Twopart lecture. Ok, here is where we are going today. Were going to take a look at the courtship of abigail and our first chance to talk about the correspondence which is the basis of our course and historical understanding of the relationship. There is about 1200 letters between them. That is a lot. It, willu think about we ever know as much about modernday american political leaders as we know about those people in the late 18th century question mar it seem . It seems weird. I think we want no less. Unless all the emails between way and bill find our not get a raise, if you will [laughter] and it is distinctive in its candor and intimacy. Dolly and James Madison had a great relationship, they are together all the time. And because of the paradox of proximity, because abigail and john are apart, we know the most about them when they are apart. Record that isa really unprecedented. I have made the case and will repeated here that this is the most fully revealed marriage and partnershi
And brings you archival coverage of the campaign trail. Starting on november 8, join us for the road to the white house rewind, every sunday at 10 00 eastern and continuing through the election. Here on American History tv. Next, a seminar on the early years of the revolutionary war. Is part one of a twopart lecture. Ellis ok, here is where we are going today. Were going to take a look at the courtship of abigail and john, our first chance to talk about the correspondence which , is the basis of our course and historical understanding of the relationship. There is about 1200 letters between them. That is a lot. And if you think about it, will we ever know as much about modernday american political leaders as we know about those people in the late 18th century . It seems weird. We would think we would know more. I think we want no less. Unless all the emails between hillary and bill find our way erased, if you will [laughter] and it is distinctive in its candor and intimacy. Dolly and J
Switzerland. A missile test fired by iraq violated international rules. That is the message from the u. N. Security councils panel of experts. Despite that the agency praised iran for the way it has curtailed its nuclear program. The u. N. Security Council Panel says it was a breach of the nuclear deal. Lets go live to Gabriel Elizondo at the united nations. This was a missile test flight which the u. N. Said could have carried a nuclear war head. It didnt, but the potential was there. It sounds pretty serious. Reporter it is and thats what the panel of experts basically concluded is it was in violation of u. N. Resolution. And we expect that the Security Council will be briefed on this in about three hours time or so, and thats going to be very, very important, because that will be the first time that the u. N. Security Council Hears these particular findings, david. Now its important to point out that this a panel of experts only looked at the earlier october 10th Ballistic Missile t
Had to do a little scraping on my car before getting in there. Despite that chilly frosty start, satellite and radar showing nothing. As soon as the sun comes up, see plenty of that sun and get us into the low 50s very soon. It will cool off very quickly to 37 by 7 oclock. Rest of the forecast in a few minutes. Heather hegedus in an arrest on camera, you can see two men pinning that man to the ground. It happened in lawrence yesterday. That man accused of creating a bomb scare in boston. This all started outside of a Security Office during the day. He dropped a in a suitcase and ran off. Heather hegedus Stephanie Coueignoux is live on atlantic avenue near the homeland Security Offices. Reporter this morning, we havent seen any officers out but different story from yesterday, after Boston Police shut the entire area down. This is where they found the suitcase and this morning, the man police say was holding that suitcase is now in jail. Our crew was there yesterday as they walked 58 Jam
And a record performance from prince on saturday night live. One long end, unforgettable eight minute set and setting the internet on the process. Today is sunday, november 2, 2014. This is today with lester holt and erica hill. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning everyone. Welcome to today on a sunday. Im lester holt along side kate snow and dylan jones. Erica is a few miles in statton island about to run in this new york city marathon. Thank you for sitting in. No problem. Sitting here is the easy part. Go erica go. Were excited about this. Shes been training for a long time. I think she had to put the prince performance in her ipod. It might help her. It was like eight minutes or something. She was rocking the house. Were going to share some later as well. Weather is our top story with the temperature falling and winds picking up. Advisories and alerts in effect across the country. This after the extremely rare early november snow in parts of the south. We said dy