and andrew jackson, as you probably know, each of the bank. we didn't have a central bank then until we got the federal reserve. and you need a central bank. a central bank really controls money, and sees to it that the money is good and worth its value. okay? >> i know he is not one of your biggies but i'm from new york so i might be biased. you're from new york as well? [laughter] >> millard fillmore as you've described is an important ingredient in this compromise, and yet you also don't seem to think much of them. neither do many historians i think because of his signing of the fugitive slave law. to what cute a treatment the disparity between henry clay being a hero of the compromise were as millard fillmore is almost disparaged for it because of his reputation and his signing of the fugitive slave law? >> i'm not sure what you're asking. >> millard fillmore is almost attacked for implementing henry clay's compromise. just because they focused on the one aspect of the fugitive slave law. and so he was like, you know, you are praising henr

so, that was very briefly, the state of the cherokee nation when andrew jackson appeared on the scene by the time he was elected president, jackson had a new grievance and i would say a very legitimate one. he felt that he had been cheated out of the presidency in 1824. what happened was he won the popular vote. he won the majority of votes in the electoral college, but he did not win enough votes in the college to be declared president, so the race was thrown into the house of representatives. now, if we remember the year 2000, we remember that that kind of disputed election can rankle long after it has officially been decided and that was certainly the case with jackson. he felt victimized. then, in -- well 1824, that same year, the reason john quincy adams was able to become president, even though he played second to jackson and the areas that should have counted was that henry clay would come in fourth, and a very extraordinary man, clay. part of writing this book was getting to know more about him but he entrusted -- distrusted distrust of the military man as president. and he pa

they had this strict code of who we should be as americans, and then i had andrew jackson fanning thentact, down to george bush in 2008. all of the characters that appear are real characters that are taken from my research. we are an interesting mix and i want to provoke wonder about who we are. every one of the characters are taken from actual photographs or documents that i found in my research on american history. in a lot of my banners, you conceal -- uc the melting pot, the imagery and myth that we use in our culture. talking about these reductions of all these different mixes of people, how you distill the experience. that is something i want to think about, collecting the ideas and ingredients, and i wanted to do the san francisco de lexie. -- elixir. we found a spring water underneath a church in cow hollow. we put rosebuds in the water to attract peace, and it made a meade. it was sitting in the gallery. we distill that through local herbs. it was really surprising how delicious it was, because we were mixing a lot of seemingly in congruent ingredients, and it was delicious a

now, the thing is that he has -- you know, he wrote a book and andrew jackson. he had a vested interest. and so to me we had a difference of opinion. jackson was fantastic in so many ways. almost literally fantastic. a fantasy figure. but i don't agree. now, i mean, certainly entitled to his opinion. it ..

all along the way there were places where we couldn't go to the andrew jackson hotel, we couldn't go to morten's cafeteria. there was a paramount theatre, we had to go in the back door, separate water fountains. it was a very negative experience. when i got to the library, right above the door, all are welcome. i could go in the front door. i could remember the librarian, she had a bonnet on the back of her head. very sensible shoes. i look at librarians today, that is how they look. she always spoke in a whisper. didn't talk out loud in the library. whispered. she was so kind to me that i loved librarians. when they ask me to do something, it is hard for me to say no. and that is why i flew in the dark at night from atlanta to come out here. [laughter]. but it is because of that generosity of the national public library. so i went there to get my books and i would bring them home and read all 3. then the next week i would take them back to the library. i would read often. when you read better, you read success. i credit the national public library with my successes as a young reader

they had this strict code of who we should be as americans, and then i had andrew jackson fanning the flames. this first contact, down to george bush in 2008. all of the characters that appear are real characters that are taken from my research. we are an interesting mix and i want to provoke wonder about who we are. every one of the characters are taken from actual photographs or documents that i found in my research on american history. in a lot of my banners, you conceal -- uc the melting pot, the imagery and myth that we use in our cul

one of the impeachment trial of andrew jackson. and i've anyone coming out this fall on their inverse western conspiracy called american ever. the other folks involved come from journalism. there are book writers as well. we been so lucky in recruiting reviewers. we have a book on the eichmann trial in israel. were able to get judge patricia wald who was on the war crimes tribunal from yugoslavia. we've been able to get the leading constitutional scholar, to look any first amendment vote for us. we've just had a terrific response from people, just as an example, a professor at mit who has a wonderful book out. we've been able to get top notch reviewers, and it's an exciting thing. everybody in this operation works for the same amount of money, nobody is paid. that includes our reviews. so it's just wonderful to see people willing to pitch in to create this conversation about the book, the world of books which is really what we are all about. spector has been a decline in traditional media review of books, but online there is quite

but even then if one goes back to to, say, the seminole war which was fought by andrew jackson before he became president, one finds jackson and his friends asserting that indians and escaped slaves located in florida were attacking american settlements across the florida/alabama border and, therefore, we needed to retaliate in order to defend america. looking more closely into that, which i do in the book, one finds something very interesting. first of all, those attacks by the indians were not initial attacks, they were retaliatory attacks. they were retaliatory attacks because the indians were welcoming escaped slaves from the south and making them seminoles and treating them with dignity. because of that, white southerners were going, attacking across the border to reclaim their property. and because of those attacks, there were a few reprisal attacks, not very many, by the indians. the moral of this is when jackson marched into spanish florida and seized the state, and seized the territory which later became the state of florida, he was not doing it in many defense of american li

describes his assent and how he fashioned himself -- tried to fashion himself after his hero, andrew jackson. he comes of age during the age of jackson. a unionist. he is for the common man. he complains for the homestead act. there's lots of things about him that seems very, very progressive and popular. but as you know, populism has this sort of -- there's a double-edge sword there. lots of time populists are in favor of measures that you would think would be progressive. he was for, you know, the homestead act, giving poor people land. he wanted public education. he was always a champion of public education thinking about back on his own life and how deprived he was. he wanted a better shot for people. people who didn't -- who weren't privileged. the catch was he only wanted that for whites. he was for the homestead act as i said but when reconstruction came and there was a time to give land reform, the republicans in congress wanted land reform in the south. to give the former enslaved people to give them land, to buy them -- to give them the kind of independence that johnson and others

. >> with the andrew jackson symbolic victory over the british in january of 1815, the war comes to ase on a triumphant note for the country. >> the white house was rebuilt in triumph. madison said come up it will be rebuilt. >> in a ground-floor service call, you can still see the regional burn marks left. as james madison would have looked at these charges tons in the archway, the house was rising again. with construction taking over two years to complete, james and dolley madison would never live here again. it was time for a new president and his wife to make their mark on the home. they are some of the oldest remaining items and they were brought to the white house by a president and first lady whose influence is seen all around the home, but centered in the blue room. >> the blue room is the monroes. the wheels of the united states were really turning and began to come to life. monroe thought that the era of good feeling would last forever. people began moving west in big numbers. >> in furnishing the house, and james monroe and his wife were into french furnishing. he wanted al

. >> with the andrew jackson symbolic victory over the british in january of 1815, the war comes to ase on a triumphant note for the country. it helps restore part of the madisons' public reputation. >> the white house was rebuilt in triumph. madison said come up it will be rebuilt. >> in a ground-floor service call, you can still see the regional burn marks left. -- our original burn marks left. as james madison would have looked at these charges tons in the archway, the house was rising again. just as george washington designed it, but with construction taking over two years to complete, james and dolley madison would never live here again. it was time for a new president and his wife to make their mark on the home. they are some of the oldest remaining items and they were brought to the white house by a president and first lady whose influence is seen all around the home, but centered in the blue room. >> the blue room is the monroes. one of the most authentic in the house. if i would go back, i would go back to the monroe period after the war of 1812. the wheels of the united stat

. >> from the surrounding streets to the historic debate that has been here since andrew jackson, theress. >> good morning. welcome to the white house. are you excited to be here? >> for the younger generation, the white house is still one of those symbols of america. people will continue to wrestle with that as long as the winehouse stands. regardless of whether you are 20 or 55, the white house still has meaning. >> what is so special about this place is that when you are here, you feel connected to people who lived here a century ago. the fact that this is all in one house gives us an were exquisite glantz of the past, present, and the future. >> i think of personal stories from the lives of presidents who've lived here before us. everyone knows the white house as the major landmark and as both home and office to the president of the united states. i hope peace will -- people also know it as a personal home. >> we want to let people know that this is part of your legacy as an american citizen. >> the white house hopefully always will be a place to which americans feel emotionally b

constitutionality of the second national bank in case you will hear a lot about today, present andrew jackson vetoed the renewal of the bank because he viewed it as unnecessary and improper. therefore, he found it to be unconstitutional. he wrote, "in our wer is so absolute that the supreme court will not call into question the constitutionality of an act of congress, the subject of which is not prohibited and is really calculated to affect any of the obstruction to government, it becomes us to proceed in r legislation with the utmost caution." therefore, regardless of how the supreme court may rule, each of you must decide for urself whether the mandate is truly necessary to provide for the portability of insurance, if one changes jobs or moves. each of you must decide if commandeering that americans enter into contractual relations with the private company for the rest of their lives is a proper exercise. if you conclude that the mandate is either unnecessary or improper, let president jackson -- like president jackson, you're obligated to conclude it is unconstitutional and support s repea

on the improper clause to uphold the constitutionality of the second national bank, president andrew jackson vetoed the renewal of the bank because he viewed the bank as unnecessary and improper. therefore, he founded to be unconstitutional. he wrote that if our power is so absolute that the supreme court will not call and question the constitutionality of an act of congress is not prohibited and calculated to effect any of the objects entrusted to government, it becomes us to proceed in our legislation with the utmost caution. regardless of how the supreme court may eventually rule, each of you must decide for yourselves whether the mandate is truly necessary to provide for the portability of insurance. each of you must decide if commandeering that americans enter into contractual relations with the company for the rest of their lives is a proper exercise of the commerce power. if you conclude that the mandate is either unnecessary or improper, like president jackson, you are obligated to conclude is unconstitutional and to support its appeal. if you do not find that the mandate is unconsti

constitutionality of the second national bank in case you will hear a lot about today, president andrew jackson vetoed the renewal of the bank because he viewed it as unnecessary and improper. therefore, he found it to be unconstitutional. he wrote, "in our power is so absolute that the supreme court will not call into question the constitutionality of an act of congress, the subject of which is not prohibited and is really calculated to affect any of the obstruction to government, it becomes us to proceed in our legislation with the utmost caution." therefore, regardless of how the supreme court may rule, each of you must decide for yourself whether the mandate is truly necessary to provide for the portability of insurance, if one changes jobs or moves. each of you must decide if commandeering that americans enter into contractual relations with the private company for the rest of their lives is a proper exercise. if you conclude that the mandate is either unnecessary or improper, let president jackson -- like president jackson, you're obligated to conclude it is unconstitutional and support i

constitutionality of the second national bank in case you will hear a lot about today, president andrew jackson vetoed the renewal of the bank because he viewed it as unnecessary and improper. therefore, he found it to be unconstitutional. he wrote, "in our power is so absolute that the supreme court will not call into question the constitutionality of an act of congress, the subject of which is not prohibited and is really calculated to affect any of the obstruction to government, it becomes us to proceed in our legislation with the utmost caution." therefore, regardless of how the supreme court may rule, each of you must decide for yourself whether the mandate is truly necessary to provide for the portability of insurance, if one changes jobs or moves. each of you must decide if commandeering that americans enter into contractual relations with the private company for the rest of their lives is a proper exercise. if you conclude that the mandate is either unnecessary or improper, let president jackson -- like president jackson, you're obligated to conclude it is unconstitutional and support i

constitutionality of the second national bank in case you will hear a lot about today, president andrew jackson vetoed the renewal of the bank because he viewed it as unnecessary and improper. therefore, he found it to be unconstitutional. he wrote, "in our power is so absolute that the supreme court will not call into question the constitutionality of an act of congress, the subjt of which is not prohibited and is really calculated to affect any of the obstruction to government, it becomes us to proceed in our legislation with the utmost caution." therefore, regardless of how the supreme court may rule, each of you must decide for yourself whether the mandate is truly necessary to provide for the portabilitof insurance, if one changes jobs or moves. each of you must decide if commandeering that americans enter into contractual relations with the private company for the rest of their lives is a proper exercise. if you conclude that the mandate is either unnecessary or improper, let president jackson -- like president jackson, you're obligated to conclude it is unconstitutional and support its p

andrew brightbart claiming his video damaged her reputation. >>> ten minutes before 9:00, tv coverage plans for the trial of michael jackson's doctor will be cubeddr.conrad murray has pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter charges. attorneys are also expected to present the list of witnesses who could be called to testify. the trial is expected to start march 24th. >>> later this afternoon, president obama and the first lady will hand out the nation's highest civilian honor to 15 people among those in line for the presidential medal of freedom are former president bush. he's seen her visiting m r. obama. other recipients include angel merkel, investor warren buffett, and baseball hall of famer stan musia. >> stan the man. >>> dorell juvenile group, the company is recalling almost 800,000 child safety seats maxy cozy, costco and safety first brand. the recall covers infant, convertible and booster child restraint systems sold individually or as part of the volar -- stroller. officials say the lightning and release button does not always go to the locked position. now you can go to the channel 2 website, ktvu.com. we've got a link to that

him when he became aware of the condition of freddie mac and fannie mae, why didn't he pull an andrew jackson? >> host: lara brown. >> guest: well he does refer to fannie mae and freddie mac. those are certainly issues he talks about and puts out there that he had been employed essentially the house banking committee to sort of act on the issue and deal with the banking reform. i don't recall anything about the execution and the book because he talked very little about his time. >> guest: >> host: we've got a few minutes left. what we haven't talked about that you wanted to bring up from the boat. so think about that for just a minute as we take this last call from san jose california. go ahead, patrick. >> caller: i want to thank you for being there, c-span is a service to the american people to educate and intimate them informed on these matters of great importance, such as the lives of presidents. i feel though that in this recent panel discussion, you have done a disservice to c-span two show the president being interviewed and selling his book, only to have a follow-up show, where the re