The thing that is frustrating but fascinating about james madison, he was this incredibly impactful individual over world history, but because he was private and introverted and other aspects he was 54, 100 pounds, have these anxiety attacks he has not exerted the same kind of Gravitational Force field on people that Thomas Jefferson or Alexander Hamilton have. That to me was the reason to write a book that plunged deep into his youth and comingofage to figure out, how do we know this guy . What motivated him to have such an impact on the country and the world . James madison was from right here, which is Orange County, the heart of virginia, half an hour north of charlottesville. He grew up in this house behind us, which has changed over the years. They brought it closer to what it was. When he was a young boy, he was primitivea much more fatherment before his built this brick house. Madison was the son of a privileged family. His father was a planter. Gentry. Up in the elite experienceinto the of the world being an older brother. A demanding father. He was the oldest son of a premier family in virginia at the time. He enjoyed all of the benefits, but also the burdens that came with that. He was sent away to an elite boarding school in his early teens, sent outofstate to go to the college of new jersey. He was one of the oldest born and someone his family invested in. It later became princeton. It was not william and mary, which is most which is where most parents sent their kids at the time. It was not an anglican college, it was a presbyterian one. Backather brought him after graduating from college to be a tutor to his youngest siblings here. He did not want to do that. Sort of the cost of being the eldest son, the bearer of. His privilege he came back and was forced by his father to apply that learning an investment in Orange County, when he thought it would be much more exciting to be invalid you. Inultimately to be philadelphia. He ultimately made it back there. One of the battles was what was he was going to do for a living. What he was good at was legislating and understanding problems, researching them, coming up with an approach to crucial Public Policy problems that everybody else could not translate into a solution in politics. That is what he was good at. Because he inherited a plantation, he had a very difficult time settling on a vocation outside of government and Public Service. He had a terrible time becoming a lawyer. In the book i chronicle his difficulties being a successful plantation operator. He had an equally difficult time coming a lawyer. There are these funny passages where he is complaining about how boring and difficult and intense law is. He never managed to do it in the right way. He only got an honorary degree. He would sit in this house in the library battling with these books,s these law vocally very miserable. It was a constant struggle how he was going to make a living. He had a fit of anxious depression when he came back. He had these psychological challenges, which i argue that he had a category of anxiety disorder that caused him to have these attacks where he would basically collects and basically collapse and be out of commission. He came back after college tutoring. A couple of causes took him over. One of them was the harassment baptists in virginia. Sect thiswere a time he needed a licensed to preach, and they didnt do that. Just north of here in a county called culpepper, they were in present and were imprisoned and harassed by the ruling state religion. He was very taken with that cause, religious toleration, what it meant to cast your lot with an underdog. There are some accounts that he traveled and saw what was happening. He took this on as a cause. That was one political itch to use Public Policy to express a conviction and principal and engage in questions of governance and Public Service. He talked about it that way. Soon afterward he became a member from Orange County to the Constitutional Convention this is after the declaration of independence. They needed to come up with a constitution. He became counselor to the governor, Patrick Henry, as a young man. He was in his mid20s. He achieved a position in the official post revolutionary government of virginia in his 20s. That is when he started his career. His conviction on issues ran the gamut of every Public Policy issue that the country was dealing with, especially at this young age. When he was a young aid to governor henry, he became obsessed with the problem of military supplies. This was a difficult question that the time. The state was figuring out how to supply a part federal, part state armed forces that was fighting great britain. How youhe problems was equip and supply the troops when the dollars they are using there were five different kinds of money at the time, and they were all incredibly inflated. It was hard to find the food and drink and supplies the army needed. He carried that through to congress. For instance, when he came back to virginia as a delegate, he got fascinated by the problem of overhauling virginias state code so it didnt have these medieval punishments, like Capital Punishment for random things, for that there was not or that there was not a lieutenant governor. He overhauled virginia law. Those are much less sexy than what he did that became very famous, like the separation of powers in our government, bicameral legislature. He was instrumental in shaping the federal judiciary, and independently appointed very statesmanlike judiciary. There were all those issues that he contributed to in the design of the country. There were dozens of others that he also mastered. Book, the grains of the the thing that planted the seed was this discovery i made looking through the minutes of the ratifying convention in richmond in 1788. The year after the Constitutional Convention in philadelphia. Madison and his former boss, this major figure in virginia politics, Patrick Henry they faced off against each other for three weeks. Madison was the leader of the federalists. Madison at the time had two anxiety attacks that caused him to be removed. He had to go stay in his boardinghouse for days at a time. I think it is because he experienced an incredibly heunting and difficult, t pressure of having the whole country on his narrow 54 shoulders. Most of the time when he engaged in real intense public battle about something, it was not easy for him because he was an introvert. It doesnt come naturally to be the leader of a nation. I think his leadership came from has, and hist he understanding that he needed to solve things through Public Service and Public Policy. It was a necessity. He mastered it by will and charisma, his unlikely relationships, his warmth and conviction and passion, but it was always a more tortured overcoming obstacles for him than someone who had a grace and ease about being in public. George washington would be the classic example, someone at ease being leader of a people. There was a charisma in that. That is not what madisons experience was like i dont. He is the least likely person to get involved in politics you could possibly have thought of. His whoful friend of ran the boardinghouse he stayed at in philadelphia. Onetime jobless jefferson sent Thomas Jefferson said, he should run for governor of virginia. She said she called it the torrent of abuses he would experience in public life he was too sensitive. His closest friends said politics was the last thing he should do. The fact that he did it anyway, because he felt the need to address these problems. Even if it was him, he said its got to be somebody. It was his conviction that powered him through. They knew what he was talking about, they cared what he was talking about, and had figured out an answer that was probably better than what the rest of them had done. He was throwing himself into the ring to figure out the solution. Came out of the chain of succession. When he shifted into the executive, becoming president of the united states, the deficiencies he had were more on display. It was harder for him to give confidence to the nation during the war of 1812. He was criticized for that. Decisionshis staffing , his cabinet members and prosecuting the war, the images he presented to the country did not meet the moment. That is one of the reasons his image suffered over the decades. He very much at the moment when the country needed met the moment when the country needed to craft the cover rises the compromises that would create the different the whole machine that would guide the country. One of the initial pieces of research was looking at the address of memoirs drafts of memoirs. He kept writing a short autobiography, maybe 20 pages. Hisocused almost all of retrospective on his events until age 37. He paid barely any attention to when he was president or secretary of state. He saw his lifes work as having been writing and enacting the constitution, and not so much conducting wars of the country as chief executive. In the Constitutional Convention in the 1820s, madison is in his he has beenen secretary of state, father of the constitution, and he takes on popular difficult likeular difficult causes, giving africanamericans the right of representation in the counting of population for districts. Hingpeople husin drawing around him so they could hear what he is saying is totally different than Daniel Webster standing in front of people, being blown away from this powerful oratory. It was his quietness and his element of being magnetically pulled to that conviction, and the fact that he knew what he was talking about, that i think explains why people were so drawn to him. I dont think history gives credit to james madison. I wrote the book about statesmanship. You see it in the way he talks about the federal judiciary, the u. S. Senate, regular citizens. There are they are supposed to be challenging public opinion. There are supposed to be alliances and compromises and debates. All of this goes pushing toward a higher plane, not just going to the lowest common denominator. We would not be here but for his statesmanship at any number of crucial junctures, whether it was freedom of religion or getting the constitution itself passed. The fact that we dont rank about it much today is the problem. Think about it much today is the problem. We are in the main gallery of the special Collections Library at the university of virginia. Is current exhibition falconer, life and works, surveying the magnificent William Faulkner collections we have at the library. William faulkner was a Great American novelist born in mississippi, and spent the last few years of his career in the late 1950s and early 1960s at uva. He is best known for his novels the sound and the fury, as i absalom, absalom, and he was a poet and short story writer. Although we often bring individual items out, we have not told the full William Faulkner story and given the Public Access to a huge range of material for quite some time. It is the 60th anniversary of his arrival at the university as writer in residence. We still have people coming to visit tell us about having met William Faulkner while they were here. While William Faulkner was at uva, he was working on his own writing. He spent a lot of time in formal and informal events, meeting with students, faculty, community members, female students from local or nearby womens colleges, since uva was only men at the time, and other groups to talk about his novels, the state of literature today, and much anything else they asked him about. He enjoyed living in virginia. He had always had a dream to learn to fox hunt. He learned while he was here and joined the farmington hunt and would go foxhunting on the weekends whenever he possibly could. We have a lot of wonderful artifacts from William Faulkners time at uva. Among other things we have the typewriter he was issued by the university. We have a jacket that he wore. When you look at the jacket, it is pretty torn up and ratt. He likes to keep his clothing for a long time. He hung up his jacket when he went on his last trip to oxford, mississippi when he passed away. In the pocket of the jacket was a pipe and type cleaners. Pipe cleaners. We put those on display. It collections are so vast, was difficult to decide how to tell the story of William Faulkners lifetime. We looked at the various personae constructed by William Faulkner actively or the circumstances he found himself in throughout his life. There are 13 different aspects of his personality displayed. We tried to cover the personal, professional, and lesserknown. For instance, i dont think many know that William Faulkner was a wonderful artist and drew all throughout his life. A lot of people dont know he did interesting work after he won the nobel as a literary ambassador working for the u. S. State department. We tried to pull the unexpected stories and show the most iconic collections. The materials that demonstrate William Faulkners Family History are also on display. One i find interesting and poignant, that we placed front and center, islam before William Faulkner was born. Is long before William Faulkner was born. It is a receipt for a slave by William Faulkners grandfather. We wanted to point out how important that history was. The issue of slavery and Race Relations in the south. These are central to his work and are revered as topics covered with brilliance and care throughout his work. We wanted to make sure that we put that interesting artifact on display as a symbol of his problem that he inherited. One of the most interesting episodes of William Faulkners life is when he spent time in hollywood as a screen writer. He didnt particularly like his time in hollywood. Took writing screenplays for the studios to make money. He had a hard time making ends meet because writing was difficult. Books were not selling as well as if they were more readable. He needed to find other ways to support his family. Screenwriting worked for him for a long time. He worked for a couple decades. The items on display are wonderful. My favorite is a fragment of his screenplay for the film the big sleep, which is considered a masterpiece for its time. In one of his essays from the 1950s, he refers to himself as having the position of a white southerner. He said, what is this white southerner figure that faulkner inhabits . Himself very much as ining a challenging position relation to the African Community among oxford. Many featured throughout his fictional works. An exhibition called white southerner looks at how faulkner grappled with questions of racial identity in the south in the 1950s. He wins the nobel prize in the 1950s. From that point on, his fame explodes. His books are sold in massive quantities. He becomes a household name. At the same time the Civil Rights Movement is starting to gather steam and the debates over integration become more vocal and more polarizing in the united states. Faulkner begin to be called upon as a public figure to comment upon integration. Abroad in asked foreign countries, as a southern american, tell us what you think about these issues. We have a lot of documents that show faulkner trying hard to figure out how to do determine his own position on integration. These documents show that faulkner found himself stuck between different positions. On the one hand, his view that integration needed to happen put him at odds with a lot of whites in mississippi. However he often called for a slow gradualist move toward integration, which put him at odds with northerners. He felt that he had a loyalty to the south. He did not want the north to tell the south what to do. He is constantly shifting his perspective overtime. His perspective is really unusual and interesting. I found that visitors to the exhibition find a lot to think about. We want all audiences to enjoy this exhibition. You canre a faulkner, commune with his manuscripts. If you had some trauma with faulkner in high school, we want you to understand his biography. We want people to come away with a sense of faulkner as an entire the aspects of his story. So much of his time was spent struggling to make money. It is remarkable to see what he accomplished. We want people to get a sense of the full range of material that can be in a literary archive. It is a real treasure. We are so happy to share it. [applause] the 2011 National Matter of arts for her country since two american letters and service as poet laureate from 1993 to 1995. Hethrough her works, she has eliminated poetry illuminated poetry and literature. Theetting that medal, National Medal of the arts, meant personally something. It was an achievement, one that i felt humbled to receive. Meant that the arts mattered. And to have the arts recognized f government was a profound act, not just for me, but for every young person in this country who ever wanted to express themselves, whether it in paint or words or song dance. It meant all of those things. I wrote as a hobby. I did not know it could be a profession. I had had no role models. I never met a novelist or a poet. All of these people who wrote these things work names in a book. Things were names in a book. Me it was something i did as a hobby. I really thought i would be was to be all, one doctor or lawyer or teacher. I dont think my parents ever pressured me. I did not feel that pressure, that you will become a doctor or lawyer or teacher. It was just in the air. Then i discovered creative writing classes in college. I thought, you mean you can actually do this as a profession . That is when i started thinking about the fact that this is what i loved and when i did whenever i had a free moment. I made up my mind that i was going to try it, while i was young and could afford to starve. [laughter] nothing so and did many kids do i told my parents what i want to do in life. My father was a chemist. Well, iredit, he said, dont understand poetry. Dont be upset if i dont read your poems. Basically he let me go and do my thing, which is all that i wanted. Supportive. Ally as a mother, now as a grandmother, i realize how courageous and brave it was for this thing me to they can understand. I was born and grew up in akron, ohio. There were books in my house, thank goodness, but i did not know which ones were supposed to be difficult or not. My parents let me browse. I remember reading a comic in the morning, then trying my hand at shakespeare in the afternoon. To me they were words on a page that then came to life. That was magic. It meant that i could go anyplace in the world just by sitting down and opening this object. I began writing as soon as i could learn how to write. That, though i had been reading childrens books, the idea that i could take a andil and put it to paper write words and create this story, this other reality that, it was like i was a magician myself. I did not think it was a thing you did to publish. I did it because it was enjoyable. I was about 10 years old when i was writing in earnest. I would read a book. My brother is to hear is older than i am, and he loved science fiction. I would read every book he got out of the library too. They would meet aliens, there would be all these people. Then i would write my own little story, except i put a black girl in there, because there are no black girls in these stories. I could put a little black girl into a story of my own making. I think that helped me also understand that i was worth a little black girl landing on the moon was not such a fiction if i could put it down onto paper and have it, life it come alive. I have always been very shy. The idea of teaching the idea of getting in front of a class filled me with terror. I had to earn a living to support my habit. So i began to apply for creative writing positions. I got my first one in arizona, a place i had never been. It wasnt a place i would have said i wanted to go necessarily, but that is where the job was. We ended up spending 80 years spending 8 years in the phoenix area. Beautiful years. We had our daughter there. Though i was terrified to go into the class, the students were more afraid than i was. It was the love of writing that carried me over. I was teaching something that i loved. If i could convey that love to students, then we all met on that page. After arizona, i came to university of virginia. I have been here ever since. I remember it was in the spring in may, the very end of the semester. Time,in chicago at the giving a reading with gwendolyn brooks. I was immensely excited about reading in front of my idols. I also knew that after that reading, i had the entire summer free. I had nothing more to do but to finish reading my students poems and portfolios, putting in the grades, then i was free for the whole summer. I got a phone call from my husband who said, you are going to get a call in a minute, and i am not supposed to tell you what it is about, but i am going to tell you anyway. [laughter] he told me this. They wanted me to be the next poet laureate of the united states. It can completely out of the blue. Came completely out of the blue. When i said yes to becoming poet laureate, i thought i would have to defend poetry. I was not going to defend anything. It should be celebrated. Defense implies that something is wrong, that you are under siege. Even before i could implement this celebration, people begin to write me letters. They wrote letters in which they said they would start these letters are with a disclaimer. I dont know much about poetry, know, poetry is a wonderful thing and i dont know much, but then would come almost like a confession. They would talk about the first poem they read. One man from the middle of the country, an elderly white gentleman who told me his first book he got out of the mobile a paul in his hometown, Laurence Dunbar collection of poems. He only got it because after filling out all the stuff he needed to do to get his card, he didnt have enough time to grab books. He grabbed the first thing that he saw. Of all of these poems, i grab this one, this black dude that is dead. He started reading it and said that it changed his life. I got the letters from people telling me that poetry enlarged and enriched their lives. At the same time they were telling me that they did not feel equal. They were made to feel somewhere along their lives that they were not worthy of this, or that they were too stupid for this. I thought that was my mission. We have to get poetry everywhere as much as you can so that people feel comfortable with it ory. Know that it is their st that was about 1993, middle 90s. Quite strongly this misconception that poetry lived in an ivory tower, that he somehow had to be educated, whatever that means. That you had to have a certain standing to understand it. That it did not deal with everyday life, that it was somehow about higher things. I can think of nothing higher than everyday life frankly. Peoplezed that so many felt isolated, or set apart from poetry, because it was not taught in schools at a young age. One reason why it was not taught is because it is hard to grade. It is hard to put a grade on someones interpretation of april. Interpretation of a poem. Often when someone is struck speechless by a , they are exactly that they are struck speechless. So it is difficult to write about it. The difficulty in teaching is white poetry has not is why has not been something we have grown up with. I was lucky that i grew up with books. I was allowed to discover that my own speed. I realized many people dont have that luxury. The notion that the arts are expendable, that we dont need that they are low on the totem pole, that we can get rid of them and we will be just fine. That comes from a basic distrust of the arts, the basic feeling that somehow they dont have to do with our very spirit. It is a natural thing for the human being to want to express themselves. We are born creative, wildly creative. If we look at every child, they are wildly creative. The joy that comes from being able to express that without having to rationalize it, without having to think of all of the words you are going to say in the right order, when i cant even describe it myself to be able to do that with one swipe of a paintbrush, kids know what that is like. Then we get trained out of it. I am not trying to say other things are not as important. Obviously it is important to have the sciences. I grew up with a scientist. I know. But there are two sides of this. You cant just say, we have the math and sciences, we dont need the arts and humanities. We need them desperately. Testimonial. Back when the earth was new and heaven just a whisper, back when the names of things hadnt had time to stick, back when the smallest breezes melted summer into autumn, when all of the poplars quivered with rank and file, the world called, and i answered. Teach clients ignited each ,lance ignited to a gaze swooned between spoonfuls of lemon sorbet. I would be a wet and flourish flourish. And how could i count my blessings when i did not know their names . When everything was still to come, luck leaked out everywhere. I gave my promise to the world, and the world followed me here. Earlier in the book Conservation Land for the university we are in the Book Conservation Lab for the university of virginia library. Apart, clean them up and put them back together. The University Library has a german description of cultural eritage a tremendous maps,ro types, audiovisual materials. They are regularly used by researchers, student fromrchers, researchers around the country. We make them available in the reading room. Given the care and handling that can sometimes inflict damage, they needed a conservation staff to keep books in working order. This is one of the current projects in the Book Conservation Lab. Rom 1475. Alter f between two enormous pine boards. It was brought into the Conservation Lab because this board had become detached from the taexct block. I needed to reattach it because this book was used frequently in summer classes and a Research Institute at uva library. The pine boards used to be a single piece, and have over the centuries, split. My jo was tob reattach the board , this loose piece here. You can see where the piece used to belong, because the nail holes are here. You can see the rust that sustains the parchment matches up with the rusty iron nail. You know where it needs to go back on the board. You can also see this swirly pattern here is the old animal adhesive that the previous binder used to stick the parchment in place. Then, once all the treatment is done to the interior of the book, the last step will be to place the original leather spine back on the book. I firste when , inted working on the book order to have access to apply these parchment slips, i needed to peel off the parchment sign and set it aside, sort of like working under the hood. Popping the hood, working on the movable parts of the book, then i will put the spine back on. Do, it will you well andfit pretty cover up a bunch of the traces of the work i did so that it will be much more visually than you realize. I will reattach this with wheat starch paste, a flexible adhesive that ages well. It is a cooked adhesive. We use it in conservation because you can apply it in a variety of projects. , a veryt with a powder pure wheat powder. Then you cook it with water, and you get a very sick a very thick blob. Then depending on the type of repair you are doing, you strain it, add water, and make it very thin. If you are going to do some work with leather, you would thin it to the consistency of heavy cream, then apply it to the leather, let it soak in, then apply another layer and then adhere it to the original spine. Staffrt with a member of who in the course of their work sees that a book is in poor condition. Maybe they know it will be needed for a class next semester, so they contact me and say, give me some parameters about what the book is, how it is used at the library, then i do an assessment of the item. I assess the structure, materials, level of damage, then work with the curator responsible for the election area for the collection area. This is the work that needs to happen. What is your input in terms of historical context, materials and may not know about . Then we work on a treatment plan to make sure the collection item can go back to the library and be used safely. This is a Thomas Jefferson to ar he wrote in response constituent, i guess, i cant remember. I think he was president at the time. The letter was passed on to a andendent in the family those family members tried to keep the letter together over the years and used different kinds of tape to put the letter back together as it fell apart from handling and being folded and being opened and folded. There are different campaigns of tape here and here, and these orangey spots were covered in tape. When the letter came to us, it was framed and had clearly been on display for many years. There was a lot of light damage that was also causing problems, advancing the staining of the residual adhesive from the tape, also making the paper very brittle. Adhesiveeed to remove and paper that is causing damage. The difficulty in this case was that the paper had degraded so thatfrom being on display working with it, even as you are removing the tape, praising it bathing it to take out the acidic degradation products, the paper starts to fall apart and break. After it is washed and dried, you have to spend a lot of time putting these pieces back together. Treatment before documentation to make sure you have everything oriented correctly, making sure that all of the folds and lines match up the way they are supposed to. I used a slow application of solvents by making a poultice. You make this little mound that looks kind of like an ant hill. You surround the area with the residual adhesive, then you get another putty that you have dampened with a solvent. Middle,the putty in the and that will slowly draw the adhesive out of the paper and into the putty. Looksper the letter really strange because you have all these little mounds that look like little gray ant hills. You wait a few hours for it to dry, then carefully brush it away. The stain goes from being e,anslucent to being opaqu which means it has made progress. This letter has been through a lot, so it will never look as perfect as the day Thomas Jefferson signed it. But it will not look any worse. You start with the level of degradation, the strength of the materials you have to work with. Then you talk with the curator or instruction and outreach librarian and say, how is this item going to be used . Will it be used in the classroom, or will it be put on exhibit and not touched that much . Or will it be digitized and put away because it is very light sensitive or fragile . We have a very large collection of glass plate negatives. Those are very delicate items. We have chosen to scan them so that they are available digitally. The originals are wrapped in safe packaging and stored away in strictly controlled climate storage. This is a letter from Thomas Hornsby to Thomas Jefferson. It is in really condition. To ink that the author used write the letter has corroded in a spectacular fashion so that pieces of paper are dropping out. And they are dropping out where the letters in the sentences have literally eaten through the paper. Thisgoing is naturally ink is naturally corrosive. People back in the day used glass balls. Egg, theyp lays an put their abdomen near the tree, lay the egg into the tree. The tree starts to push it out. That is how you get this lump called a gall. People got the idea of chopping these trees of and initiating a chemical reaction, mixing it with iron filings and water to make this ink. The ink naturally corrodes. It starts out yellow and clear, then turns dark brown as the air mixes to dry it. In the case of this letter, there is unusual corrosion in the form of this yellowish opa crystal, maybe Something Else that has risen to the surface of the paper. We are trying to find a corrosion expert to work with to come up with a responsible treatment proposal. Nkandard iron gall i corrosion, we can put it in a chemical bath that will stabilize it. Unless you are absolutely sure that is what is going on, you dont just want to put something in a chemical bath. We are going to do more research and see if we can come up with a way to stabilize the letter, if we cant actually do a Chemical Treatment that would remove the corrosion. No, you dont make an attempt every time. You have to be honest about your skills, honest about your knowledge, and also aware that Conservation Research is ongoing with regard to paper, inks, all kinds of materials. You may not have the knowledge now, but that doesnt mean someone wont figure out the issue later on. If you can in good conscious make some thing better off by physical intervention, you have to be very honest with the collection managers and librarians. I can do this much right now, we will put it in a box, we will make a digital image, then put it away for safekeeping. The training is incredibly challenging. You have to do our history training do art history training, chemistry, organic chemistry. You have to have natural talent with regard to hand skills. You have to be very patient. You have to be very thoughtful. You have to have certain skills if you dont have the patience or commitment to research and thoughtfulness, it is not going to work. I work in book and paper, but there are conservatories that m, and ourastic, fil goal is to make our Cultural Heritage available to whomever is interested. Our visit to charlottesville, virginia is a book tv exclusive. We showed it to you to introduce you to cspans cities tour. For six years we have brought the book seemed to our viewers. You can watch moreover visits at cspan. Org citiestour. For ourus this weekend cities tour to trenton, new jersey. With the help of our comcast partners, book tv and American History tv, featuring the history and literary culture of new jerseys capital city. Saturday 5 15 p. M. Eastern on book tv, we visit the state librarys rare book collection. Printing pressa was set up in burlington new jersey in order to print paper money for the colony. The legislature wanted it close so they could oversee the printing of the money. At the time they did that, they also did this book. This is the first printed book within new jersey. And a conversation with author of crossroads of the revolution trenton 17741783. Washington spent more time in a new jersey than any other state during the revolution. The important thing to him was to keep the revolution going, and keep the army in the field. I believe that new jersey in general, trenton in particular, was very instrumental in helping him accomplish that goal. Sunday at 2 00 p. M. On American History tv, a tour of the new jersey State Capitol building, housing one of the oldest legislatures in the country. Followed by trenton, new jerseys impact on the Industrial Revolution with a look at some of americas most iconic bridges. They are the fabric of what makes trenton trenton. When you see from the other side that sign that says watch the cspan cities tour of trenton, new jersey saturday at 5 15 p. M. Eastern on cspan2s book tv. Working with our cable affiliates and visiting cities across the country. Next members of the u. S. House of representatives commenting on trinity rosensteins briefing on james comey. Later, the United NationsSecurity Council airing from north korea, concerning u. S. Military action in the area trade after that, defense secretary james mattis and oferal Joseph Dunford part the u. S. Military operations. Deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein reached briefed members on the house of from the fbi director james comeys removal. Following the meeting, some members spoke with the news media. [chatter] mr. Mccarthy i thought it was informative. He did get ask a question that it was not classified, that we could answer it. One of the questions were public, of course he already said it, he didnt have any evidence that comey asked for resources, that all the resources were there. Thank you. Mr. Cummings, please step to the mike please. Mr. Cummings this was a classified briefing. So i cant really talk about it. But i can tell you that as a result of the briefing, i am