but let's have a look at monticello.edicted a garden that was very much a reflection of what he believed america was a strong, beautiful, independent agrarian and sublime, and monticello is a listing of tapestry of the things that had occupied him. flexible, the majestic view across the rolling landscape which is his celebration of the american landscape and the plants to lewis and clark brought from the expedition which were reminding the promises that lay in the west. there were fields near the pleasure ground, which were jefferson's manifestation of his belief in america as an agrarian republic. and then there was the such double tariffs. 1,000 feet long. this was of the experimental part, the scientific lab of monticello because jefferson very much believed that the introduction of the new useful species was an important patron of the task. and he said the greatest service which can be done on any country is to have a useful plant to its culture. and it's important to him that when he is judging his services to the c

this is the experimental part, the scientific lab at monticello. jefferson very much police that the introduction of a new and useful species was an important patriotic task. he says the greatest service which can be rendered in the cash tree is to add peggy's will plan to its culture. it is so important to him that when he is hedging his services he writes another list. all this list includes the declaration of independence. he also includes his introduction of the olive tree to this country. he thinks this is as important as his political act. during the last years in the white house he creates this autumn of the farm in monticello. it is a very -- and i'm going to show you a slightly complicated plan of monticello. what you can see here, these are the roads that go up to the mountaintop. but he is doing is he is sending his visitors on this rather complicated network of roads of the mountain top. now, imagine you have just spent three days riding through the virginia untamed forest to monticello. you really want to see a straight traveler going

this is monticello. but when i came to the mountaintop i was astounded because what i saw was the work of a revolutionary gardiner and monticello brings together are -- together with the productivity of the land and that combination of rugged and wild and it needs and useful is very uniquely american. big to be like a monument to almost read it like his letter so in a way bertrand became the inspiration of the buck. so i realize the past four presidents had all use nature one way or another in the fight some zero giving a completely new perspective george rushing tin whom i had known as a revolutionary hero but what i didn't know it is more likely to talk about trees and plants and flowers rather than politics but go jefferson once said of monticello then there was james madison a brilliant legal mind i did not know that he was the forgotten father of american and garment listen trying to rally america to protect nature and the floor is. bed john adams and the second president of the united states. also

. >> kara was last seen alive while walking to monticello middle school. her disappearance officially remains a mystery. >> the last person kara was seen with was joseph kondro. a witness later saw kara walking to kondro's car and chillingly police heard of another time he picked up kara to skip school. basically a dry run for the crime. police brought an end to this by bringing him in for questioning. >> initially i thought kara was a head of strong person. he was my dad. when everyone started pointing fingers, you know, it wasn't my dad. he couldn't have done it. >> with witness accounts and some suspicious scratches kondro couldn't explain they thought they had their man, but they lack anything but circumstantial. >> finding her body was everything to us. i have never had a case that there was so much anticipation of being able to find her body so that it could tell us, she could tell us what happened. >> some 80 police and explorer scouts began a search early this morning. after just a couple of hours, they made a critical find. >> we have located what

and you go to presidential establishments -- mount vernon, monticello, recently montpelier, james madison's home in virginia has become a sort of museum and center -- and here they're wonderful institutions because they have brought together every conceivable object, paper. i know, i've been writing a little bit about the madison house, and they have surveyed all the general region, they've found furniture that madison had owned and touched, articles of clothing, toothpicks, spectacles, everything you can think of. [laughter] and they're all lovingly collected and under glass which i think is wonderful. but if you look at it from a sightly skew as i do, it's kind of interesting, too, the way we retrieve these things. and i think it also, it also belies the idea that americans are not interested in our history. i think we're deeply interested in our history. not every american is as interested in others, but i think our presidential libraries and museums definitely, definitely reflect a national interest in our, in our past. um, now, if you'll forgive a die depression, the reason i mentioned

i did the hemings of monticello, and it wasn't as large an ebook when i did a novel as opposed to the nonfiction. the growth in ebook in the fiction is really pronounced. i also -- i think there's sort of -- we can reduce it all -- i think there's a bit of a whole herd mentality, a thought that we'll all go to ebooks, and i want to say very emphatically, it will not all go to ebooks and there's such a profound need for the physical book and physical libraries and the actual book, that i think people have been toe too alarmist about the disappearance about the p-book as they call it. >> let me ask you something. i appreciate the applause there. and this is anybody can jump in. what if we did? so what? right? if we did all go to ebook, what -- but what we're seeing is that people are still reading. just reading in this different form. so what if really people --er in going to be 100% of anything, but a real high number of people started to read almost exclusively or exclusively on ebook. why is that a bad thing necessarily? >> well, i'll talk about it from a scholarly perspective. and p

government, but to preserve the liberties they most enjoyed in the meadows of mount vernon and monticellohe government as the servant of the people, not the other way around. we aim to recover that spirit. in fact, we insist upon it. to accomplish this goal at a time of internal uncertainty, it is no small task. but we cannot accomplish it as a fragmented and feuding bad engaged in regina in endless internal squabbles over priorities. we must embody and express a coherent and compelling vision, one that unites the three mighty cords of conservatism and draws them snugly together. we seek the nation that is militarily strong and secure, economically prosperous and free, and socially help the and virtuous. some say these principles of conservatism are negotiable. we have been told that the commitment to these principles is a political liability, that purity is an enemy of victory. i would say, just look at recent election results. when it comes to these conservative principles, compromise is a companion of losers. this past sunday marked the 24th anniversary of the speech made by ronald rea

here is june sago of monticello, illinois. 100 years old today. an avid gardener.f board games. good entertainment. joe ronning. north dakota. 103 years old. he's the official greeter for the home, and absolutely a good man that is loved by everyone that meets him. hope they say that about me when i'm that age, which isn't far off. and we have florence wallis. jenkintown, pennsylvania. 100 years old today. lovely, lovely lady. nicknamed bingo queen of the home because she wins bingo. and she says the good lord is her friend. how about that? laverna houk of malta, ohio. 105. and has devoted most all of her life to serving god and also in her community where she is beloved. always done good deeds. i like this. johnie and valentine jones, been married 76 years. and we love them. you know what? either -- oh, forsythe, missou i missouri. anyway, they've been happy married because they love each other and she never listens to anything he says. that's it. back to you. >> all right, willard. thanks very much. >>> just ahead, the family feud over the fortune left behind by