washington did. he wrote that he shuddered to think about how hard it was keeping smallpox out through alone. how well inoculation worked. he announced in a private letter in the summer of 1777, after the successes he's having with soldier inoculate us that he hoped virginia would pass a law compelled families forcing families to their children under penalties if they didn't do it. now. i took a walk this morning. right. i was here early, took a walk down towards the white house, took a view of the washington monument, and was thinking about this talk that i was going to give about washington. washington's decision to inoculate the army. i took a selfie with didn't show that wouldn't win. i'm not great itself, but i looked at the washington man woman in the courage me for the first time this morning. what the washington looks like at least to me. i don't know if you've thought about it. folks who live in washington, but it doesn't look like george washington at all. and it's just point the obelisk ri

in washington. i'm thankful for everyone who put this together. now, when i told my kids to kids, charles and walter, 11 and eight years old, when i told them that i would be speaking in washington, d.c., this is the first book talk that i've given. the book came out a week ago. it's it's ink still wet and when i told my kids that i'd be going to washington and giving a talk, they're very excited. and my son charles asked me and he said, hey, dad, do you think president biden might be might come to your talk? and i said, how? probably not. he's busy. you know, he just signed a bill today and at the white house. but i said no. i'm sure he'd be interested in the topic, but he's probably too busy and my son looked at me with a smile and he said, so it'll probably just be kamala harris then. so i'm told. do you see crowds arrive a little late, so leave a couple seats open just in case the vice president arrives. so as andrew said and he introduced, introduce my book. very well. i thought my book, the co

i'>> washington journal continu. host: joining us for historical perspective on president biden's decision not to seek reelection, lindsay chervinsky, director of the george washington presidential library at mount vernon. first explain what this decision by joe biden looks like through the eyes of an historian. guest: i was struck by, it was really and extorted every moment. you study power, the presidency, there is a certain type of personality, a certain amount of ego -- and i don't say that negatively -- but a certain amount of ego to do the job. to want the job if these crazy times, and to believe you are the right person to be making the nearly impossible decisions that will come across the president's desk. that type of personality really has a hard time of stepping away from that power, across human history, let alone american history. to see it happen is really an extraordinary moment. host: stepping away from power earlier this week on twitter. you make comparisons to george washington and his decisions to

the path from there to washington, d.c. was wide open. the city was poorly defended with union soldiers. they were away attacking richmond at the time. washington seriously menaced, was incapable of self-defense. that much was clear he wrote years later. staring at that map, wallace understood that the threat was very real and his responsibility was crystal clear. without orders, without orders, he departed for menoxie junction where the roads and railroad leading to washington and baltimore crossed a tributary of the potomac. upon arrival he stood on a bluff looking down at the river and green pastures and golden wheat fields it beyond it. he could see the stee pells of frederick, maryland, not far off and the patokin mountains. the peaceful summer was interrupted with the echo of distant gunfire. and soon it was clear, general robert e. lee sent general jubal early north to take washington. he had crossed the potomac and was on his way east towards menoxie junction perhaps to washington, just 40 miles away. wallace already moved with gr

president washington in the future as well.r later a very similar circumstance occurs a man named robert williams shows up in the scots irish communities. he says he's a traveling teacher. he needs students, is anyone around? he can teach them. that actually happens back then. but thenst he's asking really strange questions. questions alike,he and you know anyone who hasn't paid their taxes? who is notvi registered there still? obviously is very suspicious people believe he is a spy for the treasury department. they drag him into the woods. this time they take him into a shop the bellows are fired. they taught him, they burn his body with hot tara they take hot irons out of the forge and they drive them into his stomach. he actually survives that. these are not cute offenses. these are not civil disobedience ordi acts of civil disobedience these are real bodily assaults on people. an unfortunate for the both of those men they took the symbolic brunt of the people's anger with the federal government. as it turns out for my resea

yeah, so consequently in washington to get to know that in washington. so he becomes an expert in this and then at age 18 he buys his first tract of land in the shenandoah valley, but leases that from lord fairfax with the money that he's earned. when the house of burgesses is looking for somebody to go out into the wilderness to follow an order from london to keep the french from infringed on, the forks of the ohio, where the allegheny monongahela river has come to form the ohio river. now, pittsburgh, who else do they hire? they find young george washington in his twenties, and he goes up, he gets within miles of lake erie. he falls into the icy allegheny river and swims himself out. he knows this and he has this vision that he pursues as a retired general, as a president, to pierce through the appalachian chains that were separating the coastal, the north american colonies, the north american united states as it became, and to go through there to the vast interior of the country which he was investing, he bought a lot away. so he's got a scholar of am

they do like george washington. everyone does, but they're not keen on what the federal government's been doing. intervening in their lives. they don't really pay their taxes much. they're sort of in a separate economy and away from what's going on in the rest of america. in the west, we grew more corn and rye here than, anywhere else in the new world. and because of that, most people who lived here were farmers. they farmed corn and they farmed rye. that's how they made their living. now, if you want to sell corn in the west, that's a difficult proposition because your neighbor is also trying to sell corn in the west. so you're not going to find a great market. so for these people, only option people who lived in western pennsylvania was to find a way to make their corn and rye easier to move right. more valuable. and the easiest way to do that was whiskey. whiskey for them was the the chief economic engine of here in western pennsylvania. one of the issues they faced here in the west was that they didn't have a lo

. >> washington journal continues. host: joining us for historical perspective on president biden's decision not to seek reelection, lindsay chervinsky, director of the george washington presidential library at mount vernon. first explain what this decision by joe biden looks like through the eyes of an historian. guest: i was struck by, it was really and extorted every moment. you study power, the presidency, there is a certain type of personality, a certain amount of ego -- and i don't say that negatively -- but a certain amount of ego to do the job. to want the job if these crazy times, and to believe you are the right person to be making the nearly impossible decisions that will come across the president's desk. that type of personality really has a hard time of stepping away from that power, across human history, let alone american history. to see it happen is really an extraordinary moment. host: stepping away from power earlier this week on twitter. you make comparisons to george washington and his decisions to

another good example is the washington post know the washington post covers washington, but they don't have a reporter who covers lobbying really. so there's no reporters. the washington post would cover lobbying, which is. outrageous. oh, my gosh. that's crazy. yeah, but you're right. the smaller races, the smaller regional players, they are not getting any attention. right. right. definitely. well, okay. think we've come to an end of our program. our thanks to brody mullins coauthor, the wolves of k street, the secret history of how big money took over big government. we you to pick up a copy of brodie his new book here or at your local bookstore. and there's one right and embarcadero that you can find and if you'd like to support the club's efforts in making virtual in-person programing possible please visit their website commonwealth club dot org. i'm kirsten grind. thank you and take care again and thank you for. you know, i'm booktv. we want to introduce you to matt ridley. he is a coauthor of this book viral the search for the origin of covid-19. mr. ridley, what do you do for a

and now on all the goc run newspaper goal, the washington post. it is published at so many lies over the decades, has attacked to just quickly summarize what, what they've done to try and destroy you your organization and try to capitalize perhaps we have pre i or the, or the police to arrest your stuff as well. this is the 2nd intelligence inspired attack on the gray zone this year by the washington post. think the 2nd largest paper in the united states, owned by one of the world's 3 richest men, jeff bezos, who signed a deal with a c. i a to hosted cloud for $600000000.00 at amazon, just days after you purchased the washington post. in both cases, these attacks relied heavily on fronts for us and as rarely intelligence. this article, this most recent article by the washington post so called digital threats editor, joseph men, cited current, us current and former us intelligence officials, as one of its sources against us. and it represents an escalation against independent journalism and specifically independent media that is busting little lies

a complete lie that's not even backed up by this washington post article. so the point of the article is to create a kind of steel darcy, a situation where they slapped together enough innuendo. outright lies and smears to convince people in the 3 letter agencies that maybe they need to get a fight as a warrant on us. maybe we need to be investigated, maybe f b i agents need to show up at my door. but certainly i need to be harassed because as this article explicitly acknowledges, i personally in the great zone have or published reports about israel targeting its own citizens on october 7th. something that was deeply damaging to is really propaganda about that day. because as we all know, they're trying to consecrate and consolidate october 7th is a kind of new holocaust and strip it of any context or any history. and according to the washington post, what i've done is spread misinformation when in fact, this united nations investigative report last week corroborated the fact that is really general's like general brock here on ordered and is really tacked t

so let's begin with the washingtons. if you think about the history of our first ladies in civil rights, it's a checkered past. and we have to begin to look at the washington and a precedent that they set. they brought their enslaved servants to the president's home, both in new york and philadelphia when they went to philadelphia for the second capital. they had to circumvent a philadelphia law in order to keep their enslaved workers with them. there was a law that said that any enslaved person who was in the city of philadelphia for more than six months was freed. so what washington's did was they sent their enslaved workers back and forth between mount vernon and their presidential home. and this was a way of having anyone, not having anyone there for more than six months during one of those transition periods. martha's personal oil made by these men owner, also known as on each judge, escaped. she knew when the transition was happening and she used that as an opportunity to leave slidell. there's a wonderful book tha

washington or washington resigning commission. there are few of those in there, although there are also portraits of jefferson, of madison, of elbridge gerry. there are there are some real faces in there, too the first question remind me the first question. just say the word. oh, yes, yes. there are two black soldiers in the bunker hill painting actually in the left background. it's kind hard to see, but there is peter samuel, who was credited with killing major pitkin. and you can you can just make him out. he's firing in the direction of major pitcairn on the other side of the canvas, who's who's been mortally struck. the two figures in the lower right are thomas grosvenor. who? lieutenant grosvenor who was a lawyer from pomfret, connecticut and his slave asaba. now, in the 1790 census, asaba is listed as a free man. so at some some point, he was free. but in the battle of bunker hill, he sees fighting alongside grosvenor and they both have clearly been the action grosvenor is wounded he's a bandaged hand a sable. stockings are

so you have booker t washington.k about a guy born in slavery who never knew who his father was, never had shoes, never had pants. he also remembers when union soldiers came to his house, to the big house on the plantation, and he told everyone come. and they made the announcement around what he believes was the emancipation proclamation says essentially a free looked at his mom and he said she was crying but she was happy and next year they got back to the house and they said, well, what they thought was the house said, what do we do now? well, she had a companion and they headed to west virginia. all he wanted to do was get an education. all he had to do was he had to work in the mines and in the mines. was but something that he would do from the age of 11 to 13. and he was claustrophobic and it was hard to breathe and him and his brother would show up and always say his mom i got to learn how to read. so finally she said here's a book it's the dictionary. and he would just read the dictionary. and then day coming

washington question is viewed galleys efforts. we welcome, but by being helpful, we mean it's got to include conversations with the prince and it's got to start from an understanding of where president someone's key is on. and disturbing images from a southern roster has that investigation continues into a present now prizing by inmates to black. so late.

solely by the washington posts reporting. in the next hour will discuss and examine how the heroic journalist journalist myth of watergate took hold. and why it is so tenacious. but also discuss what some of the principles of the washington post? principles that the post at the time of the watergate scandal have had to say about this interpretation of watergate. and will consider why it matters we'll consider the so what question. why debunking this myth? matters along the way we'll have some time for q&a. here are a few names that will encounter. during our class today. bob woodward and carl bernstein these are these were reporters for the washington post the lead reporters on the watergate scandal for the post. and they teamed up in 1972 and were together through the scandal in 1974. together they wrote two books about the watergate scandal. catherine graham is another name that will encounter she was the posts publisher. during the watergate period the post then was a family-owned newspaper. and she was publisher from 1969

"we had people in washington who talked about soft landing of thesignist regime, basically the united state government understand and what do you say, to accept the fact that design regment is apartide state and try to pressure it into change of behavior, there were people who you, i would say the wise faction in washington who don't who unfortunately are not in power, they are not on the..." side, the powerful and democrat side or the republican side, but they are important people, in universities in different places that they talk about this, unfortunately at the moment, it doesn't you, situation in washington doesn't seem to change, we have on the two sides, we have camela harris, we have donald trump, and we have the us congress, everyone is still talking about. that blank check and of course they are not ready to accept the responsibility, they are not ready to accept you know what this means in in terms of the you know how people look at washington from this moment on, this is going to this has changed people's understanding of washington, so i think this is unfortunately the ca

the path from there to washington, d.c. was wide open.s poorly defended with union soldiers. they were away attacking richmond at the time. washington seriously menaced, was incapable of self-defense. that much was clear he wrote years later. staring at that map, wallace understood that the threat was very real and his responsibility was crystal clear. without orders, without orders, without orders, without orders, he departed for junction where the roads and railroads crossed. upon arrival stood on a block down at the river in green pastures and goldfields beyond 50 this people's not far off on the horizon. mark was interrupted echo of distant gunfire. as soon, it was clear general robert e lee went early north and crossed and was just miles away. ... determined to block the bridge just long enough for reinforcements to arrive in ther capital. on the night of july 8, the eve of the battle, wallace laid out places it on a folded code but anxiety late sleep impossible. could he throw a hastily gathered and mostly green force in a way of th

i day and with it a chance at washington.hen accuracy is usually unmentioned under consequential civil war battles. the 160th anniversary wet reflect on its importance however briefly to dismiss abraham lincoln eventual terms of peace. because of wallace's steely result uncommon valor the questions went unanswered. was reelected the following general the 13th amendment to forever and slavery passed congress, the war was over by april. the unit was preserved. general lew wallace was redeemed best known for been her. but the message she forwarded to washington is timeless too. that should inspire all of us still. a reminder rising to our duty no matter the odds are outcome can change the course of history. i did as i promised held the bridge to the last. thank you, mr. president. saturday american history tv features historic convention speeches by presidential nominee this saturday texas governor george w. bush dresses leadership in america. >> our opportunities are too great. our lives too short to waste this a moment. so ton