henry clay rubbing his hands. he is ready to go. william henry harrison delivers his inauguration speech. a storm comes through washington, d.c., pouring down rain. during the speech, in that rain, william henry harrison, 68 years old, comes down with pneumonia and dies. now john tyler is president. totally not what we planned. that is ok, we're going to -- tyler is not jackson, at least. we are going to push through a new bill. clay pushes through a new bill for a bank. this time he calls it something different. he calls it the fiscal bank. it flies through the house, it flies through the senate. gets on john tyler's desk. veto. clay can't believe it. all right, we're going to try again. clay pushes through another bill. this time, we won't even call it a bank. that is how much the country hates ranks. they're going to call it -- the country hates banks. they're going to call it "the fiscal corporation." goes to the house, the senate, gets to the desk, veto. clay can't believe this is happening. we are to have to wait four more year

henry clay. rubbing his hand. he ready to go. william henry harrison delivers his inauguration speech. a storm comes through washington, d.c. pouring down rain. during the speech, in that rain, william henry harrison, 68 years old, comes down with pneumonia and dies one month later. unbelievable clay says. now john tyler is president. totally not what we planned, clay says. that's okay. we're going to -- tyler is not jackson at least. jackson is not in office. we're going to push through a new bill for a bank, this time he calls it something different, bank of the united states has been a bit stains, the name of that. he calls it the fiscal bank. the fiscal bank. it flies through the house. it flies through the senate. gets on john tyler's bill. veto. clay can't believe it. vetoes the bill. all right. we're going to try again. clay pushes through another bill. this time, we won't even call it a bank, all right. that's how much the country hates banks. they will call it the fiscal corporation. it's the same thing but renaming it. f

henry clay is making his final bid for the presidency. henry clay, former speaker of the house, former secretary of state and the founder of the whig party. the guy who embodied their ideals. in fact, abraham lincoln said that he was a man for whom i have fought for my entire adult life. well, lincoln knows that clay cannot win. and while lincoln doesn't claim to have any special knowledge about what zachary taylor believes, he knows that that taylor can win. the choice is not between having a perfect whig party and zachary taylor, but the choice between having a democrat they know disagrees with them and a whig party member who they know agrees with them. and so if nothing else, they will help to build up the whig party. the whigs in the 1840s won their first presidential race. and of course, william henry henderson dies after 40 days. and they had not given it a lot of thought to who his vice president would be. he is basically a democrat, john tyler, who is kicked out of the party. and they are not able to win a presidential race since

it was at uk and the speech was about henry clay. the third was at eastern kentucky university and it was about john j. written den who was sort of a protege of clay's and came along right after clay and rose to prominence in the 1850s. and today i'm pleased to be speaking of someone who will actually be here to hear it. in the humid night air several men in short sleeves leapt to their feet and began to yell hurling abuse. they were simultaneously followed by others. as each person jumped up to scream, it created a dynamic. the crowd taking on a life of its own. within seconds scores and then hundreds of people were on their feet all shouting viciously. like a wave the hundreds became thousands and then tens of thousands. the thunderous roar was made all the more menacing by the cavern nous surroundings and the crowd's rage stood far below them. he was a lone silhouetted figure. his face largely concealed by his hat. he was completely encircled by the riotous crowd. he was in enemy territory. hundreds of miles from home standing vir

the second was somebody you have all heard of, at u.k., and the speech was about henry clay. the third was at eastern kentucky university and about john j crittenden, who was sort of a protege of clay and came along after clay and rose to prominence in the 1850's. today, i am pleased to be speaking of someone who will actually be here to hear it. [laughter] >> in the humid night air, several men in short sleeves tot to their feet -- leapt their feet and began to yell. there were simultaneously followed by others. as each person jumped up to scream, it created an inexorable dynamic. life ofd taking on a its own. within seconds, scores and then hundreds of people were on their feet, all shouting viciously. like a wave, the hundreds became thousands and then tens of thousands, the thunderous roar was made all the more menacing by the cavernous surroundings and the fact that the object of the crowd's range stood far below them. lone, silhouetted figure, his face largely concealed by his hat. he was completely encircled by the riotous crowd, albeit at a remove of a feud is in yard

to be defeated by jackson, to have his alliance with henry clay called corrupt, then overthrown left him with some questions about what he was going to do next and where the republic was going. he addressed these in a couple of writing projects that did not quite -- they never saw the light of day. one was a pamphlet war and book length reply to the massachusetts federalists that revisited what he felt was a disloyal root between 1805-1807. this between the war of 1812, and some of that was in massachusetts newspapers. book thatd it into a he did not publish, but he kept working on in 1829, and henry adams eventually published it in 1877, i think it was. he also started a biography of john adams that he did not finish, and he wrote about 60 pages of something he called states." n the united it's only been published once in a small addition in the 1940's. it's fascinating. you see him trying to figure out what went wrong. he lays out all the things, the important characteristics of american national politics and why parties developed the way they did. of those six factors, five are co