A look at your bus stop forecast coming up and what to wear. Melissa, whats happening on the the issue on the inner loop of the Woodrow Wilson bridge. Looks like things may have cleared out of the way. We did have a Police Response here perhaps moved out of the way at this point this morning. Well check on that and let you know in a couple of minutes. Looking at 95 in maryland no major problems. North bound or southbound, everything is moving along nicely. 66 head into and out of town looking nice. 270 north and south moving along nicely. Same thing as you head over to the east, into and out of town, no issues. At this hour on this morning 150 years ago, doctors were fighting to save the life of president abraham lincoln. At the same time a massive manhunt was underway for his assassin who was hiding out at a home in maryland. Right now, fords theatre is marking the anniversary with around the clock tribute. News4s Megan Mcgrath has details. Good morning. Reporter well good morning. Th
The federal government. Hes been very active and interested in particularly researching the seat of government. Hes been the author of many book and articles. Throughout most of his professional life, hes been the coeditor of documentary history of First Federal congress. I do want to say one thing about one of his books, which i think is a real classic now, thats the creation of washington, d. C. , which is published back in 1991. If anybody wants to know about behind the scenes and proceedings and meetings and all the things that went on in terms of the location of national capital, this book is a must read. Id like you to welcome kenneth bolling. [ applause ] thank you, bill. Rather than thank the individual organizations, i just want to say i think most of us would agree that this conference just rocks. [ laughter ] i would like to thank in particular the editor of our papers for the fine job they are doing. Fiona griffin and marsha anderson. [ applause ] one of the things i have i
Character to fame generous charc bequeathed it his immortal name. Some lines later, the fourth , president s name was joined to that of the first. The the honored place of washington was filled by madison in diplomacy skilled. Dipl a seat far more exalted than a throne, or ever yet too hauty monarchs known. The patriotic consensus went like this. The office of the presidency all by itself was a testament to thy nobility of the american political experiment. And madison had already proved himself by 1814 as both as great and as a appropriately humble as the first of men, George Washington. So the unfortunate tendency is to make history simple. The whole idea of a political la faith is that it is supposed to eliminate confusion by suggesting pictures to the mindt that are frozen in time, somehow pure, cleaner, than they really were. The world had known many a hauty monarch, americas distinctive e characteristics was its nonhereditary system of governance. The presidencys republican chara
Government buildings at york, canada. Perhaps only one government building and perhaps not the American Army after all. This provided the burning of the public buildings provided opponents of the location with an opportunity to argue for removal without having to did he mean the city. During the month prior to convening of congress in late september 1814, residents expressed fears that the opponents of the city might prevail. Washington socialite eliz a, granddaughter of washington, went so far as to accuse secretary of war john armstrong, jr. , of allowing the british to capture the city in order to give ammunition to those who wished to move from the potomac and win himself Political Support in what might have been upcoming campaign. The 13th congress reconvened in the Patent Office on september 19th. While members talked privately about the possibility of an immediate removal, president James Madison assured them that the buildings were only the burning of the buildings were only a
Without politics voting to raise taxes on the people who voted them in or out of office. This is a conundrum the 21st century understands. Peace negotiations got under way in europe with madisons full support. He needed Albert Galatin as his linchpin on the negotiating team in gent. British ships had appeared at the mouth of the potomac as early as july 1813, and raids along the chesapeake caused a Nervous Congress to look less favorably on an Internal Revenue solution. The fiery decimation of the white house, the capital, you know, august 1814 only intensified the need to reorder republican priorities and accommodate president madisons turnabout in favoring tax increases and a National Bank that secured a uniform currency and maintained peoples confidence in government during peace time as well as war. He had quietly succeeded in rendering hamiltons purportedly unconstitutional bank safe. A bank compromised of private merchants and stock jobing speculat speculators. This was no longer