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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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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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ulysses middle of those two john quincy adams son, one of john quincy adams sons, and william howardather, are in grant's administration. and so with three presidents, we get a that runs from the earliest days of the revolution right through the 1920s more over each of these presidents was witness to exercises of presidential authority by. so adams is in congress for the louisiana purchase and jefferson's embargo. adams, of course, writes nroe doctrine for james monroe. ulysses grant is a player notably in the civil war, but also a direct act fight between president andrew johnson and congress after the civil war. and taftt's secretary of war and right hand man and. it's important to remember that taft earlier on in his career is civilian governor of the there's a tendency to think of taft primarily as judge, but his work in the philippines suggests a deep experiencen executive authority that then translates into the presidency and to put this all together, i think the new understanding of what the state was doing gives us a host of issue areas to look for presidential power and look
ulysses middle of those two john quincy adams son, one of john quincy adams sons, and william howardather, are in grant's administration. and so with three presidents, we get a that runs from the earliest days of the revolution right through the 1920s more over each of these presidents was witness to exercises of presidential authority by. so adams is in congress for the louisiana purchase and jefferson's embargo. adams, of course, writes nroe doctrine for james monroe. ulysses grant is a...
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john quincy adams is secretary of state. and we are just about to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the signing of, the declaration of independence. and he recognizes the event by commissioning a copperplate engraving. so he'll hire william stone, who's here in washington, d.c. and william stone will take the next three years, copying declaration backwards into a copper plate. backwards, backwards. now, 200 copies are made and william stone asks for a copy for himself. so there are only 201 copies that exist now. they were given to john adams. they were given to thomas and also with mark lafayette. and the rest stayed here. what's interesting is that the original that declaration that we see today is so faded that you miss much of the detail. and so when you actually think of what is the declaration in our we're actually thinking of this print right here. and this is something john quincy adams as secretary of state said, let's do this. absolutely. now, this is a obviously a very beautiful room. i understand that it was one
john quincy adams is secretary of state. and we are just about to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the signing of, the declaration of independence. and he recognizes the event by commissioning a copperplate engraving. so he'll hire william stone, who's here in washington, d.c. and william stone will take the next three years, copying declaration backwards into a copper plate. backwards, backwards. now, 200 copies are made and william stone asks for a copy for himself. so there are only 201...
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that was jefferson madison, monroe, john quincy adams, which is going to be a surprise when we hear what is mother abigail thought about slavery. andrew jackson, martin van buren, tyler polk and taylor. 12 presidents at some time in their lives, foreign slave workers, washington, jefferson, madison wrote. jackson. van buren. harrison. tyler polk. taylor johnson and grant and grant's probably a surprise that he married into a missouri slave owning family, and he was given some enslaved workers by his father in law that he worked side by side with them, and he did eventually give them their freedom at the white house. these enslaved workers performed a variety of jobs. they were chefs, gardeners, stable hands, maids, butlers, valets, ladies, ladies and. and did all sorts of other cleaning and other work around the white house. so we had this long history up until the lincolns of having a lot of enslaved workers in the white house itself. but things changed with first ladies, beginning with this with abigail adams, who had a very, very different opinion of slavery from her predecessor, mart
that was jefferson madison, monroe, john quincy adams, which is going to be a surprise when we hear what is mother abigail thought about slavery. andrew jackson, martin van buren, tyler polk and taylor. 12 presidents at some time in their lives, foreign slave workers, washington, jefferson, madison wrote. jackson. van buren. harrison. tyler polk. taylor johnson and grant and grant's probably a surprise that he married into a missouri slave owning family, and he was given some enslaved workers...
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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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he is published biographies of thomas carlyle, mark twain, henry james, charles dickens, john quincy adams, abraham lincoln gore vidal, and now thomas jefferson in his masterly pen. kaplan offers us a biography of thomas jefferson by giving an english professor's kind attention to jefferson's written words. jefferson only published one book in his lifetime notes on the state of virginia. but, of course, jefferson wrote consul treatises like a summary view of the rights of british north america legal briefs, memoranda the declaration of independence, and above all letters, thousands of them, which kaplan calls among his most powerful and revealing writings throughout his masterly pen, kaplan brings a skilled biographers attention to how jefferson reveals himself through his writing, often without without intending to, as kaplan says of notes on the state of virginia. it's a book about jefferson partly because jefferson did not want it to, a book about himself. the jefferson we meet here is not surprisingly learned and forceful. but kaplan also shows this jefferson as a writer who's of
he is published biographies of thomas carlyle, mark twain, henry james, charles dickens, john quincy adams, abraham lincoln gore vidal, and now thomas jefferson in his masterly pen. kaplan offers us a biography of thomas jefferson by giving an english professor's kind attention to jefferson's written words. jefferson only published one book in his lifetime notes on the state of virginia. but, of course, jefferson wrote consul treatises like a summary view of the rights of british north america...
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john quincy adams, learned, would wake up in the white house, read cicero, watch the sunrise, and rightthat was what the project involved. it was completelyransformative because it both changed my understanding of the pursuit of happiness and help me see the founders understanding of personal self-govemet the most e away if i can share it right now was rediscovering the liberating , radically empowering practice of deep reading. i had gotten out of the practice of reading outside of my job or my immediate deadlines, and just taking the time to dig in deep, created wonders that i had forgotten, and i'm so grateful to have rediscovered this practice. >> you survey a wide range of founding figures and next-generation thinkers like lincoln and frederick douglass. lincoln, hamilton, washington, franklin, her, they span the spectrum of backgrounds, upbringings, education. yeth this. how was it that they all were brought to this? given that they came from su bar educated in such different ways. jeffrey: it must be the shining power of the liberal idea, embodied in isn't it remarkable? think of
john quincy adams, learned, would wake up in the white house, read cicero, watch the sunrise, and rightthat was what the project involved. it was completelyransformative because it both changed my understanding of the pursuit of happiness and help me see the founders understanding of personal self-govemet the most e away if i can share it right now was rediscovering the liberating , radically empowering practice of deep reading. i had gotten out of the practice of reading outside of my job or...
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john quincy adams, who wrote his diary, he's secretary of state in 1820 at the time in the missouri compromise and he's similar to pierce said look i'm happy we got this then he writes this in his diary he says it might actually be better if we called a convention of the states article in the constitution and actually to separate, because if we're going to separate sometime, it's going to be because of slavery and maybe we should do it again in a nonviolent. and that was the provision that he that he offered as maybe a way to go. and then you've got john tyler. john tyler, the most ardent states rights president that we've ever had. he was from virginia. he's still in virginia here in 1861. he's of the secession movement, actually, with virginia leaving the union, which they after all, lincoln is is. in fact, he's elected to the confederate house of representatives. he never seats as sits the house of representatives because he dies just before he had his chance to but ardently in favor of this notion of secession. if if the right circumstances come to pass. we're completely all over the map a
john quincy adams, who wrote his diary, he's secretary of state in 1820 at the time in the missouri compromise and he's similar to pierce said look i'm happy we got this then he writes this in his diary he says it might actually be better if we called a convention of the states article in the constitution and actually to separate, because if we're going to separate sometime, it's going to be because of slavery and maybe we should do it again in a nonviolent. and that was the provision that he...