. >>> and now, daniel blake smith recalls president andrew jackson's seizure of cherokee nation land and the cherokees' forced migration that resulted in the deaths of thousands during their journey from the southeast united states to oklahoma territory known as the trail of tears. it's about 45 minutes. [applause] >> thanks a lot. it's great, i've had the chance to be here at this wonderful independent bookstore. i just gravitate every time i have a chance to be in a place like malaprop's. just about a week ago my book had its first publication date, or as i prefer to call it, the launch, more dynamic and exciting. here's hoping you like what you hear and it's worthy of a lawn. i thought what i would do this evening ask showcase my work and start by reading a brief interpret from the book so you can get a flavor for what i'm getting at in the book and, hopefully, be coaxed into wanting to buy it yourself. and then i'll turn to some other general comments and then be glad to take questions because i'm eager to learn from my, from readers. the assassins boldly rode up at day break not

andrew jackson, u.s. grant, bill clinton, two-term presidents who were peace-time presidents who to some extent it's harder to keep them top of popular mind. >> economic boom for seven years looks good now days. >> that's precisely what we were talking about. how someone looks depends on what's going on right now. >> you know who knows more about 41 than most people is barack obama. who has a great interest, who sees him a good bit, reaches out to him a good bit, gave him the medal of freedom. i think part of that... this is my unpaid proudian view is that he believes if he's a one-term president... the kind of one-term president you want to be-- with due respect-- is george h.w. bush. >> rose: that's been said. that he would prefer to have... he'd wrather be a good one-term president than a... >> i was introducing in my article to disagree that to say that there are rare examples of the excellent one-term president. it's possible in the long sweep of history bush 41 will be see that way. i want to say so

president andrew jackson wanted to annex texas. can't do so because of the slavery question. he does recognize it as a republic on his last day in office. s his successor martin van buren won't touch the texas question because of the slavery issue. it's not until the election of 1844 that james knox polk will make the annexation of texas a political issue. and as he is being elected in the fall of 1844, john tyler will actually be responsible for the annexation of texas itself. he had tried to annex texas under a treaty. treaty needed two-thirds of both houses. well, a joint resolution simply needs a majority. pardon me, two-thirds of the senate. joint resolution needs a simple majority in each house. so by december of 1845, december 29th, 1845, texas would become the 28th state. and this 28-star flag would be a valuable flag. it remains in existence for only one year before iowa became the 29th state in december of 1846. now, two days, two days before the official entrance of texas into the union john lewis o'sullivan, magazine "democratic review" ran an editorial in which h

so he joins andrew jackson to fight in this war of 1812. and, in fact, he is the person who designed the defenses for jackson at shalmette. well, after the battle, jackson dismissed the army by march of 1815. latour is unemployed. he speaks french. he speaks spanish. he speaks english. so he's actually going to be hired by the spanish government to go on an expedition. he claims it's an expedition into the gold-producing regions of arkansas. yeah, you can actually find gold in arkansas if you're lucky. so he and jean lafitte will go up into the arkansas. and for eight months, they are out of sight. when he returns, being an architect/engineer, he drafts a map. he writes a pretty lengthy report. and ultimately he had visited the headwaters of the arkansas, the colorado rivers, and he had made it almost all the way to santa fe. and when he writes this report, he gave a copy to the spanish government. it makes its way to the captain general of cuba, the vice royal of mexico, copies were sent to all the governors of the internal provinces. man,

foreign visitors, rising politicians in america, andrew jackson came at one point, and also just the merely curious. well, they all would have been welcomed, they would have been welcomed in this room. and madison really created this room to make a powerful impression. visitor after visitor talked about the presidential splendor of this room. it really did reflect his entire career as a statesman, as a virginia planter, as a force in the creation of the american nation. they also talk about it as a real history lesson, and madison intended it that way, because for madison, the history of humanity was really his laboratory. and he had studied past attempts at self-government, so he knew that what america was today was founded on the past. and this room tells you that history. in fact, the picture over here, kind of shocking i'm sure for many of his visitors, but, in fact, that's a pan figure and a nymph. this is alluding to the ancient world, the ancient greece, to rome, the birthplace of democracy, the foundation of the philosophy and ideas on which the american constitution was base

andrew jackson came at one point about and also the merely curious. they would have been welcomed in the room. and plads created this room to make a powerful impression. visitor after visitor talked about the presidential splendor of this room. it really did reflect his entire career as a statesman, as a virginia planter, as a force in the creation of the american nation. they also talked about it as a real history lesson. madison intended it that way. for madison, the history of humanity was his laboratory. he studied past attempts at self-government, so he knew that what america today was founded on the past. this room tells you that history. in fact, a picture here kind of shocking, i'm sure, for many of his visitors, but in fact, that's a pan figure and a nymph. this is alluding to the ancient world. to ancient greece, rome, the birthplace of democracy, the foundation of the philosophy and ideas on which the american constitution was based. across from the painting is a huge depiction of the super at a mass. for madison that picture talks about th

they were like the 18th century brangelina. ( laughter ) ( applause ) and andrew jackson-- ( applausery didn't force the civilized tribes on a five-state death march. they were hiking the appalachian trail and got lost. i mean, we're still looking for them. in the 19, we're keeping uheir continent warm. of course, we're also going to want to cut out this part of our history where we're lying to our kids about those parts of our history. but i think in the end, they'll thank us for not teaching them the bad parts because those who don't learn their history are doomed to repeat it. so we might as well make the history they're doomed to repeat a nice one. and that's the word. we'll be right back. ( cheers and applause ) everyone, meet my boyfrie!d hey. that's the guy i was telling you about. hi! i'm diet dr pepper guy. let me get you a drink. wow. i just didn't believe you. oh, i know! he thinks a drink as satisfying as has no calories! it's true. and diet dr pepper has the 23 flavors you love. it just tastes so good! oh no... anyone got a mop? ( cheers and applause ). >> stephen: welcom

they were like the 18th century brangelina. ( laughter ) ( applause ) and andrew jackson-- ( applausery didn't force the civilized tribes on a five-state death march. they were hiking the appalachian trail and got lost. i mean, we're still looking for them. in the 19, we're keeping uheir continent warm. of course, we're also going to want to cut out this part of our history where we're lying to our kids about those parts of our history. but i think in the end, they'll thank us for not teaching them the bad parts because those who don't learn their history are doomed to repeat it. so we might as well make the history they're doomed to repeat a nice one. and that's the word. we'll be right back. ( cheers and applause ) ( cheers and applause ). >> stephen: welcome back, everybody. my guest tonight has a new album that is being released as a series of apps. i'm looking forward to her new book being released on an electric razor. please welcome bjork. ( cheers and applause ) hey! lovely to meet you. thank you so much. now, now, we actually are recording this interview after you sang the so

he went to the hermitage, actually and worked for jackson's, the federalist working for andrew jackson, the crazy populist democrat, but he'll do that, you know. he'll go that far and eventually he'll go to france and have a biography of napoleon and there he died but his wife became a very pitiful figure, pretty dependent upon drugs and things and died a pauper, but lee and his other brother charles carter, carter lee spent a lot of times trying to figure out what they could possibly do for their mother. they ended up sending her money, but it was never enough and that was black horse harry, and he was the one who had literally lost the farm. it was sold and eventually came to be betsy mccarty who was the sister of black horse harry's wife and she eventually was -- she, for 50 years, was the mistress of stratford. >> thank you so much. [ applause ] >> folks, we are madly counting the ballots in the back. we will give the television audience just a few minutes with emory. rather than us taking a break, by the time everybody gets up and walks out and walks back in, why don't you talk am

andrew jackson, pridz andrew jackson had a slogan, equal opportunity for all, special privileges for none. very kind of basic idea, and people might see this as really hitting up against that. >> bain capital lobbied against closing the loophole. there have been seven attempts to close the loophole in recent years. democrats and republicans have chosen not to do so. >> right, i think the wealth gap is going to be a big issue in this campaign. i think president obama made it an issue in the state of the union saying there ought to be a minimum 30% tax rate, and he's raised the buffett rule, et cetera, et cetera, so it's going to be there. the wall street journal wrote something interesting after romney's taxes came out. look, there's a way he can turn this around, erin. that's to say use his own tax return as exhibit a. and say, you know what, this is why we need tax reform. this is why we need lower taxes. this is why we need flatter taxes, and by the way, if you lower the corporate tax, then maybe you take away this loophole. >> interesting point because david from, this is somethin

found 60 historical documents stashed inside, among those, inaugural invitations, a paper by andrew jackson. >> in terms of their value to america, they are priceless. >> reporter: land ow is now accused of library theft across the northeast. at times hiding documents in secret pockets in their jackets. library officials are just relieved history is now back where it belongs. >> they say nothing exciting happens in the library. >> reporter: and the historical society is now trying to find the funding to install security cameras throughout the building. >> at least they're being good natured about it now. thank you very much. landow faces a maximum of 15 years beelined bars. >>> a suspected car thief runs inside the freedom and democracy academy. officers searched the building, but they never found the suspect. >>> the nation's eyes are on a former uva lacrosse player standing trial in the death of his girlfriend. the field of jurors narrows. we are in the court following developments in virginia. >> reporter: at the university of virginia, love and hughley were popular students and lacrosse

for two earth works with 14 guns flanking river three miles downstream from new orleans where andrew jackson had stopped the british in 1815. but nothing was going to stop faragate. five of his ships including the hartford came on firing crushing broad sides into the works. in 20 minutes the confederate guns were silenced. those who could run were running in every direction. cut off and isolated downriver with troops approaching the forts, the garrison at ft. jackson mutinied and both ports surrendered and navy ships that remained there on april 28th. furagate lead the fleet to new orleans where they found ships burning and thousands of bails of cotton floating down the river also on fire destroyed by the confederates to prevent their capture. mobs rioted in the streets and threatened the yankees with bloody vengeance. the future southern author, george washington cable, witnessed the fury of this mob. the crowds on the levee howled and screamed with rage, he recalled. the swarming decks answered never a word but one old tar on the hartford standing beside a great pivot gun so plain to view

was a protege of andrew jackson, the man from tennessee. and jackson, this was -- the national bank at that point was sort of a predecessor to the fed today, but jackson didn't like it. he thought it could be corrupted. so folks, he said and the fourth thick i want -- thing i want to do is i want california. he looked at the map of the time, and he didn't like what he saw. he saw america over here, and there was a whole bunch of territory over there, and he wanted coast to coast. he wanted to buy it. he didn't want a war, that wasn't his style. but he was ready to take it if he had to. and so he offered mexico a substantial sum of money in those todays for california. of course, they said no. you don't go around buying territory. and, actually, the regime at the time that was even discussing it with him was overturned by armed revolt simply for addressing the question of whether or not we do want to sell california to the americans. and at the same time, there was another teach question brewing in -- deep question brewing in 1845, 1846 over

to the victor go the spoils and andrew jackson was one of the first guys to do this. >> and emac, what do you think? >> i opened the history books, too. and our founding fathers including thomas jefferson. said no way, no how should it go on. it is not for the white house to do this. and wasn't the stimulus one big grant. and a lot of that money by the way didn't go where unemployment is the biggest. a remote town got the airport and they got no money to create a better airport and create jobs. >> a lot of those jobs counted creative by the stimulus have gone away. steve, you are founding fathers of fosh bes on fox. >> they should do away with the grant and mike is right. reduce the size of government. the good things, voters are acting before congress does. ben nelson looked for new opportunitis and a lot of congress persons got defeated in 2010. >> guys, what about the idea that a president who wants to get things done ought to use the leverage. >> not with our money. >> no, no, no, no, no. that is thinking that the model t would be on the road. cash for clunkers and general motors a

the torches of andrew jackson, this lamp presented to mrs. grover cleveland, and this waste basket of president grant, guaranteed to attract the yuck b -- young boys who visit us. the chandelier has an interesting story behind it. it was designed for the east room in president grant's time. but it soon passed room to room until it finally wound up gracing president theodore rooseve roosevelt's new office. every time the door opened it tinkled, distracting him greatly. he ordered it to be sent to the capitol. and he was supposed to have said, put it in the vice president's office and it will keep it awake. and there it remained until my husband became vice president in 1961. during mrs. kennedy's renovation, this room has seen many tree signings. in our time i've witnessed two treaties here involving the geographic extremes of our country. the first was the capital treaty which made the summer home of franklin eleanor roosevelt an international park between canada and the united states. behind this table, prime minister pearson of canada and m

and of course many people accused andrew jackson of being a king. king andrew. that's why the wigs took the title they did. the presidency, as you know, is a very powerful office. article ii is so vague that the office can be stretched to extraordinary lengths if one wants to do it. and war time conditions of course were exactly what madison and jefferson feared. because those are the conditions under which executive authority expands, and that's why they feared war so deeply. >> of course, there's -- then there's that wonderful letter of hamilton's when the deadlock in 1800 -- this is before the house and there's some federalists who are thinking let's put burr in the presidency and hamilton said no, don't do that. but one of his arguments is that based on his judgment of jefferson, i think the phrase is he'll want to come into a good estate. i think that's psychologically shrewd, despite his rhetoric. he'll enjoy those powers. >> jefferson had -- burr had no principles whatsoever. and jefferson he said has a modicum of principles. >> good enough. close enough.

following may, but faces an electorate that has not granted a second term to any president since andrew jackson. the campaign is vicious and lincoln becomes convinced by summer he will lose. but then human victory in atlanta releases the country's grim mood and lincoln wins handily in november. >> if he wins, i can keep him ignorant of my affairs. >> it has long been a broad question that the liberties of the -- strong enough to maintain it's own existence in greet emergencies. the election was a necessity. we cannot have free government without elections and if the rebellion could force us to forego or postpone a national election, it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruin us. >> we can afford to be triumphed and cheer feel and i assure you i am -- wang the great distinction conferred upon him will ever remain disinterested in all that concerns himself. >> vickery, preservation of the union and the eradication of slavery under the 13th amendment now seem imminent. in virginia as general grant closes in on general lee, president lincoln rushes to the front to witness the final sc

you would, think of the fun you could have had in a campaign with andrew jackson's whose mom was accused of being a britiefr whore, you could -- so the point is, all of this talk about the most negative ever, negative advertising, it's absolutely, is absolutely not new. so we can say from those quick examples, from the examples that you gave, from the examples that launched our time here, that campaigns are not negatively -- not necessarily worse, it's not going into the whole discussion of yellow journalism around the turn of the century and the sorts of messages that were put out in american politics. when you look at the evidence, there's strong theoretical reasons and actually pretty strong evidence to show negative advertising doesn't always mobilize, doesn't always inform. but not only the work that i have done, the work that i have done with my colleague, paul freedman at the university of virginia, and with mike franz at boden and others have done like darrol west who used to be at brown and now is at brookings, really there's been one major article that has found that negative a

one of the things you do in a transformation, like andrew jackson did or thomas jefferson, you move the whole center of politics. you change the whole conversation, as you'll see. people would commonly use that to describe ronald reagan. ronald reagan changed the whole conversation about politics. instead of the conversation being what can government do, reagan changed it to what problems has the government caused. franklin roosevelt changed the whole conversation about politics. it's very difficult to talk in terms of the conservative politics of the 1920s anymore, after the new deal and the political triumphs of fdr. what else? >> changing expectations regarding the president as initiator of legislation. >> absolutely. now we're beginning to talk about some changes of the presidency itself. it's not that other presidents didn't initiate legislation. woodrow wilson did. theodore roosevelt did. but none kind of led and directed the national agenda on policy as much as fdr. he really -- anyone even remember who the leaders of congress was? you know? maybe, you know, a political junkie li

no president since andrew jackson had sought or received a nomination for a second was 30 president had run for re-election. many people concluded it was lincoln grabbing what wast of free speech, power of the people and grabbing it all for himself. not unexpectedly, a brutal campaign followed. during all of it, lincoln did absolutely nothing to suppress antirepublican, pro-democratic journalism, even had when it called for armistice, recognition of the confederacy, denounce the emancipation proclamation because it was back to politics and with no bars held, no restrictions by the government. with some justification, at least in the minds of many of his contemporaries, lincoln might have postponed the election entirely. no nation before it ever staged a popular election in the midst of a civil war. it was unprecedented. but even with the american people as he put it partially paralyzed by a political war among themselves, he argued if the rebellion could force us to forego a national election, it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us. the election went on. lincoln h

the british were imposing on us at the time and that is a refrain throughout american history andrew jackson was fighting the first bank of america and you can talk more about the current iteration of bank of america but that idea that these corporations get special privileges from the government and then use those special privileges to leverage that advantage leverage the wealth and try to get more power i think is a constant story it's one of the things that go with a corporate charter is a threat and i think we always understood that and occasionally we forget it or we lose some battles like with santa clara in the gilded age took away our constitutional rights because we didn't keep an adequate eye on corporate power but we pushed back with the progressive era the new deal again in the sixty's and seventy's we had to push back and now we have to do it again and i think this idea that the line gets blurred it will happen if we don't manage what in the book i call corporations or they're a tool that's what they're not a person they're nothing more exotic than a tool and they're like gasoli

citizens andrew jackson famously said to the supreme court you know you guys have made your decision trying to force if this was in the church the indians or us back in the eighteenth thirty's could montana just say you know we're standing by this dam you know i'm a rule of law kind of guy i mean what the supreme court did was despicable but i'm asking what's right or was legal i'm asking you know can montana actually continue to defy the u.s. supreme court the supreme court has no enforcement mechanism the supreme court doesn't have an in force mechanism but i don't want to live in a world where states are deciding on their own what the wall is and you know we see a lot of conservatives invoking cation theories to say oh we can just ignore the affordable care act we can ignore gun laws are you don't think they'll do it i don't think they'd bill do it and frankly i don't think they should i think citizens united should be overruled and i think it's you know i mean legally i'm totally in agreement i was curious with him thanks so much for dropping by tonight illuminating this topic so