President john adams ultimately lost to Vice President Thomas Jefferson. While the transfer of power was ultimately peaceful, adams did forgo his successors inauguration. I think that has also happened d another time or two. They remained at odds for many, many years. Itit was only later during their retirement did they actually rekindle their friendship. Discussing many different topics in their correspondence including the topic of death. Adams actually wrote to jefferson in 1822 these words quote i answer your question is death and evil . It is not an evil it is a blessing to the individual and to the world. Yet we ought not to wish fort to life becomes insupportable. He was 86 years old when he wrote this note. Perhaps adams had become comfortable with the idea of leaving the world. But it was four years later that both men adams and jefferson passed away on the same exact day july 4, 1826. While he was not present when his father died John Quincy Adams later recorded his fathers l
New this morning singer david bowie has died following his battle with cancer. The news was posted on his official web site and social media pages. According to a short statement bowie died peacefully surrounded by his family and friends after an 18month battle. The singer had just released his 25th album blackstar on friday his birthday. Bowie was 69years old. Now here s Kristen Crowley to expect plenty of sunshine today with highs in the mid 40s. It will still be windy this morning but not as strong as yesterday and winds should gradually relax through the day. Temperatures will slip into the upper 20s by Tuesday Morning but highs will climb into the low 50s. A quick moving cold front will swing through tuesday night. There will this front but it may be just enough to trigger a few isolated rain or even snow showers tuesday night as temperatures fall. No snow accumulation is expected at this time. Behind the front, another shot of cold air. Highs will only reach the mid 30s on wednes
Was just a month im on tracy thank you so much for joining us. Turning now to the weather meteorologist regular tracking a sunny but cool start to the week and were incorrect. Much much colder than yesterday as look of the almanac information yesterday upper sixties today were staying in the low forties so i know its a big change but this is the time of the year we expect these occasional cold blast is winter after all you know what well see a little rebound with temperatures for tomorrow and then another blast of cold air for wednesday. Right now the skies are clear we are going to enjoy a lot of sunshine today. Things pretty quiet out to the west is a little bit of snow across south dakota to nebraska but i want to continue to turn our attention a little farther to the north into southern canada. Theres actually a blast of cold air up there and a funnel boundary thats going to swing down through our area late tuesday night into early wednesday morning and thats when he gets really co
E. P. W. Committee and senator john warner was its thenRanking Member and he wrote warnerlieberman when our colleague then, senator lieberman. Then came Citizens United, then came the massive influx of polluter money into our political system, much of it dark money. And at about the spring of 2010 and Citizens United was decided in january of 2010, that was the end of the conversation. And so here we are today. We are just now reaching an agreement on several votes by which i believe our republican colleagues will for the First Time Since Citizens United some of them at least acknowledge that Climate Change is real. Indeed we just heard my friend senator graham come to the floor and speak right there saying that Climate Change is real, that humans had a significant role in krauseing it cause it and it is what something we needed to Pay Attention to. So this is new today after five years of more or less silence, ive spoken on this floor, as Everybody Knows a great deal on this subject a
Within five years. Its called operational control is the term theyre using for it and it would penalize political appointees if they dont meet those goals. Its not going to go very far. The house will pass it this week. You know the its contingent on both sides. Jay johnson, the head of the Homeland Security department has said its extreme. Unworkable. These are not goals that we can meet, so the democrats hate it. Interestedly, a lot of conservatives dont like it either. Senator Jeff Sessions saying that the mccall bill is terrible and the question mark is for boehner and the republicans is that conservative opposition going to reach a point they cant get 218 votes on the republican side to pass this thing, so immigration has always been a tough issue for republicans and boehner and its going to be a test for this week to see how well they can manage their conference going into this new congress. They have more seats, but do they have more power is the question. And thats going to be