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Us from history books as the great compromiser. During his 49year political career, clay served as secretary of state, speaker of the house, and as a u. S. Senator. And he was a contender, making sure president ial bids including the election of 1824. 1832 against Andrew Jackson, and 1844, when he ran against james k. Polk. Tonight we are on location at ashland. Henry clays home in lexington, kentucky. 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. We are in henry clays parlor. Let me introduce you to jim klotter, 25 years now as kentucky state historian. Jim thanks for being with us. Glad to be here. Why henry clay . Why is he relevant to americans living in our time . Think a couple of counts. First of all, his famous counts, i would rather be right than be president , still speaks to us. Its a clarion call to people across whatever were during. Whether
Youre seeing red flag warnings posted there expecting to win 20 to 35 Miles Per Hour humidity dropping down to about 20 to 30 as we head into sunday morning, maybe even lower than that as we get into monday, strongest winds will occur above a 1000 feet in the north bay expected some 35 maybe some 50 mile an hour gusts, there humidity dropping down between 1025 so very dry conditions around the bay area. Heres the latest forecast on the winds weve have mainly a westerly wind over the past few days to bring us that nice clear now overnight tonight things begin to change. Front goes through and High Pressure begins to build in behind it you start to see that northerly component beginning to kick in nothing really strong just yet it will be breezy especially over the mountain tops and then as we get into late saturday night early on sunday morning that will be probably one of the peak of the gust of wind you can see those pouring in some of the red the yellow beginning to show up there som
Ashland. Henry clays 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 clays 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. Its a call to people whatever were 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 things that he did in
Local news station. That breaking news tonight at 10 takes us to oakland where more than a 100 people are protesting as we speak you say this is new video just in from the citizen app some of the protesters here taking those orange traffic barriers moving them out of the way you can also see some Police Officers walking the streets in riot gear, it is tense. This is happening near 14th street, the protesters of course for the 3rd night in a row demanding justice for Breonna Taylor after the decision was made wednesday. Not to file charges in her death. Good evening, everybody thanks for being here 10 oclock im grant lotus as we said the 3rd straight night of demonstrations, not only here in some parts of the bay area but in louisville as well in just minutes ago opd sent out this tweet the Department Says the crowd has started to become a little bit violent throwing bottles and cans among other objects you see this video froze but it will play right here. And as we saw earlier folks ar