because i am a big fan of robert e. lee. what i'm hoping to do among others, besides give you a time line as to what robert e. lee did in the postwar years which i think is one of obviously the most often overlooked portion of his life because, i mean, the civil war is always going to be first and foremost. the other main theme of this lecture i'm going to try to get across to you, if park services is big on themes, is that the amount of -- i wouldn't say that he did a lot of work in theory, but through his own personal example is probably the best way, through his own personal example, robert e. lee tries to reconcile the nation. and what i think a lot of us as mers tod americans today have forgotten is how far apart this country was in 1865. i think it is the view of a lot of people that lee surrenders and bam, oh, we'll just forget about it, you know, okay, we'll just hold hands and reunite, and just continue on down that path again. it takes the country decades, some would say a century, some would say not even yet for t

now, in my search for robert e. lee in all things pertaining to robert e. lee, i can tell you after many hours of searching, that the church which he attended does not exist anymore. however, the house which he stayed at is still there and the carriage step, you know, they had a stepping stone for you to get up into the carriage is still out in front of the house. i stood on it. [ laughter ] >> had my picture taken on the carriage step. thank you. so lee tries to go to church. well, it's sunday. you got remember, ladies and gentlemen, you don't party on sunday. remember, that's why we used to have blue laws. all right. nobody could cheer general robert e. lee because it was a sunday. but because it was general lee, every hat was doffed in the air, right? one lady wrote, young kuz wcouso had never met lyon his great charm, quote, we regarded him with the greatest wenger racing. we had heard of god but here was general lee. okay, okay, but that's kind of funny. i mean, it's like -- now lee arrives back in lexington on may 28th. he had been gone for two months

i am a big fan of robert e. lee. what i'm hoping to do among others besides give you a timeline about what robert haley did in the post years, which i think is obviously one of the most overlooked portion of his life. civil war is always going to be first and foremost. the other main theme of this lecture i'm going to try to get across tÉa. park services is big on themes. the amount, i wouldn't say that he did a lot of work in theory, but through his own personal example is probably the best way, through his own personal example, robert e. lee tries to reconcile the nation. what i think a lot of us as americans today have forgotten that how far apart this country was in 1865. i think it is the view of a lot of people that lisa renders and half a mattocks and then, we'll just forget about it. okay, we'll just hold hands and will just reunite and just continue down that path again. it takes the country decades, some would say a century, some would say not even yet for the country to really reunite. i would probably pu

he finally pins robert e. lee down in richmond and petersburg. there's another wonderful comment from sherman. he said about grant, robert e. lee would attack the front porch. he said, grant would attack the bedroom and the kitchen. i'm not sure what we meant about the bedroom. i don't want to go there. but in terms of attacking the kitchen, that, again, goes back to grant the quartermaster. but he did with lee in petersburg he began cutting off every railway line in every canc canal that was feeding supplies to lee and forcing them to flee west appomatox courthouse and that was the third confederate army that grant captured. >> how does grant conduct himself there? >> he refuses to allow his soldiers to glosbloet or celebr. these soldiers are starving. he allows the officers to keep their horses and firearms. and i think the most beautiful passage in the memoirs is about the meeting at appomatax because grant said he was sad and depressed when he met lee. and he said rather than rejoicing over the down fall of a foe and suffered such hardship fo

he finally pins robert e. lee down in richmond. he said, ulysses s grant would have attacked the bedroom and the kitchen. i'm not sure what he meant but - - in terms of attacking the kitchen. that goes back to grant the quartermaster. but what he did with lee if he began systematically to cut off every railway line and every canal feeding supplies to lee's army. finally starting it out and forcing them to flee. and forces surrender. that was then the third confederate army that grant captured. robert e. lee never captured a single union army. >> it's the most touching part of the story because he refuses to allow his soldiers to gloat or celebrate. he is very generous. the confederate soldiers are starving. he issues rations to feed them. really i think the most beautiful passage and grants memoir is because grant instead, he was sad and depressed when he met lee. he writes, i felt like anything rather than rejoicing over the downfall of a person who fought with such valor and suffered such hardship for a cause. so the humanity and

jeff shaara mentioned about robert e. lee. specifically it is worth noting he was on record denouncing slavery as a moral and political people. he made some other comments in that letter to his wife that we would find more problematic in this modern era, but he is also on record in congressional testimony after the war in response to a congressman's accusation that he had fought a war for the preservation of slavery. his response was so far from fighting a war for the preservation of slavery i rejoice that slavery is abolished. so i don't think we can put robert e. lee in the camps of the proslavery southern elite. that being said, and it's arguable, i understand. what i really wanted to talk about related to the atlanta campaign and one of the statements made by confederate commander josephine johnston that i think is one of the sort of tantalizing bits of history behind the campaign and as the confederate army were treated towards atlanta, obviously jefferson davis was getting concerned. the people of atlanta were upset, and

, he said, robert e. lee would attack the front porch. he said, ulysses s. grant would attack the bedroom and the kitchen. i'm not sure what he meant about the bedroom. i don't want to go there. but in terms of attacking the kitchen, that again goes back to grant the quarter master, but he did with lee in richmond and petersburg he began systemically to cut off every railway line and canal feeding supplies to lee's army. final starving it out and forcing him to lee west to the courthouse appomattox courthouse where grant and sheridan overtake lee's army and force his surepdrender. >> how does grant conduct himself at appomattox. >> it's the most touching part of the story because he refuses to allow his soldiers to gloat or celebrate. he's very generous. he issues rations to feed them. he has the confederate officers to keep their horses and firearms. grant said that he was sad and depressed when he met -- and he writes i felt like anything rather than rejoicing over the downfall of a foe who had fought w

the unit that robert e. lee n e named the fighting 69 in that admiration. but early, it was recruited. very important to the union war effort that german and irish americans would have different political points of view, were both recruited and both raised their own regiments and this one went off early in the war. in virginia. established it in arlington heights, where they built fortifications for washington. it was very irish. i mean colonel who was the commander had the, had a, a minister, a catholic priest sprinkle holy water on the first canon and they marched off proudly to war. corkren was irish born. 33 years old. member of the finian brotherh d brotherhood. >> we have an image. >> that's not going to be corkren, so we shouldn't get to him yet. >> sorry. yes. why don't we -- >> i should point out, this fellow is not corkren because tat battle of bull run itself, where our irish regiment fought very bravely, he was captured by the confederates and remained in prison for a full year. when he was finally released, abraham lincoln gave him and other of

the unit that robert e. lee later nicknamed the fighting 69th in admiration. and it's early permutation, it was recruited and was very important to the union war effort. the german americans and irish americans who had different political points of view, we're both recruited and both raised their own regiments. this one went off very early in the war in the spring of 1861 down to virginia. it established itself in arlington heights where they built fortifications for washington. it was very irish. colonel cochrane who is the commander had a catholic priest sprinkled holy water on the first cannon at fort cochrane that was named in his honor. they marched very proudly the war. cochrane was an irish boy. he was 33 years old. he was a member of the fenian brotherhood. >> we have an image detail. >> that will not be cocaine, so we should not go to it. >> sorry. >> yes. i should point out, this fella was not cochrane. because at the battle of bull run itself, where our irish regiment fought very bravely, cochrane was captured by the confederates and he remained in

but he went on to paint but his paintings were robert e. lee, lee mourning stonewall jackson. he did confederate-inspired paintings. he never did a lincoln painting that showed any kind of sense of having regrets what he did. >> yeah. >> less move on to our next image, and this is also a large painting, not quite as large as return of the '69. this is called an episode of war, the calvary charge. >> we called it a hidden treasure in the book. i know that's kind of a pun i have to keep apologizing for. >> that's cute. but it is a dramatic scene. so we don't want to minimize it. and henry hidden was a youthful, well connected new yorker. tell us a bit about him and this particular episode of war. >> he was a very young man, 23-year-old when he joined company h of the first new york cavalry. yes, there were calvary units from new york. a brave, young guide. he led -- i should say, his family were very wealthy ship builders, the webb family. so he was new york mercantile royalty to be sure. he led his men into virginia, and one day at a place called sanksters station he saw an ung

> what we're going to do today, ladies and gentlemen, is we are going to do robert e. lee and the post war years. and my coworker chuck teague when we were upstairs before we came down, asked if this was

lee who is in the news again because of the statue controversies, but robert e. lee also took as hideous souvenirs free black men and sold them back into slavery. he captured free people and enslaved them. that was the most hideous of all the souvenirs. of course, then we go to sherman in late 1864, who forages his way through georgia. and you know, there are two points of view on that. one is that he burned georgia. the other is that he spared georgia, in some ways, by not engaging. here's 1 -- well, i'm going to do a teaser. when we talk about appomattox in a future program, i'm going to talk about another famous bit of souvenir hunting. i will save it for that. ms. paley: save it for that. [laughter] we have a few minutes left in a couple more questions. who made these uniforms and how expensive where they? were any made in new york city? mr. holzer: i would say these were expensive. some soldiers paid themselves. the union army gave an allotment to soldiers to buy uniforms, but i'm sure that these were funded by philanthropic groups in the states, but again,

by the way, let's say one thing else about robert e. lee. robert easily also took as hideous souvenirs three black man and sold them back into slavery. he captured three people and enslaved them. that was the most hideous. and we go to sherman. in late 1864, sherman forages his way through georgia. there's two points of view on. that one is that he burned george. at the other is that he spared georgia in some ways by not engaging. i am going to do a teaser. when we talk about apple mannock's in the future, we will talk about another famous bit of souvenir hunting but i will save it for that. >> we have a few minutes left and a couple more questions. who made these uniforms? how expensive were they? were any made in new york city? >> i would say these were expensive. some soldiers paid themselves. the union army gave an allotment two soldiers to buy uniforms. but i am sure that these were funded by philanthropic groups in the states where they were raised. there was a certain pride and wearing the zouave uniforms. we talk about systemic racis

paint, but histo paintings were of robert e. lee, and lee morning stonewall jackson. a lincoln painting sense ofed any kind of having regretted what he did. valerie: let's move on to our next image. this is also a large painting, not quite as large as the one of 69. this is called an episode of war, the calvary charge by an artist named victor nelligan. we called it a hidden treasure in the book. -- that is is a pond upon a have to keep apologizing for. valerie: that is cute. [laughter] we don't want to minimize it. tell us a bit about him and this particular episode of war. harold: he was a very young man, 23 years old when he joined company h of the first new york cavalry. yes, there were calvary units in new york. a brave young guy. his family were very wealthy shipbuilders. he was mercantile royalty, to be sure. anded a man into virginia, one day at a place called sangster station, he saw an ofuarded exposed flank general joe johnston's confederate army, and he let his cavalry through and created havoc and really pushed them back. unfortunately in the midst of tha

jonathan: but you zeroed in on the robert e. lee statue. what was it about the statue that was particularly bothersome? wynton: they lost. it was very clear. my great uncle was born in 1883. the symbolism of it. and then talking about the robert e. lee statue, but from a standpoint, getting ready to put up a statue to george washington, england? they lost the war. it was to maintain a way of life that was not maintained. wereg them victories that not earned on the battlefield is disrespectful. jonathan: go ahead. sorry. thing hees, mitch, one said is he did not know whose jurisdiction it was, that he was going to check on it, and he call me back and said, "you know, this thing is not in my jurisdiction," and he said he would act on it, and he did. jonathan: this is a good time for you, mitch, to jump in. that breakfast with wynton, how did that push you to take action? mitch: you know, sometimes, when you are trying to get things done and figure things out, something really fits, and then somebody puts a piece of the puzzle in your mind, an

and that meant particularly when robert e. lee marched into maryland in 1862, with a very thin supply line, that meant taking whatever they wanted. their pillaging involved chickens and cows. apples. lee marched into maryland at apple harvesting time so he practically took every apple off every tree in maryland. by the way, let's say one thing else about robert e. lee who's pretty much in the news today because of the statue controversies, but he also took as hideous souvenir, three back men and sold them back into slavery. in the south. he captured free people and enslaved them. that was the most hideous of all the souvenirs. then of course we go to sherman. in late 1864. who forages his way through georgia. there are two points of view on that. one is that he burned georgia and the other is that he spared georgia in some ways but not engaging. here's one, well, i'm going to do a teaser. when we talk about appomattox in a future program, i'm going to talk about another, another famous bit of souvenir hunting. i'll save it for

even robert e. lee, jeb stewart, they show up in the story. how did that up fold with them? and ultimately, what happened to brown? >> it was considered an act of treason by the governor of virginia even though it was federal property, so he called out the marines. and the commander of the marine regiment that marched on harpers ferry to get john brown out of there and arrest or kill him was colonel robert e. lee. not the lee we know that had the beard john brown had, but a very handsome -- supposed to be the handsomest officer in the army with a luxurious black mustache. and he, at one point, dispatched one of his officers to walk up to the arsenal and demand that john brown surrender or be taken dead or alive. and the person he dispatched to do that was jeb stewart, who would be one of his generals in the confederate army in just two or three years from that point. brown refused to surrender. the marines stormed the arsenal. another of brown's sons was killed in the raid. brown was nearly killed. he was struck with a sword, but he lived. and he was put on trial very quickl

by the way, let's say one other thing about robert e. lee. he was in the news today again because of the statute controversy. but robert healy also took three black men as hideous souvenirs and sold them back into slavery. he captured free people and enslaved them. that was the most hideous of all the souvenirs. of course, then we go to sherman in late 1864 who forages his way through georgia. you know, there are two points of that. one is that he burned georgia and the others that he sort of spread georgia but not engaging differently. i will do a teaser. when we talk about appomattox in a future program, i will talk about another famous bit of souvenir hunting. i will save it for that. >> we have a few minutes left and a couple of more questions. who made these uniforms and how expensive were they? for any made in new york city? >> i would say these were expensive. some soldiers paid themselves. the union army gave an allotment two soldiers to buy uniforms. but i'm sure that these were funded by philanthropic works in the states where they

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. >> robert e. lee thought it was a bad idea to do this. the idea of protecting his name. and the worst part -- again even though mary trump moved me on this. i see what he does as demagogue. he is just flat out bigot. mary says i'm wrong. she heard the father and everybody i'm wrong they were bigots. okay. he doesn't have strong feelings. i give people the benefit of the doubt as long as i can. one of the explanations for our friendship. the thing i can't get is, i know that he doesn't give a damn about confederate names and statues. and what the name of the base are. he's playing with something so hurtful to so many people and doing it just out of the political advantage. >> do you know what else he doesn't give a damn about? the people that show up at rallies. are they at a trump property or hotel. did you see them hanging out with him before. >> didn't even shake hands before he was president. >> no way. he's riding in his limousine. looking at those people. >> how could he care about you if you come to see him in florida and sees you without a mask packed into a place

e. it is my absolute delight and pleasure to have the opportunity to speak with my good friend and professional colleague harold holzer. and as we said, please feel free to use the q&a button at the bottom or the top of the screen and we'll get to as many questions toward the end. let's turn our attention to some objects that help us describe the civil war. and might we see the cover of our book, "civil war in 50 objects." in the museum realm, particularly the history museum, the art, objects, and documents on display have the power to stand in for a larger historical narrative conveying so much more than what is structurally defining of that object itself. but harold, what about our book "civil war in 50 objects"? how did this come about, and how effective is it at conveying the narrative of the civil war in 50 objects? >> it's kind of a tactile history that brings you closer to the lived experience of the civil war. that's because i was -- that's what made it so exciting for me, and if

he went on to paint, but his paintings were of robert e. lee, and lee mourning stonewall jackson. he did confederate inspired paintings. he never did a lincoln painting that showed any kind of sense of having regretted what he did. valerie: yeah. let's move on to our next image. this is also a large painting, not quite as large as return of the 69th. this is called "an episode of war: the calvary charge of lt. henry hidden" by an artist named victor nehlig. harold: we called it a hidden treasure in the book. i know that is kind of a pun i have to keep apologizing for. valerie: that is cute. [laughter] but anyway, it is a dramatic scene. we don't want to minimize it. henry was a useful, well-connected new yorker. tell us a bit about him and this particular episode of war. harold: he was a very young man, 23 years old when he joined company h of the first new york cavalry. yes, there were calvary units in from new york. a brave young guy. say hisis -- i should family were very wealthy shipbuilders. the webb family. he was new york mercantile royalty, to be sure. he led his men into

it will be difficult to stay on message and away from defending general robert e. lee at gettysburg. he should offer neither, but white house over gettysburg, for sure. >> neil: i didn't know he was doing a bad job on the virus, news to me. >> jessica: you didn't? we should catch up sometime. >> neil: i got to catch up sometime. kayley, i wonder where they stand, no shortage on either raising money there is concerns one party, but they all raise a lot of money. i don't think that is will be an issue. how do you spend it wisely? they are doing -- going to beef up advertising. we are hearing they are focused on battleground folks and will not take it for granted, as did hillary clinton, what are you hearing on that front? >> the two strategies are different, trump campaign spending money on hiring people to go door to door. last week they knocked on more than a million doors, that is significant number, it will take weeks to see if that makes a difference or not. biden is relying on virtual tactics, all in on phone calls and online campaigns, etcetera, we'll see if v

and even robert e. lee thought it was a bad idea to do this. so the idea of protecting his name. and the worst part of it for me is, don, again, even though mary trump moved me on this. all right. you and i have had this discussion many times. i see what he does as demagoguery. but i hold and reserve the idea that he is just a flatout bigot. mary trump says i'm wrong. they were bigots. okay. many times. many times. but i give people the benefit of the doubt, as long as i can. you know, it's one of the explanations for our friendship. the thing i can get, though, is i know that he doesn't give a damn about confederate names and statues and what the names of the base are. so he is doing is so hurtful. >> you know who else he doesn't give a damn about? people at his rallies. you ever see them at a trump hotel or property? you see them hanging out before he was president? >> he didn't even shake hands, before he was president. >> no, way. he's riding in his limo. >> hey. how could he care? how could he care about you if he comes to florida and sees you without a mask, packed into a p

we're going to keep the name of robert e. lee? >> just trust me, i'm going to make it happen. >> 95,000 positive retweets on that. that's a lot. that's a lot. >> yeah. >> yeah, this bs, like, not wanting people, who fought to enslave people, to have their names in places of prominence on our military bases. robert e. lee didn't even think that was a good idea. look. i'm all for transparency. but if you're on the phone with the president discussing policy, take the call in private, senator. second, here goes the president again. showing you that he's completely unburdened by principle. okay? bragging about retweets. that's the way he forms his policy decision? and listen. he has gotten hundreds of thousands of likes on tweets about not renaming bases. no question about that. but should that be what he bases a policy decision on? especially, on something like this? crowdsourcing policy for 300 million americans? you're the leader of the free world, not an instagram model. one of the qualities that defines a great president. willingn

in 1856, jefferson davis received word from general robert e. lee, commander of the army of northern virginia, that they could no longer hold the army back from richmond. with that news, jefferson davis adjourned his cabinet and sent his family on the road for their protection. jefferson davis soon after that would follow. he would finally catch up with his family right above the florida state line. it is here where a federal mounted unit was able to capture him and his family. jefferson davis was placed on a boat and moved back up here to fort monroe and incarcerated in this very cell. some people ask why. the main reason is that jefferson davis was indicted on three federal charges. one, for treason. two, complicit in the assassination of abraham lincoln. and three, the mistreatment of federal soldiers in prison by the confederate states army. in order to answer those charges in federal court, he had to be in a place where his last residency occurred, and that would be in richmond, the white house of the confederacy. it is here he will stay fo

he said he was "sick and tired of the nauseating flatteries of robert e lee." he wondered why the person who killed the most union soldiers and killed the most americans in dividing the country, was getting all the accolades. this is an old set of arguments, however, we obviously now have a different politics. if it hadn't been for the massive protests in the streets this past month, massive numbers of people in the streets, i doubt police forces of various kinds of would have allowed people to tear down monuments as they have. police have, not always, but by and large have been letting this happen. so there is a politics in the streets that is bringing this about. i would just add right now, i don't have any data on this but trumpism, let's be honest, the nature of our politics for the last three or four years is out there in the streets. is everybody demanding a confederate monument be removed? or attacking a confederate monument? or even other kinds of monuments? are they always thinking about trump? probably not. but trump has developed a toxic kind of poli

the monument to confederate figures robert e. lee, stonewall jackson, and jefferson davis at stone mountain was completed in 1972 and is the largest confederate monument in the country. an intense heat wave in california triggered rolling blackouts for hundreds of thousands of customers last night. it was the first time since 2001 that the state's power grid operator ordered emergency rolling blackouts. the main power utility serving northern california, pg&e, said it rotated outages for more than 220,000 homes over several hours to alleviate the high demand for electricity. in southern california, more than 130,000 customers were affected. meanwhile, multiple wildfires north of los angeles have forced evacuations and continue to burn. the largest, the lake fire, began wednesday and burned more than 14,000 acres and was only 12% contained by this morning. the ranch fire, which began thursday, destroyed 2,500 acres in one day, and was zero percent contained as of yesterday evening. japan's leaders marked the 75th anniversary of th

- robert e lee. he captured free people and enslaved them. that was the most hideous of all souvenirs. of course, we go to sherman in , who forages his way through georgia. there are two points of view on that. one is that he burned georgia. the other is that he spared georgia in some ways by not .ngaging i'm going to do a teaser. when we talk about appomattox in a future program, i'm going to ofk about another famous bit souvenir hunting. we have a few minutes left in a couple more questions -- who made these uniforms and how expensive where they? were any made in new york city? mr. holzer: i would say these were expensive. some soldiers paid themselves. allotmentarmy gave an to soldiers to buy uniforms, but i'm sure that these were funded by philanthropic groups in the states, but again, there was a certain pride in wearing the uniform. let me .1 thing out -- we talked about systemic racism and how long this existed. back in the civil war, even when african-american troops were hardly allowed to vo

the unit that robert e. lee later nicknamed the fighting 69th and admiration. and it's early permutation, it was recruited and very important to the union war effort that german americans and irish americans that had different political points of view were both recruited and both raise their own regiments. and this one went off very early in the war. this was the spring of 1861 they went down to virginia, established themself in arlington, heights or they all build fortifications for washington. it was very irish. colonel corcoran was the commander. he had a minister, a catholic priest, sprinkle holy water on the first cabinet fort cochrane. and they marched on very proudly to war. corcoran was irish born. he was 33 years old, a member of the senior brotherhood. >> we have an image detail of that. >> that won't be him. we shouldn't get to that. >> sorry about that. okay. yes. why don't we -- >> i should point, out this fellow is not corcoran. at the battle itself where our irish regiment formed, corcoran was captured by the confederates. and he remained in pris

a community can't change its mind if they no longer want to have a statue of robert e lee. that's not infringing on anyone's rights. i take it with a municipal decision. it's on the street there. i think you as ever in charge of that meant municipality should have the right to decide what expression is can be conveyed in those public spaces that are under their control. if the messaging that you've chosen neglects the role or importance of another institution. we want that reflected in some way. i don't think that is a free expression right. it might be a right of us a sort to be recognized and acknowledged. it may make some sense to try to find a way to do that. that is a discussion here in new york as well. you want a level of equilibrium between the message of black lives matter but not completely under rent cutting the role of police. oftentimes what we find. if you can get people hereby planting the blue line through our message was not as something that is acceptable. and talk through what they are trying to achieve. sometimes you can find a solution that would be acc

e lee and then continued i am not talking about but the nazis and white nationalists because they should be condemned totally. he also referred to these as rough bad people, the left likes to talk about the first, but without the second half and that is designed to advance this narrative that donald trump is some sort of white nationalist and there was a comment about laying down the heavy burden of hate. be nice peacocks for the ultimate 8 which is engaging shootings, building and homicide that have gone up dramatically in democrat run cities coast-to-coast. not a thing to say about that, not heard that mentioned once throughout the entire convention. >> right unto you, first responders in back of where you are. let's go to ethan's moment, the reemergence of under biden. we heard from the biden children tonight. is a bit of that. >> the worst enemy any bull we ever saw. >> the best friend you ever had. >> he will love you with all his heart. >> if you give him your cell phone number -- >> is going to call it. >> how do we know? >> he's been that way our whole lives. >> your moment. >> b

. >>> up next on the civil war, matt adkinson discusses the post-war life of robert e. lee. he highlights the efforts to promo promote an attitude towards southerners and his time at the college now own as washington and lee university. >> what we're

. >> at west point, there's lee road, robert e. lee housing area. enough. >> reporter: just before bronze star recipient dana pitard graduated in 1981 he overheard two fellow cadets call him the "n" word. >> they ran after me, dane ai'm sorry. i'm sorry for calling you a [ bleep ] -- i was so shocked. i thought, i -- i cannot believe that. and then i took both of them aside and said, we are two months from graduation at west point, and you still only see me as a [ bleep ]. >> reporter: pitard went on to carry the nuclear launch codes for president clinton and command all u.s. forces in iraq. >> makes me wonder, well, what else are they saying when you're not around or when i'm not around. and did you ever worry about that? >> not really because my assumption is they probably did. we've got to collectively work together. if we're going to end this legacy of systemic racism. and it's going to take more than black people to do that. >> reporter: for the first time, african-american officers lead the air force and west point. this photo taken last fall

e. >>> welcome to "the halftime report." a new month for your money and traditionally not a good one will august be any different this time around we'll debate for the next move for your money with our investment committee >>> we begin with a look at where we stand another new high for the nasdaq. a new month and over the past decade, august is the worst for stocks joe, you tell me first, what's going to be the determining factor this month for stocks >> i think we're going to need to see some value. we're going to have to see energy and financials come around i know i am asking for a lot to see those sectors participate. to your comments at the top of the show about the month of august and the impact that it has, went back and studied the last ten years and in the last ten years, if you did go and purchase or enter the market at the low point in august, at the end of the year, in each instance, except 2018, you were rewarded for that. i would be concerned if we don't see a correction be

e. let's take a closer look. we all know about joe's son hunter biden a corrupt ukrainian oligarch, even though he had no experience in ukraine or energy sector. none. yet he was paid millions to do nothing. he only had one qualification that mattered. he was the son of the man in charge of distributing u.s. aid to ukraine. joe says he'll build back better. yeah, build the bidens back better. >> all right. so what bondi failed to mention last night was the fact that biden and his son hunter's dealings with ukraine and the president's efforts to expose them were at the center of president trump's impeachment trial. and while she argued that biden's family had benefited from his years in the politics, she left out the fact that president trump's own daughter ivanka and jared kushner and tiffany trump and eric trump who continue to run the trump organization. just this week, the new york attorney general filed legal action against the trump organization and has asked the courts to compel er

all of a sudden americans are arguing, debating, sometimes fighting over a statue of robert e. lee, over the name of the woodrow wilson school at princeton university where i studied and talked. americans are arguing about christopher columbus and columbus circle, americans all of a sudden are realizing that history is actually worth fighting over. or fighting for. >> do you see this kind of questioning and re-examination and renaming as a sign of strength and confidence, not weakness and decay? >> absolutely. as a sign of strength, american infinite capacity for reinventing itself. america reinvents itself every so many years and does so with enormous success, which is -- which the admiration and respect that so many have for the united states. but the last 200 years also, we go back to history again, what happened last week or two weeks ago, and whether people feel that trump's response to the pandemic has been the right one, we can argue about that. we can't argue about the enormous capacity for reinvention that america has, the enormous capacity for absorption of the best t

robert e. lee, jeb stewart, they showed up in the story. how did it unfold with them and ultimately what happened to brown? >> it was considered an act of treason by the governor of virginia even though it was federal property, so he immediately called out the marines, and the commander of the marine regiment that marched on harpers ferry to get john brown out of their, and arrest or kill him, was colonel robert easily. not the lee we know about who had the luxury and beard that john brown had, but a very handsome -- he was supposed to be the handsomest officer in the army with the luxury and black mustache, and he, at one point dispatched one of his officers to walk up to the arsenal and a demand that john brown surrender or be taken dead or alive, and the person he dispatched to do that was jeb stewart who would be one of his generals and the confederate army in just two or three years from that. point brown refused to surrender. the marines stormed the arsenal. another of brown sons was killed in the raid. brown was nearly killed. he was

robert e. lee didn't even think it was a good idea. i'm all about transparency. if you are on the phone talking about policy with the president. take the call in private. the president showing you he's completely unburdened by principle. bragging about retweets. that's the way he forms his policy decision? listen, he has gotten hundreds of thousands of likes on tweets about not renaming bases. no question about it. should that be what he bases a policy decision on? especially on something like this? crowd sourcing policy for 300 million americans. leert of the fr leader of the free world. willingness to do what is right even if it's not popular. lincoln knew this. speaking of lincoln. let's talk about the issue at the center of the call. president trump dismissing renaming bases as b.s. cancel culture. ten army bases in the south named after confideederate lead. they fought against the united states and fought for enslavement of black people. look at the pictures. sometimes people say those are too harsh. obviously obviously we haven't let that -- thank got the c

e. >> it cost him hundreds of men, but it made him immortal. >> he leaves his descendants with a suitcase full of heirlooms. >> you want to take a look? >> i really would. >> then a fast-talking con man comes to town... >> he dressed well, he was very glib of tongue. >> ...forcing the general's heir into battle over his strange inheritance. >> what was your reaction? >> i was pissed. it began to dawn on me that i had been really truly ripped off. [ woman vocalizing, theme music plays ] [ wind howls ] [ thunder rumbles ] [ bird caws ] [ folk music plays ] >> i'm jamie colby, and today i'm in wilmington, north carolina. it's known for its gorgeous beaches and its great surfing, but it was also the last confederate port city to fall during the civil war, so it is fitting that i'm here to meet an heir whose ancestor became famous in defeat at the high-water mark of the confederacy. >> my name is george edward pickett v. i'm the great-great-grandson of general george e. pickett of gettysburg

when civil war breaks out, mcardle puts his talents to use for general robert e. lee. >> he joined the confederate army, and he was a mapmaker. >> after the war, he moves to texas, where he begins painting portraits of veterans. there, he becomes fascinated with heroes of an earlier war, the texas fight for independence from mexico. >> he had this vision to depict the exploits, the revolution, the heroes. >> historian sam ratcliffe specializes in texas battle paintings. what does mcardle mean to texas? >> he was really the first artist to try to thoroughly research the sweep of the texas revolution. >> why the revolution? >> the texas revolution was the defining event of texas history. >> the climatic event of the texas revolution and the subject of mcardle's greatest masterpiece is the battle of san jacinto. let's set the scene. the year is 1836, when the ruthless mexican general santa anna marches into texas, then a province of mexico, to put an end to a revolt by local settlers. the so-called napoleon of the west crushes texas forces at the alamo. santa anna th

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you describe robert e. lee torturing his slaves in this book. but also in 1849, massachusetts' charles sumner is quoted in your book saying the separation of children in the public schools of boston on account of color or race, he wrote, is in the nature of caste. and on this account is a violation of equality. he quoted a fellow humanitarian saying, caste makes distinction where god has made none. what do you make of those various levels of moral evolution that existed in the same society? >> that is one of the big conundrums that we face as a society and as a country with our history, is that we proclaim ourselves and are very proud to present ourselves as a place of liberty and of democracy and of openness for all people. and yet beneath all of this is this infrastructure that we have all inherited, that no one alive created, but that encases us and encloses us in ways that we may not realize. we're not dealing with the same classical open racism of our forefathers' era necessarily, but the idea of caste as a reminder of the hierarchies that

he is tearing down the statue of robert e. lee. new protections for lgbtq plus, womens laws. so the left cooperated with the moderates and got a whole lot of what they want. that's politics, at its best and that's what is happening with biden now. he's united this party, as never before. >> what does it matter that he doesn't go to milwaukee? >> i hate that he can't do that. he's actually a really good speaker and i have seen him light up a room. and i hate that he can't do it. but unlike trump, he's not a pathological narcissist. he actually cares about other people. he doesn't want to put thousands of people at risk, in a rally. he doesn't want to put his staff and secret service and everybody else at risk. so he's really got no choice but i do think it's a shame. i love those things. you know that. like a super bowl and a willie nelson concert. >> that would not be my depiction but i get it. i get it. who would you put him with in his house? where is he? and who is around him. >> you know, he is all about family. and i have a broad definition of family. i remember a great,

e. as the polling continues to show that the public does not have confidence in the president's response to coronavirus. and that it's really the key factor that is dragging down his re-election prospects at this point in time. but what we know from all these news conferences the president has been holding in recent days, he goes out there intending to talk about coronavirus, and quickly the topics veer into other territory, such as this crisis over the postal service funding for the usps ahead of the election as well as these broader covid relief measures that both sides acknowledge at this point need to be extended. congress needs to do something to move that forward. about the only sign of progress or life at all in those negotiations we've seen is something that we just learned about via nbc's leah caldwell, which is some conversations that have been taking place between the white house negotiators, specifically mark meadows a a group in congress that's noefrn as the problem solvers

it is a fraternity inspired by robert e lee. >> let's go to our open rebuttal. >> you have known me my whole life. it is said to hear that you say those things. you are running on your record, so let's examine that record. you say that you stand for racial justice. you voted for three strikes you're out. you voted for mass incarceration. you opposed the integration of the boston public schools. when a mom and dad came to you to ask for justice for their murdered black son, you literally did nothing to help them. you say you stand for economic equity, one of the proudest you say you past was the telecommunications act, which led to thousands of people losing their jobs in massachusetts, and you would not even meet with them. you stand for the change that we bring. you voted for the iraq war, which continues to send young men and women to the middle east that did not begin until before they were born. >> on the issue of racial justice, in 1973, there was no black senate seat. in massachusetts. with bill owens and doris king to cast a vote to defy the democratic leadership that was not go