Her father was a local politician, so she grew up loving politics. She married james after he won a seat in the legislature because she would not have married him if he had been content to be a clerk. Unfortunately for james k. Polk, he died just three months after leaving the white house, and sarah began a 42year widowhood. Polk place became something of a shrine to her husband, and she would invite anyone who wanted to to come for a visit to see the objects they had collected through their long and illustrious political career. She lived there for many years on her own, and during the civil war, generals on both sides would come and visit her to pay their respects to her. Thats a very interesting commentary on what a beloved status she still held. She was, you know, earnest about her husbands work. She went to every post she could go to with him. He went through that arduous journey. The hardships were terrible. They really were. She was very well liked in the diplomatic community. T
I am dave clark. Morning. I am pam cook. Thank you for waking up with us. Im happy to see you as well. Wednesday, may 27th. Steve paulson im happier to see the fog roland. The rain and clouds and something to cool us down. That and the pets. When your cat or dog lies down on the Kitchen Floor you know it is hot. It will be tomorrow maybe later tonight the seabreeze might kick in in. It will be hot another day and by tomorrow we drop 10 degrees. The high peaked out yesterday but there are very close temperatures. The fog will work its way up. We had a little bit off the coast in effect shoot up. Excessive heat warning until 7 00 p. M. Heat warning until on thursday and you see huge drop around the bay. 60s and 70s on the temp. Oakland 64 in livermore 67. No pulp of a breeze at all. Two nine or 85 is close. The low is not only going to cool us down and usher in a huge fog bank, it could give us rain and we have more on that in 10 minutes. The highs today are very far above average for th
Enjoy book tv, now it over the weekend on cspan2 read. Robert wilson is with us today courtesy of paul and heather hamilton. He is the author of Matthew Brady, portraits of the nation and explore king a biography of clarence kane. He is the editor of the american scholar, a former editor of preservation and the founding literary editor of civilization a farmer book editor empowers we use today in the editor of the Washington Post book world. His essays reviews infections have appeared in numerous publications including american scholar, the american short fiction, the atlantic monthly,ti the new republic, the smithsonian, the Washington Post magazine, and the wilsonn quarterly. And on the opinion and book review of the boston globe three times, yesterday, and the Washington Post. He lives in virginia please give a warm savannah welcome to robert wilson. [applause]. Robert thank you chris, i appreciate that introduction. I hope your app works a lot better than the one done for the iowa
The wilson quarterly. And on the oped opinion and book review pages of the boston globe. He the New York Times, usa today and the washington post. He lives in manassas virginia. Please give a warm savannah welcome to robert wilson. [applause] thank you. I appreciate that introduction. Im hoping your app works a lot better than the app that was done for the iowa caucuses. [laughing] i trust it will. Youre probably actually tested it. And thanks to all of you for coming this morning on this cold morning. Its very pleasant to see soo many of you here. Its very pleasant to see cspan here and what you think cspan for all that does to support book culture in america. I would be tempted to say normally what remains of book culture in america, but on a day like today its very easy to be optimistic about the state of books. Books. I love being in savannah. My wife martha and i come here as often as we can and we live outside washington dc. And we have a in the panhandle of florida. We used to d
Robert wilson is with us today courtesy of paul and heather hamilton. Bob is the author of Matthew Brady, portraits of a nation and the explorer king, a biography of Clarence King. He is the editor of the american scholar, former editor of preservation and the founding literary editor of civilization. A former book editor and columnist for u. S. Today and a former editor at the Washington Post book world. His essays reviews and fiction have appeared in numerous publications, including the american scholar, the american short fiction, the atlantic monthly, the new republic and the smithsonian, Washington Post magazine and the wilson quarterly. And on the oped opinion and book review pages of the boston globe. The New York Times, u. S. Today and the Washington Post. He lives in manassas, virginia. Please give a warm savannah welcome to robert wilson. [applause] thank you, chris. I appreciate that introduction. Im hoping your app works better than the app that was done for. He Iowa Caucus