next on the presidency, george washington's mount vernon hosts the martha washington lecture, which highlights the thinking about her life and times. this year we hear about 18th-century women. in amherst college history professor talks about george washington's mother and their complicated relationship. then george mason university history professor discusses james version, who challenged the laws of the day regarding women's rights. this is 90 minutes. >> good evening everyone. i am from the great state of wisconsin on the board of the mount vernon ladies association. it is my privilege and pleasure to welcome all of you this evening to the washington library for the fourth annual martha washington lecture held each march in celebration of women's history march -- month. this was created to share insight into the life and times of martha washington. it is made possible through a grant from the richard s reynolds foundation of richmond virginia. we are delighted that c-span will be taping tonight's program. womenember of an all board that oversees the operations and preservation of this great

people would say that george washington may you reign long over us. some people were so sure that washington was going to be art king which was the president that we knew. and one of this draft speeches may be one of his inaugural messages of the congress he takes care to point out that he had no children to worry about hereditary rule. he was a servile which is so interesting to me because this is a war veteran with english blood. hamilton thought it was curious that he was accused of this. one thing that he said related to what i said before he said this is a bad tendency calling the "washington post" ration the monarchy. stop calling it the monarchy jefferson because it's not. the way to produce a monarchy is to say we are either going to have a king or -- the president he imagined is rather like a president we have today. hamilton envisioned a president -- tweeting was not yet available but hamilton would write off debts and bright optics under pseudonyms to the first op-ed. and then he would write his own stuff and need say i need some copies. ham

it was good enough for george washington to go to congress so george washington can do it, i can do. congress flipped out when the game. they thought someone introduced a resolution to say this was unconstitutional interference with the power of legislation. but he was a tradition breaker in that way and get them in trouble today but sometimes it makes more sense than you may think at first. sir. >> many people have absorbed and scalia often inveighed against justice inventing law and of course you see it's not only in the supreme court but in other courts as well. this phenomenon you must have noted it in your studies when did it start and why did it start because to ordinary people it seems peculiar. >> yet, it depends on the us. if yes thomas jefferson to begin with john marshall. where on earth did john marshall find a bank in the constitution? it does not speak of a bank. we know that some members of the constitution thought of proposing a bank but they thought it would not get the votes for they held fire and waited until the fight was out in the political round. it is always b

it was good enough for george washington to go to congress, so george washington can do it, i can do it. congress flip out when he came. they said this was -- someone introduced a resolution to say this was an unconstitutional interference with the power of legislation. but he was a tradition-breaker in that way. gets him into trouble today, but it's not -- sometimes it makes more sense than you may think at first. sir. oh, you need a mic. >> people have observed, and scalia often talked about justices inventing law out of whole cloth. of course you see it not only in the supreme court, but in other courts as well. this phenomenon, you must have noticed it in your studies. when did it start and why did it start? to ordinary people, it seems very peculiar. >> yeah. it fends who you ask. if you -- fends who you ask. if you ask thomas jefferson, it began with john marshall. where on earth did john marshall find a bank in the constitution? it doesn't speak of a bank. we know that some members at the constitutional convention thought of proposing a bank, but they thought it wouldn't get t

steve: she is going to be in bergen county, just across the george washington bridge. folks, all of new york can come over. brian: you have to see the amazon reviews people are reading it and loving it. great job. ainsley: thank you so much. steve: the late reverend billy graham was affectionately known as america's pastor. he touched the lives of millions worldwide. >> it may not be what we call revival. but certainly this is the moment of spiritual awakening. when it is easier to talk to men about god, it is easier to talk to men about christ in various parts of the world. than it has been for many years. brian: now his legacy lives on through his son reverend franklin graham who just released the new book "through my father's eyes." he joins us now. reverend franklin cono graham, good to see you again.

. >> what do you think of george washington?>> tucker: jason, professor, i am for changing the name. overpriced and silly university. and i guess what i love about this story the colonials, the kids there are so dumb they think the term is glorifying colonialism and it is glorifying the soldiers fighting against it. >> right, but don't you think it would be an issue? why not have a name like the revolutionaries or independents or fixers or patriots and seems to make more sense than the colonials and you are talking about people who fought against it. it george washington fought for the continental army. >> tucker: but you are saying the kids are so dumb and high can't be bothered to wikipedia the term. and instead they get all mad. angry college student. nkids from gw are far from stupid. >> i taught there. 15 years ago. it is the dumb ones that get the publicity. bullpen the kids behind this are like drooling morowns. you are against the name. but the colonials remember fighting the colonialism. >> you think that george washing

matthew is a professor at george washington university. we continue our conversation on 1968. -- american turmoil. ruth is joining us. >> good morning. i think my question has been answered. back when lyndon johnson asked for the civil rights law to be passed. the democrats will not vote for it. the republicans got it voted in , but before that when kennedy took us to vietnam. that was a war i never did understand. but since we were in it, you have to support the united statesno

matthew is a professor at george washington university.s we continue our conversation on 1968. -- american turmoil. ruth is joining us. >> good morning. i think my question has been answered. back when lyndon johnson asked for the civil rights law to be passed. the democrats will not vote for it. the republicans got it voted in , but before that when kennedy took us to vietnam. that was a war i never did understand. but since we were in it, you have to support the united states, no matter what. that's about it. >> thank you ruth. let's turn to robert mary. >> she is right. as matthew was saying earlier. it took republican votes to get that civil rights act passed it was a democratic president that took us into vietnam. those reflected the ferment that was going on in america. it was a reflection of the state of american politics is in the statement that buckley made regarding the violence that took place at the democratic convention. as matthew noted. there was commission the noted up police riot. there were millions of americans who didn'

>> do you think george washington would want to be called colonial?called maybe continentals or have his name associated with independence, have his name associated with freedom. >> tucker: he's not here to fill us in on any of the nuances, but i can say for fairly certain i think you might be honored that they named the school in the city after him. one of the most expensive schools in the country. although rich rich kids are like we got to change the name of the school because it's embarrassing. >> you can have an aau basketball team and they will call them the liberals because you fought against the liberals we will just call them the liberals. it doesn't make sense. >> tucker: not to this extent. i'm no american history professor but the colonial period refers to the time in which the revolutionary war was fought because this was of course a colony before it was a country. it's kind of a broad term that anybody who has even been awake in sixth grade would know about, except apparently the kids behind the petition. >> george washington, again. he f

after george washington stick to re--- washington' is victory in yorktown in october 1781, loyalist were forced to confront the bitter truth that britain would not maintain control of the 13 rebel colonies. in the south, all of the loyalist who had fled to the safety of british occupied cities, like savannah and charleston over the war years, allow themselves to not be evacuated to british occupied new york, when the red coat army retreated in 1782. 1783, there were more than 30,000 loyalist refugees .uddled in new york city they plan to evacuate in the spring of 19 -- 1883, and there were no signs that local patriots surrounding the city would allow the wireless to stay in manhattan after the british beingat least without bothered on a daily basis. there were lots of hints as to what welcomes the loyalists would get when the patriots entered the city. in westchester county outside loyalist an elderly had recently been viciously beaten and told to run to halifax, nova scotia, or to your damned king, for neither he nor one of his breed should be suffered to remain in the county. get out o

think of ourselves -- [applause] we like to think of ourselves almost as entrepreneurial as george washington himself. on behalf of the regent and the 20 by's regents who served with me on the board, we like to thank you for this important mission, which is to keepers washington first in a heart of all americans. are quite fortunate to have an accomplished scholar currently working as a research fellow here at the washington library who was willing to step in at the last moment to moderate. charlene lewis is a professor of history at kalamazoo university. is also the director of both the american studies program and the women and gender sexuality program. she received her ba from kalamazoo, her ma from american university, and her phd from the university of virginia. author of several as " elizabeth bonaparte." she has received numerous grants and fellowships. as i said, she is one of our current library fellows, where she is researching the traders wife, peggy arnold and revolutionary america. i'm sure that will be another future program. please join me in welcoming dr. charlene lewis. [appl

george washington did not think there would be automobiles, but their commerce. if i say george washington didn't know about the intent -- the internet, he says i knew that. he says i'm fine with brown versus education. i only follow every historical -- look, it is like the two campers. one is putting on his running shoes and the other says why are you doing that? he says there is a bea. -- a bear. but he says you cannot out run a bear. no, but i can out run you. [laughter] he thinks that i may have a system so complicated that i'm the only one that could ever follow it. it's an invitation for judges to put their personal values into the law, which he thinks you should not do. so i said to him, if you follow your approach, you end up with the constitution nobody would want. and it is a constitution that is built with the ages, not for 30 years or something. and who's right? i don't know. eventually he thinks and i think and we see what happens. what happens. and we'll see. and maybe you and others at some point will decide this was the better direction or that wa

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matthew dallek is a professor at george washington university.nd robert merry is the editor of "the american conservative." was we continue our conversation on 1968, america in turmoil. ruth is joining us from illinois. good morning. >> caller: good morning, everyone. i think my question has been answered. back when lyndon johnson asked for the civil rights law to be passed, democrats would not vote for it. republicans got it voted in. but before that, when president kennedy took us into vietnam, that was a war that i never did understand. but since we were in it, i did, you know -- you've got to support the united states, no matter what. so that's about it. >> ruth, thank you. we'll turn to robert merry. >> well, yes. the -- she's right. as is matthew was saying earlier, it took the republican votes to get the civil rights act passed. those various acts of the '60s. and it was a democratic president who took us into vietnam, whether you want to attribute that to kennedy or to johnson. certainly johnson. and to some extent kennedy. and that -- th

irish circle, a painting of 13 irishman who were close associates of george washington during the period of the revolutionary war, two of whom signed the declaration of independence. , i am to john cosgrove connected every day with president kennedy through his association with the president and through the history of ireland's connection with the united states going back to the time of george washington. i always say as you get older, history and memory start to emerge -- start to merge. by the way, i am also a historian. i just posted a blog today, which i will mention may be in a little while -- i post historical blogs on the embassy website on a regular basis. i'm trying to explore the history of irish america through my blogs. i am mainly a historian, but i do tweak a daily column because i like to put something pleasant into the twitter sphere, just to make sure people get something intellectually satisfying during their daily rounds on the twitterspere. that history and memory combine, what i mean is that i can remember jfk's historic visit to ireland. at the time, i was an eight-

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money george washington was worth about five hundred million dollars in today's standards but he made his money before he became president we're talking about guys that made money after being president so one good example is richard nixon he was in debt after his presidency to the tune of about one million dollars he had all kinds of lawsuits probably remember something called watergate as well as the fact that he was back on his taxes so he needed cash quick so what did he do well he wrote a book and when he wrote his book it was his memoirs he sold about two million dollars were there he also got six hundred thousand dollars to make a t.v. appearance on a british network and he did plenty of speeches before passing away and nine hundred ninety four that ronald reagan also a guy that you wouldn't really think too much about how much money this guy makes we made a lot of money after being president he was charge about thirty to fifty thousand dollars per speech and he also charged the japanese get that this offers amazing two million dollars for a single speech. i hope i die how about

announcer: next on the presidency, george washington's mount vernon hosts the martha washington lecture, which highlights the thinking about her life and times. this year we hear about 18th-century women. in amherst college history professor talks about george washington's mother and their complicated relationship. then george mason university history professor discusses james version, who challenged the laws of the day regarding women's rights. this is 90 minutes. >> good evening everyone. i am from the great state of wisconsin on the board of the mount vernon ladies association. it is my privilege and pleasure to welcome all of you this evening to the washington library for the fourth annual martha washington lecture held each

as harry truman observed in ranking polk with george washington, thomas jefferson and andrew jackson, "he said exactly what he was going to do, and he did it." and this is true. polk, in fact, accomplished everything he promised when he took office. he lowered the tariff, established an independent treasury, he annexed texas, and he took possession of oregon. and most importantly, he achieved his fifth secret goal, and that was to obtain california. it all turned out well for the united states, but not for mexico; bankrupt and ravaged by chaos and revolution. only with dictator diaz's porfirio diaz's iron-fisted regime beginning in 1876 did mexico stabilize and begin to develop an industrial base. i want to add something about james polk. he's one of the two presidents born in north carolina. the other one being andrew johnson. he was born near charlotte. andrew jackson may count as half a president. he was born -- [laughter] right on the north carolina/south carolina border. both states have claimed him at various times. polk's family moved to tennessee when he was 11, but he returne

george washington's push, the patriotic premium with presidential staff of approval. "fox and friends first" continues right now. ♪ >> it is 5:00 somewhere. rob: it is warm outside. jillian: going to crack a beer right now? >> good morning, thanks for getting up early with us was a showdown between donald trump's attorneys and robert mueller, leaks show the special counsel considering a subpoena to get the pres. to talk. >> gop lawmakers trained to impeach rod rosenstein. >> special counsel robert mueller apparently told donald trump's legal team that he could subpoena the pres. to appear before grand jury if trump refuses an interview, that threat from our march meeting by john dowd who resigned weeks later amid a dispute how to answer mueller's interview request, this a day after fox news obtained a list of questions that trump's legal team believes mother wants to ask. possible questions cover trump's interactions with key figures in the russia saga, mike flynn, michael cohen with topics including a moscow real estate deal, meetings with vladimir putin and any back

budweiser has a revolutionary new all about george washington.he excited about this. >> this is interesting. budweiser unveiling the freedom reserve are a blogger by recipe written a george washington. he wrote the recipe to make small in his personal military journal around the 1757. here's the best part. the limited-edition will be buried by budweiser's own veterans whose signatures will be displayed on each of the vintage bottles in one client can spirit a portion of the proceeds will go towards a nonprofit group providing educational scholarships to military families. that is sold now through september 30th. cheryl: a great group, done some work at seven in the past. true thrill of the history in it and i love the fact using veterans. cheryl: willacy tracee and just a little bit. xerox ceo jeff jacobs and most of the company's board stepping down at the lawsuit brought by carl icahn in berlin defendant. they won a court order to temporary block a deal with fuji film holdings. they hold 15% of xerox. shares of the company are up about 8% so fa

it's named after george washington. of course you have colonials. it's representing the continental congress. those are the people who fought for the rights of kids to file sil silly petitions like this. >> they renamed my college the big green. what the heck is a big green? i don't even know what that is. >> it's like the move to remove the leprechaun from notre dame. >> all right, kanye west. >> every time i'm in detroit, i listen to 105 the bomb. listen. >> do you think as a show, we should ban together and not play any of kanye west's throwback strongs? >> i don't want to hear it. and this is probably going to get some people upset because they like kanye. they're a fan of kanye. and i get that. >> so you want us to stop playing them all? >> i'm okay with the small platform that we do have, to not continue to give him a platform that is spewing things that are reckless. >> a lot of anger out there. and this is all about the comments he made about the 400 years of slavery. then he said, it's like we're mentally in prison. that was the point of wh

laura: hundreds of students at george washington university petitioning for the school to change itsdents say the current nickname is the colonials and it's deeply offensive and mortified if the systematic oppression of the school adopted the mascot in 1926 to honor george washington. suggestions include the head hippos and river horses. prince william and his wife kate the duchess of cambridge showing the pictures of prince louis per the rail cup couple welcoming the newest addition as they get ready for the anticipated wedding of prince harry and meghan markle. more from london. hi, katie. >> this is the official status of the new royal baby taken by the duchess of cambridge. let's take a look at the first photo fishes the baby, principally, with older sister charlotte celebrating her third day. the photo was taken on may 2nd shia senior giving her little brother a kiss while he sleeps. the second picture shows looted by himself. he was just three days old when this picture was taken. the new addition to the royal family was born on april 23rd. now the fifth in line to the throne.

for its symbolism in your know what i'm talking about and that is the rescue of george washington's portrait when the british were invading washington in 1814. as dolley told the story to her sister lucy, she remained at the white house waiting for james to return from the battle of bladensburg where the local militia are not successful at keeping the british out of d.c.. she is busy directing servants to fill a wagon with valuables of the white house. a part of this that is often overlooked because we focus so much on the washington portrait. but she saved the cabinet papers and madisons papers. we know so much about the founding period because the papers were not burned in the white house. dolley does order that general washington's portrait be saved and not be left to be vandalized. it was taken and rolled up and she puts in safekeeping. then and only then do she agree to evacuate. and her pluck during these perilous moments, partly true and partly mythologized at the time did then and now earned the gratitude and admiration of a country. in the months that followed the burning of the whi

on george washington correspondent claire richardson and from brussels or course on that. to both of you good evening clearly we start with you now as the commerce secretary from the u.s. defended the american decision to slap its allies and its biggest trading partners with these terrorists. the u.s. commerce secretary wilbur ross really tried to turn this on its head saying that european negotiators failed to convince washington not to extend id exemptions to these tariffs either another temporary one or a more permanent solution now this comes after months of anxiety about what the united states was going to do here we saw personal lobbying efforts by french president and manual micron and german chancellor angela merkel who came to d.c. to try and convince trump and not to impose these tariffs on the european union obviously that has not worked out originally when trump said it that this that these terrorists were going to take place he made the argument on a case of a national security he said that it was essential for the united states to have strong steel and alumin

or to put it another way, every one of the framers generation, george washington, thomas jefferson, all the slave holders in the 1780s believed that slavery was a necessary evil. they believed it was an evil that they couldn't figure out how to run the southern economy without it. many northerners took the same view. they figured out how to run the northern economy without it o focus on the evil part of it. but washington, jefferson, henry clay, all hoped that slavery would become an accra is particular in time. this is what he said after the compromise of 1850, he was the author of the missouri compromise, that resolved the issue of slavery in the western territories and held for over 30 years. he said if this compromise holds for 30 years, then we will have resolved the problem. because he saw the industrial revolution coming. the industrial revolution really was what ended slavery. more precisely it ended slavery in other countries. think about it for a minute. in 1800 nearly every country allowed slavery to exist legally. they thought this was the way the world works. in 1900 essent

. >> "this was once the property of george washington."d the pride of a modest family. >> my father was a truck driver. we got along, but we were very frugal. >> so how did she end up with washington's wallet? >> are you a descendant of george washington? >> no, i'm not. and it's quite a long story. >> a story about love of country... >> we want these things because we want a connection to these men. >> ...the allure of big bucks... >> i established a value for the wallet. >> it was a lot of money. >> ...and some good old-fashioned intrigue... >> someone took the wallet and disappeared. [ door creaks ] [ wind howls ] [ thunder rumbles ]

this is a union he and his contemporaries inherited from george washington. the union is the surest guarantor of personal liberty. so he thought if we have to compromise with slave labor he for a little longer we will do that. henry clay was the model of what abraham lincoln wanted to become. abraham lincoln also believed we need to hold the union together. if the union falls apart then all bets are off. the story ends for meet with the compromise of 1850, which is a great effort to solve all of the problems confronting the country. all sorts of issues were tied up and henry clay thought it was a great accomplishment of his career. he had held the union together. my guys die within 18 months, between 1850-1852. i will stop there. i'm working on a sequel and that will carry you to the civil war so i will leave you all hanging to see what will happen next. i want to allow time for questions. if you ask a question i will repeat it. >> what's the relationship with john marshall? >> the question was what was the question about the third branch of government with j

but only george washington before ulysses s. grant held that rank of lieutenant general and that was a signal of what people in the north and what the republican congress thought about this guy. his arrival in the eastern theater presaged a new tempo for the war. because grant, better than any other union commander understood that to win the war, you need armies. they had to abandon this seemingly-obsessive quest for a single grant victory. what we have been searching for in this class since first bull run. grant understood that to win the war, the union army had to physically, psychologically and emotionally grand down the enemy. -- grind down the enemy. they had to maintain constant pressure and they could not permit the rebels to take advantage of their principal strategic advantage, which was of course, the interior lines. to concentrate forces the way that they had done at chickamauga in september of 1863. no, no longer could this be a war of these battles. if three years of combat had revealed anything, to ulysses s. this,

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canisters were going up -- off and they beat these marchers throughout the city and into the george washington -- washington area where we just were. there were accounts of these officials throwing young women into baptismal pools at first baptist church. that was the first attempt. this significant was the fact that there were so many media cameras there capturing this moment. not only were there still cameras from a national news there filming. that tonight, images from bloody sunday actually appeared in the middle of "trials at nuremberg." the entire country got to see what was happening on that day here in soma, alabama. after dr. king heard what was happening, he put out a call to clergy members across the country to come down and march on tuesday, march 9. he wanted these folks to come in and be the face of this particular march. the next morning, he got word there was an injunction. the injunction was placed by george wallace. the injection had gone to fred -- frank johnson in montgomery. he notified dr. king there was going to be an injunction against march and he was going to set a co

fact, last summer, a story in the washington post told of seven fake letters purportedly from george washingtonthat were released in 1777 to cast doubt on journalists commitment to the independence from england. the sort of fake news has never been as threatening or as widespread as it is today. we all grew up with the internet, thinking everything on it was true, but we have since learned that many of people are willing to exploit that lee for nefarious purposes. isay's digital world and it possible to be a news purveyor without a newsroom, spreading poorly sourced a stories, or in some cases intentional, outright lies. informationth which races across the internet enables fake news to be weaponize, strategically targeted to achieve a desired effect come at to move financial markets, inc. human reputations, inflame regional tensions, or influence political campaigns. in fact, one recent study found fictitious stories spread faster and more widely on twitter than the truth. these challenges create an opening for new lawyers. we need bright legal minds willing to seek the balance between optimiz

matthew is a professor at george washington university. as we continue our conversation on 1968. -- american turmoil. ruth is joining us. >> good morning. i think my question has been answered. back when lyndon johnson asked for the civil rights law to be passed. the democrats will not vote for it. the republicans got it voted in , but before that when kennedy took us to vietnam. that was a war i never did understand. but since we were in it, you have to support the united states, no matter what. that's about it. >> thank you ruth. let's turn to robert mary. >> she is right. as matthew was saying earlier. it took republican votes to get that civil rights act passed it was a democratic president that took us into vietnam. those reflected the ferment that was going on in america. it was a reflection of the state of american politics is in the statement that buckley made regarding the violence that took place at the democratic convention. as matthew noted. there was commission the noted up police riot. there were millions of americans who did

i moved here in 1990 to attend law school at george washington university school of law, and i never left. i then had the good fortune to serve as a judicial law clerk to be on anothethe honorable fredek frederick of the district of columbia who i'm honored to say is here today and who has been a role model and mentor to me throughout my career. i was sworn in as an assistant attorney in the district of columbia where i served the citizens of the district as a prosecutor for the past 23 and a half years. it would be a privilege and honor to continue my service and commitment to the citizens of colombia as an associate judge. thank you again for considering my nomination, and i look forward to answering questions. >> any introductions you want to give? >> thank you mr. chairman. good afternoon chairman langford, ranking member jones and members of the committee is aitis an honor to appear today s the nominee for the controller in the office of management and budget. i would like to thin thank the president for nominating me and the director and deputy for the management for supporting

it had only been held once before in american military history, by george washington. winfield scott held it during the mexican wars, and honorific title. and only george washington, before ulysses grant, held that rank of lieutenant general. that was a signal of what people in the north, and what the republican congress thought about this guy. his arrival in the eastern theater prefaced a new tempo for the war. grant, better than any other union commander, understood that armyn the war you need an that you need armies. abandoned this quest for a single grand victory. grant understood that to win the war, the union armies had to physically, psychologically, and emotionally grind down the enemy. had to maintain constant pressure. they could not permit the rebels to take advantage of their principal strategic advantage, which was interior lines. the ability to shuffle troops from department to department. to concentrate forces in the way that they had done at ofckamauga in september 1863. oflonger could this be a war set piece battles. if three years of combat had reveal

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by titian, rembrandt, vermeer all the great works of the national gallery were here, even the george washington i gilbert stuart. -- by gilbert's george -- by gilbert stuart. it was about a year they were housed in this room and guess where walking past -- guests were walking past and had no idea. in 1942 the estate closed the guests because of a lack of manpower. you were involved in the war because of rations with gasoline. so the artwork hung it here on racks -- hung here on racks safe for another year or year and have come and was in back in 1944. mrs. vanderbilt did not charge the gallery for that. we have a beautiful letter saying it was part of her american duty, part of her picture of duty to keep this art safe at biltmore. it is interesting to think why these spaces might not even finished. many people say it was perhaps because of financial reasons. i'm not sure that is the case because there's so many other spaces that important guests would not have seen that are finished with incredibly carved woodwork, beautiful french walnut, exquisite metalwork, and i do not think if finances ha