the first president was zachary office taylor.e has a chapter on that and he claims that he was poisoned to death. a professor at a university reading the book actually made arrangements supposedly with the family to have his remains dug up. supposedly they found low levels, with a? . -- with a question mark. we don't know for sure. andrew jackson was the first president of the attempted assassination. taylor died having cold milk and , with the question 1912e poisoned to death? i teddy roosevelt was running on a progressive party. the republican party had decided he would take lliam howard aft and nominate him for second term, running against woodrow wilson. reserve -- they reversed some of teddy's policies. decided they would take over the progressive party, which was under a reformer. one of the big heroes in the history of wisconsin. a man by the name of shaq shot him as he was making his speech. roosevelt had taken a speech that was 50 pages, he rolled it up, put it into his pocket. the bullet went into the case, near his hea

the president, zachary taylor, shows up with all of his cabinet. ellen gets so excited that she kisses the president, which is not protocol. and things look great, except a month later zachary taylor goes to the dedication of the washington monument, the milkning of it, and he has and sickens and dies. ewing is out of the cabin and sherman's career is going downhill. he has no combat experience. he started the gold rush, but nobody will give him credit for that. so things go from bad to worse, to the point where he finally quits the army and he becomes, wherever he goes and he has always loved st. louis, he impresses. these two st. louis bankers are , you havewith him gone to california, let's open a bank. so he goes to san francisco. meanwhile, his brother is doing great. he opens a firm. i think it is called hallock and building -- billings. he is doing well. but determined is not a well in the banking industry. by this time, the gold rush is petering out. fortunate for sherman, he is known militarily as a risk taker, but he is a tactical risk ta

zachary taylor wins the nomination for president and defeats henry clay. clay snubbed the president-elect because he didn't know what he looks like. clay was effusive in his apology. the size of the country and the distance between people. the lack of imagery. as photography is coming on not until the 20th century. with google we can go look at ourselves. that was not the case in the 1850's. photography is a way that you can have images made and most poignantly ordinary americans, it wasn't cheap but it wasn't expensive either. photography begins its service for everything from high school yearbooks to wedding photos. lincoln went along with walt whitman. the two people who begin to realize that photography is a way of transmitting one's personality. whitman enjoys getting his photograph taken almost as much as lincoln. you didn't have to strike the same pose. henry wadsworth longfellow only had one pose. you see longfellow as the young poet and it is the same as when he is aged in gray. whitman is constantly experimenting with how he looks. wearing a hat,

bush was persuasive when he -- more persuasive than zachary taylor when he tried to get daniel webster to take the vice presidency. his answer was, "no sir, i wouldn't like to be vice president, i would rather be dead before i get buried." [laughter] >> putting aside for the moment the legal niceties of your particular president, you did do something that other vice presidents haven't done, which is submit a letter of resignation. that is an interesting thing to do because one of the things you were still be recognizing is for the president to be able to be serene in the understanding that he had control in the executive sense, he needs the ability to dismiss someone if necessary. of course, vice presidents who disagree with their presidents cannot usually be dismissed unless they are as thoughtful as you were, to submit a letter of resignation. to you have occasion disagree with the president from time to time? >> sure we had our differences. ,>> can you give us an example? >> certain disagreements. there were occasions when we had differences of view. part of the process that we had

zachary taylor owned many slaves. but generally advocated against the expansion of slavery. this was a surprising maneuver for taylor. which challenged the ire of proslavery ideologues. taylor died in 1850 during a heated debate over the expansion of slavery. andrew johnson and ulysses s. grant, two post civil war presidents, also at one point owned slaves. the main point here despite a dearth of resources we find that each unique and interesting president was surrounded by interesting enslaved people. historians must continue to find the stories and secure their place in the canon of american historical figures. these individuals should be more than secondary figures in high school history textbook. you have they make about far. this causes me to wonder what can we say about the american revolution? the ideas of freedom and democracy were compelling and revolutionary among themselves, some people compose the idea behind a revolution is that you can turn the house down and build up to something new and better. get rid of everything that was bad about it. the great irony of c

> reporter: this bottle, harvested and distill inside 1850, the same year that 12th president zachary taylor tied and 13th president fillmore took over. so what do they taste like, anyway? a lucky few will get that opportunity as they taste bottles from 1811 when president james madison was in office or from 1914 during world war i. a very chocolatey, dark taste. >> reporter: but not everyone stopping by the dismay dis -- display is a collector. >> my anniversary. >> reporter: another guy said that the world cup. >> my wife would veto that. >> reporter: raegan medgie, cbs 2news. >> the bidding starts at $1, $100,000 and you have to buy all 39 bolts. >> that's quite a bar tab. we'll see if it gets better with time. >>> up next, attacked in the middle of the street, the photos that police want to you see. >> sorry, hillary. i was running on cp time. >> i don't like that joke, bill. >> cautious politician time. >> just a joke? how mayor deblasio is defending a back and forthwith hillary clinton. >> and the search for alien life is getting major backing hawking and mark zuckerberg. these little