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New york times today, it was a fairly radical innovation in a say, an era when kings and emperors generally gave up power only at it point of natural deaths or at the point of a weapon. joining me now douglas brinkley. doug, thanks for being here. just to give us a little bit of context about this moment we find ourselves in, how novel was it for a fledgling republic to say you know what people aren t going to kill each to gain power, we re going to have a peaceful transition. george washington everyone wanted him to serve a third term because he was cohesive for the nation, he s what kept everybody glued together in washington. really his greatest achievement and impressive was abdicating power, stepping down, saying i m going to be a citizen in virginia, going back to mount vernon and allowing this democratic process to unravel. and nothing was a sure thing. ....
Unfortunately they never gave them to her. perhaps she will get them now. harris: jonathan, thank you. democrats, their anxiety is growing by the hour. the president s re-election campaign is moving at the speed of a tired tortoise. top democrats telling the hill some in the party are simply panicking at this point. they say the biden camp is wildly underestimating former president trump as a potential rival despite all his scandals. one of those democrats putting it bluntly. team biden should be very fing worried. those are his words, cleaned it up for you for tv. conservatives also hitting biden s slow start. joe biden is abdicating for his campaign to people that are more energetic. it is surprising and the president of the united states is so underwater. it s a president who is failing. ....
Her father who was second in line to the throne, so elizabeth never expected to be queen. but her destiny changed when she was only ten years old. when love collided violently into tradition. in 1936, elizabeth s uncle, king edward the eighth, desperately wanted to marry american socialite, wallace simpson. but she was divorced. which made it the marriage forbidden, since king edward was also the head of the church of england, breaking with tradition and nearly bringing down the monarchy. edward refused to give up his american love. he gave up everything else. abdicating the british throne in december, 1936. a few hours ago, i discharged my lawful duty asking and emperor. the king was succeeded by ....
On either side of the aisle. we need them to start working, start thinking about the american people and not about partisan politics. it s affecting us. we shouldn t be spending a single cent for a federal issue. we ask them to work for the american people. neil: mayor, much has been said as well about so many of these that were caught rather than being processed, for example, in texas, going to washington d.c. others have abdicating spreading the wealth around and senting them to other cities in the country. how do you feel about that? when governor abbott mentioned this what he was going to do last week, it was initially how is he going to do it? it s a voluntary deal. the faster we move them the better it is for us here in mcallen. logistically it s a nightmare. we have people that are willing to go elsewhere immediately but the governor s plan. we re all for it. ....
Self to you the people, notjust the people of the united kingdom and very important to her, the whole ethos of service and if you look at the royal families of europe, ethos of service and if you look at the royalfamilies of europe, yes, norway, sweden, denmark, continuity there, but you look at holland, when i first took interest in the royal family as a little tot, queen wilamina was on the throne when she abdicated after about 33 years and we had giuliano, her daughter and then after 30 years or so it was her daughter, queen beatrix and now we have her son, so they have a history of advocate and abdicating after 30 years but we have continuity and we will have continuity and we will have continuity until such time as the queen draws her last breath. find queen draws her last breath. and there s been queen draws her last breath. and there s been such stability and the stability that a lot of people draw from the queen serving, as you say, to use that word again, but there ....