Born were born to another man. They were killed was the first five were very young when he died. My dad married my mama. He had five more children. My dad raised all ten of us, because they were very very young when their dad got killed. Basically what he did was, they were very disciplined. Had a seventh grade education. Mom had a seventh grade education, but very bright. One of the ambitions they had they gave us as we were little kids. They had two goals for us. They wanted all of us to be educated, and they wanted to see all ten of us in heaven. They wanted us to be committed to church. Hard work and school. So i had the pleasure of going to school all the way through elementary and high school. I never missed a day. He was mean and tough on us going to school. We had to get up at 4 00 in the morning. Milk the cows. Feed the pigs. Do all of that. Walk one mile from the house on a dirt road and catch the bus at 6 45. You had to do that. It was applied to everybody. Girls and boys. W
From moscow whats your to international with me. Thanks for joining us this hour. Our top Level Exchange of accusations that is raising the stakes over the sudden and so far unexplained illness of Prominent Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny kremlin spokesman to be through. All allegations of state involvement in the case as unacceptable and absurd in their very nature or the german spokesman spin asked if they will scrap the north stream to gas pipeline project with russia as arties peeta all of the reports. The German Government press briefing the lunchtime press briefing wrapped up on monday putted with with questions about north stream 2 i think just about every other question made reference to the Multi National Infrastructure Project the message coming out of the German Government is that as it stands at the moment north stream 2 is an economic project and its own connected to the no valley case starts as it stands however that could change depending on how things develop
Burning statewide. And the Toronto Raptors defense of their nba title officially begins this afternoon. They are among eight teams playing on the opening day of the pandemicdelayed playoffs in orlando. Those are some of the top stories on this monday, august 17th. Thank you so much for joining us on this monday. Happy to have will reeve here, as well. Glad to be here. We begin the half hour with the Postal Service crisis in a dramatic move by House Speaker nancy pelosi. She is calling for the house to get back to work. Critics say those costcutting delivery of mail, medical prescriptions and paychecks and they could have a huge impact in november. Abcs got more. Reporter the battle over mailin ballots in the u. S. Postal service intensifying. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, cutting the august recess short to deal with the unfolding crisis. We have to do everything that we can to get rid of the new postmaster general who is a Campaign Contributor for trump trying to undermine the Postal Ser
First we are going to talk about general william t. Sherman and what he did in 1865, at least the first stage of his campaign in 1865 when he left the state of georgia and began to move north into South Carolina. He built up a little bit of a base at the conclusion of that campaign and began to talk about heading north. The conclusion of the savanna campaign had a couple questions behind it, political questions, which he did not want to deal with, and a couple of military, after it was agreed he would be permitted to move to the north and go straight into South Carolina. There were repercussions for that on the confederate side and the folks on the Southern Side would begin to react to that. Of course, even as sherman was leaving atlanta, there were folks on the confederate side that reacted to what was going on. One of them, something of an alert fellow, general beauregard, reacted and saw what was on the way. And of course, technology is always a curse in here. There we go. He discus
Our free radio app, and be part of the National Participation through cspans daily washington journal program. On you there are on you social media feeds. Created as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. She was close to being broken by the time she went to the white house. This is the earliest existing house. They lived here through the 1830s and 1840s. She was educated and taught school. Eliza would read to him while he worked making suits for the men of town. The north and the south fought over the occupation of greenville all through the civil war. It changed hands 26 times. Andrew and eliza purchased slaves so they did have domestic help. It was basically destroyed. Eliza being with tuberculosis was not able to get out much. She received many gifts that she brought home with her. This is the room she returned to after their years in the white house. She was obscure as she would have wanted it but shes who he needed. Abraham lincolns assassination j