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

face time, if you will, with the audience. >> i guess the big question is, you written about james buchananat drew you to john marshall? >> let me go back to why i'm interested in history in the first place. my career was as a journalist pretty much but when i was young i grew up outside of philadelphia, a big history buff and he took into philadelphia, so i wrote about this awful history. the first book i remember getting, just facts about the president. whenever james monroe mother died or chauvin coolidge is favorite, knowing gloves but in any case, these figurines of presidents, i realized he's not a president but a little bit of history that accumulated in my brain in the way i looked at history which is what i can bring to the study of john marshall, not the facts because there are facts all over out there and it'sud this thinking about different things about american history is what i love about it and why marshall? well, after i had done buchanan, i still speak about buchanan because there isn't another buchanan expert out there but i wanted to see somebody who was important but not

there are political cartoons of james buchanan as an iceberg melting under the glare of abraham lincoln as the sun, you know icebergs and ice are viewed as part of northern fortitude and the south and the tropics are viewed as emblematic of the south literally in this case on fire and coming apart at the seams the reviews that i cite and the exhibition pick up on this fact one reviewer refers to the ash cloud off the volcano is looking like canon smoke across a battlefield others talk about rivers running with blood coming out of the french revolutionary wars people in this period looked for saw and found connections to the war as it was happening by the time you get to the winter of 1864. there's a sense of despair like this is never going to end and by that time you cannot find an aurora borealis that does not carry resonances of the war again, there are political cartoons of confederates sort of fleeing and horror from the northern lights, which look like the bayonets of the union army. it's not real subtle, but it is there but again they are portents. god is not happy. the world is

like the niece of james buchanan, who served as a first lady. as that necessary female hostess. and you can see, just how compelling angelica van buren had been as a hostess. but hannah van buren, as she was very dear to her husband, and he mourn her passing for many years, and we believe that he probably kept this miniature, which is quite small, it's just a couple of inches, and he kept it in his pocket or on his person, as a way to remember his wife. and he never really spoke about her after she died, because it's such a sad story, but when one of their sons went to maine, a daughter who had been born, as i remember the name, i think it was anna or hanna, we cause his father would not speak about her, and the pleasure of doing this exhibition, has been for me is been learning about these relationships. very loving, very loving relationships that endured past death for some of these presidents and their wives. julia, she was the second wife of the president. of john tyler, and there is this beautiful painted portrait which was done after leaving the white house. probably at th

a marvelous to guerotype of what you could call the white house family a group that includes james buchanan who's kind of looming in the left there. his niece harriet lane. we've already seen a wonderful bust of cave johnson james and sarah write in the center there and and directly next to on the other side of james is dolley madison. it's a really it's a great picture. sarah polk was the first first lady to invite a daguerreotypus. it was a brand new technology into the white house to take pictures. so the first photographs we have at the white house. we're taking during the whole presidency. now the reason that sarah was able to throw herself into her husband's work and become so fully a political creature is because she forced her nieces including joanna you see next to her to do the normal work of a first lady. she required her nieces to return all of the calls that were made on her and these were the normal time sync. for first ladies, and this allowed her to help james with his correspondence to me with politicians and to help allay office seekers. a number of scholars have written t

some first ladies like harry lane johnston, who was the niece of james buchanan and who served in that capacity as his hostess and first lady really understood the power of portraiture and here you see her in a marble portrait bust which she herself commissioned. it's in the collection of the smithsonian american art museum because she gave it to the nation along with her very extensive art collection and that formed the basis of the national fine arts collection, which is now the american art museum. it's very rare to have a portrait of a woman a named woman done in marble during this period and we may see lots of portraits of women that are well not really purchase, but lots of our presentations of women in marble, but more often they are allegorical portraits. they are types like liberty or colombia or america but in the case of harriet lane johnston, she stood the power of portraiture and as a woman she decided that she needed to preserve her likeness not only in two dimensions, but in three dimensions next, please. at the national portrait gallery today, we commissioned portraits

james buchanan. he was the 15th president, held office, 1857 to 1861.the screen, alphabet. new record high. microsoft up over three bucks right now. 256. the all-time my for microsoft i think it is about 261, 262. way up today. approaching those highs. here's why big tech is doing so well. the yield on the 10-year treasury, despite inflation news today all the way down to 1.48%. tech investors just love lower interest rates. it is good for big tech stocks. that is what is happening right now. time is up for me. neil, it is yours. neil: thank you very much, stuart. the markets seem to be quite okay with higher prices and more inflationary concerns. i've been seeing that spelled out over the show here. we'll get into the details of all of that but the markets are not worried. we think we know why. we'll get into that. we're also going to get the read on how so many employers are trying to fill jobs right now and pay them much higher wages to accommodate that, to push young people with temptations of 20, $25 an hour j

accra terry of the treasury and widely considered the power behind the throne in president james buchanan's cabinet. cobb exaggerated the danger facing the south. he warned, that republicans were committed to immediate at unconditional abolition in every state. and that lincoln plan to build up a party in the south, to promote insidious warfare. cobb certainly knew better but his words intensified panic among ordinary white southerners. he and other key southern leaders, senators robert tombs of georgia, and jefferson davis of mississippi, apparently decided they could do nothing to deflect the mob mentality and i chose instead to amplify it. before the election republicans assumed that secession threats were a harmless charade and a mixture of bravado and posturing. after the election, most republicans refused to take seriously and outburst based upon what they considered ludicrous and seemingly deliberate misconceptions. some republicans however did fear that secession posed a great crisis. but they faced an uphill struggle when they tried to offer concessions. republicans for the most pa