how tall was george washington? well, if we listen to some biography, he was 63 or maybe six four in the house inches that the max figure was able to attract the house six four and a half inches, and then come on, he's sending out incredibly detailed letters to his purveyors and tailors. and you don't write to your tailor, do you? so, yeah. and what did he write this tailors? well, yes. okay. the there are many letters. and in some it says, well, you know, and i should you take my measurement, you have to bear in mind that i am six foot two in my shoes, which means that in the 18th century, shoes had heels. so and then other letters says that he writes, they send out to his tailor, says, well, i am full, six foot tall. so i think i think that gives us a essential clue to from where we should start. okay. maybe he wasn't he was that athletic, muscular giant that some biographers want him to become, not only because it wasn't like that, but because he would have no, sorry, he wouldn't have known what to do with that k

so boyfriend washington was a federalist like we'll send and george washington indeed. just talking about the 11th amendment bush rod called sacrifice to state pride. he wasn't a big fan because he was more interested in asserting national authority as they kind of important structural protection for liberty. you know, it's while bush roy washington did study under james wilson. you have to say that george washington was probably a far more important influence on bush rod simply by virtue of his family leadership as well as just the fact of many years of kind of close interaction between them correspondence that really began it when bush rod was set up with james wilson by george washington george, washington page james wilson's princely some that someone described it that he demanded to be bushrod's mentor, but in other words, it's hard to imagine bush rod washington taking a much different philosophy toward the constitution then george washington or would have taken some of very incredible intellectual independence and fortitude maybe to do that. so i think that he th

lee was related to washington. i do think his decision, unlike the decision of most of the southern officers who went to west point to join the confederacy is part of what sex the family and the nation's esteem. >> we have a couple of minutes left. you had some closing thoughts. i only want to a couple more words. the story is worth knowing. we can see how a family can be built from the choice but not just from dna. what are you saying there? >> i think it is important to keep in mind -- they are the people known to the public during both george washington's lifetime as president and then long afterwards as his family. etiquette is important to keep in mind that in many cases, who we define as family is a choice. who we leave out of our family and we include in it, there are conscious choices there. they are waiting out people in their construction of washington's family and who is washington's heirs. i think the people right now because of the promised dna tests have gotten, there is this idea of biological family

lee was related to washington.o think his decision, unlike the decision of most of the southern officers who went to west point to join the confederacy is part of what sex the family and the nation's esteem. >> we have a couple of minutes left. you had some closing thoughts. i only want to a couple more words. the story is worth knowing. we can see how a family can be built from the choice but not just from dna. what are you saying there? >> i think it is important to keep in mind -- they are the people known to the public during both george washington's lifetime as president and then long afterwards as his family. etiquette is important to keep in mind that in many cases, who we define as family is a choice. who we leave out of our family and we include in it, there are conscious choices there. they are waiting out people in their construction of washington's family and who is washington's heirs. i think the people right now because of the promised dna tests have gotten, there is this idea of biological family whe

around washington, d c. and then after a few minutes, they determined that this plane was not in fact a threat to the capital, and they went back to normal procedures where they did not dump the building. this is something they did. last year. it was around may or june of last year, where there was a plane that flew over washington, dc, and there was a miscommunication it was, you know, an event for the washington nationals baseball team at the ballpark there, and they actually evacuated the capitol. they went to read because there was a miscommunication at this point was supposed to be there that close to the united states capitol but again anytime they have any aircraft that pierces that security perimeter around washington d. c. they're going to take notice here in washington and they're going to do you know, take those measures to protect the capital protect the white house, etcetera, and that's exactly what they did briefly here and then i was told after the they cleared the capital. said there wasn't a

you don't need to do the washington read except to know how to read the washington book. now i'll start with the books by a politician who probably could have made his living as a writer. in fact, now he kind of does make his living as a writer. and that's barack obama, his 1995 memoir, dreams from my father is in my a wonderful written book and so much so that i think all the subsequent books kind of suffer and of obama's books have been vastly overanalyzed and discussed length, including by me. and so i just want to focus on a few specific lines. there's a moment in dreams for my father when obama, in his early post-college years, talks his aspirations for community organizing in chicago and he writes, because this community imagined was still in the making, built on the promise that the larger american community, black and brown, could somehow redefine. i believe that it might over time admit the uniqueness of my life. he's writing about the challenge of fitting in in america and how america might change so that he who combines like hawaii and kansas, kenya and indones

jon: tastes good in the air over washington d.c. f-16 fighter jet scrambled today to intercept an unidentified aircraft and restricted airspace in the nation's capitol. those are just causing a sonic boom that startled people from washington d.c. to virginia and maryland. for now hurting the jets were racing intercept the small aircraft now believed to be a cessna citation business jet that strayed into the d.c. no-fly zone and ultimately crash in southern virginia. i am jon scott and this is the box report. let's get right to lucas tomlinson at the white house with the latest. prince jon, we are learning that took off from elizabethan tennessee that north tennessee not far from the border of rigid and affluent all the way as far northeast as long island before mysteriously turned around coming back and crossing over restricted airspace above the nation's capitol for crash landing i to have our drive from here. for the d.c. national guard were scrambled. there clear to respond supersonic over mach 17061 miles per hour which caused a

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washington traditionally tries to get rid of.ven washington's hair stood on end to open and its own wards, and not to have distributed key positions to relatives and friends, wanted to cancel the elections. and she was in the status of only acting. the americans hastened to isolate themselves from the toxic lady, when the election lost, the new government and immediately initiated, investigation and arrest. the eu found the politician in an inglorious posture. jeanine hid at her mother's house in a bedside box from the former support of american friends , there was no trace of the united states steel. the first country to support the appointment of the eu , the then us secretary of state mike pompeo congratulated janine añez in november 2019 on taking up this post at a moment of great responsibility, when there is a need to restore order in bolivia. now secretary of state glinkin is indifferent to the fate of them the us government dutifully urged bolivia to protect inter-american civil rights, but did not comment on the detentio

and the trade - washington and the trade negotiators. _ washington and the trade negotiators.— washingtonter, dare i say it that perhaps there was some i negotiators. peter, dare i say it- that perhaps there was some cynicism on the press flight out about the idea about rishi sunak would be anointed by president biden as the man to save mankind from al but lo and behold, it happened and twice the president praised his leadership in this area and said over to you, britain, for the global summit on al regulation. a win or something that will have everyone at the foreign office sweating? probably both. i think it is an achievement. there was a heavy briefing from number ten in advance that this was one of rishi sunak�*s main objectives. i think it is impressive that he has got president biden officially endorsing the idea of uk leadership and that there will be a global summit on al in the uk later this year. there was talk of the japanese doing something later this year, but there it is, the united states saying they want the uk to play that role. i think it is very convenient for the prime

she actually grew up here in washington. washington and as a child, she'd been born in iowa, spent her early years in wisconsin, some wonderful gossip up in the book where her mom's story up being quite interesting. mom had three marriages and two of them were failed marriages, including a divorce in 1848. and when i found the evidence of this divorce, it was just so like amazing because i knew there was something questionable about this middle marriage. well, then the third marriage is the marriage to eliza's father. so when that fell through in the middle of the civil war, mom comes to d.c. eliza, grows up here. so she is raised by her single mother, she and her brother here in d.c., mom ran a boarding house, i think, and she got a job at the u.s. treasury. so eliza went to georgetown visitation for a couple of years and then she went to oberlin. but for a while she didn't graduate. but the thing her was she was so precocious that when she went to georgetown visitation, i found the academic records on her and she was only

it wasn't here in washington.as working in indonesia and i bought a book, a reprint of an 1897 travelogue called job are:the garden of the east. by someone named er skidmore. i was impressed how it held up. a lot of things i read, i had seen myself. the descriptions were very vivid. it was informed and i found the voice quite engaging and so i naturally wondered, who was this guy and what took him to java 100 years ago? i went to wikipedia and did a quick search and was totally blown away, there were not many details about her but it told me that the author was an american woman named eliza scidmore, she had written seven travel books, the first person elected to the board of national geographic in 1892 and then i read that she's widely credited person who introduced the idea of bringing cherry trees to washington. how i never heard of this woman? i had lived here over 30 years, went to see the trees every year and never heard the name eliza scidmore. i was naturally curious. i was curious, what inspired her, how

they would have a get onto the boat of washington. i'll give you one specific example on, you know, anything. this is dictating, and this is where we have this casting rise. the united states, australia in japan and, and india. and i think one of the meetings recently is didn't go when they discuss policies against china and ukraine regarding ukraine. so i think, you know, there might be a, a difference between india and other plan members and also on united states also has of, i would say sort of a preferential, differentially treatment was back to his allies. they had the 1st way to the like for example, u k. in this case, australia, they're talking about this august. your right did only include india. it only includes a penny. and it's that even, you know, did this on the back of the french thing just now. um, we are all mindful of the difficulties between that or differences between india and china. for example, in the is to know the region where you have thousands of soldiers that have sort of jack suppose, one across and other a

but ultimately, i think it's very much up to washington to endorse the ukrainian cycle. i'm starting the process that's done being very abrupt and then they're not. and the straightforward on absolutely. you know, she cannot keep fighting for one day. if washing that doesn't wants to support it or at least to support a continue fight like it can continue fighting, but they can always, you know, say that we don't want to fight anymore with or without the weapons. do you think there is enough leverage for trying name keith to try to persuade them to disagree with the statement? i think you know, you're not think washington? well, it's tremendous thing from san keith. um, so whether to fighting or stop fighting on washing, that's a big say. oh, i truly believe that the washing has a big se. uh at this point. um, i think a washer. it's a still wants to to fight. but doesn't mean the american policies is always as new selection is going on and we're starting to see and increasing the launch voice from washington, especially on the g o p side, talking about a piece solution, r

washington was furious and threatened consequences. there's going to be some consequences for what they've done with russia. i'm not going to get into what i consider and what i am have in mind, but there will be, there will be consequences. we are publicly refrain from commenting at the time, but in private and as a classified documents obtained by the washington post chose to solve the problem. praise made stress and return to ride all the us crown prince mohammed been so mon, threatening to fundamentally alter the decades old us saudi relationship and impose significant economic costs on the united states. if it retaliated against the oil cuts, the crown prince claims, he will not deal with the us administration anymore. the document says promising major economic consequences for washington, the us learn the less and then changed its approach. in the past months to high level american officials, travel to saudi arabia and to fix what had been broken, it didn't go smoothly. the secretary of state's arrival coincided with the reopenin

and daddy would ever get onto the boat of washington. i give you one specific example on you know, 1850 that they think this is where we have this casting wise, the united states australia in japan and, and india. and i think that one of the meetings recently, you didn't go there when the discuss policies against china and ukraine regarding ukraine. so i think of, you know, there might be a difference between india and other plan members and also on united states also has of, i would say sort of a preferential, differentially treatment was back to his allies. they had the 1st way to the like, for example, you okay. in this case, australia, they're talking about this august. you're right. did only include india. it only includes a penny. and it's that even, you know, did this on the back of the french thing just now. um, we are all mindful of the difficulties between that or differences between india and china. for example, in the is to know the region where you have thousands of soldiers that have sort of jack suppose, one across and oth

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washington himself was involved. but then also jefferson, gouverneur morris, robert morris, samuel adams and thomas paine, amongst others. so the french are traveling around and are gathering the information they can to get this information, and especially as well to make sure that they can form social bonds instead of being sort of enemies almost. they wanted to become, of course, close allies. so they do this very consciously and they go for a lot of dinners, which always sounds a little fun when. you read them. but actually these dinners are very important because they are coming together, sharing fun times and become close to each other because of course, during these reconnaissance missions, you can especially see and share today's travel diary that you mainly describes his dinners, which sounds quite boring to us today, but they're important at the time, as they are today, of course. so he goes to a lot of former battlefield sites with this group, and when he's at one, he will meet with the officers that have b

, d.c., or visited washington, d.c. and so i had this line of research i was very interested in, and i don't want to fail to thank the people behind the database, which is called chronicling america, which was funded by the national endowment for the humanities. it's some massive of 19th century newspapers, and that was incredibly helpful to me. i could just do a lot of research from home on my laptop, reading any newspaper in any small town in ohio, pennsylvania, new york that lincoln's went through. so i was always trying to look at lincoln. but then a student in my class said, well, what's lincoln's scene? what's he seeing? as he looks out the window? and it was a an astonishing and i hadn't even thought to reverse the camera in that direction. so i tried to really look at what every town appeared like. we we have such good photo resources. we heard an amazing talk from garry about how closely you can look at an individual photograph. i thought that was amazing. the high resolution in our ability to zoom into the bac

washington was furious and threatened consequences. there's going to be some consequences from what they've done with russia. i'm not going to get into what i consider and what i am have in mind, but there will be, there will be consequences, react publicly refrain from commenting at the time, but in private and as a classified documents obtained by the washington post chose to solve the crown prince may press and return to ride off the us. the crown prince mohammed been so months threatening to fundamentally alter the decades old us saudi relationship and impose significant economic costs on the united states. if it retaliated against the oil cuts, the crown prince claims, he will not deal with the us administration anymore. the document says promising major economic consequences for washington. the u. s. learn the less and then changed its approach. in the past months to high level american officials, travel to saudi arabia and to fix what had been broken, it didn't go smoothly. the secretary of state's arrival coincided with the reo

prime minister modi is washington home. please, have a seat.'ve been doing this a long time but i don't remember anybody getting a warmer welcome them this man right here. good evening, everyone. twenty years ago, as chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, i made clear that the united states and india grew to be the closest friends and partners in the world, the world would be a safer place. i believe that even more today now that i'm president. mr. prime minister i'm a jill and i have had a wonderful time with you today during a truly productive visit and tonight, it is fitting, a fitting way to celebrate the great bond of friendship between india and the united states that will long endure. [speaking in native tongue] as many of you know, these bonds stretch back to america's earliest days. in 1792, the first president, george washington established one of the first consulates in calcutta muzzled along the bay a hub of commerce and culture. home to more nobel laureates i might note van any other indian city including the great, an

this is the washington armory. and this is, if you think back tour our filing cabinets from before the tnties, you have your one nice room of filing cabinets. now, the washington armory itself is full of filing cabinets, fingerprints. and it gives you a sense of the fbi's growth and of the rising significance of j. edgar hoover hoover. all right. now, i'd like to just talk little bit more about the half of hoover's career, which i think in many ways is the more familiar year. part of hoover's story for us today. not only because it's a closer chronologically, but i think these are really the periods in which he has already become a celebrity and begins to do with what what he wants with the institution he's created and the power and celebrity that he has acquired. so part three of the book looks at the years. from 1945 to 1960. so these are the years of truman and eisenhower. these are the years of the red scare and of macarthur theism. and while joe mccarthy is, i think, still are kind of remembered icon of that p

she actually grew up here in washington. she came to washington s as a child purchase board and i was spent early years in wisconsin. wonderful gossip in the book where her mom's story ended up being quite interesting. mom had three marriages and two of them were failed marriages. including a divorce in 1848. what i found the evidence of this divorce it was so like amazing for a new something questionable about this middle marriage. then the third marriage is the marriage to eliza's father. that fell through the middle of theth civil war mom comes to d.. eliza grows up here she is raised by her single mother she and her brother here in d.c. mom ran a boardinghouse i think and she got a job at the u.s. treasury. so eliza went to georgetown for a couple years. and then she went to oberlin. for a while she did nott graduate. the thing about her was she was so precocious premature to georgetown visitation on the academic records on her and she was only there i could only find records for couple of years for she might have gone t

washington was furious and threatened consequences. there's gonna be some consequences for what they've done with russia. i'm not going to get into what i consider and what i am have in mind. but there will be, there will be consequences. we are publicly refrain from commenting at the times, but in private and as a classified documents obtained by the washington post chose to solve the problem. praise made stress and return to ride off the us crown prince mohammed been so mom threatened to fundamentally alter the decades old us saudi relationship and in post significant economic costs on the united states. if it retaliated against the oil cuts, the crown prince claims, he will not deal with the us administration anymore. the document says promising major economic consequences for washington, the u. s. learn the less and then changed its approach. in the past months to high level american officials, travel to saudi arabia and to fix what had been broken, it didn't go smoothly. the secretary of state's arrival coincided with the reopenin

yeah, well, i mean, there's a lot of voices in washington these days. you know, talking about a political solution to ukraine so that you can, you know, get more resource into the, in the pacific. and whether that's talking about china, from china's perspective, as sort of saying then i think that the, we are the, the, the chinese side is dedicated to a, you know, trying to get a peaceful solution in k as well as a, you know, not maintaining good relationship with the west as well with the union was in other states. but unfortunately, you know, united states has of this mentality of, uh you know, it's of no use these china is a big challenge, wants to have a competition. strategic competition was trying but he's, it's really about the competition. i mean the americans liked to mention this uh, 3. see um. right. well as the competition confrontation, cooperation, cooperation. uh, which one which senior thing is the most visible for the time being. um i think of the task that a competition is more, i mean competition, north confrontation, co quotes, compe

think of it this way the only reason washington, d.c. exists is because it is the home of our federal government. the feds only owned 27% of the land in dc which is lower than all the states i just mentioned they want to take more of our land and make it harder on the ever diminishing spaces thatr they leave. you would almost have to conclude they are targeting us for some reason and we know that they are. they are targeting us for our natural resources, those god-given assets that provide the foundation forre the nationl prosperity and wealth and independence of our middle-class. the rich farm ground, the goal is to restrict the ability to use any of these. they want to restrict the ability to grow food, produce oil and gas and mining for coal and other minerals and we need to start calling this for what itts is. these are evil policies. [applause] these folks that think that they know better are purposely making it more difficult for us to use our resources to raise our families, to protect our culture and our way of life by blocking a

washington in a variety of ways. so this is young hoover. this is the only bona fide picture of hoover wearing a dress that we have in the historical record. and as i said, he really grew up in washington. and one of the things that's interesting about his history is that even in 1895, he was born into a family that was sort of steeped in the world of government service in the late 19th century. washington is not a big city. it's not actually a city that a lot of people want to be living in. and the government itself is relatively small. there are not many people who could say that going back generations. their family had been part of the government service, that they were long time citizens of the city of washington. but hoover was, in fact, one of them. he came from a pretty middle class family. his father worked for the government. but in a mid-level sort of civil service position, he went to the washington public schools, then went on to george washington university, and from there entered the federal government

you, washington and jefferson were slaveowners. that doesn't mean that they didn't do many good things for the united states of america. but there is still a web shift or some of them are used to be waiting on the meals to be launched as well. so i'll put the general, put some of these up over the ukraine, fascist and jim and agent step on bundled or came to prominence. in the 1914 use for his nationalist views and brutal master because of civilians, the course of the news grades it will when your stores in the sheets. this is chilly, feels with us to, to reassure in the corner. it's a she says that a nice send list are stuck. you send the mean yet you leave the really guy just the way me really she to, to say is close a. it was an age of the money rest assembly. the though we have to have the own, i got to that she missed this, the me ask him to be all of them. most of these, the little simple, thankful if can unique us of using the media game as well as tells me which will be the see the over the last day to use bundio supporters