signed president john adams. in if you go to the boston and in the am today in a library you can sit there. mercy dies a couple months later in october and 1814 and she is free reared and celebrated and we don't hear much about her until about 1848 when a journalist named elizabeth eliot writes women of revolutionary america, a small chapter on her and this is for another four years until susan b. anthony and elizabeth cady stanton in the history of women's suffrage and again praise her as one of the person most import women of america and another 60 years of go by and there is another biography that finally comes out with some of for letters in the 1890's but another 60 years go by before catherine anthony publishes a biography which two my frustration has no notes or annotations so it is hard to find a were letters are from and so on. in the 1990's there are too scholarly books that are wonderful. one by rosemary. jeffrey richards focuses on her poems and plays, but the problem in writing this book, one of the

i started saying, john adams, i did not know john adams from john quincy adams from samuel adams when i was that age. not only did i not know who they were and really do my work in school with the history because i was not interested, but i did not even care that much in that period. i kind of had an idea that history was not real. we had a picture in our schools in chicago of george washington and abraham lincoln and everything seemed kind of laid out like it had happened sort of inevitably and have been in such a long time ago. i really didn't get interested in history until i was in my 30's or so and let me tell you how it happened. i was writing a book and doing some research about abraham lincoln, and i read about abraham lincoln having some conversation in a tent. i just don't remember all the details. it seemed fairly interesting and it was from one person's point of view who was there, and then i read another piece of historical writing from another person's point of view, who was there. all of a sudden, you know how like when you have one eye open, you can see depth because o

john adams was. john adams literally bared his soul in his diaries. and washington's diaries are quite frequently tend to be just a compilation of who attended, who was at mount vernon that day. he would list the names of people. some of them would go on to be well known, for example, he said there was a noah webster here today. and occasionally there would be people that he didn't get their names. he would say two women who i don't recall their names were here. so most of, much of, many of the entries were along those lines, and then he also kept some records on the weather at mount vernon. he would list the temperature and tell whether it was a hot day or snowed that day or whatever. but it is an incomplete record, and even though the diaries you sometimes wonder about the value of washington's entries, historians always want more and more information. as far as the second question on lafayette, washington did not meet lafayette until lafayette volunteered to come to america as a soldier during the revolutionary war, and that was in 1777 about two y

john adams, john j., and benjamin franklin and adams mingei where willing to include a provision in thefinal peace treaty under which congress would have to provide restitution. and intriguingly, benjamin franklin who son of william franklin was a loyalist said absolutely not. franklin would not go along with it. you can look in that into way this. did franklin his son that much or did franklin think that his son had a better chance of getting restitution if it came from england and then from congress? in any rate it didn't go into the peace settlement and so there was political pressure in england to provide restitution and the british established a wilmont commission after the war in every committee who was a loyalist and to provide evidence of what they had possessed before the war, how much property they own, what they're in, and then, when they became loyalists, what they had done to help britain during the revolution -- to provide a great deal of information and all of that was written out, they had to make five copies of what they rode out. they submitted that and from all that e

from this period of time, two on john adams, a life by john ferling, adams and jefferson, and his latest book is this biography of george washington which we have been talking about throughout our program, the ascent of george washington:the hidden political genius of american icon. as we begin this third hour, let me ask you, we have been talking and a lot of detail about people ask questions but over the course of your 30 years of research, what is your overarching view of the motivation of the founding fathers? were they driven by political ideology? did they have a grand view of a new nation or work commercial interests and private interests a big part of the process? >> i think it is probably a combination of all of those things. it depends on the individual. as a historian i tend to be what historians call an economic determinist. i think economic factors are probably the biggest single motivating factor in driving someone. i think you can make a case, for example, that washington eventually came to the conclusion that the relationship with great britain was harmful to him personal

john adams, john jay and benjamin franklin. and adams and j for willing to include a provision in the final peace treaty under which congress would have to provide restitution. and intriguing lead, benjamin franklin passan, william franklin, was a loyalist said absolutely not. frankland wouldn't go along with it. and franklin -- you can look at that of two ways. did franklin hate his son that much, or did franklin think that his son had a better chance of getting restitution if it came from england and from conagra's? but any rate it didn't go into the end of the peace settlement and so, there was political pressure in england to provide restitution and the british established a commission call the will want commission after the war and everybody was a loyalist had to provide evidence of what they had possessed before the war, how much property alone, with their income had been, when they became a loyalist, but they had done to help britain during the revolution. they did it to provide great deal of information. and all of that

john adams and thomas jefferson, both of whom had served on that committee to write the declaration and jefferson was a principle author both died that day. and even john quincy adams says at the time in his writings that this appears to be the hand of providence, a recognition that america was an exceptional place, that it had god's, god's attention. >> host: we are live on this independence day weekend from mount vernon, virginia, with revolutionary war historian john ferling, biographer of both washington and adams. our next telephone call for him is from fairfax -- i'm sorry, first up david in tulsa, oklahoma. go ahead, david. >> caller: hi, thank you for c-span. your previous e-mail kind of stole my question -- >> host: i'm sorry. >> caller: tulsa, oklahoma, and many of my colleagues do believe that the founding of the nation and george washington was prove den cial. so i'll go with a question, do you believe that -- what was, what was president washington's position on slavery, and did he believe that eventually that it would be taken care of before civil war? >> host: thank you v

everybody in massachusetts knew both john and samuel adams. everybody in virginia knew patrick henry. not so much because of his liberty or death speech, biobase he was the governor and running the place for a long time. they knew jefferson not nationally. they knew him because he was its governor of virginia and all these local figures. you know, it wasn't a really unified story at that moment. the unified story is what we have, you know, successive filtrations have created. yeah. >> this is really fascinating and i applaud your attempt to open the inquiry. i think we all grow up basically studying the history of great men, and great -- great an men, and i'm interested in your strategy of these seven characters. and i think that's one way to choose seven different people, but i'm -- this is sort of a literary question in some ways. are there other things that you do in your book that get beyond the history of people who manage to become famous, and dig down into the history of lots of people who are just ordinary, and like everybody else, whi

john quincy adams career in the house of representatives and in many ways historians i think very few have ever written about that time exclusively in john quincy adams career. he spent 17 years here at the house after serving president and had a distinguished career, was an outspoken opponent of slavery, and in many ways with somebody who foresaw of the disunion and that was going to occur over that great subject and he was just a stalwart on the subject and was a fierce defender of the constitution and american rights and, of course, defended the black slaves who had been the famous incidents on the amstad and john quincy adams actually took that to the supreme court and killed in an era when nobody thought he could -- in is a fascinating story of john quincy adams and his time post presidential and i think one of the few books ever written about that time. in his live. a book that i just finish when i got here to the house, of course, is the house historian's book called the house which is a short history of the house of representatives itself which is a great institution and has l

she is very close with john adams until john adams starts in her mind betraying the revolution by getting to much into power and when mercy otis won the rights of history she this is her best friend to know and. these two older patriots go at it, this woman writer who until her history did everything anonymously. she was a very prominent and the federalist and she had to write anonymously. she wrote these eating satires and honestly. who by then had been president of the united states. she won't back down an inch. she says he betrayed the revolution, because you know by usurping too much power. anyway, she hates robert morris because she is in to hear republican virtue and morris is just a high liver. the hunt is to be followed by the fees so they go out in they literally go at it because morrison has to approve every single person who wants employment in the government won't approve for son so we get all of these personal things going on. timothy bigalow, a blacksmith from worcester who anchors the first revolution story is one of my characters and finally so often, really always who do

. >> and we bought "john adams." you guys seen that? on hbo?jimmy: you bought the actual -- >> come on, man. trying to tell a story about a dvd. [ laughter ] you know, it doesn't help. it doesn't help anything. it doesn't help anything. and it's incredible, like i feel so ignorant, i can't believe i'm going to admit my ignorance to you guys. okay, so "john adams" is about the revolutionary war, second president. i thought july 4th, 1776 is the end of the revolutionary war, new president and here we go, right, fireworks and everything, correct? that's exactly wrong. did you guys know that? what it is is that's when everything started. george washington wasn't president until 1789. i'm admitting my ignorance to you. i had no idea. i always thought it was here we go, 1776. birth of a new nation. >> jimmy: then fireworks. >> fireworks. yeah. >> jimmy: nothing. >> am i alone in this? >> jimmy: i want to say yeah. [ laughter ] >> did you know that? as an honest question -- >> jimmy: don't grill me. i don't like your tone, and i don't like your attitu

so newton prince was there. >> up the stories that john adams was telling and within three days he was tarred and feathered and this was somebody who then could not wait actually to join general gauges army when it arrived at boston. this complicated story and tragic difficult story that if you are black in the american colonies on the eve during the revolution you had a choice, and a very large number of blacks in the south, slaves and the south loaded with their feet against america and under an illusion not entirely without some substance, a kind of wished that was setting them up for all kinds of heartbreak. they voted with their feet with a king with the union jack and the inclusion, of course if you been following this story or no, that the slaves of some of the most of this founding fathers, george washington's slade henry washington, for example couldn't wait to join the british army. a week after patrick henry stood up in the house of the purchase in the virginia assembly and said give me liberty or give me death, his own a slave and said i will have liberty, the buy. [laughte

billy tutor was a lawyer in boston who had clerked with john adams. he became washington's adjutant general at a very young age. billy tutor had fallen in love with a young woman named amelia jarvis in boston, they were ardent loyalists. this was a month ago -- montague/capulet romeo and juliet love affair. they went off with washington, wonderful letters back and forth between him and his dear delia in which she was urging him to give up this fight, come home, get married, come in with her and her family, in their place as members of the loyalists world. billy tutor is writing back i can't do that, i am rather busy, is what he was saying. finally it got to be very much of an issue. the night of december 24th, after he had received a pleading letter from the elliott jarvis to please come home and he himself was longing more than anything else in life to else i with her, he wrote i cannot desert man who has laid down his life not to desert his country and large part of it have spirit to defend itself. at that point the continental army was down to a fe

its most lu--illustrious members are george washington, john adams, alexander hamilton. and, by and large, these were men who were conservative. they wanted to retain what they'd gained in the revolution, but they believed in order, and they thought that order was fragile. and they really wanted to have a great britain cleansed of the impurities and corruptions of great britain. now thomas jefferson wa--and--and i use him to stand in for other people, but he was so far and away the important figure here--saw this as a--just a terrible loss if the revolution in america just stopped at being another great britain, and he wanted to see a revolution in the sense of creating a new kind of society that was thoroughly democratized, where there was political participation, where there was free speech. he wanted to animate the--the--the public. he--and he very much wanted religious toleration, and he was very interested in scientific speculation. but he had this idea that human beings--and he--we have to say he really meant white men had been shackled down, they'd been burdened b

john adams. thas jefferson. s madison. james monroe. john quincy adam anew jackson.enry harris. hn tyler. james k. polk. zachary taylor. millfillmore. franklin p prce. james buchanan. abrahalilincoln. andrew johon. ulysses s. grant. rutherford b. haye james gaield. chesteter a. arthur. grover cleveland. benjamin hararrison. wiiam mckinley. eodore roosevelt. willlliahoward taft. woodrow wils. warren g. haing. cain coolidge. herbert hoover franklklinin d. roosevelt. dwight d. eisenhower. john f. kekennedy. ndon b. johnson. richard nixon. gerald r. ford. jimmy rter. rold reaga geororge h.w. bush. clinton. george w. bush. bara obabama.. >> wow. got all of them. >> yeah. >> but that wasn't backwards. >> it was not backwards. can you do it backwards? no, you don't want to do that backwards. what day of the week was july 6, 2002? >> july 6, 2002, july 6, 2002 was a saturday. >> that is right. it was a saturday. and what color socks was i wearing on that day? [ laughter ] i was born on november 13, 1967. who was presidenon that day? >> that day, lyndon johnson. >> that is ri

. >> at the time when the country was founded, a benjamin franklin, john adams, ambassadors to londonnd paris. appointments were different in those days from what is happening today, as noted by the president of the american academy for diplomacy. quote, the practice of rewarding donors is a remnant of lse oisp system we abolished in the civil service. it is a dismal testimony to the importance of money in our elect rail electoral system. >> to be able to buy an ambassador ship, in other words, k for play. eleanor clift. >> i don't know i would call it corruption, but it's the way the game is played by republican administrations and democratic administrations. john, did we have this discussion when president bush was in office? i don't think so. but look, when the founding fathers were around, those ambassador posts to france and england were really critical posts. today they are mostly entertainment venues. so i don't think any harm is really being done. >> no serious work is being done, is that what we are hearing? >> in fact, yes. >> the ambassador iraq has gone to hill. i would lo

that and a tea urn from john adams.hink those are two things that every american still has in their own home. a portrait of george washington and a tea urn. anyways, that's some trivia for you. what else do we go -- this is me on sasha and malia's swing set. [ laughter ] come on! i had to do it, right? come on. i was like all right. [ cheers and applause ] i had to get my swing on. yeah, and the ground that i was on there it's like this green rubbery pebbly thing. it's so soft you could jump off the top of it and noge.t rthu g it's phenomenal. but i love that. and what else got we have hee? wag plinttaya li bg eaa ban toss thing. what do you guys call that? you call it bags? excuse me? you call it that? [ laughter ] i wasn't playing that game at all, whatever you just said. for those of you who couldn't here it, it started with the word "corn." [ light laughter ] i wast playing that. i was throwing bags into a hole. [ light laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] not worth it. not worth it. this is a very important moment, m

vice president john adams replied, "if individuals be not influenced by moral principles, it is in vain to look for public virtue. state constitutions in trying public laws as well." no free government or the blessings of liberty can be preserved by any people by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality and virtue and by frequent reference to recurrence fundamental principles. the american character was not a private matter. it was a central problem to the common good and it had to be cared for by those that represented the people. how we should do this is the problem. capitalism is a crucial part of the answer. the year 7076 would not only the declaration of independence but it was also the year adam smith's treaty on the nation's came available. smith expand that what he called the system of national liberty or capitalism would vastly increase national wealth. the framers of our constitution knew smith not only as an economic thinker but as a moral philosopher. they were justice-committed to freedom as there were two american moral greatness. hamilton road, "the

have read a number of biographies in the last year the red a wonderful book by the last crusade john quincy adams career and in many ways historians, very few have ever written about that period exclusively in john quincy adams career. he spent 17 years here of the house of representatives after president with a distinguished career an outspoken opponent of slavery. and in many ways was somebody who foresaw of the union that would occur over that great subjects. he was just a stalwart and a fierce defender on the constitution of american rights and of course, defended the black slaves who had the famous incident of thomas dodd and quincy adams took the case to the supreme court and prevailed when nobody thought that he could. it is a fascinating story of john quincy adams and his time post presidential. think it is one of the few books ever written about that period of time in his life. one book i just finished reading when i got here to the house is the house historian book called as the house. it is a short history of the house of representatives itself which is a great institution and has a lo

>> john adams. >> john quincy adams. father had been president of the united states. bill clinton likes to show that one where he is shaking john kennedy's hands. john kennedy shook lots of people's hands. there is nothing special about bill clinton in that regard. bill clinton is dreams of this. in terms of i could really do this. okay. franklin roosevelt decides the way to get to the white house is to follow uncle ted's path. theodore roosevelt started out in new york legislature. that is what franklin is going to do. theodore then went to washington and became assistant secretary of the navy. that's what franklin roosevelt is going to do. theodore roosevelt came back to new york and was elected governor of new york. that's what franklin roosevelt is going to do. theodore roosevelt had six children. that's what franklin roosevelt is going to do. that is what he informed eleanor. [laughter] okay, now, oh i'm lecturing again i don't want to give away the whole story. i do have to tell you this really gets at crux of the personal story here because they do have six chil

john adam was declared killed in action, may 1968, when his body was shot down. his -- plane was shot down. his body was never recovered. but just this year, his family learned that his remains had been found. the patriot guard discovered him where he was buried with full military honors. >>> members of congress heard tearful testimony from several victims from the scene who say they want to make sure it never happens again. mike parker has the story. >>> the tears that were shed, in finding out about the atrocities that occurred there. >> reporter: but members of congress did not have to imagine those tears. they came again for real by wetsy williams. who buried her father in 1998. then was told that his grave records had been lost. >> as long as my ancestors don't rest, there girl is not going to rest until there is something done about this criminal act. >>> you have raped us. you have robbed us. and you have nothing to say but sorry, we lost your loved ones' remains? >> she said her family paid, in her words, a mint, to bury our father, like the king that he

because at that point i was a diplomat in the mold of john adams or even ryan seacrest which i morphed into today. the analysts were too bearish. here's credit suisse, still too early to be bearish, huh? how about time to be bullish, the glass is more than halfful. speaking of full, goldman sachs said valuation is full, more like goldman is full, as in "full of it." intel unlike the market as a whole, violates the first dickam of the esteemed jordin sparks, who concontrary to the tmz chatter does not moonlight at the goldman sachs research department, which is to say that intel is not a battlefield. actually, it's more like what independent analyst laid da gaga says. it's more of a love game. now, as an intel hawk who has visited many plants and talked to senior managers for many years and has seen many intel blowouts, what you need to know besides the fact that the 12 steps didn't work for me in my intel-a-holik, may name is jim crammer and i have not had an intel chip in -- anyway. intel makes the most money after it's been running new product lines, because they throw out a huge amo

most of view as american history six government teachers will no of course, thomas jefferson and john adams both died within hours of each other on the 50th anniversary of the signing of the declaration of independence. the other interesting fact is you can ask how long was jefferson and adams an american citizen? there were no american citizens on july 3rd 1776 so both jefferson and adams were assistance precisely 50 years to the day. now we talk about the top five founders in this case which was my interest because i'm specifically attracted as a historian without the camera to the 1770, 1780, 1790 period because that is when the paradyne shifted and the world change. the other was james monroe. he not only died on july 4th , nobody talks about four mr. monroe they just want jefferson and adams it is like red meat for the founders. [laughter] he died on the 55th anniversary of the signing almost as if they will their death. okay. let's go to the father of the constitution, james madison brochure man who had a big life. he died on the 68 anniversary, not on july 4th unfortunately he slight

i don't believe it is to be interpreted exactly -- we should look into the minds of john adams and alexander hamilton and ben franklin, which were very different minds anyway. that is one thing. i believe that it is the obligation of government to help those who cannot help themselves. as the late hubert humphrey said "concern for people in the dawn of life, the shadows of life, and if the twilight of life." i believe that. i don't believe the free-market is capable of fully governing itself without stronger government regulation. i believe in a modified free market, which is really what we have had, but not enough lately. and i am an absolute civil libertarian. i don't mean to say that i don't think we need to take national security measures or we don't need an army or anything like that. i mean, if there is an issue about liberty compared with national security, that has to meet a high threshold for me to deny civil liberties. >> in your book you give hints along the way where you have been in your life, including living for the first eight years in chicago. >> my mother met my father at a

history, civics, government, teachers, will probably know that, of course, thomas jefferson and john adams, both died within hours of each other on the 50th anniversary of the signing of the declaration of independence. the other interesting fact about that i think is that you could ask, how long was jefferson and adams an american citizen, well, there were no american citizens on july 3rd, 1776, so mr. jefferson and mr. adams were both citizens for precisely, to the day, 50 years, to the day. well, nor one is, now, we talked about the top five founders. in the case. which was my interest, because, i am specifically attracted as a historian, without the camera, to that 1770, 1780, 1790 period, because that is when the paradigm shifted and when the world changed. the other one that changed, and died on july 4th, was james monroe. he just not only died on july 4th, no one talks about poor mr. monroe... they just want jefferson and adams, and like red meat for the founders. so, mr. monroe died on the 55th anniversary of the signing. almost as if they willed their death. okay, then let's go to

and this book is in every close election in american history from thomas jefferson and john adams of the way to bush and gore. in some ways it is almost like redcoats revenge in terms of what might have been if the election had gone differently, is a great way to look at a lecture on history and is fun and accessible and the authors are great can i tell us very quickly about potomac books. >> potomac books is in virginia by the airport and we are in trade publisher, with a military history, we do political history, current events and a lot of great stuff appearance in non. >> elisabeth, senior editor with the town of books. >> join the conversation "what the heck are you up to, mr. president?: jimmy carter, america's "malaise", and the speech that should have changed the country", news editor at the washington post accounts of the political careers of the john robert and ted kennedy, he profiles each kennedy brother and reports on a new generation of kennedys in politics. politics and prose bookstore in washington d.c. hosts in this event, it is 50 minutes. >> this evening everyone.

history, civics and government teachers will probably know that, of course, thomas jefferson and john adams both died within hours of each other on the 50th anniversary of the signing of the declaration of independence. the other interesting fact about that i think is such you could ask how long was jefferson and adams an american citizen -- there were no american citizens on july 3rd, 1776, so mr. jefferson and mr. adams for both citizens for precisely to the day 50 years to the day. well, another one is we talk about top five founders in this case which was my interest because i am specifically attractive as an historian without the camera to that 1770, 1780, 79 this time because that is on the paradigm shift it, that is when the world changed. the other one that changed and died on july 4th was james monroe. he not only died on july 4th, now talks about poor mr. munro, they just want jefferson and adams, it is like red meat for the founders. [laughter] so monroe died on the 50th anniversary of the signing. it is almost as if they wield their death. okay, well then let's go to some of the

as we see so abundantly in his late correspondence with john adams. when we hear these two men dilating upon pronunciations of ancient greek words in their letters, one man in his 70's, the other man in his 80's, we might be forgiven for concluding that ex-president's are not likely to carry on such a course on this ever again. so what did all this reading, this hard in tedious work, do for jefferson? quite simply, it changed who he was. he said so. he is one of the best examples of the humanistic ideal. his learning altered his personality, and not just his mind. this cannot happen if one takes such acquisition of knowledge as a mere chasing after information. because it is not information that is wanted. i think jefferson would shudder at the idea of information and the idea of self-sufficiency, that that is all we need. that is not all need. when in understanding -- we need understanding. need to make that knowledge of part of who we are. not simply something we put on a database and call up with a few buttons. that is not culture. that is not educ

then later what we expect is that president obama will sit down with president john adam mills. the two of them will talk about the things that are mutually important to their countries. talking about trade, good governance as well as democracy. he's also going to be later addressing the ga nain people as well as many people throughout africa who are going to be watching about this very special message and he's going to be talking about the importance of peaceful transitions of power, of democracy. that's one of the reasons why he chose ghana, because it is such a model, an example of just that. betty? >> the people of ghana, though, are very excited about this trip, no doubt. what about the folks in kenya and other countries there in africa? do they feel snubbed by the fact that the sprpresident is in gha? >> reporter: they were a little disappointed that he didn't choose his father's country of kenya. he still has relatives and family there. he even talked about it yesterday, saying that he has family who know hunger firsthand because they still live in villages where people a

[laughter] i thought i would close with a short passage john adams wrote to abigail from france in 1878 and you can guess to the subject ase. live in our old colleague enjoys a privilege here that is much to be envied. being 70 years of age, the leedy is not only allowed him to embrace them as often as he pleases, but they are perpetually in praising him. i told him yesterday i would write this to america. [laughter] yes indeed, benjamin franklin. my next book is sort of in the same team of leaders of our country. this is abraham lincoln by james mcpherson published by oxford university press. i wish i had -- i should have brought my copy to show you all. i wish i had with me because you'd be amazed and i will tell you why in just a second. i can't begin to imagine how many pages have been written about the president of the united states and the bicentennial year of his birth many more millions of pages will be written so how could and author hope to capture the essence of lincoln from birth through his legacy and 65 short pages? and its loss 65 did pages, its 65 small pages. as mcphers

as you point out, john adams thought this would be the great national celebration. he talks about fireworks and bells and whistles. the declaration was adopted on the fourth. the country has -- it was read around to the troops. whether this is -- it is a good question why the second disappeared from the consciousness of the citizenry, but it did. host: declaration of independence is on display at the national archives. guest: it is on display. host: if you visit the library of congress can you see the rough draft? guest: know, you cannot see the rough draft. that is one of the great national treasures and that is kept in another place under very strict security. it is encased. we do occasionally have it on exhibition but it is not on exhibition at the moment. host:kent on the line for independents. caller: what are the change -- one of the changes they made was to have been as. i was wondering if there was any other word they were debating, and how old was jefferson when he wrote the declaration of independence? guest: jefferson was born in 1743. again, the question

on the first monday, in october of the 1973 he took anthony that's father, joe was like john adams of ghana. was his best friend at one time. roommate in london until he put him in jail because he protested inkruma's corruption. he wally invited anthony and me to indian restaurant. i had never eaten indian food before. now it is my favorite food. this is african. and they loved hot food. and soyinka also loves wine. i never drunk wine. my generation, ladies and gentlemen, did not get inebriated by drinking alcohol. we used more vapor russ forms of estimate. we did buy wine but used it to fill water pipes with. the wine had such color names as, purple jesus and pink pussycat. if you had, or rwlmuscatl. if you had a heavy date you buy something called cold duck. you remember cold duck? it had a little frenchman andre on it. i had worst hangover from cold duck. it must be the most rot gut. cheap burgundy and cheap champagne. i'm back in the indian restaurant. my mouth is on fire from the indian food. i'm getting drunker by the minute drink this wine. he thinks amount of wine appropriate

those rounds of gunfire were their way of demonstrating that they would take john quincy adams on againtried it again and the very same militia companies will become the core of support for andrew jackson in 1828. the insurrectionary impulse, this idea of insurrection, as a legitimate part of politics does go away. it goes away in the aftermath of the civil war, but it goes away in a particular way that should give us pause. the idea that the state should hold a monopoly on legitimate violence, and that the hallmark of citizenship -- that the hallmark of citizenship is obedience, and not the willingness to stand up against the government as necessary, did not come into american politics in 1877. the reaction to the trauma of the civil war, but largely it is response to the great strike of 1877, the nation's first labor uprising. it is fear that these striking workers, that gives revolution a bad name in american politics for the first time. in other words, it is the first stirrings of american anti-communism that drives the insurrectionary impulse out of american politics. now, my book,

yeah, i think he tee serves it, adam, john, a lot of guys deserve it. but hopefully guz can get there. would be great to have him on the team. >> team. >> beside me is a guy who was will bed in 1983, because he was leading the lead in hitting. >> yeah, i didn't make it that year. in '86, i had a tremendous first half, hitting .327, didn't make they year, but the years i i did make it, your team, you talk about nervousness, there's a different feeling. you want to be a part of your ball club and be respected by your team. that happens over the course of the season, they respect you. over the course of time, you become a big part of that team. then you would like to be respected by your league. that only happens when you're chosenpy the all-star team. you feel that. and then you're out there with your peers, and wow want to lay well, and when you do play well, you garner the respect of the other league. >> let me ask you this, how about going around getting autographs, pictures, and thinks like that? is that blown out of proportion? >> no, wow get an all

the two meet again the kastles and they meet eight days after their epic rhubarb in which john mcenroe and adams came across the net to shout down pays. both were suspended and fined. mcenroe won't play tonight. game time is 7:00. finally tonight, freddy funk went to sleep with a three shot lead in the british open. the lead was down to one this afternoon until freddy got to 18 and lost his eight iron from a buck 68 and that's not just close. that's an eagle. as the pride of takoma park and watch he had his putter out of the bag. let me put it in because that thing went in the hole. freddy funk in the lead. >> he receive funky. >> that's it for us on 9 news now at 6:00. the cbs evening news is next. derek will e you

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john and adam and harry, author of "the "great depression" ahead" a very cheerful guy and bill knead of capital management and john. you know a lot about socialized management you grew up over there. what do you know about obama-care and its impact on the summer rally? >> i think the statistics you put out at the beginning, i agree 100%. they're devastating, the devastating truth. i'm always suspicious of government anyway, particularly when they're secretive and try to push things through in a very short space of time. no doubt about it, this is designed to undercut the private sector and push it out of business so we'll all have to have state sector and standards will drop and costs rise as you illustrated, out of all proportion. i think it will be very bad, have to raise taxes to do it, people will have to pay more, in their own tax and therefore it will decrease demand and be socialism in the place of free enterprise. it's very very bad for the united states economy. >> adam, kind of a bullish guy on health care stocks and such. what do you say? >> every time we have this conversa

john baker. off the scoreboard. adam dunn play it is okay on the carom and a leadoff double for the marlins. >> rob: you want to attack the number 8 hole guy. baker takes it the other way. banks off the scoreboard. badenhop. i don't know why he even had to talk to the third base coach. it's pretty obvious he will try to lay down the sac bunt. >> bob: zimmerman and johnson at the corners. the ball is bunted over the screen. a lot of things at work here. anderson hernandez getting in behind the runner to make sure john baker stays near second. but that gives him a long, long run to the first base bag. here he is right now and he will get even closer to the bag as the pitch is made and then he is off to the races. there he goes. the ball bunted and that's right off of wil nieves. will the catcher stand up? and he becomes very vulnerable. >> rob: when you stand up, you expose a lot of your body that does not have protection. right here, it looks like it hit him in the thigh -- no, on theey. got him right off the top of the s

john quincy adams referred to stephen douglas, he was little but one of the reasons for his comparative success is that the journalists everywhere compare him to a pugilist when he goes to speak. .. [applause] >> john satuffer is the chair of history of the university. he is the author of several books including the black parts of men which was the cowinner of the 2002 frederick douglass prize and runner-up for the lincoln price. for more information, visit johnstuafferbooks.org. >> in your book you argue modern conservatism was founded in the south. why? >> well, the reason i make that claim is i think often people talk about a southern strategy and capture of the south by the gop after the 1960's beginning with goldwater and then in mix since '72 election but i think in some ways the situation is the reverse that southerners played a key role in development of both, first in the conservative capture of the republican party itself, and then republican ascendance nationally. i think in certain ways a combination of southern segregationist politics and northern economic conservatism were