Conversation. Thank you very much. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] you are watching American History tv, 40 eight hours of programming on American History every weekend on cspan3. Follow us on twitter for information about our schedule, upcoming programs, and to keep up with the latest history news. 200 years ago on august 20 4, 1814, british soldiers routed american troops at the battle of bladensburg festival said washington. Openictory left the y it to British Forces who marched into the city and burned the white house and capitol building. Learn more about the burning of washington during the war of 1812 from author and historian anthony pitch at an event hosted by the Smithsonian Associates. It is about one hour and 15 minutes. We are coming up on the 200th anniversary. We wanted to commemorate this anniversary despite the fact it is a less than glorious moment in our nations history. When
Youll also notice this evening there are cspan cameras around. They are here broadcasting. Those watching will also be no stranger to anthony pitch. Many of his programs have been taped for broadcast by them before. We are very lucky to have him tonight. Ladies and gentlemen, mr. Anthony pitch. [applause] thank you very much for coming. It is raining outside, so i am very glad to see a lot of people out tonight. I want to tell you a few years ago i escorted somebody into the white house. His name was major ed ross, the same name the general robert ross who burned the white house. He was a descendent. One can see the scorch marks i told him were there. They are under the front door. There is a big stone archway where you can see massive scorch marks from the fires set by the british in 1814. The pastry chef who has his offices close by could not stop giggling. He thought here is a man who has come to finish the job. [laughter] i like to write stories that are epic, true, and sad. People
Nominations, nlrb or of those, if youre president and you are liberal left, so you want the nlrbt somebody in that happens to be on the payroll forbors the last 20 years, you know, you probably couldnt bet him senate orrepublican even if the democrats controlled with 55 or something, probably couldnt. So youre going to have to get somebody more mainstream. Got 51, full speed ahead. So you can put in somebody the e. P. A. Or so on, because you can get your people in. Figured that who ever won the election should be given great latitude on putting and so on. Ople but in some cases where you have this administration put aretivists and people who really far to the left, you a 60 vote threshold would have stopped that and it would stopped a bunch of nominees in the past couple days. Mentioned robert byrd, he and i both testified before the against changing the threshold from 60 to a majority. Of newhole bunch democrat senators who have been in the smalt for a year or two oh, we got to chang
Then part of the land making up the district of columbia. This was a very wealthy port on the potomac. And they also could pose a threat to other targets in washington that hadnt been taken by the british army. Though they dont know this at this point. Georgetown had been left alone by the british and theres an important foundry that makes weapons for the u. S. Navy that is still sitting untouched. In any event, they were proceeding up river when theyre hit by the huge storm. The remarkable storm that comes through washington on august 25th sweeps down river and severely damages several of the ships in gordons squadron. And they have to stop to make repairs. They almost considered turning back at that point. But they keep coming up river. They sailed past mt. Vernon, which was just down river from here. And finally on august 27th, they come in sight of ft. Washington, which is the last fortress guarding the Potomac River as they on the approach to alexandria in washington. This was the
Many of his lectures and programs have been broadcast for them before. Were lucky to have him tonight. Ladies and gentlemen, mr. Anthony pitch. N÷ thank you veepjz much for coming. Just put that down. Its raining outside and so im very flad to see a lot of people here tonight. I want to tell you that a few years ago i escorted somebody into the white house, and his name was major ed ross, the same name Major General robert ross who burnt the white house. He was a descendant. And he wanted to see the scorch marks that i told him were there. They are under the front door and theres a big stone archway where you can see massive scorch marks from the fires set by the british in 1814. And n the pastry chef who has offices close by couldnt stop giggling. He thought heres a man whos come to finish the job. I like to write stories that are epic, true and sad. People ask me why dont you write something funny . I cant. I really like to write epic stories. Vietnam was one and then i wrote the bu