On tuesday, september noon Sidney Blumenthal will tell us about his recently released volume three of the biography of abraham lincoln, all the powers of birth, the political life of abraham lincoln, 18561853. On monday, september 16 at 7 associate Justice Neil Gorsuch will tell us about his new book of republic if you can keep it and which explores essential aspects of the constitution and the importance of civic education, civil discourse and mutual respect. Check our website archives. Gov or sign up at the table outside the few to get email updates. You will point you will find information about other archives programs and activities. Another way to get more involved in the National Archives is to become a member of the National Archives foundation, the foundation support all of our education and outreach activities and you can check out their website archivesfoundation. Org to learn more about their organization and join online. Upstairs in the rotunda for the charters of freedom t
The lawyer came along lawyers are the most important people in the world, thus i must live, grabbed a parachute, jumped out. The priest looked at the little boy. There was only one parachute left here said, my son, ive lived a long and prosperous life. You have your whole life ahead of you. Take the last parachute and take off. The boy turned to the priest and said, no worries, father, the smartest man in the world just took off with my backpack. [laughing] lets talk about george mason. Not a lot of people know about george mason. They basically no that george mason university, maybe the final for the reached a few years ago, but they have no idea who george mason is. And hope my book changes that opinion. If Thomas Jefferson was a genius both professionally and personally, which he was, his mentor george mason was a genius. America was woven together on three revered pieces of paper, the declaration of independence, the constitution, and the bill of rights. George mason had a hand in
It was a really sad moment. Washington saved the day with one of his famous speeches. You probably heard it in school. Ive gotten old serving my country and ive grown blind and the soldier said no whatever, well do it. Hamilton hamilton had tried to use this potential army coup to gain more power for the federation government. Washington walked wrote some very strong letters to hamilton in the mid 1780s. One line i do remember he said, its its like an older, very successful military officer talking to a young headstrong guy. He said remember an army is a dangerous thing to play with. In other words, this is out of bounds. At several other times, hamilton became a problem. I believe in the later years when hamilton thought there was a rising of people in pennsylvania, he manipulated washington into coming out of retirement and taking command briefly. It was a really ugly moment. There were no riders in rioters and washington was embarrassed. My reading was there was a man that washingto
Man who became his surrogate father and that was his brother. I think he saw that brother as a model. When he died washington was on his own. He was never close to his mother. In fact, they had not a pleasant relationship. Washington learned somewhere along the way of an extraordinary selfcontrol of his emotions, his speech, he was often guarded to the point of seeming aloof, but he had a sense of leadership that came across how pleasant it would be of some of our other political leaders had his characteristics. He listened and made counsel and reflected on what people said. Then he made his decision. Time and time again. He had no problem changing his mind. Nobody said washington was waffling. The thing thats deadly on fox news. He saw, several times, including the gentleman who asked about africanamerican history. He thought maybe we should use armed black troops. He said no way, but then he said actually that might be a good idea, lets do it. At the beginning of the war, he changed
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