the story of washington the farmer is the story of washington made slaver farming and enslaved labor were inseparable to washington throughout his entire life as a farmer and he once wrote that he didn't like to even think about slavery let alone write about it or talk about it, but in fact he thought about slavery all the time and he thought about it and wrote about it in terms of his management of the enslaved agricultural labor at at his own estate and it's there in that record that you can see both the change in attitude and also the record of his daily interactions with the enslaved laborers who means supervised and control and then finally when washington does ultimately decide to search for some way to emancipate the enslaved people. he controls the only record we have of that process and thought process is through his record of farming and israel organization of mount vernon. it is here this example of this document of washington made in 17909 toward the end of his life. he gave a detailed description of various enslaved laborers at mount vernon this documents only in the las

henry payne, not washington. the level of partisanship in the 17 90s is comparable to what we are facing in washington now, okay? the press, and avalon, you have to listen to this. there was no rules for the press. all the news fit the print. washington stands firmly against that whole thing. he thinks if you have any problems, you can just vote me out in the next election. but the level of partisanship in the newspapers in the 17 90s's scatological. and washington really can't understand it. he just doesn't understand it. and i think he is hurt by it. i think that he survives the french and indian war, he should have been killed when he was a young man. he should have been killed several times in the course of the war for independence. he wasn't even wounded. but they wounded him in his second term. they really got to him. and he couldn't wait to get out of there. i know we want to move into the discussion of his attitude towards political partisanship. i think the context is what i described in this specific le

that is washington. he would just think about things and it had a lot to do with how our cultures have changed. we are in the twitter world where things, no one has any kind of ability to concentrate on anything. washington had this incredible ability to dial up the static and figure out the most important thing for me to do. that is incredibly in any age but it gets back to his lack of formal education. this is a guy who as a young surveyor spent countless nights out there in the wilderness just thinking. that is how he got through the revolution and would be a big part of his presidency. >> to sit under his fig tree and thing, you would think it would be all great but it is not. you have this scene of him thinking in mount vernon towards the end when he is troubled. talk to us about that. what is he troubled about? >> guest: throughout three books about the revolution i kept wanting washington to have a high five moment where he said yes, i did it. it never comes. never gets that sense of satisfying ac

met mary ball washington. i think that is really cool when i was looking through the travel journal we have an excerpt of it a mount vernon but i found the full travel journal and i thought, wow! yet another connection that they have so yes, yes he does described friends and family. >> tammy again, did elizabeth ever right to fanny basset and major george augustan washington? no, she does not write to them directly. she talks about george agustin washington actually when they are at mount vernon samuel does but then elizabeth writes to martha, after they have come back to mount vernon from philadelphia and she asked how viennese doing. i believe we said something briefly about george augusta washington. he actually passed away when elizabeth was having her 50th birthday party. so the washington's could not attend that birthday. so yeah, she did know who they were. all right, cynthia miller again. all right! could you also talk about the written house clock in the house and its significance to the house. as wel

washington internalize that. one of the reasons the senate has a six-year term is supposedly to make them more likely to vote in the long term interest of the public it's the most partisan portion of the government now. i will shut up but public, public, public he represents them. >> he mentioned the aurora and i know you wanted to say something very quick so one quick thing i want to sort of highlights when joe was talking about how personally wounded washington was that was really quite intentional on the part of the newspaper editors. the editor of the aurora would deliver three copies of his newspaper every day to the front steps of the president's house. even though washington is not a subscriber. he did so intentionally to get under washington skin. we know it works because he rants and raves about in cabinet and jefferson took careful notes. this political warfare in the partisan or wound they were trying to inflict was quite intentional. >> let's get a taste of washington on parties and we can further exp

met mary ball washington. i think that is really cool when i was looking through the travel journal. we have an excerpt of it a mount vernon but i found the full travel journal and i thought, wow! yet another connection that they have so yes, yes he does described friends and family. >> tammy again, did elizabeth ever right to fanny basset and major george augustan washington? no, she does not write to them directly. she talks about george agustin washington actually when they are at mount vernon samuel does but then elizabeth writes to martha, after they have come back to mount vernon to philadelphia and she asked how fanny is doing. i believe we said something briefly about george augusta washington. he actually passed away when elizabeth was having her 50th birthday party. so the washington's could not attend that birthday. so yeah, she did know who they were. all right, cynthia miller again. all right! could you also talk about the written house clock in the house and its significance to the house. as well

in washington's handwriting and she writes to washington and this is very much. they're funniest exchange. she says that she's found a bundle of love letters from a woman written in the most solemn sanction and she teases him and and says that she doesn't open them, but she she wants him to know that she has them and then she very quickly goes. i'm just kidding. they're from martha washington and so it's a very cute cute little exchange and that's the same letter where she's very poignant about using the desk, but then washington writes back so after he got to mount vernon is when he got the letter from her so he ends up he ends up writing her back and he actually also writes to her he said as he promised he writes her a detailed description of his trip back to mount vernon. so she very much wanted to know how he was how he was doing how the roads were etc, etc. but at the beginning of the letter he he very much acknowledges her funny little quit about finding a bundle of love letters and he says something about how oh, that would make him nervous if he had any l

the story of washington of farmer is the story of washington the enslaver. and slaved labor and farming were inseparable throughout his entire life. he once wrote that he did not like to even think about slavery, let alone write about it or talk about it. in fact he thought about slavery all the time. he thought about it and wrote about it in terms of his management of the enslaved agricultural labor at his own estate. it is there in that record that you can see both a change in attitude but also the record of his daily interactions with the enslaved labor that he supervised and controlled. finally, when washington does ultimately decide to quote, search for some way to emancipate the enslaved people he controls the on the record we have of that process, the process, is through his record of farming and his reorganization of mount vernon. it is here, this example, this document washington made in 1799, towards the end of his life, he gave a detailed description of enslaved labor in mount vernon. this document has only come to light in the last ten years. it

the story of washington of farmer is the story of washington in the flavor. and slaved labor and farming were inseparable throughout his entire life. he once wrote that he did not like to even think about slavery, let alone write about it or talk about it. in fact he thought about slavery all the time. he thought about it and wrote about it in terms of his management of the enslaved agricultural labor at his own estate. it is there in that record that you can see both a change in attitude but also the record of his daily interactions with the enslaved labor that he supervised and controlled. finally, when washington does ultimately decide to quote, search for some way to emancipate the enslaved people he controls the on the record we have of that process, the process, is through his record of farming and his reorganization of mount vernon. it is here, this example, this document washington may it 7 to 99, towards the end of his life, he gave a detailed description of enslaved labor in mount vernon. this document has only come to light in the last ten years. i

washington sent him the draft. washington kept madison's first draft. and he insisted that the final includes paragraphs in the beginning. and it was a shot across the bow. washington was anticipating that madison and jefferson would be critical of this address. somehow, they would paint the address as an attempt to garner more power for the executive. so by including those paragraphs, drafted by madison, he was basically saying you knew about the farewell address. you participated in the drafting of the farewell address. so keep your mouth shut. it was very intentional, very savvy. and sure enough, madison was not publicly critical of the addresses. >> very briefly, i think the reason he picked hamilton is because hamilton had the most experience throughout seven years of the war, when he was writing jefferson. when you read the general orders which are boring as heck throughout the 1770s, they are signed by washington, but he didn't write them. most of those are written by hamilton or one of his other aides. what he called, pen men. washington was ins

this is the record of a democratic control in washington. they want to revive the can-do spirit that this country is founded on. yet instead of trying to bring our country together to solve these challenges, president biden has chosen to divide. demean and disparage his fellow americans. why? simply because they disagree with his policies. that is not leadership. when the president speaks tonight at independence hall, the first lines out of his mouth should be to apologize for slandering tens of millions of americans as fascists. president biden wants to talk about the soul of the nation. tonight, he will say democracy is at stake. he will declare that only democrats hold the moral upperhand. what joe biden doesn't understand is that the soul of america is in the tens of millions of hard-working people, loving families, law-abiding citizens who he vilified for simply wanting a stronger, safer and more prosperous country. the soul of america is not the ruling class in washington. it is the law-abiding, taxpaying american citizen. the soul of

and i agree with her guests in washington. i think that this tactic, this delay is due to the internal issues that team biden face it. so the issue is not really iran, if what iran had put 4 or if you runs responses, which the european union foreign policy chief saw as reasonable. if they accepted then by now we wouldn't. right now we wouldn't being, you will have this discussion. ok, hello. let's, let's try to unpack the whole scenario ears, which are going to play out in the near future. 2015. the agreement was based on 3 key components. first, putting some limitations and limits on the iranian nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief. and then the i am going to be monitoring the implementation of that particular agreement. now the i am saying in particular that they're the stockpile of he highly in rich rear. irena has grown enough to produce enough fuel for an atomic bomb our. we many, many steps back now to talking about getting closer to talk about a possible agreement. well, i think there is an agreement on the

and washington signs it. so really good jefferson trying to end slavery in the west and there's a part of your brain that knows that story and you guys are very smart there's a part of your brain that knows that in 1819, 1820, there's a missouri compromise which proposed is to prohibit slavery north and of a certain line is in effect except ending the northwest ordinance to the lands of the louisiana purchase for the west. okay, well, where's jefferson on that? he's not in favor of that. he's now in favor of diffusion, you know, spreading the virus. you know, to to the west, because that's brilliant idea. thomas jefferson, you know, and madison goes so far as to say not only that, he doesn't really like the prohibition of slavery north of the state. he writes to monroe, that's an constitutional, which is absurd. and not even john t calhoun takes that position going to be the position of roger tiny in dred scott. the congress can't prohibits win the territories. it's going to lead to a civil war and you see tu

she cares about washington, d.c. she fights for washington, d.c. i will fight for the voters of washington state. and there's real issues on the ballot. again, the rising cost of living. yeah. >> so, do you want the president -- the former -- >> i would love that. >> -- presidents -- do you want donald trump's endorsement? >> i am laser focused on delivering results for the voters of washington state. i have been clear about that from day one. i am focused on the future. >> okay, tiffany -- >> we have a state to save. there are real people suffering here in washington state. >> tiffany smiley, thank you so much for joining me this morning. i appreciate it. >> thank you. >> and the democrat who's defending the senate seat in washington state, we just heard her name, patty murray. she has held that seat for almost 30 years. she's going to respond next. hepatitis c? don't just treat it. crush it with mavyret. conquer it with mavyret. cure it. with mavyret. mavyret cures all types of hep c. in only 8 weeks. the virus multiplies daily and can damage the

washington's aspiration was to make a residence. but a residents that also had a public aspect to it. it was supposed to be more than just a house was supposed to be the house somebody of some importance. oops, and hopefully yep. there we go. okay, so the other place where it would have appeared. is in this building the governor's palace? at williamsburg colonial capital, which of course washington would have known. where the the this cupola signaled the presence of an important residents president, so wasn't just a house. it was the governor's palace and so he seems to echo this echo that feature in the design of this house. but in other respects, he really is placing some distance between himself. and this colonial monument, which is something that jefferson who was educated in williamsburg also did they were attempting to establish a language for american architecture. that was neoclassical it drew uncertain british examples, but it was really trying to create a distance. from the colonial architecture of that pre-revolutionary p

but i think it was a part of washington -- washington was hugely ambitious. and he was playing the longest of games. it was posterity. he didn't have to have the power now because he wanted to be remembered in future generations. and, that's a deep game. most of us want it now. we don't have enough faith in the future or in ourselves to do the right thing because it is right. so i think with washington, yes, he is doing it for all the right reasons. yet, there's a part of him. i'm not saying he is manipulative, but there is a part of him that knows, well, you know, if i want to come off the way off i come off, i need asked -- people to ask me to do it. >> all that experience in the revolution that you wrote about so well played a long game. he's not winning battles, but he is staying alive. and he's playing a sort of rope a dope strategy with the british on staying one step ahead of them, waiting for his moment, basically waiting for the french to arrive. but, whatever, you know. he stays alive. and it's just incredible patience when all the others wanted to

host: it is open form here on washington journal. a chance for you to call in for comments on political news, other news your following in the national regional news. (202) 748-8000 is the line for democrats, (202) 748-8001 for republicans, and for independents and others, (202) 748-8002. labor day here in the u.s., and a significant day in the u.k. as well. they are getting a new prime minister. list trust will be the new u.k. prime minister. the outgoing p.m. boris johnson has tweeted out a congratulation and offering his formal resignation. "i have been proud to be the leader of the republican for years, getting brexit done, overseeing the fastest vaccine rollout in europe, and giving vital support to ukraine." liz truss will be the new prime minister and will also meet with the queen tomorrow. we expect more. let's hear from troy up next in connecticut, open form. good morning on the democrat line. caller: good morning. i have been watching what has been going on in the country. why can't republicans see that the former president

name a country where washington interfered i force -- by force. trying to restore a polar model under the slogan of a rules-based order, the west is introducing dividing lines everywhere. you are either with us or against us. there is no third option no compromise. continuing with the course of bringing this to the borders of russia, the united states now has the goal of subjugating the asian areas. the summit of nato in madrid, the self-proclaimed defensive alliance declared this indivisible security of the euro atlantic india pacific. under the slogan of india pacific strategies, both formats are being created and undermine what has been built for decades. namely an open and inclusive regional architecture. in addition to that they are playing with fire around taiwan. on top of that they are promising military support to taiwan. clearly the notorious monroe doctrine is becoming global in scope. washington is trying to turn the entire world into its own backyard. their way of doing this is through unlawful unilateral sanctions that have been for

you can't solve the problems just in washington. and with his leadership and haley barbour support we now have over half the states in the country by next tuesday, we'll have a state level contract in over 50 major counties. the following tuesday, there will be a local government contract as the concept of reaching out and having a contract with the american people extends beyond just washington, d.c.. finally, i want to single out barry jackson in carrying out on the staffs who work on this. this is, as you look around here, an enormous and without tremendous support from literally hundreds of staff people. we couldn't be here. and yet we were asked as recently as this morning, why are we here? why not just run against the clinton administration and its collapsing public support? and in the spirit of total honesty, i have to say, when you watch them collapse this badly it is tempting, but it's not good enough. the fact is that america is in trouble and our trouble extends beyond the white house. the fact is, as a history teacher, i

john adams was then a little bit critical of washington's leadership particular moments, and washington was very thin skinned and didn't forget criticism. so that was one blow against that relationship. they then didn't see each other for a while because john adams was out of the country and when he was selected as vice president, washington initially very happy to have him because did represent really different experiences. knowledge in washington thought that that was really generally quite useful. he stopped his cabinet with people who had a different expertise because he wanted their input and insight initially he did send that letter that i mentioned with all the different questions about social behavior and social practices. but then almost right away started to sort of distance himself from john adams. and there are two reasons that scholars possibly as to why that might be. the first is a concern about separation of powers that the vice president was really more of a senate figure. he he john adams sat the senate every single day. it was in session. and so maybe it would be inap

look, i have spent some time in washington, d.c. as bad as it looks from the outside, you are to see it from the inside. here is what i have concluded -- i wish this weren't the case -- we need dr. oz to help change things. i believe that the nauseas ly woke washington-insider preening elites, you know what i am talking about, the vanilla soy, extra foam latte crowd, the people who live in the georgetown condos with the high ceilings and the important art on the wall. they don't respect our ideas. they don't. they think they are better than us. they believe in government not by people, but by experts, and they are the experts. and the american people deserve better. [applause] finally, dr. oz and i believe that america's future can be better than its present or its past. dr. oz and i believe that we are only as good as our dreams. dr. oz and i believe that we're only as valuable, folks, as our children. but dr. oz and i also understand, that the water in washington, d.c. is not going to clear up until you get the pigs out of the cre

and what's happening in washington? washington continues to spend. their answer to inflation is to raise your taxes and they continue to do it without understanding any sack faces sacrifices. do you know what they spent that rafael warlock. >> and over 2 million for trails, trying to get the world cup. 6 1/2 million for golf courses in colorado. one billion to federal inmates. 20 billion dollars went to illegal immigrants. and if it wasn't so sad, $463,000 went to pigeons learning how to play slot machines. rafael warnock supported that. and they're taking from those who didn't go to college and you have to pay for those who did go to college. and they're for those with electric vehicles for $7500 for people who can't afford them and rafael warnock-- we love playing football and love playing your georgia team. they just now hired enough irs agents that would fill that, 87,000 irs agents? think about that. they're coming after you to pay for the tax hikes that they just passed. rafael warnock did that. then you go and you look at crime. i don't need t

, how do you cover washington without being corrupt? >> tell me what you mean? [indiscernible] [talking over each other] >> i'm talking about the bubble that is washington, the limited range of perspectives. >> that kind of corruption -- if your job is to cover the minnesota twins. spending days on the road with people. i think that is where the responsibility of editors -- i don't know. if you're talking broad psychic corruption, you could walk around him be a pompous jerk just like the pompous jerks we are covering. [indiscernible] >> the access to power, access to the inside story. i wonder if you think about it. >> maybe this is related. i am often struck by the banality of political conversations. you get invited to one of these big conferences, davo's is an example, these masters of the universe are going to be there, you would think they are going to have profound insights into power and the way the world really works. and then you have these conversations with them and it is the most conventional -- >> there just talking about t

♪ ♪♪ solely by the washington posts reporting. in the next hour will discuss and examine how the heroic journalist journalist myth of watergate took hold. and why it is so tenacious. but also discuss what some of the principles of the washington post? principles that the post at the time of the watergate scandal have had to say about this interpretation of watergate. and will consider why it matters we'll consider the so what question. why debunking this myth? matters along the way we'll have some time for q&a. here are a few names that will encounter. during our class today. bob woodward and carl bernstein these are these were reporters for the washington post the lead reporters on the watergate scandal for the post. and they teamed up in 1972 and were together through the scandal in 1974. together they wrote two books about the watergate scandal. catherine graham is another name that will encounter she was the posts publisher. during the watergate period the post then was a family-owned newspaper. and she was publisher from 1969

you couldn't buy the washington post in new york for a period only in washington. you could get it inrockville, you could get hundreds of copies in rockville . >> it's still sitting there. >> none in new york. so that sense of that cbs validated and sally again was telling the story about the cvs people were saying where are the documents and said documents, we don't have any documents. there are no documents. we are counting on the trust of our sources and reporters. >> and are too young reporters. so that's october. a month later nixon wins in a landslide and the story kind of, the trail goes cold for you guys. not just for a few days but for a couple of months you guys are scraping and you're under a lot of pressure talk about this aspect of it which is you had this story. you kept italive and suddenly there's nothing there to keep moving forward . what's the pressure you're feeling and overall, what were the pressures you felt about the need for absolute accuracy whenever possible and to keep the story moving to demonstrate that wasn't going to go away? >> it w

but since he was a native of washington or had lived in washington for many many years he knew some of the ins and outs that were discussed in the book. and to this college class. it seemed like he was the most likely candidate. a very common and popular interpretation was that deep throat? was not a single individual. deep throat was a composite of a number of different sources. it was a literary device. to project an intriguing character but pulling from a different range of individuals a different a variety of sources a composite a literary device for a long time, i believe this was the case, too. that there could not have been a single deep throat, but there was probably several that were melded into a single character. one of the investigative teams for the los angeles times also publicly felt that this was the likely explanation for deep throats identity because they were following watergate as well and they knew some of the information that post was publishing was coming had to come from different sources. it couldn't have been from the same source. those reporters to the la tim

washington, d.c., unfortunately, doesn't understand this. this nation has not been crippled like a loss harvest. washington, d.c. moves through the drought, heat, torrential downpours unphased. that's why i'm standing here today to remind congress that one in 10 employed americans, nearly 20 million people in this country, work in food and agriculture. where weather creates a make or break situation to their livelihoods. and most importantly, every american has to eat. american agriculture producers are hurting, not only from the skyrocketing input costs that comes with inflation but also lower morale that comes with heat, drought, thin margins and a broken supply chain. in 2023, congress must re-authorize the farm bill with american families at the front of their mind. i will be back on the floor to deliver another installment of my farm bill impact series and how like more programs and titles within the bill that i believe congress must understand and support to ensure that agriculture thrives in america. the people who feed, fuel, and clo

jefferson, washington. both of these men depended for all of their building and all of their intellectual activity upon this trade, with which you are familiar. it saw manufactured good to africa, slaves were brought to the caribbean and ultimately to north america, from where other grids were exported in this very famous triangle trade. which the plantations of jefferson, washington, and others cannot be disassociated, despite the fact that architecturally, the references that they make are to this classical tradition, as filtered through palladio in the 16th century. jefferson also referred to the classical tradition in his own design for his tomb monument, which you see here. it is an obelisk form that was devised first by the ancient egyptians, and then used again throughout antiquity, where he wanted to be known for his authoring of the declaration of american independence, of the statute of religious freedom, and as father of the university of virginia. those he saw as his major accomplishments to be

it's good to show washington a good to say to here with a, not a bluff. he said, yeah, yeah, that's why i like yeah, he's actually pretty straightforward edition. he's not hiding behind the rhetoric, he says what he means and what he's going to do. it's not hard to make a sense of what is in his had there. so many criminologist in washington who for some reason just cannot take put his worst straight. and he's always very direct about his intentions that they should still shoot for 1160 years. we firmly learned that is mostly dangerous for russia to weaken its sovereignty even for a while to abandon national interests. during such periods, the very existence of russia was threatened that waiting for us to make such mistakes again, we will not succumb to black mountain. intimidation will never betray or lose our sovereignty. and by strengthening it, we're developing our country. sovereignty has become the means of survival and development. it's an ability to make the decisions for your people, what the west has assumed until now until now is that essential

he is in his first term and native of the state of washington, a district in the state of washington. he is a graduate of princeton where he has a b.a. he was a marshal scholar, and has his p.h.d. and his thesis had to do with comparative social policy, a p.h.d. from oxford. he worked in the consulting firm of mckenzie and company for a number of years, and also was in the washington state legislature, and he did all this before he came to the congress. congressman timmons is in his second year, one of the youngest people ever to be elected in the state of south carolina to congress, is a graduate of george washington university where he has a degree in international affairs and political science. he has a masters in intellectual studies and a law degree as well from the university of south carolina. he has a masters from n.y.u. in cybersecurity strategy. he was in the south carolina state legislature before he was in congress, and a captain now in the air national guard. so i would like on behalf of all of the former members of congress here to bestow upon the two of them the disting