Its only in recent years that a lot of focus on how it rocked her message was, predicting in the early years. I think james found her distant and cold, but as the years went by, she had a tremendous influence on him. James and luke richard spent a lot of time with her family, and that led to the key to success. Mrs. Garfield adored her time at the exhibition and she was interested in the latest sciences and technologies of the day. After james guard feel to death, a lot of prominent citizens raised there into 50 dollars that was turned over to Lucretia Garfield. And todays dollars, that would equate to 8 Million Dollars. Her character was exceedingly strong and she had a rectitude that was in vulnerable. I Lucretia Garfield was born in ohio and 1832. Her life spans antebellum america to the progressive era of the early 20th century. A supporter of womens rights and deeply interested in partisan politics, she and president james our field entered the white house on march 4th, 1881, afte
Became a lawyer joining the firm of his friend of his fathers, staunch abolitionist. Arthur won the case that desegregated number city street cars. During the civil war, when many were enrhythming. Thises on government contracts he was an honest and efficient quartermaster for the union army, but in years following the would his quest for wealth led him down a darker road. He became a top lieutenant to the allpowerful boss of the new york republican machine. At conklins urging, in 1872 he was appoint collector over thank you new york custom house, the largest single federal office in the nation and a fount of job and fairs that was rotten with corruption. When the custom house find merchants for violation, chet arthur took a cut. Lived in a world of tiffany silver, fine carriages and grand balls balls and had hats and coats importlandded from lon do and owned at least 80 pairs of trouser. When an old college contractsmate item him his deputy was corrupt, chet waved him away. He he said
Where they are, we would appreciate that. So with that out of the way, we can get started on our talk today. When chester a. Arthur became president , most americans expected at best a lackluster leader, at worst, an inept one. As a surprise, everyone including himself [inaudible] one of our least remembered president s from ideal list to [inaudible] as greenberger says in the book, it is a tale of a good man [inaudible] but rediscovered his better self with the help of an ordinary younger man who believed in him. Scott greenberger is a biographer and a journalist, an executive you would to have at state line, the Daily News Service of the Pew Charitable trust. He and his team cover state politics and policy in all 50 states. Before that he covered education, crime, health care, housing and other pressing city and state issues at the boston globe and at the Austin American statement. Hes now a d. C. Local. Please join me in welcoming Scott Greenberger to politics prose. Thank you. [app
That were appointed position s, that were, you know, at the discretion of people in power, ended up being a power struggle within the party between an ohiobased party, which is James Garfields party also Rutherford Hayes was from the same not only the same part of ohio, but the same kind of thinking and what were called the stalwarts, which were new yorkbased. And, you know, you see certain states really emerge throughout history with holding on to power within a particular party. And then in new york, that was really headed by a man by the name of roscoe conkling, who became a United States senator. So this is the struggle, and you see then, of course, the person who ends up shooting president garfield, deranged, of course, Charles Guiteau, but proudly screaming with the gun in his hand, im a stalwart. Now arthur is president. And that was a reference to the fact that Vice President arthur elected with garfield was of the new york wing of the party. Swain well, garfield himself was a