my members that 1984, the senate adopted a resolution. s 480 to acquire senators vote from the desk being. i know we don t do this all the time but i ask tonight we do vote from our desks and follow this rule. senators vote from their desks. . . this week on q&a, a new look at the 11th president. robert mary has written a new book about him. robert merry. of mary, in your book, bob merry, you talk about a senator named tibetan. named benton. why? he was a big man at the time. he was so representing in missouri in the senate forced 30 years. he was a powerful figure. he wrote a massive memoir after that, which historians have been using for a century and a half. he was very powerful during that time. ñr the story about the dual audience and do jackson never ceases to amaze me. what was the story? they were very close. there were a lot of tools and tennessee in those days when jackson was relatively young girl. he consented to be the second of a friend of his. j
muslims in america and the world. later, former cia an intelligence officer. and starting at 8:00 p.m. eastern, remembering senator ted kennedy and william f. buckley jr.. . thomas hart benton. yes, why? well, he was a big man and a big giant of his time. thomas hart benton, john tyler called him the most raving political maniac i ever knew. but benton was representing missouri in the senate for 30 years, and he was a powerful figure. he wrote a massive memoir after that, which historians have been using for a century and a half. and he was very powerful during that time. the story though about the duel, and andrew jackson, it never ceases to amaze me when i read it what was the story? benton had been his aide-de- camp in the war of 1812, they were very close. but jackson, there were a lot of duals in tennessee in those days, when jackson was relatively younger. and he consented to be the second at the duel of a friend of his who was dueling thomas hart benton s b
first wounded came back on d-day, if they were lightly wounded and they got patched up and they were able to talk, forrest started interviewing them in the afternoon of d-day about what happened that morning. he went on to do a lot of interviews and became one of the founders of the oral history association and to become, in my view, america s best historian. c-span: is he still alive? guest: yes, he is still alive, and we will be together at omaha beach on d-day, tomorrow. c-span: where does he live? guest: he s moved to kentucky. he used to live in washington. he lived in washington until about two years ago. c-span: i have a strange feeling i passed him every day in the building i lived in here, 20 years ago. did he live in arlington, va.? guest: that s where he lived, 111 army-navy drive. that s it. he is a great man. c-span: i saw an article about him a couple of months ago, or maybe a year ago, about george marshall. guest: he did a four-volume life of george m