during the war, he became very jealous of the very, very successful general zachary taylor and so he demoted taylor and put general winfield scott over him and then he got jealous of scott because scott was getting all the headlines. so when the war ended, polk is leaving, and taylor is the great hero of the war. taylor had never voted in an election. taylor had never done anything political. he had been a career military officer for his entire life. his wife, margaret smith taylor, peggy taylor, as she's known, had traveled with her husband to some of the most remote military bases in the country. she had been a military wife, the wife of a man who started as a lieutenant and ended up as a major general and taylor's politics were almost unknown other than that he said over and over again, he wanted henry clay. henry clay, of course, had lost to polk, and henry clay believed it was his time to win, 1848 was going to be a wig year, clay's party is the wig party. clay thinks he will win and out of nowhere taylor gets the nomination and clay is absolutely devastated that he doesn't get t

after commenting zachary taylor fell under the vapors of washington and died because he would act honest and straightforward the tribune writers would claim that washington in subsequent years was free of malaria for democrats but when the new republican party began to gain strength it was possible they could become the ruling power were then the water was suddenly dangerous than the national hotel that dozens of heretics' almost died to death. but under the care for all soldiers during the of break the right to impeach johnson that to with three senators, republicans are frustrated with the sudden illness. in never had any of the time that with the water fishing one dash washington. the assassination theorist were not the only ones worried about conspiracy. with a slave power it was common currency in the north where the term was used to describe the political influence of the planter eaton not a theory but had a tone and the slave power had the agenda to extend slavery to the territories and free states and to destroy a civil liberties and control policies of the federal government of

and basically stopped with zachary taylor. think he was the last president that literally brought slaves to the white house with him. after that, they didn't. >> next, a question from tennessee, jonesboro. and our caller is carol. hi, carol. caller: hello? >> you're on. caller: okay, thank you. yes. my husband's mother marry martha patterson's daughter, which would have been andrew johnson's grand daughter some years ago. she claimed two jonesboro specifically to talk to my mother-in-law at the time saying that she feels -- that her grandmother was so thankful that her husband's great -- great, great grandfather had saved the johnson homestead and had given safe passage to the family to the johnson family so they had wanted to go to the homestead during the war, they could have. he was a confederate general that at one time was over the east tennessee area, gerald a. jackson. his grand daughter was my mother-in-law. >> thanks for that story. do you know any more about that? granting safe passage or a general that looked after

. >> well, i think that started when zachary taylor used that term for dolly madson during her memorialce in 1849. and he said she was truly the first lady of our land. she was a connection to the revolutionary time period and she keeps coming back to the white house. she was the first in social standing, probably for 16 years. first as jefferson's stand-in, first lady then, first lady on her own. but she continued to have great influence. and so i think that's how it started, that she was the first in stature. and that name carried on. it wasn't really picked up until after the civil war. mrs. hayes, although i think harriette layne had that under some of her photographs in papers and so anyway, but it just means the first among everyone. >> linda, bloomington, minnesota, you're on. >> good evening. i have a question that relates to my own family. i had a grandmother whose name was kate harrison and then she married and her name was thomas and she grew up i believe in missouri. there was a story that her mother had been married in the white house and i don't know if there's any truth t

television distribution dolores scott is suing her daughter, 21-year-old jacqueline taylor, and her husband, zacharyans for wedding expenses, as well as car and living expenses. >> byrd: order! all rise!