Include i had a piece of information that bob woodward wanted. I didnt articulate to myself. But when i looked back and i asked myself why i did this bad and stupid thing. I think thats what it comes down to. Sunday night, Georgetown University professor talks about working as a researcher and government writer for Hillary Clinton and bob woodward in her ook. I resisted. I spoke in general terms what it was like being in the white house and i told them the story about being in the room during this unusual exercise. I told them you cant use it. There were only these two women in the room who were doing this. These two guests and one or two staffers and mrs. Clinton. If you use it, everybody will know that i was the source. And i was very worried about that. But i trusted them. Sunday night at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. For the next hour, American History tv exclusive. Our cities tour visits harrisburg, pennsylvania to learn more about its unique history. For five years we traveled to cities across the u. S. To explore their literary and historic sites. Atch more of our visits at cspan. Org citiestour. The election of 1840 was very much a see himinal election on all sorts of things. We spent the spring of 2016 talking about how contested the elections were and how critical it was to be there setting the rules. Ell, that happened here first. Lutheran in the church, which was the site of convention. Sorts of arty was all political views that agreed on one thing. Under the administration of president andrew jackson, executive power had gotten way out of control. And it was in fact thats where the name came from. They were opposed toll king george iii. So they were against king andrew i. Otherwise, they didnt agree on much. The whigs were made of the conservative faction in the country. Ats a little about of a misnoemer. The democrats were the hard money people and the whigs were the soft money people. The whigs were made up of it antiUnited States bank, antislavery, you had antinations thrown in into the mix. As i said, the greatest unifying factor of the party was in opposition to the expansion of executive power, that they wanted the predominant engine of the government to be Congress Rather than the presidency. Heir superstar of the whig party was henry clay, who had been speaker of the house. He had been secretary of state. And now was serving in the United States senate. He was a very car mass particular leader. He was the most popular politician of the whig. Worship. Otion voted on a y chose harrisburg, albeit nod to getting off the coastline, all the previous conventions had been held in baltimore, the antinations held a small one in philadelphia. This was a 100mile nod to the expansion of the country westward and secondly and the most important reason gets into the electoral map. The whigs if they were going to win the 180 election, they felt they had to have pennsylvania in their column. So this was a good way to get the ball rolling as it were and start making inroads in pennsylvania which had gone for jackson twice and for van buren once. When they decided to come to harrisburg, it was made as a point in the map and they came to discover that there is only one building in town that was large enough to hold it and that church. Ion lutheran the Original Church had burned down the year before. But this particular building had been completed and was able to host the whig convention. Members and er 235 politics was the theater. You would have a large number of locals coming in to watch the show. The interior of the church is different. The pew configuration would have been very much the same. You would have had your officers of the convention sitting up in the front, probably at a table and your delegates would be in the first rows behind them and at the very back, you would have the press and local citizenry. The convention was held in the first week of december. It convened on december 4 and ended on december 6. What makes this convention so special, it was the first time that from was more than one candidate being put forward for the nomination for the presidency of the United States. So while this convention in harrisburg wasnt the First National convention, it definitely was historic in that these delegates gathered here with a blank sheet of paper and had to set the rules and procedures for choosing a nominee for president of the ited states from amongal multiple people. Henry clay was the front runner, but there was opposition to that. William henry harrison, who was and t hero of the battle was a territorial governor, he was one of the organization candidates in 1836 when henry clay decided he didnt want to make the run again. And he was the largest go otegetter among the candidates. E person of general Winfield Scott who was a military officer and distinguished himself in upstate new york, there was internal strife right across the Canadian Border and scott earned kudos among the upstate new yorkers for his handling of keeping things on the right side of the border. Those were the three candidates that were put forward at this convention. It was henry clays nomination if he wanted it and there was a substantial lead in the delegate count. If it had been a straight up and down vote with each delegate voting its conscience, clay probably would have walked out of there as the nominee. But the anticlay forces came with a plan which would thwart him and would eventually in the result of harrison or scott. First thing they did was to set a rule that rather than everybody sitting out here on the floor casting their ballots, a committee would be formed, where each state could appoint up to three representatives who would go off andnominee in eache would cast their states entire votes which was a recognition of a bit of a herd mentality leaving the station, a snowball forceshat the anticlay thought might come into play on his behalf. Wherebyo passed a rule whoever had the most votes in the state delegation got that states entire votes. To put it in the modern context, it would have been a winner take all primary, rather than proportional representation. Clay had substantial minority support and a lot of the harrison delegation, so by taking these votes away from him , and awarding them to harrisburg or scott, by what became known as the unit rule, that put another 10 in henry clays ambitious balloon and eventually would lead to his undoing. There were a total of three ballots with a lot of maneuvering in between. The first ballot clay ended up with 103 votes, the majority was 128, even with bob iger cannery with how with the chicanery, almost unstoppable if the rules have not been changed. Harrison had 91. The second ballot things moved a little bit, one of the state that was not able to vote on the first ballot was michigan. Because they had three delegates and only two had arrived by them, the unit rules, a flat out time, nobody gets the vote tie, nobody gives the vote and the third michigan delegate showed up and voted for scott, after connecticut and michigan voted for scott, scott lived up to 68 and clay went down and harrison stayed at 91 votes, the delegates stayed solid. Chicaneryl than real taken to wife, scotts managers have been working on the ginia delegation which was had 20 delegates in change to try to get them to change to scott. They were coming close to succeeding, scott was a native losing steamay was and that would be a good place to go. At that point, a friend of harrison in the new york delegation, which was supporting scott, went to a gentleman you may remember if anybody saw the movie lincoln, stevens of pennsylvania, and gave him a letter from scott talking about how he was antislavery. The thought was, it gave the new york guy who passed the law deniability within his bosses, oh, i was just try to move pennsylvania by showing that scott was antislavery. Acyclic he was giving it to Patty Stevens because stevens would know what to do with it. What he did with it was take a stroll among the virginia delegation, drop the letter onto the floor, a piece of obviously private personal correspondence was discovered by one of the virginia delegates, him being a politician of course read it. And passed it along to his other virginia delegates, and that stopped the movement of the virginia delegations scott cold. At that point, what they would now call scotts path to the tmination was awarded hwarted. The harrison people were holding firm, no movement in all and none anticipated, they decided to throw their support to harrison and so harrison was nominated on the third ballot. To 90 and iss change for clay and scott was down to 16. Once harrison was nominated, back in the day, the ticket ballot, they wanted to find a clay supporter to balance the ticket. They were unable to do that. Were inthe clay people no way, shape, or form happy about the outcome. They were not of a mind to do any cooperating with the harrison folks. Was probablye roomsairs in one of the at the church, there were about 200 people bored out of their skulls listening to speeches and memorials from the citizens of new jersey and that sort of thing. They were given connor at that point, the convention was about to be a Runaway Convention with its filing out of control at all of that good work were would be for nothing someone on a clock on friday evening 9 00 on friday evening, they came up and announced harrisons nomination for president. But no Vice President ial nominee was chosen yet. At this point, a virginia delegate by the name of john tyler, who had served in the senate and moved into opposition to andrew jackson, was said to have burst into tears at the thought that his hero, henry clay, had not won the nomination. He denied that. Whether or not he burst into tears is a matter for conjecture. Thatast he did something had everybody turning around and saying, we could nominate tyler. Which eventually they did and the ticket of tippecanoe and 1840 too was born, the election was a watershed election, harrison was running against Martin Van Buren who was the handpicked successor of andrew johnson. And urine had been elected in , he, running for reelection had bad luck of having the economy goes south on him. Pretty much right after he dropped his right hand from taking the oath of office in 1837. The bubble finally burst. There were bad economic times. And which is another factor for being three candidates coming forward for the whig nomination because it looked like it was worth something. As it turns out, the election was a lot closer than it also appeared. Fortunateon was very that, after the nominee after the convention and his nomination, a democratic spaper in baltimore made a took a shot at him by saying that give him a pension of 1000, he would be content to sit by a fire drinking hard cider and reading moral philosophy for the rest of his days. Everybody was outraged except harrisburgeman and by the name of thomas elder who thought we can use this. And political spin was born. Putting harrison forward as the law cap and hard cider candidate as the log cabin and hard cider candidate. It spread like wildfire and what we would now term energizing the base was definitely born. It was said without much exaggeration, log cabins were everywhere, one commentator described it as one long party. It was lucky because they were so diverse to have that kind of base energizing. Here at the convention, the one thing they did not do is pass a platform. Their views were so diverse that they tried to pass a platform, they may still be here. They were the first real party to go forward to the American People saying, it will be terrific, believe me. Under the banner of tippecanoe and tyler too. This is our third takes their State Capitol in harrisburg the second one was the interim capital built in 1898 and 1899 and the third one was commissioned in 1901 and a from 1902 219 06, design and. Onstruction by Joseph Miller our building was designed in the american renaissance style, and italian building that tries to incorporate as many european architectural motifs and styles into it as possible inside and out, it has an astronomical amount of ornamentation both in here and all the goldleaf and, Principal Chambers are amazing, marble from the pyrenees and it is amazing work of art. We are at the western main entrance, that faces the susquehanna river toward state street. As you approach the exterior staircase, you walk into the center and the rotunda opens before you come it rises about 272 feet up to the top or the stature of commonwealth sets, 24 caret goldleaf and throughout. The lunette spaces was designed by apple in austin abbey would show an allegorical figure with a sense of realism, they have the allegorical figure of balkans depicted in the mural and blast furnaces. Blast furnaces pennsylvania iron and Steel Industry at the turn of the last century provided over by the roman god. The spirit of religious liberty has allegorical angels leading anchor change to the new world which represents pennsylvania as a bastion of religious freedom. Science revealing the treasures of the earth traces a mineral and industrial wealth of the commonwealth and the spirit of with as oil derricks Angels Holding flames up above. As you go up further, a railing and these large eightfoot tall windows that rise up and as you go up there will be the lantern which is about 270 feet in the air and has stars in the lantern which is up for the commonwealth statue sits on top of the dome. Most people ask about the green on the dome, they are actually red clay tiles but they have a green empire greenways, so they can from ohio, the entire roof line running up there is actually green tile and that is what joseph houston, he like the empire green instead of the red terracotta tile. The Senate Chamber, pennsylvania State Capitol building, three Principal Chambers in the building, the Senate Chamber is done in the french renaissance, each chamber has a unique architectural motif that it keeps. It is all part of the american renaissance, we have marble, artwork by Philadelphia Artist oakley, stained glass by William Bradley manning been, a unique piece of. 4 current goalie thing throughout the entire 24 caret goldleaf and throughout the entire ceilings and you will see the 24 caret goldleaf. Most of the furnishing and the Principal Chamber is a story to 1906, the desks are historical chairs and the front. The carpet is a reproduction the draperies come architecturally the goal was to incorporate as many european motifs and models as possible. It all stemmed from the 1893 chicago worlds fair where they started to put his monumental public buildings in the United States, joseph houston, the architect, saw that and he is taken the grantor and came back inspired and wanted to produce european buildings in the u. S. And that is where the design stems from. Oakley,freeze is my called International Unity and understanding and has a central figure, and that everything moves toward that, the arms of the art surrendering as they approached the day of unity and the slaves of europe being freed as they approach the veils of unity, it moves toward the center figure. Underneath, the creation of preservation of the union, the pennsylvania delegation and the Constitutional Convention in 1787 and on the other side, president clinton giving the gettysburg address. Lincoln giving me gettysburg address. And he came back before the senate at that time, she went into detail, great either with the senators, telling them what the representation or these murals work for them and the merrills put here to inspire the senators. We have moved from the Senate Chamber to the House Chamber. Pennsylvania house as 203 members versus the 50 members of the senate. The house is probably the most ornate room in the building, arguably, done in the italian renaissance versus the french renaissance of the Senate Chamber. At the time this capital was built, only 15 to 20 years where a y best probably would have been built in the commonwealth of pennsylvania and that is 1892 1910 which yielded a palace that is what houston called it and we still call it, pennsylvania palace of art because we were at the height of industry, at the height of capitalism, everything was being made and done in pennsylvania at the turn of the last century. It wanted to show its industrial commercial wealth and it did that through the capital building. All of the goldleaf and aluminum leaf and copper and Everything Else incorporated wanted to show that it was at the height of architecture and artistry, and partisanship, and that is what it shows to display through the walls of the capital. The chandeliers in this room, the largest once on the order of three tons per, the smaller ones weigh 1. 5 tons and they go up through the next floor through giant chains and turnbuckles, they are attached to the steel trusts of the roof so that they do not fall. The big chandeliers were done by henry potter Bronze Company out of new york, the smaller what we go like standards and some of the sconces were done by the pennsylvania Bronze Company which was located in philadelphia. The murals in the chamber, the has 34 identifiable figures from pennsylvania history with the allegorical genius of state later up in the top, william penn, benjamin franklin, morris, they are loosely grouped by famous religious figures in pennsylvania history, famous generals, explorers, philanthropists, and the like. The murals that flank this pinprick with the indians, Benjamin West did the original, that is a model. Abby did all of these murals, he morphed it into his own understanding of the treaty with the indians. The last one on the oth