james garfield from what i've read had an interesting talent where he could write a sentence.nd in latin while simultaneously writing a another sentence with his other hand in greek, which i thought was fascinating. bill clinton is sometimes difficult for people to recognize. don't know why i think he's pretty true to form, but he sits there in the back and he looks fairly young. gerald ford is next to him over here. and the interesting thing about gerald ford is he was the most difficult cult of all of the sculptures, too, for mr. addicts to cree features are so unpronounceable. cont lincoln the easiest for him to make because his features are so pronounced i thought was interesting. thomas jefferson is can see is probably the third most decayed president here if you see that he's starting to fall apart pretty bad and and he died so i've heard on the day as hnadamy the fourth which i thought was an interesting piece of history on dry days in the summer, often we allow our guests to walk through here, but you can see is pretty wet and we've had some significant weather here la

here's james garfield a longtime democratic strategist "there are too many preachy females thereby don'teer cannot watch football can't delete hamburgers grandma the hole talking about women and women of color are going to decide the selection... ." forty-eight sens of the people that vote are male. what he's describing is what mike omelus calls the offal's. affluent white female liberals. and this is there an scap. [applause] their main currency is not in life, it's not happiness outrage. the traffic in oversize empathy without the controls supplied by piggish unthinking neanderthal men. see we men know our faults can we get it, were callous, we rarely cry copy per box they overbook clubs. but our flaws are married to our strengths. we think about consequences often to an extreme. remember how every man was talking about the decline of the roman empire for months while woman just looked at them confused? that's what men new. received on the road and by again gun they assault the science class and stall a bucket toilet in the game room. woman strengths empathy and feelings are wonderful.

with the library of congress to transcribe every word of millions of historical documents from james garfield'sading the author's interpretation of the original pages or what they've learned and i figured the best way for people to learn about history is to actually see the original pages. >> so for today this is our agenda. we're going to continue to transcribe. >> reporter: professor sabrina evans has her students working on the library's writings of frederick douglas. >> even as we see him as an amazing figure, students appreciate seeing his everyday life, what he was talking about, who he was in community with. >> reporter: junior justice reid sees the familiarity to today. >> some of the letters are so casual to the point it's a text message i would send to my mom. they have to send it, wait, get a response weeks later. >> reporter: are you finding the more things change, the more they stay the same? >> yes, i use the word, it's the changing theme. what are the conversations that are happening back then that are still happening today? >> reporter: an army of volunteers are also rushing to

james g. blaine, who want tried very hard to become president but didn't. garfield. i think was by the time he was elected, was pretty much had pretty much accommodated himself to the reconciliation test trend. the republican party, through grant's presidency, regarded the southern republican vote largely black, but not entirely as imperative to the of the national republican party. at the end of grant's term, the party and this partly accounts what happened in 1876 the party. came to believe that that was no longer viable and was looking increasingly to the midwest and far west to build its electoral majorities. ohio, your state being a being being being the linchpin actually of the republicans future plans. i guess you would know, jane, most people don't. how many how presidents came from ohio. it's not an not a coincidence so i do i think anything would been different. i think there would have been i think garfield shows signs that he would have prosecuted people who, committed acts of terror in the south against blacks. he would have more and they might have had