but in the process, he's criticizing the democrats, including andrew jackson's inner circle. >> as itned out, crockett wasn't trying to criticize jackson but jackson took it so personally, he said, i'm going to crush this little pepsqueak. >> crockett's growing prop layer tea puts him at odds with the party leadership. andrew jackson, now the presidential democratic front-runner, has his old scout in his sights. >> andrew jackson was once involved in a duel. someone had insulted him. he went into that duel determined to not only hit his opponent but kill his opponent. if jackson told you he was going to kill, you best get your affairs in order. >> so jackson and the democrats see trouble on the horizon. dave crockett was on the higher office and really caused this trouble in the future. all right. we've got to par him now. >> after two successful terms in the state legislature, crockett comes up short in his first bid for congress. out of a job and deep in campaign debt, david crockett is forced to ♪ staying in rhythm... it's how i try to live... how i stay active. so i need nutrition

certainly as early as andrew jackson. one reason why jackson is seen icon, hecratic faulty believed he is president was the only official elected by all the people. and that gave him a particular stewardship responsibility areas indeed, a particular moral authority that mere members of congress representing provincial viewpoints did not have. teddy roosevelt 70 years later built upon that in rather breathtaking fashion. and in many ways, the story of the 20th century, as i said, is the growth of presidential power , hand in glove with increased democratization of our culture. what is passing is we turn the corner, and the 21st century, a heroic presidency if you will. with the quite fits situation in which we find ourselves. the media, classic example. 40 years ago, an american could have a staff or call three men, three networks in new york and have, that evening, 70 million people tune into whatever he had to say, and he could move the numbers. richard nixon in 1970 at a time of peace over vietnam was able to move the n

congress gave the election, or voted for john quincy adams, over andrew jackson, even though jackson had a plurality of votes. he did not have the necessary majority. adams was elected and jackson had to hold off for four more years. the other question was the war of 1812. that had nothing to do with political parties. that was madison's incompetence as president. he had been secretary of state for eight years under jefferson. so he had no real experience running the nation. he did not have to make any real decisions. he was simply incompetent. he took on, he left most of jefferson's cabinet in place and took on political hacks, especially the secretary of state. he replaced himself with a republican leader from congress. that secretary of state did a disastrous job. the british had signed a peace treaty with the americans in ondon. it took a month or more for ships to cross the atlantic. before the ship could bring the copies of the treaties here, madison was talked into invading canada to show off how strong we were. of course it was a disaster. yes sir? >> you alluded at the begin

after he was beaten for reelection by andrew jackson he then went back to congress, the first president to return to congress and remains the only president who served in the house of representatives after the presidency. by now, and anti-slavery movement had begun in the united states. by 1835 activists had begun preparing and sending to the few sympathetic congressman petitions drying an end to the slave trade for the abolition of slavery in the district of columbia over which the federal government had jurisdiction. that is when southerners began to call for it. adams was too harsh a realist to believe in an open public debate southerners would acknowledge the evil of slavery and agree to its abolition. he did not think that was possible. he said to himself and still believes only civil war would bring an end to slavery and now when it was a reality he could not say out loud what he said to himself that the idea of civil war was acceptable, something the most extreme radical abolitionists would adopt. he was in a quandary. he didn't have doubts about the merits of the quest but didn'

i don't know who that is, i just know it's 20 dollars. >> andrew jackson. >> very good.s? >> i mean, they all did, didn't they? >> washington. >> all white guys look alike? >> no. >> ben franklin. >> benjamin franklin. >> excellent. do you know who ben franklin was? >> a president? >> not a president. >> i know i was like a pump and loved the ladies. but -- >> he did the kite and lightning with the key on the string. >> do you like a fly a kite? >> i haven't flown one in a while. >> i'm not sure that these individuals have impacted me enough to say i'm proud of them to actually be on the currency. >> he did kind of help invent electricity. that kind of helps you? >> okay. >> who is this guy? >> lincoln. >> very good. what did he do? >> i forgot -- what are you asking me? like i know any of it. >> what did he do that was very, very important? >> besides be the president. off the top of my head, i can't remember. i can't recall. >> he freed the slaves? >> there we go. okay. >> kind of a big deal. >> jefferson. >> george washington. >> mmmm! >> i don't know, who is that dud

i think it's andrew jackson. andrew jackson and the war on the second recognize dates, the war on nicholas biddle. i think trump is i think present himself as the anti-elite candidate, the candidate of the hinterland, the great forgotten people out in the wilderness. and jackson played that role very a deadly and took on elite financial power centered in the central bank. do you see a potential battle similar to that? >> i see echoes of jackson and thomas jefferson, and, frankly, abraham lincoln. i'm choking as i say this come in donald trump come in the sense that he's seeking to say i'm a frontiersman, and at other people. does nothing about his biography that authenticates that claim, unlike, well, not so much thomas jefferson but andrew jackson and abraham lincoln. the difference though and the reason i don't think we can see in trump a thoroughbred populace is there's no governing principle that motivates. before a week ago and literally had no idea at all what his views on something as important as the cent

background, propriety, and was accused of the sex scandal, and at the same time the adams camp, andrew jackson's wife not having divorced her husband's primary, is true. very vicious, think of it like politics. the jackson murder, he was. >> was there a particular period of her life or episode in her life or aspect of her life you were frustrated by the historical record that you thought would be more interesting? >> a good question. certainly slavery is one of the things she became interested in. it is frustrating because of legal documents, doesn't write about that stuff. the piecing together i can't talk about attitudes in quite that way although she does talk about slavery later. they pretty much go silent and i felt the lack of her voice in those moments for sure but she did leave, she herself left vibrant records. it is not like a lot of women in those times burn their letters. people didn't burn her letters, she sometimes wrote letters. i feel very lucky to have chosen a subject for this kind of -- she had a mania for writing. she called it preventing -- yes. success, yes. i would like to

from the grave andrew jackson replied, what did that jigaboo say?t's what he said, that's what he said. i'm just the reporter, you guys. i'm just the reporter. i'm the reporter, mr. president. yeah. did larry wilmore say jigaboo on obama's last -- i did, i honestly did. but 2016 has been a beast though, man. we lost david bowie, merle haggard, prince. or as hillary clinton calls it, my favorite singer, my favorite singer, my favorite singer. no? okay. biggest thing this year though has been the presidential election. lincoln chafee ran an admiral challenge pain. now he's back to doing what he does best, manning the pottery booth at the craft fair. chris christie was supposed to be here tonight. i don't know if he made it. he rsvp'd for three. him, his wife, and donald trump's dry cleaning. i shouldn't make fun. chris lost a lot of the weight recently, didn't he? this is what he said. he said he just eliminated everything from his routine that wasn't necessary, like his self-pride and dignity. you guys are tough, man. senator bernie sanders here toni

no one's mentioned the figure i think at least a pretty good analogy to trump, andrew jackson. andrew jackson and the war on the second bank of the united states, i think trump, who is, i think, -- who has, presented, himself as the anti-elite candidate. the candidate of the hinterlands, the great forgotten people out in the wilderness, and certainly jackson played that role very adeptly. and took on elite financial power. centered in the second bank of the united states, which was our central bank. do you see a potential battle similar to that? >> i see echos of jackson and thomas jefferson, too, and flange, abraham lincoln. i'm choking as i say this and donald trump in the sense that he's seeking to say, i'm a frontiersman, a man of the people. there is nothing about his biography that authenticates that blame claim, unlike -- not so much thomas jefferson but andrew jackson and abraham lincoln. the difference, though, and the reason i don't think that we an see in trump a thorough pred populous, is there is know governing principlal. before a week ago i had no idea at all wha

in 1812 they stopped over in baltimore, and they do not quite make it because andrew jackson and the results of new orleans came in and they were having a party that night. the next morning they came over and told the president they want to congratulate him. said he hadthey been right all along, although they had come from boston and baltimore with the secessionist moves. that was true in the mexican war when congress overwhelmingly voted to go ahead and pass resolution, the people had doubts about it. they could not be published it was so bitter. they had to hold up publication for a hundred years. i don't need to remind you about the civil war. people were here in the white house begging lincoln to concede and work out a deal with the confederacy when word came to him of his victories. they told him pennsylvania was gone, illinois had no chance. mr. morgan. >> some people on the air and in print accuse you of trying to label all criticism of your vietnam policy as unpatriotic. could you tell us whether you have guidelines in which your -- you are enabled to separate conscientious d

ben carson praised andrew jackson saying he was a tremendous president.rom the grave, jackson said, what did that jigaboo say? that is what he said. that is what he said. i am just reporting. i'm just reporting, mr. president. aboo"?rry say "jig i did. i honestly did. 2016 has been eight b. "b." we lost prince. or as hillary clinton says, my favorite singer, my favorite singer! and now -- is back to doing what he does best, manning the pottery booth at the craft fair. chris christie was supposed to be here tonight. he, his wife, and donald yours dry-cleaning. chris lost a lot of weight recently, didn't he? he said he eliminated everything from his routine that was not necessary. like his self pride hand dignity. -- and dignity. senator bernie sanders is here tonight. senator. i am surprised, you never come to these things. he usually goes to the white house early bird's correspondent dinner. he recently had a hernia operation. they say it is his own fault for the helps of the disenfranchised. you up to stretch before you do that, senator. confused on bern

ben carson was also against harriet tubman replacing andrew jackson on the $20 bill. ndous president. from the grave andrew jackson said, what did that jiggaboo say? that's what he said. that's what he said. i'm just the reporter here, guys. i'm just the reporter. i'm the reporter, mr. president. did larry wilmore say jiggaboo on obama's last -- i did. i honestly did. but 2016 has been a beast, though, man. we lost david bowie, merle haggard, prince, or is hillary clinton calls it, my favorite singer, my favorite singer, my favorite singer. okay. biggest thing this year though has been the presidential election. lincoln chafee ran an applicable campaign. now he's back at doing what he does best, manning the pottery booth at the craft fair. chris christie was supposed to be here tonight. i don't know if he made it. he rsvp'ed for three, him, his wife, and donald trump's dry-cleaning. i shouldn't make -- chris lost a lot of weight recently, didn't he? he said he just eliminated everything from his routine that wasn't necessary, like his self, pride, and dignity. you guys

lastly, did the person have bad character, like nixon or andrew jackson? people sometime described him in ways that make that case. to be in the president for the best president, you have to have all three of those things. big accomplishments, and be consequential, and you have to have strong personal qualities. to be one of the worst presidents you cannot have all three, because you cannot do a important bad things and be an -- and to be consequential. and i would dismiss the inconsequential presidents as a different category, you have a argument about who is a historical laughingstock. but that is not the same as the worst president but it comes in the middle, lumped together. to wrap up, and i will talk about reagan in a minute, but i do want to say that, having written about bush when he was still in office, and having written about reagan a couple decades after he left office, it is hard to see up close. politics is a very distorting lens around the question of who was the worst. for that reason, it would be better to talk about the more distant histo

john: andrew jackson says john quincy adams was pimping out his maid to the czar of russia.sychiatrists to sign a statement saying goldwater was insane. gold water won a libel suit against the nag magazine, but by then the campaign was over. people say i'm tired of ads that are filled with attacks and negative campaigns. john kasich said that, and so did bernie sanders. >> i have known hillary for 25 years, i'm not going to be waging personal attacks against her. john: but then as he fell behind in the race, and hillary said he wasn't qualified to be president, he started attacking her and said she wasn't qualified. >> i don't think you are qualified if you get $15 million through your super pac. i don't think you are qualified if you voted for the disastrous war in iraq. john: when candidates say they will run a positive campaign, part of my brain says that would be nice, maybe we would learn more. but the research shows that's not true, especially for the feel-good ads. simon and garfunkel all come to look for america while bernie sanders shakes hand. warm and fuzzy. but w

he was the one who put andrew jackson up outside, thus leading to my story about clay and jackson. host: how do you use this room? senator mcconnell: we're having meetings in here all the time. the republican leadership meetings are in here. if we have a particular issue we're trying to advance, i bring the leaders of both sides typically in to discuss ways to go forward. it's a beehive of activity. there are also constituent meetings in here, too. but mostly members. host: are you willing to share a story? it doesn't have to be contemporary or give away anything, but a memory in this room? senator mcconnell: oh my goodness. i'll have to think about that. there have been so many. one moment you would be interested in. when president bush wanted to order the surge in iraq toward the end of his tenure, the democrats had just come to the majority and they believed the unpopularity of the iraq war was the principle reason they had come to the majority. so there was a lot of resistance to providing the funds for the surge to see if we could finally get the iraq war right. i was just ele

it.ike i did was against harriett tubman replacing andrew jackson the 20-dollar bill.ter you guys. reporter mr. president. 2016 has been a beast though. mylot david bowie, prince, .avorite singer biggest thing this year has been presidential election. a campaign.ee ran chris christie was supposed to tonight. he rsvp for three, him, his wife dry cleaning.mp's chris lost a lot of weight recently. he said he just eliminated everything from his routine that his't necessary like dignity.e and is herebernie sanders tonight. i'm surprised, he usually goes to the white house early bird dinner. nice for you to come to this one this time. it.preciate a herniaecently operation. you got to stretch before you do that, senator. with bernie's sense on guns. antigun everywhere except for vermont. people inno black vermont. to give you credit, you are trying hard to get the black vote. i think it's great. bernie has been hanging around with rapper killer mike. or as hillary clinton call him, predator mike. bernie sanders gets knocked for his age. unfair. kind of it is. i will

many american presidents, both well-known presidents like ulysses grant, andrew jackson, or george washington had been generals, and people who are maybe not so known, like william henry harrison. there have been many presidents who have been generals. but this tradition had gone. roosevelt had a military background, but his military experience was that more of a civil servant politician in the navy and not as an admirable -- admiral. it is interesting to imagine what he would have been like. the idea of having a general as president did not seem that implausible to people. america had fought the war with a civilian mail population, many of them turned into soldiers. it had been a national experience. in terms of america's wars, singular early benign and a singular early inclusive experience. entirecan watch the "americanc-span3's history tv." >> monday on "the communicators," tim winter on the recent report of the 20 years of the content rating system. according to the report, the system intended to protect them from violence and sex on tv has failed. >> there is no show on broadcast televis

it was here james madison, james monroe, john quincy adams, andrew jackson, and millard m l fillmoreor all inaugurated. inaugurated. here that a foreign citizen first addressed congress for the first time. the marquee to lafayette. this is historic ground if ever there was. here. right here. here congress established the smithsonian institution and voted for war on mexico. a decision strongly opposed by many including a congressman from illinois, abraham lincoln. here by act of congress, eight states became part of the union. alabama, missouri, arkansas, michigan, florida, texas, wisconsin, and california. states that an area nearly doubled the size of the country. acoustics in the hall were erratic, mainly terrible. from certain locations on the floor, one could hear what was being said, even whispered on the far side of the room. at the same time, it was next to impossible to hear what was being said from the podium. there are old tales of ghostly footsteps echoing here in the night. according to one story, a capitol policeman entered the hall on a new year's eve to find all the st

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his 2009 book "american lion: andrew jackson in the white hose" was awarded the pulitzer prize for biographyproud graduate, and i recently went with him, where i gave the commencement speech. we sat down for an event called "the art of conversation." i grew up as an only child, with huge curiosity. it began when my father went to world war ii, and my mother went back to a small village of 100 and helped her father run a country store. when my father came back, he stayed for a while and commuted to a business he had about 20 miles away. in a town of 18,000. in the formative years between 2 and 12, i literally lived above the store. what the store did for me, it was a very southern thing. it was a meeting place. it was a hub, place where people came, with only 100 people and a railroad through the middle. with the service station on one side and my grandfather's business on the other. there was not much television, so they would come to talk and share experiences. if you were a young man, you had to ask questions to be part, for them to listen to you. and if you knew something about sports, a

grant and andrew jackson and george washington had been generals and people not so well known, henry harrison, there have been many presidents who have been generals, no fewer than four union generals before the civil war to become president. this practice was gone. result had a military background that his military background has and not that of being a general and in practical terms, his military experience is that of a civil servant politician in the navy and not in admirable. it is rather interesting to imagine what he would've been like as this. the idea of having a general as president did not seem that implausible to people at the end of the 1940's and beginning of the 1950's. america had fought the war with a civilian mail population, many of them turned into soldiers. it'd been a national experience, in terms of america's wars, a singularly inclusive experience. eisenhower and if it's from that and with his war record. there was also the danger that there was another general who wanted to be president, yet again, macarthur comes up repeatedly emerges in eisenhower's career.

in his book "special providence," walter russell meade represents andrew jackson describes a populous style of american thinking which is different than the country other major ideological traditions, it is anti-immigrant and nativist, in foreign policy largely isolationist but if and when engaged abroad militaristic and unilateral. in trade it is protectionist and on all matters deeply suspicious of international alliances and global conventions. jacksonians are exasperated not too much by enemies but by our allies. they want to abandoned the word or utterly dominate it. what is ex aspirating, in fact, intolerable for them is engaging with the world, working with other countries to achieve incremental progress, manage conflicts and thus solve problems. unfortunately, that happens to be what the bulk of foreign policy actually looks like. if we want to defeat isis, for example, what is going to make that possible is a complicated series of military and diplomatic moves, but trump has a better idea, a secret plan he says that will zap the group into o li-- oblivion. he won't tell them

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

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i'd like to introduce you to my friend, president andrew jackson. >> ma'am, you know, you can go to prison> please remember to have all of your paperwork ready. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: how funny is lily tomlin? you guys are great. i'm so happy it got picked up for the second season. >> we're filming our third season already. >> jimmy: you're doing season three. but this season you guys are more becoming friends. >> becoming friends -- well, we have a lot of fights but yes, we're becoming friends. she gets me involved with a a former lover of mine played by sam elliott. that was fun. >> jimmy: hey, why not, yeah, absolutely. well, i think we're kind of -- we're becoming friends as well. i thought it would be kind of fun, is if i challenge you to a a game of giant beer pong. would you be up for it? [ cheers and applause ] >> oh, you bet. >> jimmy: yeah? jane fonda and i are playing giant beer pong! when we get back, everybody. it's going to be fun. come on back! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ ♪ whenever i'm around you ♪ i go home a little bit ♪ there's just something about you ♪ ♪ where

in 1812 they stopped over in baltimore, andrew jackson came in, they were having a party that night.ext morning they came over and told the president they want to congratulate him. he had been right all along, although they had come from boston and baltimore with the secessionist moves. that was true in the mexican war when congress overwhelmingly voted to go ahead and pass resolution, the people had doubts about it. they could not be published it was so better. -- bitter. i don't need to remind you about the civil war. people were here in the white house begging lincoln to concede and work out a deal with the confederacy when word came to him of his victories. they told him the central venue is gone, illinois had no chance. mr. morgan. >> some people on the air and on of trying toyou label all criticism of your vietnam policy as unpatriotic. could you tell us whether you have guidelines in which your enabled to separate conscientious dissent from arrogant dissension? lyndon johnson: i haven't told anyone unpatriotic. -- called anyone unpatriotic. whennk the wicked fleeth no one purs

andrew jackson and the white house was awarded the pulitzer prize for biography, he has also written a biography for thomas jefferson and george bush 416789 he is a proud graduate of the university of the south where he graduated phi beta kapa. i recently went with him to his alma mater where they gave me an honorary degree. i made the commencement speech. also while on campus the two of us sat down for a conversation called the art of conversation. here it is. >> i grew up as an only child. and i grew up with huge imagination canned curiosity. and it began with my father went to world war ii. and my mother moved back while he was away to a small village of a hundred. and helped her father run this country store. and then when my father came back, he stayed there for awhile and commuted to a business that he had about 20 miles away in a town of 18,000. but i, in the form tiff years between two and 12 literally lived above the store. and what the store did for me was a very southern thing. it was a meeting place. it was a heart. it was a place where people came and was the center of t

you see, white brothers and sisters could be bored, andrew jackson, andrew johnson, whatever, is he, is the first african-american and the only one is barack obama. there is a proprietary consciousness about him. and a protective impulse toward him. a mothering of him, a fathering of him, a brothering of him. and people who reached out to him as families. so that kind of bond of kinship made it very difficult for black people to go but you know what, beyond all that, if he is not doing anything in substantive political fashion for african-american people, the symbolic representation of his ascent will be in one sense mitigated by the fact that he didn't do anything in a concrete way to address its things that he knew so well. when he finally began to speak about police brutality was beautiful, but initially he was giving us law and order. >> rose: you said he could have been my son. >> he said that after he cass forced to say that, encouraged to say that. after he delivered-- . >> rose: you don't think his instinct is to speak without fear of drk drk. >> fear of wielt america, fear a

reputation as come down recently for andrew jackson for his removal policy. certainly that is something we look back on with change and disapproval. but, again, jackson was someone who accomplished a tremendous amount and do we really think that could make him the worse? probably not. the final category of bad presidents are presidents who do damage to the country that in ways transcends party and politics. what they did was not about having politics or policies that were too liberal or taking us too far in this direction and that the. we are just corrupt and abusive of power. this is where i come back to richard nixon. when i wrote nixon's shadow in my first book, look as these liberal policies on the domestic. in the time that book came out, i argued against that by the way. i think in the time that the book came out that dissipated. and, what's now talked about was nixon was remembered for younger people and what they know the only president to resign. i am not a crook, water gate. that's nixon's lasting legacy. for his abusive power. unlike the clinton's