Logan was very well known the veterans vote was a very powerful force in the postcivil war period in america. Blaine because he was very much involved in an emerging political career when the civil war broke out he was speaker of the house in maine, the maine house of representatives and he was about to run for congress so he did what many men did at the time and he actually bought a substitute. It cost about 300 to have someone else go in your said the. Cleveland had done the same thing so it was a very interesting situation that prior to the 1884 campaign you always had someone in office in the presidency, grant and hayes and garfield who had been civil war officers. But blaine and cleveland were not. So which ever one of them had one it would have been the first generation it would have been a break in that generation, yes. We had a viewer who asked about his death so will you now tell us the story of his death . Yes, well, as has been mentioned, he was a man who was prone to illnes
Also this weekend on her afterwards program, representative david breck discusses politics. Some other programs this weekend include cnbc discussing Economic Policy similarity between president kennedy and reagan, npr dan carroll looks how russia has changed under Vladimir Putin you will learn about how for africanamerican women propelled the us in the space race and we talk with Hillsdale College professor about the history of Americas National identity. That is a few of the programs you will see this weekend on book tv. For complete Television Schedule go to tv. Org. Book tv on cspan2, 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors. Television for serious readers. We kick off that we can with bestselling Dinesh D Souza. His most recent book Hillarys America the secret history of the Democratic Party. Good morning, everyone. Think you students, staff and supporters. My name is jim and i will be transferring to the university of utah after having spent two years at the university of miami. I
just understand this. all hell is going to break loose tomorrow. well, after defying a subpoena and refusing to testify before the house select committee about that statement, bannon was ordered yesterday to report to prison by july 1st to serve a four-month sentence. just like former white house aide peter navarro. those are just some of the long list of trump attorneys, aides, and associates that are facing repercussions for their involvement with the big lie. rudy giuliani lost his law license, owes nearly $150 million for defaming georgia poll workers and just a few weeks ago was served an indictment in the arizona election interference case at his 80th birthday party. also facing charges in arizona for allegedly conspiring to overturn the election is trump s former chief of staff, mark meadows. today, he pleaded not guilty to those charges. on top of that, 2000 mules the conspiracy ridden movie about election fraud created by dinesh d souza has been pulled from all
they want this convicted felon to be able to run for president the united states, and their supporting him to try to restore him to power after he has pardon a whole bunch of political criminals like michael flynn roger stone, paul manafort, to dinesh d souza, you name it and he s going around the country promising to pardon the january 6 hostages as he calls them, were political prisoners, the people who were the violent shock troops of his insurrection against the government. so it s dangerous situation that we re in as a society right now republican house speaker mike johnson he has spoken out about trump s conviction. i think you mentioned that he said he wants to hold oversight hearings on this. i ll play a clip of what he said we are the rule of law party of chaos is not a conservative value and we have to fight back and we will, with everything in our arsenal, but we do that within the confines. and so the rule of law we believe in our institutions and
mainstream national advertiser. so i think at some point these guys just wear out their welcome. ratings don t matter if you can t get advertisers. and i think for fox, i don t think that this changes much for them and i think that is the sad thing. three quarters of a billion dollars is a lot of money, but i don t think going forward that they will be approaching things dramatically different. it is just who they are. one person who i know quite often disagrees with that, and it is dinesh d souza. in march he was talking about tucker playing all the 1/6 security footage, refusing. he said fox is not a fully rereliable place. they don t care. they want fox to be able to sell ads to nissan, so they have all kinds of motives including feuding with trump, motives for blocking the kind of coverage that occurs. that is the sad reality. where do you think as we sort of head into we ll have a republican primary and the mud