i think in the guilt school, nobody beats abigail adams. she mastered it. in a letter written to her son, john quincy, when he was in europe with his father in 1780, abigail said you need to attend constantly and steadfastly to the precepts and instructions of your father. will i hope have a due influence upon your conduct. for as dear as you are to me, i had much rather you would have found your grave in the ocean you have crossed or any other untimely death prop you in your infant years rather than see you an immoral prolif gut or a graceless child. whoa. abigail had high expeck tases. of course, both parents did. we got a couple of letters from her and we have a couple that john quincy wrote in reply, so you can see the effect of all of that guilt on a child. of course, john quincy is an incredible overachiever. at 14, goes to russia as the secretary of our delegation. he is serves in congress for some time. serves as a cabinet member and of course, becomes president of the united states. and the most extraordinary thing about john quincy is what happens

i think in the guilt school, nobody beats abigail adams. she mastered it. in a letter written to her son, john quincy, when he was in europe with his father in 1780, abigail said you need to attend constantly and steadfastly to the precepts and instructions of your father. will i hope have a due influence upon your conduct. for as dear as you are to me, i had much rather you would have found your grave in the ocean you have crossed or any other untimely death prop you in your infant years rather than see you an immoral prolif gut or a graceless child. whoa. abigail had high expeck tases. of course, both parents did. we got a couple of letters from her and we have a couple that john quincy wrote in reply, so you can see the effect of all of that guilt on a child. of course, john quincy is an incredible overachiever. at 14, goes to russia as the secretary of our delegation. he is serves in congress for some time. serves as a cabinet member and of course, becomes president of the united states. and the most extraordinary thing about john quincy is what happens

did john and abigail adams ever send conflicting advice to their children? >> not that i know of. i think they were of one mind in terms of how their children should be raised. she, did a lot on her own. and you know, they actually had the terrible burden of having a son that didn't turn out well. and, of course, if you saw this, the mini series, you get the sense of that where john turns his back on his son and never wants to see him again. i don't think abigail actually did that. i think she kept seeing him. so are you contributing to this or do you have a different question? >> jrs a second then. >> so question number two. >> i don't mean to be funny, but ben franklin is chastity? he was -- he had an illegitimate son. >> we're asking to these founders practiced what they preached. you know? thomas jefferson never asked someone else to do something he didn't do himself. i was the host of a national public radio program for many years called the thomas jefferson hour. and brilliant man if you get familiar with the program. brilliant man. road scholar. brilliant guy. but we were g

>> a book about john and abigail adams. >> when are we going to see that? so.aybe in another year or >> coming up next, we're going panamanian who was a negotiator in 1977 and went on president of panama. >> do you remember the first time that someone approached you asked you or started talking to you about being involved in a that would be the panama canal treaty? >> yes, i remember. was told me that the of the united states there would be a new time for negotiations and two negotiators have been appointed by president carter. told me their names and we prepared the first meeting with march of 1977 in the washington.anama in >> what were your emotions at that time? andell, the house was empty very cold. that a man of some age, he never took his coat. he remained the whole time with his coat on because it was a cold morning. it was a little tough because we after 30 yearsa of negations. as you can see in the verygraphs here, we have difficult incidents with the 1964 and the in days after. president lyndon johnson, we assume the with panama with some scopes.

>> a book about john and abigail adams. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. next we'll talk to a panamanian who was negotiator and then following the treaties. >> president, do you remember the first time that someone approached you and asked you -- started talking to you about being involved in a treaty that would become the panama canal treaty? >> yes, i remember. told me there was a new president in the united states, james carter, and a new time for negotiations and that two negotiators had been appointed by president carter. he told me the names and we took our first meeting with them in march of '77 in the embassy of panama in washington. >> what were your emotions at that time? >> well, the house was empty and very cold. he remained the whole time with his coat on, because there was a cold, a cold morning, and was a little bit rude. because we came from panama after certain years of negotiations. as you can see in these photographs here. after that president linden johnson, we assumed the conversations with panama with some scopes after years, those sc

did john and abigail adams ever send conflicting advice to their children?>> not that i know of. they were of one mind in terms of how their children should be raised. she of course did a lot of it on her own and you know, they actually had the, they had the terrible burden of having a son that didn't turn out well. if you saw the paul giamat giamatta mini series, you get the sense of that where john turns his back on his son and never wants to see him. i don't think abigail did that. are you contributing to this or have different question? >> different question. >> just a second then. so, you had question number two. >> i don't mean to be funny, but ben franklin, his chassty, had an illegitimate son. >> we're asking to believe that these founders actually pract e practiced what they preached. brilliant man if -- clay jenkinsson does it brilliant, but we were going through this one night in the program and suddenly, he came to that one as jefferson. never ask another to do something which you can dpo yourself and he just erupted in laughter. jefr owned slave

john adams and his wife exchanged letters about the doctrine of retaliation. abigail favored a humane approach. let them approach us for our kindness and tenderness to those who have fallen into our hands. i hope it will never provoke us to retaliate against their cruelties. that while hek at admired her sentiments, we must practice retaliation to make the respect the rights of humanity. under the threat of retaliation, over.efended turning lee it had to be determined if he could be convicted of desertion. like afused to treat lee normal prisoner. he made sure he was well fed and provided for, but he had no freedom of movement like other officers. in retaliation, officers ordered six officers captured by americans be confined to their rooms, including lieutenant colonel archibald campbell. he was not only an army officer, he was a scottish aristocrat. massachusetts authorities threw him in a dirty jail in concord, massachusetts. just awful, until they realized general lee was not being detained in a similar manner. one man in rhode island worried about charles lee and