christopher lee. >> thank you, so. much to start, i want to thank the virginia museum of history and culture, and especially graham dozier for giving me the opportunity to speak before you today. i also want to think the gas of the virginia museum for their interest in john tyler, for their interest in my book, and for their attention that i am very pleased to be here today to speak to you about what it is, at least currently, my life's work. i do have slides to accompany the lecture which always makes my students at keuka college very happy to find. so i will hook up the sideshow right now. we so, many years ago when i was deciding upon a dissertation topic, i came upon john tyler. and of course i had a little bit of knowledge about tyler. i was a history major in college. i was a graduate student in history. but i became fascinated by the question of how someone could actually get kicked out of their own political party. what did someone have to do to you have his political party resort to the very drastic, very extr