Test garfield figures this out, goes up to new york and suddenly saves millions of dollars in his first week as president. Lots of appointments we dont have time to go into. The one that i think is one of the more fun ones, we talked about him last week because he was one of the judges at the lincoln conspiracy trial and that is general lou wallace. Garfield appoints him to be the ambassador to turkey. Lou wallace wrote about the ben hur. And he tells lou wallace, im appointing you to be an ambassador to a Muslim Country so you can write another book. He gets involved with an ohio senator by the name of George Pendleton to try and draft civil supervisory form. Sadly, it only passes after garfields death. Good point for us to stop here and shift to the second character in our story. And there is nothing more different than this absolutely brilliant latin and greek scholar, president of the university, lawyer who argues ex parte militant, architecture, designs his own house, mathematicia
She was not happy that her husband had been elected president. She was not looking forward to being the first lady. The problem was of course, that he died only one month into his presidency, and she never made it to washington. In 1836, when john tyler resigned from the United States senate, he and his wife laetitia and her family moved to williamsburg. It is right here that laetitia tyler suffered her stroke in 1839 and john tyler learned that he was elected as Vice President William Henri harrison, and it is also here in the spring of 1841 where he was informed that he became tenth president of the United States, and that laetitia tyler learned that she became the first lady. She has another terrible stroke and guys. Her husband goes into great morning and then he meets Julia Gardiner who is another young love in her twenties. Julia is the madonna of the first ladies. She loved publicity. She actually posed as a model which was frowned upon. She was bewitching. They had a total of a
Good evening. Welcome to mt. Vernon. My name is kevin butterfield. And it is my pleasure to welcome you here tonight on behalf of the Mount Vernons lady associations and Ford Motor Company which sponsors a free monthly book talk to learn from the greatest historians. Thank you for being here tonight. Were thrilled to have you. To begin the Program Shortly well hear a brief presentation from susan swain, copresident and executive officer of cspan and coauthors of the president s. Shell be joined by brian lamb, the founder and executive chairman of cspan and moderating and esteemed group of historians in discussing the american presidency. The american presidency is as you know a fascinating subject of inquiry in every possible way. In the constitution, theres not as much said about it as you might imagine. Article i is quite long, ii much shorter and the key phrase is about as short as you can imagine. The executive power should be vested in a president of the United States of america.
donald trump and those around him have seen the fbi as a threat. they have taken a blow torch to try to tear down that threat. it s really unfortunate, the motion that the fbi is some sort of leftist cabal. it s crazy. martha: devin nunes that now works for trump media is here. first to the justice correspondent david spunt. good afternoon. trace, good afternoon. we re talking about what is called an fd 1023 form that is a standard form that fbi agents use to write down allegations during an interview. congressman comer, chair of the house oversight committee and senator chuck grassley want a specific 1023 form they say contains an allegation that then vice president biden accepted a bribe for a policy change. they have asked for it multiple times in a subpoena. they actually asked for the physical document. both held a phone call with fbi director christopher wray at 1:30 this afternoon. we re told that fbi director christopher wray offered to allow both men and perhaps
Lehigh county and nazareth area schools, theyre all on a twohour delay. The full list is on the nbc 10 app and scrolling at the bottom of your screen. Students im sure not minding that. They very much lover it. Snow fell overnight. This woman covered up a blanket. The snow is still falling in some parts of the area. This is a live look at camelback in the poconos. Skiers excited about that scene. The snow in other areas has stopped leek here along lancaster avenue. Its a messy commute to work and school. Storm force 10 is out on the roads so that you can see what you can expect this morning we begin with meteorologist bill henley whos tracking the latest of this latest winter burst. This is center city. Broad street has been treated and cleared. You can see the median has a little bit of snow on it but those roads, the back roads, the sidewalks, the walkways will be slick this morning as the snow has fallen overnight and its still coming down. Some very light snowfall in the suburbs an