This sunday night at eight eastern on first ladies come influence in image. We will look into the personal lives of 31st ladies. Sarah polk Margaret Taylor and abigail fillmore. Sarah polk had a strong belief in politics and often helped her husband make political decisions. Margaret hoover was supposed to her husbands nomination for president and Zachary Taylor enjoyed telling people she was praying for his opponent to win. Abigail fillmore was the first president ial like other profession and they begin efforts to establish the First White House library. This sunday night at 8 p. M. Eastern on cspans original series first ladies influence in image. From Martha Washington to Michelle Obama sundays at eight p. M. Eastern on American History tv on cspan3. As a compliment, see spencer new book first ladys president ial historians on the lives of 45 iconic american women. Its available as a hardcover or an ebook through your favorite bookstore or online bookseller. Senator tim scott gave
Ongoing base dis 49. We give them affordable nutrition, the food bill on down is designed around cheap calories and expensive nutrients. Highfructose corn syrup and everything else. It is tough to find ways to have a sustainable system designed around affordable nutrition. So it was designed about the idea we can help try to recover some of this wasted food. By the way sasha and emily heard me say this before, i actually think we would all do ourselves a favor anyone in this fight, never using the word food waste again. Because food waste is, food is modifier of what type of waste is it. This is something sanitation departments are designed to handle. They do a good job of it. No one in america want as second helping of food waste, no one. If you take the two words and flip them, nobody in america thinks it is a good idea to waste food. This is excess. Lettuce the wrong size. Food that is at its sellby date but has another two weeks or week or more. Honey, et cetera that are at its sel
Place recently at fords theater where president lincoln was taken after being shot on april 14th 1865. Then, american artifacts takes a closer look at the house where lincoln died. After that, well hear about president lincolns last ride to his cottage retreat the day before his assassination. Later, american artifacts will profile ford theaters artifacts as news unfolded about president lincolns death. Good evening. This is the scene outside of ford theater in Peterson House. John booth shot president lincoln as he sat at the booth in ford theater. Our 16th president died the next morning at 7 22 a. M. And what youre looking at is a recreation were requesting to see this unfold live on cspan television. And youre looking at the scene directly outside of fords theatre which is outside the Peterson House which is directly across fords theatre. General colin powell on hand to commemorate what happened 150 years ago, the assassination of president Abraham Lincoln. 2027488900 for those of
See the carriage that transported president and mrs. Lincoln to fords on april 14th 1865. Behind me is the carriage that Abraham Lincoln rode to fords theater the night of his assassination on april 14th. Its part of an exhibit and a project were working with fords theater on in their sigh a lent witness exhibition which opens up this month. April 14th 1865 was an incredible day for both the lincolns and for washington. News had reached the city that robert e. Lee had surrendered to grant. The war was finally coming to a conclusion. That morning Abraham Lincoln has breakfast with his family. Robert todd lincoln his eldest son, joins them for breakfast. He was at appomattox. He was part of ulysses s. Grants staff. And he was telling the story to the family about what had just taken place. The city has in celebration. And the lincolns themselves were celebrating and finally seeing the end of this incredible war coming to an end and all of the burdens that that had on the president. He de
With a hockey stick knocked out all his upper teeth when he was 18. And sent him into a spell of depression and selfimposed seclusion in his house for three years. Was not able to go to college, which he had planned to do. He wanted to go to yale. Instead, he stayed at home. Very seldom ever went out at all. Reading. And providing himself with a liberal Arts Education of a kind most people would dream of having. All on his own. With the help of his father and the local public library. But it was it swerved his the path of his life in a way that no one had ever had any way of anticipating. Sunday night at 8 00 eastern and pacific, on cspans q a. Each week american artifacts takes viewers into archives museums and Historic Sites to learn what artifacts reveal about American History. 150 years ago, actor john willings booth shot president lincoln as he watched a play from his box at fords theater in washington, d. C. For the First Time Since that night, a collection of objects connected t