. >> this is a sweet is for me, i told you i was going to mention james monroe. james monroe returns to the lighthouse at the first president after the fire 1817 and in this extraordinary three-piece week of furniture from the french cabinetmaker is there in lighthouse, was originally a red color, not a blue-collar overtime becomes warm and out of fashion design of the presidency and went down to one piece of 53. which is tragic. there was a time for the candy presidency there was a collection of the house for long process, the ex-president could come along and go away, there is sustainable selection . that change their candy soldier is displaced this beautiful three-piece suite of furniture comes in. five you can is all done except for one piece. mrs. k issued to claim as many pieces as she. we worked with her on that and other first ladies since. to this day i believe there are 10 original piecesand the white house action . pieces including that appeared table of fire screen using their. the humanity was required, you look at class, like a piece of chalk and tr

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the man holding the the flag, lieutenant future president james monroe and then underneath the flag, right in the center out towards us is general nathaniel green, one of washington's division commanders on the operation that he's undertaking. not surprisingly, there are a few historical inaccuracies, right? washington in standing no, not you know he right very much would have been sitting lucy painted this at dawn when in fact the crossing took place middle of the night. it wouldn't make it. it made a very good paying. so at dawn, additionally, the number of men this boat would have likely sent the boat straight to the bottom of the delaware river. the boats that they use for the crossing were known locally as durham boats. they were large, 40, 60 feet long, about eight feet wide, almost barges that a little bit more stable. so not quite the right craft. but again, i think it's it really does capture spirit of was happening with this event of course the central figure washington even though he's standing still it's washington with some of my students in class up at the staff college

you know, it was formed in 1816, and it had james monroe and bush right in washington and supreme courtjustice john marshall were involved, as were the presidents of the major colleges at the time. and it was heavily attacked by the abolitionist editor, william lloyd garrison. and he wrote he attacked cassius by name and nellie custis was so furious at the garrison's rhetoric, she considered dangerous that she wrote an angry letter about him, which i reproduce in the book. and of course, frederick douglass later denounced the american colonization society. in the end, about 16,000 american blacks did go back to africa, and a couple of more from arlington house. and they wrote to mrs. lee cautiously to keep in touch with her and said they were doing well there. so i'm so pleased that in the modern era that i get to individualize the enslaved persons a little more than perhaps what was done, you know, in decades past. so there are three major individuals and families that i want to highlight at arlington house. selina gray and her husband, thornton. she is best known. she was mrs. lee's c

. >> james monroe, andrew jackson, john tyler. stuart: can't read them all, kid. >> jfk.am, biden. stuart: three seconds it is 12 noon. time is up for me. neil, 12 noon. it is yours. ♪. neil: we interrupt this roughly half percentage point hit in stocks to alert you to a possibly 25% hit in home prices. you heard me right. goldman sachs out with a stunning report cites u.s. cities that could be in for record price drops. we'll tell you the cities. here is a hint. two are in california. those four markets might discuss be the start. now former vice president mike pence, the latest government official with some explaining to do over classified documents in his home. we talk to a guy who used handle a lot of pens's explaining in the past. former press secretary mark lauter is here, only here. have you heard the latest, the congressional budget office now says that social security trust fund could be completely exhalfed, i.e., out of cash, ten years if republicans and democrats don't do something big and fast and soon. something like ronald reagan and tip o'neill did 40 years

james madison and james monroe were the honorary presidents, the american colonization society.t was very respectable. henry clay was a huge part of this, very respectable position. and it's another sign of how one generation's respectable pity is another generation's sense of a cause of it, or else. and so i think it's i think it's a mistake to judge lincoln in his in entirety based on his views on this, which happens in some quarters of of of the debate. but i also think that it incumbent on us, if we are intellectually honest and morally open, to realize that we are part of a country that thought that was a plausible thing to do. thank you for that education. appreciate that. even personally, this is one of my favorite images of mr. lincoln taken the debates of lincoln-douglas debates in 1858. and i tv pearson and this guy i don't know if i want meet him in a in a law court or a back alley for that matter. he was a tough guy. no. yes. a great wrestler. he didn't like sports. i remember going through herndon's informants and being by that. he preferred reading to hunting and s

he wrote that, too, his protege and other anti-federal resists, james monroe, at the close of the first congress. so we're always out of sight of a port in american politics. we're always going forward, not quite knowing how it's going to work out except that the going is going to be kind of tough politically. and it's true the great machine of government that we've been bequeathed may seem crazy at times, maybe most times. it will never work perfectly but we canals make it better. and i think the former members, this wonderful organization i'm a great fan of, has an important role to play in the struggle to restore confidence in government through the many means that were discussed a little earlier this evening in that you've all committed yourselves to. and to re-educate but do much more than re-educate americans, including journalists who frankly seems to me too often -- i come out of journalism, by the way, originally, too often seem to lack a thorough education in civics or what the process of government actually is. but to re-educate the -- even the thinking american public about