as for taft, archie butt says it is as if he is too good for politics. le cannot appreciate him. butt noticed taft's achilles' heel, which is that he was a hater, the greatest hater he ever knew. if taft knew someone who was disloyal, he took an instant dislike to them and lashed out against them. one example is when taft was young, someone insulted his father, and he bashed his head against the ground. spasms of anger would erupt in him in the name of royalty -- loyalty. taft would engage in self-defeating spasms of anger against people he considered disloyal. he fired an environmentalist and the deputy and these had catastrophic political consequences. butt is clear-eyed and sympathetic. butt went down on titanic and taft was heartbroken. brian lamb: when did he write the book? titanic was 1912? when did he write a two-part series? jeffrey rosen: i should have it immediately in mind. it was after the presidency of taft. it must have been a contemporary diary. there were letters to his sister. taft's presidency ended in 13. the book breaks off in the mid

he told his aide archie butt who told roosevelt and taft, i will not play a part for popularity. if the people want to reject me that's their prerogative. he has this mad sewnian view, his heroes are harrison, hamilton and james marshall. hamilton and harrison believe majorities should rule but slowly and thoughtful over time so that reason rather than passion could prevail. taft believes that the system is set to to slow passion to that the people can be dporchd in the public interest rather than through faction, that is, mobs that favor self-interest rather than the public good. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q & a. >>> the andrew jackson foundation's president and ceo walked us through the andrew jackson born for a storm exhibit. over the next 20 minutes he tells the story of president jackson's upbringing as a relative orphan in america's gone tear to his rise to national fame after his win against the british in the battle of new orleans. the exhibit was at andrew jackson's hermitage in nashville, tennessee. >>> we're in the museum in the andrew jackson center a

he told his aide, archie butt, who served both roosevelt and taft as an intimate aide, i will not play a part for popularity. if the people want to reject me, that's their prerogative. he has this madisonian view. his heros are the authors of the federalist papers and john arthur. and they believe that majorities should rule, but only slowly and thoughtfully over time. so that reason, rather than passion, could prevail. and taft believes that the entire system is set up to slow the direct expression of popular passion, so that the people can be governed in the public interest, rather than through faction. that is mobs that favor self-interest rather than the public good. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern, on c-span's q&a. >> next, university of tennessee professor daniel feller and his class talk about andrew jackson and the politics of the

he told his aide archie butt, who served roosevelt and taft as an intimate aide, i will not play a part for popularity if the people want to reject me, that's their prerogative. he has this madisonian view, his heroes are james madison and john marshall who he considers the greatest american ever and madison and hamilton believe that majority should rule but only slowly and thoughtfully over time so that reason rather than passion could prevail and taft believes that the entire system is set up to slow the direct expression of popular passion so that the people can be governed in the public interest rather than through faction, that is mobs that favor self-interest rather than the public good. >>> i want to begin today by talking about the international exhibition of arts manufacturers and products of the soil and mind. y'all want to go to that, don't you? that's exactly where you want to go. do any of you actually know where this actually was? it was also referred to as the centennial international exhibition, it was held in philadelphia from may to november 1876, it was supposed to ce

and his main oral history is archie butt. he served theodore roosevelt and he gave a sense of taft's thin skinned tendency to lash out at those that are disloyal. but to really capture the essence of the man, i just read his papers. they're in eight volumes. it takes a while. you read them and you have touchdown enly throu suddenly a sense of this chief justice who views every decision through constitutional terms and think the president can only do what the constitution explicitly allows unlike roosevelt who thinks he can do anything the constitution doesn't forbid. so the combination was useful. i should say on documents too, at the constitution center, text is sacred. and it's incredibly wonderful as a teaching tool. so we just started an exhibit with the five rarist original drafts of the constitution. they've never been put in the same place before ever. james wilson's drafts. and it is interesting. we put the text online. go to americantreasures.org or google it. you can see the evolution of the office of the presidency

and his main oral history was archie butte, who was his chief aide and also served theodore rooseveltbutte's diaries which are invaluable in giving a thin-skinned tendency to lash out at those who are disloyal. but to really capture the essence of the man, i just read his papers. they're in eight volumes, they're really -- it takes a while, but you read them and you have suddenly through his eyes this sense of our most judicial president and presidential chief justice, who views every decision through constitutional terms and thinks that the president can only do what the constitution explicitly allows, unlike roosevelt who thinks he can do anything the constitution does and forbid. so the combination was useful. i should say on the documents, too, for the -- at the constitution center, text is sacred. and it's incredibly wonderful as a teaching tool. so we just started an exhibit with the five rarest original drafts of the constitution. they have never been put in the same place before, ever. james wilson's handwritten drafts lent by the pennsylvania historical society. in addition t

he told his aide, archie butt, who served both as an intermad aide. i will not play popularity.if people reject him-- his heroes are john madison and the 0 authors of the papers and he believed that majority should rule, but only thoughtfully and slowly over time so reason and passion could prevail and taft believes the entire system is set up to slow the direct expression of popular passion so that the people can be governed in the public interest rather than through faction, that is mobs that favor self-interest rather than the public good. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q & a. . >> hey, hey, kavanaugh has got to go. >> he's one of the most qualified nominees ever picked for the supreme court and he's contributed a great deal to his community and the legal profession, besides being an outstanding judge on the d.c. circuit court of appeals. >> judge kavanaugh has a special obligation to make his views on this topic clear, given the president's litmus test that he would only appoint judges who would overturn roe. on that obligation, judge kavanaugh failed spectacula

. >> he told his aide, archie butt, who served as an intimate fall apart fort popularity. view.his madisonian hamilton believed that majority should rule, but only slowly and thoughtfully over time, so that reason and passion could prevail. people can be governed in the public interest rather than through faction, mobs that favors self-interest rather than the public good. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on "q&a." >> "washington journal" continues. host: at our table, dr. stephanie devaney, the deputy researchof the oliva program at the nih. us researchf program is one of the largest longitudinal research studies in the u.s. host: what does it entail? what are you trying to accomplish? guest: we are asking one million or more individuals who live in the states to share health data, lifestyle data, data about their behaviors, information about themselves over their lifespan, and then all of that information is used by researchers to answer who stays healthy, why they stay healthy, why some people respond to drugs differently than others. it is really going to be a very large coll

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he told his aide archie butt, who served roosevelt and taft as an intimate aide, i will not play a part for popularity if the people want to reject me, that's their prerogative. he has this madisonian view, his heroes are james madison and john marshall who he considers the greatest american ever and madison and hamilton believe that majority should rule but only slowly and thoughtfully over time so that reason rather than passion could prevail and taft believes that the entire system is set up to slow the direct expression of popular passion so that the people can be governed in the public interest rather than through faction, that is mobs that favor self-interest rather than the public good.

he said -- he told his aide, archie butt, who served both roosevelt and taft as an intimate aide, i will not play a part for popularity. if the people want to reject me, that's their prerogative. he has this madisonian view, his heros are madison, hamilton, and john marshall. and madison and hamilton believe that majorities should rule, but only slowly and thoughtfully over time, so reason can prevail. and taft believes the entire system is set up so that the people can be governed in the public interests, rather than through faction. that is mobs that favor self-interest rather than the public good. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q&a. >> our lectures in history his class is about 50 minutes. >> i want to begin today by talking about the international exhibition of arts, manufacturers and products of the soil and mine. you all want to go to that, don't you? to any of you know what this actually was? it was also referred to as the centennial international exhibition, it was held in

he told his aide archie butt who served roosevelt and taft as an intimate aide, i will not play a part for popularity. if the people want to reject me, that's their programs testify. his heroes are james madison, alexander hamilton, the authors of the federalist papers and john marshall. madison and hamilton believed that majorities should rule but only slowly and thoughtfully over time. so that reason rather than parks could prevail. taft believes that the entire system is set up to slow the direct expression of popular parks so that the people can be governed in the public interest rather than through faction, that is, mobs that favor self-interest rather than the public good. >>> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q & a. >>> sunday night on afterwards economist dambisa moya discusses her book "edge of chaos." she's interviewed by jason fur man former chairman of the council of economist advisers during the president obama administration. >> you wrote a book that is on politics and draws on political science. why did you do that. >> the most important thing for writing the book