. >> we have a book coming out who is a favorite of ours about henry clay and he is a kentucky lawyer who changed the american politics for ever and harlow makes it clear that it really is what he was, i can't think of a time in our history when we most needed that so perhaps there's something he learned from little henry clay. >> what's next. >> we have a winston churchill reporting by simon reed, it is a fascinating book and the years churchill spent as a correspondent he was in sudan, cuba, he was putting himself in harm's way so when he think later on when he went on to send troops into battle, he kinda had more of a feeling of what that is all about then most people gave him credit for because he was a war journalist. >> talk about the aspects or the staff on winston churchill. >> it is on churchill interestingly enough it is tough to come up with looking at new ways of looking at presidents but we have another offer edward lingle who wrote first entrepreneur and it's about how george washington took what he learned, managing his mount vernon estates and being willing to take ris

plus we collect published papers of a lot of the people we work on, people like andrew jackson, henry clay, george washington a lot of their papers are published so we buy a lot of their works as well. this biography by john sugdon i found fascinating. i'm interested in american indian history as i started doing a lot of work with that. it's one of my favorite books. and then see if this one is actually here. yes, this one right here. this book right here is one of my favorites because it was one of the ground breaking pieces of scholarship done on the creek indians deer skins and duffles by katherine braun is an incredible book. i would recommend that to anybody. a lot historians write for other historians and we want historians to read our books but i think it's more important that you make the books or articles, whatever you're writing accessible to a general public so they'll be interested. how many people do we run into who say history is not my thing. part of it is they never read interesting history and never had good history teachers and professors that make it accessible and make

the first won't surprise you henry clay. many would argue he was the greatest lawmaker in american history. his body of work continues to set the standard for achievement in congress today. the second is the subject of today's speech. the man rightly termed by one biographer as the global kentuckian. he is a man whose bus sits in the state capital in franklin and whose portrait sits downtown. cooper had a profound and personal impact on my life, and i know i am not alone in that regard. there are others in the room who had a similar experience. those he touched in kentucky and in congress will all long remember his strength of character and his kindness. as i have said many times before, he was my hero in all my years of public life. there has been no one from whom i learned more. in fact, to this very day, this picture hangs above my desk in the senate majority leader's office in the u.s. capital. today, i would like to discuss the life and career of this most remarkable man. he was born right here in somerset on august 23,

henry clay appears on a high denomination note. clay, as you might know, is representative from kentucky was instrumental in the compromises of passing the cover myself 1820 and 1850 which had to do with which new territories or states became slave or free. he ran for president three times. now, he was known for the expression "i'd rather be right than president." he ran three times and he was right three times. unelected with still a famous person. john marshall. most of you will recognize the name is a very famous supreme court justice. he endorses $20 note. and there were a couple of inventors on the back of this interesting looking silver certificate. robert fulton, the fellow on the left that pioneered the development of the steam boat. of course, several morse, morse code, etc. these famous people appeared on banknotes. some people that names may sound familiar but not exactly famous in today's age, a lot of scholars will know who robert morris is, an important financier from 1781 to 1784. he served as superintendent of finan

we got locked in lexington cemetery in kentucky where henry clay is buried. trip, itst leg of our was in paterson, new jersey, trying to get vice president garret hobart, mckinley's first vice president who died in office. an employee was escorting a family out and she was escorting them out because they were closing. point of view a lot of times is that we are here, we have to do it now. he convinced her son how to lock us in a cemetery and this was a cemetery that had a fairly high wall with barb wire on top. he said don't worry about us, we will get out. he parked our car half of the sidewalk outside and we went in. she didn't even know where --ret hobart's memories cemetery site was. and then my dad always says, you have to look for the weakest link. and we sawaround there was a point where the barbed wire that was keeping a thin was sagging and there was a tree. we climbed the tree, grabbed onto the lands, swan ourselves over and onto the out -- swung ourselves over and onto the outside. brian: what did your dad do for a living? kurt: he had his own busi

for this to the right with someone like henry clay. congress did have the power to abolish slavery in d.c., clay argued, but it can never do so because that would unleash a horde of savage, racially inferior africans into the mainstream of where society, causing all manner of unspeakable habits. this was not the position lincoln took. nor did he take the somewhat less hysterical position of the majority in the illinois legislature. those elected officials did admit in the resolutions that congress have the power to abolish slavery in d.c., but to do so, remember, they said would be a monstrous act of bad faith. that was the position against with which lincoln watched his protest. he argued that congress not only could, but should exercise its authority to abolish every in the district whenever the people of district petitioned congress to do so. that is not clay's position. 'ut it wasn't the abolitionists position, either. they argued that congress not only have the power to abolish slavery, but that it had a moral obligation to do so

further to the rate will -- further to the right was henry clay.olish has power to slavery in d.c., clay argued, but it should never do so because it would unleash inferior africans into white society, causing unspeakable havoc. this was not the position lincoln took. the lesse take hysterical position of the majority in the illinois legislature. those elected officials did admit in their resolutions that congress had the power to abolish slavery in d.c., but to do so, remember, they said would be a monstrous act of that eighth. against the position which lincoln argued. he argued that congress should exercise its authority to abolish slavery in the district, whenever the people of the district petitioned congress to do so. clay's position. it was not the illinois legislature's position. it wasn't the abolitionist position, either. abolitionist said congress not only have the power to abolish slavery in washington dc, but it had a moral obligation to do so regardless of what the people within the district thought of the idea. washington dc was nati

to honor the loss of her brother, henry clay lathrop. >> pam: the statue's arm had been damaged in the 1906 earth-quake, and was stolen in the 1990's >> pam: stanford police are asking for the public's help to find the missing arm. which thousand dollars. >> pam: cal-trans is seeking a eastern span of the baybut there is concern that blowing up the bridge could harm the native marine mammals. >> pam: cal-tran officials say, they could save time with the pier in only six- seconds. if the permit is approved. it would take place this november. >> pam: cal -trans says it will monitor animals in the area, and postpone the detonation. if wild-life is spotted. >> reporter:a fire continues to burn in the east san jose foot-hills today. last night has burned six acres near heart-land way. >> reporter:we checked with fire officials, they say the fire is currentley 75 percent contained -- no structures were threatened and no >> reporter:meantime.the rough fire is in fresno county. it has prompted the campers.hikers. and residents. >> reporter:the fire was ignited by lighting on july 31st.and has