Moines registers chief politics reporter brianne pfannenstiel. Abby the top six democratic president ial candidates are in place. This is their final debate before the first votes of the 2020 president ial campaign. The Iowa Caucuses are 20 days away. Brianne before we begin, a reminder of the ground rules. Youll each receive 75 seconds to answer questions, 45 seconds for responses and rebuttals and 15 seconds for clarifications. Please refrain from interrupting your fellow candidates, as that will count against your time. Wolf all right so lets begin right now. Just this month, the United States and iran were on the brink of war, which has reignited the debate over americas role in the world, and which of you is best prepared to be commanderinchief . So lets have the debate right now. Senator sanders, why are you best prepared the best prepared person on this stage to be commanderinchief . Sen. Sanders yes, i think my record speaks to that, wolf. In 2002, when the congress was debatin
Im wolf blitzer, along with cnns abby phillip, and the Des Moines Registers chief politics reporter brianne pfannenstiel. Abby the top six democratic president ial candidates are in place. This is their final debate before the first votes of the 2020 president ial campaign. The Iowa Caucuses are 20 days away. Brianne before we begin, a reminder of the ground rules. Youll each receive 75 seconds to answer questions, 45 seconds for responses and rebuttals, and 15 seconds for clarifications. Please refrain from interrupting your fellow candidates, as that will count against your time. Wolf all right, so lets begin right now. Just this month, the United States and iran were on the brink of war, which has reignited the debate over americas role in the world, and which of you is best prepared to be commanderinchief . So, lets have the debate right now. Senator sanders, why are you best prepared the best prepared person on this stage to be commanderinchief . Sen. Sanders yes, i think my recor
image, in which the north elevation of the slave quarters is barely visible over here. but you get the sense of it, its size and shape. the african-american men pictured in the foreground could have been servants living in the slave quarters. i am going to continue to use that term to talk about the building, not only because it makes clear the original intent of its construction, but also because it was its vernacular name used for it across the 20th century. 1880 census listed three african-american servants, william hanson, john smith, and elizabeth abby living in the house of edward beal. by 1900, the population of servants living on the property had doubled. of the six servants living on the property, five were classified by the census as black. mazie worked as a reader. ellen, a ladies made. emma thomas worked as a land dress and was the only married servant in the household. lloyd lyles, a coach man, aid adolph bird worked as a butler. only one of the african-american
central open space. circled in red, you see similar arrangements of buildings at other residential properties in and around lafayette square. now, about same time the preceding map was being surveyed, mj williams created what was an ice metric rendering of the white house and buildings surrounding it. it didn t include decatur house, but it does provide a three-dimensional look at compound structure similar to those at decatur house and located even closer to the white house. such compounds and urban slave quarters were found in other cities like savannah, charleston, mobile, new orleans, and were relatively well documented by the historic american building survey in the late 1930s. the home of the slave, written in 1901, buildings like this and like those at decatur house, called town group quarters where he said few house servants were fairly welhoused. the slave quarters at decatur house ceased being there for enslaved people before 1862. in late 1861, the u.s. government
general. it is clear from correspondence that the military wanted to use the second floor of the slave quarters to house subsistence bureaus military personnel. now, the commissary general vacat vacated decatur house turning it over to edward beil. they made extensive renovations, but the only significant change made to the slave quarters was the installation of a new slate roof over the building s original wood shingle roof likely around 1875. the earliest san antonio photograph of the slave quarters is this 1885 image in which the north elevation of the slave quarters is just barely visible over here, but you get the sense of its size and shape.african-american men pictured in the foreground could have been servants who lived in the slave quarters and i ll continue to use that term to talk about the building not only because it makes clear the original intent of its construction, but also because it was the vernacular name used for it across the 20th century. the 1880 censu