washington. a wise people behaves like a shovel full of dirt or a spritz of water tamping down the partisan. of course thus american politics becomes a less than candid competition to appear above politics. having made explicit his theme of public opinion, washington declares that of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion, morality are indispensable supports, calling these the great pillars of human happiness, washington makes a case for political as well as pious attention to them. he concludes the way to foster religion and morality is through education. the first positive command or prescription of the address states promote then as an object of primary importance institutions important the general diffusion of knowledge. washington anticipates no conflict between religion, morality, and enlightenment. the next rule of conduct is to cherish public credit. follows signed advice on debt and taxation. although the execution of these maxims belongs to the elec

occasion of washington's birthday. and every year since 1896 the united states senate has selected one of its members to read it aloud in legislative session in honor of washington's birthday. but it was not the duty of memory that moved the congress of 1968 which passed the uniform monday holiday law to, quote, provide uniform annual observes of certain legal public holidays on mondays. by creating more three-day weekends, congressobserves of certain legal public holidays on mondays. by creating more three-day weekends, congress hoped to, quote, bring substantial benefits to the spiritual and economic life of the nation, end quote, but what it accomplished was to turn a holiday into a vacation and eventually for many americans a day for bargain-hunting. washington's birthday is now celebrated on the third monday in february and therefore never on february 22nd. as a grateful nation enjoys the spiritual and economic benefits of washington's birthday mattress day sales. so far are we from remembering the father of our c

and the worst of it happened when washington, large part of washington's army, surrounded, at fort washington, which was at the northern tip of manhattan. washington was across the -- the -- the hudson river in new jersey. watching. as that army was defeated. and forced to surrender. and then worse than that -- after the men surrendered, par tu -- particularly, the riflemen of the haitian and british forces, a good many of those, of those riflemen were beaten up and then some were put to the sword as washington watched, helplessly, from the palisades. other part of the hudson. washington irving who wrote one of the first and best biographies of george washington interviewed the people who were there. and they told him that washington burst into tears. of helplessness and frustration. it was the lowest upon the of what had happened. he had been responsible for that. it was his decision to defend that indefensible force. and he began and others around him, to wonder -- itch thf this was up to his job. and there were grave thoughts that maybe he was -- would have to be replaced. he led his men i

washington in attendance and the senate concludes its debate and gives its advice, but as washington leaves the room the door keeper overhears him say he would be damned before he came there again. and no president ever has. some presidents have asked for written advice on treaties from the senate. wise presidents may consult informally with powerful senators, but no president has ever gone himself to the senate to ask for their advice. and this is just one example of dozens, dozens of could he none drums drums that faced washington that he had to face because it was the first time. he did it very judiciously. the second thing he did, something that every present has to do, he had to navigate the politics of his administration, which for him is the politics of the early and mid 1790s. and they were as savage as american politics has ever been. now consider his first cabinet. the first secretary of state is thomas jefferson. the first treasury secretary is alexander hamilton. the first secretary of war is henry knox and the most important offstage advisor is representative james madis

and washington was up against the first team here. and the question was, how could his forces stand against such a formidable adversary? experience compared with what the american leaders had had. he worked on a system of changing the tactics in the continental army. he began to use artillery. there was a lot of artillery available. it could be taken from ships in philadelphia. the continental army developed a much larger ratio of artillery to infantry than was the indication with the british and hessian forces. and all of this -- the artillery was used up front in the way the german army used some of their artillery in the second world war. what it was meant to do is stabilize and support the inexperienced american infantry and the man at the center of that was the book seller henry knox who taught himself about artillery from the books in his own bookstore. and all of this was put to work. and then washington's counsels began to get news from the intelligence networks that there was an opportunity in new jersey. the opportunity was

washington disliked him intensely. but gates was a powerful politician and he managed to get reinstated as the commander of the army at newburg, without washington's consent. the congress simply appointed him, and sent him to newburg telling general washington you may use him as you please. so general gates arrived to be the actual commander of the army, washington of course commander in chief. but gates being the general in charge at the encampment. the men in the encampment, of course, bored, not much to do, about 7,000 soldiers. there, they began to build their huts at a place called new windsor, the new windsor encampment. they built about 700 wooden huts, neatly laid out for the winter encampment. and there they took up their quarters. what do you do with an army in this kind of situation? you drill and drill and then you drill some more, you build more huts, you build roads, you have to keep them busy, but it wasn't working very well. so chaplain evans decided let us build a temple of virtue. in the middle of the

came from washington and lived here. and that also ties into a question that i think is very pertinent and is asked all the time these days, why write a book on the history of marching on washington? and the way i think about that, now, is there's two answers. one personal and one more intellectual. so i'll start with the personal. i come from a family of people who march. as i did my research, i discovered the name of my great grandmother, among the women who had supported the cause of the national women's party, though she drew the line when they decided to start picketing the white house in pickets that were so decoreous in comparison to pickets of today they would scarcely attract a blink. she, however, thought that was a shameful break with tradition and withdrew her membership in the national women's party. my parents, as students, went on their second date to the youth march for integrated schools, one of the series of marches held by civil rights activists in the 1950's. this was in 1958. and as i started this bo

washington in the very same way. i knew very little about washington to the i had heard of course that he had shot down a cherry tree, which he didn't, and i had heard that he wore a wig which he didn't come and i heard that he had wooden teeth, which he didn't. so i found out very quickly the things i thought i knew about george washington were absolutely not any of them cracked. so as i began the book which i described as csis meets the biography channel coming and you will see why as we go along, it has been a treat for me to replace all of those myths with the facts about george washington. the premise of the book is did george washington really look like his image on the 1 dollar bill? win mount vernon did some research and found that most americans would describe this image of george washington taken from the portrait as old, boring and grumpy come in and of course they realized they were going to have to change their way of looking at the father of our country. they devised a plan in which they would create th

which is a washington-based book. why three books on george washington? >> guest: because he is the best. because he i the most important. and everybody knew it. everybody in this lifetime knew and it they all said so, and even when they became his opponents, politically, as madison and jefferson did, they still had to acknowledge his services. and what he had done. and what he did when he died henry lee, famously said, first in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen. he won the revolution. then he was the first president. got the new government up and running. then the third thing he did was after those two things, he went home, which is not universal among revolutionary leaders. washington intersects the early career of napoleon. napoleon is just starting. washington dies in 1799 so they overlap. their careers just overlap. and when napoleon was on st. helena after it had all come to smash, he was saying they expected me to become another washington. kind of bitterly. well, you could have. but you chose not to. washington chose to do

or lincoln and washington. they share top to spots. >> the franklin pierce mattresses are just not selling. >> you can work with that, too can you? thank you very much. i want to thank our panel for very interesting, lively discussion. i should mention that steve hayward's book is being sold in the lobby. so is our anthology, what so proudly we hail. thank you for coming. happy george washington's birthday. >> next, the united states senate annual reading of president george washington's 1796 farewell address. this tradition dates back to 1862. each year the senate selects one of its members to read the address, alternating parties. this year, senator jeanne shaheen of new hampshire was selected it was the first time a female senator read at dress since 1998. this is 40 minutes. >> washington's farewell address to the people of

which he accepted and he served washington until one day, at headquarters, washington was going up the stairs, colonel hamilton was coming down the stairs, the commander in chief said to the colonel, colonel, i wish to see you immediately, the colonel responded, i'll be with you in a few minutes, sir. not the right answer to the commander in chief. washington turned on hamilton, berated him in front of his fellow officers, hamilton then resigned as secretary, returned to the army and later distinguished himself at the battle of yorktown, which brought him back to some degree in washington's good graces. hamilton then left the army and was a congressman from new york. so hamilton then is given the assignment of addressing washington. i doubt that anyone really expected that general washington would join in any plot, but at the same time, they needed to test him out. how did he feel? hamilton warned washington that the army was on the brink of mutiny. he suggested to washington that the general might wish to control, direct the turret was his expression. he also went on to write somethin

washington was not a great writer. people want -- if they are quoting they are going to quote great writers. washington was a good writer. but he's not -- definitely not a great one. and so to -- to get him to understand what he did, you have to -- you have to look at his career. you have to understand his deeds and actions. that requires a little more work than grabbing bartletts or whatever. and it requires an investment and an investment in -- of attention. i hope that, you know, occasions like this, meetings like this, bill before congress will encourage people to spend more of that attention because washington truly repays that. but there's like a little initial investment of effort that people have to make before they figure out what this guy's life was about. >> don't know that much about washington? >> people are busy. you know. look, these guys -- well, i am not saying that in a cynical spirit. i'm not seeing it is to run these people down. i mean, the campaigning is madness and just madness. once you get to b

wrong to be sure, but trying to draw washington in now. washington was cautious. the fact of the matter is, at this particular moment, he could not trust his army. could not trust his army. but there was one thing that washington did know, that general's made plan but the line officers, lieutenant, captains, majors, men in actual command who control the troops. so he in conjunction with his staff, colonel brooks, who later by the way becomes governor of our commonwealth, so he, colonel brooks' secretary, jonathan trumbull begin to play out a plan and the plan that is they will call all of these officers together, that is the lieutenants, the captains and the majors, and speak to them directly. they must also prepare an address, a speech. several days now spent in writing what is probably the most important speech ever given in american history. all in secret because, of course, washington's already announced that he's not coming to the meeting. noon, saturday, 15th of march, about 300 officers crowd into the temple of virtue. building, by the way, reconstruction b

that's one of the uses of washington and the continuing use of washington because it's such a potent claim for citizenship, that's one reason to use it. in terms of dramatic shifts in the political terrain, you know, i mean -- i might be speaking flassfamy, but to me in comparison to other nations, the united states has not had such dramatic changes even in the last century during which this tradition was developed. i think that the 1960's it was not so much of a closing down of a system but of a sense that there was such a desperate need to highlight causes that people turn to radical tactics. nixon had many thoughts. i'm not saying he was -- you know, but he was not the whole political system. there was the opportunity to testify. there were movements in congress, there were still vote, there were many other things. i think it was the spirit of the time between the civil rights movement and the anti-vietnam war movement that made people after working so hard on so many issues and try sog many things and seeing things that didn't change they were like, we're going to try other thing

i'm to talk to washington as an exemplary president. i guess one way he was exemplary was he didn't take interns to the white house pool. slaves either. but i think he had three achievements. three very important things that he did which i want to talk about. and the first of those is that he did everything for the first time. when he was inaugurated, first inaugurated in april 1789, there were very few precedents to guide there hadn't been many republics in the human history and in almost all of them had been small. they had been city, states, ancient world, renaissance, there were suisse cannons, the one republic that had grown large was rome. but that had become the roman empire. so that example was not very encouraging. washington did have a guideline. he had the constitution. he was very familiar with that because he had been the presiding officer of the constitutional convention in 1787. he had attended every session, heard every argument. he followeding t ing thing th i the ratification debate very closely. he had the federalist

over the years of protests, people have learned to make washington into a people's capitol. they have made public spaces, including the mall, many of the areas around the capitol, to a great extent pennsylvania avenue, spaces that almost any group can gain access to if they're willing to be peaceful and not too disruptive. and this is a space that can be used for a variety of political purposes by making it something that is accepted, groups from a far greater range of political persuasions now march on washington than ever would have been imagined in the 1930's or the 1940's. the variety of groups. and they can be used both to build movements, to confirm movements, and to inspire others to think seriously about political causes. and those others are sometimes the person standing next to you in a demonstration or the person watching you on television and sometimes the president and sometimes the citizens of another country to take inspiration from the washington citizens or the citizens of america expressing their views on an issue. so i think that over the years it has beco

i knew very little about washington. i heard of course that he had shot down a cherry tree, which he didn't and i heard you were a week, which he didn't. and i heard that he wore wooden teeth, which he didn't. so i found that very quickly the things i thought i knew about george washington were absolutely not and have them correct. so as i began this book, which i describe as csi needs the biography channel and you'll see why as we go along, it's really been a treat for me to replace all of those smith with facts about george washington. the premise that the book is really at this. the george washington really look like his image on dollars though? when mount vernon did some research, they found that most americans would describe the image of george washington taken from the portrait as old, boring and from eight? of course they realize they would have to change the way of looking at the father of our country. they devised a plan in which they would create three life-size figures into which washington at the ages of 19 a

about washington. did he head to mount vernon? surprised -- he took it pretty seriously. when he laid the cornerstone, the capital as president it was a masonic ceremonies and he wore his masonic paper. washington was a very dramatic man. he loves plays in the theater. he would go to any performance if there was anything being done. shakespeare, some farce, puppet shows. he would go to see it. he loved the theater and was very theatrical. this was a man he designed his own uniforms all his life. he knew his physical presentation was part of his leadership. masonry has rituals. it was part of it. masonry puts on a show. this was a time when christian worship is very simple. washington is an angry episcopalian. this is for the anglo catholic revival so anglicanism is relatively bareboned saying. that was part of the attraction for a while. >> host: new jersey, you are on booktv. brian lamb doing a lot. semi retirement. >> we all appreciate what brian was able to do. in a very still freeway. very concerne

when the capital is moved to washington, d.c. and john adams comes down here to be president, we find, in fact, the environment in which this new white house is built, in which this new white house exists, is not that different in terms of the irony that exists there. now, the first irony is the fact that john adams from new england, a non-slave holder, is then followed by three presidents who are all slave holders -- jefferson, madison, an monroe. in addition, the district of columbia itself was infused with slavery and an african-american presence because this new capital of the nation after much negotiation is located between two slave states, virginia and maryland. so we put our nation's capital in the middle of a part of the country where slavery is embraced and encouraged. in addition, the district of columbia itself had a fairly active and large african-american community. in 1800, 25% of the population of this country -- of the city was african-american. they totaled a number of about 4,000 individuals, but about four-fif

and lincoln or maybe lincoln and washington. but they share those top two spots somehow. >> they are just not selling. >> and you can work with that, too, can you? thank you very much. i want to thank our panel for a very interesting, lively discussion can. i should mention that steve hayward's book is being sold in the lobby. thank you for coming. happy george washington's birthday. [ applause ] >>> next is the united states senates annual reading of president george washington's farewell address. this dates back to 1862. each year, the senate chooses two people to read it. this year senator jeanne shaheen read the address. this is 40 minutes. >> washington's farewell address to the people of the united states. friends and fellow citizens, the period for a new election of a citizen to administer the executive government of the united states being not far distant and the time arrived when your thoughts must be employed in designating the person who is to be clothed with that important trust, it appears to me proper especially as

we ask that 8 washington you consider 8 will provide. -- we ask that you consider what 8 washington will provide. i received virtually zero benefits from the site. it has an out of date jim. it cost $200 per month. this is not the ymca. this is a private club that i cannot afford. there are two parking lots and the infamous blocking of our view and prevents it public access to the waterfront. contrast that to what 8 washington provides. i think the 99% will benefit from this project. we will take down that horrible greenwald, which is necessary, by the way, for it tennis players to play in the background. it will provide new housing in the number of other benefits that you of offered. >> i think it fits perfectly in character of the neighborhood. i realize it is concerning to many of you, but this project site would be distinguished from any future development down the waterfront because of some of the proximity. the slippery slope argument is not a strong argument. in addition, the fact

and the worst of it happened when a large part of washington's army was surrounded at fort washington, which was at the northern tip of manhattan. washington was across the hudson river in new jersey watching as that army was defeated and forced to surrender and then worse than that, after the men surrendered particularly those riflemen who had been shooting the officers of the british forces, a good many of those riflemen were beaten up and some of them were put to the sword as washington watched helplessly from the other side of the hudson. washington irving, who wrote one of the first and i think one of the best biographies interviewed the people that were there. they said washington burst into tears of helplessness and frustration. he had been responsible for that. it was his decision to defend that indefensible fort. and he began, and others around him, to wonder if this man was up to his job. and there were grave thoughts that maybe he would have to be replaced. and then he led his men in retreat across new jersey west toward pennsylvania, and he asked lieutenant monroe to

washington hated parties. he believed in, a nation, washington's thinking was not precisely national. even as it became -- continental. he centered i think more on the great republic. than on an idea of -- of nationalism. but these men shared those same ways of, having, a set of values without an ideology. of having a large purpose without fixed and structured plans. of the sort that -- became too rigid and constraining. of working -- closely with the people, but reserving their own leadership. most of all, the capacity for growth, this new wonderful book on, abraham lincoln by eric thunder, describes the growth of lincoln. through the years. the sameten about washington and roosevelt. now he is commanding a global power. a completely different undertaking at least in many of its parts. he also built the broad base of very able leaders. of putting republicans into the major positions, early in the war, secretary of war, secretary of the navy, working across party lines in that, in that regard. also, doing the

yes, washington. does washington act like lee during the revolution? >> no. >> what is washington's one crucial priority? to maintain the army, to keep the army intact. that means and how does that then -- so that's washington's strategy is the army must survive, so how does that then affect his operational stance? what does washington do then as a consequence of that? >> washington follows a strategy and preserves his army and lee should have preserved and knew he could win the battles he fought so kept on fighting. >> exactly. you see the different -- now, i know i have you read the weigley on monday. who does do the fabian strategy. >> johnston. >> during what campaign. >> atlanta. okay. all right. >> he was criticized. >> who? >> the confederates, the people. >> do you remember who makes that argument? it is in rebuttal to this idea. let me step back and recap. johnston, sherman is marching on johnston in 1864. sherman is trying to take atlanta. johnston fights a delaying action and even weigley a

we have the ability now to have virtual marches on washington. and all those methods are available to yourself. you see. and some of then are about creating bonds of some darety together. if i look at the pictures i took when i went to pro choice rallies, part of it is about reunions with my friends from college. that's a common thing people do. they come from all over the country, and they see their friends. and they're reminded of their past and their future political lives. and then other people come, you know, and you see others, and you're like, wow, this is amazing. everyone always tells me these stories of how i came -- whether it's the march on washington or jobs or freedom or this or that march, i came all the way from here, and i just ran into this person. i hadn't seen them in years. and that's small politics, maybe. but it's big politics when it

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shooting of a washington club member, phillip barton key. the son of francis scott key by daniel sickles. according to published sources, james retrieved key's withering body from the sidewalk and brought him inside. the prosecution of daniel sickles was handled by one member of the club, robert old, as the district attorney. the defense of sickles was handled by another member, edwin stanton. soon to be secretary of war under president lincoln. both of these men would figure prominently in james' life during and after the war. stanton regularly would be in contact with james while he served as a member of the cabinet. even subsequent to the war, they were involved in several business transactions. old on the other hand returned to virginia and served in the confederacy as the commissioner, a prisoner exchange for jefferson davis. during one of the negotiations conducted at fortress monroe, james accompanied the union delegation and prepared a special meal for his friend old for the negotiations. apparently upon seeing old, james commented i

i am in support of the 8 washington project. i think it is a tremendous and much-needed improvement to the club. facilities will greatly benefit from both the enhanced fitness and some facilities, but also from the public space and a connection back to the city. more importantly, i think this is a critical project for the city. since the loma prieta earthquake, the city has struggled to reclaim its waterfront. i think san francisco it deserves and is one of the world-class waterfronts, and the presence of parking lots and tennis courts surrounded by a chain-link fence and feels to me like a terribly inappropriate use for this great waterfront. and that the introduction of housing, the introduction of ground-floor retail, and other uses that will help activate the street, open spaces that connect back to the neighborhood, to meet bring what is most appropriate to activating this waterfront, and to continuing some of the development that started to occur and has been such a struggle to maintain a sense the embarcadero if -- since

starts now. >> live and in hd, this is "good morning washington," on your side. >> good morning, washingtonimpson. >> i am steve chenevey. we start with traffic and weather every ten minutes. lisa baden in a moment but first meteorologist adam caskey. >> a very cold start to our tuesday morning, in the 30's and low 40's. will drop another few degrees before sunrise. 39 in leesburg, 40 in warrenton, 39 in woodbrige and centreville, 43 and chesapeake beach, 40 in bethesda along with northwest washington. it could be a little breezy today, west wind at 10-20. warmer than yesterday, right at 60 degrees with a splash of sunshine. a mixture of sun and clouds throughout the day if. even warmer tomorrow. we will talk about that coming up. >> we are happy campers, along the maryland side of town, including 70 between hagerstown and baltimore, 270 day starting to wake up out of frederick into montgomery county. looks good on the beltway in montgomery and prince george's county if.

good morning washington continues right now. >> live and in hd, this is "good morning washington," on your side. >> good morning, washington. it's tuesday april 17. not as warm as this time yesterday. still off to a pleasant start. thanks for waking up with us. it is 6:00. i am cynne simpson. >> i am steve chenevey. we begin with traffic and weather every ten minutes. we will check in with steve hershorn in a minute. first, adam caskey. >> not as warm as yesterday. yesterday we opened our swimming pool for the season in my backyard, the $10 plastic one. nice and comfortable in about an hour. so that's officially open. is going to be cooler today in the mid-70s. we are in the 60's right now for the most part. 69 in arlington, 60 in berkeley springs, 64 in manchester. 64 in bowie. on our way to the mid-70s, partly cloudy, breezy at times. a refreshing breeze out of the north west, dropping the humidity. we will talk about rain chances coming up. >> we will take a live look at an accident. newschopper 7 over the scene of accident on 95 or actually this is 66 near the exit for route 28 ce

cantampa beats washington. the redskins unveil the new uniforms tomorrow, and robert griffin iii still wants to be the no. 1 pick. >> there are to no. 1 picks. they pick the guy - -- picked a guy. there are two numbe rone picks. i want to be mad if ever goes first. -- won't be mad if andrew goes first. >> in the box point guard -- the bucks point guard took charge, beating washington 112-98. the national's play the red sox this afternoon. like the 1-0 pitch here, back, back look out. a solo shot. the sox won 4-2. the play tomorrow here in d.c.. the greatest golfers in the world have gathered in the dust of for the masters. tiger is the favorite, but there are still a lot of doubters. can he get a jacket? he will meet his a-game. college basketball kentucky lead kansas right now late in the ballgame by nine. the georgetown ladies lost their head coach. he's leaving to coach ladies at auburn. >> kansas is making it interesting. we will be right back. >> we are giving away another ipad. go to wjla.facebook. right

i mean, that's clearly -- was one of the early uses of washington, and a continuing use of washington. so -- because it's such a potent place to claim citizenship, that's one reason to use it. but in terms of, you know, dramatic shifts in the political train, you know -- i mean, i know i might be speaking blasphemy. to me, in comparison to other countries, the united states has not had such a dramatic changes, even in the last century, during which this tradition developed. i think the 1960s, it was not so much of a closing down of a system, but of a sense that there was such a desperate need to highlight causes that people turn to more radical tactics. i mean, nixon had many faults, and i'm not saying he was, you know -- but he was not the whole political system. there was still the opportunity to testify. there was still movements in congress. there were still votes. there were still many other things. i think it was the spirit of the time between the civil rights movement and the vietnam -- anti vietnam war movement that made people, after working so hard on so many issues and tryi

jfk's great quote about washington. and i remember -- i lived in the old d.c., 1976 i came down here, back when they were burning in effigy. now, if you lit a match in lafayette park, you'd get shot by probably six or seven different snipers in different aspects all over that area in different areas of the white house. they've shut down pennsylvania avenue since i was here. i remember it was odd to me to be in union station. i remember when i went to school here, you would -- i didn't have the money to fly and it wasn't convenient. and they used to have a train you could take. the last train was at 9:30, and it was a local. it stopped in delaware, stopped in new jersey. you'd swear it was stopping in st. louis too it took so long. this train was the slowest train you've ever been on in your entire lifetime. and we would go to new york, it was like $18, it was 36 bucks round trip to go on this train. and you'd leave union station and sometimes i'd get a ride there, whatever i wanted to get there early. if i missed that t

so washington agreed to build the building behind us. so they bought three more stills and set it up. and by the early spring of 1798, it was up and running. >> this is a large building, looks like it was expensive to build. how did you get the funding for this? and how did you decide the architecture of it? >> again, we've got great records. the archaeology gave us the footprint of the building. when we go inside, you'll see where the stills are located. and when we dug here, we found the footprint of the building, the locations of all the stills. so we have five stills in here that you've seen behind me. and each one of them is located where the archaeologists found evidence for it. either in the form of remnants of the brick base of the furnace or, you know, heavily burned, reddened soils where the fires had been. and so we have two stills here and then a third one in the middle and then two more, you know, at the other end. then the floors here we found evidence of the brick floor. we found evidence of the boiler to heat the water fo

nazis. >> it was actually the disadvantage to the confederates that they picked washington, not washington, richmond as their capital and not something further south. >> that is problematic, and your readings don't have, richmond is chosen probably because virginia is so important. it's the home state of so many presidents, including washington. virginia is var large in terms of population. richmond has the iron work, which is one of the few centers of confederate industries, so it's of extraordinary political importance and that's one of the reasons why it sort of seals the deal. in retro spect, was it really such a good idea? no. but everyone early on thought the war would be short and weren't thinking these things through. >> going back to the whole size issue, i mean, i'm sure that the russians were aware that their country was huge, is there any evidence that southerners were like we have a large piece of real estate here if we can just survive? >> yeah and i think some of the newer scholars show there's more of a talk by some people, by some confederates early in the war and there's

shooting of a washington club member, phillip barton key. the son of francis scott key by daniel sickles. according to published sources, james retrieved key's withering body from the sidewalk and brought him inside. the prosecution of daniel sickles was handled by

it wound up in washington. he checked into a hotel and then thought, what the hell am i going to do? so then that's when he decided to call me because i wasn't working for him. so i wasn't part of, you know, the whole structure at that time. and decided to come out and get me in los angeles. and i thought that was kind of it. you know, i picked him up and i never will forget, he's walking down the steps of the plane. he's got this little box. and i said, elvis, what's that? he says, my luggage. don't forget. this is a guy who never traveled and took care of things himself. back at that time if you were first class, they give you a little box with a wash rag and a toothpaste and maybe some mouth -- that was his luggage. he was traveling light. and so he had a home in los angeles on hillcrest drive, kind of part of beverly hills. and after elvis -- he did not want anyone to know where he was. i promised to take a couple of stewardesses home. so we had to drive them home and then we went to the house. and it was v

. >> it's july 31, 2009 in washington, d.c. and i have the honor and privilege to interview judge laurence silberman. tell me how derek bach got you to hawaii. >> i was going to clerk for a federal district judge in newark and come to a law firm in washington the following year. derek had recommended me to this federal judge. i was particularly interested in practicing labor law, and this federal judge had been roosevelt's labor counsel and it was well-known. his name is minden laurel, two weeks before i was to arrive as a law clerk, he died, which left me with a wife, two children, and no job for a year because my arrangement with the washington firm was the following year, and they had no opening immediately. derek found me in the library, i believe, at the business school where i was writing a paper, and asked whether i'd be willing to go to hawaii. the only other alternative at the time, which sort of interested me but not my wife, was helping the nigerians write their constitution. she did not want to bring two little chil

discovery due to hit the washington area between 10:00 and 11:00.acking on top of a 747. that many had to be specially modified to carry the space shuttle discovery. a plane will fly about 100 miles ahead of it to make sure the path is clear for discovery as it heads here in washington. it will take a tour across the washington region through maryland, through virginia and you will also be able to see it in the district and then it will finally make its home at the udvar hazy center near dulles international airport. for people in florida, this is the enof of an era but here in washington, it is the beginning of a new one. >> it is bittersweet. a necessity a lot of people in the space program and we will miss this era. >> reporter: today's flight kicks off two days of events surrounding the kofi coming here. it will cull main ate with the official transfer ceremony at udvar hazy at 11:00 on thursday morning. now, some spots to see the flyover today, the best one is at udvar hazy from the parking lot which opens at 8:00 this morning. you can also get

president obama thought he would do this when he came to washington. turn this inside out. >> to buttress your point, it had long been held on capitol hill that freshmen were there to be seen and not heard. in 1902, there were 42 freshmen that came in on the teddy roosevelt wave. they so quickly learned they were impotent that they formed a club called the tantalus club, an entertainment group that would entertain members of the press and other politicians. what they basically did was mocked their own powerlessness. to be fair, this group of eshmen is different. as the book details, they have had a lot of influence, i think more than the republican leadership had bargained on. by the end of it all, there were pretty much calling the shots. john boehner was more likely to follow the lead of the freshmen than the other way around. tavis: he called them a pain in my behind. is it really influence? you can have positive influence and negative influence. there are some who could argue that these guys have cost their party a great deal with their shenanigans