. >> sohis is buchanan prident james buchanan who did no mount this sool bea his name >> james buchanan of pennsylvania elected our 15th president in 1856 is certainly no washington, lincoln or kennedy. james buchanan is, according to a new book, the worst president ever. >> h character flaw w by his support for the fitive r the civil war. that a middle school is named for him in florida, a state robert strausz says he never a is that secede while he was president stunned tse who manage his home in pennsylvania. >> amazed that his name, you know, has been used as that. 29 schools are named for james buchanan. 16 in counties or t while he was president or for contributions he mes a senator. six are in districts that mostly schools for presidents. five are in his home state of pennsylv a streetln whoy followed buchananoffice. the only one that defies easy >> fromooking at research and board minutes there's noing in the minutes to say >> heistrict showed us harry potter like books that hold the minutes from the 1961 meeting when the school was named. there is no explanation as to why board

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say it's still james buchanan 2016-2017 and probably still be here ten years from now. >> reporter: james buchanan lives on. evan axelbank, fox 13 news. >> anjuli: new details into that bizarre double-homicide of a couple in martin county. >>> as gator season gets underway, we show you how hunters are preparing. >> lindsay: dodge. not much movement to the atmosphere. winds are very light. great view over lake mirror in lakeland this morning. good morning to you. radar is much quieter today. there may be a brief, tiny shower near the coast. check sky tower if you're boating. if the rain chance is 20%, it's only until midday, and the west wind pushing storms inland. great day at the beach. grab the shades. thank you forhave the forecast wi check on thehooting near caspusital with a brutal ju on the person shot was we will continue theay we're g. l are dutor w happened near the border. is the turkish president is blaming isis for carrying out the attack. however, nobody has officially claimed responsibility. >> anjuli: a very special honor flight in pasco county. operation patriot and honor

started before the civil war, james buchanan. james robertson: worst president. he was a man who just got caught 1850's.e chaos of the he had a dilemma. on the one hand he did not think secession was constitutional on the other hand, he cannot find anything in the constitution to stop them. to stop theim secession process. his closest friends were southerners. he was just can't miss tremendous dilemma and all he could hope for was to get out of office before the explosions came. which he managed to do. can -- didn't you can it was an attorney -- james buchanan was an attorney and out of touch with the people. gracious hostesses to make to the white house enjoyable. he just bungled badly. sayingionist today are and coming to his defense. revision does not -- brian: right after the civil war and when abraham lincoln was killed, andrew johnson. james robertson: he is next to last. johnson was a total mistake. he was a democrat. 1954, lincoln thought it would be politically to his advantage to have a democrat run on the republican ticket and johnson did. died, there

as i've often said about james buchanan to my class james buchanan claimed if he came back in another life he would like to come back as a frog sitting by a quiet mill pond by where nothing happened which shows he doesn't understand transmigration because you have to be good in this life to come back as a higher form of being. sorry, i had to insult him somewhere out there. thaddeus stevens. you'll notice i brought him in twice, first as darth vader and the second as the knight fighting the dragon. the good guy and bad guy view of him. thaddeus stevens because of his belief in equality and because of having a non-whitehousekeeper lydia smith who was reputed to be his mistress by democratic slanderers and the like was seen as the epitome of evil all the way up through the dunning school and beyond, a vicious, ferocious, fanatic fueled with hatred and resentment. let me tell you several basic facts. thaddeus stevens well before slavery became an issue on which pennsylvanians cares at all, at least in terms of the slave, was defending fugitive slaves and taking no fee. if i'm mott mistak

. >> james buchanan. 1857. went o on tv by many peoples reckoning the worst president in the history of th the republic. so, not hopefully prolong in this case. on the one hand, the huge political stature of hillary clinton was attracted to him because recall in 2009, she knew for the first year he was going to be completely batted down at the white house dealing with this financial crisis and recession. and yet he wanted to go around the world and rebuild alliances. he needed a superstar in this case with her own political stature to go off to do that so he didn't have to do it himself. and that's largely the first year was about and we were on a lot of those troops. and so, the other thing i've talked to a couple of his political advisers of what the thinking was when this was announced. another thing a day i thing he t removed a huge independent political voice from the senate. let's say the first term had been a disaster, it also removed the possibility of a primary challenge from the person you basically h

another case is james buchanan. james buchanan is our only bachelor president. s new biography i read about in the works that will argue that buchanan was gay, and that seems to check out. but buchanan adopted his niece. who did not have biological children all adopted children. you can see from those relationships, you can get a sense of what they were like as family leaders. what is so interesting about children as opposed to wives, his obvious leave and tell something about character, about how i man interacts with his wife. but the children are really powerless. -- is it is certainly more of an equal relationship. maybe not so equal in the 18th century. -- theydren just have are really at the mercy of their parents. what can they do? you get a sense of how a president treats someone who is powerless. a really interesting example was james garfield. president in 1880. the book starts with garfield -- i was so moved by how sensitive he was to his boys. the book starts in july of 1881, garfield is about to go to the 25th three union at williams college with his

as i've said awesome -- often in my class, james buchanan declare that if he came back in another life, he would like to come back as a frog sitting by a quiet mill pond where nothing happened, which shows he doesn't understand migration. in this lifee good to come back as a higher form of being. sorry, i had to insult him somewhere. stevens, you'll notice i brought him him twice, the first time with darth vader, but the second time as the night fighting the dragon. i take the good guys view of him. thaddeus stevens, because of his belief in inequality, because of housekeeper-white who was reputed to be his mistress by democratic slanderers, was seen as the epitome of evil all the way up through the dunning school and beyond. fueled with hatred and resentment. let me tell you several basic facts. befores stevens, well slavery became an issue on which pennsylvanians cared at all, at least in terms of the slaves, was defending fugitive slaves and taking no fee. in the constitutional convention , when pennsylvania decided to take the right of voting away from blacks refused to sign that c

cspan: news said james buchanan freed a couple of slaves for political reasons >> wednesday star to getlose they are getting more squeamish about the slaveholders the buchanan decided he needed to get them out. he transfers them then we start to find out they are all lot more careful about publicly been slave owners and they start to divest themselves of any public holdings. cspan: it surprises people that agreement had slaves. >> guest: is surprised me as well you would not think the man put in charge of the army during the civil war would be a slave owner himself but he was. he inherited his slaves through marriage. he did not buy them but the family owned them and what he did himself is he freed them that shows where he was so he took it upon himself to free the slaves speech making was the first to eliminate but it seems to me that a lot said they would eliminate slavery but not until they died or their wives died? >> guest: one of the things that i saw was the most of the founding fathers knew slavery was wrong. there are not willing to inconvenience their own lives to make that co

. >> james buchanan, the president, freed a couple of slaves for political reasons? >> well, once we start getting close to the civil war that the -- that the press and the public, especially, up north, are getting a lot more scwiem michigan about slave holders. >> buchanin decided that he needed to get some of his slaves out of his name. so i decides then to his sister frees them and the presidents are being a lot more careful about publicly being slave owners. they start divesting themselves of any public holding of slavery. >> it surprises a lot of people to learn that u.s. grant had slaves. >> it surprised me as well. you wouldn't think that the man who was put in charge of the u.s. army, during the civil war would be a slave owner himself. but he was. but he actually inherited his slaves through his marriage. he didn't buy them he married a woman whose family owned the slaifers, and grant freed that slave. we have, there's a copy of the letter which he wrote. that shows where he was in his mind about slavery. that doesn't mean that for awhile he was a slave owne

. >> use said that the james buchanan pdf freed a couple of slaves for political reasons? that the press and the public especially up north are getting a lot more squeamish about slaveholders pirko so buchanan decided he needed to get some of the slaves out so he decided to his sister that they're being a lot more careful about publicly being slaveholders of mr. to divest themselves. cspan: its surprises people to learn that grant had slaves. >> guest: me as well be kenji wouldn't think the man in charge of the u.s. army during the civil war was actually a slave owner himself but he was. but he inherited his slaves through marriage. he did not buy them he married a woman the family owned them and press delete key freed them that shows where he was. buddy took it upon himself to free them. cspan: james monroe was the first president to actively suggest that but it seems like a lot of president said they would eliminate it but they die door their wives died then they were friedberg. >> guest: one of the pains that i saw is most of the founding fathers knew in their mind that

. >> james buchanan. 1857. went o on tv by many peoples reckoning the worst president in the history of th the republic. so, not hopefully prolong in this case. on the one hand, the huge political stature of hillary clinton was attracted to him because recall in 2009, she knew for the first year he was going to be completely batted down at the white house dealing with this financial crisis and recession. and yet he wanted to go around the world and rebuild alliances. he needed a superstar in this case with her own political stature to go off to do that so he didn't have to do it himself. and that's largely the first year was about and we were on a lot of those troops. and so, the other thing i've talked to a couple of his political advisers of what the thinking was when this was announced. another thing a day i thing he t removed a huge independent political voice from the senate. let's say the first term had been a disaster, it also removed the possibility of a primary challenge from the person you basically h

and james buchanan. that's the court that lincoln confronts because justices are ghosts of presidents past and lincoln is running against all these presidents, against the tide. okay? and that's -- and some of you may remember this from your history books, i won't say you remember it from your child hoods, i won't insult you this way, but the new deal, remember, it's, you know, the new deal against the old court and franklin roosevelt confronts all of these republican justices and in his first term he has not a single appointment. so nine who were appointed by earlier regimes who are threatening to invalidate every part of his program, the national industrial recovery act and the agricultural administration act and obamacare -- i mean -- and -- so his -- so, you know, his social security structure. so that's this -- these face-offs are built into the structure of a presidency that's four years and tidal and these justices who have life tenure. now, the -- reagan didn't really have this confrontation and

i think he can get away with that one, and james buchanan, that's the court that lincoln confronts because justices are ghosts of presidents past, and lincoln is running against all these presidents, against the tide. that's -- some of you may remember this from your history books. i won't say you remember it from your childhood. the new deal, remember, it's, you know, the new deal against the old court. franklin roosevelt confronts all of these republican justices. from the first term, he has not a single appointment. nine who were appointed by earlier regimes that are threatening to envalidate every part of his program. the national industrial recovery after the agricultural administration act and obama care. i mean, i'm -- and his social security structure. that's this face-offs are built if to the structure of a presidency that is four years and tidal and these justices who have life tenure. reagan didn't have this confrontation, and here's why. because basically a supporter of lyndon johnson mistimed his exit and he ended up -- richard nixon even before getting elected had two open se

started before the civil war, james buchanan. james robertson: worst president.s a man who just got caught up in the chaos of the 1850's. he had a dilemma. on the one hand he did not think secession was constitutional on the other hand, he cannot find anything in the constitution to stop them. and enable him to stop the secession process. his closest friends were southerners. he was just can't miss tremendous dilemma and all he could hope for was to get out of office before the explosions came. which he managed to do. you can -- didn't you can it was an attorney -- james buchanan was an attorney and out of touch with the people. he had no gracious hostesses to make to the white house enjoyable. he just bungled badly. a revisionist today are saying and coming to his defense. revision does not -- brian: right after the civil war and when abraham lincoln was killed, andrew johnson. james robertson: he is next to last. johnson was a total mistake. he was a democrat. 1954, lincoln thought it would be politically to his advantage to have a democrat run on the republica

another case is james buchanan. james buchanan is our only bachelor president. s new biography i read about in the works that will argue that buchanan was gay, and that seems to check out. but buchanan adopted his niece. harriet lane. so, the five who did not have biological children all adopted children. you can see from those relationships, you can get a sense of what they were like as family leaders. what is so interesting about children as opposed to wives, his obvious leave and tell something about character, about how i man interacts with his wife. but the children are really powerless. women, it is certainly -- is more of an equal relationship. maybe not so equal in the 18th century. but children just have -- they are really at the mercy of their parents. what can they do? you get a sense of how a president treats someone who is powerless. a really interesting example was james garfield. president in 1880. the book starts with garfield -- i was so moved by how sensitive he was to his boys. the book starts in july of 1881, garfield is about to go to the 25t