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

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

they asked george washington to put down this mutiny. washington tells the mutineers go home. just go home. he pardons people and that for a second time. he brilliantly handles a near mutiny by this time washington realizes this new experiment in popular government is going to be very difficult to run next slide. washington starts to put together a vision a dream if you will for what kind of nation we need to have so the war ends at fall of 1783 and pretty much the question is now what what happens next we had a political and economic and a civil vacuum the loyalists the royalists those who were proted loyal to the crown they left and that meant the physician the bankers the architects all left this new young republic has little on the way of schools and colleges and museums and libraries few trained professionals. the country is war-torn veterans have not been paid. the currency is worthless. so everybody on everyone's mind is the question now one and few at an answer except washing next slide so washington puts together what's known as a circular letter to the states. this i

on december 13, 1799, george washington was dying. a throat infection that had set in after a long ride around mount vernon the previous day in sleet and snow made conversation with his secretary, tobias lear, increasingly difficult. lear noted in his journal that washington's mood, despite the hoarseness, was very cheerful as they sat in the parlor reading newspapers alloud. but washington's demeanor changed when the subject turned to virginia politics. he requested -- "he requested me to read him the debates of the virginia assembly on the election of a senator and a governor. and hearing mr. madison's observations, respecting mr. munro, he appeared much affected and spoke with some degree of asperity on the subject." what prompted washington's asperity regarding james monroe? shown here standing behind the general in emanuel leutze's glorious but profoundly inaccurate painting, "washington crossing the delaware." how did these two virginians who hailed from the same region and whose families were acquainted over generations go from

their way both from moscow and from washington and from here 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 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 biden despite as as you point out as all the as all the equipment is 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 a 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 is a dangerous yeah because president biden said that putin is a killer and he has no soul i mean this is part

john and mary washington. george washington's youth is the stuff of legend, most notably in the folk tale about george's chopping down of a cherry tree and his 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 the county. washington completed close to 200 surveys on numerous properties totaling 60,000 acres. during the french and indian war, he served as an emissary for the governor of virginia and later in combat during general gratis' ill-fated path. the only surrender that washington encountered in 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 commonwealth's delegation to the first continental congress. when the second congress determined to name a commander to lead the co

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 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

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

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

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

this is deja vu news to live from berlin security alert in washington d.c. the u.s. capitol is a lot to down after a car rams a barricade killing a police officer and injuring another a suspect armed with a knife has been shot dead also coming up on the show taiwan's the deadliest a train disaster in decades the packed train derailed inside a tunnel after colliding with a truck at least 51 people have been killed and dozens more injured. and hopes of a breakthrough in the goshi over iran's nuclear program those powers are scheduled talks for next week 3 years after donald trump pulled out of an international agreement. plus a historic handover of power in the share but an alleged akubra time to raises questions over the stability of the new government just. welcome to the show we begin with breaking news from washington d.c. where the u.s. capitol is again the scene of a major security incident police say a car rammed a barricade barricade outside the capitol killing one officer and injuring another the area was put on alert after supporters of former president donal

but washington is not stopping there. next on the democrats radical wish list is a 2 trillion-dollar plus infrastructure bill. from what we have seen so far less than 6% of president biden's plan actually goes to support roads and bridges. more taxpayer money would be spent on electric vehicles than fixing the potholes in town after town throughout america. we have seen this before. washington makes a big promises to improve transportation and that money ends up getting wasted on silly things like a squirrel sanctuary in tennessee. or turtle tunnels in florida and critter crossings in vermont. or even worse billion-dollar boondoggles like the high-speed rail trade in california which is going nowhere fast. this train is $15 billion over budget. and 15 years behind schedule. yet the process is being appraised by the biden administration as an example of how washington democrats plan to build back better. at the same time all of this frivolous spending is going on congress is reinstating the tactic of earmarks. earmarks sup

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

harriet washington? >> guest: couldn't hear you for a moment. >> host: everything we talk about leads me to think about the henrietta lacks story. >> guest: henrietta lacks first of all i am so happy that henrietta lacks is now a household name. it is a very important story and i am glad that so many americans know what happened to her. in 1994 i spoke with her husband who was still alive and her family about her. i was deeply concerned that this woman, 1951, had been suffering ovarian cancer, had been cultured, kept alive without her permission. her husband was very vehement, told me in no uncertain terms he had refused permission for her cells to be taken and the hospital did it anyway. this has been something that has befallen people of color since they came to the american shores. it happens all the time. in her case her cells were very unusual and turned out to be biologically very valuable in terms of providing a good medium for culturing disease, testing medication, including the polio vaccine. ye

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

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

washington of course we know washington is gone. that's a thing if anyone watched hamilton can understand once washington is gone the great beginner of the country, somebody has to take over. all these people do want to take over. they are pretty smart people adams, jefferson and all. they need somebody like marshall. if it wasn't would have to be someone else. >> as you said part of what you're doing in your book is explorations of american history. i did lead the opening introduction you talk about your father drag new to all the different places when you are kid. as a graduate of the virginia i have to ask and have a question about humanities here in a second but would you mind on the story about the time your father essentially browbeat an ark must at the collection when they pulled out jefferson's will? >> anyone who's a friend of mine and knew my father would of course believe he would do this. he was a small chance smart man who was a lawyer and a municipal judge for long time. but he was a big history buff. so in 1961 was a

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

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

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

how many did washington have? >> so, there were five members of the cabinet, including the president. there was the secretary of state, who was initially thomas jefferson. secretary of treasury, alexander hamilton. secretary of war, henry knox and the attorney general who did not have a department at the time, but was basically the government's lawyer who was edmond randolph. >> when did they first meet and why? >> the secretaries met as a group for the first time in april 1791. president george washington was leaving the capitol at the time, which was philadelphia. and he was going on a tour of the southern states this was the first tour he done and he was planning to be gone for a couple of months and he knew that there was a possibility that something might come up that would need an immediate response and he may not be able to give an immediate answer becauses the post took a really long time at that point. >>> so, he gave them the power to meet as a group, if an issue came up, and to then send his, their deci

when uva's women's division, mary washington washington college became independent. in 2004, the college became the university of washington. and it was converted into a gallery format in 2006, because it was discovered that the building that they occupied, which is actually three buildings that emerged overtime, all prostate monroe's ownership of the property. we are not the first monroe site, to have to come up with a few different approaches about what to do with our property. hopefully it will last. but we've had some interesting developments about that. so in any case, though it has given us an opportunity by going to this gallery based approach, to show a collection of artifacts, which is the largest in the country related to our]gykyk the bicentennial of monroe's presidency, offers a wealth of opportunity. to highlight the apex of his service career. there was a joint press conference on presidents'day, with monroe interpreter jay harrison, and troy -- and he will be inaugurated in april of this year. and we are on the verge of observing the moderation with mr

this is g w news a live from berlin and security alert in washington d.c. the u.s. capitol is a lot to down after a car rams a barricade killing a police officer and injuring another a suspect armed with a knife is reported to have been shot dead also coming up on the show taiwan's the deadliest or train disaster in. the packed train inside a tunnel after colliding with a truck at least 51 people have been killed and dozens more injured. oh in play richardson welcome to the show we begin with some breaking news from washington d.c. where the u.s. capitol is again the scene of a major security incident police say a car rammed a vera came outside the capital killing at least one officer and injuring another the area was put on alert after supporters of former president donald trump rioted on january 6th but officials recently had begun scaling back barriers put up afterwards citing a reduced security threat. and a few minutes ago the u.s. capitol police gave a press conference with more details of what happened. because. if that's that. can lead. to more fear. that it

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guest: the truth is, after working in washington, d.c. and new york and traveling globally, working in foreign policy in a world where the gender imbalances is very pronounced, i got to a point where, number one, i had maxed out on my intellectual curiosity about american foreign policy in latin america, and number two, i wanted to get my arms around the topic of women and power. but i did not have a subject. i needed the compelling character that lady bird johnson turned out to be. it was not until i discover that she had kept this diary -- she had published a huge portion -- a 780 page book, which was a portion, although not a huge one, of the diaries, in 1970. luckily, for me, when i started thinking about considering her as a topic, she's married to the man, of course, most identified with the concept of power in the presidency in the 20th century. when i discovered that the diaries existed, that coincided with the lbj library beginning to release them entirely to the public, not just the transcript, but also all of the audio. compell

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

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

■ washington. people look to him to provide guidance and he assumed command as after picked it in here on horseback. this fellow, who knows what he's doing, is the looting? museum noting? this guy snapping to attention and then he's got them all working over here. and this guys coming to back them up and we see some troops moving around here. now, here at this time of war, we have the senate and we have the house. and they're just starting to build the rotunda, you can see the unfinished brick work starting to build the rotunda of the capital. and that's what this is depicting, could be clouds, could be smoke, who knows? but there's something a little impending disaster here. now again, this was in august, the leaves of full trees appear. the last tool is assuming the presidency inauguration, march. like right now probably, what date was his inauguration in march? the fourth, early march. so just a hint of maybe something coming out but not much. and this is shows the capital, as i said before, thi

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

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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.

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

we've got from the, washington, washington. arsenals this original lineup card. this is from april 28th, 2012 against the dodgers and it's the first time that bryce harper appears as a rookie and you're using statistics, of course to figure out the best way to line up your players harper who nowadays is often seen in the number three or number four batting slots was put in at number seven to take a little pressure off him because it's his first game but the what the batting lineup shows you here is the culmination of bringing together all of these this statistics and data and figuring out the best way to put your men in lineup. another aspect of of keeping track of statistics is that those were the sorts of things that were featured on the backs of baseball cards? and so we have over in another case a selection of baseball cards from the 19th century up until recently and one of the things that i have liked pointing out to people is with these baseball cards. is that when you look at the early ones from the 19th century how sparse the statistics are and then as y

you see people 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 somebody pay to be an adviser? >> i am a longtime political producer. i was looking at it to. long political directorate msnbc, ran larry king live. you have to know is, real wood is not. you have to know people that are willing to tell you everything. that's why i give up my number later, you have one more season of veep coming up. >> okay. i will remind everybody, the mark twain award winner. >> thank you. [applause] the just outed shooting last week, it will come out in april. it is so great that you are doing that, david, thank you. >> it will be a great show. mac, when you are chief of staff of the white house, do you think how will this look on tv and how it's portrayed? if somebody ever write something about this, is that

and during your years in washington, obviously, you did a great job of that. and they said and peter and susan say in the book that one of the reasons that you were able to achieve so many goals. is because you are not a crusader. they say you had no ideological fervor which certainly goes along with your focus on pragmatism that we discussed earlier. so do you agree that in your political and international negotiations? you had essentially no ideological fervor. well, i don't know what you mean by ideological fervor. you know, i was a chief of staff of white house chief of staff for president ronald reagan. ronald reagan was pretty ideological. i was just tragic secretary. and so it's a question of balance. i think. you you the commitment to values that i mentioned earlier when james mcgregor burns a definition of leadership is a commitment to values and those values are ideological. usually to the most part and so you you have to have some ideological component in your policy and your worldview. but it's a question about i think if you're overly ideological

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