next, author hugh howard talks about portraits of george washington. it explores the works of gilbert stuart and john trumbull

visit ncicap.org] >> tonight on the presidency, author hugh howard talks about the portraits of georgeashington painted during his lifetime. the author explores the work of gilbert stuart, charles wilson peel, and john trumbull, focusing on how these artists capture the spirit of the first president and what modern audiences can now learn about washington through these portraits. mr. howard is the author of "the painter's chair: george washington and the making of american art." that is tonight here on american history tv. >> the political landscape has changed with the 114th congress. not only are there 43 new republicans and 15 new democrats in the house and 12 new republicans and one new democrat in the senate, but there are also 100 eight women in congress, including the first african-american republican in the house and the first woman veteran in the senate. keep track of the numbers of congress using congressional chronicle on www.c-span.org. the page has lots of useful information, including voting results and statistics about each session. new congress, best access, on c-span,

. >> tonight, on the presidency, hugh howard talks about portraits of george washington painted during his lifetime. the author explores the work of john trumbull, focusing on how these artists captured the spirit of the first president and what modern audiences can learn about washington through these portraits. mr. howard is the author of "the painter's chair." that is tonight at 8:00 p.m. and midnight here on american history tv. >> each week american history tv's american artifacts visits museums and historic places. established by congress in 1820 the united states botanic garden is the oldest botanic garden in north america. we will take the tour of the glass and stone conservancy at the foot of capitol hill and learn about the collections in this plant museum, originally proposed by president washington in 1796. >> welcome to the united states botanic garden. the u.s. botanic garden is a wonderful place to come and learn about plants. our motto could be plants plants, plants. our official mission is to demonstrate to the public the importance of plants and their value to humanki

next, author hugh howard talks about portraits of george washington.t explores the works of gilbert stuart and john trumbull focusing on how the artist captured the spirit of the first president and how modern audiences can learn from washington. mr. howard is the author of "the painter's chair." george washington's mount vernon hosted this hour-long event. >> good afternoon. my talk will be a little shorter than his introduction, i think but thank you. [laughter] my thanks to susan, the invitation for the miscellaneous arrangements. michael and stephen. and coming to mount vernon is always a joy. i feel like i have lots of friends here starting with mary and through carol and on and others. this is a uniformly welcoming place for scholars. and i have spent time in using the archives here. and coming here has been able to meet to write all of the significant portions of several books i have done concerning the general. i have also wanted to join such travelers of the past, -- who will follow me today and tomorrow. you have a list of them. almost all of

next, author hugh howard talks about portraits of george washington.nd john trumbull, focusing on how the artist captured the spirit of the first president and how modern audiences can learn from washington. mr. howard is the author of "the painter's chair." george washington's mount vernon hosted this hour-long event. >> good afternoon. my talk will be a little shorter than his introduction, i think but thank you. [laughter] my thanks to susan, the invitation for the miscellaneous arrangements. michael and stephen. and coming to mount vernon is always a joy. i feel like i have lots of friends here starting with mary and through carol and on and others. this is a uniformly welcoming place for scholars. and i have spent time in using the archives here. and coming here has been able to meet to write all of the significant portions of several books i have done concerning the general. i have also wanted to join such travelers of the past, -- who will follow me today and ellen tomorrow. you have a list of them. almost all of these folks, i know their work a

points >> next, author hugh howard talks about portraits of george washington. president and how modern audiences can learn from washington. mr. howard is the author of "the painter's chair," george washington's mount vernon hosted this hour-long event. >> good afternoo

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he will finish out his tenure as a howard hughes like rifter. >> i love the "wall street journal" editorialal and economic center. the legislation to build the keystone xl pipeline mr. obama rejected tuesday enjoys a broad consensus t. press core says it goes against anything out of congress is his strategy for the next two years. the better way of putting it is that mr. obama will leave office increasingly isolated obstructionist and partisan. >> yeah. we like him. >> they like him a lot. >> they like him. they really like him. >> it's a great ride. >> this is something the president hasn't used a veto very much. he's starting to use it now. i find this such occurious thing. nobody can give a factual reason. >> you talked about procedure. i got to say that was a great effort and i salute you for that. i forgive you. four stars on the top of your paper. because procedurally that is the only argument that is left. look at the substance of it. i'll quote the state department. environmentally. it's safer than moving it to trucks and tankers. you talk about jobs. it does create jobs. again, peo

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hughe. >> she was so wonderful, that smile. >> do you know she's almost 80 years old. >> she's a amazing. >> we have terence howard.alking about that show empire. >> i have binged watched it this weekend. this is terence howard at the the ritz hotel over at broad street across from city hall. this is alex's lemonade. i heard he was going to show up. i went over there. no body guard, nothing. the just was selling these for a dollar appease. one thing about terence howard that you might see it in on the the photo is he autographs all of his photos upside i odn't an backward and you have to look in the the mirror. he practice for years and years before he became famous. >> that is cool. >> how about patty labelle you have run into her many times. >> this is patty labelle and teddy pender grass. they were honored at beat 100.3 muse ache ward at the marriott in 2008. this is first time i have ever saw him. such a tender moment where she gave him a kiss. this was the first time before the the cameras are rolling and i got the this shot. it is one of my favorite shots. two philadelphia legend, icon. >> next one, from that