even though he was supposedly in the whig party, he vetoed a bunch of whig legislation. he got kicked out of the whig party which was the party he was supposedly in. brian: what about the president that came in after? prof. greenberg: the president after james k. polk was another whig. it was zachary taylor. we have tyler on one side and taylor on the other. the problem with zachary taylor being president after james k. poke, was becausejames k. polk, when he became president he said he would only serve one term. he stuck to that. it was a lasting and the world he wanted, to hand over power to the opposition party. he did hand it over to a war hero in the war that he started. ironically for polk, because of his war, a general became president and that general was zachary taylor who was a whig. and opposed to polk. brian: the subject of this book is his wife, air ray childers polk. -- sarah childers poke. what would you say about her? prof. greenberg: there is a lot to say about her, i wrote a pretty long book. brian: she is going to be over at the house for dinner, and h

the whigs, too. whigs or interested and willing to put serious money into improving roads and bridges and canals in the west. everybody in the west wants to be able to get their crops to market, they want to be more connected financially with the east coast. they feel like farmers east of the appalachians have an unfair advantage because there is no good roads and no good shipping. so, they are all falling for its, i guess you could call big government whig platform. polk said, i will go to tennessee, run for governor, because i am basically the only democrat and the entire state of -- democrat into the entire -- democrat in the entire state of tennessee who is beloved enough to win. the fact of the matter is that he does not have a successful two years. he ultimately cannot stop the slide of the party into the hands of the whigs. so when he runs in 1941 to get reelected and loses, that is the first time he has ever lost any race in his life, and he just comes as a huge shock. , aftero not think sara

both old whigs. corner is a recent german immigrant. remember we mentioned in connection with the know nothing party, the number of immigrants coming to the u.s. in the 1850s. germans were among them. and lincoln in fact help to finance a german paper. for the republican party. and koerner is there to help them with the german delegates and delegates from areas where there is a significant german population. oglesby is the guy who found the rail or found the guy who found the rail. he is going to be around. orval browning, you remember the letter lincoln wrote about the woman he thought he might have been engaged you and might have married and all that, that was browning's wife to whom he wrote the letter. and browning is a conservative whig who in fact was supporting bates. when somebody said browning is for bates, lincoln said bates will have no show and orval will be for me. and when he is he will help us with the bates man, and he did. herndon is lincoln's law partner. and, have you ever had someone around you where you want to keep

even though he was supposedly in the whig party, he vetoed a bunch of whig legislation.rian: what about the president that came in after? the presidentg: after james k. polk was another wig. it was zachary taylor. we have tyler on one side and taylor on the other sit -- other. james k. polk, when he became president he said he would only serve one term. he stuck to that. it was a lasting and the world he wanted, to hand over power to the opposition party. herod handed over to a war and the war that he started. , because ofor polk his war, a general became president and that general was zachary taylor who was a whig. book: the subject of his -- this book is his wife sarah. what would you say about her? prof. greenberg: there is a lot to say about her, i wrote a pretty long book. brian: she is going to be over at the house for dinner, and he wanted to tell your husband or friends, what would you tell them about her. prof. greenberg: we are not going to serve wine because she does not drink. i would say that she is a charming dinner companion. the conversation is going to b

happens in the election you know steve if you look at happened prior to the civil war you had the whig party was a dominant party and in in a short number of years you had the emergence of the republican party because you had a crisis in the country we had herbert hoover was not reelected because of the great depression what i'm getting at here is that there are these moments in time where people are willing to experiment and i'm wondering if the democrats are going to go out on the limb here because they seem all intimidated. again their identity politics crushes their into intellectual abilities they all stand in fear i saw the how many congressmen you know seasoned folks you know standing around always see when she's got that green document there and they're looking i mean you're just you know you're fighting over the seating order on top of the titanic i mean this is why i think that you know trump but you know up because he's particularly been effective as president as i don't think he has been but it's going to lead his opponents this you know you get into a circular firing squad

whig he had also built the best house in the city. aer which, he had erected lightning rod. lincoln's senior, he declared the young man would have to be taken down. lincoln resumed the stand. he acknowledged he was young but he said his critics remember i am older in years that i am in the tricks and trades of politicians. i desire to live and i desire a place of distinction but i would rather die now then, like the gentleman, live to see the day i would change my politics for an office worth $3000 a year then feel compelled to erect a lightning rod to protect a guilty conscience from an offended god. [laughter] life, the same phase of lincoln learned a painful lesson that self-indulgent, aggressive humor could injure its author as well as its target. in september of 1842, he wrote for a journal. ridiculing 36-year-old james shields, the state auditor. he was an impetuous man with a short fuse. he had good reason to freight at sexualult with its assault on his character. lincoln reluctantly accepted the challenge of a duel. we cannot be sure how he intended the dark humor in

lincoln became leader of the whigs, so naturally they were always arrivals. springfield was the capital at the time so douglas spent time in springfield, as well. because it was a small community, they went to the same functions. they got along fairly well. they were both rivals for mary taught lincoln -- mary todd lincoln. abraham lincoln obviously won. some locals say he lost, but he obviously one. douglas seems like he was existing lincoln. -- eclipsing lincoln. his career went so fast. he was elected to congress. he became a well-known u.s. senator. lincoln spent four terms in the legislature, one term in congress, and his political career was over for a while. it seemed to douglas' star was rising and lincoln's was falling. him and douglas had major disagreements. in 1858, they ran for senate against each other. douglas won, but rather than lincoln getting discouraged, lincoln had made a national name for himself. douglas agreed to debates. it put mcginn on the map. two years later, he ran for president and defeated douglas and two other candidates. that

in 1843, after his first term in the illinois legislature ended, lincoln joined two other have as whigs to circular for the upcoming campaign that affirmed their parties support for manufacturing, the circular included quotes by thomas jefferson and andrew jackson. strongly advocating the development of american manufacturing to keep the country independent and not relying on products from foreign country -- foreign countries. in 1858 he delivered lectures on illinois of discovery and invention, man is not the only animal whose labor -- who labors but he is the only one who improves his workmanship, this improvement he affects by discoveries and inventions, lincoln asserted in his first lecture which detailed inventions from the angel world such as clothing, the wheel, and carts, and plows. the second lecture x told the steeple and director -- and the spoke at thelater wisconsin state agricultural society in milwaukee and asserted the need to bring new machine technology into agriculture, a steam plow, for example. during his early political career, neither lincoln nor his political all

by this point, he was kind of an anti-slavery whig and ultimately a member of the republican party. he was one of the two dissenters in the dred scott case. he dies about a month after lincoln has actually stepped into the presidency. finally, about 30 days after, 20 some odd days after maclean's death, john archibald campbell steps down from his seat on the supreme court. he was a southerner from the state of alabama. he resigns and ends up as the assistant secretary of war for the confederacy. it is interesting if we think about the southerners on the supreme court. there were a few other southerners who were part of the majority in dred scott. they are loyal unionists and stay on the supreme court. john archibald campbell is the only southerner who steps down. he too is part of the dred scott majority. the court is already starting to change. but it is not changed to the extent that even if lincoln were to fill all of the seats with anti-slavery folks who were prounion from the north, he still would not have enough justices to overturn the 1857 ruling. we want to think about what

is the republican party going the way of the whigs? is here to stay. my wing, the moderate wing, the rockefeller republicans are not in the ascendant. i believe one day we will be. there are so many serious challenges facing the country that republican values can speak to. and ross, at blacklock you have to fold this political debate into the investment. >> you do and you have to think about how that will affect the economy. you raise an excellent point. i would say this is not just an american phenomenon. we have seen this realignment in politics through the developed world. in asia, in europe, it does mean that the right/left divide is no longer -- tom: francine, this is important. francine: let me jump in. we have headlines from the spokesperson of theresa may, currently briefing reporters. will wante u.k. mp's time to scrutinize changes to the brexit deal and they are still working to do changes to the brexit backstop. let me recap everything. we understand brexit hardliners ,ppeared to soften a little bit their opposition to there