and not very ambitious and did what ben franklin failed at. went to boston latin and went to harvard and came out a minister and kind of seemed to be content at it. the detail that struck me is he wrote out his sermons every sunday and read them, no improvising, twice on sunday, there were two services, and then went and wrote another for the next week and read them. and, nabby and her mother and the other kids had to listen twice every sunday to the same thing. and it may have been good. i don't know, maybe they were great sermons, i don't know that. but, and his father had been a -- started out like franklin as an apprentice, in his case in a butcher shop and went to see, worked his way up through that hierarchy and became a captain and came back to boston and became a merchant because he had been trading on his ships and made a lot of money and the second son could go to boston latin and harvard and become a minister and he then married. this minister, a quincy. and a quincy was the finest of the fine in massachusetts. so his wife not only

he met ben franklin in 1765, at a coffeehouse in london. where franklin used to hang out and pursue persuaded franco to let him write a book about electricity. priestly had this idea that they were all these amazing discoveries that were happening in the field of electricity. midwood franklin had pioneered. it would be important for somebody to come along and write a real kind of popular account of it, write it in english verse which was an innovation. and all scholars at the time were written in latin. to really tell the story of how the site had developed and flourished over the last 50 years, and how it had all these interesting practical application and how people at home, in their homeland could build, take a little electrical machines into these interesting experiments. so he wrote his book on the history of electricity, which really in many ways invented the whole genre of popular science writing. which is kind of how i make my living a. so i am indebted to priestly in that sense. so it was very important because it was important, one

and ben franklin looked at him like he was from mars and said we're a country of farmers and merchants and we don't have an army much less for military arming but we have somebody who knows a lot about geometry and he asz the test and he said you're in charge of building forts. so he builtv'w forts across6Ñ river, thÏh"elaware river from philadelphia at forts mercer and billingsport and while he was building these forts he realized the british ships would go into delaware and bombard philadelphia. so he started building what's known a boat. these are basically wood gentry trunks that were shaved down and they would put iron tips on the end and they would put under water so when the british chips would sail in they would puncture the bottom of the ship and then they would sink. the americans said this guy knows what he's doing. so they made him a colonel of the engineersñ and they paid hi a reward. and ben franklin went off8÷ to paris and suddenly there was a battle for who would kosciuszko work for next. well, he got the attention of general horacio gates who was Ñ( commander for the

i think ben franklin be the acquirer, not the acquiree.t. >> peter anderson, what's your best trade now? >> for low volume environment, i think what we have to look at is remembering in low volume, sometimes price movements get exaggerated. so if you're an investor looking at a name that you would like to be able to position in, sometimes it's a good time to get a position established if there's some negative news. lows, for instance, a nice play on the recovering homeowner. and recently it disappointed in earnings and it traded down about 10%. that's some good volatility to get into. so if you're looking at lowe's, and we own lowe's, we like that name, this might be a good entry point at this point. >> look at how much it's moved off that march low. >> well, still, when you compare it to, say, something like the s&p 500, which is up about 16% as of yesterday, lowe's is up only about 2% or 3%. it still has room to run, especially compared to home depot i believe double digits. it's cheaper on a price to book basis than home depot. >> peter

we're talking about the room where ben franklin used to sit naked and think. >> oh, yeah. >> that's a hot spot. a subway platform where jerry springer was born in london. >> sure. >> it is a quirky, quirky tour. >> usually, the "weekend window" is stunning vistas and parkways. this morning, we've been warned, i'm intrigued by this story. first, ron claiborne kicks us off. >> good morning, bill and kate. >>> we begin with breaking news after 18 years the remains of american pilot scott speicher who was shot down during the first gulf war have been found in iraq. in a combat mission first night of the war back in january 1991, the military initially declared him killed, but changed his status to missing in action and then captured. the military says his remains were recovered the past week and flown to dover air force base for identification. >>> we turn now to the three americans held in iran believed to be college students on vacation who mistakenly crossed the border into iran while hiking. abc's jim sciutto has the latest from london. good morning, jim. >> reporter: well, good morni

ben franklin and thomas jefferson were amateur poticians who put together this count. it came here in the 19th cenry was amazed and love the fact that our political class were not bunch of professnal politicians like ty were in frae. >> people didn't leave college too into government. >> that's right. they were amateu it. when you look inventors from the wright brhers to ste jobs, they really had this passionor what they were doing. yeah, they wand to make money, probably. buit was really about the passio and that, that really is part of what makes us great. >>ou reminded me because it's in the book aut remembering whatteve jobs said. heaid it in a famous speech he made at the sanford business schl. >> yeah. >> what he said abt the most freeing time for him was when he was he lost his compan >> he was sked. >> he wasacked from apple. >> and he had to sort of start all over and h went anbought and created pixar and got back at apple. but what did he say about th period for him? he said that he ddenly felt's gat lightnes of ing freed of this, this, you know, success. and

humorists in washington of which there are a few did say that they took from the ben franklin maxim -ere was truth to it. when the court switched sides after zero when roberts changed his mind about how to interpret the constitution, and so the court ended up accepting and indoors in, or at least improving the various new deal laws that the democratic congress had passed -- if the court was doing what the president and electorate wanted, all of the reason for taking this scary step to change the size of the court and way it operated, there seemed to be less reason if the court was doing what the people wanted. host: when fdr had opportunity to make appointments to the supreme court, did he appoint those under his proposed age limit? guest: yes, he did it all along. host: did he really have a philosophy about that age? guest: no, no philosophy. his real motivation was to change the way the court ruled. age was too clever of an idea that his attorney general had found as a way to justify what he was doing. he really had no interest in age host: at all tell us about that attorney general

the humorous in washington, of which there are a few occasionally, did say they took from the ben franklin maxim of a- in time saves nine and made a clever and in fact there was truth to it because when the court switch sides after roberts changed his mind about how to interpret the constitution, and so the court ended up accepting and endorsing rick least approving the various laws, the new deal laws that the democratic congress had passed, that's if the court was doing what the electorate wanted and what the president wanted, a lot of the reason for taking this fairly if not radical but at least sort of scary step of changing the way that the size of the court and the way it operated, there seem to be a lot less reason to do that the court was doing essentially what the people why. >> host: when fdr had the opportunity to make appointments to the supreme court, did he appoints people who were under his age limit? >> guest: yes he did, yes, all along. >> host: did he really have a philosophy about the age? >> guest: no, he had no philosophy about the age. is real motivation was to change

because that's a world full of perfect people, to -- >> i did my top ones and i looked like i had ben franklin'swhole hair? >> i'm back to seacrest. i'm 41, trying to stay in the game. you guys stop the process. you guys look so beautiful. i'm trying to get some of these aura. >> oh, please. >> you guys know every day. >> what's it like being 41 and on the road? >> my liver is like, wow. it's difficult. we haven't toured in six years. >> you never broke up. >> we never broke up. the misconception is we broke up. we still did about 30, 40 gigs a year. about a year ago, we weren't even trying to, said still, let's do it. still together after 21 years. let's do it. >> most marriages can't stay that long. >> and there's no sex in ours. >> i'm distracted a little bit by your tattoo on your chest. what does that say? >> can we take a look? >> you sure can. >> can we take a big look? >> you can take like the whole look. i'm a new york giants football fan. >> why do you have a spider -- >> spider lockhart's number, 43. >> you did the whole thing? >> a cartoon in downtown los angeles. >> don't you think

franklin. >> bob: hamilton. >> rob: it's all about the ben gentleman plains! >> bob: hanley ramirez here. 1-1 -- 1-2 -- 1-1 top of the fifth. i like the way we mix baseball and history here. jason bergmann was up last inning. after the marlins hit two home runs, one of them by the pitcher. hanley ramirez pops one a mile high on the infield and gonzales has it. >> rob: he is throwing them off their game. you hit them, walk them, and he pops up. >> bob: and he is hitless beyond the fifth inning. jorge cantu is next. a beautiful sky as we look out west. aren't the days getting shorter now, since about two weeks ago? that is a good breaking ball to cantu. a hard luck oh-fer two. he's hit the ball hard up the middle twice. morgan took one hit away from him and j.d. martin took the other, so he pulls it for a single. willingham had to get over and box that ball down that thing was really skirting on the grass. it will be just another wired wednesday tomorrow with nyjer morgan. it will be fun to listen to him. you'll probably hear some quick- moving footsteps and we'