yes, i never shot henry clay. for his part, henry clay never understood jackson's popularity. he never say i can never understand how killing 2500 englishmen qualifies anyone for the complicated duties of the chief ma jest riots. they were natural rivalries. jackson blamed clay for his wife's death. you think campaigns are nasty now, read about the one in 1824 and 28. they accused clay of being a local visitor, and adams was accused of being a pimp for the czar of russia, and they claimed that jackson's mother was a prostitute, and that, of course, he was living in sin because he married his wife. they were on the frontier, took awhile for papers to get processed, married her before she was divorced from the first husband. they called her horrible names, and she died suddenly, and jackson blamed clay. they were bloat running as -- both running as over-- jeffersonian parties. the vote was split. it went to the u.s. house of representatives where clay was speaker, but clay has a bad luck and bad judgment finishing four out of four. he was not one of the three names to be forward

somehow john quincy adams promised henry clay in exchange for his vote. and it puzzled historians, how could this john quincy adams who spends all of his life disavowing any ambition about politics, i will not go show myself to be president, how could he stoop to this kind of well-based politicking. and we don't know the answer to that until we look at what louisa catherine adams is doing. we understand that from 1818, she institute as social program every -- tuesday night. bringing people in to washington because she figures as many do that this election is going to end up in the house. and she talks to -- she writes to john adams is and says mr. adams, john quincy adams, goes over my calling cards every day as though there was a battle plan. when we look at what she is doing, this historical mystery is solved because we understand in an era when men could not run for political office, they had to be called upon, it was their wives who acted as campaign managers. >> and -- so what happens is we get to the house of representatives and adams wins on the fi

, whig partying the predecessor of the republican party and henry clay decided internal improvements were something that the federal government should do. those were highways through the appalachains. there's a few that say federal government shouldn't be involved in highway, road, but they are a distinct minority. americans of all three parties agree, all across the country and especially in my home state of new york there are roads, bridges and transit systems in need of serious repair and at the same time there's the construction industry, i'm sure it's been talked about, that is so out of work and this is the best way to put them back. so, i'm is going to skip all that part of my speech because i know people have waited a long time. i want to just make a few quick points. the senate bill gives states like new york the tools and resources we need to provide a large legacy for public transportation systems more adequately. a lot of my colleagues on this conference don't have much mass transit. but for us mass transit is for you what highways are in new york city. we get 3.5 million

henry clay talked about the american system and it was about doing internal improvements that we nowy call infrastructure, roads, canals, bridges, and also building up our manufacturing capacity. he called it the american system to distinguish it from british les fair. >> are american conservatives in a cyclical place that they have been in before, with this overweighting emphasis on individualism, or is this something. or is this something brand-new? and if it is brand-new, why now? >> i think it's brand-new, except for one period in our history, which is the gilded age, the period after the civil war. even then, government did more than we let on. we had an enormous civil war pension system that took up 37% of the federal budget back in 1894. but basically, that was the one -- that was the 35-year exception to a 235-year history. since then, yes, you've had conservatives who talked a lot about individual liberty. yes, they talk a lot about the free market. but i don't think you've had them this firmly on a radically individualistic side before. and i think that's why it makes this

henry clay was a great u.s. senator and he coined the term, the american system. so what do you imagine that is? partly it is something that i don't articulate like, high tariffs but forget that part of the american system. the other part of the american system was government involvement in promoting enterprise. the government got involved in building canals, improving harbors. this country was not laissez-faire. it had had the laissez-faire element to it, but the laissez-faire economics came later, notably in the mid-to-late 20th century. so i don't think -- i think that it does pay to have the government that thinks -- so governor clinton in new york advocated for years supporting the area canal and it was a private investment that it had the support of the government. a wonderful thing. the government, and then the railroad, the government supported the railroads. i don't think that we want these things entirely to laissez-faire market. you have to be careful too because you can go too far. again this is my philosophy as a teacher. most things are half-truths a

calhoun's child is there, henry clay's but here is push mataha's tomb stone. talk about how interesting life is and things turn around i didn't realize this was going to happen but john emhoolah is the korean war veteran, he is kiowa. but yet, the first kiowa to come to washington, d.c. to visit the president, a couple of them, yellow wolf and lone wolf, and this is lone wolf, this is yellow wolf. yellow wolf was elderly and was wearing a thomas jefferson peace medal like the one that john is wearing now in honor and memory of his ancestor, and so yellow wolf died of pneumonia about a week after shaking hands with abraham lincoln. so he's buried in congressional cemetery. and this smithsonian wanted that medal. they tried to take it from the dead body and the rest of the delegates said no, this was his most prized possession and it stays with him so it's still there in congressional cemetery. interestingly enough, john emhoolah's wife is descended her grandfather, was lone wolf. so here they are very happy to be back in d.c. kind of in the footsteps of their f

henry clay assured president madison that the militia of kentucky alone competent to place canada atur feet. quite incorrect as it happened. when it came to the american invasion the canadians did not welcome the south as liberators and a three-pronged invasion of canada approved abject failure. in august 1812 the northwestern army of the united states surrendered to a much smaller force. it was a debacle. in october the same year, american force in niagara is captured on the canadian soil. in november, major general henry dearborn and to gain a retreat from a terrifying exchange of friendly fire between american forces. in short, the british more than held their own in the war. so perhaps it can be said that in a supporting role the canadians were indeed the tories. a group certainly didn't win with the american indians with settlers encroaching upon their land, many indigenous tribes sided with the british before the war began. then some dirt and reject someone with many others in washington believe native americans have been excited toward that a secret agents of great britain. bu

henry clay. the party being the predecessor of the republican party. he decided internal improvements were something the federal government should do. those were high ways to open up the far west kentucky, ohio, western pennsylvania benefited from those internal improvements. the federal government has been involved in for a long time. a few say the federal government shouldn't be involved in mass-transit but they are distinct minority. the polling shows three parties agree. all across the country and in the home state of new york. there are roads, bridges and transit systems in need of serious repair and construction industry has been talked about, so out of work and this is the best way to put them back. so i am going to skip that part of my speech because i know people have waited a long time. i want to make a few quick points. the senate bill gives states like new york the tools and resources we need to provide a large legacy to public transportation systems more adequately. i know a lot of my colleagues don't have much mass-transit but for us mass

the old republicans that built this economy, hamilton, henry clay, lincoln, mckinley.the great betrayal. they are discouraged in the free trade. they believed free trade because we are going to dump our goods there and charge tariffs on goods coming in here. they were not about a level playing field, they were about winning. >> a lot of liberals would agree and i remember one story they told me someone came to interview you and she was right you had a very long hair. she said i think he may have been gay. [laughter] you're the first that spoken about the power in politics. >> i think that it was in iowa and a fellow came along and i think that he was gay, he had a hearing and stuff. [laughter] most of the time when i grew up they didn't have a hearings and stuff. but he was in the car with me driving along asking me questions and he was clearly a left wing and finally he said, you know, my whole life i've been looking for someone who would take on corporate america and when i find him it turns out to be pat buchanan. [laughter] i mention very briefly the failure to bui

henry clay decided internal improvements or something the federal government should do. those were high ways to open up the far west -- ky, ohio, western pennsylvania benefited from those improvements. the federal government has been involved in this for a long time. i know there are a few who say the federal government should not be involved in transit, but they are a distinct minority. americans of all three parties agree. all across the country there are roads, bridges, transit systems in need of serious repair. there is the construction industry, i am sure it has been talked about that is so out of work. this is the best way to put them back. i will skip all that part of my speech because i know people have waited a long time. i want to make a few quick points. the senate bill gives states like new york to the tools and resources we need to provide a large legacy for public transportation systems. i know a lot of my colleagues do not like mass transit. for us mass-transit is to you what highways are. we get three and half million people on and off manhattan island. w

henry clay assured president madison that the militia of kentucky alone competent to place canada atour feet. quite incorrect as it happened. when it came to the american invasion the canadians did not welcome the south as liberators and a three-pronged invasion of canada approved abject failure. in august 1812 the northwestern army of the united states surrendered to a much smaller force. it was a debacle. in october the same year, american force in niagara is captured on the canadian soil. in november, major general henry dearborn and to gain a retreat from a terrifying exchange of friendly fire between american forces. in short, the british more than held their own in the war. so perhaps it can be said that in a supporting role the canadians were indeed the tories. a group certainly didn't win with the american indians with settlers encroaching upon their land, many indigenous tribes sided with the british before the war began. then some dirt and reject someone with many others in washington believe native americans have been excited toward that a secret agents of great britain. b

henry clay. he failed. and it nearly ruined his health and went to massachusetts to recover from it. and a senator named stephen a. douglas from illinois, the home of our instant democratic leader, came to the floor and introduced the clay compromise section by section, and each section passed with a different coalition with senator sam houston being the only senator who voted for each one of them. so my hope is that with the broad support that we have for this very simple idea, pin a green card on the lapel of a gifted graduate of an advanced program in science, technology, engineering, and math, allow them to stay here and create jobs here instead of forcing them to go home, i hope that we have such strong support for this idea we can go ahead and pass it and then we can follow that up with the other necessary steps that we need to do on immigration and hopefully we can do that with a coalition that represents democrats and republicans as well. so this is a great idea, and somebody might say wh

institution when people look back in history with pride a point to the missouri compromise or point to henry clay or daniel webster, all these great senators, or ted knedy more recently and others on the other side of the aisle, when they do that, they're talking about people who operated by the same rules but found a common ground because they had the intelligence and willpower to put the country and its interests ahead of fg else. that's what dick lugar's loss last night means us to. i don't know who will replace him. we don't know -- we certainly know the cross-currents of some of the campaign and we certainly know what senator lugar chose to say last night about his opponent's quest for more partisanship, not less. so the alarm bells have been sounded, i think. my prayer is that this election this year is tb going to help pe this country of this incredible waste of opportunity that we are living through here. now, this congress isn't over, and for those of us who were here and remember 1996,t bears repeating that even in presidential years, a congress can actually defy conventional wisdom and

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. >> henry clay pool from hhs. actually with the administration for community listings.under secretary sebelius, just recently formed at the department. and a couple of points. the point about really beginning a dialogue with an individual about what the future is going to be like when they are living with certain condition or towards the end of their life, there's a whole population of individuals living in the kennedy today with functional need. and i would suggest that that's a great place to begin to really start to we shape the dialogue that occurs between the individual and the clinician or the patient. if we don't begin to pay greater attention to those individuals that actually have the real-life experience, living in their communities, and involve them in shaping how the services and supports, and the treatments, that they need are delivered to them, i think we will continue to run up against the cost issues that we see today. just listening to the dialogue, people are relatively uncomfortable with the idea of what the future might hold if they did incur a funct

institution when people look back in history with pride and point to the missouri compromise or point to henry clay or daniel webster, all these great senators, or ted kennedy more recently and others on the other side of the aisle, when they do that, they're talking about people who operated by the same rules but found a common ground because they had the intelligence and willpower to put the country and its interests ahead of fg else. that's what dick lugar's loss last night means us to. i don't know who will replace him. we don't know -- we certainly know the cross-currents of some of the campaign and we certainly know what senator lugar chose to say last night about his opponent's quest for more partisanship, not less. so the alarm bells have been sounded, i think. my prayer is that this election this year is tb going to help pe this country of this incredible waste of opportunity that were livingw, this congress isn't ov, and for those of us who were here and remember 1996, it bears repeating that even in presidential years, a congress can actually defy conventional wisdom and get things done.