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Roll call vote. Then the ohio samesex marriage case and we will talk about the role of lgbt rights and Marriage Equality in the 2016 political debate. Also new orleans mayor and u. S. Conference of mayors in Mitch Landrieu will join Mitch Benjamin to talk about gun violence and Police Community relations. Be sure to watch cspans washington journal live from the Democratic National convention beginning at 7 00 a. M. Eastern tuesday morning. Up next on the presidency, author kathleen bartolonituazon talks about her book, for fear of an elective king. When washington was elected chief executive t...

But there was another group of americans that worried about a weak executive that would be subject to corruption and manipulation, like a weak king could be manipulated by his court. And so for them, it stood to reason that they would be more interested in a strong title to counteract this weak this fear of a weak president. It seems like all sides agreed that the person should be George Washington. Yes. He was the obvious choice. He was really the most trusted man in america. And i would say the most celebrated person in the western world at that time. I mean, really. When you think about it....

That hes not accommodated to the idea of who he is, the opposite of lincoln. When gerald ford became president , the next year, one of the things he said, again, contradicting nixon, he said none of our problems today are as severe as those facing lincoln. He quoted one of the things lincoln said in one of fords kind of natural spontaneous statements of humility. He said, oh, lincoln fords in a dispute with congress. He said, well, lincoln said the following. We of the congress in this administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves. Ford also said, of lincoln, that his compassion, lin...

And obama said im sympathetic to this. He said go read my nobel prize acceptance speech. I had seen the nobel prize acceptance speech. Ever seen something and read it and not understood it . Well, it happens to me too often. So i went home and got out the speech. And there, in plain english, obama says, yeah, wars sometimes necessary, but then he said it is always an expression and manifestation of human folly. And i realized at that point he just does not like war. And the problem is, when you are involved in a war as commander in chief, youve got to really be tough. A couple of years ago, i ...

It was exactly in the tradition of my brothers book profiles in courage. And then gerald ford got up and talked about partial vindication. I remember watching this and thinking here i was convinced it was an act of maximum corruption, that the pardon was. And then it is examined many years later, dispassionately. And what looked like corruption actually is an act of courage. And that is sobering for somebody in my business. You can say, oh, yeah, this is the following this war made no sense. This was a good war and so forth. And the decades go by and it may look quite differently. Jimmy carter...