only aaron burr. all of this was far less amusing to hamilton's widow eliza who outlived him for 50 years. in fact, she survived almost until the civil war. she died in november, 1854, age 97. this remarkable founding mother if you permit the expression cofounded and ran new york's largest free orphan with nearly 250 children. one of my fondest wishes in the book was to try to rescue eliza hamilton from the obscurity to which she had con signed herself by evidently burning her own letters to alexander hamilton while preserving lovingly every scrap she wrote to him. let me say in closing i knew with hamilton i had been handed a precious gift. i seem to like these large, flawed figures who force me to wrestle with their contradictions. with hamilton, every time i began to lapse into hero worship he would pull me up with some huge, unexpected blunder. every time i started to lose patience with him he would redeem himself again with some beautiful act of statesmanship or friendship or love. i was enthrale

they have forgotten vice president aaron burr killed secretary treasury alexander hamilton. they forgot congressman houston was walking down the street to washington one day, came across a congressman from ohio who oppose andrew jackson's indian policy and started caning him for which he was censured. they forgot there was a south carolina congressman who came before the senate and nearly killed by hitting him with a stick a senator from massachusetts. they have forgotten another senator from massachusetts named henry lodge stood on the floor of the senate and said of the president of the united states i hate that man. we forgot his compromises. the debate that were held in the mccarthy days. the watergate debate and the vietnam debate. the difference today between the debate in washington and the debate in history are that today because we have so much media everybody hears everything instantly. most of the people shouting at each other on television have never been elected to anything. it would help if we knew each other better across party lines but to suggest we should b

. >> i am sorry, i suggest that aaron burr sitting and killing a shooting president a bit more dangerous. >> a tad. a tad. anybody know where alexander hamilton is buried in. >> this is amazing. >> in his tomb? >> you are good. you are good. >> he's buried in trinity church. >> really? >> yeah. right outside. we went down there to take some shots. alexander hamilton. >> don't you think peter has done a great job? >> he's done a great job. >> it's all up from here. >> why do you hate when loving would be so much better. >> i am a lover, not a fighter. >> how did the giants do last night? >> the season ended in april so i couldn't tell you. >>> coming up on "morning joe," lesley stahl will be here and eugene robinson. up next, john harris takes a behind the scenes now. he is preparing to moderate next week's republican debate. >> really? there's another one coming up? >> there is. >> here is todd santos with a check on the weather. todd. >> good morning, guys. a jam packed weather rundown when you talk about the action going on. tropical storm 13. a big impact for the beach weekend. it's a