This week on q a, Mark Cheathem on his biography of Andrew Jackson. He talks about the comparisons made between president jackson and President Trump. Brian Mark Cheathem, author of Andrew Jackson, southerner, and a lot of other books about Andrew Jackson and the south, when you see this picture on the screen, what comes to mind . Mark all the comparisons between trump and jackson and how wrong they are, frankly. I dont see a lot of similarities in terms of depth between donald trump and Andrew Jackson. Brian really . Not a mark really. Brian not a thing . Mark im not saying there arent some similarities. They both have great hair, of course. But i think a lot of the comparisons try to push trump into a box with jackson and its not a viable comparison, in my opinion. Brian thats a picture of i mean, a painting in the oval office that he put up. Why do you think he did that . Mark steve bannon convinced him to do it, i think. I dont think trump had any clue as to who jackson was, probab
And poverty could lead to former rebel fighters taking up arms again. And let the fun begin its time for brazils Biggest Party, the rio carnival. Well far from less is what we might think with fighting intensifying in Eastern Ukraine hours before as fire is due to come in effect proseparatist and army are battling in particular near the town here. These images are said to show a build up of Russian Artillery to the northeast of the town and tweeted by the u. S. Ambassador to ukraine jeffrey on friday he said we are confident these are Russian Military not separatists. The ukraines president had this to say about the latest violence. After this this is not just attack of ukraine civilian this is attack of the minsk results and we dont have explanation because of the defense operation of russia intensified significantly. Reporter so where is the fighting in Eastern Ukraine as the clock ticks down to what could be a ceasefire . These are the areas currently held by separatist fighters the
Historical park. Chris calkins talks about the battles that took place as part of the appomattox campaign. This is about an hour. One of the benefits of those who were not here last night when i was talking about the entire campaign from petersburg to appomattox i mentioned when i worked at the park alt appomattox i would come to longwood. At that time one book was published in 1859 dealing with the final campaign called to appomattox. Its a good popular book but i remember after reading it and studying it i had a lot of questions as to where the events took place, how did the armys get from here to there . So this book here set up my quest, then, to learn more about these sites. At that time when i worked at appomattox i worked with a gentleman a lot of you probably know. His name was harold howard. He portrayed an exsoldier who stayed on. I took the role of a Union Officer who was stationed in appomattox on provoes duty after the surrender. He and i were companions in trying to learn
One of the benefits of those who were not here last night when i was talking about the entire campaign from petersburg to appomattox i mentioned when i worked at the park alt appomattox i would come to longwood. At that time one book was published in 1859 dealing with the final campaign called to appomattox. Its a good popular book but i remember after reading it and studying it i had a lot of questions as to where the events took place, how did the armys get from here to there . So this book here set up my quest, then, to learn more about these sites. At that time when i worked at appomattox i worked with a gentleman a lot of you probably know. His name was harold howard. He portrayed an exsoldier who stayed on. I took the role of a Union Officer who was stationed in appomattox on provoes duty after the surrender. He and i were companions in trying to learn more about the events that took place on the retreat. And one of the areas that i was particularly interested in was the battle o
Longwood. At that time one book was published in 1859 dealing with the final campaign called to appomattox. Its a good popular book but i remember after reading it and studying it i had a lot of questions as to where the events took place, how did the armys get from here to there . So this book here set up my quest, then, to learn more about these sites. At that time when i worked at appomattox i worked with a gentleman a lot of you probably know. His name was harold howard. He portrayed an exsoldier who stayed on. I took the role of a Union Officer who was stationed in appomattox on provoes duty after the surrender. He and i were companions in trying to learn more about the events that took place on the retreat. And one of the areas that i was particularly interested in was the battle of Sailors Creek. Sailors creek actually became a state park in 1936. And efforts were made to purchase more land for the park and to have it become a National Park. But something happened like world war