kind of a misunderstood figure, franklin pierce. other questions? i assume you all figure at this point that we don't duel anymore. yeah? or do we? well, i just had one other thing, then. i had a few slides ready for you. here is one. it's this. you're on your cell phone doing the paces on the duel. so hold on. i've already lost track of my place. sorry. it's kind of funny. although dueling has ended, guys, the rhetoric of dueling has not. i was shocked. i remember actually watching this in 2004 and, thanks to youtube -- the joys of youtube, i have been able to find this clip. and at the time, i didn't believe that it was actually said. so, this is a senator from georgia. american politician, popular senator, zel miller and chris matthews, msnbc commentator. listen to this clip here. which i had queued up here. listen to this. matthews is going to confront miller. it will get heated really quickly. >> if you're going to ask the question -- >> well it's a tough question. it takes a few word. >> get out of my face! if you're going to ask me a question

he was secretary of war under franklin pierce, and it was the end of 1860 when mississippi seceded from the union. when he turned in his resignation, he said it was the saddest day of his life. this original piece was in his office in montgomery, and it was given to his private secretary when he left montgomery for richmond, because he did not want to take it with him. much later, the family gave himself to the white house and the confederacy. when the president and mrs. davis lived here, they had a large number of people to come and visit. generally, the ladies we going to the first pilot, and a gentle man would come into the second pilot. they would seal the two rooms, and the ladies at the piano, and the gentleman would smoke cigars. the president was arrested, charged with treason, and this is a very interesting artifact. this is sent to president davis when he was in prison in munro. after two years of sitting on a hard bench, she was finally allowed to send in to jail. -- to send him this chair. these northern men got behind the effort to have him released on a bail bond of $100,0

he was also the secretary of war for franklin pierce. mississippi seceded from the union. he, regrettably, turned in his resignation and said it was the saddest day of his life. this is an original piece that was in his office in montgomery. this beautiful sofa. it was given to his private secretary when he left montgomery to go to richmond. because he did not want to take it with him. family gave this to the first white house of the confederacy. when the president and mrs. davis and their family lived here, they had a large number of people come and visit and generally, what they would do, ladies would go into the first parlor and gentlemen would come into the second parlor. there are packet doors where they could seal the two rooms off. the ladies would have the piano and they would sing and play and sew and a gentleman would come into this room probably to drink and smoke cigars. this is a very interesting artifact. mrs. davis sent to president davis after two years of sitting on a hard bench. she was finally allowed to send him this chair. now, she had to work hard to

do people know enough about franklin pierce to assign him a score on all 10 of these dimensions? what happens is people wind up making a global judgment of greatness preset is going to affect their score on individual standards. if you think lincoln was a great overall you give him a great score on all 10 categories. participants sign a score. what will happen then is an average will be provided. if clinton was given an average of 8.2 for economic management that would be multiplied by 10. he will get 82 points. your total possible greatness for his 100 points for each category. according to the system, abraham lincoln is 1 fifth a score of 902. george washington is 2. franklin roosevelt 3. you can see the scores dropped off after that. kennedy 6. jefferson 7. reagan 10 for appearance -- his first appearance. finally, 2014 at 162 members of the american political science association. i participate in this survey. i can't tell you that much about it. it has not been published as far as i can tell. they've had newspaper stories about the research. they have e-mailed the participant

he was secretary of war under franklin pierce, and it was the end of 1860 when mississippi eded -- sisseceded from the union. this original piece was in his office in montgomery, and it was given to his private secretary when he left montgomery for richmond, because he did not want to take it with him. gavelater, the family himself to the white house and the confederacy. when the president and mrs. davis lived here, they had a large number of people to come and visit. generally, the ladies we going to the first pilot, and a gentle man would come into the second pilot. they would seal the two rooms, and the ladies at the piano, and the gentleman would smoke cigars. the president was arrested, and thisith treason, is a very interesting artifact. sent to president davis when he was in prison in munro. after two years of sitting on a hard bench, she was finally to jail.to send in these northern men got behind the effort to have him released on a bail bond of $100,000. a number of prominent north american helped to release him. they never brought him to trial. according to the constitution, the so

was in washington he was the senator from mississippi but he was also secretary of war under franklin pierce. it was the end of 1860 when mississippi seceded from the union. he regrettabley turned in his resignation and said it was the saddest day of his life. this is an original piece that was within his office in montgomery, this beautiful sofa, and it was given to his private secretary when he left montgomery to go to richmond because he did not want to take it with him. much later the family gave the sofa to the first white house. when president and mrs. davis and their family lived here, they had a large number people come and visit. generally what they would do, the ladies would go into the first parlor and the gentlemen would come into the second parlor. there are pocket doors where they could seal the two rooms off. the ladies had the piano and they would sing and play and they would sew and the gentlemen would come in this room probably to smoke cigars and drink brandy. after the war was over, president davis was arrested, charged with treason, and imprisoned in fortress monroe, vir

do people know enough about franklin pierce to assign him a score on all 10 dimensions? people wind up making a global judgment of greatness and that will effect their score on every individual standard. if you think that make them a great president overall, you will give him a great score on all 10 categories. articipants are assigned present score of one. what will happen is that an average will be provided, so if ofnton was given an average 8.2 for economic management, that would be multiplied by 10 and he would get 82 points. that major total possible greatness score is 1000. 100 points for each category. according to this system, abraham lincoln is number one with a score of 902. george washington, number two. -roosevelt, number three. truman five, kennedy six. jefferson, seven. wilson, nine. and reagan, 10. finally, a survey was conducted in 2014 up 162 members. it includes me. i participated in the survey. i can't tell you that much about it because it has not been published. they had newspaper stories in the washington post about the research. they e-mails all of

do people know enough about, say, franklin pierce to assign him a score on all ten of these dementionnz what hands in studies like is that people wind up making a global judgment and then that's going to affect their score on every individual standard. if you think that lincoln was a great president, you will give hmm a great score and all ten categories. participants are assigned each's president score of one. what will happen then is that an average will be provided. if clinton was give an average of, say, an 8.2 for economic management, that will be multiplied by ten and he will get 82 points. what that means is that you are total possible greatness score is 1,000. 100 points for each category. according to this system, abraham lincoln number one, with a score of 902. george washington number two. roosevelt number three. you can see the scores pretty quickly drop off after that point. roosevelt four. truman five. kennedy six. jefferson seven. eisenhower eight, wilson nine and reagan ten. first appearance of ronald reagan at the very boundary of greatness. finally, we have a survey

do people know enough about, say, franklin pierce to assign him a score on all ten of these dementionnz what hands in studies like is that people wind up making a global judgment and then that's going to affect their score on every individual standard. if you think that lincoln was a great president, you will give hmm a great score and all ten categories. participants are assigned each's president score of one. what will happen then is that an average will be provided. if clinton was give an average of, say, an 8.2 for economic management, that will be multiplied by ten and he will get 82 points. what that means is that you are total possible greatness score is 1,000. 100 points for each category. according to this system, abraham lincoln number one, with a score of 902. george washington number two. roosevelt number three. you can see the scores pretty quickly drop off after that point. roosevelt four. truman five. kennedy six. jefferson seven. eisenhower eight, wilson nine and reagan ten. first appearance of ronald reagan at the very boundary of greatness. finally, we have a survey