Us from history books as the great compromiser. During his 49year political career, clay served as secretary of state, speaker of the house, and as a u. S. Senator. And he was a contender, making sure president ial bids including the election of 1824. 1832 against Andrew Jackson, and 1844, when he ran against james k. Polk. Tonight we are on location at ashland. Henry clays home in lexington, kentucky. For the next 90 minutes, we will explore the life and legacy of this man. Unsuccessful in his long quest for the white house, yet having an outsized influence on American History. We are in henry clays parlor. Let me introduce you to jim klotter, 25 years now as kentucky state historian. Jim thanks for being with us. Glad to be here. Why henry clay . Why is he relevant to americans living in our time . Think a couple of counts. First of all, his famous counts, i would rather be right than be president , still speaks to us. Its a clarion call to people across whatever were during. Whether
1844, when he ran against james k. Polk. Tonight, we are on location at ashland henry clays home in lexington, kentucky. For the next 90 minutes, we will explore the life and legacy of this man, unsuccessful in his long quest for the white house, yet having an outsized influence on American History. We are in henry clays parlor. Let me introduce you to jim klotter, 25 years now as kentucky state historian. Thanks for being with us. Glad to be here. Why henry clay . Why is he relevant to americans living in our time . I think a couple of counts. First of all, his famous counts, famous comment, i would rather be right than be president , still speaks to us. Its a clarion call to people across whatever were doing. Whether were in politics or Something Else, to do the right things. He also said, you know, that in a sense, that the politicians need to remember the country and sacrifice for the country. I think that is still something we need to remember, as well. The man known as the great
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Ready full throttle to go back to health care. More importantly this was. Well Work Together and listen together until we get this right. It is too important. Obamacare is a collapsing law. Obamacare is doing too much damage to families. So were going to get this right. Meantime well do all of our other work we came here to do. Neil all right. That on top of what was some pretty good Economic News prior in the day. Big jump in Consumer Confidence. Big jump in the caseshiller home price index. A lot of peoples homes are starting to percolate, presumably get them buying and get hes investors buying at the corner of wall and broad. Were near session highs after eight straight down days. We have the Infrastructure Committee member, congressman Thomas Massey joining us now what happens now. What do you think, congressman . Well you know on health care i presented an option in morning in our conference to break it up into three bits. There were three bills in that bill. I think you can get t