tell us about the relationship between a young george washington and his mother and and were older george washington and his hmother. >> i suppose washington like most of us was in a lifetime and fruitless quest to please his mother. but she rather expected him to go out and do good things. it was expected of people of that class, of that strata , of virginia society to go out. you were supposed to be a wastrel, you are supposed to do things and george just so happened was presided over the continental congress. r-was commander-in-chief of the continental army and elected unanimously president of the united states and reelected unanimously but she took that in stride. their relationship as children, when he was 14 he wanted to join the british navy as a cabin boy and she wrote a letter to her brother-in-law who was in london and said tell me how iamericans are treated in the british navy and he wrote a letter back and said under no circumstances can you allow george to become a cabin boy. he is the lowest wrong because it was a cast system and cabin boys typically were bridge british roya

there's never been a definitive biography done of george washington's mother which i find remarkable. it's not just because she had him. that would be too easy an answer. it's how she raised him. her husband, augustine, died when george was just 11 years old. mary was a single mother in her 30s raising 6 children. that alone i think would resonate with a lot of women in america today and the tough times she went through raising her children. there was a -- when she was referred to biographers from time of her passing until about the time of the civil war, she came across this kind of june cleaver, or mary, mother of christ, or whatever. after the civil war when realism began to take hold in american literature with "moby dick" and "tom sawyer" and all that, the biographers made her look more like joan crawford. both got it wrong. the elements of both in her character and make up, but both got it wrong. she was neither and she was both. plus i lived in the area where she and the epic forest and lively area of rural virginia on the northern neck. and there's a lot of ball descendants do

it featured george washington on a horse back. but washington was so malleable, he could be used by southerners or slave owners. he kind of fit tpwhill many different ways at different moments of his life. >> now, they -- the ladies actually a appoint a new york city wonl named sarah tracy. and up ten 10 herbert. the pairing of a southerner and a northern, again, we're supposed to put thought idea that this is balanced. through nose reason for either side to bring the war to our doorstep. so the history of how americans remember george washington, tells us how you deliver significant figures in our national history. by cons tanly -- constantly helping americans, they con pyred to use his wisdom for political purposes. and the contentious competing efforts of these groups illuminate washington's importance and how we do fine whoer as americans. studies mem rim emphasize how social groups remember the past. be an integral part of this process is how groups are determineed what is remember and what is forgotten. the memory of the repu

featuredderate seal george washington on horseback. but washington was so malleable, he could be used by southerners or slaveowners or freemasons. he kind of fit many different ways at different moments of his life. the ladies actually appoint a new york city woman named sarah tracy. and another man from virginia as superintendent of the property, so the pairing of a southerner and a northerner, this was supposed to put out the idea that this is balanced. there was no reason for either side to bring the war to our doorstep. so the history of how americans remember george washington tells us more about how we have continually struggled to deliver significant figures in our national history. by constantly helping americans, they conspired to use his wisdom for political purposes. and also to promote shared religious beliefs, and the contentious competing efforts of these groups illuminate washington's importance and how we define who we are as americans. his memory speaks to the many paradoxes of the american character. the studies emphas

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but that did not stop george washington carver. he was determined to get an education. so he enrolled at a school 10 miles away in the osho, missouri. there he was befriend by mariah watkins from whom he rented a room. mariah's advice to carver was simple. quote, you must learn all you can then go back into the world and give your learning back to the people, end quote. carver did just that. disappointed in the quality of the school, carver moved to kansas and supported himself through a variety of occupations while he furthered his education as he could. after earning his high school diploma, he discovered opportunities for college for black men in kansas were nonexistent. so, george washington carver majored in art at simpson college in indiana -- indianola, iowa, as their own plaque student. -- black student. encouraged by his professors to focus on botany he transferred to iowa state where he earned his bachelors and masters degrees in science. there after in april, 1896, booker t. washington recruited carver to tuskegee's institute agricultural school in alabama wh

he was a servant of one of george washington's aids.e is the black guy rowing the boat on the painting. in 1776. if we had to wait for 2400, it took nine hours. but today we have about 300 people on 48 boat cruise. crewsuise come out -- the come out and practice on a lake and then on the river. the planning goes on all year. i had advanced training. my father never owned a motor. bay.e chesapeake we rode into the bay. i started rowing a boat at 10. rowing is a reflection of my childhood. >> as a reenactor i have been doing george washington for nine years now. here and youround see hundreds of visitors that come to this part to see this one event, it's an iconic event. victory, the army would have collapsed. >> as an amateur historian i have been doing reenacting for 26 years. up, you work your way say i think i could do a better job or something different. i've taken on the role for last nine years and have had many successful crossings. fact that you cannot only educate the public on what took place here, but it keeps this site viable

we are doing a reenactment of george washington crossing the river in 1776. what happened here is one of the most unexpected and daring military maneuvers of the american revolution. and the story is, washington and the continental army, after having lost battles in new york and retreating across new jersey, came into bucks county and it's getting of december 1776. they encampments ever locations around this area, including the tops in the only house which is also part of our park and things were pretty desperate at this point for washington and the patriots cause. the continental army really needed a win. washington was afraid that the british were going to remain in philadelphia and take over the capital and you really knew that what he needed was a bold action and after meeting with his war counsel, they made a decision that on christmas night, they would cross the delaware and march to trenton to attack a post at trenton. as they began to march from the thompson has down here, a snowstorm it started and the weather was terrible, there was snow and hail and

tell us about the relationship between a young george washington and his mother, and then older georgengton with his mother. guest: i suppose washington, in amost of us, was lifetime or fruitless quest to please his father. [laughter] rather expected him to go out and do good things. it was expected of people of that class, that strata, virginia society, to go out. you were not supposed to be wasteful, you were supposed to go do things. george was so happy presiding over the continental congress, was the commander-in-chief of the continental army and was annexed -- elected unanimously as the president of the united states and re-elected unanimously. when he was 14 years old, he wanted to join the british navy as a cabin boy. she wrote a letter to her brother-in-law who was in london and said tell me about how americans are treated in the british navy. he wrote a letter back and set under no circumstances can you allow george to become a cabin boy. it's the lowest rung, and cabin boys typically were british royalty, british subjects, then french, spanish, whatever. at the lowest wrong,

two bibles, one stacked on top of the other, one was the bush family bible and the other was george washington's bible and he started his inaugural address by pointing that out because he was so honored by that and one other comment and that same conversation with david mccullough, david mccullough believes that george bush was the most qualified person to run for president since the founders at the time and didn't say it at the time, but said it after wards and that brought it to mind, as well and all of the jobs that president bush had done in service for the precedent perfectly prepared him for the moment and we got through the cold war without a single shot being fired or end of the cold war, excuse me. that's what jumped out for me. he was very proud of that moment. >> the only thing i felt amused by that one is the old post office which is now the trump hotel. and what is interesting about this and i would simply -- without talking about the current president and mary kate and others -- and presidents, i think it's seen as bad form to compare yourself to previous presidents and i'm not sur

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jonathan turley became the star of the show, and he basically quoted back what george washington would be saying, and it wouldn't be pretty. doug wead, you mentioned he's the author of inside the trump white house: the real story of his presidency. pick it up. in the meantime, doug, we appreciate your insight this morning. >> thanks, ed. ed: coming up, college students say they support free tuition for illegal immigrants as long as democratic presidential candidates say that too, but how much would they be willing to contribute out of their own

if you open up george washington secret six and while i love washington, great. when you open up thomas jefferson he said i love jefferson, the guy is a genius. true, but you know about stephen decatur and james decatur and william eden and my goal is this, when you leave here today if you're at the sports bar hanging out of the tailgate when people go intelligent and say merck's history, everybody is proud of their history everybody is proud of the past but were an exceptional nation and i want to give you more proof and more illustrations to go to bat with and look around and say when i was born in america i hit the lotto and every day we have a chance to play in the super bowl. all we want is a chance to be successful. we don't want to guaranteed or the outcome decided, we don't want guaranteed a thousand dollars, we just want the landscape cloud the best we can have an equal chance of being successful. i thought if i tell a series of those stories maybe you can take that away. while we doing this we try to find another story after the miracle of new orleans a

an author craig shirley discusses his new book "mary ball washington: the untold story of george washington's mother." washington journal mugs are available at these fans new online store. 02 c-span store.org and check out the washington journal mugs and see all of the c-span products. on the next q&a, the professor of medicine at columbia university takes a critical look at cancer treatment in the u.s. and how patient care can be improved. that is sunday at 8:00 eastern and pacific on c-span. after a two-day debate, the house judiciary committee voted 23-17 along party lines to improve -- to approve two articles of impeachment. headrticles of impeachment to the full house for consideration. here is the 10 minute session comprised entirely of to vote. >> the judiciary committee will come to order, a quorum being present. having agreed to the articles of impeachment against president donald j. trump. the pending business is reporting -- reporting quorum being present, the question is now in the motion to approve the resolution hres 755 to pass the motion favorably to the house. pursuant to cla

that was the 200th anniversary and not to the day, but the year of george washington sworn in at the same time that george bush was sworn in, and president bush was actually very honored by that. he got sworn in with two family bi bibles, and he start ed the inaugural address by pointing that out. and one other comment that brought this to mind is that same conversation with david mccullough. david mccullough believed that george bush was the most qualified person to run for president since the founders at the time. he didn't say it at the time, but afterwards and that brought it to mind all of the jobs that president bush had done in service to the country before president perfectly prepared him for that moment, and that is the reason why we were able to get through the cold war without a single shot, the end of the cold war, excuse me. and so that is what jumped out to me, is that he was very proud of that moment. >> the only thing they thought that was amusing is that building on the right-hand side if i am not mistaken is the old post office which is now the trump hotel. and what

this is where george washington would come and worship during his time here in alexandria. and mount vernon, washington's home is less than 10 miles from alexandria. mount vernon was preserved by women. during the civil war, one woman in particular was the secretary from over in in. she helped preserved this home during the war. sarah tracy made sure that soldiers on either side of the war were able to come in and visit washington's home. this is especially important theuse both sides, confederacy and union saw washington as the founder of their country. tracy did have stipulations for soldiers that would come into mount vernon. they had to be unarmed and they also cannot be wearing their uniform. they would find any means to cover up, whether in shawls were different clothing. monday -- money and herbert thing. it would to be used to purchase mount vernon from the washington family. during the war union troops decided they wanted that money for themselves. sarah tracy refused and decided that she was going to move this money out of the bank into riggs bank and washington, d

presidents starting with george washington have invoked it. federal courts have repeatedly affirmed it is a legitimate constitutional power. house democrats requested extraordinary amounts of sensitive information from president trump's white house. exactly the kinds of things overwhich presidents of both parties have asserted privilege in the past. predictably and appropriately president trump did not simply roll over. he defended the constitutional authority of his office. no surprise there. it's not a constitutional crisis for a house to want more information than a president wants to give up. that's not a constitutional

i'll remind my friends on the other side of the aisle that our first president george washington directedown diplomatic channels to secure a treaty with great britain. >> here's the problem. a few weeks back the "washington post" was quick to fact check the house intel committee ranking member, mr. nunes, writing, "no, devin nunes, trump in 2019 is not like george washington in 1794." they go on to point out that our first president so the "a deal on behalf of u.s. interests, the interest being not getting into another war. while the trump impeachment inquiry is "looking into whether trump was trying to negotiate a deal not for u.s. interests but for his own political gain." as democrats have tried to build their case, it has occurred to a lot of people that some of the most emotional testimony we saw throughout, some of the most eloquent and patriotic words have come from immigrants to this country who have sacrificed for our country and consider it an honor to serve the united states. >> my service is an expression of gratitude. >> i'm grateful. >> i take great pride. >> for all this co

ntial misconduct from george washington through the administration of lyndon johnson. ntial misconduct from george washington through the administration of lyndon johnson. along with about 14 other historians under the general editorship and management with the destroying of the south, in eight weeks, we prepared a report, submitted it to john doar. he accepted it. and was getting ready to present the report to the members of the judiciary committee and the president resigned. i always hoped that would give me some license that i had something to do with nixon's resignation. [laughter] but it did not, because it turned out that the report never got into the members of the impeachment inquiry. but the text was in the public domain. it was grabbed up by dell publishing house, published in cloth and paper editions but after nixon had resigned. and the book fell dead in the marketplace. it is scarcely known among historians. and it was reviewed only once. by me. [laughter] irregular,entirely but i arranged it with the journal editor to do so. i wanted to report on a footno

didn't pursue any of the witnesses in court, when the president did what every president since george washington has done and exert executive privilege. >> so, it's -- congressman, he almost sounds like he's open to the idea of witnesses there. what do you make of what he said a few hours ago? >> well, craig, i think this is a response to nancy pelosi's move to withhold the articles of impeachment. nancy pelosi's justification is that senate republicans aren't going to have a fair, thorough, and serious process. so now you hear senator mcconnell saying, well, maybe, we might -- we can get some witnesses in. it depends. we'll have to see. so senator mcconnell is now sharing, expressing a more reasonable done and approach to all of this in response to democratic strategies. there's a -- bottom line here, craig, is that nancy pelosi disrupted republican plans to have an expeditious trial and allow the president to claim victory, perhaps as early as mid-to-late january. now that is all in question, and that, of course, changes some of the math here. so i think you will hear senator mcconnell and oth

>> martha: you were george washington?ngton from newark, new jersey. >> martha: i don't know about a past life, but something totally different, what would it be? in my dream i would be like a singer who had an amazing voice. we were talking about whitney houston, that would be the dream. so maybe in a past life. because i can't do it in this one. >> greg: i'm going to pick something inanimate, like a plate. because everybody always picks george washington. i was probably just a shovel or stick. >> emily: like a teacup in "beauty and the beast." >> greg: "what is the one food you would never eat based on its name?" that is a pretty good question. >> juan: when i hear some of these foods especially when i was a kid, i was like, i don't want to eat foie gras, i don't want to eat escargot. what is this stuff? why don't you tell me what you are feeding me. i don't know. >> greg: all the time, i would say. jesse. >> jesse: one time i tried to impress someone on a date and order something that i did not know what it was, and it

george washington ♪ ♪ are voters right saying barack obama was a better president than george washingtony of dope? >> no, i think they meant denzel washington. they have no idea, they don't know it's going on. >> this is why we need an sat. >> i like that there. everyone of these polls is an exercise in trolling. because they know republicans all hear it and they'll say you kidding me? trumps better than lincoln and you're lucky. everybody just hates each other now, and that's were out at this. and we need to have civil war to make up "after words". [inaudible] kennedy: and i tweeted that lincoln was overrated, and there's a libertarian case for that. but you need to break the tie. trump better than washington, yes? >> no did you really want me to it say that if you really want me to it say that is better? listen, whether you're looking at trump and lincoln, obama in washington, trump and washington obama and lincoln, no comparison different times, different parties different everything. i don't think it's a fair comparison. i think the people making the comparison are not looking good a

benjamin franklin was president 100 years after george washington. our artist made this for cart piece that had benjamin harrison at the bottom in george washington at the top with all the presidents in between on both sides. we have the cigar box. that was a gift to him. natural -- the statue over here was charles reagan. he unfortunately was killed in chile, there was an incident. the newspaper at the time collected to make a statue of him. harrison was smoothing things out diplomatically and we did not go to war during that time. know has been in the house, it was built by a german cabinetmaker. stayed here ever since. it does not get moved very often. we found some original pieces of wallpaper in later years when we were doing some work. we have that to make it as authentic as possible. harrison came to greater renown in part because of his tremendous speaking skills. we had these ideals of being an american, he was called upon even during the civil war to speak to the troops during lincoln's reelection campaign. call people to action to the civi

one was the bush family bible and one was george washington's bible. he started his inaugural address by pointing that out because he was so honored by that one thing that was brought to mind was that david macola believes that george bush was the most qualified person to run for president since the founders. did not say it at the time, but said it afterwards. that brought it to mind as well. all the jobs that president bush had done in service to our country before he came just before he became president repaired him for that moment and it's the reason we got through the cold war without a single shot fired. so that is what jumped out at me. he was very proud of that moment. >> the only thing i thought was amusing at this point was the building on the right-hand side is the old post office, which is now the trump hotel. and what is interesting about this without talking about the current president. presidents, i don't think, i think it is seen as bad form for previous presidents. while it was perfectly appropriate for president bush to pay homage to ge

craig surely will join us to talk about his new book, the untold story of george washington's mother. c-span's washington journal live at 7:00 eastern saturday morning. join the discussion. >> after a two day debate at the house should issue a committee voted 23-17 along party lines to approve two articles of impeachment -- abuse of power and obstruction of congress against president trump. the articles of impeachment head to the full house for consideration. here's the 10 minute session comprised entirely of two votes. >>> the judiciary committee will come to order a quorum being present on articles of impeachment against president donald j. trump. reporting a quorum being present, the question is on the pass the motion favorably to the house. pursuant to clause 5, house rule 16, because the resolution contains two distinct propositions we'll divide the question between the two articles. question now is on article i of the resolution, impeaching president donald j. trump for abusing his powers. the clerk will call the roll. >> mr. nadler. ms. lofgren. ms. jackson lee. ms. jackson lee

just what happened about certain aspects of the presidencies going back to george washington. the second-place, a report about presidential misconduct over 230 years may as woodward said 45 tors ago in the introduction that report, unprecedented. is only slightly precedented. because there is no seriously academic field of presidential misconduct. in many respects, it's a very interpret and to strengths ofte the presidencies. we are going to look at a presidency, we are going to try the vision it on with which it takes office, its success in implementing that skills ofe political the administration, the president and his official job.y bring to the the obstacles they face, the them and sobeset on. so to evaluate presidencies on of misconduct doesn't make great and strong sense. take, for example, the presidency of warren harding. it lasted for 2.5 years and one of the most corrupt in american history. it turns out that president harding was as unblemished as the driven snow. he, himself, wasn't corrupt. it was all the people around him him.took advantage of he was naive, didn'

george washington, they say had two desks.a presidential desk and a business desk. >> seth: oh, is that what they say? are these also the same people who say miami is the biggest airport? [ laughter ] what business was washington supposedly running on the side, anyway "many people don't know this, but george washington had a business where he gave private boat tours of the delaware river. [ laughter ] and on one phone he'd be like, 'uh, the british are coming. and then he'd be like, 'we'd love to have your party on our boat.' [ laughter and applause yeah, bring chips and stuff. you might remember that this all started on thursday when trump's acting chief of staff mick mulvaney announced out of nowhere that trump had awarded a big contract to host a major international summit to himself. >> we're going to announce today that we're going to do the 46th g7 summit on june 10th through june 12th at the trump national doral facility in miami, florida there's a long list of the accommodations on site that the -- that the ballrooms,

in the george washington days, the press was highly partisan. was the publishers and the printers who made the case for it being time to separate from great britain and king george iii. it was highly partisan. printers were being tarred and feathered. we talk about how divided we are as a country, being an msnbc person or fox news person, but back in the early years of our country, it was very much that way. susan: and even continued past the civil war era. lincoln, you have to read both sets of newspapers to understand what was going on there. thinking in general about successful presidents, is there a correlation between presidents who know how to work the newsmen and women of the time, and how they are viewed in history? patty: absolutely. i think presidents who understand the media of their day are able to deal with it smoothly, understand the press, make friends with the press. we saw with john f. kennedy how he had that relationship with members of the press who knew things about his private life that were perhaps not very flattering and c

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misconduct," which is our kickoff for our discussion tonight, is a visiting scholar in history at george washington university, having spent most of his career teaching at princeton. he's the founding director of the history news service. his most recent book is being a historian and introduction to the professional world of history. again, i think it is about the profession and the worldview. he has edited and written numerous books, including the one we are featuring tonight. he is one of the creators of the national history center. jackson leers is the board of governors professor of history at rutgers university. he's the editor and chief of rareton, the quarterly review. let me tell you how i know jackson. so i was a graduate student at yale. people would always say, there is this great historian. he is going to be so great. in full disclosure, you are a few years older. he was one of the stars in graduate school, and he proceeded to define a field, which is basically how to think about culture in a way that spoke to many different parts of our political life. that might not be how he describe

the knowledge of george washington. and the second is the presence of misconduct. and this is said in the introduction of that report, unprecedented. this book is only slightly precedented, because there no scholarsh scholarshiply educated guess to be scholarship. and so it is a narrow way to interpret and evaluate the strength of the presidencies, and after all, if you are going to be looking at the presidency, we will evaluate it by the vision of which it takes office, and the political skills of the administratio administrations, and the president and his official family bring to the job, and the obstacles that they faced and the crises that beset them. so to evaluate presidencies on the grounds of misconduct does not take great and strong sense and you take it for example the presidency of warren hardings after 2 1/2 years and one of the most corrupt. it turins out that he was as white as the driven snow. so he is not aware of the -- >> he was a se x-man yak. >> oh, yes, a sex maniac, and you and i will have to talk about this later. and by the way, my colleagu

the equivalent -- for us, as americans -- of owning something that may have been there with george washington. >> wow. >> "wow" is right. >> a small town, an ancient emperor, and a puzzle. >> it was a three-week auction, and nothing happened. >> nothing? no bids? >> you're thinking that "my gosh. this is terrible. oh, it's all out the window." >> i'm jamie colby, and today, i'm visiting townshend, vermont. classic norman rockwell america. it's the kind of place where neighbors can still leave their doors unlocked and where a country lawyer can let clients pay him with food from their farm or dinners at a restaurant or gifts of some kind. in fact, that's how this "strange inheritance" story begins. >> my name is paul weber. my father was a lawyer in small-town vermont, who was always willing to help a client out. and that's how i ended up inheriting a really cool and really old chinese relic and a pretty strange story to tell. >> i'm jamie. i meet paul, a local math teacher, and his wife, sarah, at their home. >> come on in. >> thank you so much. the residence doubles as a bed-and-breakfast th

and one of my questions is why today named this city george washington anyway, what did he do ? and pretty soon they start talking and of course, they say that he was the general. one of the only generals, where's the army? they said you go out and get the armies. so he won the revolutionary war. and he then showed that the president could work in between, he was president of the constitutional convention and you read the minutes of the constitutional convention and some of the delegates say the differences between us are greater and the differences in russia and turkey but they didn't leave the convention because you didn't walk out on the general and that was one of his great contributions. so we havethis magnificent constitutionwith a c . it has the first amendment in it . the first amendment obviously protects free speech but we should remember that it did not incorporate a philosophy of moral relativism. if you read the supreme court's opinion on free speech supreme court said every book is protected,every movie is protected . does it sound like the court makes no judgment

i do find it rather surprising that you would have george washington in this jury pool. i would strike him for cause. george washington was the first guy to raise extreme executive privilege claim ls. claims. if you are going to make a case over george washington with another head of state, i expect his hair and powder hair would catch on fire. i want to note one other thing. i am impressed of carrying an 18 century copy of johnson with you. >> it is just the online version. >> as an academic, i was darn impressed. i just want to know one thing that may explain part of our difference. statues today on bravery are written broadly just like they were back then. that was my point. the meaning of those words are subjected to interpretation, they're written broadly because they don't want it to be narrow. that's the case in the 1800 century as they are today. the idea of bad practices could be the definition of bribery, really? is that what you get from the constitutional convention that bad practices, is that why mason wanted to put him out the administration because bad pra

george washington had a rather robust view of what a president could say. if you were going to make a case to george washington that you could impeach over a conversation he had with another head of state. i expect his powdered hair would catch on fire. also i just want to know one other thing. i am impressed with carrying an 18th century copy of samuel johnson with you. >> it's just the online version. >> as an academic i was pretty darn impressed. i just want to note one thing, which may explain part of our difference. the statutes today on bravery are written broadly just like they were back then. the meaning is subject to interpretation. they're written broadly because they don't want them to be too narrow. that was the case in the 18th century as they are today. but the idea that bad practices could be the definition of bribery, really? is that what you get from the contusion constitutional convection, bad practices? this is where i disagree. the other thing i just wanted to note is and i have so much respect for noah. i'm going to just disagree on thi

we hear about the way americans celebrated george washington in the 19th century. and he talks about how the freed and enslaved people on washington's mount vernon estate elped shape the historical narrative. mr. costello is a historian at the association which hosted this event. r. costello: good evening, everyone.

that robert e lee's father-in-law, george washington custis had been they adopted child of george and martha in washington and he styled his home in arlington and opened it up to the public as a tribute to our nation's first president. i also did not appreciate the old guard history. the old guard is literally the old guard. it goes back to 1784 and has fought in every major war up through world war ii. it's only become a ceremonial unit since 1948. so i did not know that deep and rich history but i learned at altering the research for this book and i hope everyone will enjoy that. >> is readers will find outcome of the senator not only serves in the ford theater, but then he comes back and you are doing this work and you are receiving the fallen as they come into dover. i asked you during our radio time today if the families were allowed to meet the fallen when they would come to dover and you said no, not until later to make yes, that's been a change since i was at the old guard. i served in 2,072,008. that was at the height of the surge in the first of 2007 the first eight or ten m

so if you open up george washington secrets. we do close it, you think about long austin rosa park tenor, you think about abraham was a farmer. when he opened up thomas jefferson, harris, you might see i love jefferson, his guy is the genius. true but you know about edward and william and michael is this. we do leave here today if you are the watercolor of the sports bar, hanging out of the tailgate, and people challenge you and see, an american sister. but he is proud of their history. every country is part of the proud of their past. we are an exceptional nation and wanting to be more proof and go to that with. and to sit there and look around and see, join i was born in america, i hit lotto in everyday we have a chance to go play in the super bowl. an end up in canton for it all we a chance to be successful. we don't want this think guaranteed. we know what the outcome two-sided, we don't want baby fox. we do want guaranteed a thousand dollars. we just lost the landscape and an equal chance to be in successful flow by the nec

ultimately, she inspired leaders like george washington himself. work,owed, through her the power of imagination to help fuel a revolution. week after week, phyllis came to yearsoom and imagined, before the revolutionary war, she became the first black woman to publish a book of poetry in america. [applause] her imagination is woven into the tapestry of america story. so, just for a moment, here in this place of ideas that took root and shape a nation, here on the eve of a new year, let us come together to imagine. imagine what our country will look, imagine what your own life will look like when we finally turn this age in our history. i know what some of you may be thinking. imagination? imagining alone won't be enough. you would be right. but imagination is powerful. it forces us to contemplate change in our lives, to begin to expect change. taking the time to see ourselves and our world better than they are today sparks urgency in our heart and determination in our minds. we come together to imagine. two imagine a country where decisions made i

george washington law professor tu rley, madam speaker.ssor turley, who admitted under oath that he voted against trump, spoke to this claim of abuse of power. in fact, spoke to this claim of abuse of power. infact, he spoke to this claim of abuse of power. in fact, he said, spoke to this claim of abuse of power. infact, he said, quote, if you make a high crime and misdemeanour out of going to the courts, it is an abuse of power. it is your abuse of power. you are doing precisely what you are criticising the president of doing, abuse of power. there is a house rule, madam speaker, that requires — not allows, but requires — that the minority get a day of hearing, which we asked for multiple times. they broke this rule. they didn't allow us broke this rule. they didn't allow us to have a minority day of hearing. they didn't want to hear about the facts of this case, because it was never about the fa cts , because it was never about the facts, because there was no crime. it is about a personal political vendetta. now let's talk about obstruct

the contextual survey of presidential misconduct from george washington to the administration of lyndon johnson. with about 14 other historians under the general membership of management, celebrity historian of the south, in eight weeks, we .repared a report, submitted it he accepted it. he was getting ready to present the report to the members of the judiciary committee and the president resigned. i always hoped that would give me some license to say that i had had something to do with nixon's resignation. but it didn't, because it turns out that the report never got into the hands of the members of the impeachment inquiry. but the text was in the public domain. by dellrapped up publishing house, published in cloth and paper editions. but after nixon have resigned. in the book fell dead in the marketplace. it is scarcely known among historians and it was reviewed only once by me. [laughter] regular, butrely a i raised it because i wanted to report on a footnote to the impeachment inquiry and to get some matters about the state of administrative and political history off my chest. that

george washington would be astonished. these actions constitute grounds. what's before us is a series abuse of power and obstruction of congress. these abuses strike at the heart of our constitution. the president's unconstitutional abuse of power of high crimes and misdemeanor. he refused to provide any information to congress related to the inquiry. it is our responsibility to use the tool, our founders gave us in the constitution to preserve the constitution order. we must impeachment and i yield back. >> gentleman from georgia. >> at this time, i yield a minute and a half to the gentleman of north carolina. >> the gentleman is recognized for a minute and a half. "the washington post" headlines the story, the campaign to impeach president trump has begun. how accurate they were. three years later and what we are witnessing today is unprecedented in america's history. impeachments with no facts. this is an impeachment based on hearsay and speculation rooted. not all but many. nowhere in the constitution does it say that personal distan is ground for impe

george washington was desperate for a general.ohio country and against the wishes of his cabinet and just about everybody else, he chose anthony wayne. we have one of course the first 13 original collies i'm the atlantic. but the british have given us all of the land from the operations of the mississippi river including north of the ohio. the ohio country where were at today. the indians had side or major treaties. allowing the americans to cross the ohio and go up to about halfway what is now the state of ohio. americans have settled for the south and the indians remained to the north. george washington said no cost appellations, we don't cross the ohio, but to start building nation, with opportunity especially economic opportunity land, how will we ever survive. imposing appellations, causing the ohio in the future, but we are now surrounded by the british and the french and spanish in the indians. so this time simple. will cross the mountains and negotiate with the indians and will recognize the state over the land and we will