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In a ‘contingent election’, he could lose the popular vote, electoral college and all his legal cases and still end up the legal US president

Ashland, the Henry Clay Estate, is now home to a rare stereograph of the attorney and statemen’s enslaved valet. The transfer of Aaron Dupuy's picture from the University of Kentucky Libraries Special Collections Research Center to the Henry Clay Memorial Foundation took place Monday.

The compromise to avoid default on the U.S. debt passed muster, eventually. President Joe Biden and Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy pulled it off.

Comparisons between the two began cropping up early in 2016, right about the time former President Trump's candidacy was bringing the word "populist" back into the daily political conversation.

Ashland, the Lexington estate of Henry Clay, lost 15 trees during the March 3 storms. Jim Clark is the executive director of The Henry Clay Memorial Foundation. He said the landscape has been transformed.

The memory of the speakership fights leading up to the Civil War remind us that the consequences of dysfunction in the national government affect us all.

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