Good afternoon sara bloomquist is off. In the News Donald Trump has chosen another former campaign rifle for a position in his administration. And a new football coach in town well show you his introduction at Temple University. And the big story is the frigid accuweather forecast. People were bundled up in ardmore today on this chilly wednesday. But nothing compared to the bitter temperatures and windchills moving in overnight. Meteorologist, david murphy, is tracking the latest conditions at the action news big board. On the big board you see the cold air over the last couple of days, we show you this getting closer and closer to the Delaware Valley and the darker shade of blue colder air on the doorstep and overnight tonight we see that run into the region and make a difference for us. So its on the doorstep ahead of it not bad of a september afternoon ahead. We have sunshine in place and the cloud cover has not had a chance to get close to us. A little below average right now, but
I am dave clark. Lets check weather and traffic. Steve, i went outside trying to find some sunshine. Oh, no . Didnt find it. Anything anybody can find it. A drizzle out there. Fog reported for many. The rain is kind of picking up. As we progress through the day, it will continue to do so and really crank up tomorrow. This morning very mild, muggy, a lot of humidity in the air, as i said. Bad hair day, probably. Bad hair day, pam. But youre not saying that my hair no, not you. There is a lot of moisture in the air. Napa valley marathon on sunday. If you are running it, working it, attending it, i tweeted this out. I think naomi is participating. I think the key issue is the coder temps more so than the rain. You are going to notice a huge difference in the temps. We are going to go from mild and muggy to cold and windy by sunday morning. Our system is pumping in a lot of cloud cover. There is not just not much organized rain. Some areas where radar picks up. Saturdays the main system. H
With union. For lincoln and most republicans the union was a sort of mystical perpetual indivisible eternal thing. Stephen dug zblas whoouglas the regular democratic candidate that year stated over and over that no matter what else happens the union had to be preserved. John c. Breckenridge says the constitution and equality of the states are symbols of everlasting union. And the fourth candidate old john bell, lo ran as candidate of the Constitutional Union party didnt talk about anything else. They didnt even have a platform. Their platform was in their title. It was union. And the constitution. Union comes up so often during this century which is not peters perfect century but it is his second favorite century after the late 18th century. Lincolns vision of union rested on free labor and a voice in selfgovernment for common citizens and the potential to rise economically. Not the guarantee but the potential. Jefferson davis also believed in the union as safeguarding selfgovernment a
[captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] french nation for information on our schedule up next on American History tv, university of virginia history professors gary gail ger and peter onuf discuss Thomas Jeffersons views on federalism and the union of the states. They debate jeffersons provocative belief in the separation of races. President lincolns preservation of the union during the civil war and how jefferson would view todays federal government. This session from the Miller Center at the university of virginia is about two hours. Anyone who hopes to understand the 19th century in the United States has to come to terms with the importance of union. As a deeply important concept and highly charged word in the political vocabulary. It is a word thats gone from our political vocabulary now. It literally means flog to most americans now. The word union. If it isnt associated with labor. U
Union in a sense was so important during the 19thcentury is gone. There were contending understandings of the meaning of union. Almost always tied to ideas about liberty and opportunity and frequently enmeshed with beliefs about the place of the institution of slavery in the american republic. All of the individuals who have been the subjects of lectures in this series talked about union from madison and other framers of the constitution who drafted what they thought would lead to a more perfect union, to Andrew Jackson who very famously referred to union in making a toast while he looked right at john c. Calhoun during the nullification crisis on jeffersons birthday in 1832. He said our federal union must be preserved, to which, as many of you know, calhoun replied the union next to our liberty most dear. During the election of 1860 when four candidates ran for the presidency under four party standards, all of them talked about union. All of them wanted to be right with union. For lin