i want to talk a little bit, jefferson the politician, jefferson and renaissance man, jefferson the symbol, secessionists wanted a piece of him in the run-up to the civil war, franklin roosevelt wanted him for the new deal in world war ii, like winston churchill in the bible, he can be used in any way you need. because he was so articulate and so prolific. 20,000 or more letters, brilliantly written, wonderfully eloquent. what can we make of it? this is the man, the human being we have. that is what i want to get to, answering president kennedy's question, what was he like? trying to figure this out, i asked for and was granted permission to sleeping jefferson's bed room one night on a pallet on a floor i hasten to add. wanted to hear how the clock sounded. jefferson always said he woke when he could start to make out the hands of the clock. the son had not called in bed in more than 40 years. i wanted to see if that was one of those things as dean acheson said no one comes up second best in their own memoir, what did that was actually true. a brilliant point from secretary atchison. what

jefferson's reputation. to me that was a real turning point that the children are being whipped, jefferson was informed it took no action to stop it. [inaudible] [inaudible] inadmissibility freeze three of the four most valuable slaves and monticello. euphrates by master blacksmith, he frees the master butler and glaser and the master daughter of john hemings. my calculation, that's about one 10th of the value compared to the other 126 saves her rocks off that day. so what you make of that gesture? >> sure. i'll just repeat the question because i don't know that he was picked up by the microphones. he asked the question, why did jefferson essentially free some of his most valuables waves? >> well, two of the slaves for his own children from aston and madison had made. why he freed the other three i don't know. i don't know if he had made a prior promise to them. they were certainly very valuable servants to him. they were all related to him. they were related to him through his life, but i honestly can't ans

said that running through jefferson's life. so extremism was actually a closed mind -- the expression of a closed mind which he could never, ever stand for. he did talk about revolution. he talked about every 20 years. he talked about how the blood of tyrants can be the manure of liberty. so rather of seeing a revolt against authority, then the aristocrats forming an army to keep that kind of thing down. and that's how i think you have to understand his comments on that. is that if there was some upsets, some dissent, you know what, in human life we're going to have these things. history's full of this. he was much more worried when there were plans to put together a presidential militia in the 1790s that john adams and alexander hamilton might use to suppress people. he would rather ere on the interest of the many rather than the interest of the few. and that was the defining difference between himself and hamilton. >> we'll take a quick break here and be right back with more from author john meacham. >>> and we're back with m

about jefferson, i could make the case for a tea party jefferson or obama jefferson. a cool writer who is dedicated to compromise the obama jefferson. the tea party jefferson the small government, and the government is that--the best government is the government that governor least. the reason why i do this, it's almost never all one or another. compromise is not always a virtue. one way is not always the best bay as we learned under civil rights. so understanding how the greatest politicians maneuvered, i think not only it should give us lessons about the practice of politics, but it should also tend to lower our blood pressure pressures a bit about every moment is not an epic moment. it's just not. >> gavin: good point. >> but you're living through it so it feels that way. for jefferson these were. the british were going to come back. in fact, the british did come back in 1812. my hope is by covering the human jefferson and the political jefferson--i don't want to be too sappy about it, but to my mind it redeems politics to some extent. this is arguably one of the m

jefferson's slaves after jefferson's death. his father, joseph foster, the chief blacksmith at monticello and his mother, edith, was mr. jefferson's coke. this was a very high status family. i had been spending a lot of time reading his memoirs and trying to glean as much information as i could from them and it was one hot afternoon that i decided to get out of this place and go to the mountain and wander around as i often did looking at the house and mingling with the tourists, trying to get a sense of the place all over again because place is very important to my writing. as it turned out, the tour guide was just beginning a talk about peter fawcett and she began telling the story about how he was sold at auction at age 11 and was sold to someone who promised peter's father that he would release him in a few years is joseph raised enough money because joseph was one of the few slaves, and jefferson's will and joseph worked very hard to raise the money to buy his son back from his master but the master broke the deal, broke hi

on jefferson street when the construction work is done and even though, here at jefferson plaza, we were all in the same situation about this time last year when the occupied the encampment was across the street from all of the businesses all along the quart front and we you and -- we were at the front line of all of that and acting as a buffer to protecting a lot of business and is interests along the water front. and we would like for to you take that into consideration that you know, we not only park the colorful city in term of locally made art. , but also we were brothers and aunts at one time when then campment was there and to you know, like beggings and asking that you keep us in your good instead and keep us at jefferson when that renovation is complete. thank you. >> thank you. phillips and then debra king. >>> thank you commissioners i'll be brief my name is steven phillips i'm a photographer and a street artist in san francisco and have been on transportation since 1970 and used to live in jefferson and mason and walked down to the agency 'em cafe before it was a pier 39

so jefferson pushed hard, and i think probably too hard. he had conversations with the french ambassador that he should have never had. he pushed hard to have america moderately pro-french, to allow americans or to allow the french to outfit american ships and let them participate in some ways in the war effort. and jefferson did this largely because he thought the vote france for their help in our revolution and because the french were fighting for democracy in europe and the british for fighting for aristocracy. let me evolve the two positions, with a realistic position of these are american interests and this is what we need to do and the position of the jeffersonians which is we need to fight for values in the world. as american foreign policy has developed, those positions have both been talked about in times. we need to look at our own interest. there has always been this element if we have got to go out and make the world safe for democracy. we have got to fight with the good guys. i think our situation is completely different now. w

some people say that thomas jefferson was a bs but here is the quotation from thomas jefferson in which he talks about jesus christ, thus as we see this is true and what people say is a lie, and the founders wrote an enormous amount. george washington's the five papers in the university of virginia are now in volume 67 of the projected 90 volumes and he wasn't even one of the writers. alexander hamilton, james madison, thomas jefferson spent hours every day writing letters. so, we have just rooms full of writings from these people and if you just cherry pick a citation here and there, you can prove they were christians were deists or baked potatoes. you can prove they were just about anything because they said so much. soa proof text citation is just a quotation offered with very little context, and in biblical discussions, pretexts' are used to prove what god is thinking. in our discussions of the founders once we collectivize the founders, once you create the founders, then you can apply any sentence ever spoke as if it were the opinion of the entire collective, and that is what has h

jefferson said a lot of things that modern-day taxpayers can see sun. jefferson was an outlier. washington did not support the whiskey rebellion. he actually participated in the military effort. hamilton believed, as i was going to be a big debate any need to have that debate. you always need to have that debate, but you don't hobble yourself before and with additional structural difficulties because it could be very, very important in the future to every source of revenue. >> host: when we come back when i want to talk specific issues unable to talk about about the politics behind it and the reason that led you to write the book. we'll be back in a little bit. >> guest: okay, excellent. >> host: welcome back, people often. let's talk about what the founders had to say, different opinions on these issues than with the right-wing commentator are talking about has to say. we talked already about religion in taxes than foreign policy. what did the founders he talked about in your vocab to say about america's role in the world? >> guest: i think again this is a matter of great dispu

in fact it was first articulated in this letter by jefferson. so there were these big huge data proprietary bases where there is about every word and phrase. mckinley came out -- i read a book years ago when he comes up with war room. that was an easy one. i think we are down to about one question here. >> where did mulligan come from? >> a mulligan has an extra shot when he hit the first one. meaning that you could get to take the shot. it existed beforehand, but it's only when eisenhower starts playing golf. so "the new york times" has to give a great explanation of a mulligan. it's sort of a goal purslane. it is sort of a golfer's word. it's like murphy's law. thank you

i read sean hannity, david barton, the jefferson lies was his most recent book. and a variety of similar works, but those -- and then there were a number of works by politicians i read, and this is always dangerous because politicians usually don't write their own books, but i figure they ought to at least be willing to agree what's in them. so i read several recent books by newt gingrich on the judiciary. mike lee, rick perry, governor of texas, has a fairly recent book called "fed up." and it's a state's rights manifesto. so that collectively, in of the politicians on the far right, and then that conservative entertainment complex who became the foundation -- i probably read 30 or 40 books from that wide swath of opinion. >> host: would you expect anything more from propaganda political leaders? is this something we might expect when something as complicate as a historical event over 200 years ago is written about and talked about by people who are up for election and trying to sell books? is this an inevitable outgrowth of our culture? >> guest: to a large ext

jefferson probably is the lead on this. jefferson creates words with great, great abandon. he just loves to create words. he loves to sort of tuck a jibe at the british by creating words. 1840, much later, but he writes -- i'm sorry, 1820, he writes a letter to john adams, and he says, you know, our duty as americans is to neologize, to create new phrases. so jefferson creating all these words, and some of them are -- he creates the word ottoman. not for the empire, but for the foot stool. he creates -- there's just, there are 114 words now in the oxford english dictionary which are credited to jefferson either as the coiner or the introducer, the first one to actually bring them into the mainstream. and the list is really sort of fascinating. pedicure is his word. pussy -- i'm sorry, that's teddy roosevelt. monocrat meaning a person who believes in a single rule. the one he does probably the most with and becomes the most egregious to the purists and the language police is the word "belittle." he creates the word belittle, he knows what he's up to. he knows he's creating s

jefferson -- to go to congress in person. jefferson, as i say, was trying to downplay a lot of the ceremony, but he also understood the need for an inauguration. he understood the purpose of it. after a divisive election, the election of 1800 was one of the most divisive, and everybody has to choose sides, the inauguration is the moment that we all come back together again. this is not a presidential candidate. this is the person that was elected. this is the person that is going to lead the country for the next four years. we need to put aside the elections, heal the wounds of the election. so, in the election, jefferson says we are all federalists, we are all republicans, basically, we are all americans, coming together and we are going to work together. this is the hope that every president has is -- in his inaugural address, and that is one of the main reasons for having this great ceremony each time, to put a cap on the end of the election and to ring the nation back together again for the next president term. -- preside

jefferson probably is the lead in this. jefferson creates words with great, great abandoned. he just loves great words. he loves to sort of talk a -- at 1940, i'm sorry 1820. he writes a letter to john adams and he says our duty as americans is teen neologism he creates the word. jefferson him is creating all these words and some of them -- he creates the word ottoman. not for the empire but for the footstool. there are 114 words now and the oxford english dictionary which are credited to jefferson as a corner or the introducer and the first one to actually bring them into the mainstream. the list is really sort of fascinating. pedicure is his word. i'm sorry. mona craddock meaning a person who is in a single room. the one that he does the most with and becomes the most egregious with the purest and the language police is the word be little. he creates the word be little and he knows he is creating something that is going to be very disturbing and noah webster himself just loves the word. in fact he wanted to know webster's teachers at yale who writes noah webster about the w

jefferson -- to go to congress in person. jefferson, as i say, was trying to downplay a lot of the ceremony, but he also understood the need for an inauguration. he understood the purpose of it. after a divisive election, the election of 1800 was one of the most divisive, and everybody has to choose sides, the inauguration is the moment that we all come back together again. this is not a presidential candidate. this is the person that was elected. this is the person that is going to lead the country for the next four years. we need to put aside the elections, heal the wounds of the election. so, in the election, jefferson says we are all federalists, we are all republicans, basically, we are all americans, coming together and we are going to work together. this is the hope that every president has is -- in his inaugural address, and that is one of the main reasons for having this great ceremony each time, to put a cap on the end of the election and to ring the nation back together again for the next president term. -- preside

you can nominate your local heroes for a jefferson award online at cbssf.com. click the "connect" button at the top of the page, then jefferson awards to find the email nomination form. >>> coming up next, it's all in the eyes but which is more trustworthy? blue eyes or brown? we're going to tell you. >> and we know all eyes are to the skies right now. and these cold temperatures are really expecting in the overnight hours we have the freeze warnings posted. how low are we going to go? we'll tell you coming up. >>> we have lots of blue skies out there. it looks gorgeous. looks like a lovely spring day. don't let this picture deceive you. it's definitely winter. check the current temperatures right now. this is actually the view from mount vaca. you can see the golden gate bridge from mount vaca out there now. temperatures we are seeing a lot of mid- to upper 40s. oakland 50, san jose 51. these temperatures are going to continue to plunge in the overnight hours. we are tracking the latest rainfall with hi-def doppler. not a whole lot. any activity is off the coa

jefferson, truman, johnson and bush were the foyer. also for a failed because of the economic crisis for failure to act and deter such a crises. these are jefferson, cleveland, coolidge, franklin roosevelt's and george bush. it failed due to their inability to lead congress for jefferson, monroe, grant, well some, truman, johnson, nixon and bush. franklin roosevelt and richard nixon. for he did not affect the philly communicate their agendas or initiatives for jefferson, monroe, grant in cleveland. obviously failure for second term president has been their inability to successfully work with congress. only 82nd term presidents have failed second terms to directly to the fight between congress and the white house. i've been a majority of their own party of relief. those presidents who served in the congress have a majority of the opposing party during his second term included wilson, eisenhower, nixon, reagan and clinton. the competitive battle between the president and congress, over the treaty. after considerable after working with me

we just looked at the jefferson memorial a moment apg. your day plan other this monday, we got a mix of clouds and sunshine today. i think there will be a few more clouds this afternoon than this morning with a midday temperature of 40. 44 by 4:00. that's the high for the day. winds at time especially this afternoon could gust to 20 miles an hour. by this evening we may be talking about some snow showers across parts of the region. even by 5:00 a few rain and snow showers out there. let's show you what's happening here as i get the graphics where i want them. clouds popping across the region. a few snow showers here south of pittsburgh coming across southwestern pa. this evening a few rain and snow showers. mainly snow showers. temperatures this morning winchester 27. hagerstown 26. culpeper 30 with easton at 29. we're a relatively mild 35. i tell you that because whatever you have, your warm weather or cold weather, whatever keeps you warm, the heavy stuff, get it because you'll need it starting tomorrow. >>> heading in and out of the di

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there is a controlled lobby entrance on jefferson street. and it is on one of the maps that we provided for you. and if all of our events are private events. we don't sell tickets at the door. and admission to the event is sold, it is sold in advance, to a ticketed agency. the property is fully enclosed. the building has ample security. we hire a... we contract with a security agency. shield. who will provide security for all of our events and normally we have at least one security for every 100 guests. >> in the last year, in the year 2012, we have applied for about 6 one-day permits, to determine if this is really, the way that we are going to go and one, would held the ping-pong tournaments and holiday parties and most recently on december 9th. the fisherman's wharf district held the annual crab fest there where in 12 to 14 restaurants served their crab specialty to approximately 2 report from the executive director: legislation and policy update: update on file 121065 by board of supervisors regarding new polk street rud; nightclub best

and alec played thomas jefferson. >> alec: i played thomas jefferson. >> tina: and he comes out as thomas jefferson -- and the "maury" audience -- >> alec: and the girl was sally hemmings. the mother -- sally hemmings was there. and she had my favorite line on "30 rock." sally hemmings looks at tracy, tracy on "the maury povich show." says, "your father was a dog, tracy jordan!" referring to thomas jefferson. [ laughter ] "your father was a dog!" >> jimmy: thomas jefferson was a dog. >> tina: yeah. >> jimmy: do you think after the show went to syndication that more people started -- did you get a different following? >> tina: i think it's great the show's in syndication now, and i do think people are seeing it for the first time because it's never been, like, a super hugely-rated show on nbc. so, i think there's a lot of people who have probably never seen it who are seeing it, you know, at midnight. >> tracy: they see it now in my projects where i grew up. >> jimmy: they do. and they never saw it before. >> tracy: not where i grew up. [ light laughter ] >> jimmy: no. but now -- >> tracy:

jefferson, truman, johnson and bush were the four. also, for failed because of economic crisis for failure to act to deter such a crisis. these were jefferson, cleveland, coolidge, franklin roosevelt from the 37 downturn, and george bush. at failed due to their inability to lead congress were jefferson, monroe, grants, wilson, truman, johnson, nixon and bush. to failed due to hubris, franklin roosevelt, and richard nixon are the four who did not effectively communicate their agendas or initiatives were jefferson, monroe, grant in cleveland. obviously, the dominant source of failure for second term presidents has been their inability to successfully work with congress. fully at second term presidents have faced trouble or failed second terms due to record to the fight between congress and the white house. having a congressional majority of their own party is no assurance of relief. those presidents who served with congress having a majority of the opposing party during their second term included wilson, eisenhower, nixon, reagan and cl

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the best corrective is the law of equal inheritance to all in equal degree also one hundred sixteen jefferson wrote a letter to samuel kercheval explicitly laying out the dangers of an entrenched economic aristocracy as today's billionaire class has now become jefferson wrote those seeking profits where they given total freedom would not be the ones to trust to keep government pure and our rights secure indeed it has always been those seeking wealth who were the source of corruption in government no other depositories of power have ever yet been found which did not and in converting to their own profit the earnings of those committed to their charge and no grettir that wasn't jefferson's radio show dick nor was it ben franklin's radio show dick in seven hundred eighty three when he wrote about how we the people have the right the obligation to confiscate excess wealth and property from others since most of that wealth was created by we the people in the first place franklin wrote in a letter to robert morris where he started out complaining about people not wanting to pay their taxes he conti

the best corrective is the law of equal inheritance to all in equal degree also one hundred sixteen jefferson wrote a letter to samuel kercheval explicitly laying out the dangers of an entrenched economic aristocracy as today's billionaire class has now become jefferson wrote those seeking profits where they given total freedom would not be the ones to trust to keep government pure and our rights secure indeed it has always been those seeking wealth who are the source of corruption in government no other depositories of power have ever yet been found which did not and in converting to their own profit the earnings of those committed to their charge and no grettir that wasn't jefferson's radio schick nor was it ben franklin's radio show dick in seven hundred eighty three when he wrote about how we the people have the right the obligation to confiscate excess wealth and property from others since most of that wealth was created by we the people in the first place franklin wrote in a letter to robert morris where he started out complaining about people not wanting to pay their taxes he continued

cbs 5 reporter sharon chin went to the shoreline to meet this week's jefferson award winner. >>> reporter: along san francisco bay you can hear birds chirp, kites suffer and enjoy the waves because of 96- year-old sylvia mclaughlin. >> i think it's just beautiful. >> reporter: she spent more than 50 years leading the charge to protect the bay. >> it's very gratifying to me to see so many people enjoying our beautiful bay. >> reporter: to guard the bay against sprawl and pollution, sylvia cofounded save the bay in 1961 with two friends. today she is the last survivor the pioneering trio. david lewis save the bay's executive director. >> the fact that we still have a bay today is due in large part to sylvia's leadership in a time when there weren't environmental leaders and there certainly weren't women leading that kind of an effort. >> reporter: sylvia and her friends' first victory was to stop berkeley's plan to double the size of the city by filling 2,000 acres of the bay. >> we didn't want to see anything as beautiful as our bay being filled in. >> reporter: another victory in the 1960

and thomas jefferson went to the inauguration. he was sworn in by his cousin john marshall and he was sworn in with byrd, one of his political opponents. it must have been a tense inauguration. then he delivered his inaugural address in a voice that was so low that most people in the room, and the room was absolutely packed, most people couldn't hear what jefferson was saying. thomas jefferson as president for eight years delivered two public speeches in the entire eight years of his presidency. one was his first inaugural address, and the second was his second inaugural address. washington and adams went to give their state of the union addresses in person. but jefferson thought this was too much like the king going to parliament. he was going to strip that away. you set precedent from doing things and from thomas jefferson on presidents did not go to congress to deliver their state of the union address. they sent it up for a clerk to read. they missed an opportunity to take some leadership over the legislative branch. it's not u

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>>> item seven b informational update on jefferson street. >> ladies and gentlemen i would like to introduce john thomas the department of public words works the department public works and has taken this on together with a number of port staff that will be supporting him so if you would like to. >> good afternoon commissioners director moyer and as al, leaves i would acknowledge that i worked with him before and it's a coincidence we had worked together judge and for me to be here and so i'm here to provide with you a brief update on the jefferson project and judge snow the project extends from jounce street to hide along jefferson and includes complete replacement of the sidewalks sidewalks and road way and the sides will remain 15 feet and an all knew 19-foot sidewalk will be added to the north side of the street this will result in had a twin road way and park parking is eliminated within those limits. in terms of where we are the bids were opened on october third in the to proceed was granted to bell man landscape and construction on december third and construction is scheduled to begin

willing to blur the lines of legality in this effort in fact aaron was acting in the spirit of thomas jefferson who himself was not too keen on the idea of heavy handed patents on ideas and intellectual property as he wrote nine hundred thirteen that ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe for the moral and mutual instruction of man and improvement of his condition seems to have been peculiar and benevolently designed by nature when she made them like fire expanse of all all over space without lessening their density in any point and like the air and which you breathe move and have our physical being incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation jefferson one concluded inventions then cannot in nature be a subject or property society may give an exclusive right to the profits arising from them as an infringement of men to pursue ideas which may produce utility but this may or may not be done according to the will and convenience of the society without claim or complaint from any one. given the activism we've seen on the internet over the last few years one could conc

wrote jefferson. had the early framers of our constitution embraced a standing army during times of peace. then there would have been no need for a regulated militia and thus no need for the second amendment. instead they openly opposed a standing army during times of peace want proof in the entire constitution there are no time limits on the power of congress to raise money and pay for anything except an army we can have a navy forever we have roads or bridges or opposed to offices or pretty much anything else that supports the general welfare without limit and in perpetuity but an army that had to be reevaluated every two years when all spending for the past two years of the army was erode out it's right there in article one section eight line twelve of the constitution it reads that congress has the power to raise and support armies but no appropriation of money to that you shall be for a term for a longer term than two years the founders knew from watching the history of europe the military coups

later nine hundred fourteen letter to thomas cooper jefferson wrote of standing armies the greeks and romans had no standing armies yet they defended themselves the greeks by their laws and the romans by the spirit of their people took care to put into the hands of their rulers knows such engine of zero pression as a standing army their system was to make every man a soldier and a blige him to repaired to the standard of his country whenever that was reared it's made them invincible and the same remedy will make us so. wrote jefferson had the early framers of our constitution embraced a standing army during times of peace then there would have been no need for a regulated militia and thus no need for the second amendment. instead they openly opposed a standing army during times of peace want proof in the entire constitution there are no time limits on the power of congress to raise money and pay for anything except an army but you know a navy forever when you have roads or bridges or posed offices or pretty much anything else that supports the general welfare without limit and in perp

willing to blur the lines of legality in this effort in fact aaron was acting in the spirit of thomas jefferson who himself was not too keen on the idea of heavy handed patents on ideas and intellectual property as he wrote nine hundred thirteen that ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe for the moral and mutual instruction of man and improvement of his condition seems to have been peculiar and benevolently designed by nature when she made them like fire expanse of all over space without lessening their density in any point and like the air and which you breathe move and have our physical being incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation jefferson one concluded inventions then cannot in nature be a subject of property society may give an exclusive right to the profits arising from them as an infringement of men to pursue ideas which may produce utility but this may or may not be done according to the will and convenience of the society without claim or complaint from any one. given the activism we've seen on the internet over the last few years one could conclude

virginia it was the most populous state it was the richest state it was the home of washington and jefferson and madison and if it was right in the center of the states and if a junior didn't ratify. it it was practical and possibility perhaps how do you respond to people historians like paul finkelman who say that quote there is no evidence for a claim that there were slave insurrections that these substantial law prizing he said never took place it is not even remotely true. that the. one of you know the basis of your argument is that these people are white people in the south are living in fear and the the slave patrol militias were protecting them well actually the finkleman happens to be a good friend of mine and i don't recall him saying that but if he did he probably knows more about it than i do but but the. the history that i'm aware of the the stone the revolt and others. and other slave insurrections that is that there were a number of slave insurrections as in the us as the one in stone south carolina which which was particularly bloody and the south was always in perpetual fear

virginia it was the most populous state it was the richest state it was the home of washington and jefferson and madison and if it was right in the center of the states and if a junior didn't ratify. it it was as practical a possibility perhaps how do you respond to people historians like paul finkelman who say that it quote there is no evidence for a claim that there were slave insurrections these substantial up risings he said never took place it is not even remotely true. that that. one of you know the basis of your argument is that these people are white people in the south are living in fear and the the slave patrol militias were protecting them well actually the finkleman happens to be a good friend of mine and i don't recall him saying that but if he did he probably knows more about it than i do but but the. the history that i'm aware of the stone the revolt and others. and other slave insurrections that is that there were a number of slave insurrections as in. as the one in stone south carolina which which was particularly bloody and the south was always in perpetual fear that slaves