but it took george washington several weeks from the c-span archives. here is historian fergus dweck talking about that travel north. washington considered the sluggishness in getting the government up and running to be a national embarrassment. he was determined not to add to it as this delay must be very irksome to the attending members. i am resolved. no interruption shall proceed from me. that can will be avoided. he assured james madison. by mail. madison in new york. the house of representatives was still debating codfish and molasses when, on the afternoon of april 22nd, congress learned that george washington had reached the jersey shore. washington left mount vernon, accompanied by his aide, david humphreys. his secretary, tobias lear. his enslaved manservant, billy lee. and the hopeful charles thompson. hoo hoo. a man who might have headed an executive department but didn't. they crossed the potomac at georgetown, headed north toward baltimore, across the rolling hills that some potomac valley promoters, washington among them, hoped might becom

did george washington issue executive orders? he did, i believe the first one he issued was in june and it was to the executive department heads. but you know, i think washington with his executive orders, much like his vetoes, he used very sparingly. and there's a few reasons for this. one, again, washington figuring out his constitutional authority as the executive head. he is being very cautious with a you know, he doesn't want to upset congress. he doesn't want to step on any toes. they still haven't created, you know, e dicial branch review anything in terms of constitutional. and so washington is very careful with things like executive orders or vetoes unless he believes, you know, whatever he it whatever he is referring to is clearly, clearly within his scope of constitutional authority. so to issue an executive order that goes out to the executive branch department, heads, you know, i don't think there's any question there that, yes, that is entirely within the scope of the office of the presidency. but, you know, the same

they really best known as diplomatic gifts from george washington himself. act any quick google of these objects as you're sitting here with your phones right now, will showcase kind of the washington miss. of both of these objects. my work, however, shows how these indigenous memories not only survived the overwhelming association with george washington, but actually created the conditions that made that association with washington possible. and this was an association. this was a condition that, of course, would change over time. indigenous peoples over the course and, really in the early decades of the 19th century, eventually lost control of the more popular shape of these memories. but it was the stories that they themselves imbued into these objects that kept such potent histories. at the forefront of american memory, even as white americans sought and really tried as hard as they could to. forget them. okay, so let's focus for a moment on george memory, as in doubt here in red jackets, peace medal. this is possibly the biggest, most famous, most recogn

george washington died in bed mount vernon on saturday night, december. 1799. he succumbed a throat inflammation surrounded by his wife, martha washington personal secretary and nephew tobias lier granddaughters. three doctors, housekeeper, mistress forbes enslaved valet christopher shields and enslaved housemaids caroline morley, charlotte. in the days after washington's death, tobias lear chronicled washington's deathbed in his diary. lear explained washington was resigned to. he also explained how washington prepared for death by ensuring that missouri's washington had possession of his will and. by giving instructions for his burial. mount vernon in the family tomb. lear also explained that washington died a good death. according to lear, washington died, quote, without struggle or sigh in quote. he also wrote that washington ends, quote, patience, fortitude, resignation, never forsook him for a moment. in all his distress he uttered, not sigh, nor a complaint, end quote. this was a secular deathbed narrative. it was the deathbed narrative of an elite episco

george washington's mount vernon.

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

george washington university. thank you. really interesting talk and congratulations on the book and the research. thank you. i guess my question is just looking at what we're experiencing today in the united states right. there's something of a backlash against aid. and i thought it was very interesting to think about that in the context of the chinese approach that you said. right. so like kind of in our language, language of aid, it's a language u.s. leadership. whereas for china, you're describing it, they're describing as all integrated, right. that that aid you can't they don't even use the word aid. and it's kind of all bundled up very tightly with the idea of like development, trade. so things that benefit chinese people and china directly. so i guess i'm wondering, you know, based on your research, do you find evidence, have they managed to have has that helped them to avoid kind of a backlash in their own country? i mean, do they do they do you see critics that they're that are saying in the same way that critics h

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

and i'm thinking i'm closed in george washington's closet. this is amazing. but in addition, when he would show us things along the baseboard and to be able to show, you know, underneath how

and i'm thinking i'm closed in george washington's closet. this is amazing.

and we hope to see you soon for another event that george washington university. thank you so much. and maya, thank you. thank you. thank you. so much. you know, gracious, gracious. yeah, yeah. oh, wonderful. yeah. c-span is washington journal online forum involving you to discuss the latest issues in government, politics and public policy. from washington, d.c. to across the country. coming up this morning, center for immigration studies executive director mark krikorian. we'll talk about the trump administration's recent deportation actions and broader immigration policy. greg courtney of bloomberg news will talk about elon musk's role and recent actions with the department of government efficiency and texas democratic congresswoman julie johnson. democratic freshman class president. we'll talk about her legislative priorities and democrats approach to the trump administration and the republican congress. c-span's washington journal join in the conversation live at seven eastern this morning on c-span, c-span now or online at c-span dot org. c-span, democracy unfiltered. we're fund

the george washington university elliott school of international affairs hosted the one-hour event. lo, everyone. welcome. hello, everyone. yes, very thanks for joining us this night. my name is greg. i'm the director of the russia program at the george washington university and it's really great to see so many people here, too, who's interested in understanding russian society and how we can use media to address the contemporary changes that are going on on the regime is probably swift. and so it's something to tell. entering right now. so today i'm pleased to. welcome you to the old school for a talk on the unique insight offered by the russian in the independent media archive, which is a groundbreaking data set that captures the rolling landscape of russia's so far semi-closed society by preserving and then aligning the work, independent journalists rima russian independent media archive reveals social trends, cultural shifts and political pressures in the environment shaped by increasing and autocracy. let's call it. that's for now. so today we will be exposed to this great work

and in fact, there's a lot of rich material about george washington. you know from any any topic, but certainly one about country over self and instead i actually chose to end with george. so that episode has not yet aired as you and i are talking today and it will air in january and. i'll have one concluding episode after that, but will be the last president that i focused on. i decided for the first one to talk about lyndon johnson and the topic of civil rights and i decided to make that one first because lyndon johnson was a very colorful character american history. julian zelizer, the historian who's a profsoat princeton university, who i interviewed, does a lot of tv appearances. he is a great storyteller and a great speaker. and the story of lyndon johnson picking up where kennedy left off and quite frankly, where kennedy had kind of washed out little bit on civil rights and johnson, you know, in some respects was an unlikely of civil rights. he was a southerner in an era where the southerners were the ones blocking civil rights legislation. and f

he and george washington spend a on is taken. michaux he's one of those stories where as far as we can tell, washington had no idea michaux was going to show up on his doorsteps. but he shows up and he's carrying a letter introduction from lafayette. so, of course, washington's going to invite him in. and then washington, all these stories about the middle east that michaux is regaling him with. and he says, you know, if you need any help, if you want to use mount vernon as a site for experimentation, i can give you some area if you if you'd like it. so they really hit it off. and michaux eventually sends washington a number of pistachio nuts and other plants that that washington plants are. well as he's traveling throughout north america, he eventually lands in charleston, south, and he realizes the charleston, south carolina, provides with the base that he wants to work. and so he opens a botanical garden in charleston, south carolina. and about the same time, he also opens a second garden in new jersey. it's only it's a smalle

george washington university. really interesting talking congratulations on the research. i guess my question is looking at what we are experiencing today in the united states. somewhat of a backlash against aid. i thought it was very interesting to think about that in the context of the chinese approach that you said. our language is the language of aid. language of u.s. leadership. whereas for china, you are describing it. they are describing it as all integrated. you cannot even use the word aid and it is kind of all bundled up very tightly with the idea of development, trade, so things that benefit chinese people and china directly. i guess what i'm wondering is based on your research, do you find evidence, has that helped them to avoid kind of a backlash in their own country? do you see critics they are that are saying the same weight the critics have long talked about here about how, well, money spent abroad is money not spent at home where it is vitally needed. i am just wondering how much this language and approach to characterizing and conceptualizing these aid po

first book was about george washington's tomb and how 19th century american remember george washington. it was a for the 2020 george washington book prize. and then from time to time, i will i'll go back and i'll do some kind of programing or or teacher training with them in the summer. in fact, i just there we did a discussion around the inauguration with my colleague, former colleague, dr. lindsay chervinsky and susan swain king, formerly of c-span. matthew costello chief education officer at the white house. historic school association. thank you for kicking off american history tv's new series, the first 100 days. thgood afternoon. i'm dr. amy stallings. i'm an adjunct history professor at the college of william and mary. and today you find my class era of jamestown here in some special collections. that's our library on campus where they have pulled for us array of items relating to history of jamestown and my lecture for the day is also detailing how jamestown was lost and i mean that a physical geographical sense. i also wanted to examine how jamestown was, quote, lost too to me

what george washington called our great experiment.ioned that there would be dangerous consequences if a concentration of power in the hands of a very few ultra ultra wealthy people goes unchecked. just three weeks in, it's not actually too late. across all 50 states, resistance is taking shape. despite the attempts to flood the zone with a barrage of presidential pronouncements and orders of dubious legal validity that are in large part designed to distract the media and demoralize the population, or at least that part of the population that opposes the damage that trump and the oligarchy are doing to america. america's judges are holding the line in some cases, and people are in the streets defending the body politic that is currently under siege. this is not new for us. even in america, americans have faced grave challenges in the past slavery, the fight against women's suffrage, racist laws, unjust wars, the civil war. we have never emerged from them perfectly, but usually, and ultimately, we have emerged stronger, more inclusive,

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george washington said, okay, i'll go to new york to get inaugurated. but two things. number one, would you let people know i'm going to be you know a week or so late because i've got to stop and visit my mother because she's not well and, it was actually the last time you saw her before she died. and then secondly she said, would you ride horse up to connecticut to visit a man named daniel hinsdale? now, the british had been had had laws that they had imposed on the colonies and was what provoked british the tea party, the boston tea party. in fact, the british had these laws imposed on the colonies that said that we could not manufacture the good stuff here we couldn't manufacture weaponry here. we couldn't manufacture, you know, fine watches. we couldn't manufacture find clothing here. all that stuff had to be manufactured in england. this was this was the british way, using the american colonies to subsidize, you know, british industry essentially. so we shipped raw cotton england. they shipped back fancy clothing and daniel hinsdale was in a tailor who for a coupl

discussion on the global aid response to the covid-19 pandemic and political relations from george washington you can watch it on c-span 2, or online at c-span. org. earlier friday, the national transportation safety board talked about the search and recovery efforts regarding wednesday's helicopter and jet collision and todd inman and the black box. this is about 20 minutes. this is an investigation in regard to the c.r.j accident. and let me start as usual, our hearts go out to the families of the victims. our job is to come out with the probable cause and more importantly make recommendations so that this type of tragedy never occurs again. today, i know yesterday, you saw the chairman and myself and all the board members here. i just want to let you know they are actively involved in this and we are dividing and conquering and we had multiple conversations today and making sure we have the information we need and working to help our people. i would like to start thanking the first responders. when this first happened, a unified command was set up and we had a lot of important people that

even though i can sell arenas out. >> in the sketch with george washington, dreams of a new era withnd measures. >> we'll measure in pounds and 2,000 will be called a ton. >> what will 1,000 pounds be called, sir? already nothing. >> the clip went viral racking up nearly 20 million views making him a household name and spinning off a sequel when he hosted a year later. >> i dream that one day our great nation will have a word for the number 12. we shall call it a dozen. >> what other numbers will we have a word for? >> none. >> washington's dream almost died before the world could see it. >> table read on wednesdays at snl, they read through and it wasn't hitting. you fought for it because you thought it was funny. >> when you read it as a table read, it doesn't get a ton of laughs. i was like once i get in front of people, it will be fine. not everybody has my confidence. they're like this guy is out of his mind. he probably shouldn't even be hosting this show. when you go to the office, he is like tell me what you want to do. i was like i would like to try that one. he was like all

host: about 20 minutes left with casey burgat, george washington university professor and author of the book "we hold these truths: how to spot the myths holding america back." this is bernie, good morning. caller: i have two premises i want to object to the rhetoric casey is spilling out today. what is he is omitting there is a thing called censorship. people could not say it with a really want to say anywhere because they get caught off and on top of that there is an old adage that the fish rots from the head down. he is telling you to go to your city council -- that is a myth. the other thing he is omitting all of these channels and newspapers decided, 90% of them are owned by one tribe of people who have a monopoly -- who have a monopoly on what we hear and see on tv. host: casey burgat? guest: the censorship question. i like that we could call in and voice our opinions while claiming we are being censored at the same time. the point we make is we get what we want. we should not equate blogs and sub stacks with news organizations who have to be subject to libel laws for reporting in

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that is from george washington university's elliott school of business and international affairs at 4m. eastern here on c-span, c-span.org, and of course the free c-span now video app. that's was having today. here's a look from you about what is on your mind. this is because hearing from you. betty, what is on your mind? caller: yes, are you there? host: yes, ma'am, i'm listening. caller: in 1970 three, the first came home, and they came through the philippines, and i wanted to say i appreciate, you are one of my rare -- it was a solemn thing to seek them it was not one way or the other. host: are you talking about vietnam pow's? caller: yes. host: you were there? caller: yes. host: why. caller: i tell people my husband works for the airlines. he really was cia. if you see the movie coming home from the philippines, the little boy hanging outside the fence was my sons, and i was out there with a sign holding my baby and my daughter. it was rewarding, but it was very sad. it happened february of 1973. host: what did you learn about your husband's job in the years afterwards, betty? ca

america is so divided, but if we can walk in a garden with statues of george washington and neil armstrongti, maybe it'll bring us together. >> desi: okay. josh, what's your take? >> yeah, yeah, it's great -- did you say paul giamatti? the bald guy from "billions?" in your top three? >> uh, he's also the bald guy in "sideways" and "big momma's house." also, i saw him eat a hot dog in union square. although that might have just been a bald guy. but either way, american hero. >> giamatti's not statue status. at best, he can be a plaque or a name on a bench. >> a bench? the thing people fart and smoke crack on? i don't think so! paul giamatti gets a statue, maybe two! >> we're not putting paul giamatti next to abraham lincoln and john adams. >> paul giamatti won an emmy playing john adams! how many emmys did john adams win for being john adams? >> ronny, what the [bleep] are you talking about? john adams was the second president and he didn't even have slaves. early america. no slaves. second president? pretty cool. >> you know else who didn't have slaves? paul "the hottie with the body" giam