but, jackson, the notification crisis,-- notification andrew jackson dominated his age. veystem, though he may in a persecutor of the indians, so yes, jackson, truman, jefferson, even woodrow wilson. i work for the woodrow rosen international center of scholars and cannot leave them off the list, but even wilson, a great transformer and legislative , the architect of american entry for all -- and over idealism and tried to negotiate a peace with a league of nations. ,o accomplishment significant presided over a time politically, and yet the asterix associated with the president's is too large, put them in the undeniably great category. this week, we are focusing on the leading authors and publications out this year. we are kicking off this week with the end of greatness. the three undeniably great presidents straddled the american story. washington, the proverbial father of his country, lincoln, who kept it whole, and roosevelt, who won his greatest work. -- war. conclusion is annoyingly negative and depressing, but my -- this is german by crisis. character, that is, artf

later they were sadly sent west on andrew jackson for smart,. the united states declared oklahoma to be indian territory. until the non-indians decided they wanted it. the u.s. held lotteries. winners graced to stake claims. seaboard andn across the plains to the coast, the nation went crazy for one thing after another. gold. lumbar. for. the buffalo. you name it. at step along the way, promises were made and promises were broken. there are literally hundreds of examples. in horse creek treaty signed 1851 promised eternal peace. the pottawattamie signed more than 40 treaties and ongoing efforts in the homelands. ,he leaders were defrauded bribed, cheated, and filled with alcohol. whatever it would get to take them to sign away their land. for hours.on every tribe or nation could tell you many stories about how they out of their land. great-grandfather . his great-grandfather -- my dad is still alive, his thet-grandfather signed elliott treaty for our people in 1855. when he signed that treaty is said that we could take the fish as we always have

why andrew jackson? >> they are the close but no cigar presidents. their failures were larger than the undeniable's. their accomplishments not nearly as great. but they dominated their age. andrew jackson dominated his age. slave owner. truman, even woodrow wilson. i work for the woodrow wilson center for scholars. but even wilson, a great transformer and legislative resident, the architect of american entry for all -- and yet falls low over idealism and tried to negotiate a peace with a league of nations. so accomplishment significant, presided over a time politically, and yet the asterix associated with the president's is too large, put them in the undeniably great category. host: all this week, we are focusing on the leading authors and publications out this year. we are kicking off this week with aaron david miller and his book on the end of greatness. our phone lines are we will get your calls in just a minute. the three undeniably great presidents straddled the american story. washington, the proverbial father of his country, lincoln, who kept

that so many muskogee people in oklahoma on the east side of oklahoma are republicans is because andrew jackson was a democrat. every time i go to an atm machine, i get heart palpitations because it is jackson, jackson, jackson. [laughter] we have a long view, a very long memory backward and forward of history. the cheyenne people are still waiting for the return of our fort reno lands, build on our -- fort reno was built on our treaty lands. my mother's and sister -- my mother's ancestor chief bull bear was the first signatory. why? because no one else would sign. everyone knew the treaty would not be valid unless he signed because he was both a chief and the head of the dogman society. at a time when the dogmen's society comprised half the cheyenne nation. his is the first signature on that particular treaty. we are still waiting, though, for the return of the fort reno lands which were supposed to come back to us when they were no longer used for a fort. but we have had the federal agencies passing our fort reno lands out amongst themselves. we have a penitentiary there. the fort, el reno pe

betrayals and things that later dishonorable presidents like andrew jackson who agreed with states' writers and force marched native people out of their homes, wrenched them from their homes and sent them to indian territory. so we explore that as well. but everything in here has been selected. the pipe bags and pipes are selected because they represent the native nations who were present in 1851 at the treaty, which is called the great smoke. and why? because there were so many people making sage offerings or offerings of other kinds of medicine or smoking pipe, which meant they were pray iing for t good day and for the well-being of all the people. so the great smoke treaty of 1851 had many native nations as parties to it along with the united states. and these pipes and pipe bags represent each of those nations. and when you look at them and say they were there, they were witnesses, they're the evidence of what happened in 1851 and how wonderful that we can show that in all their beauty but in all their authority and in all their presence and in all they bring to us in a spiritual way, i

the treaty ended with major american victory on lake champlain and andrew jackson in new orleans. in fact the treaty simply brought back everything the way it existed in 1812. so here is madison. here comes the horsemen with that. servants and everybody begin to yell peace, peace and place goes ballistic. there are parties, all of the liquor is brought out. it's a huge celebrate. a house filled with light because there was darkness all over the place. smoldering ruins of the white house, capital, et cetera. one thing to understand about the importance of this hourks and it took me a while to understand it, the legislative and judicial branches were destroyed. the supreme court was in the capital building at that time. that's gone. executive office was destroyed. that's gone. who's going to be ambassador? who's going to sign treaties? who's going to do day-to-day work of keeping the country going? by moving into this house, washington and the united states continued. another little footnote, up until that point they began to be a movement to relocate the nation's capital farther we

andrew jackson. correct. could i get picture the politician for $600, please? class president and prom king, he doesn't look much different today than he did in high school.

andrew jackson said that, our democratic institutions are rooted in these vast tracks of wilderness andoodland. so my father considered this part of our heritage and, you know, our purple mountains' majesty and he saw the desstriction of those things, the short-sighted destruction by industry as really an attack on american values and sovereignty. >> is global warming today the biggest threat? >> i think global warmin thegrave gravest threat to, you know, the population is a threat. but global warming, it's the product of a war between old energy, the carbon cronnies who, by the way, could not stay in business in a true free market capitalism because these new technology like wind and solar can produce electropics and deliver them to their customers much more efficiently and much cheaper than the old energy economy. the only way that they maintained their foot hold in our economy is through enormous subsidies and through the domination of the political process you, through, again, through the subversion of democracy. if we could take the subsidies away from coal and oil, a trillion doll

he shares the stage with henry clay from andrew jackson and calhoun and is in the same congress has the same abraham lincoln. including this our alexander of the first of russia. when they traveled to america all sought out adams company to help inform their views of the emerging public and with good reasons. with the monroe doctrine. he greatly influenced washington in the "emancipation proclamation" in. his career is so broad reading -- ranging in fact, adams has something of forced to dump type of defect and history. with every major figure there is john quincy in the background i will give you examples the battle of bunker hill there is a young john quincy adams he is seven years old he watches the battle take place. the first major treaty -- treaty has a young pup diplomat he carries the draft to those who are negotiating. here he is he has lost his hair at this point he hopes to negotiate and end the war. >> this is a quiz of your american history. there was a gag imposed on congress the issue of slavery could not be discussed in general on the floor by name. but it was instituted

he was andrew jackson's drummer boy. he is african-american and goes on to be the drummer boy as white new orleans forces fight in the mexican war. and then becomes an officer in the union army during the civil war. and then becomes a detective. early on, he and jordan go in disguise into black neighbors to get evidence dressed as common laborers. unfortunately, jordan who is my -- badger is directing the case. again, people are now looking for any african-american woman who is seen with a white baby. all over new orleans and the south, that had been the condition of things through all time. so everyone who now sees an african-american woman with a white baby goes running to the police, i want to collect the reward. the newspaper fills with leads. cincinnati, all over the place. at one point they actually -- there was a traveling psychic in town. this is an era where many people, including president lincoln, who had had seances -- mary todd lincoln had seances to raise their said done, they had a clairvoyant claims she k

with the islands was a dominant fixture in american foreign-policy with britain right through to andrew jackson. as the british essentially while opening up trade with britain restricted trade between north america and the british west indies. they wanted their trade to be conducted in british ships. >> was there some reason why the french were more successful economically in their agricultural endeavors in the islands than the british? >> there has always been debates, but one of the popular explanations is economies of scale. that the french plantations were larger. they were more conveniently situated. they had the same benefit as cub a would have in the 19th century. and the soil was fresher. even though they were planting it for the first time. yes? >> how did the islands -- their trade after they were unable to trade with the colonies americans? >> the war was a disaster for them. because they did get the source of their food from north america. in fact, napoleon -- one of the reasons he wanted to keep the louisiana territory was simply to feed san dominque. once he lost it, there was no

fact that this guy came out of the rough and tumble politics of new york, ingratiated himself to andrew jackson, was able to overwhelm john c calhoun, got the vice presidential slot, became president. i love martin van buren because this guy recognized that despite what everybody told him, if you are strategic and smart, you could get would you wanted. >> where do you put lincoln? >> hyperlink in as the best president in america. i think the notion of lincoln as both a world leader, lincoln as somebody who began a creeping process of racial transformation , and lincoln as the martyr. in some ways, he is at the top of what i think. >> what is your wife's name? .maria >> where did you meet her? >> at the smithsonian. she was an intern. our member she was traveling and this guy was asking me, have you seen the new intern? i saw this beautiful woman and i said, this is for me. >> what does she do? what she is the deputy head of education at the art institute. >> what will she do with the move? closely better find something. >> my daughter is at law school in loyola. to stay wonderful kid. loves sch

stage and in fact the rest of the world began to do that especially as you pointed out after andrew jacksont the heck out of the british at the battle of new orleans. >> one of the most intriguing aspects of the research you came up with was, had to do with madison himself. i think it's a major contribution from a historical standpoint. he had an affliction that led him throughout his entire life and yet he was able to achieve these phenomenal objectives under extraordinary circumstances. and it's really one of the most important founders. can you tell us about that, both what his problem was and how he dealt with that? >> you know it was one of those puzzles in the beginning. people called madison shockley which he was in. he was simply reserved and they said he was sickly and indeed you could see that he was sick some -- from time to time but he also between the episodes of whatever it was was enormous with energetic taking thousand mile trips by house -- horseback and carriage with lafayette, not the one with jefferson, traveling in the days when travel wasn't easy between his home in mo

lincoln's election, like andrew jackson's decades before, represented a seismic social shifert in the district of columbia. mainline washington elites treated the lincolns like pariahs and one observer complained both the president and his wife were mercilessly lampooned, yet mrs. lincoln was the peer of any woman in washington in education and character. mary might have likened herself to a bird in a gilded cage, denied the social butterfly role that she had long aspired to, but the cage was not exactly 2k3wi8ded. visitors were quite shocked by the shabby run down condition of the president's residence. the fur nirning in the red room which the lincolns claims for private callers had pieces left over from the madison era. there were only ten matching place settings in the white house china collection. springfield friends commented that the executive mansion really resembled a second rate hotel with its threadbare carpets and chopped up drapes. mary was determined to set a very high standard and prove her refinement to the washington social arbiters. her increasing isolation might hav

the reality is the kind of rhetoric that was hurled at presidents, andrew jackson's wife, rachel, was called a whore. one of fdr's wealthy friends vowed to go to the bahamas and never come back until the end of the fdr presidency. he was so angry at the type of policies that fdr was going to pursue. lincoln was called a gorilla. these sorts of comments reflected politics that were much nastier than the ones we experience today. the difference is that the media ends up driving the argument. when the president of the united states has to respond to the comments of a pastor in florida who threatened to burn the quaran, the president of the united states identified this individual and responded to his craziness. that is an extraordinary example of how the media really does not only intrude but create a kind of willful frame of reference for american presidents. culture is tough these days, but not nearly as tough as it was back in the day. host: gabriel is joining us from phoenix, arizona. republican line. if you could turn the volume down. caller: absolutely. it is done. host: we can hea

lincoln's election, like andrew jackson's decades before, represented a seismic social shifert in the district of columbia. mainline washington elites treated the lincolns like pariahs and one observer complained both the president and his wife were mercilessly lampooned, yet mrs. lincoln was the peer of any woman in washington in education and character. mary might have likened herself to a bird in a gilded cage, denied the social butterfly role that she had long aspired to, but the cage was not exactly 2k3wi8ded. visitors were quite shocked by the shabby run down condition of the president's residence. the fur nirning in the red room which the lincolns claims for private callers had pieces left over from the madison era. there were only ten matching place settings in the white house china collection. springfield friends commented that the executive mansion really resembled a second rate hotel with its threadbare carpets and chopped up drapes. mary was determined to set a very high standard and prove her refinement to the washington social arbiters. her increasing isolation might hav

he was andrew jackson's drummer boy. he is african-american and goes on to be the drummer boy as white new orleans forces fight in the mexican war. and then becomes an officer in the union army during the civil war. and then becomes a detective. early on, he and jordan go in disguise into black neighbors to get evidence dressed as common laborers. unfortunately, jordan who is my -- badger is directing the case. again, people are now looking for any african-american woman who is seen with a white baby. all over new orleans and the south, that had been the condition of things through all time. so everyone who now sees an african-american woman with a white baby goes running to the police, i want to collect the reward. the newspaper fills with leads. cincinnati, all over the place. at one point they actually -- there was a traveling psychic in town. this is an era where many people, including president lincoln, who had had seances -- mary todd lincoln had seances to raise their said done, they had a clairvoyant claims she k

he has a book on andrew jackson and martial law. he starts by looking at jackson's declaration of marshal law. you may know jackson was fined $1,000 for taking away the rights of a newspaperman during the battle of new orleans. and he paid the fine. and in the 1830's and 1840's, jackson went out and started lobbying legislatures to get that fine reimbursed. [laughter] he ended up getting not only the fine back but plus interest. so jackson did okay. now, who supported that? >> which lincoln mentioned. he mentioned the whole case. >> in the corning later. he said jackson got his money back. >> right. now, who supported jackson getting his money back? the democrats. the wigs. he shows how the people to supported jackson in the 1840's, opposed lincoln in the 1860's. and the people who opposed jackson supported lincoln in the 1860's. so they're making principled arguments in a sense, but ah, how principled they are, i can't speak. >> the old expression, in washington, is where you stand depends on where you sit. that seems to be illustr

he should be put up there with thomas jefferson, andrew jackson and james k. polk as one of the leading expansionists of the 19th century. i came to realize as i kept probing into this issue that the way lincoln and douglas were arguing about this was kind of a microcosm of the whole coming of the civil war. that southerners like jefferson davis and alexander stephens, robert tombs, leaders of the confederacy, the vice president of the confederacy, the first secretary of the state of the confederacy, that they all had their eyes on tropical areas. and that many northerners of both parties were concerned about it, that many democrats like douglas didn't care that much if slavery went south. he were interested in getting new territories. but that lincoln and seward and the republican party, their hearts were set against slavery expanding anywhere. and they felt that if they wanted to stop slavery over the long run, they had to stop it over the short run. any territorial designs on the tropics were just as dangerous as slavery moving on to the western plains and

at first andrew jackson was president then, at first jackson -- who hated the supreme court, more of a republican than jefferson -- at first jackson said john marshall has made his decision, let him enforce it. well, then the georgia militia, georgia governor calls up the militia to defend the state of georgia against any possible incursion by the federal government in this cherokee case, and now jackson has to act, and he turns right around and warns georgia that he will send federal troops, and he actually called out federal troops to go down and confront georgia. georgia pulled back and agreed to let samuel worcester, to free samuel worcester. but that set the first precedent of federal troops enforcing a federal -- a supreme court decision. and it was a precedent that, fortunately, hasn't been, we haven't had to use often, but dwight d. eisenhower, of course, used that precedent in sending troops to little rock, arkansas, to enforce the supreme court decision on

at first, andrew jackson was president then. first, jackson, who hated the supreme court, more of a republican than jefferson -- at first, jackson said john decision;as made his let him enforce it. the georgia militia -- the georgia governor militia to defend the state of georgia against any possible incursion by the federal government in this cherokee case. now jackson has to act. turns right around and warns georgia that he will send federal troops. and he actually called out federal troops to go down and confront georgia. georgia pulled back and agreed samuel wooster -- to free samuel wooster. precedentet the first a federal troops enforcing federal supreme court decision. precedent that fortunately we haven't had to use often. eisenhower, of course, used that precedent in sending troops to little rock, enforce the supreme court decision on school segregation. is enforcing the time limit. so -- [laughter] like thed gentlemen, 6th amendment right to speedy the national constitution center has to end on time. but i just have to

you always had this, the commission under fdr, andrew jackson going after the bank, any problem you haveasy target, either/or, they are rich and they must be bad. someone will run on a platform of that. elizabeth board is doing that. she wants income equality but doesn't want to make the poor richer, she wants to make the rich poor. that message why let resonates with her base won't resonate across the country. in the one she is the anti margaret thatcher arrived do believe. thanks very much. see you again soon. i want your opinion and that of other millennials if you can encompass it all. on wall street there is considerable hostility to wall street for most sectors of society. what about youngsters? >> extremely. they would rather go to the dentist and listen to the big bank. i would rather listen to the big bank but millennials to not like wall street. stuart: i am astonished at this. it reminds the what happened after 1929. you don't remember is that. that was an awful stock market crash. wall street was a dirty word. people heeded wall street until the 1950s. heaven forbid we have t

andrew jackson end end the second bank of the u.s. saying that a circulating coin and silver -- gold and silver coin money was meant to protect the wealth of the laboring class from being inflated away by the largest corporations, financiers and politicians, conjuring more and more crest into exist, for example, financing an ever expanding military complex. no state shall make anything but gold and silver and opinion in tender and payment of debt. seems at the level of governor, the states could require the federal government to re-institute an honest circulating money. i just ask your perspective on that. >> i think that -- i want to address the bigger issue you raise. when we have -- we just recently just exceeded $18 trillion of accumulate edit. we have quantitative easing has said they're taking action because congress and the white house couldn't or wouldn't, in terms of what they saw as threats to our economy. i think we need to stop and -- step back and think about that. we have an unelected body, the fed, saying, we're going t

andrew jackson ended the second bank of the u.s.saying circulating gold and silver coin money was meant to protect the wealth of the laboring class for being inflated away by the largest corporations, financiers and more politicians just conjuring more and more credit into existence, for a forever expanding complex. no state shall make anything but gold and silver coin to tender the payment of debt. it seems that at the level of governor in every state, the states could require the federal government to reinstitute an honest circulating money. i just ask your perspective on that. >> i want to address the bigger issue you raise. i do worry. when we just recently just exceeded $18 trillion of accumulated debt. we've got a fed through quantitative easing who has explicitly said they're taking action because congress and the white house couldn't or wouldn't. in terms of what they saw as threats to our economy. i think we need to stop -- take a step back and think about that for a second. so we've got an unelected body, the fed, saying w

half-dozen others, maybe 5, including one of the favorites down here, thomas jefferson, andrew jackson, teddy roosevelt, woodrow wilson, arguably, i worked at the woodrow wilson international center, the living memorial to our 28th president and our only ph.d. president and the only one buried in washington d.c. might be on the list, harry truman clearly consequential, three undeniables, five close but no cigar presidents and three at this. i choose to identify jack kennedy, lyndon johnson and ronald reagan as exhibiting traits of greatness, real or perceived but that is 11 presidents out of 44, 43 different presidents because grover cleveland was president twice in 9 consecutive terms. we have 23 different presidents, 11 of whom in my judgment have been truly consequential. the point of the book is provocative. we don't want another great president because the founders created a political system to disaggregate cover. they created a system of an energetic executive but an accountable one. and and 9/11 might have been a moment to encourage the nation and it turned the other way, it is

andrew jackson entered the second bank of the u.s. saying that the circulating gold and silver coin money. just conjuring more and more credit into existence. no stage will make anything but cold and silver coin. sit seems that at the level of governor in every state, the states could require the federal government. >> i think that i want to address the bigger issue you raise. >> we have got a fed through quantitative easing. they are taking action because con fwress and the white house couldn't or wouldn't. i think we need to take a step back and think about it for a second. we have got an unelected body. wouldn't take that action. and you go back to the systemic debts that we're running. that doesn't mean helps coming tomorrow. he's not even saying that he will balance the budget tomorrow. i am very worried for a lot of reason reasons it's been the reserve currency. the flight to stability during this world economic chaos, there are many reason ys the fed has been able to get away with some of the things they have done. the reality

that was andrew jackson? that was one of them. right, andrew? >> kill the bankers? >> yeah.ch anyway? >> it's at 3:00 i'll be working, joe. >> all right. >>> coming up -- is golson still -- >> no, he's going to start malik malik. golson is expected to see playing time. >> have you watched? okay. i have someone to talk sports to. coming up, some big movers including one in the oil field sector. and then fallout from the nfl's black monday. four coaches, two general managers are out just one day after the end of the regular season. oh, boy. dave briggs is here to break it down. we're waiting for him just to see what he's wearing. and it took lebron james just 30 years to amass $72 million. i think that's wrong. i think he made $72 million in a year. i think his net worth is more than that. we're going to look at that in business ahead. "squawk box" will be right back. oh, i love game night. ooh, it's a house and a car! so far, you're horrible at this, flo. yeah, no talent for drawing, flo. house! car! oh, raise the roof! no one? remember when we used to raise the roof, diane?

> former eagles star desean jackson goes down with right fibula con tungs and wants to go back tomorrow night. x-rays negative. washington beat up by colts quarterback andrewd skips lose. jackson and game 49-27. >> eagles fans you'll love this how about new york? they're a giant mess against jacksonville. 4th quarter larry donald fumbles and aaron coleburn returns it. it's 7th straight loss and this all started back when the birds beat them at the linc. all started back when the birds beat them at the linc. more after this

. >> desean jackson goes down with -- and redskins receiver does not return. washington beat up by andrewuck career high touchdowns. 49-27. eagles fans you'll love this. new york is giant mess. today against jacksonville 21-9 need ar rop cole jp burn -- this stretch all started when birds beat them at link in october. >> while the sixers have stumbled out of the game villanova could not be happier with her start. jay wright and wildcats have more that the sixers. doing over doesn't allow had delaware to store basket 9 1/2 minute scan. scoring not an issue for 'nova. hiliard at 3. and 40-16 not done. with the slam 'nova wins 31 and they're 6-0, delaware looking for first wment. temple taking on long island brooklyn. owls down 7 at the half and complying back in second. quintin on the run. leads all scores with 15. temple slams door on liu. 70-56 won back-to-back games. >> drexel trying to seat up off their first win near son mississippi. damian lee leads with game high 22. drexel wins 59-36. held southern miss to only 36 points that's major defense. >> thank you, sir. >> in "people scene"