secretary of state was very important. it s a great legacy. his desire to build some kind of cohesion between the north american and south american and central american states. i think there s that and i think also if you look back across his long career in public life it is that he is one of the key builders of the republican party in the 19th century. he s there at the beginning in 1854. and he is still there almost 40 years later as probably their most powerful and most identifiable figure. and maine today has a republican governor and two republican senators and congressional delegation here is democrat, correct? the congressional democrat. our state legislature is all republican too. we re out of time. we ll thank a number of people here. thank you to the governor for hosting us it he governor mansion tonight and the director of the blaine house here and the staff has been fabulous to us as we set up over the last couple days. we do take over the place. they ve b
images from the 1884 presidential election and listening to a campaign song in support of that year s republican nominee, james g. blaine of maine and his running mate, john logan. tonight our contenders series continues. we re live from the blaine house in augusta, maine, home of james g. blaine and since 1920, the official residence of maine s governor. we re inside the blaine house with maine s sitting governor, paul lepage. governor, this house is filled with blaine memorabilia. do you have a sense of the man while you re here? yes. absolutely. first of all, welcome to maine and welcome to the people s house. thank you. mr. blaine is here every day, and we see his spirit every evening because we always say good night to him. what is your sense i mean, the house was built many years ago and many people have lived in the house over the years, but he is present in a lot of ways. what have you come to learn about the man by living in his midst? he not only was a v
come and talk about the role of speakers. that was held at transylvania university. to both of you, how did henry clay enhance the powers of the speaker? through force of his personality. i think no one wanted to debate him. certainly, he had the force to win the argument. so i think that alone had great influence and power. i don t know if any other speaker would be comparative. he also understood the power of committee assignments. the committees i was going to say, the committees, he basically understood the speaker had the power to put the people on the committees. he was known to be a fair man as a speaker. that was very important. both sides of the aisle respected him and respected his opinions. he was never overridden in his rulings. he basically was fair in the makeup of the committees. but when he knew there was a certain issue coming up, you can see a slight inclination to put the friends to that issue that he wanted the issue to go a certain way. he underst
university here and it is on our video library if you would like go back and watch it. quite an interesting event that they hosted here bipartisan discussion about the role of speakers. to both of you, how did henry clay enhance the powers of the speaker? force of his personality, i think the mere no one wanted to debate him. certainly he had the force to win the argument. so i think that alone had great influence and power. i don t know if any other speaker would be compared to. he also understood the power of committee assignments. the committees as i say the committees basically he understood the speaker had the power to put the people he want order committees. when something was important, he was known to be a fair man as the speaker. that was very important. both sides of the aisle respected him and respecteded his opinions. he was never overwritten in his rulings. and he he basically was fair in the makeup of the committee. but, when he knew there was a ce
think the mere no one wanted to debate him. certainly he had the force to win the argument. so i think that alone had great influence and power. i don t know if any other speaker would be compared to. he also understood the power of committee assignments. the committees as i say the committees basically he understood the speaker had the power to put the people he want order committees. when something important he was known to be a fair man as speaker. that was very important. both sides of the aisle respected him. respected his opinions. he was never overwritten in his rulings. and he he basically was fair in the makeup of the committee. but he knew there was a certain issue coming up you can see a slight inclination to put the to that issue he wanted the issue to go a certain way. he understood very early that and changed the rules, changed with his backing and gave the speaker more power and limit debate. things like that. allowed him to be a much more imp