martin van buren, john tyler, herbert hoover or donald j trump? >> john tyler. kennedy: absolutely right. you're already on the board and in the lead, congratulations. kevin, let's see if you can equal that. which of these presidents by his wife when he was six years old? william mckinley, abraham lincoln, harrogate truman or boutwell? >> as much as i want to say little ballet, i think it was harry truman. kennedy: are on the board as well. we got presidential historians today. brad, you can make it a trouble with this, are you ready? [laughter] kennedy: which of these presidents was married to his cousin? was it woodrow wilson, franklin d roosevelt, john quincy adams or woody allen? [laughter] >> maybe fdr? kennedy: you are right. fdr. omg. all three of our players are on the board. let's go with round number two. which of these presidents changed the name of fdr's presidential from shangri-la to camp david? ronald reagan, right d eisenhower, jimmy carter or abraham lincoln? >> i do not but i'm going to guess eisenhower. kennedy: you guessed correctly. excellen

then of course we defeated martin van buren in november 1840. harrison, as you know died 32 days into his term. tyler became president the image on the right is a romanticized picture of this passing an elevation to presidency. harrison had declared his intention to serve only one term as president. tyler almost desperately wanted a second term. he did not make a claim he would only serve one term. after being banished spent much of his time trying to put himself in the position to secure election of his own right in 1844. most notably by pursuing and getting the annexation of texas. tyler became the first president to marry while in office on june 26, 1844 he married a new yorker 30 years younger julia gardner in a ceremony in new york city. on the rights of the slide is muslim i fear favorite characters the 1844 political campaign. ralph pennsylvania abner the six or $25000, $25000 as a presidential salary at the time. or you have tyler sing is not going to run for president anymore he's going to chase with the farmer calls the gardener's daug

and of course, tippa canoe and tyler tew defeated martin van buren in november of 1840. harrison, as you know, died 32 days into his term. tyler became president, this image on the right with a romanticized image of tyler receiving news of harrison's passing and his elevation to the presidency. now harrison had declared his intention to serve only one term as president. tyler almost desperately wanted a second term e. did not make any claim that he would serve only one term. and after being banished from the whig ranks in september of 1841, spent much of his time trying to put himself in the position to secure election in his own right in 1844. most notably by pursuing and succeeding in getting the annexation of texas. tyler became the first president to marry while in office, on june 26th, 1844, he married the new yorker, 30 years younger julia gardner in a ceremony in new york city and on the right of the slide is one of my favorite political cartoons of the 1844 presidential campaign. pennsylvania avenue, the stakes are $25,000, and $25,000 is the presidential salary

van buren in november of 1840. harrison, as you know, died 32 days into his term. tyler became president. this image on the right is a romanticized image of tyler receiving news of harrison's passing and his elevation to the presidency. >> watch this program and thousands more online at c-span.org/history. >>> how exactly did america get up to its neck in debt? >> we believe one of the greatest characteristics of being an american is that we are striving to provide equal opportunity for all citizens. >> c-span's video documentary competition 2022, students across the country are giving us behind the scenes looks as they work on their entries using the hashtag student can. and if you're a middle or high school student, you can join the conversation by entering the c-span stewart cam competition. create a five to six-minute documentary using c-span video clips that answer the question, how does the federal government impact your life? >> be passionate about what you're discussing to express your view no matter how la

van buren, zachary taylor, herbert kruger, jimmy carter. but clearly many of these men i've just named at the visceral dispassion first-year malevolence, dishonesty, self-serving cunning bit is long hung around richard nixon. rick wilson sums it up says nixon is the modern exemplar of course at the heart of the judgment stands the sheer dishonesty, the illegality epitomized by the watergate break-in, the cover up running through any number of other episodes of richard nixon's long political career. and it speaks to his line of criticism. of course there's more to it than that. the anti- semitism, the racism that has been revealed on the recordings from the white house attest to a deeper kind of character problem that has fueled a lot of nixon disliked or perhaps hatred. there also seems to me a third piece of this. nixon's distinctly paranoid style of politics. in the anti- instincts he seems to have embodied. in public opinion was for nixon often a force to be held in checked or even bypassed in order to free himself to proceed as he wishe