Were now in the billiard room which is one of the rooms that was built as part of the addition that the blaines made to the house in 1872. This is also a room which has been a place to hang photographs and in some cases the christmas cards of the previous first families. The first family was the millikens, and this is a large family, Carl Milliken and his wife are shown in the photograph along with their large family. There have been 21 families who have called the blaine house their home from the millikins in 1920 to currently Governor Paul Lepage and his wife first Lady Ann Lepage beginning in 2011. Today when we think of james g. Blaine in maine, i think we think primarily of the blaine house. It really is a symbol of both the maine governorship. Thus the equating of the name blaine with the Governors Mansion really keeps his name alive and in the public today. The cspan radio app makes it easy to continue to follow the 2016 election wherever you are. Its free to download from the A
Liehl was 23 so i couldnt portray him. Very good. Im so delighted you came back. I was just surprised and delighted. Yes, sir, and then yes, sir in the front. Good evening. I just have a couple of facts. You know that out of four president s, lincoln, mckinley and kennedy were shot on a friday. Did you know that . Yeah, things like that. Okay. Garfield and reagan were shot, like, 100 years apart from each other and both of the guys that shot them were mentally ill. And they kept guiteau in st. Elizabeths rather than a prison. Which where i think they also kept hinckley. Yeah. Theres so many of these coincidences. Kennedy was shot in a ford and lincoln was shot in fords theater and kennedys secretary was named mrs. Lincoln, and yeah. And both kennedy and lincoln were replaced by Vice President s named johnson. Im sorry . [ inaudible ] almost ten years to the day, yeah, exactly, yeah. Okay. Yes, sir, here in the front . I have a short answer a short question. Did he have a chief of staff
Harriet blaine beal donated the house and grounds to the state of maine for the purpose of a governors home. Sadly Harriet Blaine beal had lost her son, Walker Blaine beal, in world war i and he had actually owned the house and then upon his death the house reverted back to her and she, recognizing it probably wasnt going to go on in the family and negotiation that recognizing the need that maine had and the close proximity of the blaine house to our statehouse across the street she donated the house for the purpose of the governors home. This is the state reception room. When the house was built in 1833 this was two rooms and then when the blaines acquired the house in 1862, in 69 and again in 1872 they made some major changes to the house which included opening up both these two rooms into one big reception room. This really reflects the fact that in the blaine period of ownership from 1862 into the early 1900s that there was a lot of entertaining that went on in the house related to
But certainly since he was a significant general in the civil war, everyone understood he wasnt physically there. [ applause ] so i will hang out. Some of you are wanting to go and find out whats happening in the hockey game. Next week is mckinley. Another set of really fascinating stories. On saturday, cspans issues spotlight looks at police and Race Relations. Well show you president obama at the Memorial Service for Police Officers shot and killed in dallas. When the bullets started flying, the men and women of the dallas police, they did not flinch and they did not react recklessly. And South Carolina republican senator tim scott giving a speech on the senate floor about his own interactions with police. But the vast majority of the time i was pulled over for nothing more than driving a new car in the wrong neighborhood or some other reason just as trivial. Our program also includes one familys story about an encounter with police in washington, d. C. , followed by a badge the city
Logan was very well known the veterans vote was a very powerful force in the postcivil war period in america. Blaine because he was very much involved in an emerging political career when the civil war broke out he was speaker of the house in maine, the maine house of representatives and he was about to run for congress so he did what many men did at the time and he actually bought a substitute. It cost about 300 to have someone else go in your said the. Cleveland had done the same thing so it was a very interesting situation that prior to the 1884 campaign you always had someone in office in the presidency, grant and hayes and garfield who had been civil war officers. But blaine and cleveland were not. So which ever one of them had one it would have been the first generation it would have been a break in that generation, yes. We had a viewer who asked about his death so will you now tell us the story of his death . Yes, well, as has been mentioned, he was a man who was prone to illnes