for ben franklin, it was easy to ignore secondary materials expect for minor characters. like the lee brothers or people who came into my story. >> how do you know somebody hasn't asked it if you haven't read them? >> that's a great question. i don't. i could be wrong. i'll just cross my fingers. we're done. thank you very much. [applause]

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the kid quoting ben franklin. mighting studying him.ith the kids, is it a split between the women feel one way, the girls feel one way or the boys, any rhyme or reason to it? >> no, not that i have seen honestly. that's something i like to look for. it gives us something to talk about and kind of examine what students are saying and if they're lining up on one side or the other. i'm seeing for every point there is a counter point. i have a cup of more points from the students talking about tsa and privacy issues. billiam says the scanners. are effectively a strip search and enhanced patdowns are humiliating and close to sexual harassment. maia say some people may feel negatively but saying safety first. if you're not going to bomb the plane do you need to object? do you have anything to hide? i like to look for trends in student responses so that i could tell you about a them but on this one they are split. >> we had video online of a small child, seemed like he was getting the patdown kind of a thing but the tsa administrator came out

in fact, ben franklin oved them so much, he wanted turkey and not the bald eagle to be the official uniteds bird. turkeys have a long history in the golden state. for more than 50 years, the diestel family has ranched in the peaceful foothills of tuolumne county. tim diestel has a hands-on approach to make sure his birds are at the peak of health. this is country living at its finest, a free-range setting, meaning the flocks have a chance to spread their wings and explore their surroundings. >> this is definitely home of the happy turkey. there--there*s no question. i--i don't think you could have a better, nicer setting for--for a turkey than this ranch right here. >> part of diestel's flocks include birds of a different feather, an older variety popular when he was a boy. tim is working to bring the breed back and has 8,000 heirloom turkeys this year alone. heirloom turkeys are catching on in the culinary world as a growing number of diners are willing to pay more to gobble up this slice of americana. >> so there's definitely an interest in preserving these old birds, and it's kind of fu

and heaven for him is going to make love with abigail and argue with jefferson and ben franklin. he's not sure there is a heaven. he's got a great line. he says if it can ever be shown conclusively that there is no hereafter, my thighs to every man and child on the planet is, take opium. [laughter] >> but this is how he goes. and that's it, he knew that his powers of thought and speech were prominently diminished, so when a delegation from quincy visited him on june 30, 1826, requesting some statement from the patriarch within an independence day celebration, he refused to cooperate. i will give you any penance for ever, he declared. asked if he might like to elaborate, he declined. not a word. he had finally learned at the very and the gift of silence, something he never learned. abigail would have approved. physicians and other visitors came from his bedside, convinced that the end was near. he was 91. on the morning of july 4, john lay in his bed breathing with difficulty, apparently unable to speak. when the prize that was the fourth and the 50th anniversary of independence,

it's about ben franklin. he walked out of the constitutional convention in philadelphia, and a woman approached him and said, what have you given us, mr. franklin? he said, a republic, if you can keep it. can we? that statement looms larger today than perhaps any other time in our history, maybe with the exception of the civil war. take the time to consider the values and the principles and the history of this country, what we were founded on. the values and the principles, the role they play, not only in our country, but they play in our own life. it is my goal, i really truly believe with everything in me that this audience will change the course of the nation, and thus change the course of the world, if we are our highest self. if we have -- if we've done the hard work. and it's hard, especially before the problem really hits. i ask you tonight, take an inventory of your own life. take the 40-day and 40-night challenge, a blueprint for national survival. i ask you, in 40 days, please, with a firm reliance,

>> guest: he came of age in philly in ben franklin's philadelphia. ranklin left philadelphia around 1765. he sent to the court of england to buy a faction in pennsylvania politics. politics in pennsylvania were very contentious. the faction that franklin was aligned in wanted to get rid of the penns who were the inheritors from william penn of the governorship of the colony, called a separate royal governor. because they felt they could have more influence with the royal governor than with the penns. which is ironic, because there was franklin on the eve of the american revolution, trying to make nice with king george. almost found himself on the wrong side of the revolution, because when the hot heads in america were protesting the stamp act, ben franklin was trying to steer the stamp act so that his friends could get the revenue from that tax. so franklin and morris knew of each other. but it was not until the revolution actually -- the eve of the revolution when franklin came back from england that he and morris first started working together. and

happened and where we are going, there is an apocryphal story about the american constitutional when ben franklin left and an american came up and ask what sort of government he had given them a pretty set a republic, if you can keep it. this is a chance for a majority and the question is, can they keep it? >> thank you, very much. you. >> it is a little daunting to begin a presentation after having had my >> it is daunting to began a>> approvingly. i would argue that the 94 republican surge resulted in some much more policy success that you suggested. but thank you for bringing back -- if you simply omitted the name of the author, of course i would not have recognized did it all. where did he get that garbage? [laughter] i am here to talk about state governments, but not really of focus of much national attention this campaign. the result in the races for governor and for state legislature, to which john alluded, could be hugely important both politically and in terms of public policy. governor could turn out to be hugely important. as in last year's elections in new jersey and virginia, which h

thomas jefferson was a brewer, ben franklin and george washington were brewers. >> reporter: beer hashe ballpark to the white house. to the television. >> how are you doing, norm? >> can you give me a beer. >> reporter: as for the words wine drinkers used to describe taste, try some beer terms on for size. >> it has just a really good almost oak flavor to it. >> we have flavors of carmel, malt, coffee, chocolate, to havey. you add hops and you get aromas of pine and juniper and citrus and grapefruit and orange. >> reporter: let's face it. the problem with beer is not about the pint but the perception. andy brown is the brew master. >> the rodney dangerfield of adult beverages. can't get no respect. >> reporter: in my mind the difference between beer and wine is james bond, elegant and supremely some physician ticked who knows.... >> the wine is quite excellent. >> reporter: and john bluchy in animal house. is this part of the problem that you face? >> it is. what i love people to realize is that, sure, there are beers for the party animal. >> reporter: men behaving badly. >> but there

boring as hell, and heaven for him is going to make love with abigail and argue with jefferson and ben franklin. [laughter] this is heaven, you know, and he's not sure there is a heaven. he's got a great line. he says, if it could ever be shown conclusively there is no here after, my advice to every man, woman, and child on the planet is take opium. [laughter] but this is how he goes, and that's it. he knew that his powers of thought and speech were diminished, so when the delegation from quincy visited him on june 30 requesting some statement for the looming independence day celebration, he refused to cooperate. i will give you independence forever, he declared, asked if he might like to elaborate, he declined. not a word. he had finally learned the variance of the gift of silence, something he never learned. abigail would have approved. positions and other visiters came to his bedside convinced that the end was near. he was 91. on the morning, he's lying on the bed breathing with difficulty unable to speak, but when it was the 50th anniversary of independence, he lifted his head with effort a

ben franklin an american came up and said what sort of a government have you given us there, and he replieda public-- republic if he can keep it. today americans have given for the fifth time since the great depression the republicans a chance for a majority in the question is can they keep it? >> thank you very much henry. michael. >> well of this little daunting to be in a presentation after having had my words written 29 years ago flung at me. >> approvingly. >> approvingly and since newt gingrich is in here i would argue that 94 republicans urged -- then he suggested that thank you for bringing back, if you simply omitted the name of the author of course i would not have recognized at all. where did he get that garbage? [laughter] i am here today to talk about state governments, which weren't really a focus of much national attention in this campaign but i think the results in the races for governor and interest lay in the races for state legislature to which john alluded i think it turned out to be hugely important both politically and in terms of public policy. as in last year's elect

ben franklin left and he was asked what government he gave us. . pied -- he replied republic if you can keep americans have given since the fifth time since the great depression the republicans a chance for a great majority and can they keep it? >> thank you very much, michael. >> it is daunting to begin a presentation after having had my words written 29 years ago flung at me a [laughter] >> approvingly. >> approvingly, i would argue that the 1994 republican surge resulted more policy success than you suggested. thank you bring? -- if you had omitted the name of the authoou [laughter] where did he get that garbages [laughter] ? ?

franklin. >> noble bird. >> ben was a practical fella so he probably thought, we talk about turkeys all the timet's interesting. >> all over the map today. >> we have some real changes on the way. tornado watch in effect in our western counties including kane, kendall, grundy and mchenry counties among others, de kalb, lee, lasel, ogle, boone, winnebago all involved in the tornado watch until 6:00. we got a pretty active storm a crossing the mountains in the plains right now. we were on the warm side of it and could flirt with a record today but look at the cold air back behind this system and that rushes in tonight. once those thunderstorms pass. winds south of 13. humidity 90%. water temperature at 48. and here is a good look at radar showing the assembling squall line on the mississippi river now. cloud tops to 34,000. there have been reports of hail with that. in fact, here is a hail perimeter we were looking at. see the hail tracks of the storms producing hail and there is lightning coming at us as well. the weather goes down hill again later this afternoon. this is just in. new model run t

they believed that because it's as ben frankly -- franklin said at the constitutional convention, during the contest with great britain when we were sensible of danger, frankly said, we had daily prayer in this room. our prayers were heard and they were graciously answered. they knew that, they knew that god was smiling on their undertaking. but underneath the pyramid are the words meaning in essence, new order of the ages, new order of things. and the reason they had that was they knew that there had been a parliament in england, of course, they talked about it. they knew that there had been a senate in ancient rome there had been other places where there had been legislative groups but they also knew in all of those there was a king or a cesar or somebody who could overrule whatever was done and even disband the legislative body. so what they were designing was a government where the people would be the government. the people would rule themselves. that's why this was a totally new order of things. this was not a new world order, it was a new order the ages where people would get to go