that is than we are doing william henry harrison. it's a very short program. [laughter] you don't want to miss that one. william henry harrison, i'm such a presidential nerd. i visited his tomb. his tomb is in a small town along the ohio river in southeastern ohio and it has an eternal flame which may have been on for decades and no one has noticed. it has a two-car parking lot that really -- it really does. you have to go out of your way to visit the tomb of william henry harrison. he was a great american, he just didn't doubt last very long in the presidency. that will give you some other trivia as well since we are at the nixon library and those of you watching on c-span if you haven't been to the nixon library, it's a remarkable place. i have never met anyone who has been here who did not think it's an extraordinary visit regardless of their politics. they may have voted against nixon five times which only one other person in the history of united states that vote for or against him five times and that was franklin delano roosevelt. so if you are a national

william henry harrison. i am such a presidential nerd, visited his tomb along the ohio river in southeastern ohio and has any eternal flame that no one noticed and the two car parking lot. you really have to go out of your way to see the tomb of william henry harrison. a great american. just didn't last long in the presidency. and to you -- it is a remarkable place. i never met anyone who came here who did not think it was an extraordinary visit regardless of their politics. may have voted against nixon five times. only one other person in the history of the united states you vote or for or against five times and that is franklin delano roosevelt did you could vote on that ticket against richard nixon four or five times in 1969 and 1972. if you are in a national audience watching on c-span2 come to the nixon library and you will find a great deal to amaze you. there are only four colleges in the united states which have graduated. quarterbacks in the super bowl. what are those? i will give you the easiest on

he meets two future presidents, andrew jackson and william henry harrison, he meets three senators, he meets many militia generals. he likes militia generals, he's a military guy. he meets a fellow who not only has a great name, but will play a role in the story, i'll come back to him, but mostly he meets former members of the continental army. at the end of the war, we had not paid many of our soldiers well, so many of them we gave land west in lieu of money. they remembered burr fondly. many were older than he. he'd been such a young man during the war. so he was recruiting people for an expedition, a very exciting expedition, but it turned out he was usually recruiting the sons and not the people he had known in the war. but most important, he met a thoroughly preposterous figure, general james wilkinson. wilkinson, again, was somebody i couldn't believe when i understood just what he was. he was general and chief of our army, and that sounds pretty grand. we only had 3300 soldiers at the time, so it wasn't a gigantic operation. he, at the same time he was general in chief, was a se

the scalping knife, the indians found themselves doing battle with the likes of governor william henry harrison in the northwest territory, he of tippy canoe fame, and later brigadier general andrew jackson after he took charge of the forces in the south. the charismatic tecumseh, the wellington of the indians as he was called by one british officer, fell at the battle of tams. in fort mihms which would later become abby a band of -- [inaudible] horseshoe bend. one result of jackson's victory was that the creeks very forced to cede some 20 million acres for white settlement. the american indian was the biggest loser by a country mile. proved tock a prelude for many others in the decade to come. another loser was the federalist party. to president madison, the federal party of the late alexander hamilton and george washington were the disloyal opposition. first, they voted as a bloc 39-0 against the war declaration in june 1812. does that sound familiar, by the way? i think the republicans in our own congress employ a strategy of unanimous opposition rather often. in truth, mitch mcconnell reall