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[inaudible] you mentioned james garfield, but i also wonder if you had any encounters with either ulyssesgrant or twain? >> e. was very good friends with james -- did i talk about sam's relationship with other figures in the. grant and twain and garfield kurt garfield was one of his best friends. the two of them of the classics. sam always had a copy of homer in his pocket. and he and garfield were drawn together by the love of the classics. he had been a classics professor hiram college event in ohio. garfield also had a family back in ohio who was that their children and he was in washington and he use only and is one of sam's most frequent to. in his diary he recounts it may not sam's. four times a week sometimes. he was also a very prominent member of imports and house committees. and he's not naÏve. he knows why he's invited to dinners with certain people are going to the gas, but he's okay with that. so they were very good friends. sam had very little regard for grant. he didn't like radical republicans. he disagreed with the way reconstruction was being conducted in the south and h
[inaudible] you mentioned james garfield, but i also wonder if you had any encounters with either ulyssesgrant or twain? >> e. was very good friends with james -- did i talk about sam's relationship with other figures in the. grant and twain and garfield kurt garfield was one of his best friends. the two of them of the classics. sam always had a copy of homer in his pocket. and he and garfield were drawn together by the love of the classics. he had been a classics professor hiram college...
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the papers of some of sam's good friends are here, james a. garfield, thomas a. bair, william antivirus and for the papers of james g. blaine, benjamin practice, hamilton fish, benjamin brown french, and to marvel, benjamin butler, was sam's nemesis and many others. and together they provide a richness of detail that also brings him were ward back to life. so here's the story of sam ward in a nutshell and the congress david. sam's early years gave no hint of his future profession. he was born in 1814, the first of six children and to an older family. his father, samuel ward, was highly respected conservative banker for the rocksolid firm of ram board and came and sam ward, the sun was expected to someday take its place there. when sam's mother died when he was just him, his father was devastated and turn to religion. he gave up cigars. he took a temperance into the horror of his friends come and destroyed all the wind in his well-stocked cellar. he also became morbidly obsessed with his children moral spiritual and physical health and try to shelter them from the
the papers of some of sam's good friends are here, james a. garfield, thomas a. bair, william antivirus and for the papers of james g. blaine, benjamin practice, hamilton fish, benjamin brown french, and to marvel, benjamin butler, was sam's nemesis and many others. and together they provide a richness of detail that also brings him were ward back to life. so here's the story of sam ward in a nutshell and the congress david. sam's early years gave no hint of his future profession. he was born...
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the successor, the ill-fitted jeans are killed, would renominate -- be ill- -- the ill-fated james garfield, would renominate him. they supported horace gray. the president also recommended melville fuller. he had actually recommended an illinois attorney for the post, but he declined the offer. the chief justiceship went to fuller, whom the press labeled the most obscure man ever nominated for that exalted position. when justice matthews die, president harrison took nine months to compile a long list of possible nominees before narrowing it down to two. he chose to friends with similar credentials, degrees from yale, and service on state and federal courts. they referred to each other as president herring -- they referred each other at. but justice miller fell victim to a stroke. harrison had the opportunity to name the runner up to the high court. he would recommend jackson to fill the 1893 vacancy. apparently, jackson's friendship with benjamin harrison from their days in the u.s. senate overcame their partisan differences. nor did the senate majority delay the confirmation. let's turn t
the successor, the ill-fitted jeans are killed, would renominate -- be ill- -- the ill-fated james garfield, would renominate him. they supported horace gray. the president also recommended melville fuller. he had actually recommended an illinois attorney for the post, but he declined the offer. the chief justiceship went to fuller, whom the press labeled the most obscure man ever nominated for that exalted position. when justice matthews die, president harrison took nine months to compile a...
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the successor, the ill-fitted jeans are killed, would renominate -- be ill- -- the ill-fated james garfield, would renominate him. they supported horace gray. the president also recommended melville fuller. he had actually recommended an illinois attorney for the post, but he declined the offer. the chief justiceship went to fuller, whom the press labeled the most obscure man ever nominated for that exalted position. when justice matthews die, president harrison took nine months to compile a long list of possible nominees before narrowing it down to two. he chose to friends with similar credentials, degrees from yale, and service on state and federal courts. they referred to each other as president herring -- they referred each other at. but justice miller fell victim to a stroke. harrison had the opportunity to name the runner up to the high court. he would recommend jackson to fill the 1893 vacancy. apparently, jackson's friendship with benjamin harrison from their days in the u.s. senate overcame their partisan differences. nor did the senate majority delay the confirmation. let's turn t
the successor, the ill-fitted jeans are killed, would renominate -- be ill- -- the ill-fated james garfield, would renominate him. they supported horace gray. the president also recommended melville fuller. he had actually recommended an illinois attorney for the post, but he declined the offer. the chief justiceship went to fuller, whom the press labeled the most obscure man ever nominated for that exalted position. when justice matthews die, president harrison took nine months to compile a...