, a 17 volume series of andrew jackson speeches, of letters and other writings. >> the andrew jacksonpapers is a project that's been going on for several decades to collect and order and transcribing and publish andrew jackson's complete documentary record. every letter he wrote, every letter that was written to him, his presidential messages on his military orders scratch the paper on which he wrote notes, the autobiographical reminiscences, everything, every piece of paper that still survived on which andrew jackson left his dna and publisher these in a series of volumes are arranged chronologically as a record to be used by historians and anyone curious about andrew jackson in the times. i've been working on the project eight years as the director we back in the 1980's i was an assistant editor on the project and the project we plan 16 or 17 volumes we've published eight of them. volume mine is about to come out. we are in the middle of the presidency right now this is where we produce the volume. if you look around the room you will see boxes. all of these boxes are full of flower

that's andrew jackson's handwriting. this letter is at the university of pennsylvania, that's where we photocopied it. and there are also several other versions of this letter here because this letter provoked a little controversy, and it got into the daily newspapers. what we do is, first, we produce a transcription of the letter like this, and we send it to, we transcribe it, we put on some footnotes. if any explanation is necessary, which it often is, and then we send it to university of tennessee press, and they publish it in one of our volumes. we're finding a lot of information about everything. jackson's papers are kind of a window into everything that's going on in the united states during his presidency. he gets letters from everybody. he gets petitions from indian leaders, he gets letters from several of these from mothers whose husbands are dead and whose only son was drunk when he enlisted in the army, and she needs him home, and could the president, please, release him. we get e petitions for pardons from cr

a 17 volume series of andrew jackson have letters and speeches and other writings. >> the andrew jackson project is a project to collect and quarter and transcribe and publish and rejection's complete documentary record, every letter he wrote, every letter written to him, his presidential messages, his military orders, scraps of paper on which he wrote notes, autobiographical reminiscences he occasionally pend. every paper that transcribes where he left his dna. and publish these a series of volumes arranged chronologically as a permanent record to be used by historians and anyone curious about andrew jackson and his times. i have been working on the project as director of the project in the 1980s, i was assistant editor on the project. the project -- we have published eight of 17 volumes. volume 9 is about to come out. we are in the middle of the presidency right now. this is where we produce the volume. if you look around you will see boxes. all of these boxes are full of folders and in each folder is and andrew jackson argument. the ones that are out on the table are the ones we're wo

but i feel divided withad great admiration and great reservationousl about figuresurs like andrew jackson. >> surge in a jackson wasi our last president towel personally shoot otherully people in duels. [laughter] i think with political old this port -- discourse and -- and debate if you knew the back story of old hickory.ohnn [laughter] . .

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 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,

maybe andrew jackson was mean when he was president, but we don't elect them to the highest office in the land. newt would be breaking the barrier. >> do you want a guy as president who likes wrestling in a cesspool? both guys get dirty. he doesn't want to run on a clean field this guy. >> no, let's also keep in mind he recently fear mongered over islam and sharia law and the community center at ground zero were inflammatory. he's incredibly inflammatory and you have his, you know, his political record and what happened when he was speaker of the house, his ethics charges, philandering and his tiffany's debt. there's a lot of holes in a nut gingrich presidential campaign. >> here he is when asked about his past. he gave a strange reason. this will go down in history as my favorite, favorite cover story. let's listen. >> there's no question that times in my life, partially driven by how passionately i felt about this country, that i worked far too hard and things happened in my life that were not appropriate. what i can tell you is when i did things that were wrong, i wasn't trapped in

they don't go for the angry, excessive attack rhetoric, so maybe andrew jackson was pretty mean whens president, but we don't really elect these type of people to the highest office in the land. so newt would really be breaking a barrier. >> i think it's a fair question. would you want a guy as president who likes wrestling in a cesspool. that's what this guy is. he likes dirty as possible. both sides can get dirty and he can be a little less dirty, dirtier than the other guy. he doesn't want to run on a clean field, this guy. >> no. and let's also keep in mind that this is someone who recently has fearmongered over islam and sharia law, his comments about the community center down at ground zero were incredibly inflammatory. he's someone who has invoked the memory of auschwitz when comparing -- when talking about democratic policies and politics. he's incredibly inflammatory. and then, of course, you have his political record and what happened when he was speaker of the house, the ethics charges, his philandering, and most recently, you know, $500,000 in tiffany's debt. i mean, ther

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the answer he says is andrew jackson who would have slapped down the notion of american greatness conservatism, i.e. big government conservatism, with utter contempt because he believed, that is jackson believed, the country's greatness emanated from its people not from its government. jackson was the great conservative populist of american history and his story bears study at a time when the country seems receptive to a well crafted brand of conservative populism. indeed, mr. merry continues, conservative pop pew live is the essence of the tea -- populism is the essence of the tea party movement. suspicious of governmental faste i ever, weary of excessive global ambition, and others, these concerns and fears were jackson's concerns and fears 18 o years ago when he became president and his greatest legacy is his constant warning that governmental encroachments would lead to precisely the kinds of problems that are today besieging the country. that legacy deserves attention. mr. merry also admires thomas jefferson. he wrote, jackson was of course a democrat but the democratic party of thatter-e

he fought under andrew jackson in the indian wars only later to be jackson's bitter foe on the issue of removal of indian tribes from their homelands. crockett's contradictions extended beyond politics. he had just a few months of formal education, but yet he read. he was neither a baa foon or a great intellect, but always evolving on the stage of a nation in adolescence, a pioneer who reflected a restless nation with a gaze pointed towards the west. perhaps more than anyone of his time, david crockett was the first celebrity hero inspiring people of his own time as well the 20th century generation. the man, david crockett, may have per riched in 1936 on the final acult in the alamo, but the mythical crockett, a part on the american psyche, more than any other frontiersmen lives powerfully on. in this way, his story, then, becomes far more than a one note walt disney legend as his life continues to shed light on the means of america's national character. spoonful from a chapter entitled "kilt him abar." [laughter] david crockett believed in the wind and in the stars. this son of tenn

he fought under andrew jackson in the ruinous indian wars, only later to become jackson's bitter foe on the issue of indian -- the issue of removal of indian tribes from their homeland. crockets contradictions extended beyond politics. he had only a few months of formal education, yet he read the bard. he was neither a buffoon nor a great intellect, but a man who was always evolving on the stage of a nation in its adolescence, a pioneer whose dreams haply reflected a restless nation with a gaze pointed toward the west. perhaps more than any one of his time davy crockett was arguably our first celebrity year-old, inspiring people of his own time as well as the 20th century generation. the man, david crockett, may have perished on march 61836 in the final assault on the alamo, but the mythical davy crockett, now an integral part of the american psyche, perhaps more than any other frontiers in, live powerfully on. this way his story becomes far more than one note walt disney legend. his life continues to shed light on the meaning of america's national character. a spoonful from a chapte

that's certainly a legitimate point of view andrew jackson had it. so why would any american hate the tea party? you can disagree with it, and i have on some issues, but why the vitriol? on the other side of the spectrum, the liberal media likes the occupy wall street protesters. even though some of them are breaking the law. something the tea party does not do. these folks basically want to blow up the entire capitalistic system to achieve so-called income equality, simply put, they want socialism. trust me when i tell you few in the national media would give up their comfortable existence to give other people their stuff. so many of us here at fnc are skeptical of the far left demonstrators themselves and their media sympathizers. we don't make a moral equivalency between the anti-capitalist people and the tea party. because, again, the tea party is peaceful. and wants to work within the system. not tear it up. so when fox news reports, we being a perspective -- we bring a perspective that is lacking in most media outlets. thank god, most of you re

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they don't go for the angry, excessive attack rhetoric, so maybe andrew jackson was pretty mean whens president, but we don't really elect these type of people to the highest office in the land. so newt would really be breaking a barrier. >> i think it's a fair question. would you want a guy as president who likes wrestling in a cesspool? that's what this guy is. both sides can get dirty and he can be a little less dirty, dirtier than the other guy. he doesn't want to run on a clean field, this guy. >> no. and let's also keep in mind that this guy is someone who has recently fearmongered over islam and sharia law. his comments about the community center down at ground zero were incredibly inflammatory. he's someone who has invoked the memory of auschwitz when talking about democratic policies and politics. i mean, he's incredibly inflammatory. and then, of course, you have his political record and what happened when he was speaker of the house, the ethics charges, his philandering, and most recently, you know, $500,000 in tiffany's debt. there are a lot of holes in newt gingrich pres

. >> with andrew jackson. >> who was the governor here for a number of years in pensacola. in the past, we haven't promoted history like we should. we're starting to do it. judy bens has been doing it for years. pensacola is the first european settlement in america. 1559, pensacola was here before shakespeare was born. yet, we haven't gotten that message out before asheton. we're starting to do it now. >> it's important with cultural tourism. we have world class beaches. national sea shores. we have everything to offer for businesses to move here, for people to more here. we towed to tell this story. >> whitest beaches in the world. >> in the world. >> as white as ashton's teeth. >> trick from donny deutsch. >> let me tell you something, ironically, it's easier, less work goes into keeping the beaches white than keeping ashton's teaches that white. >> we've got white beaches. >> we've got quality of life. this is a place to move. not only tourists, people are coming here, anybody wants to get a job, i'll throw them in the car with ashton. >> great quality of life. as the go

but i think with the exception of andrew jackson there's never been something that carried forth wherelected a president. >> let me get another break in here. before we do that, a quick note. be sure to check out our website this afternoon for our "meet the press" take two web extra where i will talk to walter isaacson about his biography, steve jobs, as well as tom brokaw about his new book "the time of our lives." and you can also read excerpts from both the books on our website, mtp.msnbc.com. a quick break here. we'll be back with our trends and takeaways. a look at what was said here today and what to look for in the week ahead. >>> we're back. final moments with our roundtable. if you missed it, david plouffe was here at the top of the program and broke new ground on how the white house is going to target the opponent in this race, going after mitt romney in a pretty aggressive way. watch. >> he has no core. you get the sense with mitt romney that, you know, if he thought he -- it was good to say the sky was green and the grass was blue, that to win an election, he'd say it. >> t

someone calls up -- someone called up today before yesterday and said i have a letter from andrew jackson. would you like to see it? of course we would. there are going to be 17 volumes altogether. the first six of them lead up to the presidency and then the next week of the presidency. one volume.. we have done the first presidential volume which covers the year 1829 and the second one covering 1830. we are now on the third one which will be volume 9 of the whole series covering 1831. this is really the heart of jackson's historical importance, his eight years as president. we are devoting more to the presidency than jackson's free presidential career or his retirement years. .. >> it's from his 2000 stand-up routine, kill the messenger, and it's about alpine, new jersey, the posh town where he lives in a multimillion dollar home. his neighbors include mary j. blige and eddie murphy. rock says he and murphy are or were among the best in the world in their to possession. they're also the only four black homeowners in town. then he says his next door neighbor is a white dentist. he ain't t

now, that's the great paradox about andrew jackson. if he liked you, nobody could be kinder. if you stood in his way on something, you are in deep trouble. intime may be the most popular president we've ever had, and perhaps even the most popular military leader after washington. he had enormous prestige in his lifetime. that's how crockett got in trouble. he started opposing the jacksonians and it cost him his seat in congress and his life at the alamo basically. crockett was at the alamo as opposed to being further east, because houston was a protÉge of andrew jackson, and the political rivalry from the state of folic crockett and houston here to texas. but i feel divided with great admiration, and, obviously, some great reservation about figures like andrew jackson. >> certainly jackson was i believe our last president to personally shoot other people in duels. i mean, which i think in political discourse and debate would probably make you cause when you argued with him when you knew this back story on old hickory. well, if jackson of course is kind of the saintly bully, t

but i think with the exception of andrew jackson there's never been something that carried forth where elected a president. >> let me get another break in here. before we do that, a quick note. be sure to check out our website this afternoon for our "meet the press" take two web extra where i will talk to walter isaacson about his biography, steve jobs, as well as tom brokaw about his new book "the time of our lives." and you can also read excerpts from both the books on our website, mtp.msnbc.com. a quick break here. we'll be back with our trends and takeaways. a look at what was said here today and what to look for in a look at what was said here today and what to look for in the week ahead. the world's airports land a plane every second. but over the next 20 years, air traffic is expected to double. the systems that track, manage and connect these flights weren't built to handle all that data. ibm is working with boeing on a next generation system to help integrate global air traffic more efficiently and in real time. making another of the world's most critical systems smarter. that

but i think with the exception of andrew jackson there's never been something that carried forth where elected a president. >> let me get another break in here. before we do that, a quick note. be sure to check out our website this afternoon for our "meet the press" take two web extra where i will talk to walter isaacson about his biography, steve jobs, as well as tom brokaw about his new book "the time of our lives." and you can also read excerpts from both the books on our website, mtp.msnbc.com. a quick break here. we'll be back with our trends and takeaways. a look at what was said here today and what to look for in hus at aweahead.re plus what are the hot political stories trending this very morning. some take years to diagnose and treat. how can doctors find insights in a body of medical knowledge that doubles every five years? new solutions based on ibm watson are being developed to help doctors analyze a patient's history, symptoms and the latest medical literature to make faster, more accurate diagnoses. hello. my name is watson. let's build a smarter planet. there's a moment

but i think with the exception of andrew jackson there's never been something that carried forth where a president. >> let me get another break in here. before we do that, a quick note. be sure to check out our website this afternoon for our "meet the press" take two web extra where i will talk with walter isaacson about his biography, steve jobs, as well as tom brokaw about his new book "the time of our lives." and you can also read excerpts from both the books on our website, mtp.msnbc.com. a quick break here. we'll be back with our trends and takeaways. a look at what was said here today and what to look for in the week ahead. >>> plus, what are the hot political stories trending this very morning. right after this. we're centurylink... a new kind of broadband company committed to providing honest, personal service from real people... 5-year price-lock guarantees... consistently fast speeds... and more ways to customize your technology. ♪ whose non-stop day starts with back pain... and a choice. take advil now and maybe up to four in a day. or choose aleve and two pills for a day fr

>> andrew jackson said that "he looks like god and talks like god." >> charles evans hughes -- the republican presidential nominee soon after the national convention. tonight, we looked at the life and legacy of charles evans hughes who was a two-term governor, secretary of state, and twice a supreme court justice. he was perhaps best known as one of the co-authors of the new deal. we're broadcasting live across from the capitol. he inaugurated this building when it first opened in 1935. let me introduce you to our guests this evening were joining us to talk about the life and legacy of charles evans hughes. my first guest is an historian, and bernadette higher -- bernadette tyler is a professor at cornell law school. i want you to set the stage for us. 1916, woodrow wilson wants to be reelected. frame what was going on in the country and the presidential campaign. >> president wilson said it would be a tragedy if his administration was defined by foriegn policy. it turned out to be just that. america starts his term focusing on the progressive era, the income tax, lowering the tariffs, the f

>> andrew jackson said that hughes "looks like god and talks like god." >> charles evans hughes -- the republican presidential nominee soon after the national convention. tonight, we look at the life and legacy of charles evans hughes who was a two-term governor, secretary of state, and twice a supreme court justice. he was perhaps best known as one of the co-authors of the new deal. we're broadcasting live across from the capitol. he inaugurated this building when it first opened in 1935. let me introduce you to our guests this evening were joining us to talk about the life and legacy of charles evans hughes. my first guest is an historian, david pietrusza, and bernadette meyler is a professor at cornell law school. i want you to set the stage for us. 1916, woodrow wilson wants to be reelected. frame what was going on in the country and the presidential campaign. >> president wilson said it would be a tragedy if his administration was defined by foriegn policy. it turned out to be just that. america starts his term focusing on the progressive era, the income tax, lowering the tariffs,

when andrew jackson got rid of the debt it was the one time anybody has. the way the wheels are turning in the opposite direction as we think they are money isn't actually the scarce resource like petroleum or something where there's only so much. but how much we create and who gets it. that is the real political struggle. on a global scale is similar for most of cold war history. the countries actually were holding the treasury bond. the u.s. has this advantage it can raise checks and treat them like gold and use reserve currency by the rest of the world. there used to be west germany was one of the bigger holders and gold states and japan and south korea. they are all under u.s. military protection in one way or other. in a way the amount of debt is the same or increases with military spending so people are lending as the money to create these armies that never quite pay it back. now that china is involved is more complicated but that is the symptom being challenged and it is simply true that the last few hundred years the global reserve currency tended

jesse jackson, congressman john lewis, ambassador andrew young, and our elder statesman, reverend josephy who turned 90 years old, 90 years young just last week. welcome. [applause] dan -- >> thank you very much. i'm humbled to be here. heroes are honored in their time. legends live through the ages. while considering dr. king's legacy, an obscure poem called "lifters and leaners" comes to mind. dr. king was a world class lifter. others leaned on him, i never saw his shoulders give way or his backbend. he was as great a man as i have ever seen. the historical weight of this long overdue monument reminds us that we must be lifters' now. in the 1960's as today, divisiveness was based on fear and prejudice and misinformation. now with the cost and 24 hour news cycle, the power of misinformation has increased. we must remind ourselves that intelligence drums in ignorance every time -- trumps ignorance every time. when given the facts, people make good decisions. that leads to a problem dr. king faced 50 years ago, one that is worse today and that is the court for visitation, the politicizati

then does a guy named andrew jackson who says, jefferson -- 28 years later.ferson, jackson, lincoln, theodore roosevelt, franklin roosevelt, lyndon johnson, ronald reagan, and that clock has come around again. this is an important time. if i thought the only thing happening in america is what is happening in washington, d.c., i would be incredibly discouraged. but i believe what is happening in america is, we're having this big debate about who we're going to be for 25 or 30 years. to not let your friends think and not think you can set this one up. because it is not going to come around again for a long time. decide if we are going to be like everybody else or not. we're trying to decide if we should be more like western europe. by the way, western europe is pretty aggressively trying to become eastern europe. and eastern europe is trying to be the same thing we are. and we're going to decide who we are. we are going to be everybody else, or are we going to be the united states of america? [applause] i had a coordinator in my senate campaign. in 2009, my acc

you'll hear from civil rights leaders like jesse jackson, andrew young, people that knew king, hear from children. actresses like sicily tyson, of course president obama will be speaking. and aretha franklin is supposed to sing and will be a big deal down here tomorrow morning, alino. you have seen pictures of the memorial itself. it was more than two decades in the making. it cost $120 million and the center piece is a statue of dr. king emerging from this stone of hope and, of course, on the walls around the site are inscribed lines from dr. king's speeches and sermons. and so, that's what we'll be looking at tomorrow. should be a big day. >> very lucky to be there. i wish i was up there with you. all right. thank you so much for that. >>> our friend roland martin will be actually hosting the event. and my friend tommy hilfiger among the speakers and may speak to him tomorrow. today we are talking to reverend al sharpton about the king remoirl and the march for jobs he is organizing happens today in washington. he will join us at the top of the next hour. much more on the dedication to

>> andrew jackson said that hughes "looks like god and talks like god."ughter] >> charles evans hughes -- the republican presidential nominee soon after the national convention. tonight, we look at the life and legacy of charles evans hughes who was a two-term governor, secretary of state, and twice a supreme court justice. he was perhaps best known as one of the co-authors of the new deal. -- the chief justice jury the new deal. we're broadcasting live across from the capitol. he inaugurated this building when it first opened in 1935. let me introduce you to our two guests this evening were joining -- who are joining us to talk about the life and legacy of charles evans hughes. my first guest is an historian, david pietrusza, and bernadette meyler is a professor at cornell law school. a that is his alma mater. i want you to set the stage for us. 1916, woodrow wilson wants to be reelected. europe is at war. frame what was going on in the country and the presidential campaign. >> president wilson said it would be a tragedy if his administration was defined

andrew young also spoke, jesse jackson spoke, king's children as you mentioned, ber niece king and martinuther king iii and some of the people behind the monument of people who made it happen, the foundation that raised this money. it's a monument costing $120 million. we heard poetry from nicky giovanni and gospel songs from singers. you see behind me there's a concert going on. of course the president left some time ago, but there's still performing a concert for the people who came out, many of them traveling from far away, for this event. we've heard james taylor sing, sheryl crow, and so it's been a big day of celebration here. one thing that i should mention that's been it interesting in the speeches we heard there was a political undertone. we heard a little poll it ticks in ber niece king's speech, dr. king's daughter, al sharpton's speech, andrew young's speech and from president obama himself. at one point he made a reference to the protests going on on wall street and now around the world, really, saying that if dr. king were here today, he would remind us that an unemployed wo