Located 18 blocks from the U.S. Capitol, Washington’s Congressional Cemetery is the final resting place for dozens of members of Congress, as well as numerous military and government officials and other prominent Americans. American History TV toured the grounds with Congressional Cemetery program director Rebecca Roberts.

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Located just 18 blocks from the U.S. Capitol, Washington’s DC’s Congressional Cemetery is final resting place of dozens of members of Congress and other prominent Americans. American History TV toured the grounds with Congressional Cemetery program director Rebecca Roberts, as she showed us the graves of some of the unsung heroes buried in the cemetery, as well as a few of her personal favorites.

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American History TV travels to James Madison's Montpelier in Orange County, Virginia. In this program we learn about the Madison family cemetery, a nearby slave cemetery, and James Madison’s “temple,” a Greek and Roman inspired structure that James Madison had built in the early 1800's.  

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This week, we join the Lincoln Group of the District of Columbia for a tour of the Old Naval Observatory, which is not open to the public. Located near the Lincoln Memorial, it was built in 1844 and operated until 1893, when a new observatory was constructed a few miles away. The tour was given by Navy Medical Department historian Jan Herman.

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Curator Richard Cote leads us on a tour of the Treasury building to learn about a long-term restoration project begun in 1986. In the second half of a two-part program, we see Secretary Timothy Geithner's office, a suite of rooms that has served Treasury Secretaries since 1910. We also learn about the restoration of the ornate West Dome and the gold gilding that had once been painted over and forgotten.

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Treasury Department Curator Richard Cote takes us on a behind-the-scenes tour of the Cash Room, the Salmon Chase Suite, and the President Andrew Johnson Suite. Each of these rooms has recently been restored as part of an ongoing renovation effort funded by the Treasury Historical Association. This is the first half of a two part program.

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Open for business in 1861 and located about six blocks from the capitol building, the United States Government Printing Office still prints the Congressional Record each day that the House and Senate are in session. We visited to learn the history of GPO and to see some of their historic printing jobs, including the "Official Records of the War of the Rebellion," which took twenty years to print, and the twenty-seven volume "Warren Commission Report on the Assassination of President Kennedy."

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January 9, 2013 is the 100th anniversry of President Nixon's birth. American History TV visits Yorba Linda, California and the home where Richard Nixon was born. Docent Darlene Sky gave us a tour of the small house located on the grounds of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum.  The grounds of the home are also the final resting place of the 37th president & his wife Pat.

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Bob Dole, former U.S. Senator and 1996 Republican nominee for president, recorded a series of interviews for an oral history project of the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas. The project chronicles not only Dole’s career, but the life of the U.S. Senate, and the people and politics of his times. In excerpts from a 2007 interview, Dole talks with historian Richard Norton Smith about passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, meeting Saddam Hussein, the advice he gave President Clinton, his interest in Colin Powell as a vice-presidential running mate and his work with veterans.

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American History TV visits Chatham Manor, the only known house in the U.S. visited by both George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.  Built in 1771 by Virginia Continental Congress delegate William Fitzhugh, it was a Union headquarters during the Civil War and a field hospital during the Battle of Fredricksburg where Clara Barton & Walt Whitman tended to the wounded and dying. Chatham was given to the National Park Service in 1975 and is part of Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park.

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