of this is coming about after the recession because people lost their 9-to-5 jobs and had to cobble together a variety of resources. smillennials have bumped my age group off the stage and are now 3 million strong. they are doing this by choice. they do not wan

chester arthur, a widower, and his sister, fills the role of first lady. and establishes white house social etiquette used by future first ladies for decades. lucretia garfield and mary arthur mcelroy. this sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span's original series first ladies, influence and image. examining the women who filled the position of first lady from martha washington to michelle obama. sundays at 8:00 p.m. eastern. american history tv on c-span3. >> c-span gives you the best access to congress. live coverage of the u.s. house, congressional hearings, and news conferences. bringing you events that shape public policy. and every morning, "washington journal" is live with elected officials, policymakers, and journalists, and your comments by phone, facebook, and twitter. c-span, created by america's cable companies and brought to you as a public service by your local cable or satellite provider. >> the u.s. house has been in a break before starting legislative work for the day. and just a few moments, live here on c-span. a busy day is expected

chester arthur becomes president and his sister fills the role of first lady and establishes white house social etiquette used by future first ladies used by decades. this sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span's original series "first ladies," influence and image examining the women who fulfilled the first lady and their influence on the presidency from martha washington to michelle obama sundays at 8:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span3. >> next, a look at how patents affect innovation and the economy. the center for strategic and international studies held a discussion yesterday with patent and trademark office director michelle lee. business software alliance c.e.o. victoria espinel. and university of michigan federal relations executive director michael waring. they talked about patent infringement legislation to reform the patent system and intellectual property issues in china, russia and africa. the discussion's about an hour and a half. jim: well, good afternoon. my name is jim lewis. welcome to csis. we're very lucky today to have with us michelle lee, the und