the interesting thing about paul jennings is he did have an agenda. jennings was born in 1799 in mount peel yar. he was a slave and skilled worker who, at various times was a footman, a waiter and porter before he became james' valet. his father was white. his mother was a combination of black and native american. he served the madison's as a serve/servant. there were real and painful problems in the relationship with his mistress. after james death, dolley took to washington which separated him from, paul from his wife fanny. they could only see each other occasionally. this remained true, even after she took a serious fall in 1844 that led to her death. dolley then gave him leave to go and mourn and grieve back in orange county. in 1845, dolley waffled about him, even drawing up emancipation documents then decided not to do that, but rented him out to president poke. in 1846, she sold him to an insurance agent for $200. six months later, senator daniel webster bought jennings for $120, then allowed him to purchase his own freedom at $8 a month. jenni

he was assisted by paul jennings, an african-american youth of maybe 15, owned by madison. jennings was the president's valet and especially skilled in the details of setting up a proper dining room. the two preparations, placed wines on the side board and boiled and scrubbed the chamber pots, a convenience for the gentleman after dinner when the ladies have left the room. the lamps and candles stood ready to light. everything in the dining room was about ready. inthe stone vaulted kitchen the basement was jefferson's up withon stove fired meats being prepared. the steward who supervised all of this was a serious man who was terrified of the british and what was going to happen. he referred constantly to his childhood memories of the bloody streets of revolutionary paris where he was raised. mrs. madison, about as nervous as her steward, and her made stood in the room would call the blue room looking with a telescope to the southeastern horizon where smoke from kevin arose fromnon fire bladensburg in maryland and marking the dance of the british soldiers. adviserto her, ross

when they were gone except for paul jennings, whom the president had told to remain long enough to bank the fires in the kitchen and diagram and lock kitchen and dining room and lock the house. jennings saw scavengers enter the house. nothing more is known about them, whether he ordered them out, or whether they chose to ttic, which a would have been a bad decision. jennings walks the house and left to find the president. it would appear the white house was silent for a few hours. some lamps may have flickered in the hall, a custom at night. at 11:00, the first contingent of soldiers appeared it down pennsylvania avenue. their backs eliminated by the burning capitol building. -- with noponsors response, the men broke open the door and entered, joined by sailors. the company of 150 wondered the house for about an hour, soaking what they saw and perhaps excited by the historical moment. once the officers' thoughts were together, they began preparing the house to burn. there had never been much question whether or not the fire would take place. the decision was already made. they want to t

the interesting thing about paul jennings is he did have an agenda. jennings was born in 1799 in montpelier. he was a slave and skilled domestic worker who at various times was probably a footman, a waiter, and a porter before he became james' valet. his father was white. his mother was a combination of black and native american. he served the madisons for many years as a trusted slave/servant. there were real and painful problems in the relationship with his mistress. after james' death, dolley took paul to washington, which separated paul from his wife fanny, which meant they could only see each other occasionally. this remained true, even after she took a serious fall in 1844 that led to her death. dolley then gave him leave to go and mourn and grieve back in orange county. in 1845, dolley waffled about him, even drawing up emancipation documents then decided not to do that, but rented him out to president polk. in 1846, she sold him to an insurance agent for $200. six months later, senator daniel webster bought jennings for $120, then allowed him t

from there, madison, who's accompanied by paul jennings, the house, the madison house slave and several, and would spend the next three days as a refugee. there is no air force one or marine one helicopter to take them away. madison is on his own. georgetown are so clogged that she cannot reunite with the president. she ends up going further up river, chain bridge and crossing into virginia, and it would be better part of the day before ñ reunited. after burning theÑfz÷ capital, and coburn move with the troops down pennsylvania avenue to the white house. dolly and james madison had both left a number of hours earlier. and the british along the way stopped and talked to some madison was and were somewhat disappointed to learn that he had already left the city. as they approached the white house, they passed a tavern on t the corner right near the treasury building. they actually went in to order dinner, and the woman proprietor tried to get them to go off to did not work. continued down pennsylvania avenue and entered the white bìáhp &hc% unlocked. having been abandoned in the previous h

when she saw that her slave paul jennings was taking too long to unscrew the giant frame from the wall she told him to break the canvas. and fortunately at that moment, french john came in. it becomes murky. did]"aéÑ french john tell jennio stop and with dolly's approval took out the knife and cut the fabric from its frame? 95 inches long, 59 3/4 inches wide. or, did dolly tell the slave to break it from the wood and take it out? we don't know for sure. but the conservators didn't find any cut marks on the canvas. and so, we're not quite sure. ÷ whatever happened, they gave it to barker one of the new yorkers who started to roll it up. until he was stopped by the frenchman. they put a flat in the wagon and drove through georgetown into the countryside and left wit a farmer they lodged with overnight and a few weeks latter, they returned it to dolly. now, today, it hangs in the east room of the white house. when the president is giving a press conference there in the east room or he's awarding medals of honor, et cetera, you will see it behind his shoulders. and when my book came out, i

what you find is the women and children are sitting on the tar paul jens, waiting for someone to come and help them. they say they cannot go back to the villages, because there is water there, and the fact is that the foundations of the houses is now very week. so these people are not able to return soon. the most important thing will be that after the flood swept through the region, there has to be rehabilitation, and to resettle the people back into the villages. >>> kamal hyder in pakistan. >>> now to sweden, where polls opened for the parliamentary elections and the center left is indicated to take power. the social democrats have a lead over the incumbent conservative coalition and campaigned on a platform of higher spending on job schools, health care and fuels. after eightors of tax cuts. >> like many students worldwide, children in gaza are returning to school. that's the only similarity. they are getting back to normal. after seven weeks of violence during the assault on the strip. as charles stratford reports, the horrors of the conflict haunts them. there's 1,300 girls retu

paul jennings, madison's slave, had been told by dolly's brother-in-law to go to 48th street to get his carriage. and from that vantage points, the slave would later recollect a rebel taking advantage of a confusion, ran all through the president's house. that's what they call the white house then. then. and stole lots of silver. the british limited their looting to souvenir hunting in iegslated cases of robbery for which the thooefings paid dear to their home. they assured that their property would be safe. they appointed a company to patrol pennsylvania avenue to protect private property. they would perform so honorably for years. so excuse me while i take one more sip. that's what happened while washington was being occupied. it was only three weeks later that the british forces surrendered. this was a sitting bulging with surrounding counties from pennsylvania and virginia. history has a way of taking a humiliating moment like that and turning it into glory. and this is what happened. it was raining hard and they were slashed with trenches. but even though the men were wet, damp, ti

so she instructed some of her servants, including the madison house, paul jennings house slave and thener, to get the portrait off the wall. this proves to be quite difficult. dolly madison gets credit for saving the portrait of george washington, but it should be noted that she actually leaves at this point. being urged by some citizens and other who is are saying she was in great danger and needed to leave immediately. and so she takes some of the silver and other belongings. with her and gets into a carriage and rides up to georgetown leaving jennings and some of the other servants to get the portrait down. which they finally are able to do with the help of a hatchet. now portrait would then be saved by several businessmen from new york who came by and secured a wagon. and took it away into maryland for safekeeping. dolly rides into georgetown and goes to the home of one of the madison's friends. and she's waiting word from madison. president madison arrives at the white house around 4:00 in the afternoon. dolly is left and he takes sort of a last look around the place. he's accompa

insult to injury, and so she instructs some of the servants, including the madison's house slave, paul jennings, and the gardener tom mcgraw to get down the portrait down awe off of the wall. that is difficult. and dolly madison gets the credit for saving the picture, but she actually leaves at this point, and being urged by citizens and others who were saying that she is in great danger and needed to leave immediately. so she takes the silver@qwc ande of the other pd>ómruju)u$ her and gets in the carriage to drive up to georgetown to leave jennings and some of the other servants to get the portrait down, which they finally manage to do with the help of a hatchet. now, the portrait would then be saved by several businessmen from new york who came by4pqoÑ secured a wagon and took it away in maryland for safekeeping. now, dolly rides into georgetown adison friends, and she is etown waiting more word from madison. president madison arrives at the white house around 4:00 in the afternoon. dolly is left, and he takes sort of the last look around the place, and she is accompanied by a couple of aides

when she saw that her slave paul jennings was taking too long to unscrew the giant frame from the wallold him to break the canvas. and fortunately at that moment, french john came in. it becomes murky. did]"aéÑ french john tell jennio stop and with dolly's approval took out the knife and cut the fabric from its frame? 95 inches long, 59 3/4 inches wide. or, did dolly tell the slave to break it from the wood and take it out? we don't know for sure. but the conservators didn't find any cut marks on the canvas. and so, we're not quite sure. ÷ whatever happened, they gave it to barker one of the new yorkers who started to roll it up. until he was stopped by the frenchman. they put a flat in the wagon and drove through georgetown into the countryside and left wit a farmer they lodged with overnight and a few weeks latter, they returned it to dolly. now, today, it hangs in the east room of the white house. when the president is giving a press conference there in the east room or he's awarding medals of honor, et cetera, you will see it behind his shoulders. and when my book came out, it was

when she saw that her slave paul jennings was taking too long to.unscrew the giant frame from the wall she told them to break the wood and take out the linen canvas. and fortunately at that moment french john came in. now it becomes murky. deep french john tells jennings to stop and with dolly's approval took out his knife and cut the heavyweight english troll fabric from its frame. 95 inches long, 59 3/4 inches wide. or did dolly tell the slave to break it from the wood and take it out? we don't know for sure. but the conservatives -- the conservatives didn't find any cut marks on the canvas. and so we're not quite sure. it's a little bit murky. whatever happened, they gave it to barker, one of the new yorkers who started to roll it up. until he was stopped by the frenchman for fear the paint would crash. barker then put a flat in a wagon and they drove through georgetown into the countryside and to the farmer they lodged with overnight. and a few weeks later they returned it to dolly. now, today it hangs in the east room of the white house. when t

and so she instructs the madison and slave, paul jennings the gardiner, tom mcgraw, to get the portrait down off of the wall. this proves to be quite difficult. dolly madison gets credit for portrait of george washington. but it should be noted that she point, y leaves at this being urged by some citizens and thers who are saying that she was in great danger, need to leave -- needed to leave immediately. she takes some of the silver and other belongings with er and gets in a carriage and rides up to georgetown leaving ennings and some of the other servants to get the portrait down, which they manage to do help of a hatchet. saved by it would be the businessmen in new york that came by and secured a wagon and away to maryland for safekeeping. president mad zorn arrives a it the white house at 4:00 in the afternoon. dolly is left. he takes a last look around the lace, he's acaned by a couple of aides. he's exhausted. whoed ha been riding out on horseback out to battlefield, come under rocket fire, come back to the white house. the an only imagine what thoughts are this moment. this is a n