Washington journal on our companion network c pan. This week on american artifacts, we tour the american president s life portraits exhibit at the Herbert Hoover president ial library and museum in west branch, iowa. North carolina painter and sculptor chaz fagen created the portraits for cspan in 1999 and recently added president trumps. The exhibit created in conjunction with the White House Historical association was brought to the library by cspan in partnership with media come. Curator Marcus Eckhardt an shows us the additional objects the museum borrowed to accompany each of the 44 portraits. Were in west brank, iowa, in the museum portion of the building and this is our temporary exhibit which is cspans american president s life portraits. The idea for this came about from us thinking about bringing the temporary exhibit everybody cspan and then adding something personal from each man at this point each man to show Something Different about them, because we think of them this is
Start the show. Dicky from hollywood, its Jimmy Kimmel Live tonight jada Pinkett Smith. From baywatch, jon bass. This week in unnecessary censorship. And music from lil yachty. And now, if you didnt know, heres jimmy kimmel [ cheers and applause ] jimmy thank you. Very nice. Welcome. Hi there, im jimmy, im the host of the show. Thank you for watching. Thanks for coming to see us. Very kind. Me ask, a quick poll of the audience. How many of you in our studio are here on vacation right now . [ cheers and applause ] i feel like ive been on vacation this week too. Ive been paying such close attention to the travels of donald trump, its almost like he took me on the trip with him. [ laughter ] he had another eventful episode of the celebrity president travel edition today. Donald trump was in brussels for the nato summit. This morning he met with the newly elected president of france, emmanuel macron, for what he had what might turn out to be his most controversial handshake yet this mornin
Dicky from hollywood, its Jimmy Kimmel Live tonight jada Pinkett Smith. From baywatch, jon bass. This week in unnecessary censorship. And music from lil yachty. And now, if you didnt know, heres jimmy kimmel [ cheers and applause ] jimmy thank you. Very nice. Welcome. Hi there, im jimmy, im the host of the show. Thank you for watching. Thanks for coming to see us. Very kind. Me ask, a quick poll of the audience. How many of you in our studio are here on vacation right now . [ cheers and applause ] i feel like ive been on vacation this week too. Ive been paying such close attention to the travels of donald trump, its almost like he took me on the trip with him. [ laughter ] he had another eventful episode of the celebrity president travel edition today. Donald trump was in brussels for the nato summit. This morning he met with the newly elected president of france, emmanuel macron, for what he had what might turn out to be his most controversial handshake yet this morning. We have a lot
To whom maybe an important qualifier for this panel. What does it mean to be a bad president . What counts as bad and how do we define a bad president . Specifically, who might have been the worst president ever . Our panelists are david greenberg, are you full position now . Oh, associate professor. Just a little bit inside baseball, sorry guys. Associate professor of history and journalism and immediate study at news brunswick. Hes the author of books of nixon and most recently of a wonderful book of the public of spin. Again, a kind moment, good work, david. This is a history of the white house. David is a long time contributor and now writes a history column for political. To davids right, although not politically ynette gordon reid, professor at the ratliff institute. A renowned professor and scholar of American History, gordon reid has published six books. American family 2008 which won numerous awards for non fiction. A leading and field changing scholar of Thomas Jefferson and
Fillmore, Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan. The author recounts the president s thoughts on the war and their criticisms of their successor Abraham Lincoln. This is a little over an hour. [applause] thanks to all of you for being here tonight. This is the tim time further reg on the president were six american president s into the civil war that divided them. If you are here for water harvesting the desert you need to come back on tuesday. First thanks to changing hands this is the third event weve done together over the last three years. By official book launch for both of my books were both here. Thanks to cspan book tv i think its amazing that you can turn on the tv on the weekend and watch tv with authors talking about books. Thats fantastic. If they manage to get through without saying anything say anything inappropriate they will broadcast me which is exciting. This is my third book the president s were six american president s and the civil war that divided the. As a history l