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when i think of john quincy adams, of course, i of john adams. and the role he had in his son's life. and of course, people would come up to john and they would say, well, you must be so proud. your son and john adams would say he a mother, too. so i to think of him as actually the son of abigail adams. there is a resemblance to abigail and there is. well, one of the treasures that is in this room is right here. what is this? this is the desk on which the treaty of paris was signed, which ended the american revolution. the american revolution? who signed it. well, if we look, we can see john adams. benjamin franklin and john jay. is that the original of paris that we're looking at? this is a copy. but the desk is real. the desk is the absolute that everyone sat and signed. now this desk was also used in a new miniseries. yes. executive produced by author stacy schiff. that's correct. and we were certainly interested in this series because it explores a life of benjamin franklin in paris right at the time that he became a diplomat and some extraor
when i think of john quincy adams, of course, i of john adams. and the role he had in his son's life. and of course, people would come up to john and they would say, well, you must be so proud. your son and john adams would say he a mother, too. so i to think of him as actually the son of abigail adams. there is a resemblance to abigail and there is. well, one of the treasures that is in this room is right here. what is this? this is the desk on which the treaty of paris was signed, which ended...
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i'm a huge john quincy adams fan. my dog's name is john quincy adams. love the man. he is so interesting when ask me who are your favorite presidents? i say, well, the best presidents, in my opinion, are washington, lincoln. but the most interesting men are theodore roosevelt and john quincy adams. but even i was susceptible to. the idea that his presidency was sort of the weak spot of his political service career. and it certainly flashy than, you know, his in congress, which he gets a lot of credit, especially fighting the gag rule or, you know, his secretary of state tenure, which i think is probably among the, best of all secretaries of states. so i definitely sort of added additional ammunition to my enjoyment of john quincy adams, my my real admiration for his public service career. but i generally thought that taft was kind of boring and thought that taft was had the mentality and had personality to be a justice that made sense and he actually got a fair amount of done, you know, in terms of the progressive agenda but doesn't get credit for it. but this book,
i'm a huge john quincy adams fan. my dog's name is john quincy adams. love the man. he is so interesting when ask me who are your favorite presidents? i say, well, the best presidents, in my opinion, are washington, lincoln. but the most interesting men are theodore roosevelt and john quincy adams. but even i was susceptible to. the idea that his presidency was sort of the weak spot of his political service career. and it certainly flashy than, you know, his in congress, which he gets a lot of...
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and by the way, john adams said in that same story, said john adams or john hancock never loved me so well after. so he's clearly writing years later trying to embarrass hancock. i was just curious, as why john hancock never progressed in the federal government president, vice president member, the cabinet or. i don't think he was even a senator. no, wasn't. when he left the second continental congress. he the highest position he would hold being governor of a at this time was a very high position, but not within federal government. he is the reason i mean, the reason he doesn't become vice president is something that the the electors would have to disclose. but he doesn't get a single vote for. so those promises that were made to him, he he gets sold out and it's not even. i think he gets four votes total. and many were concerned. and i write about this in the book that of his health. he was in poor health for much of his life. but by the 1780s and early 1790s, he he is unable to walk at times on own. he's unable to hold a quill. and some people thought he might soon die in the 1780s
and by the way, john adams said in that same story, said john adams or john hancock never loved me so well after. so he's clearly writing years later trying to embarrass hancock. i was just curious, as why john hancock never progressed in the federal government president, vice president member, the cabinet or. i don't think he was even a senator. no, wasn't. when he left the second continental congress. he the highest position he would hold being governor of a at this time was a very high...
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john adams became the second president after serving as washington's vice president. thomas jefferson did, as well, but they were actually of different parties, so they ran against each other while actually serving in the same administration. there have been a handful of other presidents who have succeeded to the office but it is not a great place to launch a political career because there is very low visibility, there are not portfolios built in, you don't have a constituency like you but if you were a governor, senator, congressman, so it can be difficult to get attention because you have to demonstrate loyalty while also trying to be your own person. it has not proven to be particularly effective. where vice president may be have found success is doing something else in between there vice presidency and coming back. we saw this with richard nixon and of course joe biden. host: you also may be bound to comment on the washington post, cites calvin coolidge. the role of the vice president involves little more than waking up and checking the president's health in the n
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john adams became the second president after serving as washington's vice president. thomas jefferson did, as well, but they were actually of different parties, so they ran against each other while actually serving in the same administration. there have been a handful of other presidents who have succeeded to the office but it is not a great place to launch a political career because there is very low visibility, there are not portfolios built in, you don't have a constituency like you but if you were a governor, senator, congressman, so it can be difficult to get attention because you have to demonstrate loyalty while also trying to be your own person. it has not proven to be particularly effective. where vice president may be have found success is doing something else in between there vice presidency and coming back. we saw this with richard nixon and of course joe biden. host: you also may be bound to comment on the washington post, cites calvin coolidge. the role of the vice president involves little more than waking up and checking the president's health in the n
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you texted john quincy adams is extraordinary. and i felt the same thing as i was reading him, that he just built the virtuous life more inspiringly than any the others. i spent some time on that because. i, i know. and i can, you know, he writes at a pretty high level of enthusiasm, everything and everything that you do you do it at a high level of enthusiasm, which is a virtue, i think an earnest enthusiasm but in your john quincy adams sections, i was feeling your admiration for him. and i'm wondering, you know, how we always talk about even post hbo miniseries. we talk how john adams, the father, is is always thought of a little bit lesser or than thomas jefferson or george washington. and adams understood that in life. i almost feel like john quincy adams like yet another level that there a member of the or a of the founding generation who was really an person who we think about and talk about enough. but why don't you just give like a couple of minutes on how quint john quincy adams for you personified, you know a person rea
you texted john quincy adams is extraordinary. and i felt the same thing as i was reading him, that he just built the virtuous life more inspiringly than any the others. i spent some time on that because. i, i know. and i can, you know, he writes at a pretty high level of enthusiasm, everything and everything that you do you do it at a high level of enthusiasm, which is a virtue, i think an earnest enthusiasm but in your john quincy adams sections, i was feeling your admiration for him. and i'm...
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host: making the presidency, john adams and the prece dents that formed the republic. point pleasant beach, new jersey. republican. good morning. caller: good morning. a couple of points. listening to president biden yesterday and that speech, the only reason he is leaving is because they were either going to invoke the 25th amendment, or they were going to use the doj, who has been covering for him and his corrupt family the last couple years, and they probably blackmailed him. he has had dementia since 2019, the first time he ran. they were losing in the polls and that is what they did. he is talking about saving the world with democracy. they are using the doj against president trump you legally. his family is a bunch of crooks. i love my country. we have become a little self-righteous. we should worry about what we do at home. i want to say one more thing to your guest. she is the head of the george washington museum. i guess you know that george washington, i heard before he didn't like parties. he also didn't want to get involved in european wars. he didn't want
host: making the presidency, john adams and the prece dents that formed the republic. point pleasant beach, new jersey. republican. good morning. caller: good morning. a couple of points. listening to president biden yesterday and that speech, the only reason he is leaving is because they were either going to invoke the 25th amendment, or they were going to use the doj, who has been covering for him and his corrupt family the last couple years, and they probably blackmailed him. he has had...
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and john adams did not. and so i think for that, he deserves an enormous amount of respect and gratitude. on the flip side, one of my favorite john adams quotes is by benjamin franklin and he said, john adams is often a wise man. he is always an honest man, but sometimes he's absolutely of his senses and adams and franklin were oil and water. but where i think that comes into play is that john adams was always honest, sometimes to a fault. he would he had a temper. he was not a great salesman. and so the importance of the bully pulpit to articulating principles for the american people, whether it's the peaceful transfer of power, whether it's things like peace or executive power that requires the president to tell americans why democracy matters to them, why it's important that these things exist. and adams often failed to do that because he either didn't think it was part of his job or he didn't think it was essential and allowed non-democratic forces to often take over in the federalist party, like with th
and john adams did not. and so i think for that, he deserves an enormous amount of respect and gratitude. on the flip side, one of my favorite john adams quotes is by benjamin franklin and he said, john adams is often a wise man. he is always an honest man, but sometimes he's absolutely of his senses and adams and franklin were oil and water. but where i think that comes into play is that john adams was always honest, sometimes to a fault. he would he had a temper. he was not a great salesman....
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abigail was an abolitionist and shortly after john adams was inaugurated, and abigail wasn't there at the time. that was not a typical first lady. martha was not there for george's inauguration either. but martha had written a letter at one point in her life to john which said that and fortunately how could they, the southerners, reconcile human bondage with the ideology of freedoms that america had fought for. and abigail hired a free african-american named james, who worked at their farm. and during the early days of the atlas administration, she wrote to her husband about a rather upsetting incident in which she was trying to get james educated. and she believed in education. she was part of a first education, first lady. and so she fought for him to attend to local school. but there was a neighbor who objected and she responds to that neighbor. and she told her husband with the question, is this the christian principle of doing to others as we would have others do to us? abigail eventually prevailed, not surprisingly, and james was educated after abigail. the next first lady, to s
abigail was an abolitionist and shortly after john adams was inaugurated, and abigail wasn't there at the time. that was not a typical first lady. martha was not there for george's inauguration either. but martha had written a letter at one point in her life to john which said that and fortunately how could they, the southerners, reconcile human bondage with the ideology of freedoms that america had fought for. and abigail hired a free african-american named james, who worked at their farm. and...
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adams from _ rethink this local congestion. john adams from the _ rethink this local congestion. johnrom the stonehenge alliance, thank you very much for talking to us this afternoon on bbc news. let's speak to... henri murison who is the chief executive of northern powerhouse partnership. thank you forjoining us, what is your initial reaction to what you heard from rachel reeves? i your initial reaction to what you heard from rachel reeves? i think in aeneral heard from rachel reeves? i think in generalterms _ heard from rachel reeves? i think in general terms it _ heard from rachel reeves? i think in general terms it is _ heard from rachel reeves? i think in general terms it is hard _ heard from rachel reeves? i think in general terms it is hard to _ heard from rachel reeves? i think in general terms it is hard to argue - general terms it is hard to argue with the government seeking to manage the books. i don't think i would particularly critique some of theissues would particularly critique some of the issues that have been surfaced. i think it is reasonably cogent argument. i thin
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what a privilege and pleasure to speak to you john. >> thomas payne and john adams had a struggle. he wrote something that is somewhat critical of george washington and his leadership. he died with very -- relatively little money. was he as a person disliked at his time? he may have written great work but how was he perceived by the people? >> thank you, sir, appreciate it. >> excellent questions by all these colors so far. you might say it is a sweeping generalization. a lot of people had a lot of affections for tom pain. they regarded him as one of their own. which of course, he was. they also regarded him as having his best interests. the limited that because local partisanship, we might call this a polarization starting to emerge. in the decades after the american revolution. before pain died in 1809. by the time he comes back to this area, baltimore and washington, 1802, having been away in europe or 15, 16 years, he is not welcome everywhere. there are plenty of working people. buy him a drink at the local bar which he is happy to accept. there are also politicians usually as
what a privilege and pleasure to speak to you john. >> thomas payne and john adams had a struggle. he wrote something that is somewhat critical of george washington and his leadership. he died with very -- relatively little money. was he as a person disliked at his time? he may have written great work but how was he perceived by the people? >> thank you, sir, appreciate it. >> excellent questions by all these colors so far. you might say it is a sweeping generalization. a lot...
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i think jefferson know john adams. that's sort of predictable, it seems to me, knowing getting know him well. he he wanted everyone to take the country to take on a certain character. you know, his is ideal was sort of the yeoman who would follow through the lead of the gentleman who was the big landowner and the property right with his own himself and the answer is that we become yeoman farmers who are also merchants and commercial operators and manufacturers all at the same time. and they don't necessarily follow the lead of anybody. and so he's a little disappointed in that respect. think in some ways i think that the country turned out more the way washington would wanted, although and hamilton. well and hamilton hamilton we become a commercial country and you know but washington you know one of the things that washington has that's fascinating we could sort of follow his mental maps. we can follow the surveyor gauging the of the new country and where particular lines of migration are going to go. but washington as
i think jefferson know john adams. that's sort of predictable, it seems to me, knowing getting know him well. he he wanted everyone to take the country to take on a certain character. you know, his is ideal was sort of the yeoman who would follow through the lead of the gentleman who was the big landowner and the property right with his own himself and the answer is that we become yeoman farmers who are also merchants and commercial operators and manufacturers all at the same time. and they...
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made it a crime punishable by incarceration for anyone criticize john adams or federalist policy. fortunately, that act expired by its own terms at the end of adams, but jefferson became president in a world where people had been thrown in jail for having conflicting opinions, he knew that this country wasn't going to last long. if we were operating on that basis. and so in his first inaugural address, among his opening words were, look, folks, we are all we are all republicans we are all americans, and we better start acting that way or this isn't going to last. but to your knowing, he wasn't a great, but he was a dazzling in small groups and he knew it. and so his presidency, two and three times a week, every he would have dinner parties where he would have federalists would have republicans, and they be arguing about the hottest political issues the day they'd be building relationships, they'd be talking about literature, history, music, philosophy, and of course, eating wonderful food, drinking strong wine. there were wonderful such that by the end of the evening, if nothing,
made it a crime punishable by incarceration for anyone criticize john adams or federalist policy. fortunately, that act expired by its own terms at the end of adams, but jefferson became president in a world where people had been thrown in jail for having conflicting opinions, he knew that this country wasn't going to last long. if we were operating on that basis. and so in his first inaugural address, among his opening words were, look, folks, we are all we are all republicans we are all...
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made it a crime punishable by incarceration for anyone criticize john adams or federalist policy. fortunately, that act expired by its own terms at the end of adams, but jefferson became president in a world where people had been thrown in jail for having conflicting opinions, he knew that this country wasn't going to last long. if we were operating on that basis. and so in his first inaugural address, among his opening words were, look, folks, we are all we are all republicans we are all americans, and we better start acting that way or this isn't going to last. but to your knowing, he wasn't a great, but he was a dazzling in small groups and he knew it. and so his presidency, two and three times a week, every he would have dinner parties where he would have federalists would have republicans, and they be arguing about the hottest political issues the day they'd be building relationships, they'd be talking about literature, history, music, philosophy, and of course, eating wonderful food, drinking strong wine. there were wonderful such that by the end of the evening, if nothing,
made it a crime punishable by incarceration for anyone criticize john adams or federalist policy. fortunately, that act expired by its own terms at the end of adams, but jefferson became president in a world where people had been thrown in jail for having conflicting opinions, he knew that this country wasn't going to last long. if we were operating on that basis. and so in his first inaugural address, among his opening words were, look, folks, we are all we are all republicans we are all...
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john adams became the second president after serving as washington's vice president. thomas jefferson did, as well, but they were actually of different parties, so they ran against each other while actually serving in the same administration. there have been a handful of other presidents who have succeeded to the office but it is not a great place to launch a political career because there is very low visibility, there are not portfolios built in, you don't have a constituency like you but if you were a governor, senator, congressman, so it can be difficult to get attention because you have to demonstrate loyalty while also trying to be your own person. it has not proven to be particularly effective. where vice president may be have found success is doing something else in between there vice presidency and coming back. we saw this with richard nixon and of course joe biden. host: you also may be bound to comment on the washington post, cites calvin coolidge. the role of the vice president involves little more than waking up and checking the president's health in the n
john adams became the second president after serving as washington's vice president. thomas jefferson did, as well, but they were actually of different parties, so they ran against each other while actually serving in the same administration. there have been a handful of other presidents who have succeeded to the office but it is not a great place to launch a political career because there is very low visibility, there are not portfolios built in, you don't have a constituency like you but if...
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john adams was the first to do this in the new republic soon after it was born. he enacted the alien sedition act and he tried to our rest and even execute those that were his political opponents. this is the same john adams that praised the boston tea party saying it was majestic. and you have samuel adams who helped lead the attack and assistant and the destruction of the tea. when items became president he became less tolerant of rage rhetoric. you see it in figures like charlotte whitney who was a wonderful character that i start with because it was her case that ultimately led brandeis to refer to this as the indispensable rights. the reason i started with that is because it showed the conflict we have inherently in our constitutional system. brandeis got the keys wrong and so did oliver wendell holmes. he ruled in favor of her conviction. what did whitney do? this is one of the many characters that i talk about in the book. following what george bernard shaw said -- that unreasonable people expect the world to conform to them so all history is made by unrea
john adams was the first to do this in the new republic soon after it was born. he enacted the alien sedition act and he tried to our rest and even execute those that were his political opponents. this is the same john adams that praised the boston tea party saying it was majestic. and you have samuel adams who helped lead the attack and assistant and the destruction of the tea. when items became president he became less tolerant of rage rhetoric. you see it in figures like charlotte whitney...
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john adams to his wife, abigail adams, a letter he wrote to her on july 3rd, 1776. but it was really a pamphlet debate that took place between the french, iberia now and thomas. and around 1782 that popularized use of the term. so iberia and i'll use term the revolution of america in title of his work to denounce what he describes as the upheavals taking place, and he described them as being unjustified by any sort of wrongs suffered by americans. paine, who rebutted reynolds, claims as and misinformed, adapted the term to describe the struggle for independence. now, of course, identify, saying the use of a term is one thing defining agreeing on its meaning is quite another so. without a doubt, the revolution was understood first and foremost as a political revolution in the senses that was described earlier during the q&a and the previous session, in the sense that, you know, the americans sever their ties. great britain, then they shrugged off dependance an allegiance to a distant. but if it were only a political revolution involving a change in the form of govern
john adams to his wife, abigail adams, a letter he wrote to her on july 3rd, 1776. but it was really a pamphlet debate that took place between the french, iberia now and thomas. and around 1782 that popularized use of the term. so iberia and i'll use term the revolution of america in title of his work to denounce what he describes as the upheavals taking place, and he described them as being unjustified by any sort of wrongs suffered by americans. paine, who rebutted reynolds, claims as and...
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john adams was the first to do that in the new republic. soon after it was born, right, he they enacted the alien and acts and he went about trying to arrest and even execute people who were his political opponents. this is the same john adams that praised the boston tea party said. it was magnificent. i think the word he used was majestic. his own you know, you had samuel adams, his kin who helped lead the attack on those poets and the destruction of the tea. so the perspective of rage changes and obviously when adams president, he became less tolerant of rage. but you see it then with figures like whitney, you know, anita, charlotte and lydia whitney was a wonderful character that i start with because it her case that ultimately brandeis to refer to this as the indispensable right. but the reason i started with that because it shows the conflict that we have inherently in our constitutional system. brandeis got the case wrong so did oliver wendell holmes. even though he said that he in favor of her. so what did whitney do? whitney? was th
john adams was the first to do that in the new republic. soon after it was born, right, he they enacted the alien and acts and he went about trying to arrest and even execute people who were his political opponents. this is the same john adams that praised the boston tea party said. it was magnificent. i think the word he used was majestic. his own you know, you had samuel adams, his kin who helped lead the attack on those poets and the destruction of the tea. so the perspective of rage changes...
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president john adams ultimately lost to vice president thomas jefferson, and all the transfer of power was ultimately peaceful, adamson did forgo his successors' inauguration. i think that has also happened another time or two, but i won't. those two men actually remain at odds for many, many years. it was only later, during their retirement, did they actually rekindle the friendship, discussing many different topics in their correspondence, including the topic of death. adams actually wrote to jefferson in 1822 these words, quote, i answer your question, is death an evil. it is not an evil. it is a blessing to the individual and to the world. yet, we all not wish for it until life becomes insupportable , end quote. he was 86 years old when he wrote this note, perhaps, adams had become comfortable with the idea of leaving the world, but it was four years later that both men, adams and jefferson, passed away the same exact day, july 4th, 1826, and while he was not present when his father died, john quincy adams later recorded his father's last words , three very poignant words, thomas j
president john adams ultimately lost to vice president thomas jefferson, and all the transfer of power was ultimately peaceful, adamson did forgo his successors' inauguration. i think that has also happened another time or two, but i won't. those two men actually remain at odds for many, many years. it was only later, during their retirement, did they actually rekindle the friendship, discussing many different topics in their correspondence, including the topic of death. adams actually wrote to...
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and on hearing the news, john quincy adams, who was serving as a u.s. congressman at the time and no fan of tyler, he was a whig and president. tyler had thrown the whig party into disarray because he kept vetoing all of their legislation. and john quincy adams, quote, as he was fairly nauseated by their marriage and he called it the old fable of january and may because he was disgruntled by their 30 year age difference, with tyler being 54 and julia being only 24. next slide, please. so the annexation of texas became president. tyler's main focus. and as this slide shows how he thought it might be, he might be able to use this issue to win a presidential term in his own right in 1844. however, it wasn't to be because right before he married julia, the treaty, his administration was working on to bring texas into the union failed in the senate so that went by the wayside. but he married her right at that time. and next slide, please. so let me give you a little background on tyler's first wife, leticia just suffered a series of strokes before he became
and on hearing the news, john quincy adams, who was serving as a u.s. congressman at the time and no fan of tyler, he was a whig and president. tyler had thrown the whig party into disarray because he kept vetoing all of their legislation. and john quincy adams, quote, as he was fairly nauseated by their marriage and he called it the old fable of january and may because he was disgruntled by their 30 year age difference, with tyler being 54 and julia being only 24. next slide, please. so the...