During president trumps first year in office. Watch cspans washington journal live at 7 00 eastern saturday morning and be sure to join us for washington journal on sunday as we look back on the oneyear anniversary of the womens march on washington. Sunday, on cspans q a, noah feldman and his book, the three lives of james madison. The constitution is madisons monument. In that way, the constitution is all around you when you come to washington, d. C. The whole threepart structure of government. The way the government interacts. The way people speak to each other to exercise their free speech. All of that is madisons monument. Sort of as was the case in st. Pauls where the monument says, if you seek his monument, look around you. If you seek madisons monument in washington, d. C. , look around and youll see it everywhere. Q a, sunday, 8 00 p. M. On cspan. Veterans Affairs Secretary dr. David shulkin testified on the state of the veteran Affairs Department before the Senate Veteran Affa
And careers. Including the challenges they have had to overcome and what advice they have to offer to the next generation of Women Leaders in global politics. Thank you for being here for our smart women smart power event tonight. Were excited and delighted that serven ambassadors can join us for a look at the view of the u. S. From abroad. As you may have noticed, they all happen to be female ambassadors. Before we begin, i will get to introducing the ambassadors in a few moments. I want to give you a few social media reminders. We hope you are following us on twitter. There should have been handouts. Hopefully you got them with all the twitter handles. If you are live tweeting, we ask that you use the csislive. We have a smart women podcast and course with our smart women events. We hope you are following those as well. Our series wouldnt be possible without the support of citi. Thank you for helping us amplify the women. So i am pleased to welcome the director of federal Government
Watch American History tv every weekend on cspan 3. We are at the breakers in Newport Rhode island were cspan is learning more about the areas history. The breakers is the largest of the gilded age mansions in newport. Join us as we take a twirl of this home. The first thing you notice is hall, which we are standing in right now. It is a 50 x 50 box. 50 feet wide and 50 feet high. It is highly ornamented with carvings. The symbol of the vanderbilt amalie can be seen everywhere. Leaf whichnd the oak meant strength and longevity and you will find mthe acorn and through the all house, the theme of the family. And there were all sorts and kinds of marble, a lot of ornamentation. This house is supposed to look like an italian palace. They wanted to make a statement that, indeed, they had succeeded, that they had met the pinnacle and that they were able to do with they could with their resources and they wanted to create fine homes that were in the style of european mansions. It was built by
Williams, chair of the Lincoln Forum, and welcome to this panel of forum 22, relating to lincolns enemies. And im so pleased to have it distinguished, every time someone says distinguished i want to run to the merlot bar. Its like saying with all due respect in my courtroom. But we do have some great scholars with us this morning. Stephen engle, the author of a great book about lincoln, and the nations governors. Jonathan white, author of midnight in america, and soon to be with us, the book our little monitor. And of course catherine clinton, no stranger to us, author of mrs. Lincoln, a life, and many other books. And walter stolzier, as well as lincolns secretary of war Edwin Stanton, called stanton, and he told me and i hope im not revealing any confidence, he has a glint in his eye for sammen chase. Good luck with that. Because im sure we will hear about secretary of the treasury sammen chase from professor clinton. So let me start with this. John barre, who is one of our Lincoln F
Ah gus tuss saint gaudin. It is called the standing lincoln. We will get back to this. I love this material. I got to tell you, i am so moved by lincoln and by his era and by the art and imagery about him, the photographs of him. I know it sounds creepy, im in love with his body, and well see in photographs of him theres lots to say. By the way, i know im kind of like old and thin and tall, but i do not dress up like Abraham Lincoln. Maybe one day. But, you know, having said that, you know, i realize public history or Performance History or living history is really, really important. Lincoln enactors have an important place in the way we understand history. So if youre interested in that, we have a wonderful scholar, amy tyson, in the History Department whose specialty that is. I used to give lots of talks like this around the state of illinois in the years leading up to lincolns buy centennial, bicentennial of his birth in 2009. He was born in 1809. I found out that illinois is a huge