augustine link and it relates to warren g. harding. >> the first weeks for the mission of nombre de dios and learn about the franciscan monks who help settle the area. >> next on booktv former navy seal sniper and iraq -- >> we are at the mission grounds, mission is nombre de dios. it is the place where in september of 1565 menendez the first explore here to this part of the state landed here not far from us and celebrated the first mass here at this site. this area has been a shrine for many, many years and is particularly important, if you notice behind the church come this is the church that is dedicated to our lady. our lady of the mill and it was a devotion that was about the roman catholic world but in particular it was brought from spain in the 1600s rod over from spain and was put in this area, a this area, statue, it became a very popular site for those who wanted to come to pray in general in both support of mary but in particular it became well known for those who are struggling to conceive. and it was a natural link and be

president-elect warren g. harding in 1921 had a reception here.so it's a room that is full of history. the hotel ponce de leon was built by henry morrison flagler. now, flagler is a man who is very little known outside the state of florida. but he was one of the wealthiest men in america. he essentially had been a cofounder of standard oil company with john d. rockefeller. and in the early years of standard oil, rockefeller and flagler were best friends. they had homes on euclid avenue in cleveland near each other. when standard move its headquarters to new york city, rockefeller and flagler had homes across the street from each other on fifth avenue. into office back in cleveland they pushed their desks back to back so

and it relates to warren g. harding.orial lacked, and almost from the thursday the society was founded we have been trying to collect documents and other material relating to the history. st. augustine was founded 450 years ago this year and is the oldest continuously occupied european city in the united states so he read the st. augustine historical society we are trying to collect material to allow people to research that history and also to sort of make the united states aware of the importance of st. augustine. in 1763 as part of the treaties that ended the french and indian war. the british had captured cuba, havana, and retaining of van and cuba traded to the british. and under the british period for 20 years, governor grants and governor tony, went to the colonial office papers from public records office in london. these were on microfilm, went through those documents into abstract and all the documents that related to st. augustine so we have a cubic foot of transcribed material that talks about the history of st

>> warren g. harding is such a fascinating story supposedly when running for president the story of him actually having black ancestry dog him the let me try to get the'' because it is so classic like how would i know if one of my ancestors jumped the fence? he never actually denied he bush had black ancestry he was vague about a but he certainly never denied it but it is likely he was the first african american president. [laughter] the other speculation that other presidents have had african american ancestry as well that wouldn't be that surprising either if you think about the racial mixture there was particularly in the south. that is why in the early 1800 s there is a judge in virginia that is arguing that we should not make the laws to restrict what defines someone as black or white and he says if we make a lot to strict there are a lot of people who really believe themselves to be white who will not pass the test. [laughter] it is a lot better if we let wonder to people pass as white then if we st