thaddeus stevens is a major player in south pennsylvania. arrives in gettysburg in 1817, a young lawyer from vermont. he is quickly elected to the state house representing gettysburg. he has some disagreements and by thed of rejected mainstream elite gettysburg, but continues to serve as a state representative. ands a staunch abolitionist does things that candidly to make sure that gettysburg becomes a center on the underground railroad. it is on a prime position, being that it can get runaways from the baltimore and eastern maryland, as far south as north carolina. the mountains to the east and rivers to the list would converge in gettysburg. into thehad it written mortgages of farmers in gettysburg that they could be called on demand. if you saw underground activity and reported, your mortgage greatly investigated. haddeus stevens arranged a -- black janitor for the school. he was not actually a generator, but a conductor for the underground railroad. andies stevens also owned fireworks. -- an ironworks. today it is called caledonia state

. >> what effect if any did the death of thaddeus stevens have on the outcome of reconstruction? mr. williams: joan? ms. waugh: thank you. actually thaddeus stevens, upon hearing andrew jackson was not impeached from the senate trial said the country has gone to the dogs and then he died. he was so disgusted. his day had passed by then. he was being superseded by moderate republicans already in 1868. radicaling was that republicans were a fading presence on the scene. his death confirmed it. mr. williams: anyone else? mr. egerton: he has a great land reform bill. johnson does not have to veto it because it never comes out of committee. it is even too radical for other so-called radical republicans. in many ways his job is to be the voice of real progressive reform, but he is out there by himself. ms. waugh: is he the berni of his erae? mr. egerton: i am not going there. >> after listening to yesterday's talk on reconstruction in today's panel i think i will write a book. "don't do the war unless you know i do make the piece." it seems like there is zero preparation planning the e

this led it moderates to join radicals like thaddeus stevens in refusing to use seat -- two-seat the southerners recently elected to congress. then they established a joint committee to infinity -- to investigate the progress of reconstruction. over.esident said it was no more. early in 1860 six, lyman trumbull, a senator from illinois, proposed to build, reflecting the moderates' belief that johnson's policy required modification. the first extended the life of the freedmen's bureau, which had been established for only one year. the second, the civil rights bill, was described by one congressman as one of the most important bills ever presented to the house for its action. the bill left the new southern governments in place, but required them to accord blacks the same civil rights as whites. it made no mention of the right to vote. passed by overwhelming majorities, the civil rights the firstsented attempt to define in legislative terms the essence of freedom and the rights of american citizenship. in empowering the federal equalityt to require regardless of race, it embodied a prof

daniel day-lewis last night try to give a civics lesson, and abraham lincoln was going after thaddeus stevenspresentatives. is this house and senate behind the president of 2017? morning,ter this senate majority leader mitch mcconnell will be at the white house meeting with president trump. i am also told that vice president mike pence, who is very much involved in the congressional outreach, as is --ior staffer paul teller they will be mapping out a legislative strategy because there is a lot of concern about the republican caucus, that this court case has cost a lot of political capital from the white house to get across their other legislative agenda items. francine: i was going to ask you this. how much of a distraction is , whichr the white house needs to together and inform the people about their economic plan, and funding and spending? kevin: that is a concern. legislation to start moving out of the house of representatives in a couple of weeks. rob nichols told me yesterday that he anticipates the legislation and appealing parts of dodd-frank to begin within the next couple of weeks.