You pay close attention to what he says and dont just relate it to political thinkers from europe. He had very specific individualy in mind when he conceived the political principle. Ceived and the best example of that is that when he raised the specter of a dangerous demagogue, he actually wasnt thinking of ly hamilton, he was thinking of virginias effusive Patrick Henry in mind because he had watched him manipulate the house of representatives with his rhetorical skill. When he thought of firm and yett reasonable leadership, he had washington in mind. N and when he reached for symbolic embodiment of the republican style, it would have not been one of the democratic republican clubs that sprang up in the p mid1790s even though hamiltonian federalists saw them as having been inspired by ough madison. Havin they went so far to nickname g club members the mads. Basically implying that theyre not quite stable upstairs. No, madison would have found a more appealing symbol of the moe republ
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
Before the nixon improvements, you can see a portion of his lydia can tell you better than me. The wine cellar, semicircular, is still down there. The mike, oh, okay. Traces of jeffersons wine cellar and after the war of 1812, when the house was rebuilt, where the west wing big building is now was a stable. It is under the dining room windows, wasnt a very clear decision. And it was paved all in there, and you can the big arch is still there, just filled in where the horses were admitted. So it is the west wing is a working wing and it receives plenty of attention, but it does have a job to do. Yes. I would like to know when was electricity put in the white house so that an elevator could be used by president roosevelt or if, for some reason, they didnt have a back up, were there ramps or anything of that sort to be used . The first elevator, which was a counterweight elevator, not electrical, was ordered by president garfield and put in later by put into operation by arthur. It was ne
The symbol had survived and even increased in power and roosevelt dismissed any critics of the remodeling as yahoos. Thats all he said. The white house was lived in hard for the next some 40 years. World war i and ii passed by. Very little in world war i, world war ii. They lived it down. And it also was threatened with being dangerous for bombs and things during the war. We thought wed be attacked. Ms. Roosevelt wrote in the summer of 43 and said qun father expects los angeles to be bombed this summer. So the Great Depression was battled from its walls in world war ii. president coolidge in the 20s tore off the attic and added a lowprofile third floor. President franklin met with the corps of engineers after pearl harbor, and among the many negative documents, a particular one brought a week after pearl harbor called the house a fire trap. Roosevelt simply dismissed the report. I dont want to hear it. In 1945 came a president no one had ever heard much about. Harry s. Truman was a Pro
Typhoon of the year bears down. Theyre fighting a controversial new law that calls on young men and women to live separately in College Dorms and even private student homes. Good morning, and welcome to al Jazeera America. Im stephanie sy. We begin with a story first reported exclusively here on al jazeera. New evidence supports the theory that Yasser Arafat was murdered. They say they found excessive amounts of a radioactive substance called polonium in his body. His body was exhumed one year ago in response to the al jazeera investigation. The report supports years of suspicion that arafats widow thought foul play was involved. Im full of anger. This is a crime. This is an assassination of an elected Palestinian Leader by his people. Its a political assassination, and you cant imagine how my daughter and myself are in a very sad situation. We are mourning the father and the husband again. We have complete coverage of how israelis and palestinians are reacting to this news. Mike hanna