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There's never any mention of Mary's been forgotten in her novel author Mary Kelsey imagines George Washington as you've never seen him.

He stroked the side of her face. He felt her shiver some revolutionary passion this Presidents' Day weekend ahead on Sunday morning. Well the Oscar call for the envelope please bring best actress onerous to Melissa McCarthy.

If so, she'll be reaping the rewards of playing against type as Lee Cowan will show us you are to pay me $5000.

About used to seeing was McCarthy playing an alcoholic, petty criminal, but she says this is rewarding role she's ever had. Do love the underdog and I love showing those undervalued women that we don't give always full credit. I love to show them at the end in a very different place. The funny thing about was McCarthy's later on Sunday morning. On the heels of Pres. trumps wall declaration Jeff Gore explores our southern border with author Don Winslow Steve Hartman finds a quiet sign of the times will take in the exhibit that forever changed our definition of art and more coming up when our Sunday morning podcast continues where fairly sure on this Presidents' Day ease that the story of a young George Washington chopping down a cherry tree is a myth which brings us to this morning's mystery did George Washington love Mary Phillips. Our cover story as reported by Jim Axelrod when it comes to the familiar portrait of the father of our country. The model of virtue and resolve who could not tell a lie.

He stroked the side of her face.

He felt her shiver. Maybe, just maybe, we didn't get the whole picture he felt her relax in his arms soften. It turns out a few years before Martha Mary Eliza Phillips my fond heart overflows with joy to see you. She smiled and her lips trembled. There was Mary. This is a massive amount of where her family owned 1/4 million acres of land all along the Hudson River in her debut novel dear George dear Mary author Mary Kelsey writes of Washington's first month. Mary Eliza Phillips, one of the wealthiest women in the colonies. What we learn couldn't tell a lie cross of Delaware Martha there's never any mention of Mary's been forgotten in the 1800s. She's written every book that I could find about George Washington since then she sorted and left out the history of the putter back with a love story begins in 1756 is the newly minted French and Indian war hero Col. George Washington is passing through New York. He stops for a party in his honor. Possibly Phillips manner, a mansion in Yonkers meets the heiress who lives there. Sparks fly was George Washington sex George Washington stat back in 1700 women wanted it to him is what was said but Washington's sense of duty to the king of England trumped Cupid if this guy has fallen for this heiress to make plans for cakes leave go check on this potential love of your life. George Washington request time off 10 days 12 days 14 days any rights as commanders tonight. Every time when Mary married a British officer Roger Morris. Two years later Washington with his commitment. Perhaps, according to Mary Calvary changing the course of history took away his freedom to be able to follow his heart. It's a story that is long fascinated Kelsey, who like Mary Phillips grew up in Yonkers where she's the first lady married to the mayor, Mike Spano. When my husband was inaugurated as the question is it true that George Washington once courted the heiress who lived here it was like and when they couldn't find the answers and substantiate that story. A simple try to research for 3 1/2 years Calvary sorted through thousands of letters, publications and journal entries.

In her spare time since she already had a danger. Kelby is an anchor of the CBS station in New York City. Thank you for letting us help. I have all of the research done and I thought just give it a shot. She wanted her work of fiction, backed up by as many facts as you could find, though she didn't always like Windows fax. This is exactly the round like to this mansion in Harlem in 1776. 20 years after George and Mary's relationship failed the blossom Washington outmanned and under resourced was fighting to keep the British from capturing men at the mansion perched on the highest point in the city made a perfect headquarters in New York Harbor Harlem River ELC Hudson River and so if you are looking for the enemy even see them coming from here in the mansion was owned by none other than Mary Phillips.

Where was Mary Phillips when George Washington decided to move it so question into the documents to try to figure things were getting even more complicated for both Mary's Phillips and Kelsey. The author knew that Martha Washington was back in Virginia for her own safety and that Phillips husband was in England.

No one knows for sure where Mary Phillips was but Kelby had an idea to lessen upstate with her sister and she wasn't in Yonkers with her brother so it is possible that George Washington moved into mansion in Harlem in which his first love was living at the time George Washington is here living in a bedroom down the hall using Mrs. his office at the same time. His first love. May very well be living in this house.

I know what you're saying I know what you're thinking and that's what I can see you really could see if you were here. This makes a lot of sense as headquarters red historian Richard Rukeyser, one of the world's preeminent George Washington scholars confirms George and Mary Phillips were an item.

In 1756, but says while historical friction is one thing, is it possible they share this house, we don't have any evidence of it historical fact is quite another. I think she's found a possibility for good work of fiction until we find some letter dear Mary, so nice to see you after so many decades. It's not going to the historical record. Not saying it didn't happen.

Just saying we can't say it did happen. There are rigorous standards for something to enter the historical record that's right. And this doesn't get over that bar but yet we can still walk still is remark 287th birthday of George Washington, Mary Kelby has a story that seeks to liberate the historical figure from the marble, but so often in cases's legacy look almost pain. I was so torn. When I found this information out. I was really in a bit of a quandary. Truthfully, as to what to do it because you didn't want to be the ones Washington the father of our country was carrying on will first want to say something really uncomfortable night turned to Don.

She had fallen asleep in his arms.

The last small flame was burning out the hearth. He walked over to the fireplace placed white birch logs into it and waited to be assured. The glow did not go dark. Resident trumpets touched off a heated debate with his national emergency to fund a border wall certain best-selling author has long been committing his border knowledge to FinePrint shares his thoughts with CBS evening news anchor Jeff Bloor. We are in the big know where the sheets in the windy Southern California desert hundred nine right now is searingly familiar to Don Winslow.

Mexico is just across those hills and these are drug trials coming up out of Mexico for mule horse all-terrain vehicles usually come at night.

The drug trials almost look like snake tracks Winslow, now 65, best-selling author has been 1/3 of his life in our southern border writing to critically acclaimed novels based on what he seen. After more than two decades.

He thought he'd exhausted the topic I swore, I promise to myself. I promise to my wife. I wasn't going to do another about the border about drugs, but there was more story to be told he tells that story in the border out later this month.

His crime trilogy will soon be made into big-budget movies, acclaimed director Ridley Scott it's about internal borders about ethical borders, moral borders, political borders and whether we cross them or not.

And if we cross them. Can we ever cross back. Winslow's been a fierce critic of Pres. Trump even took out a full-page ad in the New York Times criticizing his border policies.

We want to stop drugs.

We want to stop traffickers. We want to stop criminals from coming in. Walls save lives, to imagine single wall out there someday know that on every mildness border every month. Let's go to cloud cuckoo land for a while so you could build that wall build as high as you want deep as you want. Why does he want it has against Jeff Scates are always open. Winslow believes the wall would make the drug situation worse by driving smalltime smugglers into the hands of big time dealers what we critically have to understand is that the border is also something that joins two communities to countries and cultures. We forget that sometimes completely forgotten it. What is it that people don't understand about what's happening there right now there is no invasion of the United States through this border is not armed people.

These are people for the most part, hard-working family people trying to find a better life, something we used to welcome in this country are there bad people, and these caravans are there some criminals. Of course I would also argue to you, there are bad people on the Mayflower. There were bad people came into Ellis. That's what built Scripture Don Winslow didn't expect to be spending his 60s, speaking his mind about politics, with 21 novels to his name.

He is now one of the most in demand crime writers in America but for many years. It wasn't that way you're the late bloomer yeah overnight success, but it wasn't Arctic night's the chart above of always wanted you know and I'm grateful now that I have you took the world a long time to agree with me. I should be a writer, but he knew from the beginning about six or seven years old, six or seven yeah my dad was a sailor who loved books. It's what he wanted to float around on the water read books. My mother was a librarian. We were always encouraged to read were always allowed to read anything we wanted and I thought you know if I could make my living telling stories. That's where like my life to go. Winslow published his first book in 1991 he sold just enough to pay the bills but kept at it there been multiple times.

I think when you've thought about that giving up. And so what is it that gets you through that just just continuing to work yet writing the book. Stop complaining, stop thinking. Just work.

That's it. That's always it is 4 miles. Finally, four years ago Winslow hit the big time exactly with the blockbuster international bestseller cartel markers you will share this much never shared with anybody before you. It's this view. He says in the hills east of San Diego that gives him his inspiration. That's a lot of times where I come to think word come to create characters characters like those in his 2017 bestseller the force well overall and profane tail of an antihero cop New York City 4 AM when the city that never sleeps, at least lies down novel set in upper Manhattan where Winslow once worked as a private investigator. It describes a heroin mill run out of an apartment complex. This area works because of its location is very near several major highways. Remarkably, just before the book was published. A real-life heroin mill was uncovered in the very building Winslow used the base's fictional building in the newspaper that there was a major heroin processing 22 pounds lighter.

Coincidence, maybe more likely the product of Winslow's meticulous research team one little about you spend years digging for details. This was the gas station office.

The writing 12 hours a day, an old converted gas station near his California home.

You're addicted to it.

I think addiction might be the accurate phrase you know it's an addiction. I love doing a love and passion given Don Winslow a platform to speak his mind not interested in apologizing about interesting regrets, but I'm not saying I'm sorry about anything written or anything.

This is the awkward moment portion of the looming question. It's Sunday morning on CBS and here again is Jane probably Melissa McCarthy showed off her comic skills opposite Billy got down on the popular CBS sitcom Mike and Molly so it would be quite a turnaround. If next Sunday's call for the envelope please brings McCarthy and Oscar are very different sort of role usually Callan bookshop in North Hollywood, California.

You can find just about anything including on this day actors Melissa McCarthy she was buying actual books. Actual pages tablets are currently every weekend we try to go to a bookstore one so may have been really good about it. I don't know I needed. I need a real buck needed tangible book.

I think you look so great but she enjoys studying people even more. I read somewhere that you have a real obsession with observing people who really just don't care don't care what they look like what they say. They eat drink whatever hobby for you watching it is a hobby and it's gotten harder since I'm a little this is a little more recognizable.

My husband many you cannot.

You know now you get caught more and with some of those characters that you would stock the lady with a higher negative some of the other characters, but I think I think when I really seem like Avenue mannerisms or just away simply carry some stuff I really I tend to keep Blake playing it over and over Jesus Megan so I want to apologize.

I'm not even confident which and I came out of Whitney back to you. Sorry these characters are bits and pieces of people she's gathered along the way, I get it all Lopez and Tammy come clamoring back to her outrageous skill.

She shows up.

You can use actually carried my books here and you are Lee Israel with copies of your latest work right over there.

McCarthy is up for an Academy trail of Lee, Israel, the true store cost best-selling biographer years typed her way into a life of petty crime, relishing literary writers within the first 15 pages of the script. I just thought I like quite a bit. Not sure why. And I thought, I don't know but I'm fully ready for already real-life Lee Israel made a name for herself writing profiles of celebrity, including actors, tool, bank and gossip columnist Dorothy Butler biography of makeup mogul Estée Lauder flopped Israel found herself welfare began fabricating letters typed correspondence from celebrities like Louise Brooks Ferber no count and then scanned New York City booksellers into fine is the genuine article is a wonderful to name your letters are still out but got to know. I think there's quite a bit of them hanging hanging on people's walls probably proudly now, maybe even strangely, it's like it could make them even a little better. I think a story within the story. My land is no course of three years, Israel carefully crafted more than 400 fakes making your one of the most prolific literary forgers in history. Personally people show come all know he's buying Lee Israel… She did do some damage to the literary community. She didn't see it that way.

Now she didn't and I guess I don't but I'm I mean I'm clearly on her side. She grafted people.

There's I'm not saying that it it's okay. What she did.

It's the gentlest craft I've ever heard of that people got kind in a I don't take that lightly, but also she she was in absolute desperation. You'd never know it from writing which was desperately good. Think this letter Israel claimed was written by satirist Dorothy Parker dear Joshua Allen told me to write and apologize. I have a hangover that is a real museum piece. I'm sure I must've said something terrible to save me. This kind of exertion in the future.

I am thinking of having little letters run off saying can you ever forgive me Dorothy, but until I do that can you ever forgive me, Dorothy. She was such a good writer such a writer so witty, I mean she was conjuring these lines in these incredibly funny replies and be really good and so was McCarthy's performance award recognition.

In addition to her Oscar God. She was also nominated for a SAG about the integral low all freight pretty darkly but some see as far different from her comedic bread-and-butter there's no difference for me in preparation of if it's on paper comedic role or a dramatic Christ. I still think you build them the same way and even with all the companies and out a spend more time thinking about what makes them scared or when they feel vulnerable than I ever do about like what makes them funny. In fact, in the 90s after stent doing standup New York City clubs McCarthy actually found drama refuge.

I really did all dramatic work on stage in New York for years and years way off Broadway there pretty grip the theater as it was in themselves. They were all it was like the darker the more macabre I could do the more I just loved it. Many interested was and is always someone is much further from myself.

We Israel was light-years away from the Midwest. Nice of McCarthy was an alcoholic, big-city porcupine died largely along 2014.

After finally writing her own memoir outlining the gritty details of her literary larceny at the end of the day.

Read the book and it is not contrite about what she did. She actually galaxies, bragging about she's she's never ever took back the writing was good. Someone just recently sent me a letter that she'd written. And she mentions this, I got myself into a bit of trouble with some writing and then there's some line after it basically saying.

However, the writing was good and the letters are great this one line here was particularly clever day.

Think caustic way caustic wit is my religion McCarthy doesn't excuse Israel's crimes but she hopes the movie might serve as a reminder that there is talent in all, even those who are unlikable, maybe even criminal want, but we all do to be seen thank just want people to look up and notice people if your course a separate now and I do thing all the time like look up anyone you don't know he's passing you could be passing Lee Israel, who is sure to be more interesting and smarter and funnier then than the average in the average person so don't don't underestimate people from Steve Hartman this morning. A sign of the times at the far end of Islington Rd. in Newton, MA was a little girl near and dear to the neighborhood to Samantha Savitz's death, but boy does she love to talk to anyone who knows sign language parents, Raffaella and Glenda super engaging she wants to chat up with anybody yeah I hope someone who can communicate with her. Likewise, if someone can well that makes them just a little sad. Her desire for engagement has been painfully obvious to everyone in the neighborhood whenever they see her on a walker in her yard and Sam tries to be neighborly.

They find themselves at a frustrating loss for words. I didn't know what to say back when you like to talk to know basic conversational. One would have with a child her about her day and make her feel that she is part of the neighborhood just be her friend. Unfortunately, this isn't something you can solve with a casserole you need the whole community to learn sign language is for little two-year-old girl can expect neighbors to do that you can only appreciate them when they do on their own. Sam's neighbors got together hired an instructor and are now fully immersed in an American sign language class. The teacher Reese McGovern says this is remarkable because a lot of times even the parents of deaf children don't bother to learn sign language here has full community that signing and communicating with her and her family and it is a beautiful story and he says this level of inclusion will almost certainly guarantee a happier, more well-adjusted sale, which is why her parents say there aren't words in any language to express their gratitude really shocking and pedophile. We are so fortunate. In fact they say they're already seeing a different daughter is here when she comes in at the end of class. First thing he says to us is friend I think your heart would melt just as minded. Sometimes it feels like America is losing it since it then you hear about a place like this with the village it takes to raise a child is alive and well here to remind us that what makes a good nothing good is a red violets are blue real fashion statement sale. He tells us to think, consider the color of flowers ballet shoes and candy hearts so explain this pink is the most divisive color in American society.

People either love pink or they hate Valerie Steele curated a recent exhibition about the shade at the fashion Institute of technology in New York when object well because people object to the stereotypes and Kathy's Association seven immature girls then a lot of girls and women go that's not me but steel says pink entered the world gender free and has led quite a colorful life.

People want to believe fairly simple stories about color and in fact my culture in general it's more complicated 18th-century inexpensive South American die made fabric sheet Harris was the center of fashion and so pink became the ultra fashionable color and more women more boys girls for interiors were pink so wasn't about gender. It was that class. I was about being fashionable and aristocratic. Just after the Civil War pink hit mainstream America. In the novel Little women characters has twins girl and a boy. Amy put a blue ribbon on the boy and a pink on the girl French fashion so you could always tell the 1840s, the French decided pink was for girls and women in blue was for boys in American society really make money out of color coding children's class. But first, there was confusion many stores in America thought Hank was for boys and pink is for girls bliss for boys. Little boy blue come blow your horn pink is the die, shall we say was cast. Businesses started seeing green. Once pink was linked with notions of sugar and spice and everything nice there's a lot of inertia in an association like that once it's established. It's tough for it to change. Decades later, little girl, bounded on the scene who shook up pink sweet image and weighs six I think she basically own division of pink and said pink can also be mischievous. It could be a little bit more playful.

Adam Alter teaches marketing at NYU Stern school of business that was a really good thing for the color pink guy with this extra dimension and meant that pink didn't just mean very well-behaved and doing exactly the right thing all the time. It also meant yourself and being the real version of who you when we started the book, the concept of the background color was never planned.

This will empower little girls but it did. Hilary Knight created illustrations for the book and Louise decided she be only black, white, and bathed in bright pink.

The book became a sensation life magazine published six pages directly from the book. It was on the bestseller list and its author Kay Thompson became a movie star playing a fashion editor with a rosy idea. Everybody knew about Eloise and the color pink is why she is saying pink 1950s America spirited message to spread pink became a part of the holes in the feminine mystique push women back in the home and get them to do feminine things and so began pink dark.

While some gentler sex embraced pink some 60s feminists are rad selling little girls want to buy all the pink toys. A lot of mothers go I don't really like that kind of bubblegum Barbie thing.

I don't want my daughter to buy into that is, until recently orange the new pink thinkers began to write shade smarts think and it's pink there, emphasizing their girls in their growth and power, especially girls and women because they then brought awareness to breast cancer, and other groups saw its power. A lot of activist movements have embraced pink as a political color for women when he saw all of those pink real life. If you want to be noticed where pink and Valerie Steele says that leaves everyone in the pink over the last 20 years. Different gender sexualities, and races have gotten together and said pink doesn't have to be childish and feminine and can be powerful, androgynous political cool green collar now thoughts on Pres. Trump's declaration of a national emergency, Norman Ornstein, political scientist at the American Enterprise Institute so we're going to be signing today and registering national emergency in a rambling announcement on Friday. Pres. Trump said that despite signing the compromise funding bill, you would still declare a state of emergency to build his border wall.

A president invoking emergency powers is not new. Over the past hundred years presidents have done so.

Dozens of times from FDR to prevent a run on banks to George W. Bush, allowing warrantless wiretaps after 9/11 to Obama on the swine flu epidemic 30 still remain technically in effect, even where presidents overreached like Harry Truman slapped down by the Supreme Court after seizing steel mills during the Korean War. They had valid loss rely on an urgent reasons to act.

This is different in his answers Friday reporters questions from gave away the game I could do the wall over a longer period of time. I do need to do this, but I'd rather do it much faster I could do the wall over a longer period of time. I didn't need to do this, but I would rather do it much faster.

This is not trivial if the president can succeed with this voluntary state of emergency. He is setting the table for something much more dangerous emergency powers are sweeping the president may seize property Institute martial law control all transportation and communication, and much more. All these emergency powers are there under an assumption that a president puts the nation's interests first respects the other branches of government and the rule of law.

What if we have a president who does not fit that description. There are guardrails in place.

Congress can pass a joint resolution raising an emergency declaration that will no doubt be vetoed by Pres. Trump and to override that veto will take at least 1/3 of Republicans who show no interest in checking this president, then we have the judiciary from, says he expects the Supreme Court to rescue if the five Republican appointed justices uphold this order they're saying in effect that presidential power is unlimited.

There is no article 1 of the Constitution establishing the powers of Congress, making Congress meaningless. Pay attention are fundamental freedoms could be at stake. I'm Jane Pauley.

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