on the left, you have andrew jackson, a tennessee democrat who we studied at some length here, and on the right, henry clay, a kentucky whig. between clay and jackson, we get two very different views of what america should look like and i have two political cartoons to show how in the second party system, new issues were emerging. for example, the question of the bank. this is the second bank of the united states and in this image we see andrew jackson on the left holding a cane which he usually walked with, with all his bullet wounds from his duels, trying to battle back the many-headed hydra which is a mythical creature from greek mythology but here it stands in for the bank. on each of the heads of the hydra is an individual who was representing the bank, the most prominent one in the center here was nicholas biddle who was the president of the bank and who became a kind of enemy to jackson in this process. so this is something of a satire

this standard, why andrew jackson is a great president. building the modern democratic party out of his personal following. maybe it's not going to me that jackson is a great president. fdr achievedsince this level of greatness, according to them. the closest would be lyndon johnson and ronald reagan. he is more interested in protecting his personal popularity. and alternative way to think about greatness-- he argues the key to greatness is muscular moderation. that does not mean simply doing what is popular at the moment. that would be spineless centrism, what he attacks clinton for. instead it is boldly governing from the center, charting a leadership path between the extremes of american politics and building a consensus around your local position. this leads him to reinterpret the politics of fdr. fdr his seen as potentially the most liberal executive in the modern era. but according to troy, he was a moderate. on the left, he deals with those that want to create a socialist society in america. on the right, he's dealing with individual

but many standards, andrew jackson is going to be a great president. we define a whole age by jackson. , who byfrontiersman reaching the presidency, sends a powerful message about what is possible. ,is support for regular people that changes the tenor of our politics. he built the first mass political party, the democratic party forming out of his own personal following. he was a slave owner. associated closely removal ofg forcible native americans from their land. when the cherokee nation is forced out of their historical a fifth oforgia, them will die in the trail of tears. this leads to a lot of problems in terms of how we interpret this because owning slaves, not treating native americans with respect, that was not something that was controversial in the early 19th century. that is why you are seeing state democratic parties, the typical yearly fundraiser is the jackson dinner. they have moved to change the name. can we understand what it is like to be president? this is the monday morning quarterback problem. i watched the dolphins on sunday, as yo

you can see why andrew jackson is a great president using the standard. building the modern democratic party out of his following. if they include character, maybe it will not mean that jackson is a great president. since fdr,t according to them has achieved this level of greatness. the two closest would be lyndon johnson and ronald reagan. becauseultimately fails his embracing civil rights splits the party. reagan fails because he is not interested in helping the republican party. he is more interested in protecting his personal popular. -- popularity. an alternative measurement would be "why moderates make the best president." the argues the key is muscular moderation. that does not mean doing what is popular. he attacks clinton for this. muscular moderation is boldly governing from the center. it is chartering a leadership and building a consensus around your political position. this leads him to reinterpret the politics of fdr. fdr is seen as potentially the most liberal chief executive in the modern era. but, according to troy, he was a moderate. on t

the party of andrew jackson. but what's ominously missing here from the party of andrew jackson are northerners. where are the northerners? why would a group of five southern democrats choose to go into the same boardinghouse together? well, there's a lot of answers to that question. lot of reasons but one result is undeniable. it was this group, the f street mess, that was more responsible than any other group of politicians for the most important piece of legislation in the antebellum congress. and that was the kansas-nebraska act. it was this group who on a cold snowy night in january of 1854 marched over to then president franklin pierce's house, the white house, and demanded that pierce support their plan to organize the new territory of nebraska, to permit slavery. there it is. southern democrats have one thing in common that northern democrats don't and that's an interest to expand slavery. this is ominous. because this shows that the politics of the party through this political culture were becoming incre

batman was andrew jackson. as in former president andrew jackson.erve as a warning to all establishment insiders. he won the popular vote. they snatch the nomination away. choosing instead the candidate that was a more palatable choice at the time. you know, in 1824, voters, just as they are today, they were demanding it. most of the popular votes. he did not get that out right majority. that is what gave the establishment there are big opportunities. it was put to the house. they went for adam. you know what, it backfired. just like today. it did not go away quietly. his movement, his supporters grew stronger and stronger and stronger. the supporters painting the white house as a bureaucracy. what do you know, for years later andrew jackson shattered the political establishment. the democratic party. history was made as he became the seventh president of the united states of america. this is all relevant to what we're seeing today. it is a battle between the establishment and the upstarts. the establishment cannot and should not dismiss the will of

i call this a andrew jackson problem. by many standards, andrew jk son is a great president. define a whole age by limb. the age of jackson. jack sewnian democracy. jackson imhimself is a symbol. he is a frontiers man who by reaching the presidency sends a powerful message about what is possible in this new country. his common rhetorical support for regular people changes our politics. he democrat of course kra advertises government service by ending the practice of treating government jobs as if they're personal problem, they would hang on to for their entire lives and then pass on to their sons and he builds the first mass base political party, democratic party, which is really forging out of his own personal following. he was a slave owner. but, he was a perhaps most closely associated in addition to his democratic impulses with backing forcible remove afl native mens from their triefbal land in open defiance of supreme court decisions. when the cherokee nation is forced out of their lands in georgia, a forth are going to die on the trail of tears out to the midwest. this

inaugural, he reminded of andrew jackson's acclamation. who was not necessarily thought of as a person representing the power of government, although strongly connected, made the case that the states did not preexist the federal government, but on the contrary. lincoln felt himself well and in in the framers jackson, that he was not at all involved in a parliamentary exercise. >> there was a portrait of jackson he kept in his white house office. audience: i would like to ask themcdermott to describe commitment of mary lincoln, and the legal procedures involved, and i would also like to pose a question. if any other panel member has an opinion? >> mary did not think justice was done. the thing about the insanity hearing for me, i would like to relationship her with her last surviving son. i think that is probably the biggest tragedy of it. i think robert cared for his mother and loved her. i think he had genuine concern that she was ill. but there was no assistance that would help her. positionnow that that was administering drugs and alcoh

at the beginning of the summer no president of the united states had won a second term since andrew jackson. isn't that amazing? >> at 7:00 the congressional gold medal ceremony for civil over 50 yearst >> ago a summer preacher and educator, reverend frederick douglas read as president of the dallas county voters league invited reverend martin luther king, reverend ralph abernathy and the members of the seven christian leadership conferences to help lead some as voting right process. today, we bestow the congressional gold medal on the brave foot soldiers. .> sunday morning at 10:00 from the 1988 presidential campaign of jack cap, as he answered the questions from usa today. >> while i am conservative on , i am -- fiscal policy progressive with regard to my belief in the republican party being a lincoln party, a party of black and white and blue and white collar and of all people. conservative,sive i am appeared defending the status quo. on real00 eastern america, the 50th anniversary of the gemini eight manned space mission. we will show the film, gemini eight. analyst in the program sit d

so john adams then beat andrew jackson, but four years later jackson won the presidency after anotherat was even more vicious for rachel jackson. one newspaper said there is pollution in the touch, there is per dish in the example of a woman. the campaign seemed to crush her spirit and her health and in december of 1828, just before they were scheduled to leave tennessee for washington, rachel jackson died. andrew jackson buried his wife on christmas eve wearing the white satin gown she had chosen for his inag ral ball. this latest dust up turns out to be a very old american tradition. i don't think we're going to get that ending here. these are healthy strong woman. we were doing the election coverage last night and i was watching on twitter this war break out. you saw it happen in real time. >> what happened last night is donald trump tweeted something saying lying ted cruz shouldn't have anything to do with this ad, it was a tweet, he better be careful or i'm going to spill the peebeans on you're wife. >> the ad he was explaining about was an online thing that one of those stop tru

that led to number two finisher, john quincy adams, to be elated over the number one finisher, andrew jacksonfrom the beginning of the atoms presidency -- adams presidency, jackson supporters were preparing for a rematch. you have four years of partisan dealings heating up. sorted -- he was generally regarded as the dirtiest campaign in american history.much of that revolves around mrs. jackson, who was not always mrs. jackson. the circumstances under which reallycame mrs. jackson spread the wellspring of scandal. rachel donaldson had been unhappily married to someone, who by universal accounts, was an s.o.b. i don't know what the legal term is. [laughter] but he left her. she fell in love with a young andrew jackson. he believed that the first husband were divorced. they were in effect husband-and-wife, only to learn to their horror later that no legal termination to the first marriage had occurred. for the rest of her life, jackson made it his defining mission in life to shield rachel as much as possible from the viciousarsh, often criticism that was aimed at her. ironically she said that s

in fact andrew jackson hamilton barely hang out in texas. he spends most of his time giving lectures in boston. in north carolina there's very little traction. glue in tennessee, arkansas and the deep south state louisiana, lincoln pins hits hopes. he pins his hopes that those states during the war can be restored. this is critical in understanding lincoln and reconstruction. for lincoln, reconstruction is both a means toward an end as well as an end in itself. the eventual hope, of course, is to win the war and reunify the nation. well how are we going odo that. one of the ways to do that, he believed, was to pick off whatever confederate states he could, have them adopt new state constitutions and readmit representative to congress. in doing so he believes you would be weakening the power of the confederacy and advancing the war effort. and it is along those lines that lincoln focuses. he focuses on having elections held in those states, particularly in louisiana, tennessee and arkansas. he writes at one point that an election would be wor

it's "b," andrew jackson.y 1835, a mentally deranged painter named richard lawrence tried to shoot jackson at close range. old hickory responded by beating the would-be assassin with his cane. >> it's 2008 in dallas/fort worth, and, oddly enough, dave card and his siblings have never actually taken possession of the strange object they inherited seven years before -- lee harvey oswald's tombstone. cleo's cousin, johnny ragan, and his wife, holly, are supposedly hiding it for the heirs. then... >> unfortunately, johnny passes away in some form of an industrial accident, which involved a camper extension. >> somehow or another, he got caught between the wall in his shop and the expansion that goes out from an rv. >> when they found his body, he was lying there crushed between the camper extension and the wall. >> oh, my gosh. >> now, how that happened is a mystery. >> despite the odd circumstances, the police call johnny's death accidental. we requested an interview with holly, but through her attorney, she decl

inaugural, he reminded of andrew jackson's acclamation. who was not necessarily thought of as a person representing the power of government, although strongly connected, made the case that the states did not preexist the federal government, but on the contrary. lincoln felt himself well and in in the framers jackson, that he was not at all involved in a parliamentary exercise. >> there was a portrait of jackson he kept in his white house office. audience: i would like to ask themcdermott to describe commitment of mary lincoln, and the legal procedures involved, and i would also like to pose a question. if any other panel member has an opinion? >> mary did not think justice was done. the thing about the insanity hearing for me, i would like to relationship her with her last surviving son. i think that is probably the biggest tragedy of it. i think robert cared for his mother and loved her. i think he had genuine concern that she was ill. but there was no assistance that would help her. positionnow that that was administering drugs and alcoh

. >> i suppose the only time we never had a public debt was when andrew jackson was president of the united states. other than that, i have no recollection that we have been without a debt. don: when the first computer was installed, it was installed in this building. it was designed to prepare letters to constituents. so many people continued to write into senators not only asking for something, but giving their opinion. senators always wanted to respond to anybody who wrote to them. the first computer was acquired in the 1960's and installed in this building to be able to send mass mailings back to constituents. this is probably the most functional, in many ways, of the buildings. even though it has a small number of senators occupying the building, it is sort of the central section because of the committee activity. those are the things you are familiar with from watching televised hearings. >> i have reviewed, in detail, my 1973 work product. outdoor recreation. a legacy for america. it continues to represent my philosophy and my commitment to recreation, to preservation, and to

we're not sure exactly what that means, maybe he'll get rid of andrew jackson on the 20 instead.ver you do, don't touch the benjamin. >> i'm going to "hamilton" saturday night and i'm taking my son. so excited. have you seen it? >> i can't get tickets. >> well, i have been waiting a long time. so anyway, it's been a while coming. >>> that does it for me and "way too early." coming up on "morning joe," the next republican presidential debate has been cancelled but ted cruz says he's willing to go wherever, whenever to get trump one-on-one. >>> and plus, president obama tries to make it hard for republicans to ignore his nominee. and dennis mcdonough about the plans to get merrick garland confirmed. that and much more. ♪ i'd like to take this time to introduce a friend of mine ♪ but only a few commands to master depositing checks at chase atms. technology designed for you. so you can easily master the way you bank. they represent blood cells. and if you have afib-an irregular heartbeat that may put you at five times greater risk of stroke they can pool together in the heart, formin

inaugural, he reminded of andrew jackson's acclamation. who was not necessarily thought of as a person representing the power of government, although strongly connected, made the case that the states did not preexist the federal government, but on the contrary. lincoln felt himself well and in in the framers jackson, that he was not at all involved in a parliamentary exercise. >> there was a portrait of jackson he kept in his white house office. audience: i would like to ask themcdermott to describe commitment of mary lincoln, and the legal procedures involved, and i would also like to pose a question. if any other panel member has an opinion? >> mary did not think justice was done. the thing about the insanity hearing for me, i would like to relationship her with her last surviving son. i think that is probably the biggest tragedy of it. i think robert cared for his mother and loved her. i think he had genuine concern that she was ill. but there was no assistance that would help her. positionnow that that was administering drugs and alcoh

sense when they come in to see them of what it looked like when men like james madison or young andrew jackson were sitting in this room as members of the house of representatives. we're in the senate chamber here at congress hall in philadelphia. the room as you can see is quite a bit more grand than the house of representatives would have been. there's a couple of reasons for that. our roots as a nation go back to when we were british, of course. the british have a parliament with two houses. an upper house, the house of lords, lower house, house of commons. there's definitely parallels with our congress today. the house of representatives is very similarly set up to the house of commons. and then the senate would, therefore, be left to be based on the house of lords. we don't have dukes and earls and noble titles like that. we have states. every state is equal in the senate. so the states kind of take the place of our house of lords and our senate chamber. the british often using that green color in government. the colonies would use it and into the american government. but the red would be

that led to number two finisher, john quincy adams, to be elated over the number one finisher, andrew jackson. from the beginning of the atoms presidency -- adams presidency, jackson supporters were preparing for a rematch. you have four years of partisan dealings heating up. sorted -- he was generally regarded as the dirtiest campaign in american history.much of that revolves around mrs. jackson, who was not always mrs. jackson. the circumstances under which reallycame mrs. jackson spread the wellspring of scandal. rachel donaldson had been unhappily married to someone, who by universal accounts, was an s.o.b. i don't know what the legal term is. [laughter] but he left her. she fell in love with a young andrew jackson. he believed that the first husband were divorced. they were in effect husband-and-wife, only to learn to their horror later that no legal termination to the first marriage had occurred. for the rest of her life, jackson made it his defining mission in life to shield rachel as much as possible from the viciousarsh, often criticism that was aimed at her. ironically she said that

- basically, i have a note from him after i published a book on andrew jackson that i called american lion and he said, "it's a little overwhelming to follow "in the footsteps of a lion." he said to his chief of staff one day, "what if he just finds an empty deck of cards?" which is classic bush speak. - it's so bush isn't it? - because it's either not a full deck or an empty suit blended together. (crowd laughs) it's a little bit like, this was a little like writing a biography of dana carvey. there were moments. - yeah, right. - you know, you could hear it you know? unleashed orgy of death. (crowd laughs) one of the joys of doing it and we'll get back to why, is at one point this summer, in the course of a single hour in fact checking it, i spoke to henry kissinger, dick cheney and dana carvey, who did the entire interview in character. (crowd laughs) and so i'm still not sure. it might have been the president. - well it sounds like fun. - it was great fun. and i said, "well what are the elements "of the impression?" and carvey said, "it's an underlay "of mister rogers with some joh

. >> -- who was first a confidant of andrew jackson. and she grew up on jackson. in fact, he gave her his wife, rachel's, wedding wing. >> yeah. >> but, and so her father was jackson's confidant and then lincoln's confidant. her brother, montgomery blair, was in the lincoln cabinet. >> yep. >> her brother, frank blair was in the congress. but her husband, phillips lee, who was a cousin of robert e. lee, was in the union navy. and because he was in the navy, she wrote to him pretty much every day. >> yeah. >> and the letters are just a treasure trove. >> they're great. yeah. >> they really are. >> well, there's so much in here i encourage people to spend a lot of time with it because it's just great reading. >> well, they were great ladies. fun to learn about. >> good for you. i want to ask about this concept of women in leadership roles performing amazing feats and contributing but perhaps not getting, you know, enough credit for it or claim for it. in the two areas in which you have lived your life, journalism, and politics, i was reminded when john dickerson was

you have to go back to the 19th century when andrew jackson was accused of murder for the duels that he fought. >> right. >> we all know about jefferson and childbirth and all that. and look what happened to al smith when he ran for the presidency in 1928. the vicious anti-catholicism that was about -- and even with john f. kennedy in 1960 had a -- i mean, this is one of the ugliest, mean-spirited, nasty campaigns that we've ever seen. all these candidates' negatives as this continues will go up. you know, the voters might say, "i'll pick the least --" you know where i'm heading with this. >> yeah. >> or some people may not even come out and vote. >> or stay home. >> stay home. >> that's the biggest problem for me -- people not coming out to vote. >> we'll see. >> all right. well, we're going to take a short break and come back to our insiders' inside stories of the week. le >> "inside story" is presented by temple university. temple fuels students with academics and opportunities to take charge. plugged into the city, powered by the world. temple.edu/takecharge. >> welcome back. tim

neil: andrew jackson. the last trump like president. >> he was.ot have any nuclear weapons to work with. >> thank you. we are, speak of the devil, not that he is a devil, but donald trump will be addressing crowds in michigan. up for grabs tomorrow. that is anyone's guess. tomorrow will hurt him. donald trump. maybe this does not. after this. ♪ i have asthma... ...one of many pieces in my life. so when my asthma symptoms kept coming back on my long-term control medicine, i talked to my doctor and found a missing piece in my asthma treatment. once-daily breo prevents asthma symptoms. breo is for adults with asthma not well controlled on a long-term asthma control medicine, like an inhaled corticosteroid. breo won't replace a rescue inhaler for sudden breathing problems. breo opens up airways to help improve breathing for a full 24 hours. breo contains a type of medicine that increases the risk of death from asthma problems and may increase the risk of hospitalization in children and adolescents. breo is not for people whose asthma is well controlle

i call this a andrew jackson problem. by many standards, andrew jk son is a great president. define a whole age by limb. the age of jackson. jack sewnian democracy. jackson imhimself is a symbol. he is a frontiers man who by reaching the presidency sends a powerful message about what is possible in this new country. his common rhetorical support for regular people changes our politics. he democrat of course kra advertises government service by ending the practice of treating government jobs as if they're personal problem, they would hang on to for their entire lives and then pass on to their sons and he builds the first mass base political party, democratic party, which is really forging out of his own personal following. he was a slave owner. but, he was a perhaps most closely associated in addition to his democratic impulses with backing forcible remove afl native mens from their triefbal land in open defiance of supreme court decisions. when the cherokee nation is forced out of their lands in georgia, a forth are going to die on the trail of tears out to the midwest. this

they brought their wives. >> andrew jackson was huge. people may not know that.presidential candidate as well. and he spoke like that too. and many people don't know that. of the few records we found of andrew jackson. >> you do some impressions. >> sure. >> of presidential -- >> i love doing -- well, you know, i just played richard nixon and we do examine the nixon/kennedy race. i got to play him in this film called el elvis nixon which is a crazy story between elvis and richard nixon in 1970. we like to say it is the day two of t of the greatest recording artists in america ever met. and nixon was interesting. a year and a half before he even started taping in the white house and way before watergate. so it was really fun to try to embody his particular persona and his kind of grumpy attitude and physicality. and michael shannon plays elvis presley in this film that comes out in april. that was very fun and of course obviously a different president than frank underwood. >> do you want to give us i'm not a crook. >> i couldn't do that. because ultimately cnn has

in a time and place in which a great mass of common men supported andrew jackson, lincoln supported henry clay. lincoln became a whig. lincoln rejected that prejudice in a southern-flavored setting soft on slavery. lincoln was generous to blacks. lincoln cared about education intensely. when evangelical christianity permeated the western frontier, lincoln raised questions and gave different answers than his neighbors. lincoln was very skeptical about the common prejudices of his own time and place, including the prevailing very strong racial prejudices against african-americans. when he alluded to those prejudices, he said that they might or might not be well founded. he never explicitly endorsed the view that whites were morally and intellectually superior to blacks. here's one notable instance of this. lincoln was initially reluctant to permit black soldiers to serve in the union army. in part he was motivated by his well-founded worries about the prejudices of white soldiers and the general public. he also worried that blacks might not make good soldiers. lincoln went out of his way to

beginning of the summer of 1864, no president of the united states had won a second term since andrew jacksonn't that amazing? 7:00, the congressional gold medal ceremony to recognize archbishops of foot soldiers and the civil rights movement. -- aselma preacher president of the dallas county voters meeting invited reverend martin luther king, reverend awakensernathy, was a and members of the southern christian leadership conference to help lead some was boating rights protest -- selma's voting right protests. the metal upon the brave courageous foot soldiers. , fromday morning at 10:00 the 1988 presidential campaign from jack camp as he answered questions on the board of the usa today. >> while i have conservative values, i am progressive with regards to my belief and the republican party being the lincoln party, blue-collar, white collar and all people. i call on progressive conservatives to differentiate myself from the idea. >> on railamerica, the 50th anniversary of the gemini eight manned space mission. the film we will show gemini eight. >> they know it is a three-day mission that is p

in a time and place in which the great mass of common men in the west supported andrew jackson, lincoln supported henry clay. surrounded by democrats, lincoln became a whig. in a political party with a nativist undercurrent, lincoln rejected the prejudice. in a southern flavored setting soft on slavery, lincoln opposed it. in a white world with strong racial antipathies, lincoln was generous to blacks. in an environment indifferent to education, lincoln cared about it intensely. in a family active in church, lincoln abstained. when evangelical christianity permeated the western frontier, lincoln raised questions and give different answers than his neighbors. lincoln was skeptical about the common prejudices of his own time. including the prevailing racial prejudices against second americans. he said those prejudices might or might not be well-founded. he never endorsed the common view that whites were intellectually and morally superior to blacks. he abandoned prejudices in light of evidence. he was reluctant to permit black soldiers to serve in the union army. he was motivated by his w

this began with the presidency of andrew jackson but did not fully flower into modern communications technologies especially radio and then television changed the nature of the american regime by changing the nature of political campaigns and of governance. the current believe is that because presidents alone are elected by a national constituency, they are unique embodiments of the national will and hence should enjoy the maximum feasible untrammeled latitude to translate that will into policy. the twofold problem is that majorities can be abusive. and some questions are not properly submitted to disposition by majority rule because there are some, actually there are many, closed questions even in an open society. but we must ask, how aberrant, how frequent are abusive majorities? a related, but different question is -- when legislatures which are majoritarian bodies act, how often are they actually acting on behalf of of majorities? my belief, based on almost a half-century observing washington, is this -- as government becomes bigger and more hyperactive, as the regulatory adminis

andrew jackson home was turned into a veteran home for a period of time. if you're in new orleans on the east side of the french quarter there was the big home in new orleans for confederate veterans. kentucky home was in the pee wee valley in beautiful area outside of louisville that gave veterans great place to replace and live a life with some medical ease if you will. there was some debate about these homes if the state should support them and what kind of men will be allowed in one of these homes. you had to fill out the paper work, talk about your injury came from the war itself and again that honorable departure from the war itself. some of these homes even had a debate about some men who asked if their wife will be allowed to come along and live with them in the home. these are the questions that many ways gummed you have the assistance that the veterans needed to transition back to life. land grant became the third area of assistance but limited. only two states take on large spots of land that veterans is eligible to take. the first was louisiana

. >> look, john quincy adams cheated andrew jackson out of the presidency in 1824.e ran a four year campaign and in 28 he beat john quincy adams and served for a year. you've got a lot of revenge motives at work here. >> very interesting when history repeats itself, professor. thanks for being here today. >> thanks martha. >> it's been 40 years since the republicans have gone to their convention without a clear nominee going in and when they did, pennsylvania became the focus of the heart of that trug l. w -- struggle. why the keystone state may be the one to watch. we have some stuff on that coming up. plus -- the final moments of one of the protesters in that oregon stand off now revealed in its entirety. we're going to show you what happened when police confronted them and why this piece of video proves officers may have lied about what really happened. don't let a cracked windshield ruin your plans. trust safelite. with safelite's exclusive "on my way text" you'll know exactly when we'll be there. giving you more time for what matters most. (team sing) ♪safelite

willing to share her opinion on her hero senator henry clay and casting aspers n aspersions on andrew jackson. when she arrived in springfield, she was ready to immerse herself in the 1840 presidential contest and she did so with much gusto. however, she admitted to a friend this fall i became quite a politician, rather an unladylike profession. like no other time in american history, women were becoming interested and involved in politics in the 1840s. they attended barbecues and rallies and speeches, and they read and penned campaign literature, but their involvement was obviously constrained as they did not have the vote or real political power. and mary understood that and was okay with it. and while there was a social role and certainly an intellectual role for her and other women to play, in the end mary really believed it was a sphere for males. it is not accident, however, that mary only considered political men and certainly she encouraged and oftentimes really encouraged the political ambitions of her husband, who was, she saw very early on, a rising star in illinois. but mostly, ma

populist candidate also leading between intellectual and populism for example, you have people like andrew jackson that john f. kennedy so throughout history the we also think it is cyclical as politics is gradually getting aggressively dumb down. but however it is disproportionate and the democrats already have their time in the wilderness. as they give up that limousine liberal michael dukakis as a southern governor they had to lose three presidential elections and right now democrats are more disciplined but republicans are now in the wilderness searching so they are more susceptible to the winds that are happening out there and trying to find who they are. and one example is our technology has changed things not that long ago that political party bosses decided who was the nominee. noone wasn't that long ago with 24/7 in the cable news could donald trump happen? i don't know the answer to that debt is unique for that moment as so many are culminating i'm sure you have seen the it the autocracies. >> a field of your living that. >> is very similar to trump's saying i am winning in the polls. in

for example, you have people like andrew jackson who was called old hickory. to be the best and brightest. while some of it is cyclical and is also linear with politics getting progressively dumbed down. >> host: i think it is bipartisan however it disproportionately hit republicans. and then to go through the identity crisis. and then gave up the michael dukakis with a southern governor. they had to lose those three presidential elections with that come to jesus moment and right now democrats are more disciplined than have the bully pulpit. to be susceptible to those limbs that are happening and find who they are. and one example hot technology has changed it wasn't that long ago they renominated of trump never would have gotten started. but could donald trump happened in the world without 24/7 cable news and twitter? i don't know but there's so many different factors and what is that movie in the odyssey? >> that is like that macho thing. i am winning in the polls. >> but there was a name the early idea to play on that. >> host: not to give the impression th

it's "b," andrew jackson.january 1835, a mentally deranged painter named richard lawrence tried to shoot jackson at close range. old hickory responded by beating the would-be assassin with his cane. >> it's 2008 in dallas/fort worth, and, oddly enough, dave card and his siblings have never actually taken possession of the strange object they inherited seven years before -- lee harvey oswald's tombstone. cleo's cousin, johnny ragan, and his wife, holly, are supposedly hiding it for the heirs. then... >> unfortunately, johnny passes away in some form of an industrial accident, which involved a camper extension. >> somehow or another, he got caught between the wall in his shop and the expansion that goes out from an rv. >> when they found his body, he was lying there crushed between the camper extension and the wall. >> oh, my gosh. >> now, how that happened is a mystery. >> despite the odd circumstances, the police call johnny's death accidental. we requested an interview with holly, but through her attorney, sh

andrew jackson's home, the hermitage come was actually turned into a veterans home. on the east side of the french corridor in new orleans was a home. kentucky's home had a home outside of louisville. it gave veterans a great place to relax, take any fresh air, and live a life, if you will, with medical use. -- ease. there was some debate if the state should actually support them, and what kind of men would be allowed in one of these homes. you had to fill out paperwork. talk about how your injury actually came from the war itself. and the honorable departure. in fact, some of these homes even had a debate about someone -- about some men who asked if their wives could come along and live in the home. these are the questions that in assistance that many of these veterans needed in transitioning back to life. land grants become the third area of assistance that they are limited. only two states would take on large plots of land that veterans would be eligible to take. the first was louisiana which provided 160 acres of land to injured veterans. texas offered 1288 gerd

deirdre: have you seen some of the pieces that compare donald trump to andrew jackson? i'm just curious. >> i have seen some of the pieces. i will tell you this -- and i don't want to pretend i'm a historian. what you do see happening here is a forgotten and disenfranchised group of americans getting engaged in the political process because they understand we've been veering dangerously in the direction of an oligarchy. and this really may be a once-in-a-lifetime chance to give everyday people control over their futures again. turn out millions of people running into the political process for the first time. deirdre: yeah, the turnout numbers so far for the primaries and the caucuses, to your point have, been stronger than years. we're going to take a quick break, stephen, stay with us, if you don't mind. stephen miller back with us. >>> from russia, the kremlin lashing out against one of donald trump's new campaign videos. [barking] . deirdre: stephen miller back with me as promised. what he thinks of the ad and the kremlin's response. >>> also overseas, isis burning b

in a time and place in which the great mass of common men in the west supported andrew jackson, lincoln supported henry clay. surrounded by democrats, lincoln in a political party with a nativist undercurrent, lincoln rejected the prejudice. in a southern flavored setting soft on slavery, lincoln opposed it. in a white world with rain -- strong racial antipathies, lincoln was generous to blacks. in an environment indifferent to education, lincoln cared about it intensely. in a family active in church, lincoln abstained. when evangelical christianity permeated the western frontier, lincoln raised questions and give different answers than his neighbors. lincoln was skeptical about the common present -- prejudices of his own time. the prevailing racial president says -- prejudices against second americans. he said those prejudices might or might not be well-founded. he never endorsed the common view that whites were intellectually and morally some. to blacks.ior he abandoned press -- prejudices and light of evidence. to permit- reluctant black soldiers to serve in the union army. he was mo

and casting appropriate aspersions on democratic president andrew jackson. growing up in a hotbed of whig politics with a father who encouraged her enthusiasm for politics fueled mary's interests in this regard. when she arrived in springfield, she was ready to immerse yourself in the 1840 presidential contest, and she did so with much gusto. however, she admitted to a friend, this fall i became quite a politician, rather than unladylike profession. like no other time in american history, women were becoming interested and involved in politics in the 1840's. they attended barbecues and rallies and speeches, and they pennedd depend -- and cap in literature. they were constrained to, because they had no vote or political power, and mary was ok with it. while there was a social role for her another women to play, in the end, mary believed it was really a sphere for males. it is no accident, however, that mary only considered political men, and certainly, she encouraged and often times really encouraged the political ambitions of her husband, who was, she saw ve

johnson the ability to -- andrew jackson the ability to appoint anybody. when does court packing go from more than a conversation with one senator to something like a real proposal? it is an idea that never establishes much momentum. one of the things i wanted to do in this book is track when the idea first begins to emerge in public discussion when roosevelt gets letters suggesting it and so forth. it does not happen right away. but it is very much a fringe idea. when it comes up, someone says of course he could do it but would not do this. an outrageous, terrible, appalling idea. that is what most of roosevelt's advisers said. it was not about packing the courts, but amending the constitution. there were 100 separate constitutional amendments proposed in congress to deal with the supreme court. either to strip away the right of judicial review altogether, i am not sure what is left of the court if you do that, and to strip their review of social and economic legislation, so they can't even consider the questions, or to all

a dozen years later, the seventh, andrew jackson, lets a drunken mob trash the place during his inaugural ball. maybe this poor piece of wood was part of the collateral damage. who knows? over the years, presidents come and presidents go, redecorating, repainting, and renovating to suit their individual tastes. then, in 1902, theodore roosevelt begins the first wholesale restoration of the mansion that he officially names "the white house." it's time to pick up the thread of this strange inheritance story. according to mike meister, in 1902, his great-uncle, joseph williamson jr., is a law student at georgetown university in d.c. one day, he strolls down pennsylvania avenue, spots the piece of wood in a junk pile, and thinks, "it's pretty neat." >> joseph jr. picked it up. >> like a yard sale? did they buy it? >> no, it was scrap. i mean, it was things that were gonna be eventually hauled off to landfills, burned, whatever. >> he brings it home to illinois from law school and gives it to his father as a memento. his dad inscribes his name and writes the date on the back. the piece is hand