Guide to harrisburg. You can do this and all other programs at our website cspan. Org history. Cspans washington journal, live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. Morning, fromay the Heritage Foundation discussing the recent testimony of warmer fbi director james comey in his discussion with president trump. And an author will talk about his new article, the great democratic divide. And the middle east institute Gerald Fierstein talk about gulf states. Be sure to watch cspans washington journal live at 7 00 eastern sunday morning. From the discussion. Joined the discussion. Cspan is that they frank Teddy Roosevelt library and museum were we go inside for a room look at fdrs personal office and collection of artifacts with the museums director. This library open in june of 1941. He was the president of the United States. This became the northern oval office. Fdr had an incredibly inquisitive mind. There are 914 books in his room alone. Every book was selected by fdr t
Prof. Hess thank you for that generous introduction. I was thinking about it this morning, what made me to this book . Whenever you go to a civil war roundtable and mention the name Braxton Bragg, there is laughter coming up the audience because in some ways, it is almost a joke in some ways. In other ways, as pete says, a cheap joke. And also the question this morning as someone asked of holeck theragg or most divided person of the civil war . And never dawned on me to say the most hated men of the civil war, but maybe i should have said that . Let me start out with a story, and i know many of you know this story. I overheard at least two people this morning telling this story to somebody else, but they did not know i was sitting next to them. Grant memoirs, ulysses as enlisted a story. Even though grant himself admitted he did not know if it was true or not, but he said, it is kind of emblematic. The story is before the civil war, Braxton Bragg in the u. S. Army commanded a company h