Would be governor, senator or president , a lot of people would have said ed prichard of kentucky. He was one of those people who worked in the white house when he was in his early 20s. He seemed destined for great things and then came back to kentucky and in the 1940s was indicted for stuffing a ballot box. Went to prison. And so that incredible promise just falmed out. We also visit ashland, the former home of speaker of the house, senator and secretary of state henry clay. The mansion at ashland is a unique situation. Calys original clays original home had to be torn down. It fell into disrepair. His son built on the original foundation. What we have is a home that is a fivepart federal style home as henry clay had with details in architecture and elements and an added layer of aesthetic details added by henry clays granddaughter and so on. See all of our programs will lexington saturday evening at 6 30 eastern and sunday afternoon at 2 00 eastern on American History tv on cspan 3.
Book you talk about the Golden Triangle of freedom. Your leaping right in, arent you . I have to tell you people always ask me how i write my books and with this book if you can keep it which is my newest book, the book on luther is coming out in a couple weeks but this book im talking about america and at the very heart of it is the Golden Triangle of freedom. But what i find funny is that i never heard of it, no ones ever heard of it. A number of years ago dear friend of mine Alec Guinness wrote a book calleda free peoples philistine. Again all founders understood this. Quickly its that freedom requires virtue. When we say freedom we mean selfgovernment requires a virtue. Virtue in turn requires faith and then faith in turn requires freedom. To explain it, the founder said they wrote this over and over and over. You cant have selfgovernment or actual freedom unless the people govern themselves, which is to say less the people have some semblance of virtue, you cant force people to go
I have to tell you, people always ask me how i write my books, and my newest book, the book on luther is coming out in just a couple of weeks, but for the last year ive been talking about america. And at the very heart of it is this concept of the Golden Triangle of freedom. Ut but what i find funny is that id never heard of it, no ones ever heard of it. Dear friend of mine Alec Guinness wrote a book calleda free peoples philistine. Every one of them understood this concept and i thought i have got to do more to get this out because one book comes out. I didnt know i would write a book about it, it ended up being a book, the Golden Triangle of freedom, can i explain briefly . All the founders understood this. Freedom requires virtue. We mean selfgovernment requires virtue, virtue requires faith and faith requires freedom. To explain it the founders said they wrote this over and over. You cant have selfgovernment, you cant have actual freedom unless people govern themselves which is to
The projected winner. Delaware, will also go to Hillary Clinton. District of columbia to Hillary Clinton. Illinois, her home state goes to Hillary Clinton. As well as the state of maryland. And massachusetts also in the clinton column. Mississippi, we projected donald trump wins in mississippi. New jersey, to clinton. Oklahoma the projected winner donald trump. Rhode island, Hillary Clinto and tennessee, donald trump. Lets look at the count right now in the race to 270. At this hour, based on the projections, clinton stands with 75, trump with 66. 66 in the race to 270. Now, a couple others we want to mention right now. We are watching maine. Too early actually. Looking at missouri up there. But too early. Maine is too early. But, clinton is leading there in sorry. My bad there. Missouri was too early. We got trump is leading there. The colors begin to fill in. The race to 270. Savannah guthrie. Watch big senate races. Yeah, promise you a cliffhanger. The democrats are trying to wrest
Married his high school sweetheart. Involved in manual labor, didnt really have any skills. Hated manual labor, hated having a boss. Bill knapp loves being his own boss and really didnt like being told what to do. Tried a restaurant. He thought if i owned a restaurant, i could be my own boss, and it was true. He bought a building with a restaurant in allerton, but he soon realized a restaurant was too much work. So bill and irene, his wife, put the building up on the market. A Real Estate Agent listed it and had a client to see the building, but the Real Estate Agent couldnt show the building, so he asked bill if he could show his own building, and so bill said, okay. Bill took the client down to allerton, sold the building and then was mad the Real Estate Agent demanded his commission. Bill said, hell, i sold the building. Knapp said, im going into real estate, i can do this. He fell into real estate, joined a small firm here in des moines coulded hollis realty. Quickly became the big