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Josh koerner, he helped write to a morris. Bookhen bill wrote his own on eisenhowers presence is a classic, including on the eisenhower presidency. Was lucky to i know him. He lived in connecticut. I would go visit him. He was my goto guy on eisenhower. When i was going through documents or literature, i could see bill and have him answer my questions. He helped me to know and understand eisenhower. One of the most rewarding and challenging parts of writing any historical figure, especially one ...

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If you oppose you can also contact us on social media. Http twitter. Com cspanwj is our twitter handle and journal cspan. Org is our email. This is from the National Journal looking at what the senate did. Senate democrats delivered president obama the assurance that he needed on thursday to carry out the Historic Iran Nuclear deal signed by the u. S. And five other global powers. While there will be other votes by potential lawsuits raised the gop, the vote on thursday blocked a resolution disa...

Again. And some more impetus to make sure the fortifications defending washington were doing their job. Over the four years, many of the forts were made larger. Guns were change to get the best guns were changed to get the best function out of each fort an out of the system itself. The defenses were tested in july 1864. Before i say that, there were raids on the forts where they would come in and steal horses or supplies. But the only real attack a reconnaissance took place on july 11, 12 of 186...

Who writes his memoir 40 years after the fact, writes it in a flowery 19th century flowery style. When wallace says they arrived here in the morning and lit their camp fires, hell Say Something like, you know, the ste ste steely ska gave way to the orange sun and which was great. You have to balance what wallace says in his memoir with his telegrams from the battlefield. His after reaction report two weeks later because wallace had a way of making himself sound really good. And, you know, he did...

President will say, mary would not make a very good soldier, as she swooned. So while the president has been under fire, a man has been shot near him, and by 4 00, the 6th corps is ready to take the offensive. And they will move out from in front of fort stevens, moving across the ground that slopes down to where walter reid is now, beyond battleground cemetery, where 40odd men of the Union Soldiers who were killed here are buried and the union troops and the confederates pulled back. Lincoln wi...

Men took up their stand against the confederate troops, who came straight down that way from where the tracks are, and this is where they held them. This is the actual junction. It says frederick junction, but its known as the monacacy junction then. The old train station was right behind us over here. And, in fact, these are the tracks that the troops came down from baltimore. Anyway, after their vermonters finally couldnt take it anymore, they fled down the tracks, around the bentd, and the ol...

Lincolns popularity was so low, no one thought hed win that election. This would have killed any chances that lincoln could have gotten reelected. And think about this, too, the confederate the english and the french were sort of looking for an excuse to come in on the side of the confederacy. They didnt have cnn or cspan back then, but they had newspapers and this got covered. Just wouldnt have been very good for the union cause had headlines been splashed around the country and around the worl...

Surviving forts with dale floyd from the National Park service. Right now were in the museum which has a variety of different artifacts. One of the nice things is we have a map of the fences of washington and gives you a good idea of where they are today. Fences of washington and gives you a good idea of where they are today. And today we are also going to go to fort foot which is down here. And all the way up to fort stephens which is up there. The reason that the forts were built was basically...

Guns within the fort. They started building it very early and kept working on it and changing it to the place where it was eventually the fifth largest. You had basically during the war green guns and black guns with bronze and the iron. Usually the bronze was smooth ore and the black guns were rifled guns. And the rifled guns, of course, had a better range and actually fired better. But a gun like this was a good antipersonnel weapon. There were various types of ammunition you could use in this...