that george washington was born on february 22nd 1732 to augustine and mary, washington. george washington's youth is the stuff of legends. most notably in the folktale popularized by parson mason weems about young george's chopping down of a cherry tree and his subsequent statement. i cannot tell a lie when confronted by his father. george's head apparently matured well before the rest of his body. as a youth he worked as a surveyor for the fairfax family and later was the official surveyor for culpeper county. from 1749 to 1752 washington completed close to 200 surveys on numerous properties totally more than 60,000 acres. during the french and indian war he served as an emissary for the governor of virginia and later in combat during british general edward braddocks ill-fated expedition. washington also ran afoul of the fortunes of war when he was forced to surrender the desperately named fort necessity to the french the only military surrender that washington encountered it is entire career underarms. washington took an active leadership role in the growing conflict b

what precedent did washington set? washington said so many precedents as president. he established the title of president. he established how to nominate supreme court justices, but in terms of the cabinet, that's one of the most important precedents because we obviously still have a cabinet today washington established that each president would have the opportunity to decide who his advisors were going to be now, of course, the department secretaries were always going to exist because those were in the constitution, but how close they were how closely they were going to work with the president or if they were going to be really intimate advisors or if he was going to if the president was going to work with someone else outside of the administration washington really established that legacy and we see that legacy today because president determines if he's going to work really closely with the vice president as the past president has done or with department secretaries or with the national security advisor. these are all things that trace back to washington. what does

washington channel is a narrow waterway the between the shoreline of washington dc. and what is today east potomac park? sediment and silk builds up and to keep it navigable they developed this tidal basin so that twice a day 250 million gallons of water is released from the tidal basin down through the washington channel. flushes the sediment away. there are two bridges that give access to the tidal basin. there is the inlet bridge where the water comes in and there is the outlet bridge where the water goes out. each of those bridges has gates on the underside of them. title action closes the inlet gates in the morning when the tidal basin is full at the same time the title action opens the outlet gate and lets the water go out and as the tides change each day a day day in and day out the title action opens and closes the gates to let the water in and let the water out. the cherry trees were the inspiration of washington writer by the name of eliza skidmore. she had visited. pan in 1884 and seen the cherry trees there had seen what a what a wonderful scene they crea

washington did not cross standing up. the stars and stripes have not been adopted by the continental congress and james monroe was not holding a flag, not in the boat, not even present with the army. he was already across the river. and he was busy. washington's plan was a risky attempt to reverse the sagging fortunes of the patriot cause. during the summer of 1776 british forces including hechen mess naers had driven the continental army from new york into new jersey and bucks county, pennsylvania. enlistment and desertion had thinned the american ranks and many of those who remained were despondent. washington gambled at a successful attack against an isolated british outpost would boost the army's morale and stiffen the resolve of congress and the people. three hechen regiments comprised of 1400 men were stationed at trenton. washington planned to bring 2,400 continental soldiers across the river overnight at maconke's ferry and attack at dawn. two other elements of the army were part of the plan, but they did not make

their way both from moscow and from washington and from kiev if you've got a new administration in washington and for some there were hopes that maybe the the really miss the mistake can somehow relationship between now between trump and russia which promised so much in the in the early days that was completely thwarted. by washington that somehow they could be a turn for the better under by despite as as you point out as all the as all the appointments were announced you realize that what you were getting was you know as you put it as the sort of 2nd team from the obama administration and everything that joe biden said since he took office has been to adopt an official stance towards moscow which is even more hawkish than the current congressional starts to awards moscow under under trump and it's very hard to read it because it's so early in the administration for her to marry how serious and said words and words are important me that are all here you know it's a very important to them a dangerous yeah because president biden said that putin is a killer and he has no soul i mean this is par

washington replies with disdain. curious and laughable, that you remain under his circumstances, talking seriously in the style, when his recall as was the second -- . the two men never spoke again, following this rupture in their relationship. perhaps each desired a conciliation. washington was annoyed, when monroe visited alexandria had 1798, and did not pay a call on him in mount vernon, as lafayette had done years before. when washington died the following year, the first president was venerated throughout the country. monroe by now governor virginia, the cause of washington's asperity in the little days, he instructed as members to join him in wearing morning ribbons. during three successive one year terms, overseeing construction of the state's first penitentiary. in august of 1800, he took a sort of action to suppress the operating uprising of enslaved people, led by gabriel -- . monroe was elected once more to the office, and signed a legislation to build a governor's mansion still in use today. but he never

it is part of american historical lore that george washington, you know the story about washington and the cherry tree and how he chopped down the cherry tree. his father asked him who chopped down and he said i cannot tell alive. we have the impression that george washington couldn't tell ally. back to think that's true. i read enough to know it's true. the weather not george washington couldn't tell a lie, he could not tell a joke. and he couldn't tell a joke or maybe it's just that he wouldn't tell a choke. nor would he laugh at jokes and this in part because he self consciously presented himself to the world as this very sober minded serious character. as a young man, he got a hold of this list of principles of life for a young man. there's something like ten of them and one of them said, last seldom and never in distinguished company. he wrote this down. and these were words that he came to live by. now, i really don't know if in his private life, george washington -- i don't know he told jokes. he might have laughed, but no jokes. in his public life, he certainly did not. and peo

cigar dan, back then you can smoke and bars in washington. so they re-did it with the lean back chairs and that dark burgundy walls and somebody thought that they wanted to departments for art. and the original joseph kudos on huawei's remark would. and it ended up donating his 30,000 cartoon collection to the labor of congress. and he made in arrangement with the hotel to loan them a bunch of classic characters from this collection. and since then, he got involved in 2008, thanks to my buddy richard thompson when they wanted to update the characters to stuff that was more current. the wood collection, mostly went back to the 16 seventies, eighties and then there was a big gap and the things started happening in the bar where people would come in and then your clients didn't recognize the people from the nixon and reagan administration. so they want to people from the clinton and obama administration. so that's when richard thompson, who would fortunately pass to win a couple years ago passed away. richard was an astounding territory tourist.

it was also near george washington's home, which proved an opportunity to honor general washington and president washington, by placing the capital nearby. but perhaps most attractively, there were few people living here other than the well-established towns of georgetown and alexandria, the landscape was pretty much largely a blank canvas on which a vision for america's past, present, and future could be expressed through the very design of its capital city. well, as many of you know, president washington hired pierre l'enfant in 1791 to plan the city's layout. l'enfant was originally from france, and had served the patriot cause in the revolutionary war. so it is not your coincidence that the streets in washington share a similarity with the broad avenues in paris. and while the basic plan called for a grid of lettered and numbered streets, l'enfant used the opportunity to develop a more ambitious plan to use the landscape to visually represent the form of government that had just been created. so atop a hill called jenkins hill, he found a natural pedestal for the capitol building w

i moved to washington dc in 1970. and for nearly as long as i can remember the tidal basin in the cherry trees have been an important part of my springtime ritual from my earliest memories with my family are coming down and seeing the trees. i volunteered for the national cherry blossoms festival parade when i was in high school and continue to look forward to cherry blossoms season unlike any other time of the year. the emergence of the cherry trees every spring signify the end of a long cold winter. and the emergence of spring in washington dc's grandes springtime tradition when the cherry trees are out. there is no blue. there is no red in washington. everyone is pink. each week american history tvs american artifacts visits museums and historic places located at the foot of capitol hill the united states botanic garden was first proposed by president george, washington in a 1796 letter next a visit to the grounds of the oldest botanic garden in north america to learn about the history of this plant museum. my name

and kim wyman is with us from the state of washington. ms. riggs is based in carolina, where i am at this moment. ms. riggs voting rights work has been focused on fighting for fair redistricting plans, fighting against voter suppression, and advocating for electoral reforms that would expand access to voting. she has litigated redistricting cases on behalf of the state naacp conference in texas, virginia, and right here in north carolina. in 2018, she argued the texas redistricting case in the u.s. supreme court, and it 2019, argued the north carolina partisan gerrymandering case in the supreme court. sonja diaz is a practicing civil rights attorney and policy advisor with ucla. ms. diaz cofounded the first multi-issue policy think tank focused on latinos in the university of california. she is responsible for overseeing all aspects, including strategy, research, mobilization, and leadership, with a deep background in policy and advocacy. she is a regular contributor to the organization's research portfolio. prior to this assignment ms. , dia

once washington steps down, someone other than washington will become president and throws them into yet another -- can this work without washington at the helm? and the big one was 1798, the quasiwar with france, america's first undeclared warring fought mostly at sea and the big army buildup associated with that and then the crackdown on civil liberties and the alien and sedes digs acts -- sedition act and the republicans respond with threats of secession and 198 is a high point of'le partisan rancho. battles on the house floors. smiling arms into the executive mansion think he might need them to protect himself so it's really unbelievable how quickly things descend to that point. >> you mentioned quickly that during the quasisay are war with trapped there was the concern but hoe heartland. we hand bought louisiana purchase so was the louisiana purchase -- that was 1803. that was after the period of time, every the quasi-war but in dealing with napoleon and coming to some kind of conclusion with him and peace, it made it possible for him to look to the another and say i need money.

morgan chase have been chasing washington mutual. they had been wanting to by washington mutual. basically that does not end up happening but has a lot to do with the fact that the fed was giving them that opportunity is that what you're claiming? >> i'm going to circle back to answer that. only slide is up just so people can take a look these are the residential loan originations that were done by the major banks in the company. you'll notice the heavy blue chart are the originations of washington mutual. mckay we cut that every year. increasing residential lending leading up that is false. we cut it by 74% reduced our market share in half. others did not have a new or nearly kind of decrease we did. those were coming in 2007. >> every year. >> in 2003 kerry first started being startled by how fast the mortgage market was growing. you'll notice 2003 he cut all mortgage lending and half. then continue to cut it to the total between 20,032,007 down 74%. so by 2007 we are doing substantially less lending less mortgage lending than any of the other large banks. okay thank you. can w

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so george washington is mr. president. martha washington is lady washington. james madison is mr. president. dolley is queen dolley. so the men have to draw this very strict line but the women get to express of aristocratic longings. that's one of the messages she's sending out. it's only when we look at the women of that time do we understand that a lot of that beginning of the american nationhood is predicated on royalty. >> who called her the presidentress? >> i think samuel mitchell but he wasn't alone. >> who called her queen dolley? >> a lot of people did that. >> affectionateffectionately. she dressed a queen, which is what you see in a lot of the reports or a lot of the letters, she looked every inch a queen. sometimes they say she looked like a bride and a queen. so her elegance of dress, she bought a lot of her materials in paris, so she's very elegantly dressed and she looks to american eyes as a queen. and that's fine, because she's not the head of state. so she's walking a very fine line, where she expresses the finer things to which the nation aspires but she's not r

washington. and you know i just hope they have well mary if i can stay with you i mean again one of the peculiar things about all of this is that i can see how the status quo isn't satisfied for any actor in all of this but the status quo of what we have is better than a military conflict because once that 1st. bullet is fired then the fog of war is in play and then you really have unintended consequences you don't know what's going to happen again up to 14000 people in donbass were killed i mean having this kind of rhetoric right now there people are on edge very much on edge here earl if i can go to you now in washington i mean do you get the sense that certain skills kind of given up on the domestic reform thing i mean to keep themselves relevant you know and put on a uniform and talk tough and hope that your american friends will bail you out because the economy is in bad shape the cove it is been very very bad there the the. western basters in care of the made it explicitly clear that ukrain

and it's -- washington had the term full of washington papers delivered to the richmond home. >> yeah. i love the stories of bush and marshall correspondent marshall is like can i have this catch of papers youou imagine how wrong that could have gotten wrong if they would have gotten lost or something.ou [laughter] >> well that's good how can people learn more about your organization if they're on the web? ming rightht so our website is vorn base virginia.org we also have a -- we have a very heavy presence on instagram and facebook. and so you can check out preservation virginia as larger organization you can also check the john house and instagram, and if you go to the preservation virginia website you can find the page as we also. >> thank you very much. can i segue into talking with kevin because -- i would imagine marshal spent a good amount of time in those spaces kevin thinking about constitutional law, and the state of the republic in its early years. can you tell us about country and sifngs? >> absolutely jim thank you for hosting this event this evening. he called it final fo

secretary baker was a powerhouse in washington, d.c. in the beltway and literally around the globe as he served as the united states secretary of state and also further served four united states presidents over the course of three decades. secretary baker was scheduled to be our capstone speaker at the 2020 vision for leadership conference. however, he and mrs. baker contracted covid-19. i'm pleased to report that they now have covid-19, the illness, in their rear view mirror. today the secretary will be noted by talmage boston. talmage is a high-profile persona in texas and across the nation. he is a leading trial lawyer. he is known in our profession as what we call a go-to lawyer or a super lawyer. talmage is also a historian, and he has a special focused interest on the qualities of leadership in the public and the private square. recently he authored a book in which he sat down with presidential historians to examine the qualities of leadership that have characterized various united states presidents. i'm also pleased to announce t

the british moved on to washington, d.c. where they burned many public buildings, including the white house. in the aftermath of this disaster, armstrong resigned as secretary of war, and monroe assumed the office while remaining secretary of state. although the british departed washington, another attack on the capital spurred other actions which monroe directed. it result in the treaty of ghim. elizabeth undertook the restoration and refurnishing of the white house, a project that would continue throughout his two terms in office. it really cannot be overstated how significant the role of the monroes was in defining what we come to understand today of white house style. they were literally starting with a blank canvas, had to use, in fact, most of their own furniture originally as things they furnished abroad became part of the white house furnishings. in later efforts of redecorating and trying to recapture some of the styles that were lost, up to and including jacqueline kennedy's work, that was what many of those subjec

at mary washington. he has taught many courses including military history european diplomatic history of germany western civilization europe since 1945 as well as two seminars of the great war and on nazi, germany. professor blakemore took students to europe on 22 occasions 20 of them for a very popular course. title european capitals dr. blakemore has spoken several times in great lives previously delivering commendable lectures on bismarck and george's patent it's a pleasure to welcome back to the great live series professor porter, blakemore. you good evening, and welcome to douglas macarthur. before i begin i would like to offer a couple of thank-yous first. i would like to thank the sponsor of this talk caldwell banker elite elite their support is much appreciated. and secondly, i would like to thank bill crawley who's involvement in the great lives lecture since the beginning is largely responsible for their success. you both. now the topic i'm going to talk about tonight is douglas macarthur certa

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talk, not famous for washington. people that worked in capitol hill forever and the back of the white house, they are mesmerized by the language. they want to capture it. they do, they make it funnier than you would ever belief. >> how did you get in the business of being an adviser? how does one prepare to be an adviser in this? way >> i am a longtime political producer. i was looking at it to. long political directorate msnbc, ran larry king live. you enough to know what is real and what is not. you have to know people that are willing to tell you everything. again, that's why i get might number later, we have one more season of veep coming up. >> okay i will remind everybody that richard drive has won the mark twain award. >> thank you [applause]. the pit just started shooting last, week it will come out in april. it is so great to you doing that david. thank you >> it will be a great show, mike when you were chief of staff of the white house, how do you think this will look on tv, and how it's portrayed? if someb

at the foot of capitol hill the united states botanic garden was first proposed by president george, washington in a 1796 letter next a visit to the grounds of the oldest botanic garden in north america to learn about the history of this plant museum. my name is ari novy. i'm the executive director of the united states botanic garden. we're standing on what's currently called union square which is the end cap one could say of the national mall on the east side just before you arrive at the united states capitol. it's a really fascinating piece of land because it's actually gone through many transformations in terms of what's been here over the course of the history of washington dc really since around 1800. it's important to the botanic garden because the first united states botanic garden was actually on this piece of land even though today. it's most notably associated with the capital reflecting pool and the memorial to grant and so what i'd like to do today is to present a little bit of the early history of the united states botanic garden show a couple of the remaining trees. actually that

i like to begin the story of the united states botanic garden in 1796 when george washington wrote a letter in which he laid out his vision for a federal university and a federal botanical garden and he was quite adamant as the chief executive at the time that it be present near the president's house would eventually became the white house and unfortunately washington never lived to see the botanic garden realized within his lifetime nor did the botanical garden get put actually near the white house, but eventually it was created and as a part of the united states capital complex. i should note one interesting thing if i may as a point of syntax. i will always try to say botanic garden when speaking about the us botanic garden but in the general sense talking about generic botanical gardens. i may go back and forth and it's quite interesting botanic and botanical are actually synonymous words that can be used interchangeably and whether or not they were used in the naming of botanical or botanic institutions is more a function of the time period in which that institution was named so

afghans that washington is not abandoning. the u.s. secretary of state pledged washington would continue to offer strong support to afghanistan after years of saying that we would leave militarily at some point that time has come but even when our troops come home. our partnership with afghanistan will continue there is no military solution to the conflict that remains here. the only path forward to a durable lasting and just end of the conflict is through negotiation we are doing everything we can now to advance diplomacy to bring in regional and international partners. so that everyone is using their influence and their leverage to advance a peaceful end to the conflict. france today became the latest country to surpass 100000 deaths from coburg 19 here in germany 30000 new infections reported in just the last 24 hours the highest daily rise that we've seen in 3 months a more contagious variant is fuelling the 3rd wave of infections here tomorrow german chancellor angela merkel is due to get her 1st vaccination shot with the astra ze

give us the rest at home who have not been to washington but who aren't familiar with the area. give us an idea of where the barricade is situated in regards to that capital building and the famous facade that everyone knows so well and it's behind you the centre of those riots onjanuary six. the centre of those riots on january six. ~ ., the centre of those riots on january six. . . . . , the centre of those riots on january six. . . , ., the centre of those riots on january six. . ., , ., the centre of those riots on january six. . , ., ,. six. what we can see on your screen is close but — six. what we can see on your screen is close but not _ six. what we can see on your screen is close but not the _ six. what we can see on your screen is close but not the most _ six. what we can see on your screen is close but not the most iconic- is close but not the most iconic image of the us capital is this dome and you think of washington and you think you see that. there is a lot of entrances leading up to that place because this is a huge complex and it's notjust the actual dome its

ok let's bring in our guests joining us from washington d.c. we have nicholas dan forth a nonresident fellow at the foundation for european and foreign policy is also the author of course the remaking of republican turkey memory and modernity since the fall of the ottoman empire in istanbul we have challenge managing editor of the daily sabah a turkish based english language newspaper gentleman a woman come to both of you nick done forth in washington we've had such a careful use of language for so many years now for generations i guess why the change. so historically every u.s. president at least going back to bill clinton has promised on the campaign trail that they're going to recognize the enemy genocide when office this is an issue obviously of enormous importance to armenian americans and generally people are an issue that americans writ large see is something important see as something the united states should weigh in on from a broadly liberal human rights perspective traditionally president promised they're going to do this in then whe

let me read you a few washington post headlines from the past few years. "how fascist is donald trump? "12 signs trump would try to run a fascist dictatorship. "trumpism is american fascism." some of those may have come not from the news pages but the comment pages and there is a very important distinction between the two which is actually more of a distinction in the us and us press than it is in britain, but do you think that the post and other parts of the media overreacted to president trump? well, i'm glad you pointed out that those were headlines, they clearly sounded like headlines that came from our opinion page and nothing that would appear on the news pages for which i'm responsible and i'm not involved in the opinion pages and of course we have a wide variety of opinions on our opinion pages. do you agree with that system where there is such a sharp divide between... because to an english journalist it is a very strange idea, if you think about some of the most powerful newspaper editors in britain, they get most excited about what they can comm

he has a new relationship with george washington, and you might think, because washington counciled hamilton, an army is a dangerous thing to play with. i don't think i have that quoted exactly right, some of you probably know it. you would think that washington would think, this hamilton is crazy, i have to do stay away from him. actually, their correspondence after the newberg conspiracy is fascinating, in their tense and all important relationship are. they actually get closer after the newberg conspiracy and washington makes it clear to hamilton that he is 100% in favor of being sure that the country is put in a position, and this is again, leading toward nation hood, nationalism, that the country is in a position to pay the public creditors, those same bond holders that we were talk bmpths that -- that we were talking about. this is a vision that washington shared. we see the picture of the scheme t concentration and growth of american wealth in a federal and bonded government debt to the rich and an obligation at the rich all in federal rather than state hands which is what they were t

and joining me from washington d.c. is she last month he's author of the book rearmed the politics of military power and a senior fellow for japan studies of the think tank the council on foreign relations welcome a smith is china and its activities in the indo-pacific going to be a focus of talks between prime minister so go on president biden well thank you for having me i'm delighted to be here yes of course china has large in the region and lives large in us thinking about the region and of course japan sits right next to our already as you now are going to sit in a meeting quad be very rich japan in the united states attending in situ class to meeting in tokyo secretary of state linked in if you can't defense austin so the alliance is already charged if you will to have a fairly in-depth conversation about how to move forward on japan in the united states to have a security alliance but how exactly does washington see talking with her or 2 in the region. well the interesting thing about the alliance today is not it

again a washington mutual has fe those employees. i am very biased but i think with the best employees in the business, and fortunately most of the employees or the majority in our branching system were able to stay on with jpmorgan chase. i'm sure they did a great job for them and i just wish them all well. i think in terms of some of the senior managers there were actually a few that went there. some have stayed come some of not. i mentioned we had an outstanding multi family lending business, and the leader of our business o of that for all of jpmorgan chase that. again i think they are fabulous people. i wish nobody had to go through what our employees had to go through, but i know also most landed well because they were so capable. >> one of t the things that's bn come in the so experience lately, we've had so many washington mutual employees get in touch with us and say thank you for doing this book. we really wanted to get the truth, we wanted to finally have a book with all the true facts of what happened with washington mutu

you described washington as a city separated by both race and gender. how did she use her dewar's luncheons to advance the cause of women's rights? guest: i love this aspect of lady bird johnson. it is not a very bold all caps approach. it is a subtle approach. 1963 is when the feminine mystique is published and the women's movement is just beginning to pick up steam. she is from a different generation, i did this conflict of the luncheons is another euphemism for highlighting professional women, and the first few people she has -- not quite two dozen of these luncheons in the course of her time in the white house, but the first two people gsp are very instructive. one of them is barbara solomon who at the time and started to put together this lesson your library at radcliffe. she is a professor at harvard and comes to the white house to talk about the importance of documenting one is history and keeping all of the material and ephemera by keeping a record and diary and of course lady bird has started this and she does it with incredible visit with abou

sure afghans that washington is not abandoning them the u.s. secretary of state pledged washington would continue to offer strong support to afghanistan after years of saying that we would leave militarily at some point that time has come but even when our troops come home. our partnership with afghanistan will continue there is no military solution to the conflict that remains here. the only path forward to a durable lasting and just end of the conflict is through negotiation we are doing everything we can now to advance diplomacy to bring in regional and international partners. so that everyone is using their influence and their leverage to advance a peaceful end to the conflict. france today became the latest country to surpass 100000 deaths from covert 90 here in germany 30000 new infections reported in just the last 24 hours the highest daily rise that we've seen in 3 months a more contagious variant is fuelling the 3rd wave of infections here tomorrow german chancellor angela merkel is due to get her 1st vaccination shot with the astra ze

washington says no one was ever promised. only one thing is clear, the brigade is being driven into the sea. its only hope of survival is united states military intervention. on tuesday night there is a reception at the white house to introduce congress to the new cabinet. leaders of both parties are there. next day the society pages will call it one of the events of the season. the president leaves early, goes to another part of the white house where he conifers into the night with key advisers. >> cia deputy director richard -- had come to the president with a desperate last minute appeal. he knew the president had said there would be no intervention, but he now said the brigade was doomed unless the united states intervened at least with air cover with a navy passport standing off the beach. admiral speaking for the pentagon favored the intervention. the secretary of state opposed it. the risk he said was too great. if we openly intervened we'd probably endanger our entire latin-american position and would be invitation fo

well in washington it does recall that this is the same intelligence agencies in washington who felt that their weapons of mass destruction in iraq that led to a multi-trillion dollar invasion and occupation of iraq under former u.s. president george w. bush these for the same agencies that have just told us that they don't have credible evidence that moscow was offering bounties to forces in afghanistan to attack and kill u.s. soldiers even though the new york times and other allegedly credible news organizations ran with that story poisoning the minds of the u.s. people helping to whip up more anti must galveston area so quite frankly i don't think you can take this solar wind story seriously. considering all the issues between the 2 sides at the moment and in a quite personal attacks that biden let's take a post in that interview how do you assess the chances of a biden putin summit anytime soon that's been proposed by the u.s. side well it's hard to say it's difficult to answer because i'm not sure if moscow will feel it necessary to meet with the man who calls their head of stat

from washington, d.c. 154 d.c. national guard. 850 metropolitan police department to come and defend a democracy that they are not yet part of. now, think about that. people who came and stormed the capitol laid siege to the congress of the united states with fictionalized claims about denial of their right to vote and right in this city there are 712,000 american citizens who we know have their voting rights denied every single day. their rights to representation denied every single day, and they came to defend us against those who would have torn down the very citadel of democracy. think about that when we're deciding how to vote on h.r. 51. the current status of the people in washington, d.c., subjects them to two different forms of political domination. an exclusion. on the one hand, all of their locally adopted laws ultimately can be overturned by a congress which they're excluded from. and it's happened many, many times throughout the history of the district of columbia, as congresswoman eleanor holm

the bellwether, george washington. instead of where washington has a cane here, we used the same configuration basically with monroe, except he has a sword. of course, he was very proud of his military service during the revolution, and again he served in a martial capacity as secretary of war during the war of 1812. we thought that would be fitting he has that in conjunction with the monroe doctrine which was backed up by a little bit of force. this is the portrait that he liked the best. i'm sure our historians know he and his family both loved this. this is a derivative from the samuel morse full-length portrait that was done for the city of charleston. he said it looked more like him than even the gilbert stuart. of course, i go back to the gilbert stuarts because that's the portrait that everyone knows more than any other. so that will be our point of reference. this then is the famous vanned lynn port writ commissioned for new york state, i believe. this i think is the most perfect depiction of monroe in a full f

to augustine and mary washington. george washington's youth is the stuff of legend, most notably in the folk tale popularized about george washington's chopping down of a cherry tree and his subsequent statement, i cannot tell a lie, when confronted by his father. george's head matured it before the rest of his body. s as a yourt he worked as surveyor and later the official surveyor for culpeper county. washington completed close to 200 surveys on numerous properties totaling more than 60,000 acres. during the french and indian war he served as emissary and in combat during general braddic's ill-fated expedition. washington also ran afoul of the fortunes of war when he was forced to surrender the desperately named ft. necessity to the french. the only military surrender that washington encountered his entire career under arms. washington took an active leadership role in the growing conflict between the american colonies and great britain, a member of the virginia house of delegates he was part of the delegation to th

we start with a look at his relationship with george washington. while the two men shared a bond forged in the revolutionary war, the politics of the young nation drove a wedge between them. in this lecture, from the university of mary washington's great live series, scott harris explains where things went wrong. watch tonight, beginning at 8:00 p.m. eastern, and enjoy american history tv, every weekend, on c-span3. >>> the annual abraham lincoln symposium at the former president's sense of humor, the ford theater society hosted the symposium at the historic ford theater in washington, d.c. to highlight the 16th president life, career and legacy. this is a minutes. -- this is a minutes.

washington. what we have been talking about so far ms. washington is it leads to think about the henrietta lacks, harriet washington? host: it makes me think about the henrietta lacks story. >> yes. first of all i am so happy she is now a household name very important story and i'm glad now that so many americans know what happened to her in 1984 i believe i spoke with her husband who was still alive and her family about her because i was deeply concerned this woman, 1951 had been suffering from ovarian cancer, had cells removed and cultured, kept alive - - kept alive without her permission. her husband was very vehement in no uncertain terms he had refused permission for herself to be taken. the hospital did it anyway so nobody appropriation has something that has befallen people of color since they came to the american shores. it happens all the time. in her case, the cells were very unusual. they turned out to be biologically very valuable in terms of providing a good medium for culturing dise

this house is also a great museum of immigrant culture in washington and boarding house life in washington, d.c. i've been coming here for years. i started coming here in 1986 when i joined the reagan administration. and i've been coming here for years. and i'm very excited that this year, for the 150th, there's going to be a big commemoration for abraham lincoln. in past years, i'm usually here alone. no one comes to the house on the night of the assassination. i might find one or two people here when i sit on the steps of the peterson house and contemplate what happened. a couple of years ago, the park service almost arrested me sitting on these steps because a guard accused me of being a homeless loiterer. i tried to tell her, i serve on the ford's theatre society council of adviser. two minutes later, two squad cars rolled up and they questioned me and said, how do we know you're not a homeless man who is going to damage this house. one of them came to his senses and rolled his eyes and asked me to enjoy his evening. i've had quite a time coming to this house. and sadly, it's been aban