Complicated and controversial building of a memorial to president James Garfield on the u. S. Capitol grounds. Well hear from Matthew Gilmore who edits a washington, d. C. History blog. Those of you probably know matt by name, if not in person. He runs a blog, the matthew b. Gilmore press blog and also hes an author of the column of the intowner. If you follow d. C. History, hes been integrally involved. Anything history in d. C. Oh, you also run the d. C. History list. Thank you for that on behalf of the city. Today hes going to talk about James Garfield, his death and efforts to commemorate his life and death here in washington, d. C. I wont say too much more about it. I dont want to steal his steam. Please join me in welcoming matt. [ applause ] thank you very much. The story im going to tell might be ripped from todays or recent headlines. There was a president ial memorial delayed for years caught up in congressional infighting. Legislation pending. A powerful lobby behind the mem
Service. Thank you for that on behalf of the city. Today is going to be talking about james garfield, his death and efforts to commemorate his life and death here in washington d. C. I wont say too much more, i dont want to steal his steam, please join me in welcoming matt. applause thank you very much. The story im going to tell might be ripped from todays recent headlines. There was a president ial memorial delayed for years. It was caught up in congressional infighting, and replace it with another. A powerful lobby behind the memorial had chosen this site, the designer, the design criticize in the press. The site was very close to the capital on maryland avenue. If the years 1887, not 2017, and the memorial was one to president garfield and not president eisenhower. James garfields death was a national shock. He is been a compromise candidate for the presidency and had won the closest election in american history. It was a difficult life but his rise up was the rags to riches story.
Captioning performed by vitac. He was in the civil war . Yes. What was his claim to fame there . What was his battle and what did he hold . He rose to general. I dont know that he saw any significant battle experience. Again, there was he had a solid career, onsolid li sol of military service. I concentrated on the conclusion of that. Being a general, was that a function of being a politician first, or was he a politician after . No, he was a politician after. He was a politician after. I think he bought in the battle of [ inaudible ] okay. In his election he won electoral vote 214155 but popular vote was virtually tied, 48. 27 to 48. 25. Exactly. So weve had a sequence of republican president s from there was a third candidate as well. It was below 50 , so there must have been a third candidate. Yes, chuck. My first wasnt a question. There was a book that came out a few years ago about the assassination, and it seemed i havent read it all. I own it. Its upstairs but i havent read it.
Country out of its worst economic slump in decades. The deadline draws near for tiktok to divest it u. S. Assets, reports a shutdown of its priced app for sale. We have breaking news. Oftbank will be selling this as bloomberg learned softbank was trying to strike this deal that could be valuing it at 40 billion. Arm, weis deal to sell could have seen softbank reviving those stocks about taking the group privates. We are hearing that softbank divisionelling its arm to nvidia. This would be a 40 billion deal, the biggest chip deal to date. The transaction value is up to 40 billion. Nvidia could be paying more than 21 billion in stock and 12 billion in cash. This would be a 2 billion payment as signing. This coming at a time as we continue to see softbank divest its assets. Softbank could be receiving an additional 5 billion of cache if the performance meets certain targets. This also depends on what regulatory scrutiny they go through. This could be the largest ever in the semiconductor
Windy out here. With daylight you can see exactly how far this fire spreads. The concern was it started on the eastbound side of 580 and then jumped both directions of the interstate 580 onto the northbound side. Traffic is still backed up. This all started from an accident at around midnight last night and the big rig or pickup truck, were still trying to confirm which one it was, whether it was a big rig or a pickup truck. The chp saying it hit the Center Divide and caused a fire. That fire spread to the other side of the freeway. At one point riding in the wrong direction because they were trying to get away from flames. Fortunately the firefighters were able to put the flames out. The fire spread to about 100 acres but now it is completely out in all directions. Both directions are open. Back here live, the traffic westbound is still backed up. I was sitting in the traffic eastbound. At 3 45 they opened up the lanes so eastbound is flowing smoothly. Back to you. Thank you, sharon.