he brings along with him his son george, washington, lafayette, named george washington. and personal secretary auguste levasseur comes with him. they spend first couple of months kind of touring around the northeast. we're coming down to defeat in the fall, lafayette's spent about a third of his entire national right here in the washington, d.c. it's the place that he spent the most of the place that probably the most to him based on the connection people who lived here, especially george washington, and the time that he'd spent in the virginia area during the war, he named him one of his daughters, virginie, how much he loved this area. he returns to alexandria, october 16, 18, 24. he's been here numerous times before, during the revolution and during his 24 visit, he enters city from the north, coming from columbus street, and he does this winding pattern that's about two and a half miles long, 3 hours to complete. we're not those steps today on this, but it ends up gadsby's tavern, which is purple and dark towards bay. so to talk more about lafayette and alexandria, w

tom hammond was married to george washington's niece, a woman named mildred. hammond and he got this coat and he bought a number of things at the estate sales that took place after martha washington's death, but rather remake this piece into a coat for himself to, expand it to do anything different, to he decided to preserve it and keep it as a relic. the piece came down through his directly through his family until 1930 when the family donated it back to the mount vernon ladies association. and we have preserved it ever since. it's really ever actually been on because it is a delicate piece. but it was recently on view the metropolitan museum of art and will be back on view here at mt. vernon. we're really excited to have this piece on view. really for the first time in a very long time, it'll be on view in our gilder lehrman. there's a lot going on at mt. vernon right now, a lot of construction, but we're still open and there's a lot to see. this piece will be on view for a very brief period of time between january 17th and february third. so please come out

makes this piece into a tailored coat for george washington. e was probably also a waistcoat or a coat that goes underneath and a pair of breeches or pants that go to the knees that went along with this. and so, when washington was sworn in, he wore this piece and everybody knew it at the time. it was covered in all the newspapers that here washington was supporting the establishment of manufacturing in america and washington does that over and over again, whether it's with textiles, whether it's with glass, all these different manufacturers, he really is encouraging that work here in the united states. he wears this piece, but in the 18th century, you didn't just wear an outfit once. he would have worn this all throughout the presidency. it is a formal style. it is single-breasted. it's not intended to be buttoned, but there were buttons on it that are no longer here, and you can sort of see where -- sort of see the shading where the buttons were. those buttons had engraved on them the great seal of the united states. so washington wore this su

years ago, i filmed a scene, a documentary for a film of by michael pack, which rediscovering george washington. and we did a scene washington's favorite play cato and. we use this to illustrate the moment at newburgh. when he talks his officers from a mutiny on. the scene in the play shows cato similarly ending a mutiny and his own roman troops. and we wanted to do this in front of an audience of descendants of revolution officers. so this was the place. it's also the perfect place tonight. john trumbull was a member of the society from the connecticut chapter. he wanted to be a painter since he was a child. he grew up in lebanon, connecticut, north connecticut. he was the of six children, four boys, two girls. his sisters were sent to an instructor of young ladies in boston and. there they were taught to paint and embroider. and if you read jane austen, you know that emma woodhouse paints and lady de timberg is scandalized. elizabeth bennet does not paint, but the trumbull sisters learned to paint and embroider and. their works were hung over the mantel in the parlor of the family house. and

ago i filmed a scene from the documentary for a film by michael pack which was rediscovering george washingtond we did a scene from washington's favorite play, cato, and we use this to illustrate the moment a neuberg where he talks officers down and the scene from cato similarly ending a mutiny and his own roman troops and we wanted to do this in front of an audience of descendants of revolutionary officers, so this was the perfect place. it's also the perfect place tonight because john trumbel was a member of the society of the connecticut chapter. he wanted to be a painter since he was a child. he grew up in lebanon, connecticut, northwest connecticut. he was the youngest of six children, four boys, two girls. his sisters were sent to an instructoress of young ladies in boston and there they were taught to paint and to embroider. if you read jane austin you know that emma woodhouse paints and lady catherine scandalized that elizabeth bennett does not paint, but the trumbel sisters learned to paint and border and their works were huck over the mantle of the parlor of the family house. john re

the sword is being surrendered not to george washington on the brown horse, to the right of center. that is because lord cornwallis is not in the painting. he is soaking in the house back there. he sends his number two. when he came, he tried to give the's were to rochambeau . he said, no, you have to give this to washington. washington refused it. he wasn't going to take that sort of number two. he said, you have to give it to general lincoln, who is on the white horse. his back story is that he surrendered to the british one year before when they took the charleston in a siege. he had been denied the honors of war, which is when the defeated armies get to march out with their arms still flying. now, the british are not allowed to do that here. and also, lincoln gets the sword. and this painting, i feel it is lighthearted. the flags are snapping. there is light in the sky. if you look closely at washington's face, he is almost smiling. as well he might. and if trumbull's series were all military, this would be the end. but it doesn't. there's one more painting which he does many ye

i hope i can assess when during his five year captivity in the 1790s that president george washington was president. of course, did he pressure washington, try to intervene in any way with the austrians? i mean, i know we were a brand new republic and everything like that. it's not like today, but did he try to do any type of intervention or did something that was quite he might have been a little bit reluctant to do it, but adrian sent their son, george washington, lafayette, to live with the washingtons. so that was they were he was nervous about accepting it because he thought it would be seen as like a statement against france. and and so that was his way of kind of protecting a part of lafayette. but there's no grand sweeping kind of statement from the american government. i think i think hamilton's letter is kind of like at least the federalist point. that's where they were standing. jefferson very much disagreed with this and he thought we should do something. and when when he was at liberty in 1797, we were just on the brink of that unfortunate a conflict during john adams adm

george washington's mount vernon.

you are not george washington. that is that is a true statement. >> but it is clear i will turn around and say that my hair, my hair has definitely got my hair has definitely gotten gray like george washington's as a result of this. but no, i am not george washington. >> here's one thing that does stick out to me, and i'm curious to hear what you think about this. i mean, he's still pretty focused on you. you know, there's all this talk about an enemies list. there's talk about lawfare. there's, you know, there's evidence that william barr, i think there's good evidence that the department of justice did was essentially weaponized against you specifically, you know, from trump down to barr. certainly circumstantial evidence if we don't have the hard evidence. but it appears that that is a likely scenario. they're now promising. >> i think there's more. wait, wait, wait. chris, chris, i want to correct you on something. i think that it's not it's not that type of evidence. circumstantial evidence. it's factual. they

congress and he had the complete confidence of the most charismatic man in the united states, george washington. and washington, i think it's important to point out, had no program for his first hundred days. that term is a coinage of the 1930's, it's a 20th century concept. he had no agenda of his own to advance. in fact, he was figuring out the presidency as he went along. and when his hands trembled on the second story balcony, people could see his hands trembling, it was not a myth but for good reason because he didn't know what was going to happen. he didn't know if he could handle it. fortunately he proved to have exactly the right stuff for the moment. anyone who really studies that congress or the period will always come out with an even higher estimation of washington than they went in with. the real engine of governments therefore, was not in washington's office at his home, mostly on cherry street a little further up under what's today one of the pilings of the brooklyn bridge. yes, he also lived down here at bowling green but namely up there on cherry street. wasn't in the president

in addition to this book on john adams of the award winning book, the cabinet, george washington and the creation of an american institution. she was also the coeditor from morning of the president's loss and legacy in american culture. she's been published in the washington post and time magazine and the wall street journal. she's a regular guest on a variety of podcasts, including listening to america. she'll be in conversation tonight with dr. catherine al gore, who is herself a noted historian, nonprofit leader and public history innovator. she's the professor emerita of the massachusetts historical society. she is currently a visiting scholar of history at tufts university. she was formerly the nadine and robert scott heim, director of education at the huntington library. before that, she was a professor of history at the university of california riverside. she has written extensively on dolley madison. we were trying to count how many books and we agreed it was for that. she's written on dolley madison, one of which a perfect union. dolley madison and the creation of the america

each of those patriots have taken the oath first sworn by george washington. but the american story depends not in any one of us, not on some of us, but on all of us. and we, the people who seek a more perfect union. this a great nation. we are good people. and the centuries, through storm and strife, in peace and in war. we've come so far. but we still have far go. we'll press forward with speed and urgency, for we have much to do in this of peril and possibilities. much to repair. much to. much to heal. much to build and much to gain few people in our nation's history have been more challenged or found a time more challenging or difficult than the time we're in now. once in a century, virus that silently stalks country is taken many lives in one year, as america lost in all of world. war two. millions of jobs have been lost. hundreds of thousands of businesses closed. a cry for racial some 400 years in the making. moves us the of justice for all will be deferred no longer. a cry for survival comes from itself. a cry that can't be any more despot or any more

john adams was constantly compared to george washington unfavorably. washington would receive in a black velvet suit, and he was very stately and tall, and his silver sword. and adams unfortunately had a black velvet suit made and he would stand in front of the portrait that now hangs in the white house that was always there, of washington himself, and he would sit there. he didn't have many teeth and he smoked his pipe and smelled that way, and he'd stand beneath that portrait and kind of get some titters, you know, what is happening? >> the backdrop to the adams brief occupancy of the white house is one of political defeat and personal tragedy. within days of moving into this borough, the president learned that his tenancy was going to be very brief indeed, because he had been defeated for reelection by no other than his former friend, thomas jefferson. and then to make matters infinitely worse, he would within days of that news, his son, his alcoholic son had died. it was a house of great gloom for the remainder of their term. the adams is pretty muc

harry served under george washington. in fact, it was light horse harry who famously washington as first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen and his mother was and carter, she was the daughter of one of the largest landowners in virginia but due to light horse harry's misadventures the family it ran into hard times when robert e lee was only years old. his his father was sent to prison. and when robert e lee was six. his father left home for the last time and died abroad. so at a very young age. robert. robert was raised mostly by a single mother. her health was rapidly declining. he became her primary caregiver, the young man of the house, when he was only years old. so his mother had a profound impact on him, given light horse. harry's shortcomings. she into young robert the importance of self-control, self-denial, frugality and honor. she couldn't afford to send him to college, so he applied to west and when he left home in 1825, his mother dreaded is leaving. she said, how can i live, rob

the lincoln tunnel is located between george washington bridge and harlem tunnel and. to keep the river clear for shipping, it was decided to build tunnel rather than a bridge. nearly 100 feet below the surface of the river. similar in design to the harlem. its outer wall is a huge cast iron pipe 31 feet in diameter and. through it, a roadway is constructed. and, so the lincoln tunnel is started. derricks and steam shovels get underway, so they chalk the core core. build off for. they must be sharp at all times, but it is necessary to drill solid rock. powerful compressors are installed to counteract the of water and silt. all tunneling is done in compressed air chamber. men, most important of all are, now selected to work under compressed air. a hard and dangerous job every precaution is taken to safeguard them under pressure. work is strain on heart and lung. there is danger also of contracting a known let's called the ben applicant are tested a hospital. but this sensation is similar to that of deep sea diving. he is holding his nose, blowing through his mouth to op

fdr and british prime minister winston churchill worshiped together that day in george washington's hometown church. american history tv visited christchurch and alexandria, virginia to hear the story. hi, i'm john lawson and the former senior warden here at christ church in alexandria, virginia. with me is our rector, the reverend noel, george simmons. the story that i will describe today to me is really a lesson in leadership from perhaps the greatest leaders of the 20th century. president franklin roosevelt and prime minister winston churchill. these are men who are willing to commit their countries to a long, bloody conflict act in the name of freedom to support the freedom and independence of their own homelands, but to support freedom and democracy for other people around the world. they combine that with a deep humility. they believe that our countries had to be worthy spiritually and morally of the victory. they were asking god to grant us. so on january 1st, 1942, president roosevelt and mrs. roosevelt came here to christchurch with prime minister winston churchill. lord halifax, th

and churchill laid a wreath at the tomb of george and mrs. washington.hat itself was a symbol of reconciliation from the revolutionary war. but it was remarkable that during the service, the rector wellsasked the congregation to sing "the battle hymn of the republic." because of the unification during the time after that war. they needed all of us to come together. they left mount vernon in the cold rain. they came back to washington. they stopped at the lincoln memorial and went back to the white house where churchill was staying. and that evening, they were joined by the ambassadors of the soviet union and china to sign the first declaration of the united nations. and churchill was amazed that his friend, franklin roosevelt, had persuaded the soviet ambassador to sign a document that called for freedom of religion. and hejokingly said to roosevelt afterwards if you lose re-election in 1944, i'll ask the king to make you the arch bishop of canterbury. that never happened. the relationship betweenthose two men is famous. they met many times. but i feel i

the other just across the rostrum, is of another founding father, george washington. afayette's returned to america two centuries ago, occurred amid vast changes. the task of upholding the promise of the american revolution had largely passed from washington's generation, and the 13 colonies. lafayette had defended were now a country of 24 states and 10 million people, with a foothold on the world stage. lafayette's reception in the u.s. house bridged the eras at once, honoring the heroism of his youth while signifying new beginnings for the nation. the general was the first foreign dignitary to address congress, and his visit encouraged the country to take stock of its advancements and to ponder its potential. on december 2018, 24. a welcoming committee of two dozen u.s. representatives one for every state in the union, accompanied the 67 year old lafayette to the capital. when the entourage entered this hall at 1:00 that afternoon, a packed house chamber rose and removed their hats. speaker henry clay of kentucky stood and addressed his esteemed guest. clay lauded la