alexander jefferson whose grandfather was one of the founding fathers at morehouse university. his favorite place to vacation is in hawaii. so hopefully he will tell us what he likes to do in hawaii. col. jefferson let's give the floor to you. tell us a little bit about yourself and your history with the armed forces. >> someone asked why the heck did you go to the army? remember now, 1941 world war ii was picking up. i graduated from clark college in june 1942. the draft, the first thing i did was went down from detroit, went down to the federal building, and joined. i thought they were going to send me to tuskegee because it was segregated and all of the training was at tuskegee. go home and we will call you. they put me on the list, took me almost 9 months before they called me. remember, i'm a college graduate going to tuskegee because the army navy marines were grabbing black men with college degrees. the classes after me went through three months of college training detachment. i graduated in january 1944. from tuskegee as a second lieutenant, we were sent to selfridge air

them very well. >> thank you. >> well-done. >> our fourth panelest is lieutenant commander alexander jefferson. his favorite place to vacation is in hawaii, so hopefully he'll tell us what he likes to do in hawaii. so colonel jefferson let's yield the floor to you, sir. tell us a bit of history of yourself and armed forces. >> someone asked why the hell did you go to the army? i remember 1941 world war ii was kicking out. i graduated from clark college in june '42. the draft was -- so the first thing i did was went down to the federal building and joined. i thought they were going to send me to tuskegee, put me on a list. took me almost nine months before they called me. remember now i'm a graduate, i'm a clark college graduate, and i'm in the last class going to tuskegee of college blacks or college graduates because the army, navy, marines were grabbing black men with college degrees. the classes after me went through three months of college training detachment. i graduated in january '44. from tuskegee as a second lieutenant, we were sent to -- air force base, flied a p-39 because the three

alexander hamilton, treasury secretary at the time, and thomas jefferson, secretary of state, work out a bargain with james madison and they say, all the southern states will agree to support assumption. making sure that the federal government pays all these debts from the revolutionary war, if the federal capital is placed on the potomac river. that deal is struck in 1790. you have the residence act. it is agreed the federal capital will be somewhere between and the maryland confluence of the anacostia and pacific -- potomac rivers. george washington is allowed to choose the site. he chooses the present location. slavery, why the feeling that have an impact on the location? southerngrove: the interests who are angling for a potomac capital wants to make sure the capital is in the slave south. that slavery is protected in the national capital. they are particularly interested in that because the capital had been in philadelphia for a long time before the continental congress. philadelphia was becoming increasingly hostile to slavery because there is a large quaker population that was a

thomas jefferson wrote in one of his letters to the german scientist alexander von humboldt that the law of the majority is the fundamental law of every society of individuals of equal rights. the critical words in that sentence are the last ones, of equal rights. the interests and the opinions of citizens conflict. we cannot have all have our own way. what we can expect is that the decision-making process will treat our various interests and opinions with equal consideration and respect. that is achieved by giving all of us an equal share in decision-making, even if as individual voters are influence on the outcome is minimal. a constitution which was not based on democratic choice but on some embedded schema values, such as liberalism, human rights , islamic political theology, or the dictatorship of the proletariat, would not achieve this. it would privilege the citizens who happens to agree with these values. that might not matter if values in question were universally or almost universally accepted. but you do not need to entrench values in the constitution if they are already u

jefferson's beautiful purple -- >> looking at the costum >> 1776, everyone is very formal. >> part of the history making musical, playing many roles in his career as an actor but none like alexanderton . >> he's a tough go-getter and he leaves before he thinks or speaks and i love sort of showing the cracks and the confidence . >> hamilton's unrelenting ambition pride is what made thomas turned down the lead role . >> i see a lot of myself . >> in the cast performed 7 to 8 shows a week at the orpheum . >> turn it on and give the runaround . >> rewind, rewind . >> she sings . >> they managed to keep it fresh every time they walk on stage . >> we take you the emotional roller coaster, it's my job to try to get to the whole range gamut of emotion and sort of project it back to the back row . >> the cast started its run in san francisco, right after returning from puerto rico where creator and original alexander hamilton raise money for the hurricane stricken island. they saw the man who created the roles in action . >> he such a down to earth person a generous, honest and genuine . >> darnell abraham is a california native along with brendan chan who is from san francisco . >> these