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How he was feeling worn out and tired, freight his memory was going. Jefferson would say tell me more. Their relationship has been studied quite a bit. There has been a lot written about it. But it was clearly a nuanced relationship. The men respect each other. We tended to focus on the points of division. I saw flaws in china. When he feels jefferson was made a promise when he feels he broke the promise washington takes a personal. His own diary which is interesting. A big round. The conversation that came out. Good research to be done. I great storehouse. Hindered younger graduate students. ...

Its not going well. The union is losing. They start a draft this 1863, but you want to talk about inequality . In that draft you could buy your way out for 200. So the rich never served the union cause unless they were noble, unless they had a higher calling. For 200 you could get out of the draft, or you could present a live person. So if i brought you in and said, bruce, youre going to take my place, i wouldnt have to serve. I would have paid you to be my body. This really ticked off the irish. They could not pay for this. And as they rolled the barrel in the first draft in American History,...

Beauty from old line, wasp money, meagher is a fugitive. He writes this beautiful love letter to her where he asks her her hand for her hand in marriage, and he goes, i am here alone, i am a homeless exile, i have nobody, i have no family. Im wanted by the british empire, you know . Im nothing, but the greatest thing in my life was to find you. And if you will take me as your husband, i will share everything with you. Take my past, take my heritage, let us join our lives together its a beautiful letter. And so she gives up everything to marry this irish rebel. Her father promptly disowns her. ...

Wilmington, the train was moving along and made a sudden jerk like it was going to make an abrupt stop. This isnt the slowdown during the a curve. It came to a complete stop, there was smoke, smelt like the brakes were smoldering so we sat there wondering what had happened. The electricity was knocked out so there was no pa system. So the rumors started to fly but after about 25 minutes one of the crew came back and started to explain what happened. The first two cars were hit badly but we were lucky to be in the next to last car of the train so we felt the impact obviously but didnt get to sm...

Good afternoon from washington washington it is 12, noon eastern on cspan2 book tv. And once a month, we spent three hours in depth with an within author and this month our guest was scheduled to be steve forbes who this morning you might have heard was on a train en route from new york to savanna georgia when a derailment took place just south of philadelphia. He is safe and now en route back to new york city and joining us live on the phone. Thank you for being with us. Good to be with you. What a morning you have had. Explain what happened. Outside of philadelphia the train was moving along...