abigail adams and the rest of those boston one-d adamses are trying to block the deal. in fact, they're trying to go to court to have me removed as executor to the family fortunes. abigail's always fancied herself as the head of the addams family. besides, she thinks i'm some kind of a nut. you? impossible. she even tried to prove it in court once before. good thing the judge fell asleep. darling, if dear abigail is as smart as she thinks she is, she'll drop this case. after all, the family fortune couldn't be in better hands. it? never has the family been able to declare larger tax losses. there, that proves your financial genius. bravo, mon cher. tish, you just parlez vous. hey! somebody say something about abigail adams dropping the case? well, it sure don't look like it. she's here in town. she is? yeah. "it is assumed she will mix business with pleasure "by visiting her grandchildren." i didn't know she had grandchildren in this town. well, whosever grandmother she is, thank goodness she's not our little pugsley and wednesday's grandmother. actually, she's only a co

abigail adams even says to john, remember the ladies as you go through this. think again, it is part of at the time a society where women certainly were treated as second-class citizens and i think the issue of women does not, very much either in the discussion of the declaration what the discussion of the constitution. quite frankly does not come up even after the civil war because we can look at the reconstruction amendments, the 13th amendment that allows black men the right to vote, it does not come up, a century from that even coming up, the women's suffrage movement and those kinds of things. you have some very powerful women, especially abigail adams and dolly madison. mr. lamb: where was it with the king george the third statue was torn down? mr. puleo: in new york. that was after the declaration was passed where there is a lot of that happening. destroyedof shops are and once the declaration makes its way to the colonies, there is a great deal about that goes on. mr. lamb: you know lenin statues were torn down and brush up and saddam hussein was torn

when you are here in the room where abigail adams hung her wet sheets. that alters the stakes of the recent why you are here. -- all the reason. why you are here >> what does this mean to you to receive this from the obama administration? tom: it is astounding. amount of small history for the family when we come here. by next january, someone else will be here. all i can hope is that their stewardship for what america is is as fine as the men that we are saying goodbye to. thank you. [chatter] >> tonight, supreme court justice elena kagan reflects on her life and career, and how education and public service or important parts of her family life growing up. justice kagan was nominated by president obama and served on the high court since 2010. she recently spoke at the equal justice works conference. see that at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> here are some of our future programs this weekend on c-span. saturday night at 8:00 eastern, the state of the black world conference discussing the impact of the 2016 election. panelists include author of the race,a

when you are actually here in , abigail adams hung her sheets right there, that alters the stakes of the reach of why you are here. >> what does it mean to you to receive this at the end of the obama administration? tom: it is astounding. a lot of history for the family when we come here. next january, someone else will be an, it will be a different administration. all i can hope is that their stewardship for what america is is as fine as the man we are saying goodbye to. thank you. three more questions? >> if you missed any of this event, you can watch it again in its entirety on our website, www.c-span.org. coming up here on c-span, a look at the challenges with technology firm's legal department. it then, conversation with some of the federal government's top technology officers. later, another chance to see the white house medal of freedom ceremony. >> c-span's washington journal, live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up wednesday morning, an analysis of president-elect donald trump's infrastructure proposals. its challenges, and the current state of

when you are actually here in the room, abigail adams hung her wet sheets right there, that alters the stakes of the reach of why you are here. >> what does it mean to you to receive this at the end of the obama administration? tom: it is astounding. , there is no small amount of history for the entire family when we come here. according to the calendar by , next january, someone else will be in here it will be a , different administration. all i can hope is that their stewardship for what america is , i think is as fine as the man , we are saying goodbye to. >> thank you. tom: you're welcome. >> if you missed any of this event, you can watch it again in its entirety on our website, www.c-span.org. >> coming up here on c-span, a look at the challenges of running a technology firm's legal department. it then, conversation with some of the federal government's top technology officers. later, opinion polling in russia and a vladimir putin's approval ratings. >> c-span's washington journal, live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up wednesday morning, an analysis

abigail adams even says to john, remember the ladies as you go through this.i think again, it is part of at the time a society where women certainly were treated as second-class citizens and i think the issue of women does not, very much either in the discussion of the declaration what the discussion of the constitution. quite frankly does not come up even after the civil war because we can look at the reconstruction amendments, the 13th amendment that allows black men the right to vote, it does not come up, a century from that even coming up, the women's suffrage movement and those kinds of things. ou have some very powerful women, especially abigail adams and dolly madison. mr. lamb: where was it with the king george the third statue was torn down? mr. puleo: in new york. that was after the declaration was passed where there is a lot of that happening. all kinds of shops are destroyed and once the declaration makes its way to the colonies, there is a great deal about that goes on. mr. lamb: you know lenin statues were torn down and brush up and saddam hussei

i was in boston, we were at john and abigail adams' house. he started the surgeon general.here is so much of a long history with fdr, president obama gets the internet and has been pursuing an extraordinary job of pulling in what we call -- tq, like iq and eq. tech skills area -- tech skills. the presidential innovation whole, entrepreneurs, a set of things. another one of my favorite things going on is the social security administration doing coding boot camps with the team. we have 100 team -- 110 feds going through boot camps this fall. doing 12 weeksre and current employees are doing four weeks. we upgrade everyone's skills? it's a work in progress. we have setup a love of amazing things that will grow. the head of the u.s. digital service was talking about how this navy seal-like team that works together with all the cio and other leadership teams in the agencies now feels like a real thing, and it scaling. it up to liveset for a very long time? that's what we are up to it. alex: that brings up the three parts of the cto's job. megan wass, as saying, building the capac

i was in boston, we were at john and abigail adams' house. he started the surgeon general.here is so much of a long history with fdr, president obama gets the internet and has been doing an extraordinary job of pulling in what we call teach you -- tq, like iq and eq. tech skills. the presidential innovation -- entrepreneurs, a whole set of things. great work. another one of my favorite things going on is the social security administration doing coding boot camps with the team. we have 110 feds going through boot camps this fall. new employees are doing 12 weeks and current employees are doing four weeks. how do we upgrade everyone's skills? it's a work in progress. we have setup a love of amazing things that will grow. the head of the u.s. digital service was talking about how this navy seal-like team that works together with all the cio and other leadership teams in the agencies now feels like a real thing, and it scaling. how do we now set it up to live for a very long time? that's what we are up to it. alex: that brings up the three parts of the cto's job. part one is, a

i was just in the boston area, we are just at john and abigail adams house. he started the surgeon general. there's so much of a long history, vanderveer bush with fdr. president obama gets the internet and has been pursuing an extraordinary job of pulling in we call it t. q. tech skills, all of us coming together, there's other 400 people who have, to go service. the presidential innovation, entrepreneurs and residents across the whole sets of things. there's great work, and also my favorite things that's going on at the social security administration has started doing coding at camp. we have 110 federal employees going through coding boot camps right now this fall. you employers are doing for weeks, or 12 weeks and current employers are doing for weeks but how do we sort of update everybody's skills? it's a work in progress. those will grow. the head of the u.s. digital service was talking about how this navy s.e.a.l. like team works together with all of the cio and other leadership teams in the agency is now feels like a real thing at it is scaling. so how

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unconventional than andrew jackson beyond what we have ever had, and i woke up thinking about abigail adams. >> of course. >> my first thought this morning. abigail! >> she wrote something, remember the ladies, and it was 96 years ago since women could vote, it has not been 100 years. if secretary clinton becomes president-elect today. if trump does, we will be sifting through this forever. >> yes, we will. >> and david ignatius is also with us. david, the world is watching for sure this morning. >> the world is watching, too, and i have traveled in asia, latin america over the last two months, and everywhere i went, people want to talk about our election. generally they are nervous. they never thought they would hear this in america, and they worry we don't really want to be involved in our leadership role in the world and we are walking away from trade agreements that benefit them and us and they are worried it's going to be a different kind of world with russia and china until a pushback from the united states. the other thing i worry about since i think about security is what will the s

he was trying to learn the art of painting in west's studio and befriends abigail and john adams and jefferson and they encourage him to embark in a series of american history paintings. he initially intended, if my memory is correct, 15 or 16 of them, but only executed about eight. this to my thinking is one of the best. erin and i have seen this painting. it is at the trumbull gallery in yale. it is rather small. we think of trouble as great historic paintings, but the early ones are small, only about this big and they are beautiful. if you ever wonder what his inspiration is, it is west. doing the death of another general outside of the same city, quebec, just five years -- 20 years apart. now trumbull, like so many of the other artists, sees commercial potential for collecting subscriptions and engravings of the paintings he does. but unlike copley, he is more reluctant to alter the factual is some of his painting. they are all very realistic, but they vary by factual is. as we know with any history painting, you are going to fudge things in order to show off a moral dimension to

adaptation of the john adams film and the set design people were trying to figure out what john adams and abigail looked like. they went back and looked at the paintings. how they dressed at certain particular times. artwork is another example. the other, and tom and i were talking a little bit about this and grace knows this because of the visual aspect, is to go to the place where the historical event happened. i cannot stress how important that is. all of the authors i have worked for, if there is a place that is still in existence of the subject matter you are dealing with, you have to go see it because even if you pick up one little thing, it was worth doing that. countless it -- countless instances i have had, david mccullough with the most -- with the right brothers book, the being in thisses, room. going there is such an important thing. story aa wonderful couple of weeks ago. i was in ohio and i was talking to one of the historians and he told us a wonderful story that when gore vidal was working on novel,rd historical there was a local wealthy person out there who put up a lot of build

adams had been ambassador to britain. as ambassador to britain, he was called your excellency as was abigail. they were both excellency in britain. i found evidence that when abigail was back in the united states after that, she was still getting correspondence addressed to her excellency. mrs. john adams. so she was still excellency to some of her friends, probably -- her friends in britain. >> i'm going to ask one more question, and then we're going to turn it to the audience opinion please get your questions ready. >> one other thing that's been on my mind with the current presidential election. there's a better chance there will be a woman elected president this year than any other time. if hillary clinton was elected president, will there be a new presidential title controversy. will there be a new debate? or pretty settled what she would be called? >> it's in -- many women are the head of organizations, and they're normally called madam president. i would assume she would be called madam president. i don't think there would be a lot of debate about that. i think most other women who wou

an old and grieving john adams went to see this picture in samuel hall in 1818, 5 weeks after the death of typhoid of his beloved abigail. we do not know exactly what he wrote or thought, no record of it, but surely upon finally seeing the doctor, even though he is in the middle of the picture, he must've thought it depicted american independence as it might have occurred in heaven as opposed to how it occurred on or in. consensual,poised, contested, filled with rancor, demagoguery, and falls starts. the road to independence is flattened, made attractively smooth and straight. the same day that trumbull wrote to adams he went to jefferson as jefferson right spectrum well. very interesting. jefferson was in full agreement with trumbull and what he done in this painting. of adams.opposite jefferson writes to the artists, without license the talent of imagination would be banished from all art. pace and judgment and composition would be of no value. on the same footing with the first painting. so, in jefferson's view, the point of good painting was to stimulate strong sentiment not to log in the banal facts. canvas toad pu

foundation of the challenges the country faces , go back and look at correspondence with john adams writing to abigailthey were putting the constitution together, talking about his fears about race matters in the future because of the decision to allow in slave and so that the south could come in and to people of african descent as 3/5 of a person. thomas jefferson himself, petrified with fear -- what's going to happen because of this? we didn't deal with it at the end of the civil war. for five minutes we dealt with it, then we had reconstruction. here we go again. we didn't deal with this in terms of after the civil rights movement, civil rights act, etc.. and then we had ronald reagan. interesting statistic, in every economic recovery until 1982, working people captured more than 80% of the value of the recovery. since 1982, the top 10% has captured 90% of the value of the economic coverage. just interesting. race has something to do with that. ronald reagan's attacks on people who receive public assistance was partially an attack on people's color. he kept talking about the woman with 13 kids, you

adams had been ambassador to britain. as ambassador to britain, he was called your excellency as was abigail.y were both excellency in britain. i found evidence that when abigail was back in the united states after that, she was still getting correspondence addressed to her excellency. mrs. john adams. so she was still excellency to some of her friends, probably -- her friends in britain. >> i'm going to ask one more question, and then we're going to turn it to the audience opinion please get your questions ready. >> one other thing that's been on my mind with the current presidential election. there's a better chance there will be a woman elected president this year than any other time. if hillary clinton was elected president, will there be a new presidential title controversy. will there be a new debate? or pretty settled what she would be called? >> it's in -- many women are the head of organizations, and they're normally called madam president. i would assume she would be called madam president. i don't think there would be a lot of debate about that. i think most other women who would b