dolly in the unofficial sphere and dolly as the charismatic figure. so let's go back to that june day when war is declared. james madison has resisted the idea of war for as long as he could. so remember his goal as unity by putting off his decision to go to bar he had the partisan flames. james' party, the republicans may have celebrated the declaration with parades and canon fire, but in the northeast federalist territory, flames hung at half-mast and church bells tolled warmth. the federalists most of whom were from new england would feel the brunt -- the declaration of war only increases pressure on james especially when he learned that two days before the declaration the british government had repealed the orders and council that had restricted neutral trade and was one of the main reasons for going to war, but it was too late to stop the marshall momentum. it spoke of threats to the president and assassinations by both dagger or poison. disguised as women coming to the white house to steal james' papers. washington city felt even more uneased as

ellen was excused, and there was a deal between dolly and the trader that, at a prearranged time, dolly would send ellen to fetch water at the public square right here on the lafayette square common. but that really this would be the opportunity for the slave trader to pounce on her. but in the end, ellen got wind of the maneuver and she dashed across lafayette square into the bustle of the city and i think to the protection of paul jennings. of course, as most of you probably know, in the end the pearl schooner did not make it as planned to freedom in the north. winds too light on the potomac followed by winds too rough to enter the chesapeake bay. plus there was an informant back in washington who put the white owners on the trail of the 77 slaves sooner instead of later. the pearl was hauled back in to washington and those slaves on board faced the fate they most dreaded, sale to the deep south and permanent separation from home and family. in our consideration today of prominent african-americans associated with this area, i would like to include the freeman family especially since

alone in the weiss except for her servants and slaves, dolly did what she always did to try to quell the panic. aware that all eyes were on her, she planned a dinner party. without question, dolly's most famous day was august 24, 1814, the day of the invasion of washington. a close look at the day presents in microcosm all three of our themes. her role as the caretaker of the white house as mistress of the unofficial sphere and as the charismatic figure. all of the divisions that so worried dolly and james had split and instead of coming together washington city was falling apart. in order to pull the local and official folk together to send a message of calm and peace, dolly invited residents and members of the government to dinner, a meal held in the middle of the day. she intended to do this precisely in the face of the rumors of the invasion. as the rumors strengthened and the city began to evacuate she

dolly says that needs to leave the house. so the slaves say do i throw it or reuse it, might be 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 place, 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 how slaves are obtaining their household items. one thing people are surprised at is slaves

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 out buildings are. this plat has been incredibly important for allowing us to locate the outbuildings. in the '90s, we located a chimney base that we were able to figure out from the archaeology was part of a duplex or a slave quarter that had a central chimney and a hearth on either side. we were able to line up the insurance plat with the rest of the grounds and able to start to explore this area further out. what we found is that the -- we've got three duplexes in this area, three homes for slave quarters and for of these buildings we've marked. two smoke houses that are on the insurance map, a kitchen that's decide the house, that's an 18th century kitchen we located through archaeology. and this other duplex, which is one of three that we're going to be reconstructing. now, the timber frames that you see out here, these represent the size and the mas

the contrast with dolly's son is striking. pain todd now 45 was hopelessly alcohol and with neither occupation nor spouse seemed to lack purpose altogether. one could say pain took advantage of his situation, too. he certainly had taken advantage of his mother and stepfather time and again, slowly draining their finances and good will. the little girl in judith reeves letter identified jennings as only a colored gentleman. jennings' rise would always require unremitting resistance against legal, social and psychological impediments. by the early 1840s, the social and political elite of the capital were being wined and dined on lafayette square at madison's house, gadsby's house, daniel webster's house and benjamin taylor's house. webster was secretary of state at this time and owned the house just a few doors west of here, the site of the chamber of commerce building today. the they lowe's lived on the same lane as dolly and july they low would occasionally forward notes to dolly asking if he might borrow paul for her dinner p

this man was caught screaming for his ride on the barn stormer ride at dolly wood his daughter next to him is having a ball but he hates it he says never again. i don't know if you can hear what he is yelling. never again grace elizabeth, oh, my god i hate this thing look at him. look at him. >> look at her >> he said he is never doing it again i bet he is serious but kudos, to dad for doing it. >> definitely >> because you know he knew i don't want to do this. i don't like these but did it for her. >> yeah. >> because who else is going the ride i guess mama didn't want to ride. >> that is hilarious. >> you never want to lose your cool at any ride at dolly wood. >> it looks serious. >> i am sure they do. >> funny. >> it is funny to think of yes, we do applaud you dad that is why we love dads. >> right now the daughter was just like oh, todd. >> she was cool. >> they -- god. >> she was cool >> shea should save that for her to see later on. >> if you are headed out to any area. >> six flags. >> kings dominion next couple days. >> hershey. >> weather will be dry, hot for the weekend you h

you just said -- let's not forget about hello dolly. dolly is up for adoption.well. >> richard and jill, thank you so much. if you have want to find out how to adopt any of these dogs, go to today.com. we're back right after this. >> tomorrow on "today," justin bieber is live on the plaza. >> this is your special invitation to the party. >> the toyota summer concert series only on "today." >> on. in bc. >> live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. >> good morning. i am mindy basara. man is dead after a confrontation with baltimore county police. police say that officers responded to a call around 10:30 in randallstown. at some point, the suspect was injured, but he was not shot by police. the >> partly to mostly cloudy conditions. eastern portion of the day, more clouds and folks on the west. five to 10 miles per hour.

what happened to george after dolly madison had to sell montpelier, we're not sure. the slaves were broken into three distinct groups at that time. one was sold with the plantation to henry moncure. one group oz slaves was sold outright to other owners all over, and one group of slaves accompanied dolly to washington where she had moved. we believe that george gilmore was among the slaves that were sold with montpelier and stayed on the property after its sale. the next time george gilmore appears in the historical record is in 1870 when he shows up in the united states federal census living right here and on this property. however, we know that this cabin had not been built yet. we know that these trees that made up the cabin weren't cut down until 1873. it's pretty likely that george didn't build this cab uniltill late 1773 or early 1874. we know that through the study of logs, if you look right here, you can actually see a core that's been taken out of the log. >>> he shows in the 1870s census as a farm laborer. this farm did not belong to him. it belongs to dr. j

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not to say that dolly madison didn't create a heroic figure with legend of the saving of the portrait but i'm more interested in ordinary women's participation as patriots and what's really fascinating is that because there is all of this belief that population is the source of the strength of nations, there is a lot of wartime emphasis on women's roles as mothers. mothers and warriors go together serving the nation side by side. and there's a phenomenal amount of rhetoric both at the level of popular culture and at the level of high politics talking about how women's roles as the bearers of children will add strength to the nation. literally in 1813 when the war isn't going very well, thomas jefferson writes a letter to a friend and says we'll prevail because we have breeders enough. we have men enough to carry on a population. and so a lot of women's role in this war is being seen as advancing the united states' ability to claim land through settlement. you need families to go and live on the land in order to realize the abstract claims the u.s. is making to control that territory.

burned the nation's capitol and certainly one of the dominant figures that comes out of the war is dolly madison. as a female historian looking at the war of 1812, what perspective do you bring on her and also just in general the role of women in the war of 1812? >> well, my perspective really comes out of social history and cust real history, which is history of ordinary people. not to say that dolly madison didn't create a heroic figure with the legend of the saving of the portrait, but i'm more interested in ordinary women's participation as pat trots. and what's really fascinating is that because there's all this belief that the population is the source of the strength of the nations, there's a lot of wartime emphasis of women's roles as mothers. mothers and warriors go together serving the nation, kind of side by side. and there's a phenomenal amount of rhetoric both at the level of popular culture and at the level of high politics talking about how women's roles as the bearers of children will lend strength to the nation. so literally in 1813 when the war isn't going very well, tho

it was viewed as such as an important national treasure it was the object of dolly madison's concernhave been commissioned to complete the portraits of every first lady and president in the past 50 years. and to acquire historical portraits of those previously missing from the white house collection. in our world, with so many images are flashes on the screen, these portraits by acclaimed artist are lasting tribute to our presidents and first ladies and will forever be part of the collection. today, the portrait of president george w. bush and laura bush will be added to the unique collection of those who have occupied this house. to those great presidential portrait artists whose works include gilbert stuart, we now add john howard. today's event that may prompt a great debate. at a great debate, strong arguments on both sides, not over issues, it is the debate as to whether the portrait actually looks like the president and first lady. [laughter] we will soon find that out. it is my distinct pleasure to introduce the president of the united states. [applause] >> thank you. thank yo

dolly from slate magazine. hi.my god. right? >> we were going crazy, the whole press corps was trying to look at faces. sotoamayor. what's going on? the chief started reading which wasn't a surprise. i think we suspected he had the obvious. >> opinion. >> one way or the other. for the first 10 minutes or so, he was just blasting the individual mandate, you know all of the bullet points that we have heard activity inactivity, forcing people into commerce. it lookseds -- it looked like the plane was going down, down, down but at the last second, he said that was a tax. he was that one vote that saved the entire act because the other four dissenterred would have struck the whole thing down. he said, it's a tax, and i am going to let it stand and we are moving on. and every single reporter in the room got whiplash. we were all in neck braces this morning because it happened so fast. >> you got whiplash. some people got egg on their face, cnn and foch news didn't wait for the "but." they went out and reported it the oth

parton she was up there with springsteen you know i would like dolly parton national anthem let's make it a duet yeah i like it ok just my take i guess i got to wrap it up but thank you for joining me this evening that is if a night show thanks for tuning in and make sure they come back tomorrow and firedoglake is going to be on the show with details on bradley manning's latest pretrial hearing in the meantime don't forget to like the. alona show on facebook don't forget to follow us on twitter subscribe to our you tube channel and also don't forget that now you can check us out on hulu as well coming up next is the news. that. golden globe. clip. that speech. you. wish. to slam misleader. just sleep. in and. out of the bottom of a little. with the end of the boer war and going the way of the soviet union many people thought that nuclear weapons disappeared. the risk is not zero that something might be going off by mistake especially let's solve the nuclear weapons on hair trigger alert. us of a difference to use it as a threat all as an actual event that you know if you keep spinning

[laughter] when the british burned the white house, dolly madison famously saved this portrait of thest to george w. [laughter] now, michele, if anything happens, there is your man. [laughter] [applause] i am pleased that when you are wondering these halls he would now be able to the is that this portrait and ask "what would george do?" [laughter] i am honored to be hanging there with the man they gave me the greatest give possible, -- the greatest gift possible, unconditional love, no. 41. [applause] i want to thank john howard for agreeing to use his considerable talents to paint my likeness. you have done a fine job with a challenging subjects. in the portrait there is a painting called "a charge to keep" that hung in the oval office for the eight years of my presidency. i asked john to include it b ecause it reminds me of the wonderful people with whom i was privileged to serve. these men and women, many of whom who are here worked hard and served with honor. we had a charge to keep. it is my privilege to introduce the great as first lady ever, sorry mom. [laughter] would you agre

you just said -- let's not forget about hello dolly. dolly is up for adoption. richard and jill, thank you so much. if you have want to find out how to adopt any of these dogs, go to today.com. we're back right after this. >> tomorrow on "today," justin bieber is live on the plaza. >> this is your special invitation to the party. >> the toyota summer concert series only on "today." >> on. in bc. >>> 8:56 is your time now on this thursday, june 14th, 2012. good morning to you, i'm eun yang. the weekend is looking even better. let's go to meteorologist tom kierein for a look at your forecast. >> cooler than average temperatures and we're in the low to mid-60s and later today into the 70s and there's the view from our city camera showing clouds over the region. showing clouds on the eastern shore, southern maryland and else where just a few clouds going through and later today the 70s. a small chance of an afternoon sprinkle and low humidity and beautiful weather into the weekend. comfortable weather into first part of next week, as well. more humid, though, midwee

you just said -- let's not forget about hello dolly. dolly is up for adoption.ichard and jill, thank you so much. if you have want to find out how to adopt any of these dogs, go to today.com. we're back right after this. >> tomorrow on "today," justin bieber is live on the plaza. >> this is your special invitation to the party. >> the toyota summer concert series only on "today." >> on. in bc. >>> good morning. 8:56 right now. i'm laura garcia-cannon. >>> b.a.r.t. service between the east bay and san francisco is still shut down. a three alarm fire at a construction site alongside the b.a.r.t. line damaged the tracks. people are trying to get into the city. b.a.r.t. says best case scenario might be able to single track the trains by early this afternoon but the trains will not move at full speed. check the morninging commute. >> a sigalert now. you're crossing over from oakland to san francisco and making it worse. avoid it. use the richmond center or the san mateo, that is the south. we join the "today" show shortly. ♪ ♪ we were skipping stones ♪ and letting go

we posted on the facebook page you expect this on with their are details to be worked out but the dolly lawmen is the one paying that americans care about. human rights? chinese factories? global warming, taiwan? wasn't that the novel? when is the last time you heard anybody say we must food to war with china over time one but the world loves this guy. he is 75 year-old as glasses and sandals and peace and harmony and reincarnation prepare you cannot get enough of him but if the american public retooled the evil economies wine put to radioactive pellets in the yak butter is it that appear problem? they said beijing will just the ninth it. that is the beauty. again and again the end again. they can say we did not do that to the dali lama. angel says please don't use that expression. so they plant the rumor and things take off from their. this is the first book i have written involving china. there was a challenge involved you have to make up the names for characters and charles dickens was pretty good. [laughter] but chinese names are complex. who can recite the full name of the blind ac

. >> with the british burned the white house, in 1814, dolly madison saved this portrait of the first and george george w. now, michelle, if anything ahppens. [laughter] there is your man. >> there was a lot of laughter but tears too. >> i am honored to be hanging near a man who gave me the greatest gift possible, unconditional love. that would be number 41. >> painted by an artist from texas, he is portrayed standing in the oval office. the current president paid a gracious tribute to his predecessor. >> i will always remember the gathering you posted for all of the living former presidents. your kind words of encouragement. plus, you also left me a really good tv sports package. [laughter] i use it. [laughter] >> there is much more that divides than unites these members of an exclusive club. with an election looming, the warmth and spirit. mr. obama tries to put off the hanging -- the warmth and ends here. mr. obama tries to put off the hanging of his portrait. >> we have more. >> you cannot come deliverable. without the manchin -- come into liverpool with at the mention of this. --

. >> as fred mentioned in 1814 dolly madison famously saved this portrait of the first george w. now, michelle, if anything happe happens, there's your man. >> watch the entire event online at the c-span video library. >>> federal communications commissioner robert mcdowell gave an update on a proposal to give the united nations more control over the internet. the proposal is backed by china, russia, brazil, and india. other speakers include the state department be and representatives from google, verizon, and the advocacy group public knowledge. this is about an hour and 45 minutes. >> okay. well, that was very nice. i appreciate the cooperation. i'm randy may, president of the free state foundation. i want to welcome all of you to today's event. as most of you know, the free state foundation is a free market oriented think tank specializing primarily in communications, internet, and high-tech policy issues. i'm always pleased to see so many old friends at our events. today i'm especially pleased to see so many new friends and new faces. i confess we've got a large turnout. ther

. >> when the british burned the white house in 1814, dolly madison famously saved this portrait of thest george w. [ laughing ] >> now, michelle, if anything happens . [ laughing ] >> there is your man. [ laughing ] >> good stuff. now, president obama has spent a better part of his presidency blaming mr. bush for leaving the country in an economic mess when he inherited it, but both sides set apart political differences today for today's portrait ceremony. ♪ music playing ♪ don't mean a thi >> the washington convention center rocking it today as family, friends and fans celebrated the life of chuck brown. the godfather of go-go died two weeks ago. today local leaders and a lot of musicians turned out to honor the man who put the dc music scene on the map. bruce johnson takes us there. ♪ music playing >> reporter: who can take his place? no one. >> i love chuck brown. he has been an idol of mine since i was 10 years of age. >> reporter: in fact, the washington convention center put the memorial service which from the beginning seemed more like a revival or go-go concert than funeral. >>

when the british burned the white house, as fred mentioned, in 1814, dolly madison famously saved this portrait of the first george w. now michelle, if anything happens, there's your man. and i'm also pleased, mr. president, that when you are wandering these halls as you wrestle with tough decisions, you'll now be able to gaze at this portrait and ask, what would george do? it is my privilege to introduce the greatest first lady ever, sorry, mom. >> it was really gracious of you to invite us back to the white house to hang a few family pictures. and i'm sure you know nothing makes a house a home like having portraits of its former occupants staring down at you from the wall. >> the portraits, by the way, were done by the renowned artist john howard sanden. they'll hang in the entrance hall of the white house, president bush to the right of president clinton. that's our broadcast for this thursday night. thanks for being with us. i'm matt lauer in for brian tonight, and i'll see you tomorrow morning on "today." good night. >>> good evening, everyone. >>> it's out for the world to see. t

. >> as mentioned in 1814 dolly madison famously saved this portrait of the first george w. now, michelle if anything happens there's your man. >> watch the entire event online at the c-span video library. >>> the senate foreign relations committee held a confirmation hearing for president obama's nominee for ambassador for iraq today. served under president george w. bush and president obama. he is joined by the nominees. pennsylvania senator fills in for chairman john kerry during this 90 minute hearing. >> good morning. today the senate foreign relations committee meets to consider the president's nominees to serve as ambassador to iraq, sri lanka. i want to thank the witnesses for appearing to discuss challenges in these countries and to discuss each nominee's work as well as their work upon confirmation and also, of course, u.s. policy in each of the countries. let me go through a little bit about each place first. in iraq the picture, of course, is mixed. nearly six months after the redeployment of u.s. troops from the country we know that political and ethic divisions

dolly madison saved this portrait of the first jorjts w. now michelle, if anything happens, there's your man. watch the entire event online. she spoke an event hosted by the arms control association her comments are about 50 minutes. all right, we're about to resume our program. we're about to resume. don't get up and leave, please. we're about to resume. ladies and gentlemen. good afternoon. welcome back to the 2012 arms control association annual meeting. i'm darrell kimball with the arms control association. and i wanted to take a minute to remind you that armed control association members and i hope all of you are members, are invited to join senior staff and members of the board for a view of our programs and our work that will take place at 3:45 later this afternoon. this year has been extremely busy and productive for the arms control association. and we have lots of work to do in the future. and in part we're going to focus on promoting diplomatic solutions to prevent a nuclear armed iran, which we heard about this morning, and try

when the british burned the white house, as fred mentioned, in 1814, dolly madison, famously saved thisortrait of the first george w. now, michelle, if anything happen happens, there's your man. i'm also pleased, mr. president, that when you are wandering these halls as you wrestle with tough decisions, you will now be able to gaze at this portrait and ask, what would george do? it is my privilege to introduce the greatest first lady ever -- sorry, mom. >> it was really gracious of you to invite us back to the white house to hang a few family pictures. and i'm sure you know nothing makes a house a home like having portraits of its former occupants staring down at you from the walls. >> you have to watch that. it was like dean martin's roast in the east room. >>> still ahead -- why are you awake. schwarmerei. your tweets and texts just moments away. [ female announcer ] the next generation of investing technology is now within your grasp with the all-new e-trade 360 investing dashboard. e-trade 360 is the world's first investing homepage that shows you where all your investments are and

at 9:30 the eastbound lanes will be shut down between the beltway and exit 19, dolly madison boulevard. traffic on the connector road will detour to the outer loop and take exit 46b chain bridge road and all the lanes are expected to reopen by 5 a.m. >> our day surely started off nice, sun, warm temperatures, low humidity, but this afternoon there were some storms out there. that's why top issued that yellow alert. how's it look tonight? >> they're kind of few and far between, but the storms that developed are rather hefty, severe earlier, just heavy now. we'll lapse this live doppler. wee see a heavy storm pushing -- we see a heavy storm pushing into howard county and another between winchester and front royal and some storms south of warrenton in. those areas you'll see heavy rain and heavy rain is just exiting southern maryland into the bay. so those of you that had the storms, it's been pretty rough. those of us that haven't, it's been very nice. 77 now, high was 80 3 , 70 in gaithersburg -- 83, 70 in gaithersburg, 75 in leesburg and manassas. it's 80 in fredericksburg. tonight sho

free through to the second round in london mikhail youzhny needing four sets so ever to take care of dolly young twenty six seed usually fighting back from a set done to beat the unheralded american dimitri you know if that was all it's going to you know germany's florian meyer while another russian eager andre have had a tough fighting against britain over golding but still came at the right side of four sets. football where will discover our first euro two thousand and twelve finalists on wednesday when reigning champion spain take on portugal and while stopping christie under another will be vital to the holders hopes spanish midfielder so insists that spain's attack at all costs game plan will not be altered most of the things we are trying to do to have their control over. that's worked through to look for for the big three. teams that we are there is because we were sure no one takes nothing for granted and you have to bridge graham nash actual farm or. germany or kofi everett's with spain's left the only dell in a trophy for a record fourth time they meet italy in the semi's on thur

. >> when the british burned the white house in 1814, dolly madison, famously saved this portrait of first george w. now, michelle, if anything happens, there's your man. >> reporter: mrs. obama told him not to worry. >> and i promise you -- i promise, i'm going straight for -- >> reporter: president obama said his time in the white house has given him a deeper understanding for the men who came before him. and for today at least, that understanding seemed mutual. norah o'donnell, cbs news, the white house. >>> i'm glad they could laugh about it. there could have been awkward moments there. coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning," more from jan crawford's exclusive network interview with mitt romney. plus the latest on the crisis in syria. we'll hear from former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, richard meyer. and erica hill is in london to kick off celebrations for queen's diamond jubilee. that is more a little later on "cbs this morning." that is the "cbs morning news" for this friday. as always, appreciate you watchings. i'm terrell brown. happy friday. have a g

when the british burned the white house in 1814, dolly madison famously stave to this portrait of thehelle. laughter >> >> if anything happens, there is your man. >>darya: he also credited the artist. he said he did a fine job with a challenging subject. >>mark: we will be right back as the kron4 news continues. here is a live look out over san francisco looking over the bay bridge. a lot of sunshine with fog at the coast and through the golden gate. >>darya: this is the new spelling bee champion. she won the national spelling bee last night. she won cash, a savings bond and a trophy. she is from a great and from san diego, she finished tied from 27th place last year. i guess it just depends on the word that you get. >>mark: today is the 75th annual national done a day. >> the salvation army says that this holiday is started with the chicago chapter in 1938 as a fund-raiser during the great depression. the group wanted to honor the man. those women were called donna classes. they often fried the doughnuts inside of the soldiers' helmets. a salvation army volunteers provided assistance

in the road to progress to foot the bill and so why dolly and might be inspiring her generation and she's received awards from around the globe for her fearlessness in tweeting and blogging about the revolution normal people are asking if it's possible that the revolution that was supposed to liberate its people might just land up in slaving at least a part of it policy r.t. cairo. egypt is about to decide who will have the state's top job but still lacks a constitution and next hour here in r.t. we hear from an expert on how that's affecting the path to democracy. we're told no just we are going to solve the problem with the presidential election that's not going to happen and look at what is happening now so we have even people saying we have to stop the whole the process because even the fact that we have someone who is representing the all regime they should be how come and be still here where they were saying that we need to put in the constitution that the people who are from the old regime cannot present themselves for the next ten years but you cannot come with this because it's n

when dolly the sheep was cloned, every polling firm in america went out and asked about morality andity and ethics of cloning. we did those questions too but we also said if you could name just one person other than yourself, who would you clone? now some people to a question like that think nobely and mother theresa came out on top but among males was michelle phifer. >> i'm going to flip it around and go the opposite way. what's the least volatile. our firm did a lot of work in both wisconsin and indiana on right to work issues and i have never seen an issue where you have 2% undecided. we are seeing consiste ifistente numbers where people were so polarized and there was no volatility and whether it was the recall elections of last summer or the most recent ones, it was the same effect. there simply was -- it was love and hate and nothing in between. there was no like. >> we asked sort of on the interesting side, focus groups we conducted recently in richmond and denver with obama independents, if president obama were a car, what kind of car would he be and why? really trying to ge

in the road to progress to for them and so what dolly and might be inspiring her generation and she's received awards from around the globe for her feel is missing tweeting and blogging about the revolution more more people are asking if it's possible that the revolution that was supposed to liberate its people might just land up in slaving at least a part of it policy r.t. cairo. i'll be back with i have by i'm sorry they were for that are to talk to renowned media's academic terry graham advance about the state of the egyptian revolution. tariq ramadan you're a professor at contemporary slavic study with oxford university and also you are a professor at the faculty of a stomach studies in qatar and it's great to have you with us today sir so i know the situation in north africa and the middle east it's very complex and there are a lot of players involved in it. there's one trend that seems to be undisputed and it's rising and its rise of islamist movement throughout the region could anyone have really predicted that kind of an outcome and even the pro-democracy protesters or the reb

the square and protest again but it's really impressive they went again and they all felt this thing dolly has been involved with egypt's revolution from the beginning she works to monitor civil and political developments in the country or lack of them many egyptians are dismayed that little if anything has changed under the ruling supremum council of the armed forces or skaf in fact we see that. is continuing mubarak's regime and offering only very minimal sessions to that evolution whenever he has to these demonstrations are up to down for the notorious court decision that not only sped mubarak's life but acquitted his sons and six former security officials protesters say the second insult is the heavily criticized presidential runoff election history. choice between the old gone out in the form of the next move beret man and the religiously conservative muslim brotherhood people did not go to squares and streets again to protest those two big punches in the face more than they think this is their last chance to win begs that country others believe more time is needed even though it may

dolly parton puts dustin hoffman to shame.he has guys riding on horses, there is buffalo, comes with a dinner. you can eat with your hands. >> guest: american flags. >> guest: it is the finest theatrical experience i've ever i have ever had in my life. >> guest: dolly parton -- [inaudible] is a dry town so it's family-friendly, bible belt. we had gone to las vegas and had a very racy, r-rated experience and then we went to branson which is family friendly and very red and we had just as an awesome of the time. i had a little bit of an existential crisis in branson missouri when i saw jacob smirnov. >> host: meghan mccain experience in a blue state? >> guest: >> guest: a blue state that i enjoyed? i had a really nice time in connecticut meeting family. connecticut is blue, right? talking to his family and his friends about their perspective and some of his family and friends were not fans of my family and the republican party made it very clear over dinner. my family -- overall we had a great time and you know it's interesting

square and protest again but it's really impressive they want to get and they often help this thing dollie has been involved with egypt's revolution from the beginning she works to monitor civil and political developments in the country or lack of them many egyptians are dismayed that little if anything has changed under the ruling supremes council of the armed forces or skaf in fact we see that. if there is continuing mubarak's regime and offering only a very minimal course sessions to that it will send whenever he has to these demonstrations are up today after the notorious court decision that not only spared mubarak's life but acquitted his sons and six former security officials protesters say the second insult is the heavily criticized presidential runoff election a straight choice between the old guard in the form of an ex mubarak man and the religiously conservative muslim brotherhood i don't think injured or more political if they were in the next four years. surgical operations will be reaching with something. for me. things but i think for most they're born. successful others beli

his role, you know, as an entertainer with dolly in the house. but a very important role he had was as a slave owner and 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. so 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. you can also follow us on facebook. facebook.com/c-spanhistory. >>> next, a discussion on the critical relationship between two superpower leaders. president ronald reagan and soviet leader mikhail gorbachev and their role in bringing an end to the cold war. among the panelists are former u.s. ambassador jack mattlock and richard reeves, a columnist and author of "president reagan, the triumph of imagination." this is an hour and 20 minutes. >> good evening, everyone, and welcome. i know that -- happy st. patrick's day, by the way. i noticed a lot of you ar

. >> in 1814, dolly madison famously saved this portrait of first george w., michelle, if anything happens -- there's your man. >> watch the entire event online at the c-span video library. our coverage of the 2012 cable show in boston continues in a moment with erin burnett from cnn. she sat down with tim armstrong and greg britt at this annual gathering of the national cable and telecommunications. this portion is just over 35 minutes. >> all right. well, thanks, everybody for having us. we're thrilled to be here. i'm thrilled. it looks so packed in here. it looks like there's standing room only in the back. so that's fantastic. well, we wanted to talk about basically the way things are right now in an industry that's changing so quickly. i mean, especially with smartphones. guess you have more -- people have smartphones and dvrs and people get killed walking down the street because they're on their smartphones now. so i wanted to start off by asking each of you, what are -- how are things really changing when it comes to video? a few years ago it was reali