andrew jackson was censured by the congress controlled by democratic party. he never forgave. franklin roosevelt had a constant battle for southern democrats in congress who opposed his new deal legislation and he suffered his greatest political defeat as a democratic controlled congress refused to support his plan to pass the supreme court. eisenhower, a republican font legislation drafted by a fellow republican of ohio who sought to take away presidential power. what this paper is all about, however is what we might expect for four years of his second term for barack obama. were he reelected, obama in all probability would face a daunting challenge of working with republican majorities in house and possibly the senate. what lessons might obama learn from history where he reelected? confronted with a congress dominated by republicans, further complicating the challenge is the apparent disappearance in the spirit of compromise, which has actually been a mainstay of legislation through the nations history with one very momentous exception. members of congress and the south woul

andrew jackson, when he becomes president -- john quincy adams is also in the old house chamber -- andrew, the man of the people, the great hero, the hero of the war of 1812, fighting in that last battle in new orleans that we are about to have the bicentennial of -- he draws a large crowd to washington, dc he becomes president in 1829, and he stands outside on the steps of the capital, and that begins a tradition from andrew jackson, to jimmy carter, of presidents of the united states standing on the east front steps of the capital. if you can imagine the capital, the capital, though -- capital's primary entrance is on the east front. e-book booking the other side is the front of the capital. -- people think the other side is the front of the capital. the capital has no front. the west front, looking down the mall, which is now a magnificent this do, did not look anything like that in the 19th century. that west front was not developed, nor was the mall developed. inaugurations were done on the east front, and that involves building a platform. because it got bigger and bigger, as you ar

andrew jackson was censored by a congress controlled by his own democratic party. a fight he never forgave. franklin roosevelt had a constant battle with southern democrats in congress who oppose his new deal legislation. he suffered his greatest political defeat as a democratic-controlled congress refused to support his plan to pass the supreme court. eisenhower, a republican, filed legislation drafted by a fellow republican, victor of ohio, who thought it was the way of presidential power. what then, what his paper is all about, however, is what might be, we expect a four years of a second term for barack obama, were he reelected, obama in all probability would face the daunting challenge of working with republican majority in house and possibly innocent. what lessons might obama learned from history were he reelected? confronted with a congress dominated by republicans, further complicating his challenge is that appearance, disappearance of the spirit of compromise which is so been a mainstay of legislation throughout the nation's history, with one very momentou

andrew jackson, when he becomes president -- john quincy adams is also in the old house chamber -- andrew jackson, the man of the people, the great hero, the hero of the war of 1812, fighting in that last battle in new orleans that we are about to have the bicentennial of -- he draws a large crowd to washington, dc he becomes president in 1829, and he stands outside on the steps of the capital, and that begins a tradition from andrew jackson, to jimmy carter, of presidents of the united states standing on the east front steps of the capital. if you can imagine the capital, the capital, though -- capital's primary entrance is on the east front. e-book booking the other side is the front of the capital. -- people think the other side is the front of the capital. the capital has no front. the west front, looking down the mall, which is now a magnificent this do, did not look anything like that in the 19th century. that west front was not developed, nor was the mall developed. inaugurations were done on the east front, and that involves building a platform. because it got bigger and bigger, a

andrew jackson. now, jackson's wife, her name was rachael thompson. and when rachael donaldson was a young girl, a teenager, her father, a colonel, settled what we now know today as knocks well, national, a sell tennessee. and colonel nelson took a group of white settlers and the literally hacked territory out of the woods and fought indians and all that sort of stuff. and in the settlement rachael, his daughter, sort of became the debutante and if you will, the daughter of the most prominent and in the tennessee region. well, from rachael, it's a bit controversial because she does with a proper brought out to do. she, against a parents' wishes runs away and there's an older man who is a ne'er-do-well. his name is louis route are. it appears that he may have been visibly abusive with her. dispenses money. you know, is one thing after another, but he accuses her of all sorts of things. at the least mentally very abusive. so this is a big scandal. then she does with a proper grow back then ought not to do a second time. she leaves some. she leaves him a

[applause] some of you may have heard the story of andrew jackson's inaugural reception.artygoers got so rowdy, they broke expensive china. [laughter] i also want to thank the source for their outstanding entertainment. the u.s. navy see chanters and the guy who has been known to make pretty good music, mr. stevie wonder. [applause] i am delivering another speech tomorrow. so, tonight i am going to be pretty brief. there are a limited amount of good lines, and i do not want to use them all up tonight. my main purpose tonight is to say thank you. as i look out on the room, we have people of all walks of life. every state, city, suburb. eagle who have invested so much heart, soul, time, money, energy, and one of the things that made this campaign unique was the degree of investment and ownership people had in this common object of hours. you understood this was not just about the candidate. not just about joe biden or barack obama. this was about us. who we are as a nation. what values we cherish. how hard we are willing to fight to make sure those values live, not just for

andrew jackson was a man of the people. given the great deal of support that president obama has received in the 2009 inauguration, what might we expect to hear from president obama that might define or stablish his legacy on monday? >> -- establish his legacy on monday? >> the campaign for history. they get conscious of their role in history. what did want to be remembered for. -- do they want to be remembered for. the president to did not get a second term or whose second term was considered disastrous often wind up campaigning even harder. some of our presidents have been great ex-presidents. i think president obama will use the opportunity to try to define how it wants people to think about him, not only just now, but in the future. interesting that this inauguration falls on martin luther king's birthday. and 50 years ago, in 1963, that king gave his speech on the steps of the lincoln memorial. i am sure there is going to be some connection to that in the process. this is a fulfillment of what king had looked for. but

andrew jackson gets the lion's share of the blame, but one of my arguments about jackson was and is that jackson may have been on the extreme edge of the mainstream but he was in the mainstream on this issue. congress had one great battle over indian removal in 1830 and one of the most ferocious legislative battles of the first sixty years of the republic. then they never revisited is. they fought it out. the jackson administration won and that was that. jefferson set up a predicate and precedent for what ultimately happened. the only person who comes out well in that story is someone who is very little known, henry knox, the first secretary of war, who created a very good, humane plan. to discuss that plan, president washington went to the senate and it didn't go well. as washington left the committee meeting, he said i will be damned if i ever go there again. and i think i am right in saying the next president who went and met in that way in an official way was gerald ford. so that must have been one hell of a conversation about indian removal. very simply put, white people have more p

so it's somewhat restorative. >> host: i believe andrew jackson for that.[laughter] this is what your job is a wonderful look at highlighting. there's many founding that we might be going through founding moments now. the quality is continually changing, so they can't look at one particular moment to understand our country works. so what they a liberal publisher are activist calls and says we read your book and agree with everything you say. were tired of the state department said the raping. the cultural critic and political critic, would that be a good thing? >> guest: no, i would be horrified because the last thing we need is liberals being as distorting and simplistic about the founding fathers as the conservatives currently are being. it's very possible and i think you could have been movement on the left for this justice that. and then you would just have dueling non-sense. i would be happy if liberals read this and were offended by some of the things i said. i would hope there's enough in there to offend liberals and not just conservatives because at

we have andrew jackson for that. [laughter] your book does a wonderful job we may go through the moments now. so we cannot just look at one particular moment of how the country works. the sale liberal political activists says we agree with everything you say. we're tired of the right wing as we are a critic is that good? >> no. i would be horrified. the last thing we need is the group of liberals to be simplistic about the founding fathers. you could have a movement on the last then it is just nonsense. i would be happy if liberals read this. i would hope there is enough to offend liberals. but with the current historical moment the far right discourse is much more abusive to the founding history that is an accident. for the left has been passing as simplistic. so let's invite liberal ones. what is amazing is how interesting the men are when you read about them. it is so much more interesting and rather than trying to create a checklist of approved opinions based on the founders, look at how they struggle, a compromi

so it is somewhat restored. >> guest: in milan andrew jackson for that. [laughter] >> host: this is, your book does a wonderful job highlighting is there wasn't a funding, there were many one founding speed it's changing and we can't forget one particular moment to understand how the country works. so let's say that a liberal publisher or a liberal political activists calls you up and says we read your book and we agree with everything you said. we are tired of this being the province of the right wing. second of the cultural critic and political critics that you are in this book will that be a good thing? no, because the last thing we need is a group of liberals being as distorting and simplistic about the founding fathers as the conservatives apparently are being. and i think it's for a possible. i think you could have -- you could have a movement on the left that is just as bad. they can do the same sort of things during an event ruling non-sense. i would be happy if liberals read this and were offended by some of the things that i said. iraq hope that

from nashville, jon meacham, he won a pulitzer prize for the biography of andrew jackson. from washington, d.c., pulitzer prize winning journalist bob woodward, his latest book is called "the price of politics." in new york, michael beschloss, the histian for nbcews a authorf ma books including "presidential courage: brave leaders and how they changed america." finally robert caro, the pulitzer prize winning author of the biography of lyndon johnson. the most recent biography is called "the passage of power." i'm pleased to have all of them here as we broadcast on this inauguration day as we talk about the second term of president barack obama. i begin with robert caro. what is the challenge for presidents in a second term? >> challenge but a great opportunity when you're in the second term you have nothin mo to run for,no more elections. so what you're running for a place in history and you know if you do a great job you will have a great place in history. >> rose: and you never know what's coming though, as vietnam -- >> oh, it -- as i write now, the last line about lynd

andrew jackson was first sworn in on the east side of the capitol building and ronald reagan the first on the west. the shortest inauguration dress was george washington's second. six presidents have taken the oath outside washington. george washington first in new york, and then in philadelphia. john adams in philadelphia. chester arthur in new york. teddy roosevelt in buffalo. calvin coolidge in plymouth, vermont, and l.b.j. in dallas. james polk's inauguration was the first to be covered using the telegraph and war enharding's parade was the first to use cars. buchanan's inauguration was the first one photographed and william mckin le's was the first filmed. hoover's was the first in a movie newsreel. the first to be televised was harry truman and the first streams in the internets was bill clinton's second. lincoln's parade was the first to include african-americans acknowledged wilson's was the first to include women. bad weather moved some indoors. grants touched it out in 16 degrees and jack kennedy in 20 degrees without an overcoat. f.d.r.'s inauguration was the first held in j

the court or do you think the president did the same thing from andrew jackson to george bush. thank you for watching abc news >>> and that breaking news is happening tonight in fairfield where a massive fire has been burning. sky 7hd flew over the scene as flames tore through a populargo. good evening. i'm carolyn johnson. dan ashley has the night off. this fire began just before 7:00 tonight at the original pepper belly's come tee club in fairfield. ama dates is there live with the latest. >> carolyn, take a look behind me and you can see how many firecrews are still out here four hours after the first call came in. a lot of the firecrews have left, but there are many on scene. tdy a comedy and variety theater is on the corner of texas street. take a look at what it looked like earlier when the fire first broke out. sky 7hd is high above the scene. the flames went through the roof. they have been able to contain the fire to just that building. when we got here it was burning so hot they could not stay. they had to go outside and fight this fire defensively. five alarms, sever

meacham is well-known as the former "newsweek" editor in chief and also a prolific author about andrew jackson he's out with another best seller thomas jefferson. jon, thank you so much for coming on the show. walking contradiction is that an easy, quick way of summing up a man whose passions for personal liberty extended to obviously the contradiction as it relates to owning slaves, the issues of his own shyness and the pursuit of power and politician. i mean going through this, he seems to be everything to anyone who is searching for him to be like themselves. >> right. you know, one of the reasons why we're sitting here talking about him now. his capacity to speak to the best instincts and the worst in american life. there have been marvelous books rent by jefferson. we all look back in search of either inspiration or sanction. that's what happened with jefferson. one of the problems with jefferson was he was so eloquent and prolific for so long that you could quote him on any issue, the same thing with winston churchill and the bible. those are other examples. >> gavin: 60 years span of wr

teddy roosevelt's good times welcomes andrew jackson. none of them excel what got accomplished in that brief period of time, and i think there's a joy and pleasure in reading about it, but i think we still have things to learn. so, anyway, i thought if i took king and johnson together and used them, their relationship, their agreements, their disagreements, i would have slightly new prism to be able to look at why all this stuff happened in that period of time. there were many, many, many factors. when i talk with people, some will say, well, it was because jfk got and i would the country felt remorse and guilt. that was an element. it was because momentous grassroots civil rights movement was coming to a zenith of its power, and that civil rights movement, thousands of black men and women and a lot of supportive white citizens, was building toward a crescendo of pressure which dr. king could not resist, and lyndon johnson couldn't. they were constantly being pushed from below by people who wanted action. johnson becomes president on nov

>> andrew johnson, andrew jackson. -- johnson. >> we're asking our viewers to weigh in. we have this story at wjla.com. we already have a lot of comments and guesses. let us know who you think will be the steps president. >>-- 5th president. >> let's talk about the commute home. the snow could been a headache. >> we will just have a coating of snow. >> you should wear a coat. >> you will need a few layers again today because it's very chilly outside. i have some great photographs to share with you. this is in herndon, courtesy of header, little daughter with pajamas inside out. donna sent this picture of her two little boy. he's excited for the potential snow, putting the pajamas inside out. his mom said and went to bed that night praying for snow and it happened. 20 degrees right now in the district. we will have more snow later on today. just a light coating. 18 in manchester, 15 in martinsburg, the 15 in frederick now. widespread teens on this friday morning. notice the areas of snow stretching from minnesota and canada down into kentucky and tennessee getting mixed p

who came to see andrew jackson.an watch this worldwide, you can sit at your computer. that is the most significant change. >> i had the pleasure of meeting you on the senate floor. ever since that day, i've had the same question going on in my mind. he came out with a book defending the filibuster. we wanted to know how exactly you feel on the filibuster because throughout all of our experiences, we've only heard by the filibuster should no longer be used. >> it is interesting. there is the division between political scientists and historians. what is wrong with it and how can be fixed? the job of the historian is to let the system and say, how did it get this way? we tend to be a little bit more tolerant and less active in suggesting changes. i did an oral history with a former parliamentarian and he said the rules of this and are perfect. if they change every one of them, at the rules of the senate will be perfect. the senators have exclusive control over writing their own rules. if they want to change them, they

the most raccus was andrew jackson. to the white house they were serving cider and people trashed the place. he slipped out the back of the executive mansion as it was called then and fled to alexandria and went to a tavern. he's tapped to be president. he took a barge to new york city and is sworn in. it's wrought with tradition. this is a time for the people to be glad that democracy works. the whole world is watching now. >> the longest inaugural was william henry harrison. >> he gave this long winded speech and got will. it was freezing weather. he died only a month later from his own inaugural. you don't want to be ranked below william henry harrison. >> what are you looking for tomorrow? >> most important is to have some kind of healing message. this is not a state of the union address. this is the president carefully reading lincoln's second inaugural, the poetry and language of it. i do think that barack obama, since the first one was historic for him, he may need to make this a historic speech. i was raise gun

cristina saralegui miss oprah winfrey congressman paul ryan and 179 years ago today, president andrew jackson ordered the first use of federal troops to suppress a labor dispute. that should never take anything away from his solid record as a genocidal indian killer. >> john: good evening, i'm john fuglesang. thank you for joins for "viewpoint." is it possible, could both house of congress and the white house actually come together and find a solution to one of our country's most contentious issues? according to president obama in las vegas today the timing couldn't be better. >> obama: the time has come for common sense comprehensive immigration reform. [ applause ] now is the time. >> john: actually it's way pastime for the 11 million undocumented immigrants already living and working in this country. and way too ahead of its time for tea party republicans who never heard of an undocumented immigrant that they didn't want deported but thanks to the president's overwhelming support from latino voters last november, republicans now seem willing to at least pretend to deal with the issue. as w

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give them a round of applause. [ applause ] now, some of you may have heard the story of andrew jackson's worth of white house china. so my first big thank you tonight is to the national building museum for hosting us. here. i also want to thank the source for their outstanding entertainment, the u.s. navy sea chanters. [ applause ] and a guy who is known to make pretty good music, mr. stevie wonder. [ applause ] i'm delivering another speech tomorrow. so, tonight i'm going to be pretty brief because, you know, there are limited amount of good lines and you don't want to use them all up tonight. my main purpose tonight is just to say thank you. as i look out on the room, we have got people from every walk of life. every corner and nook and cranny of this country. every state, every city, every suburb. people who have invested so much heart and soul and time, money, energy. you know, one of the things that made this campaign unique was

give them a round of applause. [ applause ] now, some of you may have heard the story of andrew jackson's worth of white house china. so my first big thank you tonight is to the national building museum for hosting us. here. i also want to thank the source for their outstanding entertainment, the u.s. navy sea chanters. [ applause ] and a guy who is known to make pretty good music, mr. stevie wonder.

even talk to some of the guys coming in, namely john adams, jefferson, john quincy adams and andrew jackson. >> it's a big marker the way the presidency and even the inauguration as a major reflection of the american presidency in american culture has shown the development of the idea of america across times. the very beginning and the first couple of decades this is probably the most rancorous period of american politics in our history where you have the guys going together in the battles for the white house. whereas we might be more negative about the tenor of political debate niece days but in the end it -- these days but in the end it comes down to a peaceful transition of what you'll see today. the jowndz tones are gone -- the undertones are gone. >> it's completely evolved from a ceremonial standpoint. from washington there were a few people and as we moved through the centuries, wow. hollywood is here. it's a big evolution over time. >> colonial williamsburg we like to talk about the idea of america, a lot about the founding principles. here is where you actually see it being put int

. >> host: in a group there was talk that andrew jackson was there and was taking him on saying tell the dream. >> guest: yes. i listened to lots of recordings of that speech and i never quite heard that. may be -- i want to believe that story. >> host: the reason i met dr. king is the cousin was staying in her home in chicago as a young girl when i was working for ebony magazine and dr. king would come by there and as a matter of fact i met him the day after he was hit in the head at age part. the story, you talk about it in the book about him being head -- hit in the head in illinois. did you meet dr. came? >> guest: i only saw him from a distance. i try tried to get as close as i could so i got to the foot of the lincoln memorial but the notion of this 19-year-old that i would actually shake hands with him, that would have been the thrill of my life. i only saw his. >> twice and both times i saw as a member of the crowd. he came to ucla when i was a student there and spoke so that was the other time in 1965, something like that. >> host: how did that impact you on the way home? yo

give them a round of applause. [ applause ] now, some of you may have heard the story of andrew jackson's dollars worth of white house china. so my first big thank you tonight is to the national building museum for hosting us. here. i also want to thank the source for their outstanding entertainment, the u.s. navy sea chanters. [ applause ] and a guy who is known to make pretty good music, mr. stevie wonder. [ applause ] i'm delivering another speech tomorrow. so, tonight i'm going to be pretty brief because, you know, there are limited amount of good lines and you don't want to use them all up tonight. my main purpose tonight is just to say thank you. as i look out on the room, we

give them a round of applause. [ applause ] now, some of you may have heard the story of andrew jackson's

jon meacham, three presidents that you know well now, andrew jackson, thomas jefferson and george bushw do you assess the first term of barack obama. >> i think if president obama had somehow lost in november, he would have a very strong historical hand to play. because the prevention of more economic disaster in 2009 is something that is not fully people who are suffering, historian like that kind of thing. you could have an assessment of how he had done and he had done pretty well in doing that. and i think that that great historian, the gibbin of our time joe by i put it correctly when he said osama bin laden is dead and detroit is alive. it's been a difficult four years i agree with bob on health insurance. it's pretty good four years. at some point maybe to you charlie obama said if i'm a one term president i'd rather get this right than be a two term president. i don't want to say it's all downhill from here but so far if his biographers i think would have a favorable view of these four years. >> i think something else historian might notice that the current generation notices le

>> andrew jackson, because he was the great commoner, the old hickory, the battle of new orleans herocame in. when he got to the white house they were serving cider and things. people came in and trashed the place. he slipped out the back of the executive mansion as it was called then, today's white house, and fled to alexandria to go to gatsby tavern. that's existed there for a lot of years. >> george washington had the shortest inaugural address, 135 words? >> yes, that's all. but that first inaugural is one of the great moments in american history when he's tapped to be president and leaves mt. convenient en and does this long horse ride and carriage ride and took a barge to new york city and was sworn in. it's wrought with tradition. this is a time for people to be glad democracy works. and with new media today, the whole world's watching. it's just not a gaggle of people. >> the longest inaugural was william henry harrison? >> he gave this long winded speech and got ill from it. it was freezing weather and he died only a month later from his own inaugural. you don't ever want to