pope was a good friend of van buren and had been a van buren loyalist. he agreed with cass on texas annexation. maybe polk saw himself as an ideal vice president to help unite the party. here, when it looked like neither of the gentlemen were going to get the nomination, suddenly, polk was mentioned as a possible presidential nominee from the very beginning. he said he would serve just one term. sure enough, in 1848, the democratic nominee was louis cass. mark van buren ran as a third-party candidate and neither of them won. >> thank you so much for including us in the tour. wonderful having you here. >>> for more information visit the website at jameskpolk.com. for more information about american history tv, go to c-span.org/history. >>> as congress continues its >>> guarded by statesmen and generals on horseback, this bronze rendition of albert einstein stands out. perhaps because there's little of the monumental about this washington monument even if it does stand 12 feet and weigh 4 tons. robert burks whose distinctive style led some

it could have been charlotte dupuis or others in the van buren household if this was built in the 1820s, or it could have been one of the enslaved people listed in the 1844 inventory. here you see the tran scription of the final entries in that inventory, listing those identified as slaves for life, along with their ages and assessed monetary value. as you see, there are men, women, and children in the king and williams families, and six enslaved people that don't have those surnames. note also that the last two people listed, primus and charles clark are called out as working for a defined period of time until they will be free. as with the kitchen, looking at the building and inventory together provides a fuller picture of where at least some of the people may have lived. we know that this wall framing uncovered on the second floor of the building is original to its construction. and it defined a narrow hallway with openings into three chambers, two of which you see here. this concurs with the 1844 inventory, which recorded three spaces it called servants' rooms in the back building.

of van buren. he fell into the ice choked little red river, near searcy, he became seriously ill and completed the journey in an ambulance with a raging fever. in fact, the fever would not leave him until the pea ridge campaign was over. vandorn finally arrived in the boston mountains march 3rd. he announced the two idle confederate armies now under his command would be joined together into a single military organization. which he grandly called, the army of the west. the next day, still seriously ill, still traveling around in the back of an ambulance, vandorn met with price and mcculluck for the first time. he learned that curtis had divided the army union of the southwest into two wings. to improve foraging, particularly for the animals, and that these two wings were about 15 miles apart. one was in cross hollows. the other was, approximately, where the northwest arkansas airport is today. a little bit southwest of modern bentonville. right there, then and there, on the spot, galvanized by this

department has dealt with whistleblowers do you ever former state department employee you peter van buren he's been on our show several times to speak about his book we meant well which exposes corruption in iraq while the us was on working in its reconstruction effort oh van buren was fired for weapons state department said were eight violations notably linking to a wiki leaks diplomatic cable in one of his blog posts so when he was fired just a month ago he explained to me why you thought he was targeted but it was approved by the department of state and more importantly the constitution of the united states protects for you speech with the state department is trying to terminate me for calling it bad judgment is in fact a core political speech of the very basis of the first amendment the right of people in america to criticize their own government but then behrendt isn't the only victim of the state department's witch hunt bradley manning wiki leaks have also been on the hit list after all and thousands of diplomatic cables were released by the whistle blowing web site they suppose the

was on it working in its reconstruction effort all van buren was fired for what the state department said were eight violations notably linking to a wiki leaks diplomatic cable in one of his blog posts so when he was fired just a month ago he explained to me why your party was targeted because approval of the department of state and more importantly the constitution of the united states protects free speech with the stupid portman is trying to terminate me for calling it judgment is in fact core political speech of the very basis of the first amendment the right of people in america to criticize their own government. and isn't the only victim of the state department's witchhunt bradley manning wiki leaks have also been on a hit list after all when thousands of diplomatic cables were released by the whistle blowing web site they expose the inside communications of diplomats and the cables being all paid a rosy picture of u.s. diplomatic relations clinton had some unkind words of going to say about the information and about with the leaks itself this disclosure is not just an attack on

allan wells and wabash and van buren as well let's recap the cleaning games. [ bottle #2 ] mr. clean magic eraser extra power was 3x faster on permanent marker. and he didn't stop there. aw, he never stops. i-i can't watch. cut to commercial. yeah, this is a commercial. [ male announcer ] mr. clean magic eraser extra power. a reward is being offered for tips in the fatal shooting of a chicago teenager. the 13-year-old was shot in the head saturday night as he sat on the front steps of his home. wgn's tonya francisco is live at 51st and wentworth with details. tonya? a white dodge caravan may have been the getaway car and police are hunting for it. the reward has been raised ... a crisis team is on hand at the middle school where the victim attended classises. the boy was killed while sitting on his front porch saturday night. >>he was hit several times including a shot to the head that killed him and bullets hit his friends. >>the gunman were wearing masks when may came from an alleyway and began shooting one of the victims was able to get a glimpse of the shooters at the time

now, while his troops recuperated in the general vicinity of van buren, van doran received a telegraph from general pierre boo regard. i love saying that. when i was a kid growing up in new orleans, there was a -- there is a gigantic equestrian statue of bother guard at the entrance of city park a block and a half from our house. the kids in the neighborhood would usually in the evenings when it was dark and hard to see, we would sneak out to the traffic circle where the statue was located usually with somebody's stepladder and climb up to the top and then get up on the horse with general booregard. it was one of the highlights of my eighth or ninth year on this planet, was being up there. by the way, when pierre gustav booregard was at west point, he preferred to be called gus. who would have thought it? okay. booregard sends this message from van doran. he knows nothing of pea ridge. he's completely out of the loop, and he encourages van doran to move his command to the east side of the mississippi river, in fact, to mississippi to be part of a concentration of all confederate armies

martin van buren. andrew jackson. their faces were made familiar through the work of matthew brady, preserved for us, too, are those early writers. pride of our early growing culture. nathaniel hawthorne. edgar allen pau. washington irvin. the beloved poet, walt whitman and what schoolboy doesn't know the faces of our statesman? henry clay. john calhoun. daniel webster. men who shaped and guided our young republic. they built well, but soon within the country's capitol, still awaiting the completion of the now familiar dome, the storm clouds of the slavery issue threatened national unity. as the crisis sharpened, brady saw a new use for the camera. abraham lincoln, whom brady has photographed as a young congressman from illinois now sat in washington as president of the divided nation. from him, brady received permission to make a record of the war that could not be held back. we are coming, father abraham, so sang the volunteer units responding to lincoln's call to arm. hastily constructed camps sprung up. cruel by t

the town noise was humming in anticipation of the new martin van buren administration. the atmosphere must have reminded jennings of james madison's inauguration 28 years erldier. as president andrew jackson prepared to close shop at the white house up the street, jennings took stock of a president's square much altered, starting with the name. the march question delafayette's return to america as the nation's guest in 1824 had occasioned the name shift in his honor, though the lafayette square designation took only slowly. dolly, for example, continued to use president's square on her letters. the comment itself was no longer an abandoned apple orchard but had been landscaped in advance of lafayette's visit. the restored white house sported porticos at both the north and south fronts. half the building's walls had been rebuilt. they dug out the dinner display the day the british torched the mansion in august 1814. the george washington portrait had long ago been retrieved from the maryland farmhouse where it rested in safety for several weeks after the fire and returne

hyden clay and martin van buren were notable whose rented the decatur house. these were some of the many people, many notable people, par sonages if you -- personages, whom jennings got to know. even as a slave, it helps to know people in high places. he was well connected, a networker and he took appropriate advantage of the connections in his pursuit of the right to rise. and i feel obliged to say that the door at dolly madison's house moved all over the place. first in front. then it moved to the side where you see it in that photograph. later that door was made a window. today it is further down on h street. you see president polk whom jennings worked for you. can believe that dolly kept all the earnings. and dolly herself, who is a little bit fuzzy, she is not holding her, her head straight enough is to the right of polk as you are looking at the photograph. here its the lafayette square gates. here is lafayette square gates. this gives you a period sense of just how close lafayette square is to the white house. and here is franklin jennings, this is paul

took him nine arduous days to make his way from memphis to the boston mountains a little north of van buren. he fell into the ice choked little red river, near searcy, he became seriously ill and completed the journey in an ambulance with a raging fever. in fact, the fever would not leave him until the pea ridge campaign was over. vandorn finally arrived in the boston mountains march 3rd. he announced the two idle confederate armies now under his command would be joined together into a single military organization. which he grandly called, the army of the west. the next day, still seriously ill, still traveling around in the back of an ambulance, vandorn met with price and mcculluck for the first time. he learned that curtis had divided the army union of the

his successor martin van buren won't touch the texas question because of the slavery issue. it is not until the election of 1844 when james knox polk will make the annexation of texas a political issue and as he is being elected in the fall of 1844, john tyler will actually be responsible for the annexation of texas itself. he had tried to annex texas under a treaty, treaty needed two-thirds of both houses. well, a joint resolution simply needs a majority. instead of two-thirds of both parties, two-thirds of the senate. joint resolution needs a simple majority in each house. so by december of 1845, december 29th, 1845, texas would become the 28th state. and this 28-star flag would be a valuable flag. it remains in existence for only one year before iowa became the 29th state in december of 1846. now two days -- two days before the official entrance of texas into the union, john lewis o'sullivan, "u.s. magazine and democratic review" ran an editorial in which he said the right of our manifest destiny to overspread and possess the whole of the continent which providence has gi

to economically strangle leaking leaks by blocking donations to the web site until recently peter van buren has served as a foreign service officer at the state department he says he was fired over the book and the blog that he wrote about the failure of u.s. policies in iraq the state department since two thousand and eight has spent seventy six million dollars overseas on internet freedom giving tools and support to bloggers and journalists and online people around the world particularly in countries that we have difficulties with at the same time the state department has spent all that time and all that money supporting those bloggers it has found internet freedom to be inconvenient in the form of we q leaks i guess work just as hard and spent probably more money trying to shut down free speech that it opposes well supporting free speech that it furthers america's own political goals overseas we call that hypocrisy but it's not just a leaking website is that the u.s. is after but also their sources critics say this is ministration has embarked on an armed president his campaign against w

the inner and outer tracks along wells and van buren will be closed. all trains will operate along the wabash and lake sections of track during that time. the c-t-a will offer shuttle buses on some weekends to make up for gaps in "l" service. parents of children at a near north public school are hoping playground problem. some students call their rooftop play area .. the cage. wgn's nancy loo reports on the controversy. that protest was postponed because of promised action by the school. is not good weather today for an outdoor recess but when it is children have to go to the rooftop playground because of the set up here some of these kids dread recess. it almost looks like a prison yard but it is actually a playground built atop the ogden international school that opened last fall. parents say there's limited outdoor space and that's an oversight in such a $60 million project ... this man whose home overlooks the school says that his fifth grade son has complained from day one >>there used to be a baseball diamond and a playground once had access to a

both -- van buren street. both men are around 20 years of old. >>> it's going to be an important week in annapolis for the future of gambling in maryland. the house, ways and means committee will take up the bill to allow table games in the state. the plan paves the way for a casino at national harbor and for table games at the five approved slots parlors in the state. lawmakers are considering amendments to make deals more attractive to gaming companies. any expansion of gaming still needs to be approved by voters in a statewide referendum. >>> the father of trayvon martin vows not to stop fighting until his son's killer is arrested. he spoke at a rally in miami on sunday. more than a thousand people turned out for the rally. the 17-year-old martin was shot and killed a month ago by george zimmerman. the neighborhood watchman says it was in self-defense. the shooting happened about four hours north of miami in the orlando suburb of sanford. >>> rallies calling for the arrest of the shooter george zimmerman we

jane van buren with women helping battered women. they have helped us put this together. i appreciate the guidance from all across the nation, from such organizations as the national network to end domestic violence, the national alliance to end sexual violence, the national task force to end sexual and domestic violence against women. a coalition has been maintained, it's been valuable in this efforts. it's working within that we're able to adjust the allocation of funds to increase needed funding for sexual assault efforts and do it without harming the other coordinated efforts. we reach our understanding in working with them, not by picking a number out of out of a hat or traig to outbid -- trying to outbid some other proposal. it wasn't that. everybody worked together. we know we only have so many dollars. we tried to do it and use the money where it works the best. the provision ensuring services be available to all victims, regardless of sexual orientation and gender identity, is supported by the leadership conference on civil rights and numerous civil rights ask cr

and you go back to the election of 1840, president obama van buren was attacked in 1840, a very familiousars ago and maybe the white house should just, the press secretary should man up and say, that is what the president was saying. >>clayton: given the talk of the buffett rule it would not be out of the ordinary to have the discussions about the "haves" and the have nots. >>peter: did someone say, mr. president, you were born with a silver spoon in your mouth, why is that important to say? >>alisyn: speaks of the "haves" and have nots, let's talk about food stamps and how the use of them have green expo exponentially up 37 percent. what does that say about now we are starting to recover 2011 had a tremendous use of food stamps^, how can we stop the trend. >>clayton: get out of the recession. the number of americans on food stamps last year is remarkable, 45 million, 70 percent increase from 2007. what the c.b.o. is saying, lock, because of the jump in spending on food stamps it came at a point during the stimulus money in 2009 and they added an additional 20 percent to the stimulus law