Before the nixon improvements, you can see a portion of his lydia can tell you better than me. The wine cellar, semicircular, is still down there. The mike, oh, okay. Traces of jeffersons wine cellar and after the war of 1812, when the house was rebuilt, where the west wing big building is now was a stable. It is under the dining room windows, wasnt a very clear decision. And it was paved all in there, and you can the big arch is still there, just filled in where the horses were admitted. So it is the west wing is a working wing and it receives plenty of attention, but it does have a job to do. Yes. I would like to know when was electricity put in the white house so that an elevator could be used by president roosevelt or if, for some reason, they didnt have a back up, were there ramps or anything of that sort to be used . The first elevator, which was a counterweight elevator, not electrical, was ordered by president garfield and put in later by put into operation by arthur. It was ne
Picture of the real madison, and what drove him, was a reference in that first inaugural address to the constitution as the cement of the union, as well in its limitations as in its authorities. He was promising to adhere to the same principle he demanded of the hamiltonians in the 1790s when madisons party was in the minority and both houses of congress and excluded from executive decisionmaking. He promised to continue republican measures, economy in public expenditures, keeping the Standing Army within the requisite limits and demoting state militias as the firmest bulwark of republics. But that interpretation of the constitution constrained from a from moving america in the direction of a permanently centralized military. That interpretation of an america constrained from building up a war chest, that government was supplanted by another. It had to be if continental expansionism that jefferson and madison both saw as ultimately desirable was to take place. So madison had to learn o
Our last speakers are andrew burstein, who is the charles professor of history at Louisiana State university, and hes the author of the books the inner jefferson, jeffersons secrets, lincoln dreamt he died, history of the american dream, and hes also coauthor with nancy isenberg, our second speaker, will be copresenting, of madison and jefferson. And andrew asked me it tell you about his new book that is coming out on jeffersons birthday next year, april 13th, 2015 called democracys muse, how Thomas Jefferson became an fdr liberal. Description of the white house historian. But anyway, and with him is nancy isenberg, who is also distinguished professor at Louisiana State university. Shes the author of two prize winning books. Sex and citizenship and ant b l antebellum america and the coauthor of madison and jefferson. Please welcome our speakers. [ applause ] there we go. I like to give a shoutout to a war vet, not the war of 1812, number 12235370, thank you for your service, dad. You [