ashland. henry clay s 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 clay s 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. it s a call to people whatever we re 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 thi
witnessed the death of three of the four as well as her own husband s assassination. though her life was filled with tragedy, she relished in their success. as we focus on the civil war years, one of the defining moments in our country s history, a look at the life and times of mary todd lincoln, one of the most complex first ladies ever to live in the white house. thanks for being with us for c-span continuing series on first ladies influence and image. we invite to history advisers for the whole series to be our guests for this program. let me introduce you to roslynter borg penn. and richard nortan smith our guest and at our table is the director of five presidential libraries including the abraham lincoln library in springfield, illinois. thank you both for being here. mary todd lincoln and this is a question for both, we ll start with richard, is viewed in broad strokes, bouts of depression, criticism of her lavish spending and and indulgent mother and what do you see.
with dred scott, d. john sandford and you all read chief justice roger tawny s opinion in dred scott s case. and you have read that opinion, and it s notorious in american history, right? for the blatant racism in it, for the sanction that tawny gives to the concept of human property under the constitution, and for denying black citizenship, not only denying black citizenship, but denying even blacks as free, as persons under the constitution. and so, dred scott was one type of freedom suit, right? it was based on his physical presence in a free state, illinois, and his physical presence in wisconsin, a free territory. and it s often presented in american history textbooks as if it were the only freedom suit in american history. to go to the supreme court. the only, almost uniformly, presented as dred scott, one man bringing a freedom suit. but when we look into it a little more closely, there were thousands of freedom suits in american courts. all of them challenging the not
sandford and you all read chief justice roger tawny s opinion in dred scott s case. and you have read that opinion, and it s notorious in american history, right? for the blatant racism in it, for the sanction that tawny gives to the concept of human property under the constitution, and for denying black citizenship, not only denying black citizenship, but denying even blacks as free, as persons under the constitution. and so, dred scott was one type of freedom suit, right? it was based on his physical presence in a free state, illinois, and his physical presence in wisconsin, a free territory. and it s often presented in american history textbooks as if it were the only freedom suit in american history. to go to the supreme court. the only, almost uniformly, presentedup are, presented as dred scott, one man bringing a freedom suit. but when we look into it a little more closely, there were thousands of freedom suits in american courts. all of them challenging the notion of s
for morning hour debate. the chair will alternate recognition between the parties. with time equally allocated member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip limited to five minutes. but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11:30 a.m. i m sorry, 11:50 a.m. the chair recognizes the gentleman from arkansas, mr. wo womack, for five minutes. mr. womack: madam speaker, i rise today to recognize the retirement of one of arkansas most admired sports journalists, clay henry. clay has retired after decades of covering arkansas razorback athletics, notably the publisher of hogs illustrated, the weekly publication dedicated to the coverage of our beloved hogs. it was natural for clay given that he was the son of another sports legend in arkansas journalism, orville henry. i m quite confident his introduction to razorback sports was while he was still in diapers. then later as a staff man for the arkansas gazette at the age of 14. he was produced by the best,