osmond latrobe. latrobe she wrote was greatly piqued by such good words and said that it detracted from longstreet's fame. certainly sounds like jealousy to me. and latrobe, who was a mild mannered fellow, surprised her. she added, i was very much taken aback that such a quiet, self-possessed individual should have been startled out of his usual equanimity thus. longstreet himself of course bet three decades after the death pointed out their defects and trying to assail their reputations. the emergence of fool tom jackson as he was known at the vmi with some cause, sort of fellow for whom high schools used to be named, grew expressly from those few days in the spring of 1862. southern newspapers admitted their conversion experiences. they had been making fun of jackson. they had been highlighting his eccentricities. they had been speaking de ricively of him. the richmond daily whig has been explaining how the war should have been run in their view, they knew how to run it in the valley and everywhere

now, no such specific structure was provided for and architect benjamin latrobe, who was the designer of this building and decatur house. there was no provision for the completion of decatur house for any type of structure like this. decatur house was the first private residence constructed on lafayette square, and it was built for naval hero steven decatur and his wife, susan. but in a letter to steven decatur about the construction of the house in 1817, latrobe did recommend the addition of what he called a servants hall if the property was to be rented. following the death of steven decatur in a duel in 1820, just 14 months after the decaturs moved into the house, his widow, susan decatur, did, indeed, rent the house to a succession of european foreign ministers and american secretaries of secretary of state. in january of 1822, while the property was being rented to the french foreign minister to the united states, a man named thomas herbert presented a bill to susan decatur, and it was for erecting a building joining the house in president's square. now, this is the north side of

what brought you here from latrobe, pennsylvania?h: the adventure, you know, the adventure and the... the sea, the ocean, and... and the lure of the treasure. >> keteyian: for years, miscovich says he went back and forth from pennsylvania, pouring profits from real estate deals into dive after empty dive. >> miscovich: it... it's a total obsession. i've put my life savings into treasure salvage. >> keteyian: but by late 2009, the housing market was crashing, and he was caught holding seven properties he couldn't sell. nearly broke, he borrowed money from friends and kept feeding his obsession. you never really stopped believing that you are going to find something... >> miscovich: yep, absolutely. >> keteyian: ...that is going to change your life? >> miscovich: absolutely. >> keteyian: as unbelievable as it sounds, he says, it happened in this bar. this is the bar? >> miscovich: it's the one that changed my life, right here. >> keteyian: he says he met up with a down-on-his-luck diver he'd been friends with for years. his friend clai

looking at, you know, raising their mills and this school district is looking at raising -- you guys in latrobe, you know they're looking at it. every district is looking at having to raise taxes. >> most of the fat's been trimmed from this budget, so a lot of those costs are fixed that the districts have to pay to pay the teachers enough to earn a decent wage and pay their benefits. and unfortunately, now, beyond the fat, you're getting the arts programs that are starting to be cut, things of that nature. and i think those are situations, again, where everybody's going to have to have a seat at the table. there are going to be painful choices all around, but amanda and i both got public school educations that were topnotch and we would want our kids to have the same thing. none of us like to pay more taxes, but sometimes that's necessary. >> it's a necessary evil. >> right, right. >> right. part of the problem was going years back, when the stimulus money came out, that was integrated into and the budgets and when it was gone, it was considered a shortfall. >> and that's one of the questions,

in 1814 the british torched the whole thing, and then it was benjamin latrobe after the war of 1812 that built in the capitol and produced this. by 1825 this was done. a number -- it was shortly after that jackson took the side and said thank you very much and good wine and nothing happened except piecemeal changes in the period we talked about here. thank you very much. [applause] to >>> up next, booktv presents afterwards mack, an hourlong program where we invite a guest hosts to interview authors. this week dale carpenter discusses his book flagrant conduct with a lead times supreme court reporter david savage. the book tells the story of the landmark gay rights case lawrence v. texas from the arrest of john lawrence and tyrone garner to justice kennedy's reading of the supreme court decision in 2003. the ruling made same-sex sexual activity legal in all states and territories to pave the wave for the same sex manage law. >> dale carpenter, you've written a fine book on the supreme court case warrants versus texas, a book that sort of tells the story from the beginning to the end. let