several years ago, my wife cheryl and i went to whitehaven, which is a plantation where ulysses s. grant's in-laws had lived, and later was owned by grant during his presidency. and we went in. not tosked my wife reveal who i was. i had worked there before, what whenever you go to a place, it is better to try to see it, at least from my point of view, as if you are someone they do not know. it says that way you can see what kind of presentation they give to normal visitors to the area, as opposed to somebody where they say, you know this. cheryl has made it through. it is 14 years and cheryl has made it through exactly five chapters of my grant biography. she says that once they begin firing at each other, she goes to bed. but she had read a certain description of that book. grant's memoirs, she talked about, when her fiancÉ went to war in mexico, she had, as was the want of many women at the time, name dave that -- named a bedpost after him. the guide looks at my wife and things, women like to look at kitchens to see what modern 1860's. is were in the he says, what room would you like to

challenges, those lessons, those solutions i want to talk about, as they involved in the mind of ulysses s. grant between 1863 and 1864. situation,sesses the tries out solutions, adjusts in response to circumstances, improvises, innovates, there is one thing interesting about grant. when things did not go well, grant had another idea. he did not simply pout and say, it did not work. my plan was perfect, it went tough luck. remember -- the reason i bring it back to 1863 is, in august of that year, grant heard there had been a movement afoot to have him replace george meade as commander of the army of the potomac. clear in himself made correspondence that he did not want that job. he knew the capabilities of his generals and men where they were. he also knew the devils that were there, like the recently ousted john mclennan -- mcclernan. he would have to learn a new if you went east, fight and new with men he did not know, their strengths and weaknesses, and he knew the last time a westerner, john pope, had gone in, things had not gone well. feathers were ruffled. and he knew the army of the potoma

it was in the civil war's 30 year that general ulysses s grant -- 3rd year that ulysses s. grant, but he always had an aloofness. he always want to be alone and comfortable with his thoughts and his cigars. on may 4, he unleashed the campaign that would destroy the southern confederacy. union military forces would go out wherever they could. they would keep attacking until they collapsed. this was a simple plan, but it had never been tried before by union commander. grant made his headquarters with the army, his attention would be totally in lee's forces. other generals had overtaken the same strategy and met defeat. grant regarded a battle loss as merely a momentary setback. he attended and intended to reassemble and attack again and again and again until lee's outnumber army was forced to play the sort of game they could not win. put another way, in may 1864, the union army stopped playing chess and switched over to checkers. both armies bled hopelessly that month. the grant took a pounding. begin movements and turn the southerners away. so began a game of flank and fight

he has written extensively about ulysses s. grant. he is the author of "let us have peace:... s grant and the politics of reconstruction," released in 1991. he is also the author of "u.s. grant: triumph over adversity. that earned distinction as a new york times notable book of the year. just recently, he has published and edited a boeing by the library of america -- a volume by the library of america, "voices of the civil war." sharesy brooks stephen -- brooks shares. he has given talks focusing on the war and the east and we know he is a superb battlefield guide. many of you will have the leisure on monday of following him around the wilderness. those who have been with brooks before were at antietam, where he managed to get his coat tour co-tour guide to ford antietam creek. is he going to go bushwhacking in the wilderness this year? take some players. we do not want to lose them. brooks is going to speak to us. contingencies and circumstances, u.s. grant and the problem of virginia in 1864. brooks simpson. >> well, good morning everyone. first thank the team at the civil wa

brooks simpson will speak on union general ulysses s. grant and the war in virginia in eight and 64. kelmanng that, ari describes the sand creek massacre of indians in 1864 in colorado territory by u.s. soldiers. while we wait, and a few more ,inutes for this conference another look at the history of st. louis, missouri. we are highlighting the history of the city all weekend. >> in 2014, st. louis is celebrating two hundred 50 years of history. to commemorate the founding of the city, they history museum put together an exhibit 250.d t250 in we are standing in front of people 50 selection. this section of the exhibit is the first one that visitors see when they come into the exhibit space. we put together the people had an -- everybody certain person they had in mind. setting it up with the idea of people really use a strong starting point to talk about moments. some of them are st. louis natives. some are people who came to st. louis and exciting things. some are people who later on wanted nothing to do with st. louis, but happened to be fro

i learned that ulysses as the grant would have terrible -- ulysses s grant would have terrible regret. the military and public had but, e accustomed.ecom it stood out was pointlessness. as i socket to find an angle for these remarks by searching my , a book iat i knew read several years ago came to mind. it is called "the war of the world" and it is provocative work by a provocative historian. the 20thse is that century where the two global conflicts and a series of more than a dozen others image cost more than one million deaths was the most violent and deadly as in human history. fashion, convincing ferguson lays down evidence to explain why it is so. ferguson's books makes no a mention of the american civil war at all. it does not pay much attention to the 19th century united states, period. i may be trying to connect the in the 19th century to one i know better, the 20th century. the more i've thought about it, the more it struck me that the carnage here helped set the stage for the almost ceaseless fighting that would cost tens of millions of lives in the 20th century. not in the

simpson onrooks ulysses s. grant. ari kelmanhat, describes the sand creek of american indians by u.s. soldiers. while we wait for the conference to reconvene, we will take a look at the history of st. louis, missouri. we are highlighting the history of this city. >> a lot of times, i've asked myself why is it an orton to have a historic structure -- why is it important to have a historic structure? you get that moment where you are thinking, wow, that is this eventing that happened standing. to me, that is what the value of a hit store constructor is. you can get those personal moments of connection. historic structure is. they can jump back into the past mentally and at least have some sort of connection with people from the past. louis's old. courthouse. a building that is no longer used for the court today. it has not been since 1930. it is a very historic building that has been preserved to try to tell a little bit about st. louis's history. this courthouse is best known as the courthouse where dred and harriet sc

ulysses s. grant kind of thing. the midwest kind of guy showing the way forward. it is beginning just then. tom wolfe talk about it much later. right now, right here was this midwestern practical risk assessment. he wasn't doing it for glory. he wasn't doing it because he was just going to be the big fly boy, you know, the big playboy, fly boy. he was a pro. not only was he showing us the way forward on the he's building new icons that we would be today in business leaders send explorers. it was a whole new relations ship to risk that is beginning to happen. here was the guy who is making it up at you see davis and on-the-fly. he would later see this in lindbergh, too. it was an incredible amount of rice dust. this was the guy of course whose chairman name got him thrown in by scotland yard in the present. they tracked him down at one point, stripped off his clothes, peeled the shields up with issues to look for secret.event and rubbed his whole body over with lemon juice to look for secret messages. i mean, this is staggeringly the hyper, you know, anti-german se

he describes the strategies employed by ulysses s. grant and robert e lee as well as the challenges a faced during the battle. this hour-long event took place at the cold harbor battlefield in virginia. >> well, thank you very much, bob. i appreciate it. as i told you folks i talked with his morning, it is an honor for me to be here. there is something special about the battlefield here at cold harbor. in theabout my interest american civil war, i'm sure like most of you did. i got it from my father. my dad was born in 1901 and a little town on the tennessee-alabama border that was only 35 years after the end of the american civil war. as you might imagine, most of those old men sitting around the grocery store were confederate veterans. he grew up listening to their tall tales and talking with them about their battles. i was born in 1945. when i grow up, what all of my friends were hearing fairy tales and stories from their parents, my dad was reading the books 'sth names like "lee lieutenants," stuff like that. we visited the battlefield.

home to the burying place of ulysses s. grantho's in grant's tomb, go to harlem. harlem is home to an ivy leagan. charlie rangel beat another legendary fig wrur you may have heard of, adam clayton powell. the nod from harlem as the second world war was ending. toward the end of his time in august, congressman powell was weakened by an ethics scandal and opened the door for a young charlie rangel. part of the first wave of civil rights oriented african-american politicians who often represents majority/minority districts and became a countervailing force in washington. mr. rangel was a founding member of the congressional black caucus. and that new power base often practiced an old brand of politics. the politics of who you know and how you helped them so they help you. transactional, local, city politics. when the young barack obama came along as a senator, he followed a different playbook. he cast himself as the leader of a new kind of coalition politics. proudly diverse and drawing on the successes of the civil rights movement

carmichael on robert e lee, followed by arizona state university professor brooks simpson on ulysses s. grant, and later, historian megan cate nelson on the burning of chambersburg, this weekend on american history tv on c-span three. speakers today at the annual faith and freedom coalition conference including new jersey governor chris christie and paul ryan, kevin mccarthy, and this next figure, kentucky republican senator rand paul. this is just over 15 minutes. >> i want to thank ralph for inviting me again this year. it is good to be back at faint and freedom -- at faith and freedom. i think both are essential. without virtue, freedom casts about and chaos beckons. freedom needs virtue and virtue needs freedom. the soothing voices they seek to reassure us, saying everything is ok, everything is just fine, all is not, but well. america is not just experiencing growing pains, it is in a full-blown spiritual crisis. is not's challenge wolves at the door, but termites in the floor. our foundation is cracking. it is not that we have chosen the wrong politicians, although that is a debatable q

he describes the strategies employed by ulysses s. grantd robert e lee as well as the challenges a faced during the battle. this hour-long event took place at the cold harbor battlefield in virginia. >> well, thank you very much, bob.

he describes the strategies employed by ulysses s. grant and robert e lee as well as the challenges a faced during the battle. this hour-long event took place at the cold harbor battlefield in virginia. >> well, thank you very much, bob. i appreciate it. as i told you folks i talked with his morning, it is an honor for me to be here. there is something special about the battlefield here at cold harbor. i came about my interest in the american civil war, i'm sure like most of you did. i got it from my father. my dad was born in 1901 and a little town on the tennessee-alabama border that was only 35 years after the end of the american civil war. as you might imagine, most of those old men sitting around the grocery store were confederate veterans. he grew up listening to their tall tales and talking with them about their battles. i was born in 1945. when i grow up, what all of my friends were hearing fairy tales and stories from their parents, my dad was reading the books with names like "lee's lieutenants," stuff like that. we visited the ba

lee followed by state university professor brooks simpson on ulysses s. grant. and later, kate nelson on the burni burning. >>> well, an f on transparency and freedom of information, and i think my colleagues in journalism would give a similar grade whether they're liberal or conservative. the freedom of liberation process has become a joke. it was already well on its way prior to the obama administration, but this administration has perfected the stall, the delay, the redakcti s redactions, the excuses. it's shocking because i feel very strongly that the information they withhold and protect many times belongs to the public. we own it. there is no sense of that when you ask. they covet it as if they're a private corporation defending their trade secrets without understanding what they hold is information gathered on our behalf. >> journalist and investigative reporter cheryl add can i say s -- attkisson -- cheryl attkisson. >>> about $10 million in bonuses were paid out by the phoenix va system over three years. this is live coverage on c-span3. >> yesterday th

up and who got up to speak that james eads, who we know later on from building the ironclads ulysses s. grant the mississippi and building the bridge, he got up and spoke to the crowd and said when i kept my eyes on my countrymen and see among them so many of our adoptive citizens rallying to the standard of the public. when i reflect that among those who are now plotting their country's ruin, there's not one of foreign birth involved in their ranks. i feel alternating motions of gratitude and shame, gratitude to them for their devotion to the flag of their country, trained to think to none but americans, native-born americans, the long as the dishonor of humiliating that emblem of our nation's glory. i thank god our adopted citizens have by unanimous sentiment of devotion to the union's been able to lead minister by their example of something so severe and merited to those ungrateful men on laboring to defile their banner under his protecting shade they first inherited this a prettier of liberty and the immediate effects of war were very scary. because as much as there was all this union sup

in keynote remarks, civil war scholar james robertson describes union general ulysses s. grant's crusade to "destroy the southern confederacy," was culminated in the last major battle of the campaign a cold harbor. there, mr. robertson says confederate general robert e lee earned his greatest and final victory of the war, but it was not enough to stop grant from continuing his march and beseechingly and his men at petersburg. the richmond national battlefield park organized this hour-long event. [applause] >> good evening. i and the pastor here at the fairmount christian church and we are really sad that you are here tonight. we know we were much anticipating being over at the battlefield, but we are glad you could be with us tonight, and i would ask innocently begin our evening with a word

, recruiting blacks for the party, by making him the secretary of the grant monument in new--ulysses s. grant monument in new york, and he was appointed us consul in vladivostok by mckinley and roosevelt. but at some point, around that time, in the late 1890s, the family split up and they were--he was the darkest. the mother was very light-skinned and the children were very light-skinned. so they dropped the r off the end of their name and the mother said her name was genevieve i. greene, widow, although mr. greener was very much alive. and they brought--invented the name da costa, i think, to explain their exotic looks. and belle passed as white for the rest of her life, as far as i know. i don't think morgan ever knew that she was black. c-span: what would he have done, had he known? >> guest: i don't think--this is--it has to be pure speculation--i don't think he would have done anything if he'd known. i think once she became indispensable to him at his library, he would have appreciated that and he might have even admired her for--i mean, on her own intelligence and initiative, she create

general says in his -- that ulysses s. grant says in his memoirs, the one assault he regrets launching pure nothing was gained in thousands and thousands of people were either wounded or killed. after cold harbor, there is a phenomenon in the union that is referred to as cold harbor syndrome. they're not willing to make those frontal assaults anymore. there is some sort of push back against officers' insistence that they walk into a position. so there is a pattern of learning and being reluctant to fight. and yet, they're still fighting in some incredibly brutal battles in the summer of 1864 when the war is generally becoming more vicious and more bloody. let me suggest that there are other things that are helping to propel the men into battle, and some of those had to do with the tactics that soldiers used in battle. this is an artist representation, stylized version. this is not a photographic piece of evidence of what battle looks like. yet, a gift at a couple things -- it gets at a couple things that i think we can unpack us

lee followed by arizona state university professor on ulysses s. grant. later, a historian on the burning of chambersburg is weekend. >> rick perry talked about immigration, border security, the environment, and his 13-year tenure as texas governor in an interview with the christian science monitor. this is just under an hour. [inaudible conversations] >> thank you for coming. i am david cook from christian science monitor. our guest is taxes governor perry. our first visit from them. he grew up in the west texas town up a creek near where his great, great grandfather had settled after the civil war. he became an eagle scout, went off to texas and am planning to become a veterinarian. as the governor once said, four semesters of organic chemistry made a pilot out of me. after graduating from college in 1972 he served five years as an air force pilot returning home to work on his family's 1,000-acre ranch and later entering politics winning a seat in the texas state house as, of all things, a democrat in 1984. in 89 he became a republican and then next yea

845 eastern, you will hear peter carmichael on robert e lee followed by a brooks simpson on ulysses s. grant, and later the story on the burning of chambersburg. this weekend on american history tv on c-span3. currentep in touch with events from a nation's capital using any phone anytime with c-span radio and audio now. -8888. call202-626 every weekday, listen to a recap on washington today. you can also hear audio of the five network sunday public affairs programs beginning sundays at noon eastern. c-span radio on audio now. -626-8888. >> now, john bolton who spoke at the policy conference. it is 10 minutes. >> to every month, monica, and thank you, ralph look at the issues that you are concerned with, of religious thedom, individual freedom, family, all of the things that motivates you to the work you do , to draw the ring around those freedoms and to protect our way of life here at home, the absolutely critical variable is to provide for the common defense is the preamble to the constitution says, and let's be isy clear -- barack obama not the filling that constitutional responsibility. [

you will hear from robert r michael on robert e lee followed by brooks simpson on ulysses s. grant. burning of chambersburg this weekend on american history tv on c-span 3. white housegoing press secretary jay carney talks about the most difficult aspect of his job. he was the featured guest of the "christian science monitor" breakfast series. it's about one hour. >> peter? we've got a space. p come on, brother. , brother.g-- come on you can be on tv with me. thank you for coming. just this morning is jay carney, president obama's departing press secretary and we are delighted to have him as a guest on the day he is traversing the polar extremes of the media world starting with the monitor breakfast and moving to new york for the "colbert report." hare asecretary to say high cholesterol breakfast with us. shareis the 12th to breakfast with us. he has degrees in russian and european studies. career in journalism began with the miami herald. he moved to time magazine and was with the moscow bureau and in 1993 came to washington where he was reporter, deputy chief, and bureau chief at

lee, followed by brook simpson on ulysses s. grant. later megan kate-nelson on the burning of chambersburg, this weekend on c-span3. on "american history tv. requests. >>> governor rick perry was invited to speak with reporters. governor perry talked about his tenure at governor, border security and immigration issues and potential for a 2016 presidential run. it's 50 minutes. >> it is a distinct order. i will call the judgment on whether it's a pleasure until we finish this up. in all seriousness, it is a pleasure to sit around a table with so many of you that influence what goes on in the wor world, and we all live in interesting times. whether you're the governor the state of the size of texas, with all interests things going on, or whether you're observing the world and influencing it through the medium that you do, thank you for that. all too obvious we lose sight that we're blessed to live in a country that allows us to do these things. one of the things i learned as a young boy, i really didn't respect the process, the country,

lee followed by arizona state university professor brooks simpson on ulysses s. grant. later, historian megan kate nelson on the burning of chambersburg. this weekend on american history tv on c-span3. >>> federal reserve chair janet yellen on wednesday expressed confidence that the economic recovery was largely on track and that the fed would be able to begin raising interest rates next year. she spoke at a news conference following two days of meetings of the federal open market committee. it's just under an hour. >> good afternoon. the federal open market committee concluded its june meeting earlier today. as was indicated in our policy statement, the committee decided to make another modest reduction in the pace of its purchases of longer term securities. the committee maintained its forward guidance regarding the federal funds rate target and reaffirmed its view at a stance of monetary policy remains appropriate. today's policy actions reflect the committee's assessment that the economy is continuing to make progress toward our objectives of maximum employment and

lee followed by brooks simpson on ulysses s. grant historian kate nelson on krashc-span3. >> the committee on investigations held a meeting on high-frequency trading and that's using computeral ga rith rms to rapidly trade stocks and other securities. we'll hear from traders involved in the practice as well as the president of the new york stock exchange. this is two hours and 45 minutes. >>> good morning, everybody. most americans' image of the u.s. stock market is shaped by a single room, the trading floor of the new york stock exchange where traders await a ceremonial bell to kick off the day's activity and then trade shares worth millions on scraps of paper. in reality, most shares are traded not on a floor in manhattan, but in racks of computer servers in new jersey. trades happen not at the speed of a human scribbling on paper, but in the milliseconds it takes for an order to travel through fiber optic cables. increasingly, the money made on stock markets comes not from thoroughly assessing companies for their investment potenti

lee followed by arizona state university professor brooks simpson on ulysses s. grant. >>> a discussion now on the global economic outlook with white house council of economic advisors chair james fuhrman. it was part of the "wall street journal" chief financial officers network conference. >>> good morning, everyone. thanks to you both for being here. mr. furman, i would like to start with you. talk about the u.s. economy. beyond the painful long recovery, there is increasing concern that the long term growth rate is slower than we thought. over the past half century it averaged about 3%. now the imf is out with a report that says it will be 2% and that's down from the 2.8% they predicted just in april. what's going on and is our future a bit darker than we thought? >> if you look at economic growth, you could look where we are right at this moment. and we don't want to look in the rear view mirror at the first quarter. we want to look where things are now. job growth picked up. we are adding about 220 jobs a month. if we add jobs for the month of june, we'll have 52

one is by william freely on ulysses s. grant. we are going through a period of reassessment of him and nobody has ever doubted what a great general he was. especially with the civil war. there have been a lot of questions about him as president. so he's kind of going through this and i'm kind of interested in it. the last one i promise and this is something that the senator from missouri is a great reader and a very good friend has done, he has brought it to my attention and he was a wonderful biographer that had a dual biography that was very famous. and so he had been telling you what a great book this was on eisenhower. and i happened to catch a lecture that was on c-span history and so this is really intrigued by that. and i thought, i have just listened to this great lecture and the one other experience that i had was 20 years ago, but with such great stuff. so i thought, i'm going to read this eisenhower bug. so it's not quite a historical figure that lincoln or grant would be coming he's a real-life hearst and. so i was fi