Damian shields is an engaging young scholar. Hes an archaeologist by trade. Hes an historian by emotion and2y he gets the way you have to do those things. Lets not decide objects and places dont matter, only the words someone wrote on a piece of oh paper. It all matters. Its all evidence of how history unfolded and its impact on us today. Yesterday was a great pleasure of mean. I picked pupup mr. Clay and we went over to Stones River National battlefield and i managed not to lose him totally in that battlefield. We kbolt over to franklin just in time it was sort of dusk. The perfect time to study a man. All of this together means we dm have a unique opportunity to have a perspective and learn from a perspective that sometimes we dont take in here in tennessee. We do have civil war historians aplenty. Sometimes you can shake a tree and a bunch fall down the. We dont get that International Perspective so often. I think we are all just blessed l < and honored to have damien among us today
Im David Carroll from chicago. Hi, david. Hi. In the last year published in the journal of the Abraham Lincoln association there has been great speculation on mary lincoln purchasing penny royal at dill lards drugstore in springfield when she was pregnant with tad who was born with a cleft palate. Penny royal is used to rid dogs of fleas or induce abortion. Do you have insight on this recent scholarship . Im sorry. I cant comment on that. My recent move and dislocation of many of my books and pieces meant that i dont have the 41 of oh mary lincoln but moving from ireland was difficult. I would say from my reading i have no evidence from her letters or otherwise that there would be any way i could comment or believe she was trying to not have a fourth child. The lincolns were besoted by their children. They were very proud and devoted that when she suffered family tragedies and the death of oh little eddie she was pregnant within a month. Indeed the idea of having two younger sons and r
Caltrans to a halt. Its not until you throw a height on the crowd you see how nasty the commute was. This brought train commuters out of the car and into the night. Theres a typical a problem down the line, well get back to you, well get back to you, well get back to you. And finally here we are. Where are we . Youre in san mateo. Thank you. Reporter no lights in the parking lot, no lights in most of the city of san mateo. Making head lamps the fashion accessory of the evening. We and a good portion of san mateo lost our power so we are bored so we decided to take wilma for a walk tonight. Reporter with both commute and home miserable and dark everyone had one question. You guys know when the power is coming back on . Reporter now, pg e says they can expect power to be fully restored until 4 a. M. Thats right, 4 a. M. Still about 200 customers here in san mateo without power. It could be a very long time before the power is back on and the trains are back running. More problems earlier
Ground just a short time later. It all started with a downed power line, then caltrain came to a halt and part of the peninsula went dark. Kpix 5s andria borba reports from san mateo on the nightmare commute that followed. Reporter its not until you throw a light on the crowd that you see how nasty the commute was. And thats the point. Around 6 15 a power line snapped and fell on the rails bringing train commuters out of the car and into the night. The typical if theres a problem down the line, well get back to you, well get back to you, well get back to you. And finally here we are. Im not exactly sure where we are. But, ha ha, what town are we in . Youre in san mateo. Oh, okay, good, thank you. Reporter both north and southbound trains were stopped with buses bridging the miles. No lights in the parking lot, no lights in most of the city of san mateo making headlamps the fashion accessory of the evening. We and a good portion of san mateo lost our power, so we got kind of bored so we
Annual sale of christmas [inaudible] this house will always grow and should. It just seemed to me such a shame when we came here to find nothing of the past in the house, hardly anything before 1902. And when we went to colombia, the president ial palace there had all the history of that country in it. Every piece of furniture in it has some link with the past. I thought the white house should be like that. Our message was this as mothers were concerned, as first ladies were committed, and as citizens of the world, we pledge to do all thats possible to stop this scourge. Season two of our original series first ladies influence and image, looking at the public and private lives of the women who have served as first lady in their own words live monday nights including your call, Facebook Comments and tweets starting next monday with first lady can Edith Roosevelt at 9 eastern on cspan and cspan3. A Senate Commerce Committee Hearing on the marketing and health risks of Energy Drinks to ch