a family tragedy brought together jefferson and abigail adams in june 1804. she wrote to express condolences on the death of jefferson's daughter, polly. jefferson took the opportunity when he replied to remind abigail he and john adams had a long friendship. in fact, he wrote "we never stood in one another's way." he also for the first time spoke explicitly about the midnight appointments that had divided the pair. "i can say that only one act of mr. adams life and one only ever gave me a moment of personal displeasure. i did consider his last appointment to office as personally unkind. they were from among my most ardent political enemies, from whom no faithful cooperation could ever be expected and laid me under the embarrassment of acting through men whose views were to defeat mine." of the many thomas jefferson letters we hold this one reads , differently. often, jefferson comes across as cool and reserved. here he is somewhat different. , he's speaking to abigail as an intellectual equal and he is concerned about how politics may have ruptured his friend

[laughter] john and abigail adams became the new occupants of the presidential residence on market street. mrs. adams acknowledged, to be the successor of mrs. washington and to make good her place will be an arduous task. and she wrote a note to mrs. washington asking for guidance. i will endeavor to follow your steps. martha for so long a punctilious presidential spouse was content to withdraw with her husband, so very long a servant of congress, from the public gaze. the curtain is falling, she wrote to cady green in georgia, and she looked forward to a more tranquil theater at home in virginia. as i'm sure you know, the high of retirement to which the washingtons had looked forward did not last long before washington and then martha passed away. with their deaths, the closeness of their marriage faded from the memories of patriots keen to honor the father of the nation with wreaths and monuments and statuary. i would love it if my book served to bring martha out of the shadows and restore her to the side of her fascinating, strong but frail, confident but doubting husband george. than

everybody knew about abigail adams. there was a real opportunity here to resurrect this man and this story. to start reading some of the and this wasaphies by far the greatest personal story of any of the founders. combined with a list of monumental achievements that compare with anybody. it was an easy call at that point. i am up to chapter five. i see his star rising. would you think hamilton will be relevant today on the american political scene? where would he be? [laughter] the people running for president? ron: i fear that the one place he would not be is in washington. our political system is so dysfunctional and there's only ,isincentives to public service the nonstop need for fundraising, all these good reasons for not going into politics. hamilton might be doing leveraged buyout's. were doing biotech research. or doing biotech research. he was such an intensely verbal character. if he felt strongly about an issue he would sit down and write 25 consecutive essays for the newspaper. hownd it hard to imagine woul

abigail adams attended the theater that evening. and she reported the next day that her head still aches from the thunderous applause. immediately, hell columba -- immediately, hail columbia, which was written to a familiar tune, delighted audiences everywhere. the first public addition up in it with a small engraving of president john adams pasted into the center of the title. 1798, as war threatened to explode, george washington briefly returned to public service when he was appointed, once again, commander-in-chief of the american forces. the enterprise and publisher of the sheet music saw an opportunity for a new sale. he didn't even have to reprint the music itself. since the engraving was mounted on the sheet. it was at the top in the middle of the title. at least three different washington engravings serve this purpose, including this image by edwards. apparently encouraged by the sales, benjamin carr repeated his formula of ornamenting sheet music by mounting the engraving of washington on another patriotic song. but benjami

abigail adams attended the theater and reported the next day that her head still ached from the thunderous applause. columbia,", "hail written to a familiar tune, did become a favorite federal song, demand by audiences everywhere. two days after his performance, the first published edition appeared with a small engraving of president john adams posted into the center of the title, but in july of 1798, as the quasi-war with french privateers threaten to explode, george washington briefly returned to public service when he was appointed once again commander-in-chief of american forces. the enterprising publisher of the sheet music benjamin carr saw an opportunity for new sale. he didn't even have to reprint the music itself since the engraving was mounted onto the sheet, glued at the top in the middle of the title. at least three different small washington engravings were used for the purpose, including this image by edwin and another cruder copy of it. apparently encouraged by the sales, benjamin carr repeated his formula of ornamenting sheet music by mounting edwin's engraving of washingto

therefore he missed a tremendous opportunity to make his own reputation when abigail adams, who has the same political astuteness as george washington, when she heard about this, she said what are you doing. you should be in that coach. when the coach up to boston and some of the sale in areas, adam got over his little pout and road briefly with washington. i was speculating with my wife this morning, one of the powerful marriages that didn't take place, but if george washington had married mrs. adams, what a powerful political combo. >> i wondered if you were able to connect anything in his background that led to his extraordinary political powers? >> i don't know about his background, but as a young man he was not one of the great families of virginia. he was

just as abigail adams and sarah the mere fact that she advertiser interest in government led also toriticism. positionn first lady professionalized is very likely the legacy of rosalynn carter. the staffing pattern. jobtook this ill-defined and defined it. >> her signature issue was mental health. her greatest disappointment was that she left office before she was able to get legislation passed. she personally lobby congress and testified. smith: the first first lady to testify before congress since eleanor roosevelt. just as gerald ford and jimmy carter became good friends, so did mrs. ford and mrs. carter. they would lobby congress together. mrs. ford on behalf of substance abuse. and mrs. carter mental health. they made a formidable team. >> our final one is nancy reagan. this was a different kind of partnership. nancy davis was an actress in hollywood. during the blacklist era. she found her name on a blacklist. she wasn't sure how to clear it. suggested that she should go visit the head of the screen actors guild. that was ronald reagan. dinner andnto a long a romance and ultima

and there are lots of things like that where -- abigail brooks adams, whose letters have never been published. she was charles francis adams' wife. he being john quincy adams' son. he was in congress and then became the ambassador for the union -- >> right. >> -- to great britain where he kept them from siding with the confederacy. and she is just as feisty as her grandmother-in-law and mother-in-law. and she writes from washington when he's in congress that buchanan is a toad and that, you know, the senate is acting like children and silly ones at that. i can get behind that one. [laughter]. >> sure. >> and she says at one point, i would advise any young woman if she wants to have a calm, peaceful life not to marry an adams. [laughter]. >> well, now, of course, did not know this letter would be one day the subject of -- >> no, that's true. that's true. >> you know, the thing about the time that we're talking about is women were, by expectation and by tradition, i suppose, subordinate to the men. >> well, by law. >> by law. so the independence of these women that comes out, the independence o

america has been blessed with many great first ladies, from the early days, martha washington, abigail adamsf the american public. she'll be well remembered just as her husband is. today we had wonderfully stirring speeches and remembrances. i hope they remind all of us that politics can be ennobling. that washington, d.c., can have a true love story and people deeply care about the country. >> i have this vision of her when she would -- on the anniversary of his death she would go and sit alone by his glaif side with no one but her secret service detail and that moving image of her. it was an elegant, beautiful tribute to her and she did really bring glamour back to the white house. >> thank you for being with us. special coverage continues now. >>> thanks, brooke. welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. we'll get to today's news in just a moment, but first a moving tribute to former first lady nancy reagan which wrapped up just minutes ago with scenic views of the mountains surrounding simi valley as a backdrop, a host of dignitaries gathering today to pay final respects to the wife of the

we do have i to be above, the president of liberia, abigail adams, but i did take somebody to actually realize the complaint was broken and 50% of her students were female and we wanted them to succeed and have the same opportunities. so measuring is very helpful. i often argue this is the first step to do anything because you do need to understand what's broken before you try to fix it. next-line the very last chapter i suggest the design can also serve as an acronym. d. for data and everything starts good data, really understanding the young mothers are more likely to leave. where did they leave to? cpu is for data. e. for experimentation. many organizations just introduced a new facts that comes out of some random business school. don't do that. spare a minute. think about your people management the way you think about financial decision-making. you don't trust your gut when you think about your finance. we have been using experimentation and pilots for many, many years. we have to do more of that. people management as well to really get a sense of what works and what doesn't work.

she will be the most amazing first lady they have seen since abigail adams. >> she talked about her strugglespill the beans? >> i think that's exactly what he is talking about. she should be an example of people standing up against things like depression, which many people deal with. >> steve, great to have you here on "new day". thank you so much for all the information. >> thanks. >> what's your take on all of these stories? tweet us or post your comment on facebook.com/newday. >> isis now on the move in the middle east and africa. everyone gaining strength in libya. has it changed the way u.s. fights terror around the globe? answers directly from the pentagon next. people download? we're good. five million? good. we scale on demand. hybrid infrastructure, boom. ok. what if 30 million people download the app? we're not good. we're total heroes. scale on demand with the number one company in cloud infrastructure. are you ready? you've got to be ready. i mean, really ready. are you ready to open? ready to compete? ready to welcome? the floors, mats, spotless. the uniforms clean and crisp. do

in the history of presidential marriages you have dolly and james madison, abigail and john adams and nancy and ronald reagan. they were the most married couple i have ever met. they would be sitting together in a room and ronald reagan would write her love letters across the room. and he once wrote five words and it changed two lives and our country and the world "and then along came nancy." it gave him a have to his life and he was a famously friendly man but a last his friendliness was to keep people at bay and he had one friend and he married her and they were so close they did, they could communicate the real married couples can do. i think that it is a reminder of...the difficulty of politics because she took a lot of the incoming fire because he was so admired and adore by many people and she bill the target of choice for some of his enemies. she was not averse to engaging in politics. she certainly had something to do with the fact after he had a stumble in the new hampshire primary in 19nating he changed campaign directors and that was part of her doing and she is said to hav

just as abigail adams and sarah the mere fact that she advertiser interest in government led also toriticism. positionn first lady professionalized is very likely the legacy of rosalynn carter. the staffing pattern. jobtook this ill-defined and defined it. >> her signature issue was mental health. her greatest disappointment was that she left office before she was able to get legislation passed. she personally lobby congress and testified. smith: the first first lady to testify before congress since eleanor roosevelt. just as gerald ford and jimmy carter became good friends, so did mrs. ford and mrs. carter. they would lobby congress together. mrs. ford on behalf of substance abuse. and mrs. carter mental health. they made a formidable team. >> our final one is nancy reagan. this was a different kind of partnership. nancy davis was an actress in hollywood. during the blacklist era. she found her name on a blacklist. she wasn't sure how to clear it. suggested that she should go visit the head of the screen actors guild. that was ronald reagan. dinner andnto a long a romance and ultima

as john adams had called abigail prai abigail praises her hair in a beautiful teeth. she was careful in a public to present herself as bleeds but in private she would speak her mind or for those to vice of family members. and now one of her children u here was done well. and virginia does theirs does. i never saw children as stuffed as yours. [laughter] it was known as the congress to dinner. id to be interested in the museum with a beautiful display and the declaration of the table ordered to. they gave me huge pleasure than not until i was back in the museum today with their remarkably potent display. they were invited a add to their wives. a bid to be hosted during the war. and for others to renounce this style of the entertainment that washington refused. he told a friend of the novelty i do because it was considered ostentatious. and so great of a conclusion and to stop that abdul of the duration of the many so the first 10 or continued and georgia and in a divorce the administered mt. vernon while they were in the york or philadelphia later by correspondence. bu

abigail adams ultimately will be the wife of adams and in march 1776 writes a letter to her husband, remember the ladies and she's envisioning, i believe, something much more politically inclusive, but over time women do have a huge dimension in irregular warfare, whether it's in the recruitment or counter recruitment, whether it's in the domestic piece and whether it's the spies and whether it's combatants or part of the peace process. so again, if we come from a traditional background, we'll leave some of that out and we lose those dimensions. so ultimately, i would suggest that what we see as conventional warfare and a phased approach to warfare where we have the conflict phase and the post-conflict phase and iraq and afghanistan should lead us to suggest that maybe that's a false choice. why is it that the level was higher in the post-conflict phase in both iraq and afghanistan? shouldn't that alone need to rethink that we need to rethink the fundamental assumptions about what happens in what phase? the other one is the post-conflict activities are supposed to happen simultaneous

abigail lived in his home from 1764 to 1774. it's also an important home because the primary link between she and john adams, who was serving at theecond continental congress, would be letter writing. it was from the south that he was provided a window to what was happening back here in the colony of massachusetts during the revolutionary war. abigail would report to john about the militia of boston during the battle of bunker hill on june 17, 7075. she took her gu -- she took her young son to the high point and watched the battle of bunker hill with her son. she would report to john adams of the fires and smokes rising from charlestown. she was literally the eyes of the revolution to john adams and essentially the second continental congress in philadelphia. susan: she also used those letters to lobby. one of the most famous phrases is her admonition to "remember the ladies" as you draft the founding document. did he listened to her? richard: he listened to her more than anyone else. [laughter] while writing letters and managing a farm, there is a -- when we were doing an exhibit of memorabilia from abigail'sents, it has bullet m