President . Arthur called me on the phone and said youre in tennessee and james k. Polk is a tennesseen. And he said i want you to do one thing. He said allen evans has done a paper back that excerpts his diary, his president ial diary. Just take a weekend and read it and tell me no. And i read the excerpts from the diary and i could say no. I was fascinated about the man. Did you know much about him before this . I knew his grave was behind the capitol. There is no marker in nashville except a plaque on the side of a dirty motel wall. His old home place in columbia is preserved and ive been there many times and ive been there since. But i knew virtually nothing about him and almost nothing that was good. Result of what was done to him during his presidency over the mexicanamerican war left him a bad reputation. A reputation as a warmonger, and the attacks on him in congress in the latter days of his administration reminded me a great deal of the attacks on Linden Johnson at the end of
Test captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 thank you for telling us about your scholarship and we look forward to learning more about this period of American History through the writings of julia tyler. Thanks for your time. Thank you very much. We have a few minutes left. I want to get a couple more calls in. Next one is a call from bill in fishers, indiana. Hi. Caller enjoying your show very much and your two guests as well very much. I was wondering was julia a religious person and i was wondering about her conversion to catholicism and how that influenced her later life. Do you know. I will leave julia to talk about her. Was she religious . Not really, but she does join the Catholic Church later in life and im not sure why she actually does that. Perhaps the church gains more by that than she does because theres always been that tension between protestants and catholics in this country, even though we dont have an official religion, most people think of america as
Washington, d. C. , to learn about the 1969 stonewall riots and how they served as a catalyst for the moderate lbgtq rights movement. Welcome to the museum. Im patty rhule here. We are here at the prologue of rise up, stonewall and the lbgtq rights movement. Stonewall was an event in the summer of 1969 of an uprising of a gay bar that propelled forward the lbgtq rights movement. This is where we tell the story of how ordinary americans used the First Amendment freedoms, press, speech, assembly, religion to advocate for change and change society. Were going to walk around the corner in this area and look at some artifacts from two of the earliest lbgtq rights organizations that rose up in the 1950s and 60s. Gay americans lived in fear and secrecy for the 20th century. Gay people could be arrested for showing affection in public, police prowled parks for to arrest gay people who were seeking there. It was a difficult time to be a gay american. This is when you see the rise of a few early
House. We look at some potential pitfalls. In tonights a deeper look, as the war spreads we look at the growing humanitarian crisis from the middle east to africa and beyond great to have you with us. We begin with ha president obama calls on historic era, an openness with cuba. President obama sat with a one on one meeting. Its the first time any u. S. President has officially met with a cuban leader in five years. In a News Conference the president says he knows he has to make his case on cuba to congress. There is majority support for our policy in the United States and support for our policy in cuba. I think people recognise that if you keep on doing something for 50 years and it doesnt work you should try something new. So the American People dont need to be persuaded that this is in fact the right thing to do. I recognise that theres concerns and questions that congress may have. We have concerns and questions about specific activities that take place in cuba and human rights and
The complainer was mrs. Harrison. Mrs. Kerry harrison. She was found in terrible condition and disliked it a lot. Structurally it was bad and the walls were in bad shape. And actually after the roosevelts, the Franklin Roosevelts went out, the trumans went to a beat up house. 13 van loads of furniture taken by the roosevelts. Their possessions. There were white squares where the wallpaper where pictures had been you know, 13 years. And they that was that was pretty run down. Thats not why truman remodelled the house, though. No president has time to take off and do the house over. They had it as a requirement for him. And the security was the basis of this. With truman. Not the fact that it was shabby. But the secret service and all of a sudden its too dangerous. This is the wood primarily inside with the lamp and all that, one fire bomb could ignite it. Truman was presented with a report that had been done a week or two after pearl harbor when they begged roosevelt to leave. He said i