such nickname the tomcat alexander hamilton. because of other young girls that come into camp you are at a book a few years ago called life in the white house and it was about the president, but to date eats, what have they said they have? what are their fears and hopes and what it really can fathers and husbands. how did the kids turn out? are also trying to figure out nixon. for example, nixon and his free time late to bowl a and sometimes wear black suit to do it. it begins to explain things. who does this? so all books and i've been trilogies, so here's the end. so "affairs of state," i try to take a different good and we'll know about the washington, but with the digestion tenet are comfortable with brilliant. his courage and dashing crescent of the delaware christmas night, which saved the revolution. but who were george washington's girlfriends and he was a kid? you find it teenage washington on more than one occasion basically goes back home in tears because he was turned down and put pen to paper and rates roses are red

apropos to my book washington's closest adviser was alexander hamilton. one of the chapters in the book talks about hamiltons history of womanizing. for example not the first. there is a long long history of the. elliott spencer, arnold schwarzenegger, john edwards, these guys had nothing on alexander hamilton. and what we find is if you really -- letters written by martha washington, she was tough shouldn't complain about the weather. she did complain about the harsh conditions pitch did complain about that tomcat this be having with all the lady cats. it kept her awake at night, social nick and the tomcat alexander hamilton. all the young girls. i also did a book a few. it was about the president's at least. the hobbies that they had. the fears and hopes and over the like as fathers and husbands. another way of stressing presidential character. we're also trying to figure out dick nixon. for example, nixon in the springtime like to boulogne and sometimes wore a black suit to do it. that begins to explain things. he does this? so i guess all books and of

also, washington's closest adviser was alexander hamilton. and one of the chapters in the book talks about hamiltons history of womanizing. for example, bill clinton was not the first, and bill clinton was not the worst when it came to his behavior and high office. there is a long, long history of it. spitzer, a schwarzenegger, john edwards, these guys demint david patraeus, they have nothing on alexander hamilton. will we find is if you read, for example, letters written by martha washington during this winter camps, she was tough, like a soldier. she did not complain about the weather, the market -- harsh conditions, but she did complain. there was a tomcat when winter that was this be having with the lady cats, and it was noisy, noisy, noisy, and it kept her awake at night. so the tomcat and alexander hamilton because of all the and girls. i also did a book a few years ago, life and the white house, and it was about the president's at ease. what to the eat? what hobbies to they have? what are their fears and hopes and what they like as fat

[laughter] >> of species founders, the most likely to of send mails was alexander hamilton. i want to get that on the record and move on. that you davis is pleading his case and jefferson listening, vaguely charming way he had, a lot like fdr, everyone thought he agreed with him. there's a fly buzzing around and jefferson is nodding and nodding and losing i contact with davis and grab the fly and begins pulling apart. davis begins to realize this may not work quite as well as he hoped. second story. today you have the man who can snap a fly and pull it apart, ferociously focused on his debates, often making you think he is not focused. he traveled a couple days from monticello to washington, stop-and in, falls into a conversation with a fellow guest and wide ranging discussion the following morning, mr. jefferson is up and out. the other guests never caught his name and he said to the innkeeper who was that and the innkeeper said who do you think it was? after a while i thought he knew so much about medicine, i thought he was a doctor. then we talked about theology, seemed h

itot spitzer, arnold schwarzenegger, david petraeus, had nothing on alexander hamilton. if you read letters written by martha washington during those winter camps, she was like a soldier. she didn't complain about in the weather or the harsh conditions. she did complain about one thing. there was a tom cat one winter that was misbehaving with the lacy cats and it was noisy, and she nicknamed the tom cat alexander hamilton because of all the young girls. i had a few years ago about the presidents at ease. what do they eat? what hobbies do they have? what are their fears and hopes and what are they like as fathers and husbands? how did their kids turn out. another way of assessing presidential character, providing us with another lens. we're all still trying to figure out dick nixon. he liked to bowl alone and sometimes wore a black suit to do it. that begins to explain things, right? who does this? so, i guess all books end up being trilogies, so here's the en. affairs of state, i try to take a different perspective on our presidents, and for example, we all know about ge

when there were plans to put together a presidential militia in the 1790s that john adams and alexander hamilton might use to suppress people. he would rather ere on the interest of the many rather than the interest of the few. and that was the defining difference between himself and hamilton. >> we'll take a quick break here and be right back with more from author john meacham. >>> and we're back with more from john meacham on his new biography. people because of your book will be reflecting on his life, will learn about thomas jefferson, if they haven't. the role of a biography like this in modern day washington and modern day leadership could be what, do you think? as the president sets off into a second term in such a contentious political time. >> yeah. well, mark twain said history doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes. and i think history disease rhyme. i think jefferson looked back to greece and rome to understand partisanship in his own era. we look back to the founding to try to understand it. what you learn is that there are some perennial principles. to quote jefferson, sometimes it's

i'll give him a chance to be alexander hamilton. >> but why not? >>y in secretary of the debt would be to, first of all, talk in english in our problems and secondly to understand that the -- the revenues put nort so far have been all political and rhetorical, and what we want is the stern stuff of a monastery -- a monetary approach. we want a dollar in exchange for something tangible. and that's gold bouillon. we've not had that for the past -- well, since 1971, about 0-odd years, and what we need is at least a discussion about the nature of our monetary problem that really is a fundamental source of our fiscal problem. >> why would that work going back to gold bouillon? >> because there's only so much gold and can only be so many dollars. >> there's a limited amount, a limited supply. >> you don't have to rely on the goodwill of our politicians to limit their spending because they are constrained by the -- by the nature of our monetary material. now, when president obama -- when senator obama in 2006 bewailed the debt, he voted against the debt c

he took down the portrait of alexander hamilton who orszag had hanging in his office and replaced it with w.p.a. posters from new york city. >> you're talking about what a tough negotiator he can be and obviously that's a big part of the year we're in now but republicans complain mightily about whether he is a fair, even-minded, fair-minded guy in negotiations and yet one of the pieces of his persona we keep hearing about is how low key he is. can you be low key and an irascible negotiator? >> apparently. i think he is a low-key, calm guy, but he's passionate about government. i've talked to him. how many people do you talk to in washington who say i'm passionate about medicaid and about the people who it helps? partly it suggests the president knows it's not going to be a couple baila thing with the republicans. being known as a tough negotiator is not a bad thing but the republicans will have no doubt that jack lew speaks for the president. they're very close. if he'd taken an outsider from business and installed him in, you would never know if he had the president's confidence. >>

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from claremont and will be teaching those lucky students at the alexander hamilton center in new york. ladies and gentlemen, please join me in giving a war heritage welcome to dr. david frisk. [applause] >> thank you for that wonderful introduction. of me and more importantly william rusher. can everyone here all right? there is a wide range in this room of the familiarity and relative unfamiliarity with william rusher who was the publisher of "national review" for 31 years, almost from the beginning. it can also be said to have had a half century long career in american politics with something of a privileged ringside or front row seat. he never ran for public office, never held public office, never really found it anything on his own as a number of leaders did, never controlled his own institution. he was as i put it in my introduction, a new william rusher, the conservative movement, "if not us, who?: william rusher, 'national review' and the conservative movement," he was at the end of the limelight. a lot of people knew a lot less about him. but as people became aware of william

alexander hamilton used the term representative democracy. zÜrich government based on majority rule and consent, but that is limited by a constitution, hence the compound machine. one of the major charges raised against king george the third in the declaration of independence was about sovereignty. i've read that church. he, george the third has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution and unacknowledged by our laws to their acts of pretended legislation. of course the constitution in 1776 was the british constitution. but that concept is the same. there were some foreign jurisdiction is going to have authority over us. we're going to examine now the ideas and practices that those who in our time has combined with others to subject us or tend to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution. ideas have consequences as we learned long ago from an early isi scholar, richard weaver. so let's examine the global governance project. these ideas are not hard to find. you don't have to be invited to

there we have alexander hamilton on supermajority rule. and he said supermajority rule in congress would lead to -- and i quote -- "tedious delays, continual negotiations and intrigue, contemptible compromises of the public good." that's what hamilton thought. you know that overlays pretty well with a lot of what we see on the floor of the senate today. how about madison? madison had commentary on this. and he said "the fundamental principle of free government would be reversed" if this chamber did legislation by supermajority. why did he say that? because it would mean the path chosen by the few would prevail over the path chosen by the majority. there's a lot of nostalgia when people think back to a time when the filibuster was an instrument of principle. many americans think about this. they think about the movie where jimmy stewart portrays jefferson smith, a new newcomer to the se. he comes to the well of the senate, and he fights for the principle of avoiding corrupt practices regarding a voice cam. he didn't have to take the floor a

from clermont and will be teaching the waukee students at the alexander hamilton center in new york. ladies and gentlemen join me in giving a warm welcome to dr. david frisk. [applause] thank you, doctor, for that introduction of me and more important, willie rusher. can everyone here all right? i suspect there is a wide range in this room of familiarity and relative unfamiliarity with the bill rusher was the publisher of the "national review" for years almost from the beginning and can also be said to have had a half century long career in the american politics with something of a privileged whirring side or front-row seat. he never ran for public office, never held public office, never really founded anything on his own as a number of conservative leaders did and became identified and controlled his own institution. he was as i put it in my introduction william rusher and the "national review" of the conservative movement published last april he was at the edge of the limelight. a lot of people knew very well who he was and a lot of people know a lot less about him. but as people b

the other thing i was going to say, alexander hamilton has to be rolling in his grave with that signaturet that. lori: loop de loop. >> ever seen my hand writing? better than that what. ashley: charlie gasparino, as always thanks so much, charlie. high taxes are forcing high-tech company to hoard billions of dollars overseas, investments that could be used here in the u.s. liz macdonald is digging into the numbers and joins us ahead. lori: damage gets galore -- gadgets galore at the consumer electronics show in las vegas. liz is on it. >> shibani and i are going at. these are the first small electric vehicle motorized skates. they are wireless. 700 bucks. she is doing great. not going 10 miles-an-hour but not bad. gadget wars coming up. ashley: top electronic companies continue to showcase their latest gadgets and gizmo as the consumer electronics show in las vegas as we head into the second day of the big event. lori: let's head back to liz claman and shibani joshi on the floor of ces where they had a chance check out the top new tech toys. what are your favorites? >> we've been fighting

alexander hamilton, the handsome, conservative man on our $10 bill, argued against anything like it. the purpose would be, he wrote, to embarrass the administration, to destroy the energy of the government and to substitute the pleasure, caprice or artifices, to the regular decisions of a respectable majority. that's just what the republicans have been doing. since 2007 when they lost the majority in the senate, they mounted or threatened to mount nearly 400 filibusters, blocking everything from equal pay to equal work, job bills and reform. as a result, there are more vacancies on the federal courts today than when president obama first took office. but hold on. when democrats were in the minority and threatening to filibuster against george w. bush's judicial nominees, their leader, harry reid, had some kind things to say about the tactic. >> the filibuster serves as a check on power and preserves our limited government. right now the only check on president bush is the democrats' ability to voice their concern in this body, the senate. if the republicans roll back our rights in th

. >> 78-year-old harry whittington, the first person shot by a sitting veep since alexander hamilton.ilton, of course, was shot in a duel with aaron burr over issues of honor, sbeg rety and political maneuvering. whittington was mistaken for a bird. >> this country needs real solutions on guns. now. joining me now is dana milbank. dana, did fox news just miss the irony of dick cheney talking about gun safety proposals? >> well, irony has never been the strong point of the former vice president, but we can say that he has retained his ability to shoot from the hip. but he -- he's -- he is a remarkable spokesman on this issue. we can be pleased that he did not as harry whittington is happy he did not have an assault gun that day in the woods. but i suspect that the republicans will not bring him out as their main spokesman on the gun issue henceforth. >> but, you know, what has really caught my attention, in just three weeks democrats in the house and of course in the senate have already proposed several laws to combat gun violence from child gun access prevention to senator feinstein's

alexander hamilton, james madison, thomas jefferson spent hours every day writing letters.so we have rooms full of writings from the people handy feature a pic of vacation here and there come you can prove they were christians were ds or unitarians are baked potatoes and you can prove, because they said so much. it proves vacation is a quotation offered very little contact. and biblical discussions, texts are prove what got us thinking. in our discussions of the founders, was to collect device, once you create a high mind, you can apply to any sentence that anyone of them never spoke as if it were the opinion of the entire collective and that's what's happening. that's what a lot of people today do and spend an enormous amount of money doing it. they take from a david burton's original intent is the one i focus on the most year. you've got thousands of quotations by hundreds of people listed as founding fathers, about half of the were not supporters of the comp to shame. samuel adam said john hancock and pesce kenrick, george mason, people who are anti-featherless leaders w

alexander hamilton, james mat disson, thomas jefferson, spent hours every day writing letters. so we have rooms full of writings from these people, and if you just cherry picked a citation here and there, you can prove that they were christians or deists or unitarians or baked potatoes or just about anything. because they said so much. so proof tech citation is a quotation offered with very little cop text, and in bulb lick cal discussions they're used to prove what god is thinking in our discussions of the founders, once you collectivize the founders, opposite you create the founders, the hive mind, then you can apply any sentence that any one of them ever spoke as if it were the opinion of the entire collective, and that is what happened. that is what a lot of people today do, and they're making an enormous amount of money doing it. they take -- david barton, the original intend the one i focus on the most here, and in that book you have thousands of quotations by hundreds of people listed as founding fathers, about half of whom were not supporters of the constitution. samuel

looks like alexander hamilton. >>> next, aig has thought better about suing the federal government overerms of the 2008 bank bailout. yes, the same taxpayer funded bailout that brought them $200 billion and saved them from bankruptcy. anyway, before the news of the potential lawsuit, aig launched an ad campaign thanking taxpayers for the bailout money. in light of the planned lawsuit, conan o'brien offered an alternative. >> aig, we said we were going to turn it around, and we did. >> we're now leaner and focused on what we do best. >> a profit of more than $22 billion. >> we turned it around. >> [ bleep ] you, america. >> [ bleep ] you, america. >> [ bleep ] you, america. >> from all of us at aig, seriously america, go [ bleep ] yourselves. >> it's tough to see how they even toyed with the idea of a lawsuit against the same government that saved them from bankruptcy. >>> next, if you're in congress and planning to oppose the next round of victims of hurricane sandy, you best not have the title porker of the month on your resume. unfortunately, it's too late for kansas republican lynn j

security in that correspondence and buchanan was second she was in correspondence with people with alexander hamilton stevens of turnage principally who he actually thought for a while might make a good cabinet appointee who was dreaming that georgia could be held in the union and if they had their way to get of their role in the government sheet known stevens in congress they served together and they were fellow whigs and he respected him at one point you have to consider the apple of gold and the frame of silver good question about the security, lincoln had a habit of writing private and confidential all these letters that we've been talking about and we expected that -- i guess he expected the gentleman to keep the material out of the newspapers but he never wrote anything that wouldn't -- would get him into trouble because he did expect that men like stevens would show his letter pro union southerners and they would show the confidential notice so he never wrote anything, she never let himself down in this correspondence because i think he felt that there was a danger even if they adopted this ge

they quote alexander hamilton in the decision and the first attorney general of the united states. with constitutional history. >> lawyers will love it. i'm not sure if regular folks will love this. bottom line, paul, how would it impact ordinary folks here? you do have -- this is a labor board. these are decisions that would impact people on a daily basis. >> well, yes. and by the way, it wouldn't only effect the national labor board but we would have to look at other appointments made. the nlrb is an important agency. it decides whether collective bargaining agreements will be upheld. it decides whether workers have certain rights in the workplace over the past year we heard about workers discussing personal things on facebook getting fired and nlrb has handed down decisions in that area. this is the board that regulates workers in america. this is very important. if you invalidate all of the decisions for the last year, that's going to be a very, very disruptive and important decision. we've got to watch this one really closely. >> we know the white house is appealing in the pro

government does, what it has always done since the creation by alexander hamilton is create credibilityor a country that had none when it was born. if we don't treat our debt in a credible way if, we don't pay our interest on time if, we don't pay our bills, we lose the essence of what the entire government -- what all of our politics are based on. >> you're talking about paying the debt. >> there are a few things. one of the things you is say way should have a discussion about our long term future. that is a discussion to have and we can debate how to allocate our resources. it is illegitimate to have that discussion aren't debt ceiling. there are other ways we can establish leverage. it would not be great and would hurt the economy but we would not be risking our full faith in credit. people say we don't want to have this, specifically we don't want to have this conversation around the debt ceiling where there is this potential for a catastrophic effect. >> there are two ideas here. one is -- one i want to ask you if you think the kind of -- i want to get back to whether we think the

go back to 171819 after the initial assumption of debt and the restructuring of debt, which alexander hamilton began proposing for this country. policy has been to always pay your debt and other obligations. and it took a long time to convince the world that the u.s. was the safest place to put your reserve assets or your rainy day money, and it was a great achievement to announce it is being squandered and throw it away for, i presume, some negotiating purpose makes no sense from a broader economic perspective. >> thank you. times expected i would ask unanimous consent to place in the record a statement of administration policy on h.r. 325, for the administration says the reason the administration would not oppose a short-term solution to the debt limit and works for to work with house and senate. without objection so order. mr. tiberi come you're recognized for five minutes. >> let me expand a little bit on mr. mcdermott's line of questioning and just get a quick response from the four of you. back in 2006, keeping on the senate floor, then senator obama announced he intended to vote no on t

hamilton, alexander hamilton, "the federalist paper" number 22, "the fundamental maxim of republican government requires that the sense of the majority should prevail." now, the framers, to be sure, put in place important checks to temper pure majority rule. for example, the bill of rights protects fundamental rights and liberties. the framers, moreover, imposed structural requirements -- structural requirements. for example, to become a law, a bill must pass both houses of congress identical, then it's subject to the president's veto power, and then, of course, there's always the courts and the supreme court to rule on the constitutionality of legislation. the senate itself is a check on pure majority rule. as james madison said again, the use -- and this is to quote madison -- "the use of the senate is to consist in its proceeding with more coolness, with more system, with more wisdom than the popular branch," meaning the house of representatives. to achieve this person, sphrins the smallest states -- from the smallest states which the same number of representatives from the larges

this is from "the federalist paper" number 22 by alexander hamilton. he wrote this in 1787. and he notes, in commenting about the -- the issue of simple majority or supermajority, says, "there is commonly a necessity for action. the public business must, in some way or other, go forward. if a pertinacious minority can control the opinion of the majority, the majority, in order that something must be done, must conform to the views of the minority. and thus the sense of the smaller number will overrule that of greater and give a tone to the national proceedings. hence, tedious delays, continual negotiation and intrigue, comtemptible compromises of the public good." let me read that last set of words about what hamilton said would happen if you had a supermajority requirement in the u.s. senate. tedious delays, continual negotiation and intrigue, comtemptible compromises of the public good. i think anyone watching the proceedings of the senate over the last two years would say that hamilton was right on the mark in that regard. and, of course, he was not alone. there was not a

thomas jefferson and alexander hamilton. yet he took advice from each of them on different times.hat he wanted. so he was terrific. >> eric: now there is -- this next gentleman is someone president obama thinks he models himself after. abraham lincoln. but wasn't he a good listener? >> abraham lincoln was an excellent listener. he had to have a cabinet full of people that doris concerns goodwin called a team of rivals. they were actual lea his enemies. most of them didn't like lincoln. they were kind of disgusted that he was elevated above them. but he nevertheless listened to them, took their advice and when necessary, put them in line. >> eric: how about jfk? you say he was a good listener as well. >> jfk was excellent. he had, of course, the cabinet of the best and the brightest. these were all very bright guys. they divided bitterly over the cuba episode. he ended up taking the advice of his brother, bobby. and the only drawback to jfk was he often wouldn't listen to the military. he didn't trust the military very much and the joint chiefs of staff. >> eric: now we switch gear

go back to 1789, after the restructuring of debt which alexander hamilton began fiscal government in this country. it took a long time to convince the world that the u.s. was the safest place to put your reserve assets or your rainy day money. it was a great achievement but now it is being thrown away for what i presume some negotiating purposes which makes no sense. >> thank you. time has expired. i would like to place in a record a temporary suspension of the debt ceiling where the administration says for these reasons they would not oppose a short-term decrease in the debt limit. so ordered. >> let me expand a little bit on his line of questioning and get a quick response from the four of you. back in 2006, speaking on the senate floor then senator obama announced he was going to vote no to the debt ceiling increase. he went on the say "i oppose the effort to increase the debt limit. we now depend on foreign countries to pay debt". since then, we now have a $16.4 trillion debt, nearly doubled in six years. in fact, since this president has become president in 2009, he has added mo

new york -- alexander hamilton . new jersey -- will livingston, david brearley, william paterson, jonathan dayton. pennsylvania -- benjamin franklin, thomas mifflin, robert morris, george clymer, thomas fitzsimons, jared ingersoll, james wilson, governor morris. mr. goodlatte: i yield to the gentleman from kansas, mr. yoder. mr. yoder: amendment 1, congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and petition the government to redress of grievances. amendment 2, a well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. amendment 3, no soldier shall in time of peace be quartered at any house without the consent of the owner nor in time of war but in a manner to be prescribed by law. mr. goodlatte: i yield to the gentleman from kentucky, mr. barr. mr. barr:amendment iv the right

new york -- alexander hamilton . new jersey -- will livingston, david brearley, william paterson, jonathan dayton. pennsylvania -- benjamin franklin, thomas mifflin, robert morris, george clymer, thomas fitzsimons, jared ingersoll, james wilson, governor morris. mr. goodlatte: i yieldo the gentleman from ksas, mr. yoder. mr. yoder: amendment 1, congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and petition the government to redress of grievances. amendment 2, a well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. amendment 3, no soldier shall in time of peace be quartered at any house without the consent of the owner nor in time of war but in a manner to be prescribed by law. mr. goodlatte: i yield to the gentleman from kentucky, mr. barr. mr. barr:amendment iv the right of t

several russian stars to come home including alexander ovechkin the forward failed to score on his return to deny my last go but did and assist as his side hamilton i minced seven two in moscow because i didn't get out of watched the return of over. on wednesday alexander ovechkin signed a concert with his former club in defending champions the nominee moscow and the very next day all eyes were on the twenty seven year old russian star marquee his first time in the white and blue jersey for over seven years and in the first line it's home to denominate here and in the six point as the homesite twice came back before routing the belorussian side seven to heck so it's nice to be home now. was a lot on the wrist because i didn't play almost seven years. now russia leaks are. that's it was something new for man on our bumper that. first by showing and i think a couple a while and now i have some chances to score but it was means could took the lead me the way for the first period jeff blonsky to name to the zone with his name on the scoreboard with inaccurate three shots into the top four in the muscovites it wise in the second period when they were