Sarah polk was very up on diplomacy. Her strong suit happened to be intelligent political discussion. She made no bones about the fact that she took no interest in politics and she was her husbands partner. She grew up in a political household in tennessee. Her father was a local politician so she grew up loving politics. She married james after he won a seat in the legislature. She would not have married him had he been content to be a clerk. Unfortunately for james k. Polk, he died just three months after leaving the white house and sarah began a 42year widowhood. It became a shrine to her husband. She would invite anybody who wanted to to come for a visit to see the objects they had accrued over there long and illustrious career. She lived there for many years on her own and during the civil war, generals on both sides would visit her to pay their respects. It was very interesting commentary on what a beloved status she still held. She was earnest about her husbands work. She went t
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2 a 2nd batch of president ial hopefuls took to the stage in Miami Florida democratic contenders vying for the chance to take on donald trump in the race for the white house faceoff about their political past and americas future and england have pushed through to the womens world cup semifinals theyve put on a stellar performance to send norway home of the win season england into the final 4 of only the 2nd time in their history and now one of the favorites to win it all. On little rock thank you so much for your Company Everyone World Leaders are in osaka japan for the g 20 summit while theyre facing a host of problems ranging from the u. S. Showdown with iran to trade tensions between washington and beijing and on both those issues the European Union finds itself caught right in the middle. For 2 days osaka is the center of the political atlas the leaders of the worlds 20 largest economies flying in for what promises to be a stressful program. Small talk is sure to be drowned out by
State bob joining us this morning along with tennessee senator Senate Armed Services Committee Marsha blackburn. 5 cohost Juan Williams, big 3 hours coming up right now. Fox Business Network dagen mcdowell, wall street journal assistant editorial James Freeman and former republican president ial candidate steve forbes, good to see everybody this morning. Good to be with you. Steve and i jumped into mcdonalds on fifth avenue, breakfast of champions. Make maria great again, even greater. Maria oh, my god. Thats right. Maria markets are higher, we had the powell conversation yesterday and, of course, testimony hit markets on the upside, we got that optimism once again this morning, the chairman jay powells comments about the rate cuts and and the backdrop for the economy, the central bank sounded doveish citing global and economic conditions, watch this. We look at a broad range of data, since the june meeting and for a period before that, the data have continued to disappoint. Lets go to
Good morning. Im chris fernie, a member of the Lincoln Forum executive committee. And we will get right to the introduction of our two wonderful speakers this morning. Edna greene medford, the grande dame of 19 century after american historians. A frequent speaker and moderator. Our Lincoln Forum, a member of the forums executive committee and recognized star on various cspan programing. Edna holds degrees Hampton University and the university of illinois and a ph. D. From the university of maryland she is a professor of history emerita at howard, where she also as the chair of the Department History and interim dean, the college of arts and sciences she is the author of lincoln and emancipation and coauthor of the emancipation proclamation. Three views she was a recipient of the john wise simon a Lifetime Achievement award from the Ulysses Grant association and was previously inducted as a of the Lincoln Academy of illinois and awarded the order of lincoln the states highest honor by