john adams said that he and his cousin samuel adams, that they stood up and started praising someone that john hancock thought was him. and john adams said know because he was president sitting in the front the room. you saw that picture that john adams had this great view of his. and hancock looked excitement as he thought he was about to be named. and then adams said his counting fell. and never did i see a bigger look of mortification when george washington was named. okay, that's funny. sad little story. but no, there was no other crop raiding evidence. the journals of the constitutional convention at congress. the excuse me, the journals at the continental congress simply state that washington was selected general hancock did want military experience. he served as the colonel of the corps of cadets in boston. he went down to newport, rhode island, when french naval arrived and was really hopeful he'd see battle. but there isn't any evidence that he wanted to be general. from john adams writing much later about it. and by the way, john adams said in that same story, said john adam

john adams said that he and his cousin samuel adams, that they stood up and started praising someone that john hancock thought was him. and john adams said know because he was president sitting in the front the room. you saw that picture that john adams had this great view of his. and hancock looked excitement as he thought he was about to be named. and then adams said his counting fell. and never did i see a bigger look of mortification when george washington was named. okay, that's funny. sad little story. but no, there was no other crop raiding evidence. the journals of the constitutional convention at congress. the excuse me, the journals at the continental congress simply state that washington was selected general hancock did want military experience. he served as the colonel of the corps of cadets in boston. he went down to newport, rhode island, when french naval arrived and was really hopeful he'd see battle. but there isn't any evidence that he wanted to be general. from john adams writing much later about it. and by the way, john adams said in that same story, said john adam

on the flip side, one of my favorite john adams quotes is by benjamin franklin and he said, john adams is often a wise man. he is always an honest man, but sometimes he's absolutely of his senses and adams and franklin were oil and water. but where i think that comes into play is that john adams was always honest, sometimes to a fault. he would he had a temper. he was not a great salesman. and so the importance of the bully pulpit to articulating principles for the american people, whether it's the peaceful transfer of power, whether it's things like peace or executive power that requires the president to tell americans why democracy matters to them, why it's important that these things exist. and adams often failed to do that because he either didn't think it was part of his job or he didn't think it was essential and allowed non-democratic forces to often take over in the federalist party, like with the alien and sedition acts, jefferson well. curiosity, jefferson's curiosity and optimism, i think, are things that were positive about him and he defined his political career. he really

so he has a bone deep sympathy with working people in a way that harvard college graduate john adams, patrician landowners like jefferson and washington had to struggle to really connect. that means their relations were often tense and difficult and i think adams in particular who always fancied himself as a voice of the people, often found he was being upstaged by someone with perhaps greater talents for speaking in the language of the working class than he himself possessed. peter: thomas payne did have a relationship with a lesser-known founding father, dr. benjamin rush. in philadelphia, biographer stephen freed talked about their relationship and the importance of that relationship in getting common sense published. >> hi, my name is stephen freed. we are here at the american philosophical society in philadelphia in the center of the historic district in philly. in front of me is the autobiography of benjamin rush, handwritten for his kids in 1800. what is great about it is one of the things he described to his family was how he met thomas payne and how "common sense" came about.

and on hearing the news, john quincy adams, who was serving as a u.s. congressman at the time and no fan of tyler, he was a whig and president. tyler had thrown the whig party into disarray because he kept vetoing all of their legislation. and john quincy adams, quote, as he was fairly nauseated by their marriage and he called it the old fable of january and may because he was disgruntled by their 30 year age difference, with tyler being 54 and julia being only 24. next slide, please. so the annexation of texas became president. tyler's main focus. and as this slide shows how he thought it might be, he might be able to use this issue to win a presidential term in his own right in 1844. however, it wasn't to be because right before he married julia, the treaty, his administration was working on to bring texas into the union failed in the senate so that went by the wayside. but he married her right at that time. and next slide, please. so let me give you a little background on tyler's first wife, leticia just suffered a series of strokes before he became

and on hearing the news, john quincy adams, who was serving as a u.s. congressman at the time and no fan of tyler, he was a whig and president. tyler had thrown the whig party into disarray because he kept vetoing all of their legislation. and john quincy adams, quote, as he was fairly nauseated by their marriage and he called it the old fable of january and may because he was disgruntled by their 30 year age difference, with tyler being 54 and julia being only 24. next slide, please. so the annexation of texas became president. tyler's main focus. and as this slide shows how he thought it might be, he might be able to use this issue to win a presidential term in his own right in 1844. however, it wasn't to be because right before he married julia, the treaty, his administration was working on to bring texas into the union failed in the senate so that went by the wayside. but he married her right at that time. and next slide, please. so let me give you a little background on tyler's first wife, leticia just suffered a series of strokes before he became

just like that series on john adams did. these are not things just for history books. are ideas that live with us today and if this is one way to bring them alive, i am all for it, absolutely. peter: we have not talked about john adams. did he have a role in the federalist papers? prof. sheehan: he was in england and when they were sitting at the constitutional convention, he was publishing one of his volumes of defense of the constitution of the united states and people were reaching it at the constitutional convention. it made its way across the ocean. i know for one madison was disgusted with what he called atoms of noxious principles. adams was a bit of a -- john adams of noxious principles. -- obnoxious principles. >> is there such a thing as [indiscernible] it is debated back and forth, can you go inside the mind of someone who lived in the 18th century? peter: judge? judge maggs: originalism is the idea that judges should be influenced but not bound by the original meaning of the constitution but it gets quite complicated because it turns out there is more than

i mean, john adams, john quincy adams lost four children. thomas jefferson lost four. john f.ennedy lost a child while in the white house, a son named patrick who only lived 39 days. rarely did they talk about it publicly. certainly, you know, president george h.w. bush lost a daughter, robyn, to leukemia in 1953. he and barbara bush talked about it more after they had left the white house in later years. but he kept a photo of robyn, according to his son, on his desk his entire life. i think it's so important for the most powerful man on the planet to talk about this, and i hope it encourages other people to talk about it in their own lives. >> you talk about finding purpose in the pain. >> yeah, the idea of finding purpose beyond pain and that's, i think, very important for president biden in terms of helping him live with this and live through this. you know, he had the purpose in 1972 of he had two little boys who needed his -- who needed their dad. and finding the purpose in beau's death. that was something that beau biden spoke to president biden about before he died, no

you have john adams.obviously, he's sitting, looking i suppose, a little bit inscrutable in the center. franklin is running his eyes over the text. and jefferson is looking, i suppose a little bit nervous because he would be a bit nervous if benjamin franklin was about to critique your copy. but this is this is this this really central moment. and i suppose we can imagine here. franklin, reading those famous words when in the course of human events and so on and going through the words around which i structure my book life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. now, this is a 20/20 century representation of an 18th century moment. so it's, i suppose, a romanticized image. but we do know that something like this happened. it's it's it's testified in the documents that we have. we know this that franklin did make editorial interventions and that this moment really was at the start of a period of redrafting that went on between maybe the 20th of june and the 4th of july with the critical moment really coming

you have john adams, obviously, who is sitting and looking a little bit inscrutable in the center. franklin is running his eyes over the text. and jefferson is looking, i suppose, a lot bit nervous, because he would be a bit nervous if benjamin franklin is about to critique your copy. but, this is a really central moment. and i suppose we can imagine here franklin reading those famous words, when in the course of human events, and so on. and going through to the words e around which i structure my book, life, "life, liberty, & the pursuit of happiness: britain & the american dream". now, this is a 20th-century representation of the 19 century men. so, it is, i suppose, a romanticized image, but we do know that something like this happened, so, it is testified in the documents that we have. we know this, that franklin didw make interventions and this moment really was at the start of a time of redrafting, that went on between maybe the 20th of june and the fourth of july, with the critical men really coming on the second of july when it was adopted by the congress. and it was actual

john adams says that facts are stubborn things. we have a responsibility to follow the facts wherever they lead and we are still in that process and we will see where it leads. >> we are taking your calls for this first hour. do you support or impose an inquiry. if you support the number is 202748 8000. if you are opposed, 202-748- 8001. if you are not sure, 202-748- 8002. here is a rollcall with that headline. johnson sets up impeachment for vote. mccarthy never set up a vote. speaker mike johnson is moving forward with the floor vote to formalize the impeachment probe of joe biden. a move that kevin mccarthy floated but did not make, it begs a simple and complex question. what changed? johnson has signaled that he and other gop leaders were confident that they would have ample republican votes on the floor to formally authorize the inquiry. he told reporters that, "the house has no choice but to approve an impeachment resolution and the accompanying measure that sets up subpoena powers for the committees conducting the inquiry."

even john adams, who was his ally, despite praised him because hamilton kept under meaning. john adams and in fact, so hamilton could have been president of the united states if he had, if anybody ever would have voted for him. but nobody would because they just didn't like him, which does bring up something that's really important in the context of american elective politics and the politics actually of any democ racy. if you think about it, elections in democracies are at the bottom popular early contests. who do you like? and i studied the presidency long enough to conclude that if you know who the two candidates are and you want to know who's going to win in an election, don't look at the political platform that they're running on. don't look at their policy. don't look at their experience. ask yourself one question, which of the two would you rather go have a beer with and the one that gets the most votes is likely to win. i was writing a book on andrew. in 2000 and you will remember the 2000 election and it was it was a close one. but even before the votes were cast, i

the idea itself was proposed by john quincy adams, secretary of state in the administration of presidentnd the reason for it was the plans for a holy alliance of russia, prussia and austria, to return spanish rule over the latin american colonies, which declared independence. monroe doctrine became the answer: the united states should not participate in the internal affairs of european countries, but the european ones. this is how the absolutist monarchies of europe were called in the united states; they should not interfere in the internal affairs of america; for almost two centuries, the monroe doctrine was used to justify, on the one hand, us isolationism, and on the other, a reason for intervention in the affairs of latin american states. they recalled during the american interventions in cuba, haiti, nicaragua, panama and colombia, only in 2013 , the secretary of state. officially abandoned her, saying that the united states does not consider itself the patrons of latin american countries, but views them as equal partners. the evolution of the doctrine is remarkable. it began as a p

john quincy adams. is on of john adams. the bible is, of all books in the world that which contributes most to make men good, wise and happy. of all the books in the old testament, shawms is a very long book, but the book quoted most by our forefathers was duet ronmy. that's interesting because normally when you hear someone quote the bible, it's not duet ronmy. but deuteronmy was laying out the government that the lord expected the jewish people to have when they left egypt and established their land even before they had a king. and therefore if you look at it that way it's not surprising at all in. any event, i do think it's time for the american people to read some of the bible, to try to live by its precepts and -- i want to thank congressman lamborn for allowing me these few minutes to talk about the bible and hope the members of congress, when they return after this week to their districts, make a special point of reading parts of the bible. thank you. mr. lamborn: i thank the gentleman. it is that time of year where

not the president himself, not the secretary of state who wrote the speech, john kinsey adams, monroell become a textbook example of an attempt to establish a sphere of influence. even before becoming the fifth president of the united states, wil behaved as an outstanding statesman and diplomat, he participated in the war of independence, studied law under tomos jefferson, and was governor of virginia. in 1802, jefferson, already as president of the united states, sent monroe to paris to negotiate the acquisition of new orleans from france and west florida from spain. as a result, american diplomats signed an agreement on april 30, 1803 acquisition. there are 15 us states. during the years when the british captured washington and burned the capitol, mundra ensured the evacuation of the state department archives, preserving the original declaration of independence and many other documents. during monroe's presidency , eastern florida was annexed to the united states, and missouri was concluded. independence of new states in central and south america. on december 2, 1823, in his annual

neither the president himself, nor the author of the speech, the secretary of state, john quincey adamsdecade later it would be called the monroe doctrine, it would become a textbook example attempts to establish a sphere of influence. even before becoming the fifth president of the united states, james monroe distinguished himself as an outstanding statesman and diplomat. he participated in the revolutionary war. studied law under thomas jefferson and served as governor of virginia. in 1802 , jefferson, already as president of the united states, sent monroe to paris to negotiate the acquisition of new orleans from france and west florida from spain. as a result, american diplomats signed an agreement on april 30, 1803 to acquire all louisiana, which almost doubled the territory of the united states at that time. on the site of that louisana there are now 15 us states. during the anglo-american war of 1812-1814, when the british captured washington and burned the capitol, mondreau ensured the evacuation of the state department archives, preserving the original declaration of independenc

the first one in washington, john adams. thomas jefferson was the greatest intellectual force that the united states ever had. no one else in the ballpark. those that don't respect jefferson, you might as well find a different country. have to run a team professionally. i work with the riskiest people in the world with the highest standards. 100% truth, there are higher professional standards by far at a racetrack controlling horserace integrity then there is in any election in the united states. >> wrapping up the debate, mr. mitchell, you are the final word. >> i supported zdenek trump in 2016 -- i supported president trump in 2016. i enjoyed the trump presidency. i thought it was time for an entrepreneur to be president. thanks change. and the country is changed and we need a different type of president. i am big on linked in. and the team that -- mitch becomes the utah senator. and also, we have a 70 year embargo against cuba. china is building an army. and we have all types of relationships with people. after 70 years,

washington, john adams, thomas jefferson was the greatest intellectual force the united states ever had. there's nobody in this ballpark. as the younger generation that don't respect thomas jefferson. you have to run a team professionally. iru had the highest standards tt cost a million dollars is a yearling or so. there is, there actually is this 100% truth. there's higher standards by four -- >> tennd seconds. >> -- at a racetrack controlling horrors integrity than any election in the united states of america. >> thank you. and wrapping up the debate, you have the final word. >> i supported president trump in 2016, and i enjoy. our daughter but it was time for an entrepreneur for president. things change and people change and we need a different type of president. i thought that -- i am big on lincoln and the team of rivals, doris kearns goodwin. i thought he had a chance to make mitt romney his secretary of state. and i think that is the biggest ball he dropped, because it becomes the utah senator and both get him twice for impeachment. so, if i was president, and also we have a 70 y

john adams said facts are stubborn things. we have a responsibility to follow facts wherever they lead and we're still in that process and see where it leads. catherine: you recently endorsed former president donald trump. what do you envision in terms of a policy agenda working to be president again and you still to be speaker, have you two spoken about that and what would it look like? speaker johnson: very briefly. he's been pretty clear what his vision is. he wants to do exactly the opposite of the biden administration on our energy policy. we want to have robust american energy policy again as we achieved during his first term. he wants to return to the policies that worked. he wants to obviously reduce the problem at the southern border and eliminate that problem. he wants to return to the tax cuts and jobs act kind of ideas, those policies to reduce regulations on business and job creators and entrepreneurs and risk-takers and allow them to flourish again. if you rewiped in your mind before covid hit, right before that,

in the interim in 1770s when john adams is sent to france to assist benjamin franklin he is understoodto be samuel adams because at that moment he was much more influential and such a greater presence. >> host: john adams was also the defense attorney for the british soldiers after the boston massacre. >> guest: conversations between the two cousins must have been remarkable. john serves as a defense attorney. among his colleagues if someone took the job because samuel adams insisted so he also had a role in that defense team. there were a number of reasons you want to add adjudicate the property for some secrets not to come to life and do both of those things but they managed to see the men exonerated. he argues the case almost everyone is acquitted and after the acquittal spending six months relitigating the entire case in the papers. they arranged for that acquittal. there isn't any badt blood. it is the result they might have liked from the start. >> host: steve, new jersey. text message. i just finished samuel adams after all the time you spend on him, do you come away liking him?

john adams was one of the most noted religious presidents mean of all the presidents. he probably attended more church services than anybody. he was essentially a unitarian for most of his his life. but he would attend services at st john's when he was president and afterwards came to attend this church because, yes, it was convened and it was just a small trip across the square to the church. so you can see even here from the gallery looking down, this was part of the expansion of the church from latrobe's original building. it's very intimate. while we're speaking of stained glass windows, if you look up above the chandelier into the cupola, you can see their stained glass windows there. now, those were put in in 1895 in memory of peter hagner, who one of the original founders of this church by his family. it's kind of hard to see those from the from the ground floor. that used to be nothing. but clear glass. but from here, you get a bit of an idea of how this church has been adorned over time in various ways. another window up here i wanted to have you see was insta