I want to show you some of the treasures from our collection. Lets go take a look. We are located in the old Norfolk City Hall that was in 1850 and given to the macarthur memorial in 1984. City hall contained nine galleries that chronicled the life and times of general Douglas Macarthur. It answers the question, why is the macarthur memorial in norfolk . The short answer is mom. Let me show you a photograph of his mother and the family estate. The family estate is on the south side of the city. It is now a city park. Here is macarthurs mother who was born in norfolk and had Four Brothers who joined up to the Confederate Army from norfolk during the civil war. She was the youngest of the children. After the war, she met a man named Arthur Macarthur who had earned the medal of honor in the battle of chattanooga. They fell in love. When they got married, her three brothers who had served in the of Northern Virginia army and the cousins found other places to be during the wedding ceremony.
Law professor had an off in the New York Times, she writes the Supreme Court has become an agent of partisan warfare to the extent it could do real damage to the institution. Is the Supreme Court to political . Republicans, 202 7488001. Democrats, 202 7488000. Independents, 202 7488002. You can make a comment on social. Edia, cspanwj here is the oped from yesterdays New York Times, resetting the post scalia Supreme Court. Been his death, there has plenty of talk about the substantial impact his absence will have on the Supreme Court stockett. Fate has handed the justices a chance to hit reset. Uncharitable and tasteless, so be it. I have become conserved the majority is permitting the court become an agent of partisan warfare to an extent that threatens real warfare to the institution. His role on and off the bench contributed to that development. I am not claiming he was completely responsible, given the polarizing politics of the day. More people disapprove of the court, 50 approve o
Tonight to show just how dangerous it is. And when this local army vet got the call, he thought it was a prank. Its an immense honor to even be considered for Something Like this. Now he has a front row seat for president obamas last state of the union. News4 at 11 starts now. Hello, everybody. We begin tonight with another blast of cold weather coming our way for tomorrow, and this one could bring some snow with it. But dont go get your skis out just yet. This is going to bring something we call conventional snow. Lets get the latest from doug. What does that mean . How much are we talking about . That means youll be talking to your friends. Did you see the snow that came by a little earlier . Its gone now. But you saw it. Thats what were going to see tomorrow. Temperatures on the the cold side already. 31 in d. C. 23 in gaithersburg. 22 in martinsburg. Some of the temperatures have come up a few degrees. Martinsburg was down to 19. So ahead of this system, yes going to see our number
The british. On the other side unionists will say George Washington in his farewell address said the price the union of any allegiance. Actually robert e. Lee is reading a biography of George Washington in the months before the civil war and he is hearing these arguments and he concludes that he basically agrees with the unionist position. He believes George Washington would have opposed secession. So what else does lee say to Francis Blair . He says he would would gladly washes hands of slavery. He would gladly get rid of all slavery if it would avoid war rate but then he says how can i raise my sword against my native state . Here the blair family position says lee hesitated that is lee told the story he gave the answer once, no biggie turned down the command though he did not turn his commission to the army surfer more than three decades. He returns to arlington house. He soon learns that virginia in fact has voted to secede from the union and there on april 20 the writes a letter r
Jonathan has appeared as a commentator on msnbc and bbc radio. Is writing has appeared in the new york times, the Weekly Standard and other outlets. During his time at the white house johnson served as a speechwriter and special assistant to president george bush, a graduate of yale university, and we welcome him to Filson Historical Society. [applause] thank you so much for the lovely introduction, judy. As was mentioned used to work as a president ial speechwriter before start writing this book, so you can imagine my shock when i learned that the subject of my new book didnt much care for my old occupation. In fact, robert e. Lee was so offended when he heard George Washington might accused a ghostwriter to pin his famous farewell address that he refused to believe it. He said that anyone who said George Washington is a ghostwriter was quote injudicious. So if ive learned nothing else from writing this biography, its that i should say a little bit less about my own biography. Im so p