Garden spot of orchids. Growing up in a slave holding family, she ended up as the spells of the commanding general at the u. S. Army during the civil war. She and he was ulysses as grant shared 37 years together that included the hardships of war, the tribes of politics and eight challenging years in the white house. Welcome to our program, our continuing series first ladies influence an image. Tonight, the life of julia grant. Lets introduce you to our two guests of the table, a member of our Academic Advisory Panel for this year, we are delighted to have him here. Hes a Longtime White House a story in and the author of the president s house. Bill, its so great to see you. Pam is a historian at the ulysses as Grant National Historic Site and st. Louis majority and working on a biography of julia grant. Lets start with you, we last left the cities with the johnson,s after impeachment. And the politics with the radical republicans and the reconstruction, so set the stage for us as the g
[War Performing] steve ladies and gentlemen, weve been listening to this our whole lives. It is our friends from the band war featuring low rider in our allamerican summer Concert Series. The rain stopped just in time so they could go outside. How cool is that . Ainsley awesome. We were just interviewing him, we are dazed and confused, we cannot believe we are meeting this man that sang why cant be we friends, and all the guys loved dazed and confused. All right, all right, all right. That song was playing and here we are 20 years later and interviewing the man who sang it to us. Steve i had the Top Down Blaring low rider. Ainsley matthew mcconaughey. Steve i was in college, i was a dj. Ainsley look at that microphone. Griff what are you holding . Steve i had a lot of hair there. Griff Ice Cream Cone . Ainsley looks like a clown nose. Steve it was a microphone and our Audio Engineer said it is windy outside and they put a nerf ball on it, which was amazing. Griff do you still have that
in the world. and yet 2020 was also the year the democrats nominated by their free choice an elderly white man from a slave state who once eulogized a klan recruiter. the anti-white party picks the white guy. how does that happen? pretty simple. democrats care about power. power derives from winning. when you lose, you don t have power. bernie sanders couldn t win. b sanders terrified the donor class. from a fund-raising perspective, that turned out to be a wise choice. by the end of that cycles democrats spent $400 million just for mark zuckerberg. that does not even include the tens of billions in free media coverage as slick and dishonest as any paid ad. unlike paid ads, is not regulated by campaign finance law. so if you add all of that up, the democratic party dropped more in that presidential year than the entire annual gdp of most african countries. all to dislodge donald trump from the white house. nothing like that has ever happened. can they do it again? that s the
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Was still down in delaware. Im here today is for one day im on vacation. Im not i have no home to go to Secret Service says my house up in a good way to make it secure. So i have no place to go when i come to delaware except here right now. Only here for one day. Are you homeless not homeless but i have one beautiful home and down here for the day because i cant go home. Okay joe ill say we have a homeless president that maybe why the country is feeling so listless well it is up to us now weve had our excuses for past few months but now summer is over. Labor day is behind us, kids are in school. Theres plenty of time before the holidays start to distract us an all of those burning man folks finally get Thmses Unstuck from the mud. Youre saying thats pretty bad out here. It is. Theres mud, you cant really walk or drive. It was pretty bad it rained for solid two days. A lot of people coming of here made it luckily because theyre running into each other and stuff because it is so slippery