in ulysses contract because ulysses decided to here the sirens without destroying himself, his men and his ship. our politicians in this met at that far are lashed to the mast, using lashes of law. we hire central banker asker men and women with bees wax also made of law and macroeconomics. we stuff that legal and macroeconomic bees wax in their ears to guide our land into prosperity with low inflation. we the people by the way, are the sirens in this metaphor. fast forward a few millenia we get different but also pervasive metaphor from long term fed chair william martin. and he says the fed is in the position of the chaperone who ordered the punchbowl removed when the party was really warming up. interestingly all know not appropriately given the past new decade of fed policy, when you google punchbowl it is easier to find people spiking punch rather than taking the punchbowl away. that is the idea. fed keeping us interested in the party and not getting too out of control. in my book i argue that this ulysses chaperone model of fed independence and it is five assumptions were one tha

he looks at how ulysses s. grant and robert e. lee the addition and donna -- shenandoah valley from a strategic standpoint. he also delves into the personalities of the generals and how this impacted the campaign. the shenandoah valley battlefield foundation hosted this talk. i should think kevin but i always seem to get the i assure you we will be going to lunch on time. i am not very bright but i am but enough to know that, so don't worry about that. 23 1864, president .incoln held a cabinet meeting for the previous weeks, he had been getting telegrams from republican politician say it, you cannot be real elected. the people have had it with your administration. in you have to address certain things. .his meeting, he did he asked every member to sign a letter which lincoln had written . in that letter, he and his cabinet pledged their support to the next administration, who lincoln thought would not be him. touched upon it, but if you go back a little bit, think of this. if you look at the overland to put it in perspective, the

yes, most islands want to claim that actually like odysseus, ulysses was from there. >> anthony: rightrom there. it's -- everyone wants to claim, you know, a bit of fame from the mythology to their islands. >> anthony: i can tell you this, ulysses was kind of a dick. he left his wife alone for how long? and how far was he from home? he wasn't that far. >> lambros: he wasn't that far. >> anthony: i mean, he was just dickin' around in the islands, you know. he couldn't go home and, you know, throw the wife a quick one, you know, before -- [ lambros laughing ] >> anthony: and then he gets pissed 'cause she's got to look elsewhere? >> lambros: he came up with this unbelievable story. >> anthony: yeah. "but baby --" i don't know. >> lambros: he went back home, and he said, "darling, you won't believe what happened to me." >> anthony: "there were these chicks. they were singing. they, they lured the ship into the rocks, and they weren't hot, though. they were really ugly." >> lambros: i think you summed him up perfectly. >> anthony: there you go. "the iliad." i see a lot of empty villas, lik

james buchanan, ulysses s. grant , and warren harding. allally, the more i studied three, the more i came to the question, "just how much of a failure they were?" we will get to that in a minute or two crew. who wants to read about residential failures, asks jean baker, the most recent of buchanan's residential biographers. better to focus on presidential winners than its losers. having raised the question, professor baker than answers it nigh intohat are indisputable. in substantial ways, unsuccessful presidencies serve as an negative reference points, lessons in avoidance. critical times often summon our best presidents, and it is worth taking the measure of those presidents who, given the opportunity, failed to rise to greatness. not mind if, will without neglecting the unholy trinity of buchanan, grant, and harding, i adopt a somewhat broader approach in the subject, examining some of the criteria we employ and some of the factors that cause later generations to reconsider such judgments. late, great historian and lincoln scholar, dav

his ulysses contract comes because ulicies desired to hear e -- ulysses desired to hear the sirens without destroying himself, his men, it is ship. we hire central banker oarsmen and women with beeswax, also made of law and macroeconomics, and we stuff that legal and macroeconomic beeswax in our ears so they can guide the ship to a land of economic prosperity with low inflation. we, the people, by the way, are the sirens in this metaphor. fast forward to a new millennia, and we get a different, more pervasive metaphor, from the fed chair william mcchesney martin. and he says, "the fed is in the position of the chap rone who has ordered the punch bowl removed just when the party was really warming up." interestingly, though not inappropriately, given the past decade of fed policy, it is much easier when you google punch bowl to find people spiking the punch as opposed to taking the punch bowl away, but that is a general idea -- the fed chair is keeping us interested in the party but not getting it too out of control. in my book i argue that this ulysses chap rone model of fed independence -

he looks at james buchanan, ulysses s. grant, and warren g. harding.cusses presidents usually regarded as successful. the free library of philadelphia posted this one hour and 15 minute event. host: i am so pleased to introduce tonight our speaker, distinguished presidential historian, richard norton smith. early in his career, he was a white house intern and then a political speech writer. he has a long record of acclaimed books on presidential

so, if the ulysses chaperoned model is wrong, what is right, and that is what my book is about. first, the fed is a they and not an it. the fed chair matters, no question about it, but the internal governance of the fed reveals there is so much else going on with to set the parameters within which the fed operates with participation from governors, were themselves political appointees, other members of the federal open market committee, reserve bank presidents, not talked to by the fed's,nt, and including especially economists and lawyers, especially bank examiners. second, the president matters. no question about it, but so, too, does congress, bankers, financial markets, academic economists, and many others, focus -- others. focusing exclusively on the president as the outside influence or or attempted influencer misses how the fed makes policy. third, law matters. by law, we mean the federal reserve act. low matters much less than we think. i will give some examples in a moment. the bottom line is the idea that law creates independence is mostly false, and, indeed, law someti

. >> president ulysses s.parker to the court in fort smith, giving him jurisdiction over the entire indian territory. >> the law sentences you to hang by the neck until you are dead. may god have mercy on your soul. >> parker sends an immediate message to the territory's outlaws by hanging six men at the same time. >> any last words? then prepare to meet your maker. >> i have never hanged a man. it is the law. i favor hanging's abolition, provided there is certainty of punishment. it is the certainty of punishment that halts crime. >> they called judge isaac parker the hanging judge, and a lot of people certainly swung from his gallows. he was no-nonsense. he was tough as nails. and he needed tough, no-nonsense marshals. >> the indian territory was 75,000 square miles. it's the biggest court in u.s. history. reeves knows the language. he knows the customs because he had lived there. and so he was the absolute perfect person to be a deputy u.s. marshal. >> i'll put it bluntly, mr. reeves. i am looking for men w

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many american presidents, both well-known presidents like ulysses grant, andrew jackson, or george washington had been generals, and people who are maybe not so known, like william henry harrison. there have been many presidents who have been generals. but this tradition had gone. roosevelt had a military background, but his military experience was that more of a civil servant politician in the navy and not as an admirable -- admiral. it is interesting to imagine what he would have been like. the idea of having a general as president did not seem that implausible to people. america had fought the war with a civilian mail population, many of them turned into soldiers. it had been a national experience. in terms of america's wars, singular early benign and a singular early inclusive experience. entirecan watch the "americanc-span3's history tv." >> monday on "the communicators," tim winter on the recent report of the 20 years of the content rating system. according to the report, the system intended to protect them from violence and sex on tv has failed. >> there is no show on broadcast televis

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he looks at how ulysses s. grant and robert e. lee the addition and donna -- shenandoah valley from a strategic standpoint. he also delves into the personalities of the generals and how this impacted the campaign. the shenandoah valley battlefield foundation hosted this talk. i should think kevin but i always seem to get the i assure you we will be going to lunch on time. i am not very bright but i am but enough to know that, so don't worry about that. 3n august

many american presidents both well-known presidents, people like ulysses s. grant and andrew jackson and george washington had been generals and people not so well known, henry harrison, there have been many presidents who have been generals, no fewer than four union generals before the civil war to become president. this practice was gone. result had a military background that his military background has and not that of being a general and in practical terms, his military experience is that of a civil servant politician in the navy and not in admirable. it is rather interesting to imagine what he would've been like as this. the idea of having a general as president did not seem that implausible to people at the end of the 1940's and beginning of the 1950's. america had fought the war with a civilian mail population, many of them turned into soldiers. it'd been a national experience, in terms of america's wars, a singularly inclusive experience. eisenhower and if it's from that and with his war record. there was also the danger that there was another general

and he wins reelection and it was a very close thing and in effect hands off power to his wing man, ulysses s. grant to rid we skip over andrew johnson. that party is the dominant political party for a long time because the democrats committed political suicide with slavery, secession, and not trying to accept the verdict of the civil war. they prevail all the way until another cataclysmic event, the great depression. their party gets the blame for it, herbert hoover. the next tide turning president is franklin roosevelt. no democrat wins the majority. woodrow wilson, grover cleveland. republicans are winning lamplight. -- landslides. franklin, the great depression, franklin roosevelt, the next tide turning president. he went again and again and again, hands off power to his wing man harry truman. and that was the dominant coalition until vietnam and just the chaos of the 1960's sort of tears apart that coalition. it becomes the great society, late 1960's, and really ronald reagan eventually is the next genuinely tide turning president. who won reelection, one a third term called h.w. he ca

ulysses s. grant was president and it was the year of the first kentucky derby. >>> just last year, our mike sugerman got a chance to go down into the city's aging sewers. san francisco has 1,000 miles of sewers. 300 miles of those are more than 100 years old. >> reporter: going down. the sewer supervisor gene cruz is taking us on a tour under the city's teeming tenderloin. below it's teeming with cockroaches. >> oh, my god. >> they love the heat. >> reporter: oh, my god. few things in america have lasted 150 years. san francisco's sewer system is a working relic. one that works. would this be as good today? >> i don't know. i'm not an engineer. but this stuff lasts. >> yeah, i have done that tour. it's unpleasant. they can only replace 15 miles a year. some proposed changes along clipper cove could threaten some youth programs. the injured to convert clipper cove into a private marina and seawall. in 2014 the treasure island development authority applied for a $22 million loan from the state. t

the president of the united states, ulysses s. grant, says, what do we do? well, every town should have a militiawhich is a march, and they should write the town's history, and they should read the declaration of independence. we would sort of collective those towns' histories and it would be a biography of america, and it's going to be great. idea for july 4, 1876. the african-american towns, they don't have a militia or bullets, it doesn't matter, they are marching, having a good time, they have read the declaration of independence. the centerrching on square of the town which they botch with their own money. -- they bought with their own money. right here are two guys watching these guys marched under their , a guy namedins doc adams. this was one witness who remembered the marching. they were most equal to any company, white or colored. hansen and butler along to the butler print edition. to get there, they had to come across the river from augusta, .here they have done trading they are constantly having to come through hamburg on the way to augusta from

so the idea in washington under ulysses s grant was tonight's the island or at least the dominican republic and ultimately haiti itself, then deport the newly freed enslaved population in mass to the island that particular scheme was a barely defeated in the u.s. congress, otherwise a person like myself might not be sitting here speaking english, i might might be sitting in the island of his manual speaking creole, french or spanish. that is where this particular book ends but sadly enough that it's not where the travails of the island and. i'm sure you will recall that approximately 100 years ago there was a u.s. military occupation of both haiti and the dominican republic. we know that the u.s. occupation of haiti did not end until the administration of franklin delano roosevelt, circa 1934. we also know that in the dominican republic there was ample support for the dictator, raffaella who ruled for decades until he met his maker and assassination attempt that may have had u.s. but what's interesting is is the color phobia that persists and exists in the dr. that is to say you might recal

so the idea washington under president ulysses s. grant was to annex the island for at least the dominican republic and ultimately haiti is self and then deport the newly freed enslaved population in mass to the island that particular scheme was barely defeated in the u.s. congress. otherwise a person like myself might not be sitting here speaking english, but be sitting and speaking creole and french. that is where this particular book ends, but sadly enough that is not where the travail of the island ads. i'm sure you recall approximately 100 years ago there was a u.s. military occupation of both haiti and the dominican republic. we know that the u.s. occupation of haiti didn't end until the administration of franklin delano roosevelt circa 1934. we also know that in the dominican republic, there was ample support for the date tater, rafael trujillo who ruled for decades until he met his maker in his assassination attempt that may have had u.s. complicity. what is interesting about the dr over its entire historical period is the co

he looks at three former presidents often considered failures, james buchanan, ulysses s.rant, and warren harding. the free library of philadelphia hosted this one hour, 15 minute event. >> i am so pleased to introduce tonight partial speaker, distinguished presidential historian, richard norton smith. career, his