but that's not the washington we think about. >> lack of discipline is just one of washington's problems. without enough artillery or gunpowder, his army's attempt to surround boston and charlestown, starving out the british, will eventually be overwhelmed. ben franklin's congressional delegation is also watching his every move. >> gentlemen, congress is impatient about the stalemate. >> when i took command of this army, i expected to find a force of 20,000 men. instead, we have less than 15,000, a quarter of which are sick. of that said, with the addition of morgan's riflemen, we may yet be able to launch an attack. >> and what does his excellency propose? >> a direct assault on boston, gentlemen. our men could cross the back bay in flat-bottom boats and attack the british. >> boston is simply too well defended. >> the british suffer greatly for want of provisions. their spirits are broken. and there sits boston, gentlemen. we must attack. >> just as long as we have arms and ammunition, sir. >> general washington, uh, uh, may we have a word? >> washington has a penchant for grand plans.

washington? >> and mrs. washington i'm sure. and one other note, just i think i mentioned earlier that john adams had been ambassador to britain. as ambassador to britain, he was called excellency as was abigail. they were both excellency in britain. and i found evidence that when abigail was back in the united states after that, she was still getting correspondence addressed to her excellency, mrs. john adams. so she was still excellency to st some of her friends, probably her friends in britain. >> i'm going to ask one more question and then we're going to turn it to the audience, so please get your questions ready. but one other thing that's been on my mind with the current presidential election, there's arguably a better chance there bob a woman elected president this year than any other time, and i wonder if hillary clinton was elected president, will there be a new presidential title controversy, will there be a new debate, or is it pretty settled what she will be called. >> many women are presidents of organizes and they

washington heard of this book. he writes to his agent, robert carey in london and specifically asks for that title in a certain edition. he has heard about this from somewhere. if you are in a city like new york or boston or philadelphia, there are bookshops and lists of what is out in what you can order, but in a place like this, or you are removed all of that, it really relies on word-of-mouth or written recommendations. things like that. agriculture, you find in asking for specific titles, because it is a big he felt comfortable talking about. >> just a quick question, as i understand it, he did attend school until his father died when he was 11? adrienne harrison: hmm hmm. >> did he receive any schooling, mathematics, surveying, was that helpful? adrienne harrison: it was. we know that washington was educated up to today, an equivalent would be like late elementary school, maybe middle school level. for a time when he lived with this older half-brother lawrence, he did have a private tutor. he was instructed in

but washington is a savvy commander. he knows that this is going to be, as perverse as it may seem to us, a morale booster. they are going to hang the person who is attempting to bring an end to the drive to independence. >> on the same day thomas hickey is hanged, thomas jefferson delivers his draft of the declaration. but the delegates are still hopelessly divided over independence. >> the continental congress understood that it would have much greater power if it was a unanimous vote. if it was a split decision, then the british could say, "see, you guys are just arguing among yourselves. it's not americans against us. it's americans against americans." >> to proceed with a declaration of independence is to brave the storm in a skiff made of paper. >> it is too late for peace. general washington expects the entire british fleet within days. >> john dickinson doesn't see this as simply a vote for independence. he sees it as a vote to condemn his countrymen to a cruel and unusual fate. and that is a step that he's unwil

and washington says, "no, he will be executed. >> washington knows that to win the espionage war, he must send a message to british spies. [ horse neighs ] >> whatever you have to do, make sure benedict arnold is hanged. >> it's one of the moments in his command where he is the most criticized by those who are closest to him because it's something that's not a military necessity. this is personal. >> there is no doubt that at first benedict arnold is ready to die in battle for the american cause. >> yeah! >> charge! >> but unlike true patriots, his loyalty not only has a limit, it has a price. instead of a hero, arnold is remembered as america's biggest traitor. as a british general, he goes on to lead attacks against american forces, but on his deathbed, some historians believe that arnold finally shows remorse. they report that with his last words, he asks to die in his continental army uniform. >>> and this is a fox news alert. police officers once again gunned down this time in baton rouge, louisiana. the suspect was reportedly dressed in black and ambushed the officers killing t

so i think we see the human washington. i think we see washington with nerve. we don't think of washington being nervous. about anything. he is there, he is in command of himself and that is all there is to it. he's steely eyed are ready to take on whatever comes at him. but he was a real person with real anxieties just as we all are take on new positions whether it's -- in whatever we choose to do. and our public or private life. he was just like us. he was real. he had flaws, vulnerabilities, but he had strength and he knew how to play them. and this reading program that he had helped play to their strength. it shored up, i gave him the security, the knowledge needed to be able to do what he did which was improbable. everything about what he has a in his life, nothing said father of a country. nothing. but somehow we did it. that's what we learn from it. here is a look at the real person. this thing that had been overlooked for all these years, the library that was right here under everybody's nose the all-time. so with that i thank you and welcome your quest

and it horrified washington. the letter he would write to arnold about this initially he said i heard this was a situation i cannot believe it's true but believe me if it is i will do everything for you. he would try but this began arnold's real problems with the continental congress. he had a point and others for example john stark from new hampshire sure the same thing what happened to him and he quit. he would raise his own state army and arnold could have done that but he hung in there. and in typical arnold fashion he is in new haven kind of upset over all of this. his though widower is 36, he better 16-year-old girl in boston that he fell in love with. he wrote for the most awful letter you ever read it she turned him down flat. so he's in new haven and it's not looking good. and he hears that a royal governor william tyrone at british occupied new york is leading a raid on danbury connecticut where the americans have a lot of military -- it's very much like the raid on concord that would start revolution.

he came to washington, he did not finish the current supreme court building, and he died in washington as chief justice of the supreme court. back, 1921.he came announcer: and he was chief justice under three presidents. harding appointed him. what was he like as a former president and also chief justice with harding and coolidge? mr. seale: he was chief justice. he never presented himself as a former president, if that is what you mean, john. he -- taft was a brilliant man, and he had what he wanted. and he was chief justice to them. that was his relationship with them. he had no -- he never took the position of ex-president. announcer: it did the public allow him to be just chief justice? did the press ever ask him questions about his experience and commenting on issues both as chief justice and as former president? mr. seale: he was very restricted. he restricted himself very much from the press, from anything like that, and his ideas were always welcome, and the public loved taft. they just never considered him strong enough as president. he was not a public figure like theodore ro

the values washington had. he could learn from his experience. >> exactly. so when he's defeated, he doesn't say, oh, woe is me, pity me, but what can i learn from this. experience had been his teacher all through life. his father died when he was quite young. he was on his own from about the age of age 16, as all these other people were, too. but the jabez fitch story is different because he's keeping a diary, and he kept a diary no matter what was happening, including after he was captured and taken prisoner and put in one of those vial british prison ships in the harbor here in new york, and i think he must have hid this. we showed a picture of a beautiful leather diary and all that -- they were writing on little scraps of paper and i think he was hide aing them in his shoe because that was against the rules, you weren't supposed to do that. >> rose: right. but the fact they wrote the letters and kept the diaries is part of the great contribution to their country because now we know what it was like. we can

nobody tells washington. washington goes to the senate and says, "excuse me, fellas, mr. fishborn is my appointee." it turns out that one of george's senators has a pretty trivial grudge against mr. fish born and decides to basically nail him to the wall. sorry, mr. fishborn. washington is furious at this, but the precedent it sets is courtesy in presidential appointments. so, up to the present day, a senator has the right to bar the appointment of a federal appointee in his own state. washington was very unhappy, and apparently, he smoldered in a way that was quite terrifying when he was angry. however he bowed to congress , because he believed in , republican government. in another instance, having to do with the first treaty signed by the united states, there had been treaties under the federal government, these were southern indians, the creek indians who , then lived mainly in the state of georgia, and by the way, one of the most colorful, wonderful episodes of the first congress was the delegation of creek indians, who eventually come to new york in full regalia to

as the name selects a successor, washington 45, to the office that george washington defined more than 225 years ago, we couldn't be any luckier without the expert like kata of the rid original presidency. it is my pleasure to welcome dr. kathleen bartoloni-tuazon. [ applause ] >> i just want to say hello this evening, thank you for coming and happy washington's birthday. >> get comfortable here. so you know that i love this book. i'll just show my harcards here the start. >> thank you so much. >> what i really wonder about is why the presidential controversy me? it's something that will be a paradigm in a book at best. so i'm interested how you came to this topic? >> first of all, there were times when it was called a big hassle, or other historians wondered why the congress spent so much time on it when they could have been working on those amendments to the constitution, or you know, figuring out taxation policy. but what they didn't quite realize was how important was title controversy was to figuring out what they were going to do with this new office of the president. how i came

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washington thought he was. he sent him to -- all the way to pennsylvania, gave christopher shield $25 to cover his expenses. it's kind of interesting. the guy was going to run away a year later because he got married in the meantime. but he gave him $25. and washington, by the way, has a little note in his expense account book, christopher gave me back $12 after the trip. a rather interesting nonessential but tidbit fact of the day. whether it was rabid or not, i don't know. there's no question he recovered and washington later wrote, he's not afraid of being bitten by a mad dog again. but whether he was actually rabid, i don't know. other questions. yes. there's a question -- i'm sorry, with the microphone. go on. >> what can you tell us about his wills? did he leave his wills or what to do about the former will? >> that's a question about whether washington wrote a will. washington wrote a will after he was made commander in chief of the continental army. and that was probably the will he had throughout the r

we have a long list of them on our nbc washington app plus other activities for any budget. just search july 4 budget. >>> well, we know hot dogs and hamburgers are the traditional july 4th foods, but what you are about to see may have you craving something italian. we are going to talk about the cold italian hero. that's what we're making here today? >> absolutely. >> you've already got so many great things lined up ready to put into this what's going to be a huge sandwich. >> what's going to be a huge sandwich when we're done. welcome to carmine's, everythi >> you dug out the bread here in the top of the sandwich. >> we dug out the bread to give you more room for all of the ingredients. we're going to brush on a little olive oil and then put some nice red wine vinegar on the bread. once we get all of that on there, then we're going to season that with a little bit of salt, a little bit of pepper and a good amount of oregano. >> so a little salt, a little pepper and a lot of oregano. >> all right. and then we're going to put our meats on there. >> tell us what we have. >> t

it's about an hour. >> it's a course on george washington. five years ago when this series began, the university and administration made a kmutment to add a component to the celebration of our beloved name sake. since that time, the event has flourished. we have heard stimulated presentations for some of the scholars of his times including ken boeing, and last year phil morgan. this year for washington's 284th birthday, we have four firsts, which is fitting for the first president. this is the first year that we had the lecture of washington's actual birthday. . this is also the first year that we have had had the lecture in the george washington university museum. which thanks to the generosity of albert small tells the history of washington, d.c. through his collection. there can be no more fitting location for the lecture. the third first is this is the first year we feature his own h history. dr. kathleen, who has written an acritically acclaimed study of 1789. i u say event because this year george washington lecture is a little differen

good morning washington. i'm larry smith. and i'm autria godfrey. let's get right to weather, where we are seeing the impact of those serious storms last night. the storm came with strong wind gusts, and they causes a lot of damage. several trees came crashing down last night including this one in silver spring maryland. and this is a live look in northwest washington, where downed power lines have knocked out service to nearby cutomers. here is where we and they causes a lot of damage. several trees came crashing down last night including this one in silver spring maryland. and this is a live look in northwest washington, where downed power lines have knocked out service to nearby cutomers. here is where we stand right now.. right now about 46-hundred pepco are underway following severe thunderstorms in the region last night. the storms triggered flash floods, and downed several trees. suzanne kennedy is live in northwest washington where one of many trees came down. covering metro. the agency is now in phase 5 of it's it's expected to have a big i

>> guest: part of it with washington to get a little bit of this with wilson. you think of america at the time , it was a deeply important revolution particularly a spec to play and they seem to have an acute sense of a new world that they were trying to bring about but they were also looked down upon by most europeans in particular and not having the cultural educational institutions that you found in england on the continent so that motivated washington but washington was also as he puts it in his farewell address and several attempts to call for a national university he was also deeply aware republican government, he said we really need to cultivate a certain kind of knowledge and it has to speak not just to leadership klatt -- class this self-consciously thought about this sort of knowledge for the citizenry that carries forward these ideas so education for him became a way of speaking to the nation that he had helped create and seeing that it would carry forward the american experiment. looking back we tend to pursue him its success and those in the genera

lady washington. now, martha washington was called lady washington. she was not called the first lady from anything i ever read but she was called lady washington. she was also called the lady of the president. and she was also called quite often, more often than you might think, the president's aimable consort. >> wow. >> yes. she was -- in a poem she was addressed as our fabian queen. and in that poem, that poem is dedicated to the aimable consort of the illustrious washington. so, lady, lady of the president, aimable consort. >> maybe just mrs. washington? >> and mrs. washington, i'm sure. and one other note, just i think i mentioned earlier that john adams had been before to britain. as ambassador to britain, he was called excellency as was abigail. they were both excellency in britain. and i found evidence that when abigail was back in the united states after that, she was still getting correspondence addressed to her excellency, mrs. john adams. so she was still excellency to some of her friends, probably to her friends in britain. >> okay. well

that's the live view from the tower cam in northwest washington. 75 in downtown washington. mid-70s around the bay. upper and mid-60s in spots of the rural areas of maryland and virginia. in virginia, many locations are in the low 60s. temperatures will quickly jump by 9:00, 80 degrees. by noontime, upper 80s, near 90 by early we'll look at that and how long the heat wave is ending, coming up this half hour. >> thanks. >>> the national mall is going to be packed full of people for christian prayer. most of the speeches and performances are going to happen around the north side of the washington monument. hundreds of thousands are expected to attend and security is going to be extra tight in the wake of the recent attacks. u.s. police say there are no known threats and they are confident things are going to be safe. >> a huge amount of police and security. we think of it in terms of th, s is like the front yard of the statehouse. there's interest in securing this part of the country, we believe this is a safe area. >> together 2016 runs from 9:00 this morning until 9:00 tonig

it's washington d.c. and virginia. when i was researching the book i met this military intelligence officer and i i said where does united states get its best information? where does its best information come from and one of the things they said to me, this is a true story. years ago there was a dictator who hated the united states. this dictator hated the united states that he said he hated us quote to their heart into their bones. but no one new is the state hater was one of the top with tenet secretly working for the united states. he was actually a spy for america. i was like why? did you pay him money quickly set for the very best reason of all because it of family here what happened was one of his top lieutenants had a sick child who needed medical attention that only the united states could give so we gave this young child medical attention and exchange this lieutenant gave us information about terrorist the weaponry out of the hands of extremists and help us with an investigation that no one knew about. you wil

and it horrified washington. the letter he would write to arnold about, you know, initially he says, you know, i've heard this is the situation. i can't believe it's the true, but believe me, if it if it is,i will do everything for you that i can. and he would try, but this began arnold's real problems with the continental congress. and, you know, he had a point. and others, for example, john stark from new hampshire, same thing would happen to him. you know what he did? he quit. he quit and went to new hampshire and would raise his own state army. and, you know, arnold could have done that. but, no, he hung in there. and in typical arnold fashion, he's in new haven kind of upset over all this. he's now a widower. he's 36. he's met a 16-year-old girl in boston that he's fallen in love with. he's written her the most purple letter you've ever read -- [laughter] and she's turned him down flat. and so he's in new haven. it's not looking good. and he hears that a governor, a royal governor, william tyrone, at british

that washington should be the leader. there was this group of founding fathers, gates included, that thought that gates should be commander in chief, not washington, because if you have power, there's always those who covet your power. >> british-born gates runs a traditional army, so while he's heard of guerrilla tactics, he's skeptical. >> with 50 or 100 more men, we could give the redcoats proper hell, sir. >> i have no wish to enable another backwoods braggart like ethan allen. the man took ticonderoga and thought that made him the finest commander since hannibal. even congress gave him a hero's welcome. >> huzzah, you bloody rabble! >> but he was a drunkard, a liar, and a fool. >> so, i demanded the fort commander surrender. [ men cheer ] and he says, "by whose authority?" so i thundered out, "in the name of great jehovah and the continental congress!" [ men cheer ] >> it is the unfortunate state of our world that the boasts of such men command more attention than the loyalty and hard work of dedicated officers. >> g

the engraving of washington was sent to mount vernon in 1797 and based on a portrait of washington. and as i noted upon its arrival george and martha hung it in the passage at mount vernon. upon the completion of tudor place in 1816, the peter family placed the print on the west side of the drawing room. the writing table was of particular significance. it was one piece of french furniture that george washington had obtained 1790. the table was taken to philadelphia where martha used it in the president's house and upon washington's retirement in 1797 it came back to mount vernon where it was used by martha until her death. here it is in the tudor place parlor about 1900. it too was at tudor place until 1911. it remained in the peter family and in that in 39, returned to mount vernon. this would have been a piece of furniture in which martha washington spent a great deal of time and the writing table is important for another reason. found within it behind it were two letters from george to martha washington. this is significant because as i noted, martha burned all their correspond

and that will be george washington. the big hero of the day, of course, equal now to franklin as far as american fame goes, and so washington will take the lead in the constitutional convention. and the very chair in the back of the room behind me is the chair in which washington sat, which interestingly, is the only item in this room that we today have in this room that we know for certain was here as a part of those events. that chair was made in 1779 after the british left philadelphia. a lot of things were gone between the americans coming and going, british coming and going. we just don't have all the contents of the building anymore. pennsylvania's government has to make new furniture, including that chair for the speaker of pennsylvania. so that was in the room on that spot when washington took that position in 1787. so the virginia plan, three branches of government, somewhat familiar to us today, here's some of the issues that are going to face that plan as far as when you start debating. other plans are going

it's washington d.c. and virginia. when i was researching the book i met this military intelligence offers her and i said where does that intelligence come from? one of the things they said to me and this is such her story, years ago there was a dictator who hated the united states. the dictator hated the united states. he hated them to his heart into his bones right down to his heart and his bonds but what no one knew this dictator one of the top attendance was secretly working for the united states. he was a spy for america. i was like, why? do they have money? but very best reason of all because of family. what happened was part of that top lieutenants had a sick child that needed medical attention that only the united states could give. we gave this young child medical attention and exchange the dictator and gave information about terrorists and weaponry out of the hands of extremists help us with the financial investigation. you will see it in the book and you'll ask yourself, i did make up. it's real and happened

watch "washington journal," beginning at 7:00 a.m. et. >> here at the national constitution center, they have an area called signers hall. john mcardle took a tour. welcome to the national constitution center. we are the only museum in the country dedicated to the constitution. we are located in the heart of philadelphia. we have 3 main missions. we are museum where you can come throughout the year to see our amazing interactive expeditions, but we are town hall. you can find great programming about current cost of two national debates and discussions. we are a civic education center. we want our content out to teachers and students. today, i will talk about our museum. we are in one of the signature exhibition spaces called signer's hall. this is the moment the constitution was signed. there are 42 statues in the room representing those that were still present and participating in the constitutional convention in september after the end of a long summer that basement in philadelphia working to create this document. you can really wal

well, i should quote you at least a fraser two of how washington -- phrase or two of how washington was thinking. he said from the moment when the necessity of accepting the office of chief executive had become apparent and as it were inevitable i anticipated in a thet filled with the stress 10000 and there's men's, perplexities, and troubles to which i must again be exposed in the evening of a life already near consumed in public cares. one of the first challenges very, very first weeks of congress. it hinged on a seemingly innocuous question. just what was the chief executive to be called? it might not have been president. adams stepse john in and ruins the vice presidency for all eternity. [laughter] first congress than weeks, weeks debating what to call the chief executive. withdams, who repeatedly charisma, i daresay, inserted himself in the senate debate and essentially aggravated everyone. he diminish the office of vice president with his every utterance. adams, bute john these were not his best years. adams considered his most benign highness or at least his highness as the bear

the washington humane society, washington animal rescue league is overflowing with cats. a lot of people tend to adopt dogs. joining me is lisa, the president and ceo. why are -- i'm a cat person. why don't cats get the same attention as dogs tend to when people t? one is there are twice as many. 2/3 cats to 1/3 dogs in any shelter across america. a lot of that is because cats breed so frequently. i think the other thing is there are different, more casual degrees of ownership of cats. if people own a dog, it's clear it's there. sometimes cats roam outside and owned by several people in the neighborhood feeding them. what we see the most is if people lose a dog, half of our dogs are reclaimed when they come in stray. only 5% or 6% of the cats are reclaimed when they come? >> oh, no. >> it's all about the more casual perspectives on owning cats. >> how many cats do you have in the shelter right now that are up for adoption today? >> so we have over 150 cats available. we need everygl to go home. because we took in over 50 cats from a hoarding case tuesday night. >> that wa

we see washington with nerves. we don't think of washington being nervous about anything. right? he is there, he is in command of himself, and that is all there is to it. he is steely eyed and ready to take on whatever comes at him. but he was a real person with real anxiety, just as we all are and we take on new positions, whatever it is we choose to do in our public or private lives. he was just like us. he was real. he had flaws and vulnerabilities , but yet strengths and knew how to play to them. this reading program he had helped play to those strengths. it gave him security, the hewledge he needed to do it did, which was improbable. everything about what he accomplished in his life, nothing said father of the country. nothing. he did, and that is a we learn from it. here is a look at the real person that has been overlooked for all these years. the library that was right here under everybody's noses all this time. for that, i thank you and welcome your questions. [applause] >> ok, we are going to open it up for questions. i want everyone to wait for the microphone to calm.

zas a commission that museum in washington, d.c. he won the noble peace prize in 1986. family members have not said how he died. he was 87 years old. you can read more about his >>> beautiful today but as we move into thevte4 remainder of holiday weekend rain chances are on the increase. here is the latest on radar. we are dry this after midnight some showers are possible mainly south of washington. you can see the radar not notice rain down around southern maryland and parts of the d we conti6:#zx on into the mid morning hours.9kykx scattered showers south of washington but if you are in slim chanceer8ss you're dealing light rain. not a huge deal but the chance s there.#x otherwise mostly cloudy skies throughout the day