dolly madison is his front. dolly madison is the person who sets up, has the parties. james is in a corner. she can have everyone coming who needs to talk to him coming to talk to him. has a wonderful environment. she stirs up support for her husband. doesn't create enemies for her husband. and she's a real master of that -- the sort of -- it's often called the parlor politics of the time period where women are setting up their own networks of social links. that keep information flowing. dolly madison has her finger on the pulse of what's being said in washington and can bring that information back to her husband. she can bring information out to other people. she has a series of friends. she finds jobs for friends of friends. it creates a support group for her husband and for her husband's administration. >> what does her bookshelf, if you will, in this part tell us about who she is? what are some of the artifacts in there? >> some of the most amazing artifacts, i think the one that's just really resonant is that piece of burnt wood. that is a piece, a timber, burned

win dolly madison would walk around and shake hands. issue is very accessible and friendly and a warm person who will come to both sides of the political spectrum to hurt the finns which was a force of good and to be able to do more of that today. not placing blame on michelle obama with such show polarizing it situation with michele obama. i don't know enough about the first lady is one has to admirer any number but i don't know enough about contemporary first lady's to give you a good answer. [laughter] i see another question. >> have you sent a copy to the president and mrs. obama? >> good idea. i don't think so. we should do that. [laughter] >> demint chin how you do early research but go back a step before that. had you pick a subject to do research? but to look at the calendar 2012 and then my previous book of george washington of thomas jefferson there is a logic to writing about the federal arrow. and the chronology fit. and to know about dolly madison and all of these great white guys we could talk about slaves, architecture, a

madison's grave is in one side of it, and and he was placed here and located so that his wife dolly, who outlived him, could be buried next to him. however, dolly had moved to washington and died in washington, and she was first interred at congressional chemistry. it was until the 1850s that her body was returned to montpelier. at about the same time this memorial was erected, and in 1858, and can you see it just simply marks madison giving his last name, his birth date and the date of his death. however, in building this memorial to mark his burial site, they really -- the builders also used the grave site set aside for dolly so that when her remains were brought here about the same time, she was buried behind madison instead of beside him. she also has a marker on her grave site. we think today that a grave has to be marked. i think for the family the marking of the grave was the chemistry itself. this was the distance of the chemistry, the walls that enclose it designated this as the family's burial ground so that an additional marking inside it wasn't necessary. as i said, both

what references is dolly madison's heroism and the thing we all remember. they saved the portrait from george washington and other pieces that she was the last one there as the british were advancing and left in front of the troops who burned the white house in 1814 and the war of 1812 and all that was left was the skeleton of the white house. you can seat graphic behind the dresses. that's the period picture of the white house. >> her actions following that to keep the capital. they were talking about moving the capital or an easier place. something that wouldn't have to be rebuilt. she made it back to the capitol in four days and rented the okt gon house and set up shop there. proceeded to put parties back in and to have parties again. to make a statement that said we are here. we sur survive and we are staying here. they began the rebuilding of the presidency. >> the role of women at this time and political rights for women in dolly madison's era. women played a looser role than in the revolution. women's rights began to be curtailed more. women don't ha

his role as an entertainer was dolly in the house. but a very important role he had was as a slave owner. and how is this -- how does this blend all these together, you know, the entertaining he was doing, how he had house slaves interacting with other slaves and with the guests. we're trying to put all this back together. and the documents don't tell us everything we need. so we're trying to fill in the gaps with the archaeology. >>> you can view more american history tv programs at our website, c-span.org/history. also follow us on facebook. facebook.com/c-spanhistory. >>> the richard nixon presidential library convened a symposium titled "understanding richard nixon and his era." over the next hour, scholars focus on the vietnam war. they discuss the partnership between richard nixon and henry kissinger, the president's approach as commander in chief and the pentagon papers and the administration's response to dissent. >> welcome back to "understanding richard nixon and his era," a symposium. i'm ken hughes. i'm a researcher with t

dolly says that needs to leave the house. so the slaves say do i throw it or reuse it, might be reeye kward -- reacquired or reuse. you know, one thing we're looking for is patterning, for example if some of the items, this piece right here, this could be an item, we haven't seen this piece in our excavations from the madisons on the other side of the temple, we haven't seen this pattern, this could be a piece of the slaves at market and what we're interested in looking at are some of the broken madison household ceramic located in a different place than ceramics we believe the slaves purchased. if they are they might support the case these are items when they are broken they are trying to keep these out of sight, out of mind. if they are being deposited in the same fact, maybe some items are chipped, no longer desirable for the table and being reused by the slaves. so these kind of larger stories we're interested in building to understand not only somehow slaves are obtaining their household items. one thing people are surpr

and don't use dolly's guy anymore. and don't use dolly's guy. before. if you don't mind me saying. thank you. when you were-- you talk about auditioning for that role, and i--that, to me, is kind of mind-boggling because i can't imagine you auditioning for anything. oh, i had never, ever acted before. and how did you-- did steven spielberg-- i would--i imagine spielberg calling you and begging you to be in the movie. no! no, no, no. quincy jones had discovered me, and then i had to go through this whole audition process. and there were months before i knew i was gonna be in it. and then finally, i got called to steven spielberg's office and i was so excited. i-i mean, i thought that maybe i w--that something was going on because the--the character that i was, you know, acting with, his name was harpo, which was my name spelled backwards. right. yeah. i said, "i think that's a sign somehow." (laughs) so he and i were called to spielberg's office on the same day, and we were told. and i ended up knocking over all of his things... you trashed his o

. >> we know that song -- the song was written by dolly parton "i will always love you."his is dolly's song. ♪ i will always love you >> you know she originally wrote this for? >> who? >> she and porter wagner broke up, not as a love affair, but they were partners. >> oh. >> so she sang it about them breaking up. >> i didn't know that. >> and that was 38 years ago, you guys. so it was in the country charts there. >> and whitney sang the song, as you guys know, and made it famous. >> in "the bodyguard." >> even now it's still in the top three, so it's really sort of a big newsy thing when you think about it. but here's what's funny. we heard different people sing it. dolly sang it, whitney sang it. you'll be shocked when you see this next kid who sings it. he's from taiwan on one of those shows -- "the avenue to stardom" it's called. youtube sensation. only 15 seconds, so don't miss a second of this. here he is. ♪ and i will always love you ♪ i will always love you ♪ >> wow. >> but anyway, that kid, it's got an gazillion hits on youtube. if you want to see the whole thing,

dolly parton is coming up next and she is -- hi, dolly. good morning.ating jobs and expanding dolly sf wood. she's here live next with the exciting new addition to her theme park dollywood. ♪ hooray for dollywood in 1990, alana miles had the number one song "black velvet." [ male announcer ] have you heard? it's bring your happiness to work day. campbell's microwavable soups. in three minutes -- the deliciousness that brings a smile to any monday. campbell's -- it's amazing what soup can do. >> brian got this right. we'll have to send the prize to lisa carson in raleigh, north carolina. today is jason kidd's birthday. happy birthday, kid. >> happy birthday. >> working 9 to 5 won't cut it for our next guest, she's too busy creating jobs and expanding her hit theme park dollywood. >> yep. let's take a look. this is a bird's eye point of view of the park's latest attraction. the wild eagle roller coaster ride is taking flight for the very first time today. >> and that is dolly parton's helmet camera. right now, she is on this ride from pigeon forge. dolly

dolly, emmy lou, but there's one queen. >> kitty wells. >> you think?ll, kitty wells was queen of country music forever. when i was growing up she was always the reigning queen. >> but you are the current queen? >> if they say they about many, i'll sure take that. but in my eyes, no. >> what i love about you is you were born in this small town in oklahoma. >> like the indians? >> cowell? >> how do i pronounce that? >> cowboy country. so you were born to a cowboy family in cowell? >> you're doing so well. >> so oklahoma. >> this is what i like the best. your father and your grandfather were champion steer ropers. >> yes. >> in england i don't know what that is. what is a steer roper? is it where -- one of those guys? >> yes, it is. >> fantastic. what is so that's so special about the country world? because it's a special world, isn't it? >> it's the people. the people are very special. they are very competitive. very egotistical in a way, but very humble in the other sense. because there's always somebody in this business and i think it started with minn

no dolly tracks.had to have picked it up and carried it. >> reporter: they're hoping someone saw the thief. a thief with perhaps a back injury. or perhaps someone bought him, not knowing he's stolen or loved. >> i want my elephant back. if they bring it back, that are will be the end of it. >> reporter: they're offering a $500 reward for a pachyderm they say is priceless. >> give them back their elephant. 400 pounds they carried that? >> i don't know who carried that. seem like a lovely couple. >>> that's what's making news in america this morning. >>> stay with us for

there were no dolly tracks.had to have picked it up and carried it. >> reporter: they're hoping someone saw the thief. a thief with perhaps a back injury. or perhaps someone bought him, not knowing he's stolen or loved. >> i would like my elephant back. if they'll bring it back, that will be the end of it. >> reporter: they're offering a $500 reward for a pachyderm they say is priceless. >> give them back their elephant. 400 pounds they carried that? >> that's a heavy load. i don't know who got away with that. seem like a lovely couple. >>> that's what's making news in america this morning. >>> stay with us for "good morning america." a big day over there. coldplay in a live concert. thanks for watching, everybody. b closed captioning by closed captioning services,inc

madison and first lady dolly madison. the author examines president madison's decision to declare war, the first president to do so, and the succeeding battles on land and sea as america fought its second war for independence from britain. this is a little under an hour. >> hello, book friends. and welcome. thanks so much for coming to the brook loft on this fine berg shire evening. as many of you know in our nearly 40 years of business we bookees here at the book loft are very proud of our staff pick section. they represent books we've read and hope will gain a little more attention from our comments. .. >> as an architectural historian, he wrote a series of articles for "the new york times" which became the basis for his first book, the preservationist progress. over the ensuing years he has written over a dozen books on american architecture, art and history. happily for us, they moved up to columbia county in 1981 or he crackled their efforts remodeled an old colonial in his terrific book, house dreams. since been amo

marlene dodge and her horse dolly traveled 100 miles from king city to help search for sierra lamar. >> we can see pretty well from up here, further than people that are up to maybe 6 foot tall. we're way higher. >> reporter: this is the first equestrian team to participate in the public search for the teen last seen march 16. today nearly 450 volunteers headed out on foot to scour areas near sierra's home. her father stopped by to thank the volunteers. he says he is overwhelmed by the community response, also says he's hopeful his daughter is still alive. >> we're pleading if there is someone out there that has her, we're just pleading for them to release her. all we care about is getting her home. >> reporter: investigators say for now they are done conducting searches in ponds and reservoirs. while detectives work round the clock, volunteers say they will keep returning to search. >> people have closed their businesses to come and search for sierra. there's an obvious anger at what might have happened to this girl and very strong resolution on the part of the community to get to t

this is when dolly moves back to washington, d.c. she takes out an insurance policy on the house. and part of what they need for this insurance policy is a plat showing where all the outbuildings are. we've used this plat, this plat's been incredibly important for us to locate the outbuildings in the this area. in 1990 we located a chimney base, a brick chimney base that we were able to figure out from the archaeology was a part of a duplex or a slave quarter that had a central chimney and then a hearth on either side. there would be two households that lived there. with that we're able to line up the insurance plat with the rest of the grounds and able to start to explore this area for other outbuildings. what we found is, is that the -- we've got three duplexes in this area. three homes for slave quarters. and four of these buildings we've marked. two smoke houses that are on the insurance map. a kitchen that's beside the house that's actually an 18th century kitchen that we located through archaeology. then this other duplex which is one of three that we're going to be reconstr

. >> working closely with james madison and first lady dolly mad to refine the look and function of the early white house. the partnership with the madisons is the subject of a top at the maryland historical society. collects manager at the white house historical association that is headquartered across from the white house where he once labored. this program is 45 minutes. >> if you want to try to get a seat, we start. good evening and welcome to the 2012 francis scott key lecture series at the maryland historical society. we are excited to celebrate the bicentennial or war of 1812. this is the first program in that long celebration. this evening's talk, oh, the terrible velvet curtains and the madisons decorate the president's house is being presented by leslie jones of the white house historical association. before i introduce our speaker, i want to point out the items we have pulled for tonight's presentation. in the library cases you can see the bound letters to mrs. madison dating to 1809 regarding the decoration as well as another letter dated the following year to the finley bro

you will see dolly madison. she served as the first lady for the widowed -- the widowed thomas jefferson. his daughter would also serve as the hostess, but so did mrs. madison, the secretary of state's wife. in mixed company at the time you had to have a hostess. you couldn't entertain ladies unless there was a hostess. there was a need to have a woman to perform that function. so much even now, so much of washington life is carried on not on the floor of the house or the senate or an official place, but an informal gathering where you can talk in a more casual manner. they help all the women of washington to be responsible for keeping the networks open. >> is that the point of showing the dress? that there is much more meaning behind the dress. >> there is. it's beautiful and people love them, but why do we care what the first lady wears? we look to her clothing for clues. about what she is like as a person and what the administration may be like both in the style and is it formal or informal or extravagant or

last year he had a chance to skied and dolly and lacher i remember talking to him about it. he was really excited about the whole experience. >>reporter: cavan said his death was hard to take the he was not surprised by how happened. >> and you live in a place where people get outside member and then try to enjoy life and maybe take some risk by doing that. over and sooner or later at some point, you know someone who was involved in accidents. >>reporter: kevin says ben was well-prepared but with the best equipment and training accidents can still happen tuned >> make sure you make the right decisions you do not want to be someone leaves of the people behind. >>pam: a terrifying outbreak of storms or they are still going strong tonight. more than 40 tornadoes across the midwest. for the death toll is climbing by the hour. at least two dozen people are now recorded a bed across three states. >>reporter: scenes like this in indiana blanket parts of the country's midsection. it dozens of tornadoes here through communities living homes, schools, and anything in their path. ragti

we first learned about the south yard through an insurance map that is dated to 1837, this is when dolly moves back to washington d.c., takes out an insurance policy on the house, and part of what they need for the insurance policy is a plat showing where all the outbuildings are and we used this plat, it's incredibly important to hoe indicate the outbuildings in the area. in 1990, we located a chimney base, brick chimney base that we were able to figure out from the archeology was part of a duplex or slave chimney. two households would live there. with that, we'll

away victory this season and this one side's first defeat in eleven european games at the start here dolly was. a great you know it was the next in performance from our team. you know a difficult latest defeat. the very last year for a couple years and you so well you know they're good so i got some good. players and afraid that their place was to physical the players that i have. always thought that we looked. shyly. safely and well organized and i was friends or goes to school it was. joe said beatrice you're one meal we believe that we were also able to do the same on the return because usually when people weren't pulling their weight we were going to london with the same believe. as if that's the only real one. match the one i live in cyprus can pay off the bench to inspire around madrid's to a three no thirst a victory over a spirited one it is they're carrying guns in our finally break the deadlock after seventy four minutes thanks to a cross from the brazil star turned score eight minutes later with a fine run and runs in are added his second in stoppage time to ensure the nine time

wonderful to work with, i also want to thank the library of congress, the university of virginia's dolly madison digital addition, the new york public library, the james madison montpelier, author and historian william steele and the white house historical association. if anyone has any questions, i'd be happy to take them. there'll be a microphone coming around if you'd like to raise your hand. [ applause ] >> or on white house history general. i know that as well. down here. >> the furniture that the madisons bought after the burning of the white house like by worthington, et cetera, does that still exist? is that still in the collection of the white house? >> no, it's not still in the co. it's unknown as to where most of it is at the time. because when monroe came into the white house -- well, actually, most of those things actually never entered the white house. >> right. >> they were used in the seven building. to my knowledge, they're not in the montpelier collection. they may have been destroyed or they may just have been lost to history. >> thank you. >> sure. >> the 1814 drawing

as the father of american architecture, worked closely with president james madison and first lady dolly madison to refine the look and function of the early white house. mr. latrobe's partnership with the madisons is the subject of a talk at the maryland historical society by leslie jones, collections manager at the white house historical association headquartered in lafayette square across from the white house where mr. latrobe once labored. this program is 45 minutes. zblood evening, folks. if i can just ask if you could try to find some seats. we're going to get ready. we may get more chairs if we need to. i think there's some empty seats around. if you would all try to get a seat, that would be great and we can start. good evening. welcome to the 2012 francis scott key lecture series at the maryland historical society. we are excited to start off this year's series celebrating the bicentennial of the war of 1812. this is the first program in that long celebration. this even's talk, oh, the terrible velvet curtains, benjamin henry latrobe and the madisons decorate the white house is

russia being having been outlining its position over dolly how the situation in syria can be resolved now the key points when they saw that there must be a cease fire and that the only way that russia can see a ceasefire achieved is through dialogue and that the guns must not be quite he keep finding their way into the hands of those rebels. russia saying that peace is basically you it's impossible unless that can be can be stopped now all of these things are all in the six point plan that was put forward by kofi annan now that also includes things like humanitarian aid being able to to reach the places where it's needed inside syria at least i say time put forward by by kofi annan to try and find peace there no the russians said coming out of that meeting with serbia lovelock we heard the foreign minister saying that russia supports a man's plan whether it will take time to be to be implemented now in syria itself how that plan's been received the. government seems to. be on side with it they're willing to do it here to some of the they seem to be willing to talk about some of the th

cashing in on attention being a drama queen i don't like this i'm on it you see what you just did hello dolly what did you do. with his gum while i was singing he can't do very well i'm singing. ok meantime remind us of that character because he just seems like such a drama queen ok this he's of course the c.e.o. j.p. morgan anybody watching the show knows that he was quoted as saying this in the financial times if a company's investor day he said all be damned if we don't have a record profits for the next year or two when he was talking about regulation so now he's not worried about regulation even though he's been bitching about it time and time again that we've seen in the past and then he went on to criticize some of the members in an audience aka the media saying worse than that you don't even make any money i mean this guy really has no shame or humility where do you get off. your he cries of brooches whenever it is and doesn't go his way and then when things are going well for him he goes about it throws a write your face look you know what they are required to do pretty onerous i don

country music cstar dolly parto is here.lace will be on talking news all on fox and friends. i can't wait. in fact i have to prepare. 14 clubs. that's what they tell us a legal golf bag can hold. and while that leaves a little room for balls and tees, it doesn't leave room for much else. there's no room left for deadlines or conference calls. not a single pocket to hold the stress of the day, or the to-do list of tomorrow. only 14 clubs pick up the right one and drive it right down the middle of pure michigan. your trip begins at michigan.org. >> 52 minutes at tpast the top the hour. headlines overseas. lift-off of a european rocket to the international space station. (speaking foreign language) >> so amazing, the rocket launched from south america with 7 tons of cargo including food, clothing, spare parts and prop pell lant. it is expected to stay at the station through early september. >>> a russian murderer makes a hollywood style escape from prison. they hijacked a helicopter at gun point. he is on the rope ladder by the

. >> all right to -- crayon, movies, dollies, got it. >>> an all-new "meet the press" is on the way.ming up, questions about race in america resurface as protests continue across the country over the shooting death of trayvon martin. the president spoke about it in uniquely personal terms this week, but will he take the opportunity to lead the conversation. david plouffe will talk about that. >>> and then a reality check on racial attitudes in this country with a special roundtable discussion. >>> finally rachel maddow will join me to talk about her new book "drift" on america's evolving view on warrick and the military. it's all coming up this morning on "meet the press." >>>. >>> "er games" is searching up a huge opening 2k5i7. more than $68 million in just the first day. that's a record for a money that's a non-sequel, the fifth best opening day ever. the most three twilight movies "the hunger games" follow teenagers forced to compete in a tell i vised death match. >>> newly weds recently got a surprise. the couple had invited queen elizabeth and aspirin philip to their nuptials w

black dolly parton, huh? don't wear nothing too revealing because they won't let you in. okay? there you go. i'm gonna get up there, sweetheart. write me, all right? i'll see you on monday. love you, too, sweetie. bye-bye. that was a decent little conversation. >> beauchamp can see the light at the end of his tunnel. >> it was all right. >> you all right? >> but john philbeck's tunnel is about to get darker. like beauchamp, philbeck is a cutter. >> what instrument did you use to create that cut? >> a razor blade. cutting it down this side here and that side there to the bone. i took the razor and bowled it and cut the whole middle out, all the way down to the bone. there was nothing but a big hole there. i ain't got no feeling here no more. >> only days away from being transferred from the residential treatment unit to a general population dorm, philbeck has run into a problem. >> apparently he had an incident on our rtu today, said someone walked into his cell and destroyed some of his property and became threatening. >> i went to him, i said, i'm coming to you before anything

closeup look at dolly park, the east baltimore neighborhood, where 13-year-old monae turnage was killed>>> where to find dance classes in the baltimore area. and what to look out for in this weekend's face-off lacrosse classic tournament. for these stories and much more, remember to look for the updated forecast. >>> the ultimate career day for students at one city school in south baltimore, who got a chance to meet a former nasa astronaut. as gigi barnett reports, it says, it's all for the of -- part of a program to launch careers in science and technology. >> there's the hat to shuttle. >> reporter: it took astronaut don thomas, 8 1/2 minutes to blast into space. and 33 years to prepare for the journey. >> we were in space. i could take this cup of water, and i could tip it upside down like this. and nothing would happen. >> reporter: thomas shared has story today, with students at bay brook elementary middle school in south baltimore. >> i think he's amaymazing for -- amazing for not giving up. because if that was me and i kept getting rejected by the nasa program, i would have gave

. ♪ ♪ working 9:00 to 5:00 >>> way to go, dolly parton.ed today, changing your morning routine to get out of the house more quickly. the alarm goes off and into the shower hopefully and out the door with countless responsibilities that slow you down in between. look, it looks like i have a halo. >> we have help. instyle magazine has a way to put sanity back in your life. >> we are going to get out the door quicker. >> exactly. >> first of all, the outfit. that's where we have a lot of trouble. what should i wear. what's a good solution there? >> what we recommend is have a couple of go to outfits. outfits you know look great on you. taking pictures and putting them on the inside of your closet. >> stop it. someone did that for me. >> how did it work for you? >> it made it easy. >> did you continue doing it? >> i don't continue doing anything. >> so these are the outfits. >> this spring it's all about bright colors. skinny jeans with a bold color. >> wrinkly clothes. you have a solution. >> nobody wants to be wrestling with an iron in the m