julia gardiner tyler, john tyler's widow, was so outraged by the incident that she wrote to president ligon in protest. general wild was later court-martialed and convicted for his role in the incident, but the ruling was eventually overturned. if such examples of changing racial relations concerned them, confederates became rose at the site of black men like those in wild's african regained wearing the union blue. lincoln's proclamation called for the use of black men to andison forts and positions to manned vessels of all sorts in service to the union. black men had been recruited for military service earlier, but the president's authorization hastened the effort to bring them officially into the federal forces. for confederates, it was incontrovertible proof of lincoln's disregard for their rights and lives. freeman pressed the president and congress to be allowed to into the fight from its beginning. believing valor on the battlefield would earn them the freedom and rights that have not come to black people by virtue of their birth. they had even offered to provision units of volu

it is great to get together and celebrate the career of franklin pierce, john tyler, can't forget john tyler. i understandnt, the imperatives of a three-day weekend and you can't take two days off likely used to do back when i was a lad. there is a petition of the tory hey all get lumped together. worked its way through to popular biographies that glorified lincoln, washington, or teddy roosevelt. we are more sensitive to democratic politics and diversity. they determine the outcome of role come historic events. it does not work for history. history is much more complicated. we lose something by not celebrating people who were great. it is a good idea to celebrate people who really achieved something. while not all the presidents had, the presidents with complexity have done so. we should pay attention to it. it went the wrong way, here. it was short. i did my best. [laughter] i hit the button. [no audio] all right. theory, historians are always changing things because he needed come up with new ideas to write new books to keep their jobs. frontier thesis is largely discredited. as i h

great to get together and celebrate the career of franklin pierce and william henry harrison and john tyler. i understand the point of a three-day weekend. there is a kind of a participatory medal now for the presidents. they all get lumped together. some of this is a justifiable suspicion of the great man theory of history. that we had in the 19th century with thomas carlyle. popular biographies glorified lincoln and washington and teddy roosevelt. we now are more sensitive to democratic politics. diversity and the panoply of social history. i am not a devotee of the great man theory of history. i don't think individuals, with rare exceptions such as lincoln, determine everything in history. it doesn't really work for history which is much more multifaceted. i do think that we lose something as a nation if we are not celebrating people who were great. not all the presidents have and not all presidents will. people like lincoln and washington and roosevelt have done so. we should pay some attention to that. it was short, i did my best. [laughter] the other thing is part of the interpretive

john tyler, a virginian, staunchly defended the preservation of slavery. he is oftentimes voted one of the worst presidents. james k. polk owned slaves in the white house, commissioning his wife to free their slaves after her death. the 13th amendment beat them to the punch. she did not die until the 1890's. zachary taylor owned many slaves. but generally advocated against the expansion of slavery. this was a surprising maneuver for taylor. which challenged the ire of proslavery ideologues. taylor died in 1850 during a heated debate over the expansion of slavery. andrew johnson and ulysses s. grant, two post civil war presidents, also at one point owned slaves. the main point here despite a dearth of resources we find that each unique and interesting president was surrounded by interesting enslaved people. historians must continue to find the stories and secure their place in the canon of american historical figures. these individuals should be more than secondary figures in high school history textbook. you have they make about far. this causes me to wond

connection with the abolition movement, and elected robert time it was the site of the slaveholding john tyler as the president of the irish repeal association. asked daniel o'connor to denounce the american abolitionists, and he was brilliant. he told, part of it of course is americanization and sort of hyper nationalism demonstrate loyalty to your adopted country, not criticizing its institution, especially those that threatened the union. but daniel o'connell issued a wonderful letter before his death he told it was not in ireland we learned of this cruelty, not his exact words. so the project of sort of recruiting immigrant amongst the irish failed. with the germans they were a little more successful because a lot of them were freethinking refugees from the 1848 revolution. and a lot of them simply rot that commitment to liberal democracy, human rights, the general revolutionary republican ideas, which they then put into the service after the abolition movement. so the germans come this gymnastic clubs they had, were very important in defending abolitionists and african-americans from atta

however, the vice president was john tyler. tyler was in favor of the extension to taxes to join and be admitted into the union. however, this was blocked. and that wouldn't happen until 1845. so the question is, was there a motive, and was he really poisoned to death? senator thomas hart benton, who is served for 30 years in congress, there was no failure of health or strength, referring to harrison, his attack was sudden and evidently fatal from the commencement. on volumek 30 years two, page 210. he says arsenic would produce a set in effect, it will be fatal from the commencement. if it was arsenic poison, he would give symptoms of gastritis, enteritis, or. --.is i guess. presidentassassinated was abraham lincoln. the first president that was attempted to assassinate was andrew jackson. there was an attempt on his life in 1835. jackson actually was saved for one reason or another, and just to let you know, richard lawrence attached jackson at the capitol steps, pulled out of doing distal, fired at point-blank range. the cap

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john tyler when he was president nominated nine people. he made nine nominations of people who didn't get on the court. and by the time he left the presidency, i think there were multiple vacancies on the court because the senate was not prepared to confirm the people that he nominated. there -- probably their excuse at the time was he was the first vice president to become president so maybe they wondered, well, maybe -- maybe this is not really someone who gets the deference of a president and presidents in their last year have, mr. president of the senate, 9/11 gotten much -- mr. president of the senate, have never gotten much deference. this is lifetime appointments. just look at the example of a case that are before the court right now. there's an appeal from the texas circuit court, where the president, as many of us said at the time he did, the court says the president's executive amnesty decision was way beyond the power of the president. if the president wants to change immigration laws, he has to come to the congress and change t

ex-president john tyler of virginia, which had not yet seceded, chaired the conference. ex-president, big-name. he was a big push her to try to get proslavery constitutional amendments as part of their agenda. he got what he wanted. he stated in the final day of the conference it was now his obligation to present the congress -- these do congress to try to get them past. he sent them pro forma to the senate, never to the house. the next day he showed up in richmond as a member of the virginia secession convention and attacked all the proposals as ridiculous. again, those are all very interesting but the point is trying to avoid war this group came up with -- and even political leaders from the states, not congress -- they came over their proposals. they were virtually identical to the crittenden once. -- ones. they all got was slavery -- they all dealt with slavery. you can look at southern leaders' statements early in the war before the war as to what this was all about. davis had made his statement in his farewell address to congress when he went home. his vice preside

. >> john kasich could not seem to explain to savannah today what indiana voters should do today. sounds confusing? >> joining me now is bill, rick ti tylers telling me that john kasich was a little off message today, do you think? >> i think if there is any chance to stop donald trump but there will be some chance, indiana will have to deliver a strong majority for ted cruz. strong majority for the delegates. i don't think it is that confusing actually. >> rewell, i love what you said this weekend on abc about an independent candidacy. is it too late, you sided ross perot getting votes, he was running hard and long before the end of june. is it a little bit late to mobilize a third party candidate, provided an alternative if this is what the match up is going to be. >> clinton and trump are unusually favorably viewed by the public. the only way which is too late is there are two state deadlines for getting on the ballot that's pretty close. texas to north carolina. the next one is june 27th. all this talk about it is impossible. it is difficult but it is not impossible. and i think the legal challenge in texas north carolina would succee

howie jackson, rick tyler, chris hayes, joy reid and john nichols. what a group. i want to stay here all night. our coverage of the wisconsin primary will continue after this. it will. ♪ >>> at the top of another hour it's time to look at what is quickly becoming and has been all night a sizable ted cruz victory in wisconsin. now, politics being politics, they've already been some people saying, no, no, no, it's a trump loss in wisconsin, not a cruz victory. that check mark says projected winner so we'll go with that. ted cruz, 50% over 33% for trump with that percentage in and bernie sanders and enjoying a victory in wisconsin. we have just heard from him in

tyler mathisen, thanks for joining us. have a great evening, see you monday. john: clinton and trump solidify their frontrunner status but the one trump movement vows last stand. i'm john dickerson in for gwen ifill tonight on "washington week." over.s as far as i'm concerned, it's over. secretary clinton: it's your house, we're going to come back to philadelphia with the most most pledged delegates. john: so close, they can taste it, hillary clinton and donald the verge of locking up their nominations and looking to fall campaign. mr. trump: i think the only card women's card. she's got nothing else going. secretary clinton: if fighting for paid healthcare and equal pay is playing the women's card, deal me in. john: the latest

it is impossible for john kasich who would need more than 100% of the remaining delegates. let's bring in rick tylero what house speaker, paul ryan did. he just released a policy video. here is part of it. let's play it. >> what really bothers me about politics these days, this notion of identity politics, that we are going to win an election by dividing people whether than inspiring people on our common humanity and culture and the things that have unified us. >> rick, you have been a communications director. does that look like a policy ad or a campaign ad? >> it had a great feel tog it. i think it is consistent with paul ryan. i have known him for a long time, followed his career throughout his career. it is typical of paul ryan. he is the speaker of the house. he will be the chairman of the convention. he is trying to set the tone and maybe set the tone for the republican party and frame it a little bit differently than we have seen in this campaign. >> since you've known him so long, i want to ask you, do you really believe him when he says he doesn't want to be president of the united states,

tyler's fixation, his obsession. the presidency is what took you away from the family so you will use it to help him. off he went on these trips. john really deserves a longer session but thanks for being here. mark: up next, we have ice cube to talk about donald trump, bernie sanders, and black lives matter. you do not want to miss that. ♪ john: one of this year's inductees to the rock 'n roll hall of fame is nwa. i met up with one of the group's founders and certified movie star, ice cube. it was a good day. we talked about his music, "barbershop: the next cut," and the group from straight out of compton. starting with the ways nwa was from the start, a defiantly political act. >> you about to witness the strength of street knowledge. meaning, you are about to witness, you know, a knowledge coming off the streets or out of the streets you may not have ever witnessed before. we wanted to be real. to be honest. street knowledge is a term to me. it means, letting the streets no what the government, politics, police, authority figures are. what they are doing up to exposing them. and letting them know what the streets think and how th

bill is going in from tyler, texas on our ted cruz line. what you think about what john boehner had to say? >> i think john boehner is a lobbyist in waiting period he is part of the establishment. ted cruz, i voted for him. send him to washington. to make changes that would drastically need. cruz andake ted .escribed him as a samuel adams samuel adams wasn't well-liked, either. country,nto change the to change the direction, to get our country online. i will fully support ted cruz andl he is either out elected president. i think he is the best candidate that does what he says he is going to do. >> what is one of the changes you would like to see in the country? less government. less restrictions. put the power back to the states. just a normal person can probably go to washington, take a look at all the money, especially the wasted money given to the private sectors, thatal organizations basically give money to the politicians. the biggest thing i would like to see changed his term limits. two terms, that's it. caller: -- host: that is bill a, texas. a lineity critics dr

john della volpe. >> guest: i think tyler raises some good points. he's absolutely right about the concern about small, about slow growth. i'll note that a survey that we released in the past, this past fall we asked the question inspired by a town meeting that we conducted on a campus at harvard about the american dream. we asked young americans do you believe for you personally the american dream is alive or dead? and about half of young americans believed for them the american dream was dead. so that's the element of the electorate, the significance. half of young americans -- the largest generation in the history of america -- half of those folks believe the american dream is dead. the folks who are more pessimistic about america are more actually going to align with donald trump on the right and bernie sanders on the left. so that's an incredibly important thing to understand as we think about this election. i disagree, however, that there are large numbers of young people flocking to donald trump. we just don't see it in the numbers. again, he

the big news, john kasich and ted cruz teaming up to try to take down donald trump and force a contested convention. joining me now, msnbc political analyst, rick tylerformer member of the circle. good to see you. i have to ask you to put your cruz hat on. is this a conversation going on for a while between kasich and cruz campaign. would you have advised, when you were there with ted cruz, would you have advised him to do this, to coordinate? >> it's a little unprecedented, no benchmarks to look at. it's another twist and turn in this amazing election cycle, nothing to measure it against. i think it's smart actually, a smart thing for the cruz team to do. indiana is going to be so important. winner take all, 57 delegates at stake, if he can deny trump that it will make it much more difficult for trump to get to 1237. i don't know i'd call this alliance or teaming up, i think i'd call it a temporary detant. >> okay. fair enough. the idea is, kasich leaves indiana to cruz and cruz lets him go out west. we looked an at recent fox news indiana poll that includes voters second choice, you look where kasich support could go, reallocate his support, trump

tyler, good to see you. >>> and two programming notes. don't miss a pair of exclusives right here on msnbc. tomorrow night at 7:00 p.m. eastern, chris matthews moderates a town hall with john kasich, and then after that, immediately following that, you can see chuck todd moderating a town hall with ted cruz. when we say msnbc is the place for politics, here's another key example of what we mean by that. take a look at that lineup. hillary clinton and bernie sanders making big pushes in new york today. as they gear up for next week's primary. 291 delegates up for grabs for the democratic candidates. could be a game changer if sanders manages to pull off a win on clinton's home turf. what do new york's democratic voters want to hear from the candidates in the next week? we'll ask christine quinn that question and more after our break. our cosmetics line was a hit. the orders were rushing in. i could feel our deadlines racing towards us. we didn't need a loan. we needed short-term funding fast. building 18 homes in 4 ½ months? that was a leap. but i knew i could rely on american express to help me buy those building materials. amex helped me buy the inventory i needed. our am

john chandler. >>> coming up after the break, from the small screen to the great white way, a star of modern family opens up. >> jesse tyler ferguson, that's me. >> it's a little game i play with myself to see if you're on the ball. the e-class has 11 intelligent driver-assist systems. it recognizes pedestrians and alerts you. warns you about incoming cross-traffic. cameras and radar detect dangers you don't. so in this crash test, one thing's missing: a crash. the 2016 e-class. now receive up to a $3,000 sprin g bonus >>> from modern family to a one-man show on broadway. jesse tyler ferguson opens up about getting into character. >> jesse tyler ferguson, welcome to brooklyn. >> thank you. >> when last we met it was a rain storm, a torrential downpour in los angeles. we sat in director's chairs inside. >> inside, with the stoop in the back. >> good news on modern family, you get to play a gay guy. >> good morning almost husband. happy wedding day. >> it's basically a version of myself. the easiest role i had to play. >> modern family kicking butt still. >> it has. how have you evolved? >> i found love, gotten married. i'm

john. we love him here. >>> well, family this morning making a desperate plea for help to find a teenager who went missing on his way to church. 16-year-old tylerk to join his youth group in washington state, but he never showed up. police are calling it suspicious and he has strong ties to his family and does not have a history of running away. that's in washington state. >>> it's gun awhat gedden in california. they approved seven new bills to buy guns and ammunition. one would ban magazines that hold more than ten rounds. critics say the proposed rules only affect law-abiding gun buyers and don't make the government any safer. >>> an amazing finish to tell you about in ireland. the amazing play-by-play from the announcers says it all. >> oh, look at the finish -- >> unbelievable. >> keep an eye on the lady on the far left in red who fell. she came in from fifth place in the 400 meter run to barely finishing first before collapsing or tripping across the finish line. nice job though from behind. >> that was some of the most -- that was some of the most incomprehensible play-by-play -- >> yeah. >> to be irish. these are my people. >> face plan

interestingly john tyler supposedly got the news of harrison's death and took the oath of office in brown's hotel on pennsylvania avenue which became his favorite hotel we also stayed during the washington peace conference. >> and he and harrison were from the same county in virginia. >> win without ever happen again? >> that's right. they were neighbors from the berkeley plantation and sherwood forest. >> joe, aside from the obvious things, the lack of finding supplies when robert e. lee and the army were marching through, and is-getting surrounded on three sides at appomattox, is say discreet in your estimation the biggest disaster, the main reason for this winter? >> i think so. that was the major defeat on that long retreat, the weeklong retreat. the army was cut in half. in fact, lead saw them coming, the survivors come at the hill toward him and he said has the army been dissolved? and it looked like it was going to be the end fairly soon after that and it was about three days later. so that was a key battle and that was filled shared and with his cavalry getting ahead, writing ahead