he was also george washington's confidant. it is always nice to have an inside man who can tell you what is happening. these men are in charge of building the city. but washington lets them know directly what are his preferences, his opinions, in all matters. they were generally affluent gentlemen who were acquainted with the president. but most people fail to realize the first round of commissioners were actually unpaid. as you might imagine, their attention sometimes would get drawn to other things. it is a voluntary commission, and washington himself will learn this lesson when all three of them have resigned by 1795. he decides the next round of commissioners must be paid so they can devote their full attention to getting the city done in time for the federal government to move by december 1800. with the city plan provided by peter charles, p or charles l'enfant, who actually does break ground working on the foundations of them the palace, the president's before he is dismissed from that , position, washington is turning to

he was also george washington's confidence amongst the three commissioners. it is always nice to have an inside man who can tell you what is actually happening. now these men are in charge of building the city. but washington lets them know very directly what are his preferences, what are his opinions in all matters. they were generally affluent gentlemen who were well acquainted with the president, but you know most people fail to realize the first rather commissioners were actually unpaid. so as you might imagine, there were tensions that sometimes get drawn to other things. it is a voluntary commission. and washington and myself will learn this lesson when all of three of them have actually resigned by 1795, he decides the next round of commissioners must be paid so they can devote their full attention to getting the city done in time for the federal government to move in by december 1800. so with the city plan provided by peer charles, peter charles bond fund, who actually does break ground working on the foundations of than the president's palace, before

george washington. since then i feel like she's sort of been left out of history. >> reporter: she wants to put her back with a love story that begins in 1756 as the newly minted french and indian hero, colonel george washington is passing through new york. he stops for a party in his honor, possibly atips manner, a man nger when he meets the heiress who lives there, sparks fire. was george washington sexy? >> george washington was a stud in the 1700s. are you can kidding me? women wanted a touch of him, it's said. >> reporter: if this guy has fallen for this heiress, why doesn't he make plans to take some leave, go check on this potential love of your life? >> george washington requests time off, 10 days, 12 days, 14 days and writes to his commander. he's denied every time. >> reporter: when mary married a british officer, he quit his command, perhaps changing the course of history. >> they really took away his freedom to follow his heart. >> reporter: she grew up in yonkers and married to the mayor. >

how do we get from george washington to george w. bush?ow do we get from george washington to barack obama? how do we get from george washington to donald trump? one of the striking things is if you go to george washington to most presidents before the current president, you see a kind of linear progression. now, some people would think that it's the climb, that the curb slopes down. in fact, this question of -- this comparison between the first president and the current president goes all the way back to the second president. presidents always look better in the rear-view mirror than they do when they're right, front and center. part of this is that we tend to i don't know -- we sort of tend to forget the failures and remember the successes. that's part of it. the other thing is that presidents are usually pretty talented people. and so there's -- they usually have a lot of positive things that can be said about them. but while they're president, typically the other party or sometimes factions with their own party have an incentive to tel

in 1799, george washington died. this is a big blow to thornton. he was his sponsor, his mentor, his major source of support politically in washington. thornton was not an effective politician. he knew he needed somebody. the ground had also shifted in 1800. the ground would shift again in 1800 for two reasons. one, the u.s. government came to town. for the first time, congressmen, senators, supreme court judges, clerks, all supporting self. came down from philadelphia and new york. it meant an inflow of merchants, people to support all of this. the town -- the development of this place from a string of villages in a new town and was beginning to speed up. also, the third thing that changed was the republican party won. earlier, storing pretty much identified with the federalists. the republican party came with a great deal of doubt about the federal -- the vision of the federalist party. monument of capital, strong government. jefferson saw the plan. he sketched out a plan for washington. it would've extended from georgetown to 23rd street. his ide

george washington had decided to invest, as everybody else had, in washington real estate. he built two buildings which he would rent out to congressman. -- congressmen when they came to congress. in the process, thornton, who oversaw the keeping of the books and the building and the contractors and labor problems, he dealt with all of that for washington and gained washington's trust, which is perhaps more important to him personally than the job. having washington's trust, because he really not only idolized washington as the man who stepped down from being caesar, but also the first president who stepped down a second time. first he stepped down as commander-in-chief, then he stepped down as president. he idolized him and felt this was a man who had his back and he would do everything he could to support him. he and anna maria also became friendly with martha washington's grand daughters, one of them who married mr. peter's son, we will see their house this afternoon, the other one married thomas law, whose house stands near the, whatever it is. four quick manner -- fort

term, do you think you're better than george washington? and roosevelt didn't answer explicitly in those terms but the slogan that went out, was, better third term than a third grader as to who the opposition might be and the republicans had nobody of sort of compelling stature and international affairs in part because republicans had been the party -- i should blame it entirely on the party. the republicans, nobody had any international stature in the united states because of the fact that the united states has been isolationist for two decades. president roosevelt was the one who was most credible in dealing with this world crisis and so while he ran for president a third time, he was elected and all of a sudden roosevelt sees opportunity not simply to become a third president, to become a great president, a president in the mold of abraham lincoln because roosevelt before almost anybody else in the united states in a position of responsibility or authority understood that the united states was going to have to fight in this war. roosevel

this goes to the tradition of george washington. not all presidents choose to do this. the last two presidents -- president george w. bush did not. there is flexibility. all right, everyone. thank you. that is it for today. enjoy your week. i will see you next monday. >> be sure to watch c-span's washington journal live. join the discussion. weekend, american history tv joined comcast cable partners to showcase the history of california. to learn more, visit c-span.org/cities tour. we continue now with a look back visalia.story of >> i came to this county because it's beautiful here. i love the town of visalia. it's about 10 different walks we can take around the city. this town town area is especially appealing. it's full of independent restaurants. the fox theater down the way there, have shows there all the time. we are standing in front of the present-day office. my salient was founded in 1852 when there were 548 people living here. the history is interesting. there were several papers at that time. one paper took it to the south and the other paper took it to the no

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i would say george washington because he was our founder and also because he put forth the president that we don't you know the king and therefore the most people limitations on presidencies abraham lincoln went through an internal war of one part of the country against the other and the slavery issue i would also say franklin roosevelt because of the depression the economic war we were at and the world war we were at which we ultimately succeeded and serving for terms which was never done before or since and finally john f. kennedy because he was of a different generation it wasn't the same old type of folks like eisenhower like f.d.r. he was very aspirational but are shot for the moon getting young people involved in government or inside agencies like the peace corps going around the world to bring a positive image and positive results to those regions so i have to say those four born in this century as he said in his inaugural steve your four faves well george washington it goes without saying the father of our country abraham lincoln goes without saying i mean you saw us through

george washington as a new deal funded project in terms of both the building and the murals. and sunshine school both because it was a new deal funded school and because it was especial 1930's in almost every part of the united states where the children of the unemployed were unable -- >> chair peskin: thank you, professor. as always, i always enjoy hearing from you. >> thank you. >> chair peskin: our next speaker -- and we may have questions for you, so if you would, please stick around. our next public commenter is mike bueller from san francisco heritage. mr. bueller, not to exceed four minutes on the two items. >> good afternoon, committee members of the mike bueller with san francisco heritage. i don't have much to add regarding the significance of the believe. we believe that was manifest. san francisco heritage in 2016 received the grant referenced by professor turney to complete both the new deal context study. in conjunction with that, we received a grant to prepare the three-school city landmark nominations, knowing that these three school buildings are among the mo

that's a quotation by george washington carver--a denise kadbooker t. hunter: no. george washington carver. but colonelor allen made that happen here because this was ours. this was our history. this was our town. we did it. and when i say "we," i'm speaking ofac . kadara: tulare lake used to be the largest freshwater lake west of the mississippi, and back in the 1890s. and as farming became more prevalent in the area, the water started being divertel for that. and it rhas had the community. the community was thriving, but no community thrives withouquality water. this is what i have to do to get it. and the good thing is they've given us these pots, so uit's manageable foto get the water, but i'm able to do this. kids may not be or the elderly may not, but this is our system for water. [stove dial clicks] it's coming. [bell ringing] tl [train whblares]nt hu: in the past, it was a bustling little to like i said. people from all around came here. i hate that it was chipped away at. the downfall of this community was water. and i'm n here rig 100-plus years later sti

the two landscape paintings to george washington. stanley came to paint views of the potomac, two which were purchased by washington. he wrote about the artist's plans to return to the capital city with a portrait of washington. letter, and i'm sure many have read it, it is published in the first volume of thorton's papers, he berates him for his behavior and introduces a discussion about originals and copies. wrote, i have never seen mr. stewart's paintings, and should view the painting with which you mean to honor our new city. the late general and his lady thought themselves ill used by mr. stewart who promised the original painting to them, these are the life portraits painted in philadelphia. he spoke of the portraits appertaining to them. he took mrs. washington's portrait but keeps it unfinished. the original ought to be mrs. washington's. i admire his genius and abilities, but his inattention to the family certainly was ungrateful after the general sets are repeatedly. sat so repeatedly. that would be a signal consolation. we

so i can't help you, george washington. i can't seize the military property. i got to wait until the pennsylvania legislature passes a new statute. it's a familiar complaint, because whatever crisis authority would give the president, there's always the temptation on the part of the executive to say, i need even greater crisis authority, what you've given me isn't enough, it's hemmed in by restrictions, too many restrictions, and i need more. that's what the state governors were saying, but it's important for our purposes because it suggests the state governors knew that by virtue of the state constitutions alone, they did not have authority to seize property, suspend the privilege of the writ, order military trial, etc. and is notwithstanding the grants of executive power, and the fact that many governors were commanders in chief. what about the national government? as i told you, as you know, george washington was the 1st , was the only commander in chief of the continental army, appointed in 1775 by congress, he had, he operated under the same disabilities,

it's president's day, which is, course, george washington's birthday observed. it's aonderful national holiday to celebrate learn about the most important father of our country, george washington. >> fighting for freedom is sometimes necessary. he thought us that faith, and friends are worthy of continued public servi >> we did a big report on george washington and we're like, let's vernon. nt >> we need to teach the next generation about the stories, the foundingf our country. if we do don't that, they're not going to understand why we've chosen to govern ourselves. everyone is surprised when they shoot off the howitzer and the guns. i think it's a very moving experience. because the man himself, george washington, is in someases abstract to americans. abstract to americans. he was a real man mom: honey you know some things you can't take back. unlessot it from aldi. their twice as nice guarantee means if you're not happy for any reason, theyn'll give you a rend replace it. you'll never regret saving at aldi. family-pack chicken drumstic, now just 69 cents a po

so he joins, and he approaches george washington, and he approaches washington and he said, george, you got it all wrong. your tactics are too much conforming to the traditional styles of warfare. you need to adopt my indian style of warfare. washington dismisses him completely, and smith is then kind of frustrated and returns to pittsburgh where he leads military offenses out in pittsburgh. so he continues to fight. and he continues, after the revolution, he moves to kentucky where he serves in the first legislature of kentucky. and what i want to point out, this is what i argue is the realization of the frontier revolution. if the british empire was trying to restrain settlement, kentucky is the realization of what the frontier people had been advocating. this is turning indian land into american land, and smith is, of course, part of that. so i want to end now with three final thoughts on the frontier revolution. the first is something that i get asked a lot when i give this talk, which is, why don't we know about the black boys? and i think there are a number of different reasons fo

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"the washington post" reported that during george w. bush's state of the union address, for every minute of his speech there were 29 seconds of applause. so that's a lot of interruptions in a state of the union address. many people watch. president trump commanded an audience of 46 million americans during his 2018 state of the union. that ranks ninth in terms of viewership of a presidential address before congress. that includes all presidential addresses. not all presidential addresses are formal state of the union speeches. president clinton's address in 1993 was the most-watched with 65 million people tuning in. it's no surprise that those numbers have declined, if for no other reason than they have an ption. those of us of a certain age will remember when the president was on television, there were no other options. there were three stations, each one had the president of the united states giving an address. if that seems like a long time ago, i guess it was a long time ago. today citizens have a lot of other options to choose from

this goes to the tradition of george washington. not all presidents choose to do this. the last two presidents -- president george w. bush did not. there is flexibility. all right, everyone. thank you. that is it for today. enjoy your week. i will see you next monday. >> be sure to watch c-span's washington journal live. join the discussion. weekend, american history tv joined comcast cable partners to showcase the history of california. to learn more, visit c-span.org/cities tour. we continue now with a look back visalia.story of

i wish you could all go to laredo for the week of the birthday of george washington and honor george washington and martha washington, so patriotic. that concerns me more than what may or may not be said now. when the facts are known, we'll make a judgment then. i'm also concerned about what the president is doing, what's happening in terms of climate change and our public policy arena that he's still in denial. i'm concerned about his heaping praise on a tax bill that gives 83% of the benefits to the top 1% and ignores the needs of people as we write budgets. i'm more concerned abhis policy than his personality. however, when he facts are known, then we can make a judgment. do you e gun bill, what think -- do you think you can get 60 votes in the senate and if they cannot advance in the senate, what would you say they've achieved? ms. pelosi: these bills are bipartisan, especially the one yesterday that was the heart of the matter. you know the one that we had worked so hard on for such a long time today that is an important continuation of that you heard me say it over and over, pub

(julius thomson the third is alexander hamilton isiah johnson is george washington. rick negron is king george the third. sabrina sloan is angelica skyler darilyn castillo is peggy skyler julia harriman is eliza hamilton) hamilton)eliza hamilton) we didn't expect to hear this in the middle of the nfl offseason. just a couple of weeks removed from celebrating a 6th world championship, patriots owner robert kraft...facing charges for soliciting prostitution the 77-year-old billionaire, one of the most powerful figures in all of sports and business, is among 25-people named in a months long investigation into human trafficking. police say they have video evidence of kraft paying for and engaging in sex acts on two occasions... at a strip-mall massage parlor in jupiter, florida despite that, he has denied any wrongdoing. he's facing two misdemeanor offenses, which present the possibility of some jail time, a fine, and community service. police say a warrant will be issued for his arrest. in our other top story, what a way to come out of the all-star break for the warrior

george washington is always going to be ranked high in every category. he's our first. you know, the fact is our country loved military generals as presidents up until recent times. it's not just general washington or general andrew jackson, but there's a whole host of presidents, zachary taylor, william henry harrison. ulysses s. grant, dwight eisenhower and even ones who weren't generals, you had people that made their careers and we judge them from their heroisms in war, theodore roosevelt in the spanish american war with the roughriders and jack kennedy, pto-109. and now they're running a show on all the presidents leading up to bill clinton. clinton was a unusual entity we had a president with no military service whatsoever who instead had a rhodes scholarship at oxford and was against the vietnam war. now it's not a must credential to run for president but used to be the big thing, it wasn't being a lawyer or senator as much as it was you were proving yourself as a soldier and a leader of men in the military. host: ohio is next. mike, independent, good morning. mi

in 1789ed with back with george washington, when he gave a state of the union message. and then thomas jefferson stopped the practice besides sending of the message. 1913, you finally have woodrow wilson deciding he would come in person to congress. since then, every president has come in person, except for herbert hoover who did not like congress.n every other president has made a big deal, and it has gotten bigger with radio and television and the internet, so it's a huge event these days. why did thomas jefferson decide to go over his and riding and would he approve of this annual showing? >> i think thomas jefferson annualisdain this showing. he would feel it was too much like the king going to parliament. the executive should stay in the executive branch. the legislative branch was separate. jefferson did not like to speak in public. asonly gave two speeches president and both were his inaugural addresses. he thought it was fine to send a written message to congress and every one of his predecessors in the 19th century and early 20th century followed suit. apparent

george washington. final answer. >> that's correct.rs and applause] all right, that brings us up to $5,000, the first threshold you can get to. here it is. which of the following is a german food brand known for its soup mixes and seasonings, and not a character on hbo's "game of thrones"? >> well, i'm glad i know german soup brands because i don't actually watch "game of thrones." so the answer is delicious knorr, c. final answer. >> wow, they turned on you. did you hear that? >> i know. i trust you guys. >> you got it right. $5,000. [cheers and applause] >> i know. trust me. >> who knew that's where they drew the line. >> you could have hurt me with "game of thrones." i'm glad that's where that went. >> well, we got that one out of the way, and you got to that threshold of $5,000, so that is safe. now let's add to it. $7,000 question, for that we turn to the board. [dramatic musical flourish] ♪ whh te thainmi means a period of rising prices is defined in astronomy as a brief, split-second period immediately following

it started off as an annual address in person way back in 1789 when george washington gave his state of the union message and washington and adams did it in person. then, thomas jefferson stopped that practice and started sending out the message. in 1913 you had woodrow wilson decided he would come in person to congress. since then, every president has come in person except herbert hoover who didn't like to speak in public and didn't really have a good feeling with congress. so he sent his message. every other president has made a big deal of coming up for this. it's gotten bigger with radio and television and the internet. so it's a huge event these days. greta: why did thomas jefferson decide to deliver his in writing? would he approve of this annual showing? don: i think thomas jefferson would disdain this annual showing. he thought it was much too much like the king going to parliament. it was too fancy. that the executive should stay in the executive branch and the legislative branch was separate. jefferson didn't like to speak in public. he only gave two speeches while he was p

on the senate floor, senators will take heart in the annual reading of george washington's farewell address and then continue work on an abortion related bill. later, the nomination of andrew wheeler to head the environmental protection agency. the houses back at 2:00 for legislative work live on c-span. you can see the senate live on c-span two starting at 3:00. we mentioned the resolution in the house terminating the president's emergency declaration for the southern border wall. join us later today when the house rules committee meets to discuss that good you can see live coverage starting at 5:00 eastern on c-span three. >> tonight, on the communicators, christopher shelton, president of the communication workers of america talks about their opposition to the proposed t-mobile/print -- t-mobile/sprint merger. is a bad idea that will destroy 30,000 jobs in the united states for a german government owned company and a japanese billionaire company. we do not see why the german government or the japanese billionaire should seek to make money off of american jobs. that is with the merger wil

that sounds fine to me, and i also want to appreciate whoever's decision it was to take george washington off of here. i think that would have led to a lot more challenges and complications around this designation. >> chair peskin: that would have been your chairman, and as i said earlier, i have no intention of scheduling that. there's a lot of hair on that one, and i'll leave that to languish on that pending calendar which is now at 46 items. i would very much like to thank planning department staff, san francisco heritage, the preservation fund committee, mr. verplank and miss graves and to the san francisco unified school district for understanding this and if you -- if i need to talk to any of your elected board members, i'm happy to do that between now and tomorrow or now and next tuesday. colleagues, is there a motion to forward items one and two with recommendation? moved by supervisor safai. we will take that without objection. [gavel]. >> chair peskin: next item, please. >> clerk: item number three is an ordinance amending the planning code by amending the zoning map to rezone a

yeah on top of that he went to george washington university that was a great his own project reported in two thousand and seven he moved to washington d.c. to enroll in the governance and political management approach program at george washington under the tutelage of venezuelan economist luis enrique barry's bay t.-a one of the top latin american new year old liberal economists there is bay dhea is a former executive director of the international monetary fund and. went to g.w. and then trained under the i.m.f. cheesus and then we declared him president of venezuela and it's like joining the w w e and then training under him. kissinger and then the u.s. declares you king of japan. but it doesn't. go as the product of a decade long project overseen by washington's regime change trainers while posing as a champion of democracy he has spent years at the forefront of a violent campaign of destabilization so what's the big deal he's an american regime change pawn who was groomed by the i.m.f. to take over venezuela and give away their natural resources it's not so bad. and if that's what

(julius thomson the third is alexander hamilton isiah johnson is george washington.negron is king george the third. sabrina sloan is angelica skyler darilyn castillo is peggy skyler julia harriman is eliza hamilton) you really couldn't script a story like this. just two weeks ago, patriots owner robert kraft was with his team celebrating at a victory parade for their 6th world championship... today, he's facing multiple charges for the solicitation of prostitution. it's a story that we brought you at the top of the newscast. the 77-year-old billionaire, one of the most powerful figures in all of sports and business, is among 25-people named in a months long investigation into human trafficking. police say they have video evidence of kraft paying for and engaging in sex acts on two occasions... at a strip-mall massage parlor in jupiter, florida despite that, he has denied any wrongdoing. he's facing two misdemeanor offenses, which present the possibility of some jail time, a fine, and community service. police say a warrant will be issued for his arrest. in our other