adam would like to know is a james buchanan question and a marshall question. his wife was a federalist do we know if his early career he crosses paths with or it was influenced by john marshall? >> look they all knew each other. once buchanan comes to washington as a congressman he's got to know the supreme court justice and whether was influenced by marshall particularly i do not know. but just like anyplace else in lancaster at the time he started, you had to be a federalist. it's just the way it was when he finally converted so to speak. i don't want to get into buchanan too much but he was mostly influenced by henry clay was the generation federalist. >> very good thanks adam very much. live another question coming in from mick hughes. whit beecher to say marshall at a true appreciation for john adams effort to hold the country together after washington? >> he was a great friend of john adams. one of the mythical probably conversations was when they had to find a new chief justice. marshall, i forget who he wanted. it does not matter. he said so-and-so and

without finding out something about that secretary of state of the same was true james buchanan james buchanan. will you well, what was your reaction when you saw how much they fought? could you do that today? i cannot i cannot for the life of me. imagine why pope? put up with it except that as he said to his friend cave johnson. shortly after he won the election i intend myself to be president. you know, i talked to wayne cutler about about this conflict. cutler who's been? looking at james gate polk for all these years now, and i said i cannot for the life of me. figure out why? pope kept buchananas secretary of state they were constantly at war. and cutler said, you know. he was the secretary of state himself. and he could control buchanan. well, he could control them. but you couldn't him from popping off. or telling him he was wrong or even lecturing him would they fight about? they fought about foreign policy. they thought about i mean a good example. he's getting ready to. he's getting the british and the french are constantly meddling in us affairs. they've got interest and th

you know, i'm related to james buchanan figures one of the worst ones in that. i ended up with a distant cousin. is that is that if there are four what we would call they call him doubtful states in the republican circles in 1860. we would call him battleground states. there were four states that buchanan won that had if fremont had one knows he would have been the president even without winning a southern state and ann includes pennsylvania, which is buchanan's home state, new jersey, indiana and illinois, ding ding. all right, so keep that in mind, so that's what they learned in 1856. all right. so the point to be made here is that you they're gonna think about the way we think about electing people now at least people in political circles you think of battleground states who's going to win battle ground state, so, that's one important point to to consider as well. so lincoln the messenger is not going to be as important as the national figure except that you had to have a solid support from his home base in illinois. and because lincoln spent 30 years in illi

who was white house hostess and niece of president james buchanan when lane moved into the white house in 1857, she became very popular because she was young vivacious and witty and she was also interested in the arts and began collecting art while living in the white house. after buchanan's administration harriet lane became a well-known philanthropist in washington dc and she also traveled europe dedicating time and energy to an art collection upon her death in 1903 harriet lane willed her entire collection of art toward the creation of a national gallery of art. now at the time no institution existed, so it fell under the control of the smithsonian institution. lanes collection of paintings sculptures and buchanan artifacts from her time in the white house became the foundation and the impetus for the creation of the smithsonian american art museum located in washington dc today next slide. now the smithsonian lovingly refers to harriet lane as the first lady of the national collection of fine arts and some of her art is pictured here. next slide the next first lady i'll discuss is

tryst was the negotiator chosen by polk and secretary state james buchanan. to accompany winfield scott to mexico city and negotiate treating the time use was chief clerk in the state department but he was fluent in spanish and earlier. he was a console in havana. early in life. he had steady law in the law off. it's a thomas jefferson, and he married at jefferson. granddaughter, virginia jefferson randolph. when he got to mexico trist angered polk by agreeing to an ill advised armistice. outside of mexico city the gave santa ana time to fortify the city pole can buchanan recall them? by the time the recall reached him there was this. three week lag in communications between mexico city sometimes longer in washington. by the time the recall reached to mexico city at surrendered peace talks had begun. and tryst received the recall and he packed up to leave. to obey it. but mexican officials british diplomats and scott urged him to stay and continue the talks. so tris disobeyed his orders resumed the negotiations and he signed the very treaty that polk had want