Up next on the presidency, a talk about the marital and Political Partnership between james and dolly madison. We hear from the Vice President for museum programs, and curator for montpelier, she discusses their early lives, their marriage, and how Dolley Madisons political skills bolster the career of James Madison. Hello, again. Is the sound good . Ok. Im not going to introduce myself. [laughter] i will just kind of start talking. What i am planning to do today is to talk about james and Dolley Madisons lives before they were james and Dolley Madison. Then consider their partnership and how it worked to both of their great advantage, because of it being such a wonderful partnership. So these are the Gilbert Stuart portraits of james and dolley painted when james was secretary of state. Its actually my favorite portraits of the two of them, i think they capture the sort of sense of personality that i see in them. And they have, i think, in large measure sort of created images that we
Madison. This was part of the annual president s day symposium. Hello, again. Is the sound good . Ok. Im not going to introduce myself. [laughter] i will just kind of start talking. What i am planning to do today is to talk about james and Dolley Madisons lives before they were james and Dolley Madison. Then consider their partnership and how it worked to both of their great advantage, because of it being such a wonderful partnership. So these are the Gilbert Stuart portraits of james and dolley james was secretary of state. Its actually my favorite portraits of the two of them, i think they capture the sort of sense of personality that i see in them. And they have, i think, in large measure sort of created images that we have of them historically. Dolley in her low cut, empire style cut dress with ringlet. Serious, cerebral and brainy with always a strip of hair coming down in the front and the receding spots on each side. He has that from when he was really young, actually. And of co
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U. N. Shelters hoping to escape the punishing israeli air assault on the gaza strip. Hamas militants continue their barrage of rocket attacks on the cities as both sides resist calls for a ceasefire. This morning more rockets were fired from lebanon. Susan mcginnis is in washington. Good morning. Marlie, good morning. The bombing does continue. Also the Israeli Ground troops did enter gaza but it does not appear to be the start of any broad start offensive, this as calls here in washington and inside other western governments for a ceasefire keep on growing louder. Israel continued to bomb hamas targets in the gaza strip this morning. Hamas has been answering back with rockets of its own. Israeli Officials Say its iron dome missile intercepter stopped 12 on sunday. Secretary of state john kerry called israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the weekend and offered to immediate a truce but in an appearance on cbss face the nation, netanyahu remained defiant. Our goal is to achiev