And now the contenders. Our series on key political figures who ran for president and lost, but who nevertheless changed political history. Tonight we feature former House Speaker henry clay of kentucky, known as the great compromiser. The program was recorded at clays ashland estate in lexington, kentucky, its about 90 minutes. This is an encore presentation of cspans original 14week series which first aired in 2011. This is a portrait of kentuckys henry clay, known to us in our history books as the great compromiser. During his 49year political career clay served as secretary of state, speaker of the house and as a u. S. Senator and he was a contender, making five president ial bids, including the election of 1824, 1832 against Andrew Jackson, and 1844 when he ran against james k. Polk. Tonight we are on location at ashland, henry clays home in lexington, kentucky and for the next 90 minutes we will explore the life and legacy of this man. Unsuccessful in his long quest for the white
Ashland. Henry clays home in lexington, kentucky, and for the next 90 minutes we will explore the life and legacy of this man, unsuccessful in his long quest for the white house, yet having an outsized influence on American History. And we are in henry clays parlor r parlor right now. Let me introduce you to jim plotter, historian. Thank you for being with us. Good to be here. Why is he relevant to americans living in our time . On a couple of accounts, his famous quote, i would rather be right than be president. Its a call to people whatever were doing, which is to do the right thing. In a sense, politicians need to remember the country and sacrifice for the country and i think that is still something that we need to remember, as well and the man known as the great compromiser, and a man that forges these compromises that not only kept the nation together, but were constructive and those are the kinds of things we need to remember about henry clay as well as the things that he did in
What was behind the deaths of hundreds of elephants last one. Im going to richardson welcome to the show the u. S. The death toll from cove at 19 has passed at the grim milestone of more than 200000 people according to Johns Hopkins university its the highest number for any country so far accounting for more than one in 5 coronavirus deaths worldwide the u. S. House of representatives held a moment of silence for the victims led by Speaker Nancy Pelosi rise for a moment of silence and remember its of those more than 200000 americans who have passed away from the coburg 19 virus. Palosi has a blames at the deaths on of the does information and negligence of the white house the president on all trump insists the United States is rounding the corner in the pandemic the high death toll is putting his handling of the coronavirus outbreak in the spotlight as he campaigns for a 2nd term in office. Well on this a dark day for the u. S. Lets speak now it to our correspondent Stephanie Simons in
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