of james garfield?w public or private oval did grant play in the early days of a car filled administration? >> grant -- i think grant was highly unhappy with their results of the republican convention. he seemed to resent garfield. in fact, garfield talks in his diary about the fact that grants was staying in a place in new jersey. very sick with malaria. they're recovering. grant, you know, never came to see them. there was no sort of interaction between them despite for the tip of his hat. so conkling was very close to grant. conkling, of course, had been furious with the results of the convention. and so it did affect their relationship. i'm sorry. yes. >> can you tell us more about garfield, the man? and the stand he was quite an academic. >> he was really a brilliant man. he was a pacifist. because he was very poor to pay for his first year of college he was the school's janitor and carpenter. as i said, by his second year they promoted him to literature, professor of literature and mathematics and

garfield and here said.was a long period. with harrison, he was in a wonderful position. he really had reached the zenith of his career. he was viewed as powerful if not more powerful than the president himself. he had free range to be able to develop. ideas he had been working on for years in terms of international relations. his particular interest during the 1892. with central and south america. he developed including the idea for the pan-american union and so on. >> i want to get more involved on that and of little on. let me ask you about the study here. there are few pieces with late -- with abraham lincoln. t know him? >> idea now that he knew him personally. >> he went to congress. he was elected to congress in 1892. he would have served in washington from 1863 -- lincoln was assassinated on april 14. there is a very poignant reminder of his connection with lincoln here at the house. that is that this card -- seven days before lincoln is assassinated he went to lincoln. we know from other instances t

>> garfield. blaine -- sorry, in 1876, it went to hayes. >> word the stalwarts still active -- were the stalwarts still active in the party? >> blaine wanted the nomination. it came after many ballots. he threw his vote to garfield. >> >> garfield was struck by an assassin's bullet. blaine was actually with him in the train station. >> yes, he was. >> do you know the story? >> they were walking arm in arm. they were very good friends. i read somewhere that garfield never quite trusted his good friend, james g. blaine. they were very good friends. they were on their way to give some speeches. >> we will spend a little bit more time before we get some calls about these characters. we have heard about the suggestions of corruption. if he were to walk into this room today, what would he look like, what did he sound like? what are some of the things that you know from your studies of the man? >> he was considered very handsome, very well-dressed, extremely well spoken. beginning in the late 1850's, he

without my garfield id, i left havana in 1981 and went to zurich, switzerland, thanks to james joyce. my dancing there became walking through the silence of the city. instead of people looking at me like my family did when i was a child, people began to ask me, where are you from? i felt disoriented, exiled. the changing perception of nature, religious views, philosophical and political opinions, botanical knowledge and idiomatic sounds, everything new. i asked myself many times for a specific reason why my irish family went to cuba and began searching for missing pieces of my irish history in irish, cuban, and catalan archives to discover before me that i had a fascinating history of displacement and transformations in various geographic setings. my book, ticket it ride, is a personal journey towards the past and the present. there is no one but many places i belong to: havana, dublin, mahon, barcelona, and since the lay 80's, the bay area. so thank you very much. . >> i'm going to do this in about 5 parts. i hope you will bear with me. first of all, i want to thank cross roads for i

he turned his votes over to garfield. that is help are filled who was a very dark horse when the convention started happened it to end up as a republican nominee. the sort of quid pro quo was when the number one job of the cabinet was to be secretary of state. it was understood between them that he would become secretary of state. >> us take another telephone call. we have less than 20 minutes late. >> high. the historic curious about lanes relation. both radical republicans before and during and after the civil war. it might be particularly interesting since he was chair of the senate foreign relations committee. >> thank you very much. is that something you can take? >> land made a name for himself when he first was elected to congress by taking on steven chu everybody was afraid of. i do not know exactly what his relation ship with sumner was, but he was not a radical republican. he was a moderate in that regard. he still wanted to build and the republican party in the south. that is why he was so strongly for suffrage

he turned his votes over to garfield. help are filled who was a very dark horse when the convention started happened it to end up as a republican nominee. the sort of quid pro quo was when the number one job of the cabinet was to be secretary of state. it was understood between them that he would become secretary of state. >> us take another telephone call. we have less than 20 minutes late. >> high. the historic curious about lanes relation. both radical republicans before and during and after the civil war. it might be particularly interesting since he was chair of the senate foreign relations committee. >> thank you very much. is that something you can take? >> land made a name for himself when he first was elected to congress by taking on steven chu everybody was afraid of. i do not know exactly what his relation ship with sumner was, but he was not a radical republican. he was a moderate in that regard. he still wanted to build and the republican party in the south. that is why he was so strongly for suffrage for the

there is nobody is around garfield. give us the james blaine relationship with our field. >> well, not good. the thing about the land though, he had a lot -- he was the guy that burn bridges with a lot of people. i think of blaine as per lane. >> from maine? he is from maine though. >> yes. >> the continental liar from the state of maine. why continental? does that mean he reaches across the nation? >> ran in 1884 against cleveland. before that he got the republican nomination. before that, it was plain that prevented ulysses grant from coming back -- rather 1880. it was blaine who prevented ulysses grant from winning a third term. >> despite being secretary of state for garfield and arthur, -- >> he was secretary of state under three presidents. what else did he do? >> he was in congress, he was speaker of the house. >> he changed some of the rules and the house. i am not sure exactly what rules they are. it seems to be speakers of the house. they are always changing role somewhat to their advantage. you know, smart ca

host: richard garfield from the kaiser commission on medicaid -- rachel garfield, kaiser commission on medicaid and the uninsured is our guest. we've divided our phone lines between the insurer th ande uninsured. of course, you can always send a tweet, twitter.com/cspanwj. sharon on the insured line, you are for stop. calle -- first up. caller: back in 1999, i was paying $60, that worked for coverage. two years later, united healthcare reaised it. i got sick and i was applying for social security and medicare. for two years, i had no insurance at all. in another year, they moved it up again, at which time i had to drop. the drug coverage -- if that had not been for my mother, i would not have had it no insurance at all for those two years. guest: this at caller makes a great point about the challenges people face when they lose their jobs the caller mentioned tha cobra coverage, which allows you to continue your employer-based coverage. the challenge with coverage that when you are employed, typically the cost of the premium is shared between the worker and employer. however, once you

. >> if you have problems, i see right here, we call garfield 7171 for service. member that is right. operators standing by. >> from here, we are going to look at those wonderful elevators that go of the outside of the high rise building that everyone wants to take a ride in. >> let's go do that. >> here we are in the most exciting elevator in the city of san francisco. this is the outside elevator that goes into the 32nd floor. tell us about this. >> we are in one of the tower elevators now. these were originally installed in 1972. 1,000 feet a minute, outside observation elevators, so a great view of the city. some of the most popular elevators in san francisco, as you mentioned, and these cars run a lot. they run about 2000 starts per day. about 700,000 starts per year for an elevator like this, and these are pretty hard working. >> must be hard to maintain these elevators. mechanical devices in the rain. >> this is much more difficult to maintain. normal elevator installation is all sealed from the elements, but in this case, it is all exposed to the outside,

partnership and the work they're doing with our kids and there was a backpack give-away this weekend at garfield park that was put on by the city that benefited so many of our kids in our superintendent zone, the mission superintendent zone. thank you for doing all of that, as well. are there any other final announcements? great. thank you. yes? sorry. are you ok? item t is the report of closed session activities. this is the closed session actions of september 20, 2011. the board of education approved a credit for one direct, one principal and two assistant principals. in the existing litigation case oah case no. 20011160521, the board, by a vote of 7 aye's, approved a settlement. in the existing litigation of case no. 2011060361, the board, by a vote of seven aye's, approved settlement in $3,000. in the existing litigation case of jh versus sfusd oah case 2011060553 the board approved settlement in the amount of $3,000. in a public employee discipline release matter the board resolved by a vote of seven aye's to accept the resignation of a classified employee and to waive certain damage claims

we have garfield. up in this area, which is part of the old industrial zone, we need more open space. this is a great idea. please help us make it a reality. thank you. chairperson mar: thank you. i see only three more speakers, and then we're going to close public comment. >> my name is jamie olberg. i am from mission local. i was hoping to address a question to the representative from the mayor's office of housing. in previous meetings, we talked mainly about the park portion of this land. i am wondering why or how the mayor's office of housing is paying double the amount that park and wreck -- that part of recreation is paying for half of this land -- that rec and park is paying for half of this land. i wonder whether it is affordable housing or middle- class housing that is planned with in that realm. chairperson mar: thank you for doing your job as the investigative journalist. he should ask the question directly if miss mcnamara mark -- you should ask the question directly if miss mcnamara wants

we have garfield.in this area, which is part of the old industrial zone, we need more open space. this is a great idea. please help us make it a reality. thank you. chairperson mar: thank you. i see only three more speakers, and then we're going to close public comment. >> my name is jamie

we have garfield. up in this area, which is part of the

...jonathan trott of england has been named the cricketer of the year for 2011, received the sir garfield sobers trophy at the annual ceremony in london. in 12 tests during the period under consideration, trott scored 1042 runs at an average of 65.12, including four centuries and three half-centuries. meanwhile, it was a great day for his teammate alastair alaster cook who won the test cricketer of the year award after also having a prolific year in the format. well, that's it for sports. next up is your weather update. hello i'm yang un jung with your weather forecast. hope you enjoyed the last day off today. now heading into wednesday as we're getting back to work looks like clear skies and high temperatures will continue at least until late thursday, because that's when a few showers will start to develop from the southern regions. but until then high pressure will be in firm control so mostly clear to partly cloudy skies are expected nationwide with temperatures peaking at 30 degrees, so be aware and dress appropriately. here are your highs for wednesday... seoul's expecting 29 degree

. >> reporter: toby garfield's a professor of oceanography at san francisco state says this storm could bring in 25-foot waves. that's compared to the three to 15-foot waves we usually see in the summer months. he says that means everyone needs to be extra cautious of mother nature's reach. >> any time you go to the beach, you ought to be careful. you should show a little extra caution and not try to climb on the cliffs near the water or that kind of thing. >> reporter: and at other beaches they're seeing more water rescues. santa cruz officials tell us they've had six in the last couple of days. and they're putting more staff on at the beach in anticipation of even more people going to the beach this holiday weekend. live from marin headlands, nbc bay area news. >> thank you very much. >>> now let's turn to chief meteorologist jeff ranieri with a check of our holiday forecast. talk about these big waves, what could be the dangerous effects of having these waves or going to the beach? >> well, as we heard, they could be in upwards of 25 feet. we also have the deadly rip currents underne

states in the other news chicago are looking for the driver who seriously injured a woman and ease garfield park neighborhood that happened at around 6 this morning near madison street in sacramento avenue, a man driving a brown or tan pontiac was pulling out of a parking spot when that ford mustang heading east on madison the driver of the mustang stopped but the man driving a pontiac kept going and the fifth year-old woman was hit punch was crushing cross industry, sherman's hospitalized night. her memory is marked by family and police officers who vow to make sure that her death is not in vain. sean lewis has more. >> to steps away from the intersection where ford year-old miner hirsch took her last that, the fifth annual walk in her memory is under way. but it is kind of hard when you see a small child. >> when the coffers came out it just came out as a simple investigation and then we discover how grave there really was. >> miles with her mom and brotherhood and under her mother's hand in the crosswalk when they were hit at lincoln park west. >> commend the family for doing this thing

but it could have easily included -- whiskerville, arkansas, kitty hawk, north carolina and garfield, the prowl -- until this week, when she was found on the streets and turned over to a shelter. >> her coat is great. her eyes are clear. and she's enjoying new york, i think. >> reporter: how did they realize this was the squires' missing colorado cat? it was a microchip, implanted between willow's shoulder blades that had her owner's contact information. >> we never dreamed we would get her back. >> reporter: cat experts tell us that willow had likely been taken in by another owner and brought along on at least part of this journey. or? >> cats reputedly have nine lives, and he clearly wanted to spend at least one of them here in new york city. >> reporter: willow the returning to colorado soon. this cat's broadway run not nearly as long as those cats. but safe to say she will leave behind some happy -- ♪ memories >> reporter: john berman, abc news, new york. >> and thank you for watching. we're always on at abcnews.com. and of course, "nightline" will be here later. and we will see y

well while western leaders will be deciding today on the future of the levy have posed garfield what can be said about the ordinary levy ins and well their desires and wish to be taken into account. this is the basic problem isn't it colonel gadhafi might want to be able to move. a motion to heighten numbers on his side which frankly in order to rebels there is a huge silent majority that hasn't been trained great enthusiasm and may well feel that if and when elections are held close elections will still be decided by those who have gone. after all we still see the streets of tripoli and garcia was only become part of government and i think therefore the question of whether this new libya will really be democratic is really very much in the air and i'm afraid on task for this kind of religion invention tends to produce a but also elections that were already rescript didn't result in britain. and i doubt very much. trouble to green this and he seemed to want to see it turned out a car which might have if there was a generation or two living rooms they will be either moved to extremes

garfield believes that the economy of the whole region is going down the drain. what is the most frightening thing the most terrifying thing is almost nobody here really understands the sort of danger the global economy is now in it's extremely frightening we have bankrupt country is we have a european central bank which is underwriting junk. with taxpayers' money and this is exactly the sort of problems we had in two thousand and eight with lehman brothers portugal's broke greece's broken. be broke. the french are talking a good story but if you look at the numbers the french are in no better position it's a frail currency project currency is appalling across the world i'm a little bit surprised it's taken so long for italian bonds to be downgraded and i tell you something else if i may this is been the political project from the beginning and i would have the people responsible incarcerated in jail for this for a moment the euro has been about politics since the very beginning the e.c.b. as of was no lender. resorts at the touch of the torch bearers are already

kevin zero in with the top stories for you tonight and despite a heavy offensive from libyan forces garfield loyalists are still putting up a strong resistance this is the country's interim leaders struggle to form a cohesive cabinet while the forces remain locked in a battle with supporters of the fugitive colonel well the loyalists are making their last stand in several cities with civilians in the affected areas trapped in the crossfire meantime the rest of libya is reeling from months of civil war with some estimating the death toll in the tens of thousands ongoing nato airstrikes have also reportedly killed a number of civilians and some western leaders now facing possible legal action over their ability campaign you may find some of the images coming up or down the bushes report disturbing. french explorer minister roland jamal's this is british. if in good they're free in the international criminal court which is issued a warrant for his arrest but later we'll have to find the first libya's deposed leader is it hiding for good reason. if they find him they'll kill him like bin ladin s

here of celebratory shootings above ground it's dark and humid and scary some believe that could garfield had the bomb shelter are those that it was a facility for the macabre his intelligence service some. living rooms like this one. others just like prison cells yet there were more exciting findings i had this incredible rooms here i just packed with electronics of all kind. look at this it looks like fashion equipment for surveillance but very very old. james bond type gadgets and pound in maysan how many with most similarly never having been used shelves we have cases black and brown little and big cases from the wall till the ceiling has checked ours there. it's quite old one. this seems to be a briefcase recorder and just next door piles of all do and video recordings apparently taken with it is not is a day to find it it buys to play all the tapes books like some of the secrets will never be revealed. as this is a video recording of the interrogation of a cia agent allison guy and here's his name oh people as we've found here are classified marked top secret. well that's interestin

give us that relationship with james garfield. >> not good. he had -- he was the kind of guy that burned to the bridges with a lot of people. i think of james blaine as brilliant. the continental liar from the state of maine. mwai continental? -- why continental? >> in 1876, it was james blaine that presented ulysses grant from coming back and winning a third term. >> besides being secretary of state for james garfield's -- >> he was secretary of state under three presidents. >> what else did he do? >> he was in congress, he was speaker of the house. >> he change some of the rules and the house. i am not sure which rules they are. the speaker of the house are always changing rules to their advantage. he was a capable guy. >> this was the period it after the civil war when congress was much more central than it had been. been. the reaction against the strong executive said in. to be a power in congress in 1870's, 1880's, meant a lot more than it does today. >> i was curious -- what do you think would have happened if he had won? >> i think he w

later we'll talk about rachel garfield of the ayeser commission on medicare and the uninsured. national captioning institute] cable satellite corp. 2011] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> the idea is not to make the tax codes more complex. host: and of course that was speaker boehner. reform is what we want to talk about on the "washington journal" in this first segment. do you think it is time? do you think it is possible? what do you think of reducing some of the loopholes in the current system? >> here is the "wall street journal's" take. "mr. boehner reiterated his party's firm opposition as he laid out thursday his most detailed response yet to president obama's $447 billion job-creation plan, which mr. obama has proposed pale paying for with tax increases. mr. boehner also described a broad mission for the joint committee on deficit reduction. "tax increases destroy jobs," he said in a speach at the washington economic club. "and the joint committee is a jobs committee. its mission is to reduce the deficit that is threatening job creation in our

candice millard has a book about the president james garfield's assassination.he will speak at the national book festival and join us to take your calls and e-mails and tweets. we will introduce you to the author of liberty's exiles about american citizens loyal to the british during the revolutionary war. if you have been to central park or visited the u.s. capitol, you have seen the work of frederick law olmsted. justin martin will join us to take your calls. sylvia nasar's newest bestsellers "grand pursuit: the story of economic genius". in six hours she will take your calls and we will wrap up coverage of the national book festival with pulitzer prize winner isabel wilkerson who will talk about her pulitzer prize-winning book "the warmth of other suns: the epic story of america's great migration" about african-american migration to the north. after her talk booktv will join her in the tend to take audience questions, national phone calls, e-mails and tweets. that is our coverage plan for they 1 of the eleventh annual national book festival in washington d.c.

it could have easily included whiskerville, arkansas, kitty hawk, north carolina and garfield, new jerseyn the prowl until this week, found on the streets and turned over to a shelter. >> her coat is great. her eyes are clear. she is enjoying new york i think. >> reporter: how did they realize this was the squires' missing colorado cat? a microchip implanted between willow's shoulder blades that had her owners' contact information. >> we never dreamed we would get her back. >> reporter: cat experts told us that willow had been likely taken in by an owner and brought along on part of the journey. or. >> cats repeatedly have nine lives. he clearly wanted to spend at least one of them here in new york city. >> reporter: willow is returning to colorado soon, this cat's broadway run, not nearly as long as those cats, but safe to say she will leave be lined some happy -- ♪ memories ♪ >> john berman, abc news, new york. >> love the way john berman can spin a story make you love it. that cat so remarkable. that is a long way. >> long journey. got out in 2006 or 2007 when contractors left the door

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dinner with or be in a carpool with like justice brandeis, emma goldman who was a critic, arthur garfield hays, roger baldwin. these were heroes of my time because they were founders of the aclu. and many others. one is lincoln steffens and it he read the book carefully, you will find that jack is really influenced in part by lincoln steffen's wonderful autobiography. so i came away today because this is not only bastille day. this is also the day that sacco and vanzetti were executed, so my what if it is, what would have happened if darrow had been their lawyer and had not been rejected by the sacco and vanzetti defense team which thought he was too much of a chicago midwesterner for this new england elite crowd. is the result might have been different, but at any rate let us welcome jack farrell. [applause] >> it is really nice to be introduced by david, who actually gave me great insight for the tip o'neill book. he was a wonderful help. i came a little bit early tonight so i could meet -- and make sure the bookstore was passing into great hands and i was assured by meeting them and ta

and the part about president garfield, i had never read such scholarship. >> amazing. >> brian's doingeneration, the garfield version. >> not the cat, but the president. >> it was as richard hoff said a war of choice. it was not a war of necessity. and, so, yes, elective is a synonym for choice. i do not believe from what i know of the players and the first rough draft of history that there was an intentional lie about the cause for war in iraq. they wanted to go forward, violating an ancient american principle. we don't go forward in search of monsters to destroy. and that's what happened. but i think in the president's heart, it was the right thing to do. i do not think he lied to us. and i think he was wrong. i think he said he was wrong, but to say he lied is to corrode the political dialogue even further and is dangerous for us going forward. >> we have to work through it. >> jon, was there enough skepticism in the white house? that's a different way to ask the question? >> sure. >> did they have the seed of the idea of war in iraq already planted? >> monday morning. sure, it is m

royal slide sales company inc., of garfield, new york, says -- quote -- "royal slide provides sleeping bag cases for the factory resulting in -- the resulting decrease in their business from this surge of duty-free imported synthetic-filled sleeping bags is leading to a reduction in our business." they support reform. martex fibers say "we are a major supplier of fiber fill to excel outdoors. we have been proud to watch one of the last" -- thereon this. "we have been proud to watch one of the last remaining american sleeping bag factories keep going steadily even as virtually all of its competitors move their facilities to other countries." close quote. and they go on to say excel is entitled to relief leave. consolidated fibers of charlotte, north carolina, says the impact on our company will be great if excel outdoors factory is forced out of business by these foreign imports without duty. we supply a great deal of fiber fill direct sale on an ongoing basis. so i'd submit for the record, mr. president -- i ask unanimous consent these letters be made a part of the record. the presidin

later, we will talk with rachel garfield on the medicare and uninsured. every day at 7:00 a.m. eastern. and later in the morning on c- span 3, grover norkliff debates deficit reduction and investment. live coverage at 8:30 a.m. eastern. >> watch more video of the candidates. see what political reporters are saying. track the latest campaign contributions with c-span's web site for campaign 2012. easy to use, it helps you navigate the political landscape with facebook updates, candidates bio's, and links to c-span media partners. c-span.org/campaign2012. ♪ >> do you know what the second amendment of the u.s. constitution is? >> yes, i do. >> what is that? >> basically, it was somewhat open for debate, but it has pretty much been proven recently that it allows the right to bear arms to individuals. citizens of the united states. >> of the right to bear arms. >> of the right to keep and bear arms. dr. de you feel safer wearing a handgun? >> yes, being a woman, i am moderately the weaker target than any other man would be. i feel with a handgun here, i would be able to defend mysel