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Good evening. Its a pleasure to welcome you to the william g. Mcgowan theatre this evening here at the National Archives. And a special welcome to our viewers on cspan and our own youtube channel. Tonights program, womens history on the horizon, the centennial of the womens suffrage in 2020, it is presented in commemoration of womens equality day, 2014, and the 94th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment to the constitution, which granted women the right to vote. And forever chang...

The pedestrian walkway in front of the white house is still closed. Adam tuss is live with the latest from there. Adam . Reporter the situation there, still the same as the past hour, hour and a half. Take a look, this is 15th and pennsylvania. You can see beyond the street, the traffic is moving on 15th street. Right there, the pedestrian entrance where the secret Service Officer is and the yellow caution tape, that has been in place for at least an hour now, maybe an hour and a half since the ...

The shoals. And some more ships would sail up the bay under captain peter parker to disrupt communications and further confuse the americans. And hes able hes able to persuade ross and Admiral Cochrane to go along with this. Ross, he takes them ashore, in st. Marys county and ross sees how poor the defenses are. And ross is, you know, an aggressive commander himself. He certainly has proven himself in the european wars, and hes eager to get home. Hes got a wife who is not at all happy hes been s...

200 years ago this summer in he war of 1812, british soldiers invaded washington, d. C. 24, 1814 and set fire to the white house and the u. S. Building. President James Madison and first Lady Dolly Madison fled the city. Highlights from a symposium looking back at what war. Nown as mr. Madisons the White House Historical association, u. S. Capitol society, and James Madisons mt. Peelier cohosted this event. Our next speaker this mornings session will be talking about Dolly Madison and the britis...

And most of them i think were built around either boston or philadelphia. In supporting the war, and particularly the naval war, did jobs ever come into any of the equations in 1812, or looking longer through American History, when did jobs become an issue of National Policy . All right. When did jobs start driving our defense policy . Yes. Not during this war. I dont see any evidence that federalists said, well, weve got to support expanding the navy because thats going to be jobs in our commer...

A half hour after he had initially been due for dinner, with Supreme Court associate Justice Gabriel duvall and soon learned that quote, our army was rapidly retreating and that of the enemy advancing rapidly. He and duvall went to georgetown and picked up the jones and carol families as well as dolly, anna and annas husband, richard cuts. Jones then received word from James Madison to go to the works west of georgetown. So, quote, at about 5 00, i set out in the company of the family of the pre...

Hero heroine of the war of 1812. In 1834, we have now skipped 20 years. In 1834, she finally got her chance to present her interpretation of events. The occasion for this was that she received a request from Margaret Baird smith, the wife of the editor of the National Intelligencer and also writer and novelest, to supply smith with material for a bigragical sketch of mrs. Madison for the third volume of the portrait gallery of distinguished americans. Dolley seems to be ambivalent. She sent smit...

The White House Historical association and James Madisons montpelier cohosted this event. Our next speaker will be talking about Dolly Madison and the british invasion of washington, d. C. , in the war of 1812. We have heard some things about Dolly Madisons role. Now well hear more from holly shulman, a former editor of the Dolley Madison papers. Pers. Dited a group of p a dr. Shulman continued to publish Dolly Madison papers which she has grants from the Historic Preservation and Records Commis...

A round table in community safety. He arrived in town with attorney general bill barr and also chad wolf. Well keep an eye on it and dip back in if the event makes news. Meanwhile Facebook Says that russian controltrolls are targe americans yet again as we expected them to. And this is based on a tip from the faib. Twitter also suspended similar accounts calling them russian state actors. Treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin is testifying on capitol hill before a special house subcommittee on corona...

All this as some trump cabinet members at the urging of republicans are privately discussing evoking the 25th amendment to remove him from office. Were covering all the angles this morning. Lets begin with cnns john harwood at the white house. John, the white house spokesman put out a statement after congress certified joe bidens win. Talk about what it says. Dan ask a screen know had to put out the statement because the president s twitter account had been locked for what he had issued earlier ...