about washington. did he head to mount vernon? surprised -- he took it pretty seriously. when he laid the cornerstone, the capital as president it was a masonic ceremonies and he wore his masonic paper. washington was a very dramatic man. he loves plays in the theater. he would go to any performance if there was anything being done. shakespeare, some farce, puppet shows. he would go to see it. he loved the theater and was very theatrical. this was a man he designed his own uniforms all his life. he knew his physical presentation was part of his leadership. masonry has rituals. it was part of it. masonry puts on a show. this was a time when christian worship is very simple. washington is an angry episcopalian. this is for the anglo catholic revival so anglicanism is relatively bareboned saying. that was part of the attraction for a while. >> host: new jersey, you are on booktv. brian lamb doing a lot. semi retirement. >> we all appreciate what brian was able to do. in a very still freeway. very concerne

and the worst of it happened when washington, large part of washington's army, surrounded, at fort washington, which was at the northern tip of manhattan. washington was across the -- the -- the hudson river in new jersey. watching. as that army was defeated. and forced to surrender. and then worse than that -- after the men surrendered, par tu -- particularly, the riflemen of the haitian and british forces, a good many of those, of those riflemen were beaten up and then some were put to the sword as washington watched, helplessly, from the palisades. other part of the hudson. washington irving who wrote one of the first and best biographies of george washington interviewed the people who were there. and they told him that washington burst into tears. of helplessness and frustration. it was the lowest upon the of what had happened. he had been responsible for that. it was his decision to defend that indefensible force. and he began and others around him, to wonder -- itch thf this was up to his job. and there were grave thoughts that maybe he was -- would have to be replaced. he led his men i

and lincoln or maybe lincoln and washington. but they share those top two spots somehow. >> they are just not selling. >> and you can work with that, too, can you? thank you very much. i want to thank our panel for a very interesting, lively discussion can. i should mention that steve hayward's book is being sold in the lobby. thank you for coming. happy george washington's birthday. [ applause ] >>> next is the united states senates annual reading of president george washington's farewell address. this dates back to 1862. each year, the senate chooses two people to read it. this year senator jeanne shaheen read the address. this is 40 minutes. >> washington's farewell address to the people of the united states. friends and fellow citizens, the period for a new election of a citizen to administer the executive government of the united states being not far distant and the time arrived when your thoughts must be employed in designating the person who is to be clothed with that important trust, it appears to me proper especially as

and the worst of it happened when a large part of washington's army was surrounded at fort washington, which was at the northern tip of manhattan. washington was across the hudson river in new jersey watching as that army was defeated and forced to surrender and then worse than that, after the men surrendered particularly those riflemen who had been shooting the officers of the british forces, a good many of those riflemen were beaten up and some of them were put to the sword as washington watched helplessly from the other side of the hudson. washington irving, who wrote one of the first and i think one of the best biographies interviewed the people that were there. they said washington burst into tears of helplessness and frustration. he had been responsible for that. it was his decision to defend that indefensible fort. and he began, and others around him, to wonder if this man was up to his job. and there were grave thoughts that maybe he would have to be replaced. and then he led his men in retreat across new jersey west toward pennsylvania, and he asked lieutenant monroe to

or lincoln and washington. they share top to spots. >> the franklin pierce mattresses are just not selling. >> you can work with that, too can you? thank you very much. i want to thank our panel for very interesting, lively discussion. i should mention that steve hayward's book is being sold in the lobby. so is our anthology, what so proudly we hail. thank you for coming. happy george washington's birthday. >> next, the united states senate annual reading of president george washington's 1796 farewell address. this tradition dates back to 1862. each year the senate selects one of its members to read the address, alternating parties. this year, senator jeanne shaheen of new hampshire was selected it was the first time a female senator read at dress since 1998. this is 40 minutes. >> washington's farewell address to the people of

washington was not a great writer. people want -- if they are quoting they are going to quote great writers. washington was a good writer. but he's not -- definitely not a great one. and so to -- to get him to understand what he did, you have to -- you have to look at his career. you have to understand his deeds and actions. that requires a little more work than grabbing bartletts or whatever. and it requires an investment and an investment in -- of attention. i hope that, you know, occasions like this, meetings like this, bill before congress will encourage people to spend more of that attention because washington truly repays that. but there's like a little initial investment of effort that people have to make before they figure out what this guy's life was about. >> don't know that much about washington? >> people are busy. you know. look, these guys -- well, i am not saying that in a cynical spirit. i'm not seeing it is to run these people down. i mean, the campaigning is madness and just madness. once you get to b

over the years of protests, people have learned to make washington into a people's capitol. they have made public spaces, including the mall, many of the areas around the capitol, to a great extent pennsylvania avenue, spaces that almost any group can gain access to if they're willing to be peaceful and not too disruptive. and this is a space that can be used for a variety of political purposes by making it something that is accepted, groups from a far greater range of political persuasions now march on washington than ever would have been imagined in the 1930's or the 1940's. the variety of groups. and they can be used both to build movements, to confirm movements, and to inspire others to think seriously about political causes. and those others are sometimes the person standing next to you in a demonstration or the person watching you on television and sometimes the president and sometimes the citizens of another country to take inspiration from the washington citizens or the citizens of america expressing their views on an issue. so i think that over the years it has beco

i knew very little about washington. i heard of course that he had shot down a cherry tree, which he didn't and i heard you were a week, which he didn't. and i heard that he wore wooden teeth, which he didn't. so i found that very quickly the things i thought i knew about george washington were absolutely not and have them correct. so as i began this book, which i describe as csi needs the biography channel and you'll see why as we go along, it's really been a treat for me to replace all of those smith with facts about george washington. the premise that the book is really at this. the george washington really look like his image on dollars though? when mount vernon did some research, they found that most americans would describe the image of george washington taken from the portrait as old, boring and from eight? of course they realize they would have to change the way of looking at the father of our country. they devised a plan in which they would create three life-size figures into which washington at the ages of 19 a

occasion of washington's birthday. every year since 1896, the united states senate has selected one of its members to read it aloud. in legislative session in honor of washington's birthday. but it was not the duty can of memory that moved the congress in 1868 that passed the holiday law to provide uniform annual observances of certain legal public holidays on monday. by creating more three-day weekends congress hoped to quote bring substantial benefits to the spiritual and the economic life of the nation, end quote. but what it accomplished is to turn a holiday into a vacation and eventually for many americans, a day for bargain hunting. washington's birthday is now celebrated on the third monday of february and never on february 22nd. as a grateful nation enjoys the spiritual and economic benefits of washington's birthday mattress day sales. so far are we from remembering the father of the country, many of us will observe presidents' day with a further confusion if we are honoring only washington and his fellow febru

wrong to be sure, but trying to draw washington in now. washington was cautious. the fact of the matter is, at this particular moment, he could not trust his army. could not trust his army. but there was one thing that washington did know, that general's made plan but the line officers, lieutenant, captains, majors, men in actual command who control the troops. so he in conjunction with his staff, colonel brooks, who later by the way becomes governor of our commonwealth, so he, colonel brooks' secretary, jonathan trumbull begin to play out a plan and the plan that is they will call all of these officers together, that is the lieutenants, the captains and the majors, and speak to them directly. they must also prepare an address, a speech. several days now spent in writing what is probably the most important speech ever given in american history. all in secret because, of course, washington's already announced that he's not coming to the meeting. noon, saturday, 15th of march, about 300 officers crowd into the temple of virtue. building, by the way, reconstruction b

i'm to talk to washington as an exemplary president. i guess one way he was exemplary was he didn't take interns to the white house pool. slaves either. but i think he had three achievements. three very important things that he did which i want to talk about. and the first of those is that he did everything for the first time. when he was inaugurated, first inaugurated in april 1789, there were very few precedents to guide there hadn't been many republics in the human history and in almost all of them had been small. they had been city, states, ancient world, renaissance, there were suisse cannons, the one republic that had grown large was rome. but that had become the roman empire. so that example was not very encouraging. washington did have a guideline. he had the constitution. he was very familiar with that because he had been the presiding officer of the constitutional convention in 1787. he had attended every session, heard every argument. he followeding t ing thing th i the ratification debate very closely. he had the federalist

we ask that 8 washington you consider 8 will provide. -- we ask that you consider what 8 washington will provide. i received virtually zero benefits from the site. it has an out of date jim. it cost $200 per month. this is not the ymca. this is a private club that i cannot afford. there are two parking lots and the infamous blocking of our view and prevents it public access to the waterfront. contrast that to what 8 washington provides. i think the 99% will benefit from this project. we will take down that horrible greenwald, which is necessary, by the way, for it tennis players to play in the background. it will provide new housing in the number of other benefits that you of offered. >> i think it fits perfectly in character of the neighborhood. i realize it is concerning to many of you, but this project site would be distinguished from any future development down the waterfront because of some of the proximity. the slippery slope argument is not a strong argument. in addition, the fact

in 1775 she wrote a poem to george washington, to his excellency george washington, in which she praised washington's prowess as commander in chief and celebrated the american struggle against britain. not only that, she actually sent her poem to george washington. so here she is. she's still an enslaved woman, and she sends her poem to the commander in chief of the american continental army. washington, to his credit, responded to wheatley's poem generously and graciously, and the two actually met one another in 1776. it shows you then that even a slave owner like george washington was willing to recognize merit when he saw it. not so another american political leader, thomas jefferson, who dismissed phillis wheatley's poetry as inferior and not worth the label of literary. nevertheless, i think what this whole episode shows us is that for phillis wheatley and for the americans who witnessed the flourishing of her career it was possible to see that black people were capable of much more than anyone had given them credit for. surely most of the leaders of philadelphia in 1776 would not h

mike shanahan talked about him -- will talk about him on "good morning washington." in about 30 minutes. >> we are following a developing story from baltimore where police are holding a press conference to announce more details about the man arrested in the death of felicia barnes. the suspect is named michael johnson but they dohave not said what they charged him with. she disappeared in 2010 while visiting family members in maryland. her body was found last april. d.c. police are looking for clues in the mysterious death of a tourist from the netherlands. john gonzales has the latest. >> this man was found dead around 6:00 tuesday night and police describe him as a typical tourist. they are trying to figure out why he rented an apartment in a residential area in northwest the sake d.c. the 66-year-old man was a retired registered nurse from colorado was visiting d.c.. why would he be targeted? police are trying to figure that out this morning. they never happened to be walking by an alley when he stumbled upon the body. the cause of death is blunt force trauma to t

which is a washington-based book. why three books on george washington? >> guest: because he is the best. because he i the most important. and everybody knew it. everybody in this lifetime knew and it they all said so, and even when they became his opponents, politically, as madison and jefferson did, they still had to acknowledge his services. and what he had done. and what he did when he died henry lee, famously said, first in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen. he won the revolution. then he was the first president. got the new government up and running. then the third thing he did was after those two things, he went home, which is not universal among revolutionary leaders. washington intersects the early career of napoleon. napoleon is just starting. washington dies in 1799 so they overlap. their careers just overlap. and when napoleon was on st. helena after it had all come to smash, he was saying they expected me to become another washington. kind of bitterly. well, you could have. but you chose not to. washington chose to do

washington hated parties. he believed in, a nation, washington's thinking was not precisely national. even as it became -- continental. he centered i think more on the great republic. than on an idea of -- of nationalism. but these men shared those same ways of, having, a set of values without an ideology. of having a large purpose without fixed and structured plans. of the sort that -- became too rigid and constraining. of working -- closely with the people, but reserving their own leadership. most of all, the capacity for growth, this new wonderful book on, abraham lincoln by eric thunder, describes the growth of lincoln. through the years. the sameten about washington and roosevelt. now he is commanding a global power. a completely different undertaking at least in many of its parts. he also built the broad base of very able leaders. of putting republicans into the major positions, early in the war, secretary of war, secretary of the navy, working across party lines in that, in that regard. also, doing the

washington in the very same way. i knew very little about washington to the i had heard of course that he had shot down a cherry tree, which he didn't, and i had heard that he wore a wig which he didn't come and i heard that he had wooden teeth, which he didn't. so i found out very quickly the things i thought i knew about george washington were absolutely not any of them cracked. so as i began the book which i described as csis meets the biography channel coming and you will see why as we go along, it has been a treat for me to replace all of those myths with the facts about george washington. the premise of the book is did george washington really look like his image on the 1 dollar bill? win mount vernon did some research and found that most americans would describe this image of george washington taken from the portrait as old, boring and grumpy come in and of course they realized they were going to have to change their way of looking at the father of our country. they devised a plan in which they would create th

which he accepted and he served washington until one day, at headquarters, washington was going up the stairs, colonel hamilton was coming down the stairs, the commander in chief said to the colonel, colonel, i wish to see you immediately, the colonel responded, i'll be with you in a few minutes, sir. not the right answer to the commander in chief. washington turned on hamilton, berated him in front of his fellow officers, hamilton then resigned as secretary, returned to the army and later distinguished himself at the battle of yorktown, which brought him back to some degree in washington's good graces. hamilton then left the army and was a congressman from new york. so hamilton then is given the assignment of addressing washington. i doubt that anyone really expected that general washington would join in any plot, but at the same time, they needed to test him out. how did he feel? hamilton warned washington that the army was on the brink of mutiny. he suggested to washington that the general might wish to control, direct the turret was his expression. he also went on to write somethin

washington is continuing right now. >> this is good morning washington on your side. >> good morning. it is emancipation day. another warm day. we start off with whether every 10 minutes. >> its is a the morning. we are going to eat the highway. everything is working in our favor. 270. everything is open downstream right now. ecb headlights. headlights on northbound. we now go to add them caskey. i do not think we will be that hot. and regionaland reasonably warm. let's take a look at some butchers. 56 a mclean. one of the cool spot. it is well above average. 56 in woodbridge. 64 degrees. here is your hourly forecast. and looks like they will make into the lower 80s. 87 at 4:00 p.m.. partly cloudy tomorrow. a little bit cooler. it'll be the northwesterly winds. >> thank you so much. we begin with and it's tremendousdeadly tornadoes. the town of woodward oklahoma was hard hit. five people into doctors' died. people try to pick up the pieces of what is left of their home. >> i doubt there's anything left. it is total can reach a distraction. >> thousand people still without this. >> inv

give washington a ton of credit. washington laid it on the line. it was a neutral zone turnover by backstrom and awesome finish by seguin. >> eddie: the big guys got into it offensively for the boston bruins, the guys on the capitals pat their goaltender on the backside and the head. big guys for the boston bruins got on the board the last couple of games which they had been shut out the first four of the series. big guys showed up huge in the last two. >> mike: there have been two games today. what did you think of those? you saw them back-to-back on nbc. one was the elimination of the penguins by the flyers. other the pepetuation by the bruins. rangers tomorrow night in ottawa. ottawa can clinch that series with a home ice win. both games on the nbc sports network. phoenix and chicago tomorrow night at 9:00 eastern time at united center. >> pierre: settling of the puck by tyler seguin. bruins and capitals feel at times over the course of this series that the game has been dictated through the middle of the ice. fourth play by backstrom. good posi

and washington was up against the first team here. and the question was, how could his forces stand against such a formidable adversary? experience compared with what the american leaders had had. he worked on a system of changing the tactics in the continental army. he began to use artillery. there was a lot of artillery available. it could be taken from ships in philadelphia. the continental army developed a much larger ratio of artillery to infantry than was the indication with the british and hessian forces. and all of this -- the artillery was used up front in the way the german army used some of their artillery in the second world war. what it was meant to do is stabilize and support the inexperienced american infantry and the man at the center of that was the book seller henry knox who taught himself about artillery from the books in his own bookstore. and all of this was put to work. and then washington's counsels began to get news from the intelligence networks that there was an opportunity in new jersey. the opportunity was

marcus brauchli is the editor of "the washington post," was the editor of the washington journal. you have their buy yoes owes. ken i have known for 30 years. he also has written ten books. the latest of which is "googled." but every one of these books has really dealt with communications and people who are changing the nature of communications. want to start with a little historical overview to get this thing started, which is it's been about 50 years since the advent of the digital age and its impact on content. for the first 25 years of that period in the digital age, the format of the content in dirgitl form was discussion. it was the early days of the internet with the bulletin board systems and then eventually online services with the well and leading up to consumable like aol in which people formed communities and were on chat rooms and bulletin boards and discussion groups and everything was shared socially in terms of information and discussion. in approximately 1995 with the advent of the mosaic browser and other things, there was a dramatic shift in the way the internet

president obama thought he would do this when he came to washington. turn this inside out. >> to buttress your point, it had long been held on capitol hill that freshmen were there to be seen and not heard. in 1902, there were 42 freshmen that came in on the teddy roosevelt wave. they so quickly learned they were impotent that they formed a club called the tantalus club, an entertainment group that would entertain members of the press and other politicians. what they basically did was mocked their own powerlessness. to be fair, this group of freshmen is different. as the book details, they have had a lot of influence, i think more than the republican leadership had bargained on. by the end of it all, there were pretty much calling the shots. john boehner was more likely to follow the lead of the freshmen than the other way around. tavis: he called them a pain in my behind. is it really influence? you can have positive influence and negative influence. there are some who could argue that these guys have cost their party a great deal with their shenaniga

washington disliked him intensely. but gates was a powerful politician and he managed to get reinstated as the commander of the army at newburgh, without washington's consent. the congress simply appointed him, and sent him to newburgh telling general washington you may use him as you please. so general gates arrived to be the actual commander of the army, washington of course commander in chief. but gates being the general in charge at the encampment. the men in the encampment, of course, bored, not much to do, about 7,000 soldiers. there, they began to build their huts at a place called new windsor, the new windsor encampment. they built about 700 wooden huts, neatly laid out for the winter encampment. and there they took up their quarters. what do you do with an army in this kind of situation? you drill and drill and then you drill some more, you build more huts, you build roads, you have to keep them busy, but it wasn't working very well. so chaplain evans decided let us build a temple of virtue. in the middle of t

jfk's great quote about washington. and i remember -- i lived in the old d.c., 1976 i came down here, back when they were burning in effigy. now, if you lit a match in lafayette park, you'd get shot by probably six or seven different snipers in different aspects all over that area in different areas of the white house. they've shut down pennsylvania avenue since i was here. i remember it was odd to me to be in union station. i remember when i went to school here, you would -- i didn't have the money to fly and it wasn't convenient. and they used to have a train you could take. the last train was at 9:30, and it was a local. it stopped in delaware, stopped in new jersey. you'd swear it was stopping in st. louis too it took so long. this train was the slowest train you've ever been on in your entire lifetime. and we would go to new york, it was like $18, it was 36 bucks round trip to go on this train. and you'd leave union station and sometimes i'd get a ride there, whatever i wanted to get there early. if i missed that t

so washington agreed to build the building behind us. so they bought three more stills and set it up. and by the early spring of 1798, it was up and running. >> this is a large building, looks like it was expensive to build. how did you get the funding for this? and how did you decide the architecture of it? >> again, we've got great records. the archaeology gave us the footprint of the building. when we go inside, you'll see where the stills are located. and when we dug here, we found the footprint of the building, the locations of all the stills. so we have five stills in here that you've seen behind me. and each one of them is located where the archaeologists found evidence for it. either in the form of remnants of the brick base of the furnace or, you know, heavily burned, reddened soils where the fires had been. and so we have two stills here and then a third one in the middle and then two more, you know, at the other end. then the floors here we found evidence of the brick floor. we found evidence of the boiler to heat the water fo

we have the ability now to have virtual marches on washington. and all those methods are available to yourself. you see. and some of then are about creating bonds of some darety together. if i look at the pictures i took when i went to pro choice rallies, part of it is about reunions with my friends from college. that's a common thing people do. they come from all over the country, and they see their friends. and they're reminded of their past and their future political lives. and then other people come, you know, and you see others, and you're like, wow, this is amazing. everyone always tells me these stories of how i came -- whether it's the march on washington or jobs or freedom or this or that march, i came all the way from here, and i just ran into this person. i hadn't seen them in years. and that's small politics, maybe. but it's big politics when it

came from washington and lived here. and that also ties into a question that i think is very pertinent and is asked all the time these days, why write a book on the history of marching on washington? and the way i think about that, now, is there's two answers. one personal and one more intellectual. so i'll start with the personal. i come from a family of people who march. as i did my research, i discovered the name of my great grandmother, among the women who had supported the cause of the national women's party, though she drew the line when they decided to start picketing the white house in pickets that were so decoreous in comparison to pickets of today they would scarcely attract a blink. she, however, thought that was a shameful break with tradition and withdrew her membership in the national women's party. my parents, as students, went on their second date to the youth march for integrated schools, one of the series of marches held by civil rights activists in the 1950's. this was in 1958. and as i started this bo

he was not on the ballot in washington. nbc projected mitt romney as the winner in washington and maryland. wisconsin is still too close to call. it's interesting hearing mr. santorum's decisions in his speech. he is in part talking about president obama. talking about the issue of health reform. he goes directly to the issue of access to contraception. mr. santorum has gone at the media hard saying you're talking about contraception all the time. he's always the one bringing it up it's the only argument he made against health reform was a contraception related argument. in going after mr. romney, at the end there you heard mr. santorum in one of the best phrased portions of this ad-hoc speech comparing himself to ronald reagan when he fought a losing campaign to gerald ford. he's coming mitt romney to gerald ford who lost to jimmy carter. it's one thing to call yourself ronald reagan, it's another thing to call someone gerald ford as an insult. i thought interesting also is a choice of words and the way that mr. santorum t

when the capital is moved to washington, d.c. and john adams comes down here to be president, we find, in fact, the environment in which this new white house is built, in which this new white house exists, is not that different in terms of the irony that exists there. now, the first irony is the fact that john adams from new england, a non-slave holder, is then followed by three presidents who are all slave holders -- jefferson, madison, an monroe. in addition, the district of columbia itself was infused with slavery and an african-american presence because this new capital of the nation after much negotiation is located between two slave states, virginia and maryland. so we put our nation's capital in the middle of a part of the country where slavery is embraced and encouraged. in addition, the district of columbia itself had a fairly active and large african-american community. in 1800, 25% of the population of this country -- of the city was african-american. they totaled a number of about 4,000 individuals, but about four-fif

washington to the white house in 1901. so it was decided that rather than having one large tea for everyone, first lady hoover would have several teas. they had five in all. at the first four, there were approximately 180 to 200 persons in attendance. then the final tea of 15 persons was the one in which mrs. de priest was invited. there were several different lists of drafts of guests who were to come, and the final shows mrs. hoover's sister, jean hoover large, her secretaries, supporters of her husband's from different parts of -- different representatives. an invitation was sent to mrs. de priest on june 5th, the date of the fourth tea. it was emphasized to be very confidential about this and to caution the messenger from refraining giving any information about it. the event was pleasant and held in the green room of the white house. however, afterwards there was a storm of criticism in the press mostly from the south and also some state legislatures issued resolutions of condemnation. for today there are 1,000 letters

here's bob in washington d.c. go ahead. >> caller: professor mcpherson, i want to thank you for your major contributions to american scholarship on the civil war. do i recall correctly that it was farragut who said full speed ahead or if it wasn't him or was that done at mobile bay? second question i have is after mobile bay, is -- do anything outside of the gulf switch his efforts to atlantic coast? >> you're right in your first assumption. it wasn't mobile bay when he said damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead. that happened as the fleet that he commanded was in the process of passing the forts that protected the entrance to mobile bay and one of the union ships, an ironclad, a brand new ironclad, hit a torpedo which is what they called naval mines then. went to the bottom immediately with the loss of its whole crew and the whole union fleet came to a halt under the guns of the fort and farragut taking the risk of going through the mine field said damned the torpedoes, full steam ahead. so the rest of the fleet w

here in washington a cuban american in the u.s. senate, senator marco rubio outlining his vision of an american foreign policy. he is being talked about as a potential running mate for mitt romney. he is 40 years old, came to this country, his parents came to this country from cuba. he is out with a new book discussing what his life was like growing up in the greater miami area and life for his father and grandfather. at the burkings institution here in washington, d.c. a speech that runs about 30 minutes available on our website at c-span.org. the perspective of senator marco rubio. >> the number of democracies in the world have proliferated nearly ten fold. we have had the longest period of peace between the great powers ever. now before anyone accuses me of claiming that america has ushered in the biblical promise of a new heaven and new earth let's remember the world america made is better but not perfect. it is vastly more peaceful and prosperring than any other age in american history. what is the role for america now? it's n

here we go to washington, on the way to washington. we only have $500 and i'm traveling with elvis presley, you know. we go, we get the check cashed, they preboard us on the american airlines flight to washington, the all nighter. we have two seats in first-class and then they started letting the passengers on and i couldn't help notice that it was a lot of young boys in military outfits coming back from vietnam and elvis was always very cordial. i was by the window, elvis was on the aisle seat and there was one young soldier that struck up a conversation with elvis. and so i was like, reading a magazine. i had -- they seemed to be getting along fine and i get this little elbow nudge. jerry, where's that money? i said, what money? he said, the $500. i know elvis, i'm saying, that's all we've got. he said, man, you don't understand. this guy's coming home from the war to see his family. i want him to have it. so there went the $500. and we go to washington penniness. but, you know, we could get by with a lot. he was fairly well-known. s

i mean, that's clearly -- was one of the early uses of washington, and a continuing use of washington. so -- because it's such a potent place to claim citizenship, that's one reason to use it. but in terms of, you know, dramatic shifts in the political train, you know -- i mean, i know i might be speaking blasphemy. to me, in comparison to other countries, the united states has not had such a dramatic changes, even in the last century, during which this tradition developed. i think the 1960s, it was not so much of a closing down of a system, but of a sense that there was such a desperate need to highlight causes that people turn to more radical tactics. i mean, nixon had many faults, and i'm not saying he was, you know -- but he was not the whole political system. there was still the opportunity to testify. there was still movements in congress. there were still votes. there were still many other things. i think it was the spirit of the time between the civil rights movement and the vietnam -- anti vietnam war movement that made people, after working so hard on so many issues and tryi

washington dc, welcome rg3, your brand new franchise quarterback. after i asked robert lee griffin if after all of this he can live up to the hype? >> are you trying to make anything anti-climatic even know i knew where i was going. when i heard them say robert griffin iii has been selected by the washington redskins, it meant something to me. so i tried to live in the moment and i just cherish everything that happens. >> reporter: the fan expectations are so high and you know all about that. is there anything you want to say? hold up a little bit, guys. don't buy your super bowl tickets just yet. >> you never come out and say you're going to go to the super bowl. but every team's goal is to go to the super bowl. so that's our goal. i think. i haven't even met the team. i'm already talking on behalf of the team. i want to meet the guys. get to know them. let them get to know me. and see if we can gel. and i think we'll be able to. >> reporter: what do you think is the toughest part of the transition to the program. >> just going from top dog to the

a washington scandal. there's outrage. heads that roll. investigations are held. and lawsuits are filed. they are usually about sex and money or both. and that's what engulfs both the u.s. secret service and the general services administration this week. where workers on the taxpayer dime allegedly went way, way outside the lines. first, michael, a brief recap. >> i don't know if it's stage three or four. gwen: i don't know. >> if you've been frustrated with government this is a fun time. officials of the general service administration, that's an agency that takes care of office space and other functions, managed to throw $1 million conference for themselves outside of las vegas. including spending $7,000 on sushi and $3,200 on a mind reader. when that story broke, we had four congressional investigations. about half dozen officials at the g.s.a. lost or -- lost their jobs or resigned. and congress is moving now toward a measure that would cap the cost of conferences at $500,000 which will make it harder t

you can talk about eight washington, but this is not just about that. you can have it relates to the larger topic -- topic of affordable housing. >> i think that the condominiums there and do not allow for the affordable housing. supervisor kim: what i am saying is you can speak about it in reference to the larger issue, not specifically to eight washington. >> ok. i guess i will not speak today. >> good afternoon, supervisors. i am with a golden gate tenants association. i am here today to express support for increased funding for affordable housing. in that context, we live immediately across the street from a proposed development at 8 washington street, which will do very little in itself to promote affordable housing, but, instead, it will require the first increase in height limits along the waterfront in the last 50 years. we support the opposition by the friends of golden gateway to the age washington project and encourage the board of supervisors to signal its support for increased affordable housing, like when the eight washington project comes

out of washington, everybody gets this. inside washington, that is what is done. we have institutionalized corruption in washington. that is where things need to change. tavis: if lobbying is legalized bribery, why do we allow it? >> most lobbyists are not engaged in this. most are trying to represent their clients by putting forth the merits of their arguments as a lawyer with in court. the problem is, since the playing field is tilted by the money, by those lobbyists like i was the have the capacity to bring resources to the picture, there is no way for them to win any of these arguments. but we never lost. we never really went up against people that had anywhere near the resources we did. most of the lobbying was done there. 90% of them want to move to k- street. 90% want to be lobbyests, -- lobbyists. we need systemic change in washington, a foundational change. >> let's talk about some of those changes now. with this revolving door on capitol hill, how do we solve the problem? >> if you were somebody that worked on capitol hill, you can never go through the r

item one, case number 20078 washington. i will not call the case numbers anymore because the case number is the same. item one, certification of the final interment will impact report. item tw2a, the adoption of findings under the california and our rental quality act. 2b is considered jointly with recreation and park commission, the establishment of a cumulative shadow limit for suberin park. 2c, discussion of possible action by the recreation and park commission to recommend to the planning commission that the shuttle from the proposed project at 8 washington street will not have an adverse impact on the part. item 2d, to authorize the allocation of a cumulative shadow of a force to be urban parlimit for sue bierman park. item 2f, consideration of motion making finding of consistency with the general plan and the priority policies of planning code section one a 1.1. 2g, request for height reclassification to reclassify two portions of the southwestern area of the development site from 84-e height and bulk district to the

took too many troops out of washington. we're unsafe here. you can't have mcdowell because this fellow jackson that we read about, he's already attacked the union force near kearnstown and no telling what he'll do next. he may sweep down the potomac and attack washington, we've got to keep him here. what this meant for mcclellan was not that they weren't going to attack to siege richmond, but they weren't going to be able to do it through strategical point maneuver, they'd have to rely more on a pounding, slow process starting at yorktown and he thought to bring along a siege artillery, so in early april his forces arrived near yorktown. the whole revolutionary war entrenchments now much improved by the confederates but lightly manned and began actual siege operations near yorktown that would last throughout the month of april. and while this was going on, mcclellan, being a thoroughly modern major general decided that he was going to use all the enhancements that technology could bring to him first off, he hired professor