john adams was leaving office. we have some statistics will put on screen to give you some of the scope. for example, by that point the census in 1800 interestingly was done by john marshall who went to the supreme court and ultimately done by secretary of state james madison. familiar names from history and the job of the census. chief at that time. the population was 5.3 million across 16 states. there were 998,000 blacks, about 19% of the population. only 12% of them were free. that 5.3 million was a 35% growth just in ten years since the nine 1790 census. the average life expectancy if you were born in 1800 was just 39 years. the largest cities in the country were new york, philadelphia and baltimore. a change from ten years ago. what are sort of the things we can take away from the statistics of that snapshot of america? >> one of the things is there is an expansion going on. this is one of the things that is very difficult for the adams. politics are changing. the changing politics means they are new england

her influence on raising john quincy adams? >> john quincy lived with her until 11 years old at which point he went to europe with john and she didn't see him again until he was 17 or 18. he became a man. >> under the tutelage of his father? >> but she was very influential in those first 11 years. i balk at this tendency to blame the mother every time something goes wrong with the children. circumstances happen. there are genes. there's possibly a disposition to alcoholism in that family. it was in the family. a revolution happened when her children grew up. they grew up in war time. that could be very damaging to children's psyches. the year 1800 was a very difficult year for the adamss. a campaign for re-election, hard fought against a big political rival in thomas jefferson, they lost that. it was a year they moved to the white house and they also lost their son in that year. let's talk about all of those individually for a little bitp the decision to run for the office again, did abigail support john's interest in continuin

the books of john adams of the works of john quincy adams. changing exhibits of the letters were literary accomplishments of other people of other americans a few times. very tacky doctor billington and direct erica massachusetts historical society as conceivably library of congress. willing to have some of those treasures alone. northerners cases of these wonderful spirited documents and you browse look. living with the card not to be partly one of the kind that i have some fruit trees. the kind they had. remember you heard it here first. [laughter]. [applause]. guest: you have a building by the name of the adams building help. for mr. adams. and we talk about how he helped, he was the beginning of the library of congress. and wondered if in fact, reading, did you find letters about how he wanted this library to me. david: i think it was always for it. last night, i read the letter that he wrote to jefferson when jefferson sold this library to replace the library of congress that had been destroyed by the british during the war of 1812. and

>> when i was writing john adams. he was in philadelphia and they get reports of what was happening in new york. when it comes back the battle of long island is a fiasco. 1000 americans taken prisoner and 300 killed washington has been outflanked and outsmarted and then they escape from brooklyn when i read all of that which was happening and writing a biography you cannot stray off ten pages he has no involvement in i thought i would like to write about all that was going on besides and independence hall in philadelphia and how much of what was happening and that depended on this ragtag army under washington and how they were performing and how much of a chance they had. >> when did you decide to call it that? >> people say the revolutionary war in the year 1776 what is your theme? i have no idea what my theme is. i hope by the time i finish writing the book i would know what it is but also that i can step back and look at it and that this might be the title. >> what is your reaction? >> it took my breath away. it wa

john quincy adams, and luis up would inherit this home from john adams. john quincy thought about selling this house, but after discussion he thought with lisa catherine, they decided that this was important to the family story. to hold on to this house for future generations. >> and you can visit there to. this is that correct. >> and where the papers? >> the papers are at the massachusetts historical society in boston. they used to be at the old house in the stone library, but they were transferred for safekeeping. >> i have a question on facebook, from jeanie webber, i have read excerpts from her autobiography of louise adams, and her version that the historical society was going to publish this, is this true? >> yes, a two volume set of her autobiography i ethical writings, including a record of my life, and a narrative of a journey from st. petersburg, to france and all her diaries have already been published. next year, a trade addition of these writings will be available and called travel first lady with a forward by former first lady laura bush >>

john adams and john quincy adams was 24 years nearly a quarter-century near during the presidencies of those two men john adams was in his last 16 months of life when john quincy adams was in office he was in quincy massachusetts three-day stagecoach six days stagecoach ride away from washington. he really wasn't able to be in washington to be any kind of influence on his son's presidency. george hw bush was a spy 76 years old when his son took the office he had just been there eight years before and he was in a position to be a real influence on his son's life. this is a story that needed to be told and 41 agreed to do it if 43, which george w. bush agreed to do the book. i wasn't sure whether he would say yes or no. i went up to dallas i knew george w. bush a little bit he took the meeting and i was shocked that in the beginning of the meeting he said, i've decided this story needs to be told and you're the guy to do it. i was so unprepared i didn't have a tape recording he sat there and put his feet up on the desk and fingered an unlit cigar and started talking about his dad. i real

john quincy adams one on the first ballot. we need only be aware that adams was elected on the first ballot to everyone's surprise, mostly to the jackson-ites. jackson at first was magnanimous which strikes us as an act perhaps. then the very night after the house vote, jackson and adams came face to face. again from the book, the monroe's held their weekly reception and while everyone seemed drain by the experienced, they were also grateful that despite the angry talk, broad recriminations and a grinding apprehension, the election in the and had been decided with a calm dignity. the presidents gathering was not festive but it was an eventful. which was pleasant for people weary of events. a kindred spirit pervaded the whole scene, the national intelligence reporter reported. the friends of the different candidates mingled together and conversed with good humor and frankness, contrasted with the virulence and malignity which in some parts of the country had attended the discussion of this question. president elect john quincy

adams and john quincy adams. john adams ranks 19th -- of presidential leadership. his son came in a 21st place. >> hello everybody, good evening. good evening everyone. thank you so much for braving the elements and joining us this evening. i am catherine, i'm the president of the massachusetts historical society. as our members and regular

john adams held that a desire for fame could be found in every heart, fame needed an audience. the ruling few needed the masses to worship their riches and their might. this is why he then identified the danger of the cult of personality. the cult of personality is when the personality of the leader is equated with the nation. the worship idle replaces we the people as the sole of body politics. adams watched the cult close and personal. first when he was in france. there franklin seduced the educated elite as america's first rock star. adams understood the desire among human beings to be seen and loved. he zoomed in on the forced of spectatorship and then there was the opposite, the fear of obscurity and insignificance and put at the center of theory. he explained the first riches and beauty sured up power. the societies divided people into classes. the political parties used the same method in marketing candidates and attractive appearance, prominent name, glamorous reputation. if that wasn't enough, flattie and quackery, delightful word would keep supporters mesmerized, john

[laughter] and the book on john adams and make that comparison. do you know who the author is? >> i can't remember, but he has been on different talk shows and articles, and there have been reviews on his book in, say, the "boston globe," and the "new york times." professor kachun: i haven't read it either. i will have to look for that. unfortunately, i'm old and poor, so i had to order it from the library. professor kachun: libraries are great. i am a big fan. thank you. yeah, in terms of the women, i didn't mention them. but certainly, my focus is on crispus attucks. but it is important to note that he was not the only person used by african-american spokespersons trying to reorient, reconstruct the central narrative of american history. and they did use people like tubman and sojourner truth and over the years, others like mary church terrell and mary mcleod bethune. and on through the decades in order to try to inscribe african-american contributions to the construction of the american nation. so, yeah, i didn't mention them tonight. and really, don't spend a lot of time ta

one of my favorite of all discoveries in the diaries of john adams, they kept marvelous diaries. by the way no one would keep a diary anymore. it is true predict he can subpoenaed and used against you in court. but an entry january 15th or whatever, would take at home thinking. [laughter]. [laughter]. could you imagine if somebody washington today were so right that for her diary is an honest record of what they did that day. thinking. host: i would add one addendum to what you said. perhaps reflects the profession for much income. there's no question that the ability to write is something of a lost art for students. a very good friend of mine is actually president at princeton. i had dinner with recently and she was about to read five oral argument presentations for phd candidates. and i said how good were the theses and she said well, two of them were legibly written. three of them were not very good. the addendum i would add is also the ability to present your argument verbally. david: oh yes absolutely. host: to be able to present and defend your argument poorly. warren buffe

the construction of meetings started almost immediately, the future united states president john adams and his role as defensive tierney for the british soldiers succeeded in portraying him as a threat to the social order who let the brightest mob that provoked the troops into firing. attics claims, the two have undertaken to be the hero of the night and lead the army with banners and move them up to the king street with clubs. he said, do not be afraid of them. they do not fire. knock them over. he tried to knock their brains. out to have this reinforcement come under -- what had not the soldiers than to fear? he with one hand took hold of the bayonet and with the other knocked the man down, this was the behavior of attics who's mad behavior, the dreadful carnage was chiefly to be ascribed to. the adams did his best to characterize them bob as a rabble that does not intrude -- does not represent the interest of boston. identifying at excessive racially mixed ringleader. he did his job is defense attorney and soldiers were exonerated, over the next several years however, boston's patri

when john adams, sam adams are down at the continental congress, who is in boston? mr. warren. who was serving as president of the committee of safety, a major general ship? this gentleman. who writes the suffolk resolves, submitted by the congress approved almost en masse,? mr. warren. unfortunately, he can't stay out of any action, into the ends up battling at bunker hill, where he meets his untimely death. that deprives the nation of one of the great gentleman, not only of medical genius, but also a practical thinker who could move between different echelons of society. he was so immensely felt in his death that he said warren's death was equal to 500 man. in equivalents. a nice tribute there. for every big revolutionary, you need the guy who can walk the streets, be the rabble rouse or to get the people. william was one of. them he's the gentleman who could get people up in arms. he was more of a radical. one of the reasons he was poisoned by the british, he would die shortly in october 1774. he was one of the sons of liberty not at the meeting house, but down on the war, p

sam adams, john adams, they're all down at the continental congress, who is left in boston? mr. warren. who is serving as president of the committee of safety given the major generalship? this gentleman. who writes the suffolk resolves which is drafted and submitted by the congress approved almost en masse? mr. warren. unfortunately, he can't stay out of any action and he ends up fighting at the battle of bunker or breeds hill where he meets his untimely death which the nation of one, a great gentleman not only of medical genius but also a very practical their that could move between different echelons of society. he was so immensely felt the loss was so immensely felt that general actually said that warren's death and loss was equal to 500 men, the equivalent. a nice tribute there by, of course, a sworn enemy. other gentleman, of course, for every big revolutionary, you need the guys that can walk the streets, be the people protesting. he is one of them right there. he is the gentleman that could get the people up in arms. he was considered more of a radical. some believe he wa

john quincy adams refused to go to his inauguration. was appalled that his dear harvard would give jackson an honorary degree because he was a vulgar man, without education. jackson stood for common thise and he voiced democratic rhetoric and he was a union man. i mean, he stood up. a slave holder too but i don't think that's what he was about and i don't think thought he was about. defending against threats from the south. calhoun. up the union. and he was defending the common man. he is not a -- learned man. he scarcely understood the nature of his following. he does represent democracy. that was the moment when authority of all sorts was being questioned in america. in that respect, it's very similar to the present. epistemological doubts. what's true? era ofw, this is the barnan.barn no, thisld say, look, i've got woman who was a mermaid, in my museum. he would plant a story in the newspapers. who could believe that? how could that be true? and, of course, people would because they said, well, i can only trust my pone own eyes. they

when all the rest, samuel adams, john adams are down at the continental congress who is left in boston? mr. warren. who is serving as president of the committee of safety given the major generalship? this gentleman. who writes the suffolk resolves which is drafted and submitted by the congress approved in mas. he meets his untime lie death at bunker hill which one of the great gentleman not only a medical genius but also a very practical thinker that could move between different echelons of society. he was so immensely felt -- the loss with a was so immensely felt that general gauge said warren's death and loss was equal to 500 men in equivalent. a nice tribute there by of course a sworn enemy. other gentlemen of course for every big revolutionary you need the guys that can walk the streets and get the people protesting. william mou is one of them, he is the gentleman that could get the people up in arms, ardmore of a radical. some believed that he was poisoned by the british, he would die shortly in october of 1774. he was one of the sons of liberty not at the meeting house but down o

let me just say, though, you know, we have to thank john adams who wrote to his wife abigail way back when at the founding of our country that this time of year as we celebrate the fourth of july should be, the whole sky should be filled with eliminations, there should be bonfires, there should be parades. now we've got it by the thing about our moment in history is that due to the coronavirus we are not going to have big gatherings to watch fourth of july fireworks so the supply -- there is no demand from the big manufacturers right now so the supply fireworks is over the top and so they are cheap and people are going to states where it's legal and bringing back the fireworks to places like new york where they may be illegal but they're cheaper now for the kids, kids like me and i guess from what i just heard from greg, kids like greg, to go out and have some fun with fireworks but it does bother people, scares people, scares her dogs. >> katie: i think every buddy should go out and celebrate the fourth of july and call it a protest and then they'll be fi fine. >> jesse: i am with ju

we talked about james harrington, and john adams. we talked about the workingmen party, and the economic equality not include women in early america. daniel: yeah. great question. and because it is a fundamentally political idea, even when property will be stripped from participation in politics, women are still explicitly denied a voice in politics. the same wave of constitution writing, in 1810 and the 20s, it took away new jersey. the right of women property owners to vote. the prostitution is all said, you need to be free, white, male, and 21 to be able to vote. you don't have to own property. the becomes the new norm. from the beginning, to see some stirrings perhaps in the 1830s and 40s. as women began to play more of a prominent role in labor, the labor market rate begin to come of those it issues of divorce and all. steve started to some rumbling the wives and unmarried women perhaps should be able to have property. and play a role but is clearly not part of the mainstream of house at this point. speech of so anything audienc

adams 1st moved in back in 1900 as it was being built of people around the globe with that building these are people that will never come to our country certainly never visit the white house most of the morning even made in america but they know what that house means the white house the people's house a living museum of american history that continues to unfold as the white house grew as the presidency grew during the 19th century by the time of theodore roosevelt there simply wasn't enough space to accommodate both presidents family and their growing presidential staff and 1001 the white house was given its official name by president theodore roosevelt along with a major upgrade part of his 902 renovation was to build a separate designated workspace for the president and that is the west wing as we know it today just outside the west wing the south lawn of the white house is not only where the president's marine one hell. a copter lands but it's also a place for the people a decade ago your family could pack lunch in a blanket and have a picnic on the south lawn overlooking the tru

and a mother of a president, john quincy adams. now, march the washington. martha washington was george washington's confidant. >> she was a person very capable, but she did not like that, she called herself a prisoner of state. >> by the same token that everyone in washington took to found the washington, everything martha washington did likewise. >> it was a business relationship, but not without affection. i think they had deep respect and affection for each other. >> she was as close to her hometown and she would get. she owned most of this whole block going back a couple of acres, which means she owned a huge chunk of what williamsburg was. >> there was a lot of tragedy in martha washington's life. she lost her first husband. >> she was raised a rich woman, what that means an 18th century is now what it means today. >> when she marriage george washington, she brings with her to mount for then 12 house slaves and that is really almost an unimaginable luxury. >> it would take her ten days to travel here to valley forge from moun

twice won the pulitzer prize for truman and then john adams. but pulled them out of the relative neglect they had received compared to the presidents preceded and succeeded them. adams was president between washington and jefferson truman between franklin roosevelt and eisenhower. these are all iconic figures but with new narratives to humanize history and more than that, also celebrating the human stories and great events like the building of the panama canal, brooklyn bridge and historic tragedies. david mccullough is our citizen chronicler his latest book is the greater journey. nineteenth century story of americans journeying back across the atlantic to discover the learning of the old world even at a time when other americans word journey to the pacific to discover national resources and natural beauty of the american frontier. america was opening a new world physically in the west while enriching itself culturally and intellectually in the great city of light in the journey east across the sea. ladies and gentlemen since mccullough came i

john adams was involved in the most concerted campaign against the media. donald trump is number two. having said that i want to say this, i think that some of the media has gone too far in response. talk about the white house briefings. i'm not happy about them from either side. i think that it's much too contentious on the part of kayl kayleigh mcenany the press secretary and on the part of white house reporters. i was there covering ronald reagan. we didn't go easy, but we were trying to get information. i think the white house press secretaries at the time under reagan were trying to dispense information. now it's become a kind of food fight or i don't think the american people are served very well by either side. >> but who started it? that's the question. >> so because we got you -- see, i was making a whole thing there -- got you and we're keeping you because we want you to stay with us, chris. so we'll be right back. ♪ got it? (boy) got it. (dad) it's slippery. (boy) nooooooo... (grandma) nooooooo... (dad) nooooooo... (dog) yessssss.... (vo) quick

as john adams wrote to jefferson, what do we mean by the revolution? the war? it was only an effect in consequence of it. adams and the founding elite scrubbed the war of us rest violence from their histories. theirs was the good revolution, the moderate revolution, the gentlemanly revolution. but adams's revolution was not the one its victims remembered. recently, historians, no doubt influenced by our post 9/11 world have worked to bridge the gap between the revolution's rhetoric and its reality. but highlighting the violence is not enough. we must seek to understand it social and political causes and effects. if not, we will continue a narrative of the american revolution divided into two halves. on one side, the war, district of and repressive. on the other, idealistic and unfinished. it requires making a connection between revolutionary political change and revolutionary violence. my forthcoming book centers the war and is horrors in these scholarly debate about the character consequences of the american revolution. it argues the political revolution, had

adams 1st moved in back in 1900 as it was being built of people around the globe with that building me these are people that will never come to our country certainly never visit the white house most of the morning even made in america but they know what that house means the white house the people's house a living museum of american history that continues to unfold as the white house grew as the presidency grew during the 19th century by the time of theodore roosevelt there simply wasn't enough space to accommodate both presidents family and their growing presidential staff and 1001 the white house was given its official name by president theodore roosevelt along with a major upgrade part of his 902 renovation was to build a separate designated workspace for the president and that is the west wing as we know it today just outside the west wing the south lawn of the white house is not only where the president's marine one helicopter lands but it's also a place for the people a decade ago your family could pack lunch in a blanket and have a picnic on the south lawn overlooking the trum

adams 1st moved in back in 1900 as it was being built of people around the globe with that building these are people that will never come to our country certainly never visit the white house most of the morning even made in america but they know what that house means the white house the people's house a living museum of american history that continues to unfold as the white house grew as the presidency grew during the 19th century by the time of theodore roosevelt there simply wasn't enough space to accommodate both presidents family and their growing presidential staff and 1001 the white house was given its official name by president theodore roosevelt along with a major upgrade part of his 902 renovation was to build a separate designated workspace for the president and that is the west wing as we know it today just outside the west wing the south lawn of the white house is not only where the president's marine one helicopter lands but it's also a place for the people a decade ago your family could pack lunch in a blanket and have a picnic on the south lawn overlooking the truman

adams 1st moved in back in 1900 as it was being built people around the globe with that building these are people that will never come to our country certainly never visit the white house most of the morning even made in america but they know what that house means the white house the people's house a living museum of american history that continues to unfold as the white house grew as the presidency grew during the 19th century by the time of theodore roosevelt there simply wasn't enough space to accommodate both presidents family and their growing presidential staff and 1001 the white house was given its official name by president theodore roosevelt along with a major upgrade part of his 902 renovation was to build a separate designated workspace for the president and that is the west wing as we know it today just outside the west wing the south lawn of the white house is not only where the president's marine one helicopter lands but it's also a place for the people a decade ago your family could pack lunch in a blanket and have a picnic on the south lawn overlooking the truman balcon

that's not is a very interesting model i don't think anyone here is wired to john adams walking around with guns but it is in all of today's a different era just it's normal for me to practice with you just you know a. little. bit and after work the germans and israelis relax and get to know each other better after hours in the garden we have to keep that clean that is and i'm talking about sayed it's my of my hobbies and my family but that's i spend most of the time when i'm at home with my family. we all have family. will know it's a dangerous job and we know why we do it. where they're fighting terror we're fighting fair it's probably the same. it's the same goals eventually maybe we do it that way and they do it this way but the the same ball. bobbing manley's the retired you know mom returns 0000 you well see saw in my eyes it was. not my sweetheart. you know i would. yes have a seat. and. want to talk and that is that malise worked here she and moxie saw each other more often than they did this spouses. but. then yes i have known him for 13 years. and i say. he watched me grow up

and his son, john quincy adams. dolly was both politically adept and savvy. >> madison is not a lot of laughs, but he was his best friend, and she compensated. >> it was aaron brought a letter that james madison wishes to meet her. >> she carved out a space

adams specifically does not want, that person is the start of everyone's favorite musical, alexander hamilton. [laughter] >> to watch the rest of this event and find other author programs about george washington, visit our website booktv.org.search for george washington and a book using the box at the top of the page. tonight on booktv in prime time book publisher johnny dapple and bookstore owner Ãbdiscuss how the work is been affected by the coronavirus pandemic. economics professor brian kaplan argues the main function of higher education has become more about educational credentials and less about ensuring students are properly prepared to enter the job market. new yorker staff writer marcia gasson draws from her childhood to argue the truck presidency is moving toward an autocracy. emory university african american studies professor carol anderson weighs in on voting rights. join in conversation by democratic congressman barbara lee of california. that all begins tonight at 8:30 p.m. eastern. here on c-span2 booktv. welcome back national book festival presents, a series of feat

founding father john adams declared the united states a nation of laws, not of men. long after trump has departed the white house, the precedent to invert adams' declaration will have been set. ♪ >>> country in crisis. coronavirus cases in the u.s. spike to a new single-day high, forcing some states to scale back reopening. >> we want to help people make the right decisions for themselves. >> are the worst days of the pandemic still to come. i'll speak to health and human services secretary alex azar next. >>> unfit for office? an explosive book reveals new allegations about the president's behavior. >> very worried about entrusting key national security decisions to donald trump.

>> john quincy adams had another quotation coming on the same document we should go abroad in search of monsters. don't go looking for trouble. with wilson and adams have to coexist. and the beginning of the republic to see ourselves as the city on the hill as an example for the rest of the world to follow and then all we could to advance interest with reform abroad so where i draw the line is use the military to make that happen you can't force the country into democracy they have to be developed one of the lines we all use to have one election is not synonymous bringing democracy to a country. it's based on rule of law and institutions. the role we can please help to develop these institutions. but the civilian part because it's our people helping develop our own institutions to encourage the development of those institutions. usaid and private foundations in the united states funded a huge number of nongovernmental organizations in the 19 nineties to encourage the development of democratic institutions and the rule of law. it is evidenced those are working in the 2000's vladimir p

founding father john adams, declared the united states a nation of laws, not of men. long after trump has departed the white house, the precedent to invert adams' declaration will have been set. >>> good evening, thanks for joining us. out of the 50 united states, tonight, coronavirus infections are dropping in just four of them. think about that for a minute. four months into the outbreak in this country. more than 126,000 lives lost. and there are only four states in the entire nation, the ones in green, where the infection rate is actually going down. in 31, the ones in orange and red, cases are rising and have now been rising for several weeks. 15 other states, the numbers are holding steady. the surge is happening in small states and large, red states and blue. though, mostly now in the south and west. it's not, as the president likes to say, because we're just so gosh darn good at testing. we represent so

. >> how did john quincy adams play into this campaign against breach will jackson? >> well adams, what am i trying to say, >> he didn't do it but he didn't stop. it >> hammond was one of his party hacks in a way. he sort of sat back and said we'll look at that charles hammond, isn't he amazing. >> and we saw in the open political cartoons that were all targeted, was this a new phenomena? >> yes. and then call a lady a, who's been married for 36 years a horror, and adulterous, a bigamist, that was unprecedented. >> yes. >> so what was she accused of doing? >> she was accused of being married before she met jackson. >> she was a big missed basically. >> she was married before very unhappily to a man who treated her and her family very badly. her whole family hated him. and out west, didn't leave that you had to stick by your man for 50 years if he was horrible. they believed in dissolving and unhappy marriage, and so they did. >> and also criticism of her and this western frontier, lack of class, lack of modesty. >> she smoked a pipe. that sums it up. she had an accen

. >> written on the wall above him and was inscribed there, brian, in 1945 is john adams' prayer that only good men, only wise men would ever rule under the roof of the white house. if you think about our founders, they spent incredible amounts of time debating, wondering, fearing the possibility that one day, the country would elect a president like trump. in fact, the entire american system of government is set up anticipating that moment, and we've reached it. there is no president who has ever served in the white house -- and we've had a couple of scoundrels for sure. but there is no president ever who is so utterly lacking in the capacity for moral leadership, for the human quality of empathy, who has any interest in doing right by the country, serving the american people. what you saw there today is someone who just doesn't care. he's not interested in doing the job. he doesn't look at those people with any love, any concern. and leadership in the end is always an act of love. the president of the united states has to love the country, and he's got to love the american people wh

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. >> written on the wall above him and was inscribed there, brian, in 1945 is john adams' prayer that only good men, only wise men would ever rule under the roof of the white house. if you think about our founders, they spent incredible amounts of time debating, wondering, fearing the possibility that one day the country would elect a president like trump. in fact, the entire american system of government is set up anticipating that moment, and we've reached it. there is no president who has ever served in the white house -- and we've had a couple of scoundrels for sure. but there is no president ever who is so utterly lacking in the capacity for moral leadership, for the human quality of empathy, who has any interest in doing right by the country, serving the american people. what you saw there today is someone who just doesn't care. he's not interested in doing the job. he doesn't look at those people with any love, any concern. and leadership in the end is always an act of love. the president of the united states has to love the country, and he's got to love the american people who

i think wilson and john quincy adams have to coexist. from the beginning of our republic we have seen ourselves as the city on the hill as an example for the rest of the world to follow and as part of our foreign policy to do all we can to advance the interest of democracy and reform a broad and human and political lives. when i draw the line is in using the military to make that happen. you cannot force a country into democracy these institutions had to be developed and one of the lines that we all used was having one election is not some non- mess with bringing that to the country. and the role we can play as helping countries develop those institutions and this is where the civilian part of these instruments a power that we talk about is so important. it is our people helping them develop their own institutions. a number of private spaces. of the nongovernmental organizations in the 1990s to try to encourage the development of democratic institutions and the rule of law and the two thousands essentially eliminated the ability of all o

six days later, on christmas eve 1799, president john adams asked for martha's consent to move her husband's body in the future, to the capital, what we then see was essentially the apotheosis of washington. there was a national mourning period up until his birthday, february 22nd 1800. general killer has done a great study detailing essentially all the different funeral processions. he counted over 400 different instances. this was an outpouring of national grief that the young country had never seen before. now, at mount vernon itself, letters of condolences streamed in and particular to martha. but not all of these were sympathetic, sorry for your loss. some of them were very actually opportunistic. for example, a number of individuals were asking for locks of washington's hair, which sounds strange to us but it was common in the 18th and 19th century. there was one man who claimed he had served with george washington and asked martha if she could write a pardon on his behalf to the governor of pennsylvania because he had been accused of stealing a horse. they had not been able to out-fin

john adams, our second president that explained the difference between us and the british empire that we broke away from, he said we're a nation of laws, not men. you cannot have a free society unless you have law and order. it violates the very core of who we are as americans. these mobs don't understand some of these basic principles, trace. they don't understand why america is different and an exceptional nation and we have to draw their attention back to that somehow. >> you said you're against the justice and policing act. it will pass the house. not the senate. the president has said it will veto it. this will not pass. the question is what is next. where do you start next and what is the process going forward, congressman? >> we can't let it go. this is an important moment in america. we need and the american people are demanding and expecting for members of congress to act like adults to get together in a room and forge this public policy together. there are meaningful compromises that we can make. we all agree that we need improvement in transparency and training and determin

other than -- excuse me, john adams and john quincy adams, they were the only two that didn't have slaves. and it stopped with zachary taylor. he was the last president who brought slaves to the white house with him. after that, they didn't. >> next is a question from tennessee. our caller is carol. hi, carol. >> caller: hello. >> you're on. >> okay. thank you. yes, my husband's mother met martha patterson's daughter, which would have been andrew johnson's granddaughter some years ago. she came to jonesboro specifically to talk to my mother-in-law at the time saying she was -- that her grandmother was so thankful that my husband's great great grandfather had saved the johnson homestead and had given safe passage to the johnson family so that if they had wanted to go to the homestead during the war, they could have. he was a confederate general that at one time was over the east tennessee area. his granddaughter was my mother-in-law. >> thanks for that story. >> do you know anymore about that, granting safe passage or the general that looked after the family home. >> not in particular. >>

thank god for william wilber force, for people like john quincy adams and daniel webster that fought so hard to bring an end to slavery. but it tells you, these people, they're not about freedom. they're about marksist, leninist, the most murderous form of government in the entire history of the world. i'm joined by a friend, i sure don't want to hurt him politically, but just love this brother and he happens to represent an area in southern texas, and that's mr. chip roy, one of the most principled people i've ever met. i yield to you all the time you wish to use. mr. roy: i appreciate how much you have dedicated on the floor of the house of representatives is what we should be doing as members of this body and you do it often and i wish we had more. just wish we had dwailt and amendments. but we don't. and shouldn't kid ourselves and whoever is watching it right now, this institution known as congress is badly broken. date in ave vigorous the united states and i worked as a staffer for a number of years and i remember we would have 30, 40, 60 amendments and vote on them and at the

it shows the delegation of Ãb john adams at one point writes, in the mid 1790s. the previous week george washington had dinner with four different indian delegations in four different days. he did that not because he liked having indians over for dinner but because he understood that his republic was still weak and the native american nations despise the hammering that they've taken over the previous generation was still powerful and still mattered and could still affect the future of the new nation. >> fascinating. the image almost is like a photograph for a moment. where does it come from? >> william birch Ãbof philadelphia published in 1800. we zeroed in on à >> remarkable. i think i made brief reference to the fact that you came to mount vernon to work on this. i should mention that this event this opportunity for you is sponsored by the ford motor company. the mount vernon neighborhood association is Ãbhow long were you able to come in as a research fellow. how long have you been working out of the library? >> was broken up because i have another life her

so wilson did something presidents have not done since john adams in 1800, he showed up in the congress to conduct business, he brought back the president appearing to deliver the state of the union address. woodrow wilson delivered 25 addresses to joint sessions of congress. he actually showed up in a little room that sits in the congress which was designed for presidents to come and work with congress. i think a lot of presidents have failed to find this. [laughter] i'm not naming anyone but i think they have failed to find it because it has a rather picky name. it's called the presidents room. [laughter] >> lbj found it. [laughter] >> yes, he did. and really, he found it big time. that's why so much legislation cap past, i think. johnson was, in many ways, the wilsonian tradition of getting in there, rolling up your sleeves, maybe cracking a few legs and arms and twisting them in fact what wilson did. so with that, we immediately saw within the first few months of the wilson administration, lowering of tariffs, introduction of the modern income tax which had a graduated scale so the

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she lived for the first 20 years of her life there until she married john adams in 1764. she continued to be connected to this house throughout her life. she visited throughout her parents' lives. this was a place where her character and ideals were formed so it's very important to her. we are an all volunteer organization and we try to continue her spirit by offering educational programs and we also offer seasonal tours and private tours. and if you would like more information, please check out our website at abigailadamsbirthplace.org. when i first joined the abigail adams birthplace board a few years ago, despite knowing how prevalent slavery was in early new england, i was still shocked to discover that there were slaves in the home where abigail adams grew up. her antislavery sentiments are well-known, but her father, reverend williams smith, had at least four slaves. cato, tower, tom and phoebe. these individuals were important to abigail adams's early life. we try and commemorate them and honor their memory by researching their lives, incorporating information abou

-- or excuse me, john adams and john quincy adams. they were the only two of the early presidents that didn't have slaves. and it basically stopped with zachary taylor. i think he was the last president that literally brought slaves to the white house with him. after that, they didn't. >> next is a question from tennessee, jonesboro, and our caller is carol. >> hi, carol. hello? >> you're on. >> carol (ph): okay, thank you. >> yes, my husband's mother met mary pat -- martha patterson's daughter, which would have been andrew johnson's granddaughter, some years ago. she came to jonesboro specifically to talk to my mother-in-law at the time, saying she was -- that her grandmother was so thankful that my husband's great grand -- great-great-grandfather had saved the johnson homestead and had given safe passage to the family -- to the johnson family so that if they had wanted to go to the homestead during the war, they could have. >> he was a confederate general that at one time, was over the east tennessee area -- general a. e. jackson. >

. >> actually our first six or seven presidents had slaves were other than john adams and john quincy adams. they were the only two of the early presidents that did not have slaves. it basically stopped with zachary taylor. i think he was the last president who literally brought slaves to the white house with him. after that they did not. next is a question from tennessee, our caller is carroll. hi carole. >> hello. >> you are on. >> okay thank you. yes. my husband's mother met marcia patterson's daughter which would have been andrew johnson's granddaughter some years ago. she came to jones bergen specifically to talk to my mother law at the time saying that her grandmother was so thankful that my husband's great great grandfather had saved a johnson homestead and head given safe passage to the johnson family so ... he was a confederate general who at one time was in the east tennessee area. his granddaughter was my mother-in-law. >> thanks for that story. do you know any more about that? granting safe passage or a general that but after the family home during the war. >> not in parti

other than than -- excuse me john adams and john quincy adams, they were the only two of the early presidents who didn't have slaves. it basically stopped with zachary taylor, the last president that brought slaves to the white house with him. after that, they didn't. >> next is a question from tennessee, jonesboro, our caller is carol. hi, carol. >> hello? >> you're on. >> okay. thank you. my husband's mother met mary -- martha patterson's daughter, which would have been andrew johnson's granddaughter some years ago. she came to jonesboro specifically to talk to my mother-in-law at the time. saying she was -- that her grandmother was so thankful that my husband's great, great grandfather had saved the johnson homestead and had given safe passage to the family, to the johnson family, so that if they had wanted to go to the homestead during the war they could have. he was a confederate jengenerals at one time over the east tennessee area, general jackson. his granddaughter was my mother-in-law. >> thanks for that story. >> do you know any more about that? granting safe passage or jenna looks a

john quincey adams who hated john tyler used to refer to him as his accidentcy rather than excellency. by the time he becomes president, there is no question that the vice president will become the president. he'll be inaugurated. he asks margaret taylor to stay >> we're in this charming home. small as it, is it belonged to abigail fillmore. they did meet when they were both teachers. they both had this desire and love of reading. her father was a baptist preacher and she loved to read. she was surrounded by books her whole lifetime. when she moves into this house with millard fillmore, she continues that. they had their own personal library. and she wanted to let young people learn extensively about the world as it was. this room that we are in is actually the focus of the entire house. this room would have been, of course, the living room. but also served as their kitchen. here in front of the fireplace, millard and abigail would spend hours by the light of the fire. of they would do reading and writing. and, yes, abigail fillmore cooked in this very room. this was her kitchen. here

the two adams's who are very middle class and in fact john quincy adams is probably close to being wealthy at the time. martin van buren is a -- comes from a middle-class family. >> he does. >> millard fillmore grows up in abject poverty... >> big difference. >> as had andrew jackson. millard fillmore, his family does not own their land in an area when all farmers own their land. abigail fillmore, abigail powers grows up. her father dies when she's two. they don't have very much money. she becomes a school teacher. she is the first first lady to have worked outside the home. and significantly, she not only works out outside the home before she's married but after she's married.for the first few years, she works as a school teacher when millard is starting his law career. so these are people who have experienced poverty and who have not at all achieved anything that would be considered other than middle class status. after her death, millard marries very well and he lives his life with wealth. >> and paul finkelman has literally written the book on millard fillmore. here is his biography if