teddy roosevelt came to the presidency of nightly death of zachary taylor. here i sit in louisville. zachary taylor was born your charlottesville, but like many virginians, he came to kentucky and settled in louisville. that retailer did eventually. i am sitting about two miles from the home that zachary taylor lived in in louisville. he is buried about two miles from me. this is often atypical scenario where the vice president will succeed to the presidency. with john fowler, that was after william henry harrison. the presidency -- the country does not really want that person to run for presidency in his own right. often, the party turns on that vice president who has succeeded to the presidency. that is what happened to millard fillmore. he did not get the nomination of his wig party to run for a term in his own right. he waited four years and joined what was a new party at that time, first called the native american party, meaning they were anti-immigration. waves of immigrants were coming into this country. i am mostly of german extraction and rest of my

so zachary taylor. runs against one of those democratic generals that polkit appointed zachary taylor wins, and it's going to be zachary taylor who's in charge at first until he died in office in 1850 of trying to figure out how to organize the mexican session a third of mexico has become part of the united states. immediately. there's there's talk of civil war possible disunion. what will be a slave state? what won't be a slave state? how will california come in new mexico and texas each claim the same territory will those two areas the territory of new mexico in the state of california go to war what's going to happen? so that's all going to we'll talk about that next time. it's called the compromise of 1850 and it's going to be clay who comes up with the idea but clay also dies in 1850. hello, but eventually there's going to be a compromise and there's kind of a breathe. they're gonna breathe the savory leaf the missouri compromise had lasted 30 years over slavery this one maybe the last 30 years. it

so zachary taylor runs against one of those democratic generals that polk had appointed, zachary taylor winds. it's going to be zachary taylor who is in charge at first until he died in office in 1850 of trying to figure out how to organize the mexican cession. a third of mexico has become part of the united states. immediately, there is the talk of civil war, possible disunion, what will be a slave state, what would be a slave state, how will california come in? new mexico and texas each claimed the same territory. well those two areas, the territory of new mexico in the state of california go to war? what's going to happen? so that's all going to, we'll talk about that next time. it is called a compromise of 1850 and it's going to be clay who comes up with the idea, but clay also dies in 1850. so but eventually there is going to be a compromise and there's kind of, they're going to be the sigh of relief, the missouri compromise that lasted 30 years over slavery. this one with the last 30 years, it doesn't last very long at all as it turns out. so there's at least home at that over tha

teddy roosevelt came to the presidency of nightly death of zachary taylor.e i sit in louisville. zachary taylor was born your charlottesville, but like many virginians, he came to kentucky and settled in louisville. that retailer did eventually. i am sitting about two miles from the home that zachary taylor lived in in louisville. he is buried about two miles from me. this is often atypical scenario where the vice president will succeed to the presidency. with john fowler, that was after william henry harrison. the presidency -- the country does not really want that person to run for presidency in his own right. often, the party turns on that vice president who has succeeded to the presidency. that is what happened to millard fillmore. he did not get the nomination of his wig party to run for a term in his own right. he waited four years and joined what was a new party at that time, first called the native american party, meaning they were anti-immigration. waves of immigrants were coming into this country. i am mostly of german extraction and rest of my fam

, lincoln went up to massachusetts since my home state did a lot of lectures and stomping for zachary taylor. as for president and to help zachary zachary taylor when they when the election went on his way back, he went through upstate new york, went to buffalo and then took his family to niagara falls, saw his beautiful, beautiful niagara falls. and i have information that says he got a haircut while he was there and then he got into a steamship and they went through the great lakes back to chicago, through illinois and michigan canal, which i'll mention a little bit back down to springfield and then worked until the next session of congress several months later. so on this cruise, on this steamship, this is where we think he wrote this fragment. and when you look at this fragment, you can see there's tons and tons and tons of science. so he starts off in this fragment talking about, well, you know, the physics of it is no great wonder, you know, you have a river. it's flowing along nicely. and then he hits a perpendicular jog. so basically he finds a cliff, falls off of it, crashes into in

zachary taylor was an officer fighting against blackhawk. jefferson davis worked under the president of the confederate states of america and work under taylor and took while caulk down to saint -- blackhawk down to st. louis. once blackhawk was captured, he was taken east and he became sort of an iconic figure in white america. huge crowds would come out. that represented the notion of indians being romanticized and diminished at the same time. i found paralleling that trip of lack of to cincinnati, pittsburgh, washington, d.c., norfork and up to new york, it paralleled jim thorpe after he won the olympic gold medals and being taken on parades into new york and philadelphia and carlisle. he wasn't a prisoner of war of fame. they were both equally being romanticized and mythologized. path lit by lightening -- kevin: path lit by lightning. david: the story is there was a thunderstorm on the night that -- and he was a twin -- he had a brother that died at age nine in a boarding school of disease. the night they were born along the north canadi

another little factoid that you need abraham lincoln was in the illinois militia and zachary taylor officerainst black hawk, and jefferson davis worked under, you know, the president of the confederate states of america worked under taylor and actually took black hawk down to st. louis after his captured and any case, once black hawk was captured, he was taken east and he became sort of a h iconic figure in white amera wherever heni was taken as a prisoner of war huge crowds would come out. black hawk they called it. and he was -- and that would be the notion of indians being are mangt romanticized and diminished and parallelling that black hawk in pittsburgh in washington, d.c. and norfolk up to new york was parallelled with jim thorpe after the greatst moment of his career after he won the olympic gold medals in 2012 being taken on parade to new york and philadelphia and carlisle. and heyo wasn't a prisoner of wr but he was a prisoner of fame and they were equally being -- romanticizedal diminished and apologized. >> yeah so by lightning -- >> well, jim thorpe was born in may of 1887. the

zachary taylor was an officer based fighting against blackhawk and jefferson davis worked under the president of the confederate states of america, and worked under taylor and actually took blackhawk down to st. louis after he was captured. in any case, once blackhawk was captured, he was taken east and he became sort of iconic figure in white america, wherever he was taken as a prisoner of war, huge crowds would come out. blackhawk they called it and they represented of the notion of indians being romanticized and diminished at the same time. and i found that, you know, that paralleling that trip of blackhawk to cincinnati and pittsburgh and washington d.c. and norfolk and new york was paralleled with jim thorpe after the greatest moment of his career after he'd won the olympic gold medals in 1912, being taken on parades to new york and philadelphia and carlisle. and he wasn't a prisoner of war, but he was a prisoner of fame and they were both sort of equally being romanticized and diminished and mythology. >> and path lit by lightning. >> well, jim thorpe was born in may of 1887. the story

>> zachary taylor, robert e. lee a number of the confederate generals at the audience of fighting against. that's where the interesting intersections between all of these guys and battles because they have fought with each other before and so they have these established relationships. i will jump forward again. it grants funeral just to show you how well respected he was across the land a million people show up in new york city and lined the streets and they bring out their old uniforms the union and confederate uniforms and they lined the streets of new york city. his pallbearers are to union generals into confederate generals. at the end of his life and that's the relationships they have that went back all the way to the mexican-american war. >> in the book you cover the fact that lincoln wasn't envious but he looked over his shoulder at some point and saw grant and said oh my gosh this guide may run for president against may, right? >> yeah you did but grant thought he was that popularity was that popular with

>> zachary taylor, robert e. lee a number of the confederate generals at the audience of fighting against. that's where the interesting intersections between all of these guys and battles because they have fought with each other before and so they have these established relationships. i will jump forward again. it grants funeral just to show you how well respected he was across the land a million people show up in new york city and lined the streets and they bring out their old uniforms the union and confederate uniforms and they lined the streets of new york city. his pallbearers are to union generals into confederate generals. at the end of his life and that's the relationships they have that went back all the way to the mexican-american war. >> in the book you cover the fact that lincoln wasn't envious but he looked over his shoulder at some point and saw grant and said oh my gosh this guide may run for president against may, right? >> yeah you did but grant thought he was that popularity was that popular with

now, some like zachary taylor who died in office and whose presidency is not particularly well rememberedor remembered at all, left much less of evidentiary record because he died in office and then sort of was forgotten to history, and so they're far fewer records that have been preserved in one place. so think the parallels we can think of is a rose depends on the person, their mindset, the importance of how this on the role in history and then have left office and their families commitment to upholding the tradition. >> speaking of that great song of hamilton, , the music about burning all the letters so there was a little bit of historical accuracy there of what happened. but obviously that's not how we do things today. so tim, i'm wondering if you could walk us through the origins of the decision to make presidential records public property and watergate, and maybe feels a little bit how the system works today and also i mean, critically as a historian why you think it's so important the presidential records belong to the public. >> well, -- [inaudible] >> maybe turn your mic on a tr

i also thought of zachary taylor who had five days to live. nobody had really been in a position like wilson where he was mentally totally sound from a stroke, but he was physically weak. what should have been done think of yourself you be edith wilson and you try to figure out what would you do at this time? what if you were wilson's daughters? what if wilson had had a son and something like this had happened? what should have been done to help this president? next please. she makes a decision. she makes a decision and this is the second thing i've discovered about her. she takes on the role of chief of staff. her role of chief of staff is almost identical. to the definition of chief of staff that you can find in chris. whipple's book the gatekeeper where he shows how hr haldeman created this role in nixon's presidency. that's exactly what edith wilson was doing 50 years before it's wilson's doctors who encourage her to keep continued doing what she did before sitting with wilson and helping to make decisions or that just watching and make de