Transcripts For CSPAN3 Adams Memorial 20140907 : vimarsana.c

Asking a young male model to take a seated position he , wrapped the youths torso in an americanindian rug. They called it the finest monument in america and would be kept secret. The work is indescribely noble and imposing, he wrote. A future without end, a repose after limitless experience. The public began calling the statue grief. Fast forward now to the first week of march 1933. Henry adams had long since joined clover at rock creek. On her first full day in washington, the wife of president elect Franklin Roosevelt invited a friend to accompany her on a pilgrimage. Catching a cab, he will la the mashed potato women drove past the house where Eleanor Roosevelt first learned of her husbands wartime affair with her social secretary. Reaching rock creek cemetery, they halted. There, the woman about to become first lady of the United States, led her companion to a marble bench. In the old days, when we lived here, said mrs. Roosevelt, i was much younger and not so very wise. Sometimes i would feel very unhappy and sorry for myself. When i was feeling that way, if i could manage it, id come out here alone and sit and look at that woman and i always felt better. And stronger. Eleanor roosevelt was wrong about the gender of the thematic bronze figure. But she captured perfectly the spiritual balm provided by the memorial its sculpture christianed the peace of god that passeth understanding. On june 18, 18 12, the United States officially declared war for the first time when president madison signed the nearly passed congressional act declaring war on great britain. The next step is figuring out how to pay for the war. President ofowen, the museum of american finance. He explores how treasury secretary Albert Gallatin funded the war of 1812. This event is a little under 45 minutes. Have the pleasure of introducing david callan. He has over 20 years of experience as a trader on wall street. The founder of quasar capital partners, he holds a ba in American History from Columbia College and in ba from the Wharton School of business and ma and phd in American History from nyu. He has written extensively on u. S. Financial history and is the coauthor of financial founding fathers