mark vernon -- with me? vernon said i already had dinner but i can come see around 9:00. he goes upstairs into the white house kitchen on the second for and they spent six hours talking. they had never really talked about what it meant to have both gone through that process and if there was any anger on the part of vernon that he was thrust into that role. it was important for the president to have that $10,000 bottle of wine. i think vernon did most of the drinking. i think it was important for president clinton to everett out. -- air it out. it was really important and that six hours that he explain vernon that he did not intentionally put him in harm's way by alpine find monica lewinsky a job in new york -- helping to find monica lewinsky a job in new york. he is overcome with emotion, realizing he just left the white house probably for the last time, this powerful man having this conversation for six hours. he is halfway down the driveway when his eyes start to well up with tears. he says here i am, the

vernon jordan said it was jay rockefeller. vernon made the call. senator bradley and senator rockefeller both declined to run. jay rockefeller said i think you're going to lose and i will run for president in 1996. not his first choice. phil bradley did not want to be vice president and talk with warren christopher earlier in the process and then vernon calls his very good friend, colin powell and says are you interested? colin powell did not want to run. then it went to the longer list and vernon was a very key voice around the governor. he ultimately wound up picking al gore who ended up being a great vice president. in the transition bill clinton , wanted vernon jordan to be his attorney general. he came down in late november of 1992 and was sitting in the dish on the back porch of the mansion and he said you will be the best attorney general i can have. there have been 77 white attorneys general until then. he wanted to break that. vernon said no. i can be more value but to you as your first friend and he was. it was throughout the presidency.

named francis anne worcester so much like mount vernon. we were we were founded by a very strong matriarch and the organization was born essentially to save the pal house from demolition. it was slated to be knocked down for a taxi cab parking lot and francis ann and her her colleagues and friends rally together and managed to raise about $30,000 at the height of the great depression to save not only the pau house but the house that was next door originally and from there long. well advocacy turned into long-time stewardship and we started to acquire more and more properties. so that's that's who we are and we're excited to be we're excited for sam's research. we feel like this is going to be really helpful in further interpreting elizabeth story in particular. so, thank you again for having me here. absolutely. so i think kayla i think i want you to to kind of introduce samuel powell and then i'll go into a little information on elizabeth powell. so i know you want to talk about a really lovely portrait of samuel that that we have or that

but they ended up stopping at mount vernon for four days. and samuel on the trip down kept a amazing travel journal that's very cool to trace how a couple would've traveled through maryland, delaware, virgia they stick get speeds tavern which iss pretty cool they arrived at mount vernon. salmon goes into great detail about seeing the house itself. it is one of the best documentations we have of the house. 1787, a new room is being created, the bond mantle has been installed so he comments on the mantle in the new room. he says he thought it would be premier without the columns. i think tt is kind of funny. the other thing he says when they are standing out on the piazza, he says i it's probably the most charming scene he's ever seen in america. that is a really cool quote we often use. and very fitting for samuel who has traveled so much to be so intrigued by the house itself. this image is one of our very special things w have in our collection. this is called powell coach where there's a whole story behind it there i won't go into great de

this is the widow of vernon damer, she's holding a photograph of vernon, an naacp leader in mississippi, friends with medgar evers. he was a farmer, businessman. he had 200 acres that they grew cotton and other crops with -- he was very dedicated to voting rights. in fact that's how he became targeted by the klansmen back in 1966. so the klan attacked him and his family in the middle of the night. can you imagine sleeping, in the middle of the night? this was what it was like for vernon damars' family, 2:00 in the morning, the klan firebombed their home, set their house on fire and began firing their guns into the house. vernon damar woke up, grabbed his shotgun, ran to the front of the house, began firing back at the klansmen so his family could escape safely out a back window. unfortunately the flames of the fire seared his lungs and he died later that day. a few weeks later in the mail came his voter registration card. he had fought his whole life for the right of all americans to be able to vote and had never been able to cast a ballot himself. the guy who ordered the killing, oh, b

to play up, the appeal of home, of mount vernon. so it is part of that choreography of power that i think he was so good at. >> once he makes this decision and he announces it to charles thompson he will journey to become the first president. was he, of course he's leaving from mount vernon turns out to be a very short-lived capitol. let's talk about it and go into some detail. your book has some great detail on the travel of george washington. but more t importantly what happens along the way in terms of how people are receiving. set the stage for us. what did the journey entail? two to go with a large entourage or small entourage? >> thank you. i will, remind myself to restrain myself. in some way this is what compelled me into the project and generally everybody loves a road trip. so how does this work? he is a military man. so he just got a couple of fellows, thompson and humphreys, they will keep that pretty lean. so off they go, right? they don't get far. for your listeners and viewers who are familiar with alexandria, i think

vernon. welcome to our evening book talk for the month of april, 2021. thrilled to have you here and excited about our conversation on the first inauguration, george washington and the invention of the republic with steven brown. one note, coming up in may will be our third and final michelle smith lecture. we have had two wonderful conversations thus far. separate tickets are available for the final conversation. remember that ticket, if you select the ticket that i'm thinking of, will include an autographed copy of the book shipped to you directly at home. richard bernstein of rb bernstein noted author and great scholar has a new book called "the education of john adams". i'm excited to talk with him about it. please join us for our third and final segment of the 2021 michelle smith lecture series. to introduce a little bit about our speaker tonight, of course we'll learn more as we join the conversation. steven brown's a local professor, communication arts and sciences at penn state. he's a rhetorical critic, particularly interested in public memory,

vernon. welcome to our book talk april 2021. thrilled to have you here and our conversation on the first inauguration of washington and with steven brown. coming up in may our third and final michelle smith lecture. we've had two wonderful conversations with tom cheney and ricks. and tickets are available for the final conversation and remember that ticket if you select the ticket that i'm thinking of, will include an autographed copy of the book, and richard bernstein, a noted author and great scholar has a new book "the education of john adams", i'm excited to talk to him about it. thank you for our final of the series. our speaker tonight, we'll learn more as we join the conversation, steven brown is local arts professor at communication arts and societies at penn state. he's a restore cal critic, early america, in fact, most recent book before the book, what we'll talk about tonight, the ides of war and he's written many books, but we're mostly excited about this one as we near the annive

more than welcome you to mount vernon someday soon. guest: thank you so much and to you again and everyone who logged on. really appreciate it. host: thank you, stephen, thank you and everyone out there for joining us tonight for our book talk. hope to see you in the month of mayay as we have exciting programming coming up and we will see you again soon. have a wonderful evening. thank you so much. >> weakens on c-span2 arming intellectual peace. every saturday will find events and people that explore nations passed on american history tv. on sunday, book tv and sheila latest in nonfiction books and authors, television for serious readers. discover, explore, weekends on c-span2. ♪♪ >> i come to you from national archive ability in washington d.c., the federal facility built on the site chosen by our first president george washington. the location for burning capital was hotly contested in 1790, and washington actively advocated for side along the potomac river. when the commissioners of the federal

i am the executive director of the national library for the study of george washington and mount vernon. welcome to our evening book talk for the month of april 2021. thrilled to have you here and excited about our conversation on the first inauguration george washington and the invention of the republic with stephen brown. note, coming up in may will be our third and final michelle smith lecture. we have had wonderful conversations with lynn cheney, thomas thus far several tickets are available for the final conversation. remember the tickets iff you select the ticket i'm thinking of will include an autographed copy of the book. richard bernstein noted author and great scholar in the founding era has a new book called the education of john adams and i'm excited to talk with him about it. please join for the third and final segment of the 2021 lecture series. we will introduce a little bit about the speaker tonight and of will learn more as we join in on the conversation. the professor of communication at the arts and sciences at ken state he's a critic in fact the most recent book befo

i wished i was back in mount vernon bouncing kids on my knees but that's what you've gotot to do. there's been an appeal to this, not a christian language he mobilizes but for better or worse, we tend to call this someone and then you are right, there's not much specifically about policy, hard to say without even meaning under the circumstances but there's very much a statement of a vision so we know the word inauguration is an agent term for seeing and predictingg. seeing what the land looks like when you're justen starting so e then get talk about article five u.s. constitution, perhaps were receipt madison's hand being played which remark washington reminds us if things aren't going the way he wanted, we can deal with this and that way to the amendment process. he then says toward the end, i don't want any salary this and concludes again with an appeal to divine sanction. >> you are right, it's a short speech. if we stood up the inaugural address in 20202024 and heard a speech of this length would take thatth short. >> i think so. they were shorter, notrt as sure as you all kno

butterfield of the executive director of the national library for the city of george washington mount vernon welcome to our evening book talk for the month of april 2021. will throw to javi here and excited about our conversation on the first inauguration george washington in the republic of stephen browne. one note coming up on may will be our third and final we have had two wonderful conversations with cheney, thomas ricks and thus far separate tickets are available for the final conversation remember that if you select the ticket that i am thinking of will prove an autographed copy of the book, richard bernstein of harvey bernstein and noted author has a new book called the education of john adams am excited to talk to him about it please join us for the third and final segment of the 2021 michelle smith flex series. to introduce about our speaker tonight, we will learn more as we join the conversation stephen browne and arts professor of can make communication at penn state a rhetorical critic and public memory early america and the most recent book before the book will be talking about

mount vernon, set the stage for us, what was the journey? a large entourage or small. >> i remind myself, in some ways what compelled me into the project, everybody loves a road trip so how does this work? military and, he's going to try to fight so he's got a couple and that pretty claim so off they go. , they don't get far. for listeners and viewers remove your, these 12 miles or something like that, give or take, that's as far as they get before the first of many occasions in which washington accepted along his way and i promise to do this every step but if you don't mind, i would like to convey something of what goes down in alexandria at the tavern as a representative of what's to transpire for the next week. of course alexandria isn't just a stop along the way as we all know, it goes to his heart so this is just a paragraph, they go for him and some speeches by local worthies as you might guess they are quite good and then washington. here's how he concludes his comments. all that remains for me is for me to commit myself and you to th

vernon so it's a great opportunity as the washington question. what was the a the connection might between glover in washington? did they share intimacy and did they have a candid and frank relationship with one another? it's someone that mt. vernon insiders know well but tell us about that relationship. >> their relationship was an w important one. that relationship was forged in early 1775 in cambridge in a giant mansion that washington takes over as his headquarters and at the marbleheaders better in some ways the first guarded headquarters any requests that as time goest on. he forms a very intimate relationship of trust with john glover and the actions of that unit at the time. gibbsad who later becomes in charge of the commander in chief's daughter and this relationship is incredibly important.t. washington trust these men at the most crucial inflection points of the word. he places his entire trust on the shoulders of t the marblehed men. it's later a trend and for john glover says can you bring us across the river? don't worry about that.

i'm the executive director of the national library for the study of george washington and mount vernon. welcome to the book talk for the month of april 2021. thrilled to have you here and excited about our conversation on the firstir inauguration geoe washington and the invention off the republic with stephen. one note, coming up in may will be the third and final lecture. we've had two wonderful conversations with lynn cheney and thomas. thus far tickets are available forts the final conversation. remember that ticket if you selected a ticket i'm thinking of it will include an autographed copy of the book shipped directly. richard bernstein noted author. i'm excited to talk to them. please join us for the final segment of the 2021 michelle smith lecture series. to introduce a little bit about the speaker tonight and more and more as we join the conversation he's a rhetorical critic george washington and the new crisis. we are mostly excited about this one as we near the anniversary of the inaugural address we are ggoing to talk about the first inauguration george washington and the in

go back to mount vernon. but his work was not yet done. so in that vacuum after the war washington emerges based on his letters and letters from others washington identified a series of problems. one of them was this the revolutionary war starts in 1775. does not end until 1783 per with the whole way through the war without a permanent seat of government. we create a brand-new nation without a permanent seat of government but that's no way to start a mission or a country we did not have a capitol. we had over 30 cities under consideration of one point or a another to harrisburg and lancaster to williamsburg. there were a number of cities under consideration one was a parochialism. everyone wanted their city or state and not another one. and so pennsylvania would conspire against new york and newark would conspire against pennsylvania. annapolis conspired against baltimore baltimore disk file against annapolis. the economy was in ruins. people know if you got the capitol you get the government moving in the military moving in congress movin

the executive director at washington mount vernon. i am coming to you from that library for exciting book talk with patrick o'donnell. i want to thank the motor company for sponsoring not just a stock many talks over the years. a great series where we have authors come and talk about their newest works. this is the book release for this exciting book. i dois want to mention one upcoming program. in just two nights we have our third lecture. richard earned stream. seeing the education of john adams. tickets are still available. please consider joining us on wednesday night.t we film live from the reading room here and mount vernon. the official book launch of patrick o'donnell's new book the indefensible with the subject title to shape the country, for in the navy and rode washington o across delaware. officially released by the press today. i want to let you know that we have a number of autographed cough that are going out to people who submitted questions for this event. we have some exciting questions lined up. during tonight talk,

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tonight's exciting program comes live from the reading room in mount vernon, the official -- the new book maya millette. officially released by atlantic monthly press. we have a number of autographed copies coming out as gifts to people who submitted questions, etc. exciting questions lined up and the tonight talk, big questions. let us know what you want to know. this is a great book. couldn't put it down over the last week. they called it a novel like account of the fascinating tour you are about to hear about. it moves very quickly. you learn more about gunpowder than you think you might. an exciting story from this great account. faulconer is a military historian. this is the second book on the revolutionary war period. washington's immortal who changed the course of the revolution. to work on this book, received an award for his book like beyond fowler. exciting worked on the cross generations. he provided historical consulting work for dozens of documentaries with american military history. as a fellow here, so excited to welcome you to this talk and introduce you to faulconer.

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vernon, the fairfax who owned most of north virginia and are incred by powerful the sponsor him and he becomes as a very young age the head of the virginia regimen, fighting the french and indians on the western frontier. and it's a great opportunity. it seemed and then turns out to be a terrible opportunity because the indians are wonderful forest fighters, and virginians are not, and he had basically three years on the frontier where nothing goes well. ambushes, massacres, he doesn't win anything, and it's really miserable. he is miserable, and he becomes testy, and he manages to alienate basically all of his superiors, the british military establishment and the loyal governor of virginia who gave him the job, and he alienateses the -- he says rotten things to them and jumps the chain of command and goes behind their backs and when he finally resigns his commission, i think they were all delighted to see him leave and he doesn't have a career in the military world he hopes to have. he then decides, i think to re-invent himself, as a political figure, as a squire in the classic virgin

happens to be near mount vernon. it happens to be near his beloved potomac. there was even something of a joke i found countless letters some of the other founders teased and said washington had potomac fever. he was obsessed with the potomac, which to his credit he had canoed, surveyed, charted, he knew it and loved it. washington sort of naively once alludes to the potomac as greater than the danube, you know, the tigris and euphrates, it is the potomac. you have to forgive him that. he wasn't well traveled. he knew he needed to take place the capital near the river which is why the other rivers were in the equation. washington helps select the site, surveys a lot of it, picks the architects. he picks a famous french architect and engineer who he knew through his service during the revolutionary war, also a mason, that helped. but this architect was classically trained in paris and most importantly he shared washington's vision of a glorious capital for the ages. channelling rome and inspired by paris, the grand boulevards that intersect where there's publi

they arrive at mount vernon on saturday, the second of january, day after new years. cutler writes to his daughter again, a servant conducted us to madam washington's room where we were received in a very cordial and obliging manner. mrs. washington appeared as much rejoiced at receiving our visit as if we were of her nearest connections. we were all fed railists which gave her pleasure. her remarks were pointed and sarcastic on the new order of things and the administration. she spoke of the election of mr. jefferson whom she considered as one of the most detestable of mankind. her unfriendly feelings toward hem were to be expected from the abuse he offered to general washington while living and for his references to him after deceased. they arrive at the venerable tomb of washington himself. cutler picks up the story, this tomb contains the remains of washington, the first object of our attention. i will not attempt to describe our feelings as we approach the reverend mound of earth. the tomb opens nearly toward the river in an upright door which is locked and all t

he locks into mount vernon, pretty close relatives have to die for him to get it but he gets it. and he marries an extremely wealthy woman, a widow. and he sets off on a career that most people ignore when they write about washington or think about him. he spends 15 years in the virginia house of burgesses as a legislator which the colonial legislature. he spends the decade on the parish vestry which had many public responsibilities including taking care of the war and he also spends six years on the fairfax whcounty court which it sounds very judicial. it was partly but also was administrative. it had responsibility for figuring out roads, the ferries running tobacco warehouses for the export business in washington was always extraordinarily good at administrative work, executive action. and in these roles, he creates a new person. as near as i can see. like all of us he tries to build on his strengths and use his weaknesses, that's what growing up is all about and he does it in an interesting way. these no or greater. he's got not a very good voice and he doesn't trust his educ

i'm kevin butterfield executive director of the washington library at george washington's mount vernon and coming to you from that library for an exciting book talk with patrick o'donnell. i want to thank the ford motor company for sponsoring not just this talk but many, many talks over the years, a great series will be a of authors, talk abt the newest works and doesn't get new in this because this is the book release for this exciting book, "the indispensables." i want to make and one upcoming program in just two nights. river third michelle smith lecture richard bernstein and his new book the education of john adams. they are still available and it's an exciting event. consider joining us wednesday night. the knights exciting program filmedda live from the reading room here at mount vernon is the official book launch a patrick o'donnell new book "the indispensables: the diverse soldier-mariners who shaped the country, formed the navy, and rowed washington across the delaware." officially raised by atlantic monthly press today. i want to let you know of a number of autographed copies

he stays at mount vernon stays with martha. he and martha lied to one another, they have never done that. a great athlete and i think she probably can help keep up withhe them in their get old and patient it wasn't the best. he broke with her and it not heroic, not more than you would help anyone would but he did it. it was a picture of a real man. >> that's an important insight, one of your contributions, one of your many peeling back the layers of the onion which as you said at the outset, i've always o.said this, it comes across as this statute so i felt it was the hardest to know but stories like that provide an invaluable insight. the audience and myself a little bit about your approach to writing, your approach to research, you have a certain room in your house or a certain time or number of words a day? i always like to ask about that. >> i do as much as i can in whatever needs to be done, i do. i like the work. i don't have a target for this, ie realize i've got a whole andi need to fill it. i don't knowif what happened

in fact, vernon, six of his seven sons served a total of 78 years of service for this country. isn't this amazing? heartbreaking photo. taken by -- this photograph was taken by chris mcnair. whon if you know who chris mcnair is. the father of denise mcnair who was killed in the birmingham church bombing. bowers tried but never convicted in this case. he had an excuse and when that got taken care of, he had another excuse. when that got taken care of, he had another excuse. you get the picture. then another district attorney came in and they were like starting over from square one. it looked like nothing was going to happen. i got a fellowship to ohio state to get my masters. they would pay me and let me go for my masters for free. i thought that sounds like a good deal. i'm in ohio in spring of 1997 when we get this telephone call from this guy who wasn't identify himself, wouldn't give me his name but wanted to meet with me. i met with him we met in this motel room that wreaked of chlorine. this guy had worked for sam bowers. he was the guy that typed up the propaganda. he tol

in washington had said that he thought for a retirement under his beloved and go back to mount vernon but his work was not yet done so in that vacuum after the war, washington emerges and based on his letters and letters from others, you can see that washington identified as a series of basic problems. in one of them was that the revolutionary war started in 1775, and doesn't end until 1783. we were the whole way through the war without a permanent c2 government. we created a brand-new nation without a permanent seat of government. that's no way to start a nation are a country. we didn't have a capitol predict there were over 30 cities under consideration of one point or another from albany new york city, to baltimore annapolis to paris and in harrisburg into you know williamsburg. there were a number of cities under consideration and one of the problems that washington saw was creole fuel is in. everybody wanted their city or state and not another one. so new york would conspire against pennsylvania vice aet versa not been against baltimore and t against annapolis one of e reasons wa

i'd like to welcome you to mount vernon someday soon. >> thank you so much to you and everyone who walked on, really appreciate it. >> thank you to everyone joining us tonight. i hope to see you in may, we have an exciting program coming up and we will see you again soon. have a wonderful evening. ♪♪ ♪♪ >> i come to you from the national archives in washington d.c., the federal city built by our first president george washington. the location for permanent capitol was hotly contested in 1790 in washington actively advocated along the river not far from his own home mount vernon. when the commissioners of the federal district named the new capitol at the washington in 1791, not only honored the wartime commander-in-chief but also acknowledged the guiding role in the selection of the young patients of government. he did not live to see the government officially relocated, his vision shaped an optional capitol for years to come. george washington's final battle, robert highlights washington's political skills and reveals how he works behind the scenes to establish the new city. rober

any time clinton needed help, he would say call vernon and vernon was there. he helped. most importantly he was clinton's main source of relaxation whether on the golf course or anywhere else. jordan had the best judgment and intelligence of anyone around including his staff. >> it is amazing and my window into this is their friends are most important to them when there is a crisis. they're also the people who never see them as someone who has to go clean something up with the press or fix something with a member of congress. ta see them as the whole human being and it is such an important perspective and it is so great to talk to you. the book is called "first friends," gary, thank you so much for spending some time with us. a quick break for us. >> thank you, gary. >> we'll be right back. , gary >> we'll be right back out of convenience, or necessity. we can explore uncharted waters, and not only make new discoveries, but get there faster, with better outcomes. with app, cloud and anywhere workspace solutions, vmware helps companies navigate change-- meeting them where

vernon. when the commissioners of the federal district named the new capital for washington in 1791 a. not only honor the work of the commander-in-chief but also acknowledged his guiding role in the selection of the young seat of government. he did not live to see the government officially relocated here but his vision shaped the capitol for years to come. in george washington's final battle robert watson reveals how we work behind the scenes to establish the new city. robert watson is that the singer's professor american studies at lynn university and senior fellow at the florida joint center for citizenship. is the author of numerous books on history and politics including the gauche at the brooklyn, the titanic and america's first crisis, the war of 1812. as editor of two encyclopedias the american president and american first ladies. robert watson is served on the board of the harry truman memorial foundation and the george mcgovern library and center for public service. he has served as

host: the next question who use to interpret george washington at mount vernon with the scaffolding of the rise of the new nation what about the hebrews how are they affected? >> colossus is the right word so that when things collapsed there are opportunities and dangers and then sees new protections like jews can seek new protections and in other places it's a little more risky. it comes together after the revolution in the 17 nineties, dominant protestant groups in the us have to find new ways to influence policy and structure their version of protestant citizenship and the term as christian nation what will this look like? how will the nation be marked christian if it doesn't have a formally crushed on —- christian and structure at the top so if you can be included in those categories on the other hand it can make things very difficult and more ambiguous it is harder for a group and the best example would be indigenous americans. there is no part of federal or state law to recognize those as religious in the 19th century and there has been amazing work on defining how that process

contested 1790 and washington advocate on —- advocated for site on the potomac river not far from mount vernon. when the commissioners of the federal district named the capital for washington in 1791 not only honoring the wartime commander in chief but acknowledged his guiding role in the selection of the seat of government. and then to see the government officially relocated here and with the political skills and how we work behind the scenes to establish a new city. distinguished professor of american studies and with the history and politics including brooklyn and the nazi titanic and the first crisis of the war of 1812. but professor watson has served on the board of the harry truman foundation and center for public service. and then the deterrent truman presidential library and museum and the holocaust museum us military academy at west point. so now let's hear from mr. watson thank you for joining us today. >> but what you can see in my slide in for almost two years they just hunker down. it would be washington's longest headquarters but a new type of challenge emerged in it was the chal

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i knew him from that and the other editor had been the editor on the book i did on vernon. between the two of them asking me to do this, it was only 40,000 words and i said sure. it was not something i would have ever out of the blue thought of doing but once i started doing it and started looking into it i realized e evn though johnson is not a terribly pleasant person which shouldn't be a consideration but it always is whenit you spend time writing about them he was president during a pivotal moment. he made fateful decisions that put d in place other fateful decisions. even if he's not attractive as a manor is a character the role that he played as president people should know about him because of it. >> thost: the only southern senator not to leave the senate. >> guest: exactly and that's why lincoln traded and his original -- because it was symbolic. he wanted to send a message see, we can get back together. a seven or on my ticket we can go forward together. it was a disaster. >> host: the one thing i picked up an herb biography you were for two jobs and as independen

so, they make it from gatsby's town in alexandria and they arrive at mount vernon on saturday, 2nd of january, right after new years. so color writes to his daughter again. a servant conducted as to washington's room where we were received in a very cordial and obliging manner. mrs. washington appeared as much rejoiced in receiving our visit as if we had been of her nearest connections. we will always all be federalists which gave her great pleasure as her,, remarks were pointed, and sometimes very sarcastic under new order of things, in the present administration, as she spoke of the election of mr. jefferson whom she considered as one of the most detestable of mankind as the greatest misfortune that. our country had ever experienced. her friendly feelings towards a more naturally to be expected from the abuse that he is offered to general washington while living there, and to his memory since his death. after breakfast, these federalists members from massachusetts rambled about until they arrived at the venerable tomb of washington himself. color picks up the story. this tomb contai

contested in washington advocated for a site along the potomac river not far from his own home of mount vernon when the commissioners of the federal district named a new capital for washington 1781, they not only honored the wartime commander in chief but his guiding role in the selection of the young nation seat of government. although to officially relocate they are shaping the national capital for years to come. in washington's fight favorite battle with the political skills to reveal how we work behind the scenes to establish the new city. the distinguished professor of american studies and senior fellow at the joint senate procedure citizenship. and then and not see titanic and as the editor of two encyclopedias with the american first ladies. and then on the board of the harry truman foundation. and the george mcgovern library. and then as a visiting scholar with many organization including the truman presidential library the ford museum, the holocaust museum in us military academy at west point so now let's hear from robert watson. thank you for joining us today. >> i'm here to talk abo

vernon jones was a democrat before switching to the republican party. now he is taking on the republican governor of georgia. vernon, why are you challenging governor kemp? >> well he has failed georgia. he has failed with his leadership. he has failed election integrity. he has failed with the mandates that we have upon us now. you see more recently he has failed as it relates to allowing potentially taliban terrorists to come into our country. stuart: wait a second. you object if georgia allows afghani refugees into the state? >> unvetted, clearly they need to be vetted. you cannot tell me that the taliban has not, they're not sending people to be a part of these refugees to come over to our country to try to attack us, to try to destroy us. they need to be vetted. what is wrong with that? this governor campaigned with a shotgun and truck, throw it throughout georgia, said he would round up all the illegals to protect georgians. why is protecting georgians with this particular situation where taliban and terrorists could be a part of those refugees? w

jordan, the late vernon which came out in 2001. she has edited race on trial, law and justice in american history. this is an interactive program. your voices are very important. we want to hear from you, here's your chance to talk to professor gordon greenee agenda reed. (202)748-8200 if you live in the east and central time zones. 748-8201 for those in the mountain pacific time zone. you can also send in a text if that is easier for you. if you do please include your first name and city. 202748, 8903. now, you can also contact us via social media, facebook, twitter. justst remember @booktv is our twitter handle. you can find all of those and you can make a comment that way too. we will scroll through those numbers again. in case youou did not get a chance to write them down or hearar them, we will give you another chance to do that. annette gordon reed it was in 2008 that you won the national book award. i happen to be there at that presentation that night. i remember you walked by me and you looked a littlemb bit stunned at what

vernon. it has some 200 diamonds and other jewels that make i want up. of course upon his death sometimes after martha washington, the widow, will send the medal to alexander hamilton. for many decades it has been owned by the society of cincinnati and is housed in a vault at anderson house in d.c. beautiful piece. i end on a very poignant note, which is the last letters between george washington and alexander hamhamilton. obviously george washington doesn't know he's about to die. they involve the creation of a military academy. enclosed is a letter on the subject of a mill fair academy. washington will then reply on december 12th. he will die two days later. he writes to hamilton, sir, i have duly received your letter of the 28th. the establishment of an institution of this kind upon a respectable and extensive basis has ever been considered an object of primary importance of this nation. leaving this task to others who had better qualified them for the execution of it. washington closes. i sincerely hope the subject will meet with due attention for th