aaron burr is an important person in madison's life. he also eventually knocks of alexander hamilton, thus removing a strong political enemy. this is dolley's wedding ring that marion dupont scott acquired and now belongs to us. they marry at the home of one of dolley's sisters. her sister had married george steptoe washington, a nephew of george washington. this is still in the family home in west virginia. they go back and live in philadelphia. it is a lovely set of charcoal portraits by james sharples. dolley is still in her quaker bonnet. where they live on spruce street in philadelphia also still stands. they live in philadelphia full-time even though he is in congress. when john adams becomes president in 1797, madison does not like john adams and does not want to be part of the administration. i should add, they come home to montpelier. i should have said that in their townhouse in philadelphia, they have a lot of french furnishings that have been sent to them by james monroe who at this time in the mid-1790's is the american amb

he even negotiated himself out of a fight with aaron burr, i think once before. burr says twice, hamilton says once. ten is a lot of times to be involved in an affair of honor. tells you something about hamilton. in new york city alone, there were at least 17 other political affairs of honor. at least three actual duels. so, in other words, the burr-hamilton duel was not a grand exception, but rather part of a larger trend. when you look at these honor disputes and duels, you do see patterns. first, you notice a lot of these duels occurred shortly after an election. i actually remember discovering this with a calendar with elections on it and pinning the duels and going, this is an interesting pattern. second, when you look at the details of these political duels, you discover many of them were provoked. a common ploy is that someone would call another someone a self-interested politician and there is one obvious response to that, you are a liar. you got yourself a duel. in most cases, and this is the striking point, the loser of the election, or one of his friend

this is the good part, the person who maneuvered all of this was aaron burr, alexander hamilton's nemesis and murderer. on top of that, the company that did this was called the manhattan company. the reason they want to disable this money is they wanted to start a bank which they did. it was the bank of the manhattan company. the bank still exists to this day. do you know who it is? j.p. morgan chase. that is their early history. when i tell that story in the book because i think we don't really look at the political and social drivers of contagion enough. and i think that is an interesting kind of turnaround from the past. my last book was on malaria. and you know, we had a lot of malaria in this country from the 1600s to the mid-1900s and we really got rid of it before we had solid biomedical solutions by changing our land-use policy basically. dams, but we had gists ons and malariolo the boards of these dams to make sure we would not extend the mosquito habitat. we changed housing practices. people put screens on windows and doors. out of lifted people poverty in early areas, giving th

before, the election of 1800, when thomas jefferson tied with his vice presidential running mate, aaron burr. it is somewhat odd that it hadn't happened more than one time before because the framers of the constitution actually envisioned it happening pretty frequently. they thought that because they believed that favorite sons from the various states would run in each of the quadrennial elections and as a result there would be no majority in the electoral college. that would throw it into the house of representatives. they chose the house because it is considered the people's house. the frequency of the elections, of course, make it more responsive to the will of the people. this was the mechanism envisioned. now, if someone did receive a majority in the electoral college originally, that person would become the president. the person who came in second would become the vice president but that election of 1800 obviously illustrated that that wasn't practical and so the changes brought on by the 12th amendment to the constitution resulted. in that 12th amendment, it provided for separate elec

. >> since aaron burr was vice president when he killed hamilton, was there ny attempt by congress to impeach him? >> impeachment, i didn't expect that to come up. [laughter] >> so that's interesting. there was a mixed response. killed hamilton, he was gone for a while in south carolina and he reappears and over the senate again. federalists, hamiltonian want to do something on the act that he is there. they're horrified, they want to do something. to talk about, not in congress, but they begin to talk in new jersey and in new about pushing in one way or another, to really grab at the laws, these sort of individual laws about what is or isn't illegal to really take that out to really like get him in legal trouble for what he did. is interesting in congress, i don't remember how many, i 15 or 20 y like republicans, jeffersonian a ublican congressman sign statement in response to that never sically says we punish people for dueling, why burr,ou taking this out on it's not fair. really striking. i know i said it before, the logic of this is so so powerful and so sort of counterintuitive

aaron you mentioned eri burr was known as a womanizer. anything very eco -- anything there? >> what a great question. i actually have no idea. i never heard anything about inon burr being interested dolley. i would have to look it up. anybody else know? more questions? i am sure you are hungry for lunch. get your lunch next door. shadel reconvene at 2:00 feel free to -- at 2:00. fill free to ask me questions if you have individual things you what me to talk about. [applause] washington to george w. bush, every sunday at feature. eastern, we the presidency, our weekly series exploring the presidents, policies and legacies. you are watching american history tv all weekend every weekend on c-span3. >> you are watching american history tv coverings -- covering history c-span style with event ,overage, archival firms lectures in college classrooms and visits to museums and historic places all weekend and every weekend on c-span3. next, an interview with abraham lincoln interpreter george buss. [applause] >> fellow citizens of the senate and house of representatives, since

burr, he's been -- that guy is all over the place. completely diversified >> yeah. yeah he's looking good. >> better than aaron >> yeah. not bad. how much different trades? >> wa m&a -- >> 33 trades sold. no new neat positit positions. >> what are they doing with the hotels a lot of hotel analysts were negative maybe their chartists. you think they're chartists? >> i love a good head & shoulders. >> some of these guys are doing cup and handle they're way beyond that. >> cup and handle. they're using cup and handle how about this one -- >> no, the relative strength index. they're in the relative strength index, they're buying some stocks that you never in a million years would have bought. 1.7 million of stock dumped reassuring about coronavirus richard burr man, you got to -- when you go out there and you say i'm selling, maybe you should say i'm a little less confident. maybe don't be so confident. i don't know >> speaking of relative strength, guys -- i'm not able to swim anymore. i don't know what you guys are doing. i have to figure a program out talking about aerospace, i'm going to for a second go back to our old world an