Sarah polk was very up on diplomacy. Her strong suit happened to be intelligent political discussion. She made no bones about the fact that she took no interest in politics and she was her husbands partner. She grew up in a political household in tennessee. Her father was a local politician so she grew up loving politics. She married james after he won a seat in the legislature. She would not have married him had he been content to be a clerk. Unfortunately for james k. Polk, he died just three months after leaving the white house and sarah began a 42year widowhood. It became a shrine to her husband. She would invite anybody who wanted to to come for a visit to see the objects they had accrued over there long and illustrious career. She lived there for many years on her own and during the civil war, generals on both sides would visit her to pay their respects. It was very interesting commentary on what a beloved status she still held. She was earnest about her husbands work. She went t
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Sunday morning. Im adam tuss. Im tracie potts in for meagan fitzgerald. Thanks for joining us this sunday morning. So tve heat wa continues, but we have a little breeze going on out there. It did. We were just looking at the flag out front. It was flapping in the wind out there. We are seeing gusts up to 25, guys. Les per hour, they are coming out of the northwest. Once we get those winds out of the south, it helps pick up the humity from the deep south and brings it into the midatlantic, but the winds are coming out of the north and west. We get drierer and c air. Thats whats happening right now. 83. Sit is warm. Northwest winds sustained at 20 miles, gusts up to 25, 30 miles per hour. We have got some sunshine. It is a beautiful morning out there. Hour by hour we are going to hit 91 in d. C. Upper 80s lower 90s depending where you are. It will be breezy until 9 or10 00 tonight. Most of us will be dry all day. Its going to be comfortable with low humidity. Still warm with temperatur a
Im larry kudlow. The New York Times got it w completely wrong talking about donaldrog trumps inflation whh by the way was get this, 1. 6 al an annual rate on average, over the entire firstfi term, 1. 6. Sandra smith and steve forbese will setfo the record straight. Plus House Oversight chair jamet comer will be here to unveil a new subpoena for Merrick Garland and senator mike lee will talk about joe bidens lawless Student Loans and oh, why is wendys jacking up their hamburger prices . And finally, is Mitch Mcconnell about to endorse donald trump and mark simone and David Chaffetz will weigh in later in the show and a aaron comb will e here as well. Im edward lawrencmie is in c washington, swimmingan as best e can. Whats cooking down there today. Reporter sinking in the swamp in washington. The presiden pt is feelingg pressure over the economy, feeling pressure over ukraine funding. The president also feeling pressure with the wave of migrants illegally crossing the southern border. Co
More infon for your vacation planning is available at aruba. Com. And now, bbc world news. Rajini this is bbc world news america. Reporting from washington, im rajini vaidyanathan. More tensions between the president and the fbi. Donald trump is set to appve the release of her republican memo that accuses the agency of bias against him. Beijing continues its crackdown on ethnic minorities in northwest china. We have a special report. And going for gold. Meet the Nigerian Women whose bobsled team will make histo at the Winter Olympics later this month. Rajini welcome to our viewers on Public Television in america and around the globe. A controversial memo written by republican members of the House Intelligence Committee based on classified materials ce made public as early as tomorrow. Thnddocument accuses the fbi Justice Department of antitrump bias and will be released despite strong objections from the democrats and what the fbi said were its grave concerns. As he left the state of t