Preservation of the white house. And also educating american citizens about the white house and its diverse history. This evening, our guest is jim conroy, the author of jeffersons white house monticello on the potomac. Jim was a lawyer in boston for 38 years before he began writing about American History. His previous book is lincolns white house the peoples house in wartime, which won the prestigious lincoln prize. If you would like to ask jim a question at the end of our broadcast, please type it in the comments section of the facebook feed and we will get to as many questions from our online audience as possible. Jim, welcome to white house history live. James thank you, it is a pleasure to be here. Colleen we are honored to have you. The first question is the setting for your book. There have been numerous books about Thomas Jefferson and about his presidency. You have a unique focus of this book on the white house as the setting for jeffersons two terms in office. Can you tell us
I am a doctor that plays a doctor. Medicinen internal physician in pennsylvania. This is my hobby. I love it. I love the guys out here. I love speaking to the public. I love the educational factor we are trying to keep this alive. This is a mobile emergency room. Treat, do, we assess, we stabilize, and then we get them out. Get out of my yard. We are basically located as close to the front lines as possible. Inve got troopers coming in pretty bad shape. It operates behind the lines. Here he again demonstrates his value, taking on many jobs the physician would have to perform. This frees the doctor to Pay Attention to the serious cases. The medics are the real heroes in the war. They are out there will triaging with gunshots. They will triage in the field. They come to one guy with a cut on his shoulder and say put a bandage on you and get back to the rear. The second guy has both legs blown off. This guy is going to die. Theres nothing that is going to save this guy. Get somere going t
Jim was a lawyer in boston for 38 years before he began writing about American History. His previous book is lincolns white house the peoples house in wartime, which won the prestigious lincoln prize. If you would like to ask jim a question at the end of our broadcast, please type it in the comments section of the facebook feed and we will get to as many questions from our online audience as possible. Jim, welcome to white house history live. James thank you, it is a pleasure to be here. Colleen we are honored to have you. The first question is the setting for your book. There have been numerous books about Thomas Jefferson and about his presidency. You have a unique focus of this book on the white house as the setting for jeffersons two terms in office. Can you tell us why you decided to focus on the white house in your book about Thomas Jefferson and his presidency . James sure. My book about lincolns white house i guess inspired me to move backwards to jeffersons white house. I foun
Im jamie colby, in garden grove, california, about a halfhour south of l. A. Im on my way to meet a woman whose wild west inheritance might be worth a fortune. Come on. Lets go have a looksee. My name is melissa guy. When dad passed, he left me with 40 rare colt pistols, one in particular that led me to a bit of a showdown. Hi, melissa. Im jamie. Hi, jamie. Melissa leads me into her living room. And shows me a small sample of the strange inheritance her dad, mel, left her. Oh, look at the handle. Come here, baby. This would be a gun that a cowboy would carry. Mel wasnt a cowboy but a World War Ii Navy vet who owned a sheetmetal company. He never had a thing for guns until his wife gave him this antique pistol as a birthday present. It was a couple dollars. And this is the gun that started the collection. Mel loves it so much that he decides to replate it with shiny new nickel. Then, he learns the refurbishing diminished its value. Its a mistake he only makes once. My dad decided right
Gonna happen in the city. Be with my girl, shes so pretty. Lauren i think everybody has friday on their minds today. Welcome to fbn a. M. Im lauren simonetti. Cheryl glad its friday. That is for sure. What a week. Good morning, everyone. Im cheryl casone. Lauren you know what, the selling is not over yet. Take a look at how your money is moving this morning. Just to remind you, we had the biggest point declines ever yesterday, the dow and s p in correction territory. This morning, dow is down another 450 points, s p down 51, nasdaq down 165. Everybodys looking for the bottom of this market. Cheryl we had a major selloff in oil yesterday. Take a look at that right now. That selling is continuing. Look at oil right now, down almost 4 , again, the concern if youve got a global recession on your hands, you are going to see crude demand fall and that is what were seeing in that contract. Whats interesting here is gold is actually down about three quarters of a percent. We had seen gold risi