Interacted with his contemporaries, how he viewed himself, and how we remember him today. Professor smith today, what we are planning to do is spend a little time talking about George Washington and the character he developed over a lifetime. If you think about what we have done for the duration of this course, we brought him into the story intermittently throughout, whether it is talking about individual bibles or how he organized men or how he recruited men to get them to stay in the service. One of the things i try to get across whenever i talk about washington is that washington is a bit of an enigma to the modern audience. Why . Because we dont really know who he was, how he looked. When i show you these images here, these images are of three of our noteworthy president s. Every 10 years or so, about 700 political scientists and historians around the country rank our president. Who knows how current president is going to rank. Nonetheless. Whenever those rankings come out, these t
Washington is that washington is an enigma to the modern audience. Why . Because we dont really know who he was, how he looked. When i show you these images here, these images are of three of our noteworthy president s. Every 10 years or so, about 700 political scientist and historians around the country rank our president. Who knows how current president is going to rank. Whenever those rankings come out, these three guys here rank at the top. Sometimes it will be lincoln, sometimes it will be washington , sometimes it will be fdr, but the interesting thing about this is we do not know what george really looks like. We had images of lincoln, photographed images and you can follow those photographs over time and see how he changed, how he aged and of course we have images of fdr. We even have some images of him in his wheelchair. Generally, the press did not take images of him in his wheelchair, but with George Washington, he was there before photography, so we dont have photographs of
To Lord Of The Dance. Michael flatley on 30 years since that life changing eurovision moment. Good morning. Today in the west it will be fairly cloudy, wet and windy. Further east we are looking at drier and brighter conditions with some sunshine but sao is coming to the south east later. All of the detail throughout the programme. Its tuesday the 30th of april. The Scottish National party has officially started the process to find a new leader, after humza yousaf announced his resignation as scotlands First Minister. He quit ahead of two no confidence votes at holyrood which were due to be held in the wake of his decision to eject to Scottish Greens from his power sharing government. Nominations to replace him opened just before midnight. Our scotland correspondent lorna gordon reports. Politically, there was nowhere left for humza yousaf to go. His leadership fatally wounded, not by his party or by the voters, but by himself. And so this admission that his time as First Minister had
Clinton and jeb bush . Back draft. Two firefighters inside a burning home when it suddenly explodes sending installation everywhere. This morning how they managed to escape with their lives. And girl power, the nation set to hohnnor the world cup champions with a ticker tape parade in new york city, but not before they make their way to the plaza to see the hottest girl band around. Friday, july 10th, 2015. And good morning. Welcome to today on a friday morning. 7 00 on the west coast. Hodas last day here. Savannah come backs. I dont mean your last day working here. You never know, right . We have a big crowd to send you off. Im so happeny. Fifth fifth harmony is here. 12, 13, 14, all their moms and everyone else in between. It will be a lot of fun. Savannah will be back on monday along with al. Lets start with the history being made in South Carolina. The ceremony to remove the Confederate Flag is about to begin. Lets pause to give stations a chance to join us. There is an nbc news sp
Backdraft. Two firefighters inside a burning home when it suddenly explodes, sending insulation everywhere. This morning, how they managed to escape with their lives. And girl power the nation set to honor the world cup champion u. S. Womens soccer team with an historic ticker tape parade in new york city. But not before they make their way to the plaza to see the hottest girl band around, fifth harmony, live in concert today, friday, july 10th, 2015. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. Live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to a friday morning. Savannah comes back from vacation on monday. Were here with hoda kotb. On your last day, we brought out a big crowd. Can i just say, this is my kind of crowd. A crowd of young girls, their moms and a bunch of other people some of whom spent the night overnight but theyre ready for fifth harmony around so am i thats in our 8 30 halfhour. But lets start on a friday morning with history being mad