i was in the ben franklin middle school band. i played french horn. we worked so hard to get ready to play for her right here city hall. we were known as dianne feinstein's band. anytime there was any event, activity or what have you, we basically were chosen as the band to perform for any occasion. i remember begging my grandmother, begging her to get me some new pantyhose. i remember begging my grandmother for something new to look nice for the mayor . she, in fact, bought the band sweaters that we wore that day. the band sweaters that we were so proudly, there was a level of pride to be in front of the mayor, to watch the mayor witness us play. she was so proud of us and she said so. she took the time to talk to us, express how amazing we were and to remind us that we were her band. jack martins was our conductor. he was our teacher. he was our friend. he loved her so. in fact, when the 49ers won the super bowl -- she loved the san francisco 49ers. they had a big celebration at the fairmont hotel. you know that the ben franklin middle school band w

i was in the ben franklin middle school band. i played french horn and we worked so hard, hard to get ready to play for her right here at city hall. we were known as dianne feinstein's band. any time there was any event activity, city or what have you, we basically were chosen in as the band to perform for any occasion. and i remember begging my grandmother, begging her to get me some new pantyhose. i remember begging my grandmother for something new to look nice for the mayor. and she in fact bought the band sweaters that we wore that day, the band sweaters that we wore so proudly. and there was a level of pride to be in front of the mayor, to watch the mayor witness us play and to be. she was so proud of us. and she said so. and she took the time to talk to us. express how amazing we were and to remind us that we were her band, jack martin's was our conductor. he was our teacher. he was our friend. he loved her. so and in fact, when the 49 ers won the super bowl and she loved the san francisco 49 ers, they had a big celebration

ben franklin is on the list with experiments and observations on electricity published in 1751.nd the way to wealth in 1758. a grammatical institute of the english language. and isaiah thomas printed a curious hieroglyphic bible. they have a survey with the roads of the united states of america and then franklin's autobiography was published in 1793. the first american cookbook was released in 1796 by amelia simmons. and you can see the library of congress possible list at loc.gov. and check our websiteor more information on what is featured in the series at c-span.org/ books that shaped america. chris richard bell, here are some of the other books on the library list from that era. we have been talking about thomas payne's other books. >> these are the missing pieces in response to the colors. a question about why the -- what he died alone and unloved. the american pictures left common sense. jorgensen for instance he greatly admired. but was the other works he wrote subsequently. they ended to endorse the unfolding french revolution is sort of a sister stggle to america's own

i was and the ben franklin middle school band, i played french horn. and we work so hard to get ready to play for her right here city hall. we were known as dianne feinstein's ban. any time there was any event activity or what have you. >> we >> basically were chosen. >> as the ban to perform for any occasion. and i remember begging my grandmother, begging her to get me some new pantyhose. i remember bagging my grandmother for something new to look nice for the mayor. she in fact. bought the ban sweaters that we wore that day. the ban sweaters that we wore so proudly. and there was a level of pride to be in front of the mayor to watch the mayor witness us play and to be she was so proud of us and she said so. and she took the time to talk to us express how amazing we were. and to remind us that we were her band. jack martins was our conductor. he was our teacher. he was our friend. he loved her. so. and in fact, when the forty-niners won the super bowl and she loved the san francisco forty-niners, they had a big celebration at the fairmont hotel. and y

ben franklin's operation would have been another one. it is robert bell who publishes the first edition but because there was no copyright back then, competitors would soon buy a copy and print their own compete against him. so robert bell is fiercely trying to hold on to that earlier advantage. i am obsessed with common sense. i have this assignment i do with students, which i am pathetically proud of. it uses one of these amazing databases we have now. which is digitized a hall's on of early american newspapers from this era and you can search them by keyword. any mention of common sense next to each other will get flagged and you can scroll through them and see who used that phrase. i have an assignment where i tell my students, writers over the years have said that everyone in america read common sense, it was almost universally read. people who have tried to count the number of readers have speculated it is 300,000 or something like that. but nobody has bothered to prove that. they have just asserted that. so i have my students use

i was in the ben franklin middle school band. i played french horn and we worked so hard to get ready to play for her right here at city hall. we were known as dianne feinstein's band, and any time there was any event activity or what have you, we basically were chosen as the band to perform for any occasion. and i remember for begging my grandmother begging her to get me some new pantyhose. i remember her begging my grandmother for something new to look nice for the mayor and she in fact bought the band sweaters that we wore that day. the band sweaters that we wore so proudly. and there was a level of pride to be in front of the mayor, to watch the mayor witness us play and to be she was so proud of us and she said so. and she took the time to talk to us. it express how amazing we were and to remind us that we were her band, jack martins was our conductor. he was our teacher. he was our friend. he loved her. so and in fact, when the 49 won the super bowl and she loved the san francisco 49 ers, they had a big celebration at the f

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ben franklin. on the last day of the convention, encourages unanimous support of the constitution, and he proposed the final text that was added, which included by the unanimous nsent of the states present that allowed the signers to say they were only witnessing what was done by the convention, even if they had individual reservations. despite this, three delegates present refused to sign and you can see who those are. by going upstairs to signers, hall of the national nstitution center and in the back of the room are the three who refuse to gn elbridge gerry of massachusetts. i've pedantic leigh learned to pronounce it gerrymandering, not gerrymandering, which is when you draw voting districts that are so funny shaped that they look like salamanders to protect incumbents. that because that's what elbridge did in massachusetts and also to virginia delegates. edmund randolph vginia and george mason of virginia, one of the most underappreciated of the founders who refed to sign the constitution alon

ben franklin comes up, like you have change for a 100? he was a player. going to get rid of someone you think is offensive there are probably 30 guys doin heroin doing heroin and that pretty get new york's problems are plenty, you have people while robbing walgreens, pushin women in front of subways, shooting up and overdosing on your doorstep, but this is the priority. the group said they want statue for anyone who owns claims or benefited from slavery, which i thought everyone all right thinking that we all benefited from slavery, so that would mea that no one would be able to have a statue, but people from the columbus group trying to defend columbus was saying columbus was a migrant and i'm like oh, now you last conservatives. that's not going to help, don't buy into their argument. >> veeck sure you get back the statue of liberty, they were colonialist. >> that's a great point, morgan. >> i'm smart every now in then. >> mostly than. that was mean and i don't care. coming up, a trans spokesperson takes there are some things that go better... together.

election that i realized that we were heading for a cliff, that we were heading for that place, that ben franklin was talking about when he said if you can keep it. and so some very talented people from hud joined me informing american cornerstone institute, which is a think tank, slash, do tank, because we don't just think we do stuff and cancel trade on the cornerstone pillars that were fundamental to the rapid rise of this country. our faith. our faith which taught us how to relate to each other, our judeo-christian values say, love your neighbor, not cancel your neighbor, not hate the person next door. if they'd have a different yard sign than you do. and then the concept of liberty or freedom of being able to live the life that you want to live without a bunch of mandates, without a bunch of bureaucrats telling you what you have to do. and when you have to do it. community. that was such an important part of what made us into iraq with a growing and strong nation. there were communities all over the country, people from different countries who could barely communicate with each other because

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. >> reporter: walter isaacson has written biographies of ben franklin, albert einstein and steve jobsand this coming week our sister company simon & schuster will publish his biography of elon musk. >> what is elon musk like? >> there's no single elon musk. he has many personalities. >> elon musks? >> yeah. exactly. almost multiple personalities. and you can watch him go from being very giddy and funny to being deeply in engineering mode and then suddenly the dark cloud happens. it's almost like dr. jekyll and mr. hyde. >> reporter: isaacson writes tht musk's volatility stems from a brutal childhood in south africa with his abusive father, errol. >> everything's related to the traumas and the drives of childhood. it made him adventurous. it mooid him so that he felt more comfortable with drama. >> i did not have a sort of happy childhood to be frank. it was quite, quite rough. >> repo >> but it has left deep scars on him, the way his father treated him when he was bullied on the school yard, when his face was pounded into the concrete steps and his father took the side of the person w

i was in the ben franklin middle school band. i played french horn. and we work so hard to get ready to play for her right here at city hall. we were known as dianne feinstein's bay. any time there was any event activity or what have you. >> basically >> were chosen. >> as the band to perform for any occasion. and i remember begging my grandmother, begging her to get me some new pantyhose. i remember begging my grandmother for something new to look nice for the mayor. >> she in fact. but the band sweaters that we wore that day, the ban sweaters that we wore so proudly and there was a level of pride to beat in front of the mayor to watch the mayor. witness us play and to be she was so proud of us. and she said so as she took the time to talk to us express how amazing we were. and to remind us that we were her band. jack martin was our conductor. he was our teacher. he was our friend. loved her. so. and in fact, when the forty-niners won the super bowl and she loved the san francisco forty-niners, they have a big celebration at the fairmont hotel. and y

the rattlesnake as ben franklin said, they never attacked first but they never back down.ght, and a lot of americans identify with that spirit, but look it goes deeper, if we want the moral high ground abbey, to say that schools should not be banning rainbow flags on kids binders or backpacks to celebrate pride, we also have to say they should be banning free speech on the other side. >> now the school board is allowing the gadsden flag on his backpack and the school district released a statement saying quote, there has been national media attention on our chart is who the vanguard school related to a student having the gadsden flag in his backpack. unfortunately this story is in complete the patch in question was part of a half a dozen other patches of semi automatic weapons the students has removed. the semi automatic patch is the student returned to class without incident after returning the patches of semi automatics from the backpack. i actually reached out to the school board earlier this week, and to the vanguard overseen board, and a got a more clarity on the issue

america from england where he was from right before the battles of lexington and concord, but ben franklin had recruited him as -- in many ways, he was a bomb throwing pamphleteer, and common sense was in all the newspapers. you could not go into a tavern or business establishment in 1776 without thomas payne coming to people's lips at least once it was identified that he was the writer. hayden: he went viral. brinkley: he went viral, and he's been viral ever since. and the great historian eric phone or talked about -- wrote a book called thomas payne: the history of america, and i loved it, he's an enduring figure if you care about freedom and justice and democratic equality, and why our system of government should be the envy of the world. hayden: and then you get to the federalist papers by alexander hamilton, james madison, and john jay. talk about a group. brinkley: their justification, they were rectifiers, they wanted to ratify the constitution after it was drafted, and you had to sell it to the american people. these three authors, the lead one was alexander hamilton. if you go thr

made this country great that established the men and women who sacrifice most everything we call ben franklin'sreat line. what a woman asked in 1776, after the declaration of independence was passed. what have you given us, mr. franklin and responded, a republic if you can keep it and we to keep it, every generation has to renew it. it's not the natural state of humanity otherwise many nations in the world would embrace it. we are an oasis in the midst of a vast desert. and if we do promote and defend this country, who else? so i'm in the sense that i know how it all turns out. but not so optimistic with a kind of leadership we have right now. good people don't want to run for office because if you've ever done anything in your life you're embarrassed about and who hasn't? myself, maybe the exception. you know you'll you'll be demagogued to death now my solution and my suggestion people running for office put out press release on every known sin you've ever committed. because to my friends in the media, that's not you've done. it's what you haven't spoken about. so anyway, keep pressing on the

and she's very proud of it and extremely proud of it and commuted in every day on the ben franklin to go to philadelphia and i found out in the years right before my mother died that my grandmother was also a maid was a maid for a tremendously time, probably more than a decade and she was living. and my mother would always tell me stories, her aunt sis and staying with her and how she was different than her parents because says cook differently and her and did stuff and i like well you know like where is this aunt says how she related to us like where she where she go and if this wasn't a relative she was a woman who kept my mother for the first three years of her life because, my grandmother lived in and could not come home. and so learning and really thinking about the toll that it took on as a family for her to have to take that work, the only work she could get after, this migration from south carolina to north carolina and all the way to philadelphia. there's story in particular that, having known your mom just took me out to, read a choice your grandmother had to make. so i thin

rejected the overreach of monarchies and the shadowy corridor of power yet today we face exactly what ben franklin and our founding fathers feared in the form of a sprawling bureaucracy where power and decision-making is often removed from the very people it's intended to serve. from the unfounded collusion hoax and the baseless impeachment trials to the shackles of the covid 19 mandates and beyond the playbook of the unelected elite bureaucrats, they have repeatedly and without any sort of remorse prioritized their personal agenda above the agenda of the american people. at america first we envision an america where -- live in the marble hallways of institutions in the hands of the american people, the people who built our cities, the people who tilt our lands and fight for us every single day, the people who dream of a better future for their children. and by having the conversation like the one we are having today you will advance an america first agenda for the american people, not the political elite, not the unelected bureaucrat. today i have the honor for introducing a distinguished leader

the first postmaster general was actually, believe it or not, ben franklin. ben franklin. the establishment of the postal service represented an important early effort to bind us together as a nation, to bind us together as a nation, to unite us in communication with one another. that work continues today as postal deliverers cover all 50 states. they'll do it at least six days this week and to also make sure we have the ability to provide the postal service to folks who live in the u.s. territories. delivering the mail that helps unite our families. it helps to grow our businesses and helps enable, really to enable our democracy to function and thrive. more than two centuries later we continue to live up to that promise. in 2006 one of our colleagues, senator susan collins, and i led the passage of the postal accountability and enhancement act on this floor where we're gathered today. that legislation modernized the postal service for the first time i think since 1970. just last year weent on to pass the, on top of that, the postal service reform act to shore up the agenc

"steve jobs," "ben franklin," "da vinci".o much activity and stuff that we were following along the way that you had the actual story on all of it. >> yeah, this is the most thrilling and the good and bad -- it's like roller-coaster rides. it's thrilling and elon musk has an affection for things that are thrilling and dramatic. if things are calm, he wants to stir it up. so this is a dramatic, exciting, thrilling, me, i don't have quite as much affection for things that are totally wild and thrilling. and there was some days i was kind of white knuckled and saying, gee, i hope this calms down. but it doesn't. it's a wonderful rollicking tale. >> he seems throughout the book to have this awareness of him sometimes being his own worst enemy? >> he sure -- look at his tweets that are just horrible at times, and what he re-posts on "x." and on christmas, he's with his brother and their family and says, resolutions, start with what's the thing you're most ashamed of or a problem you had this year. and he said, i just keep shooting

real challenge facing enemy forces in such a commanding sweep of a position, union forces were in franklin, ben cheatham and pat claiborne. of course, claiborne, known for his immense physical courage, apparently went forward and evaluated the union position that afternoon. and looking at it through spyglass passes and i think even through a rifle scope, renounced it as a well fortified and strong position. and claiborne said it's very formidable. now when, pat claiborne says something is very formidable. you can probably be pretty confident. it's very formidable. and he i think, understood the hazard of this could, knew all of this, in fact, could was present during all of this, who had also had an earlier encounter with his, shall we say, colorful cavalry commander nathan forest in forest, apparently briefly conferred, and according to his postwar biographer, forrest said the position was, quote, exceedingly formidable. there's that word again. and in his opinion, force said it could not be by a direct assault except by great and unnecessary loss of life, would apparently did not agree. he sa

oregon adds on here in the second bo nix to ben latham product troy franklin for 16 yards and a touchdown was 21 nothing more of the same here. the ducks make it look easy. nix to franklin once more, this time for 36 yards and a score the ducks roll to a 42 to 6 win as they stay perfect in four games. all smiles in eugene as colorado will need to regroup for a game next week against fifth ranked usc. dion after the game with a counter to lanning i don't say stuff just to say it for a click. you know, contrary to what some may say. but yeah, i keep saying one thing that i can say honestly and candidly, you better give me right now. this is all right. a south bend , notre dame in green just seconds away from a win over sixth ranked ohio state. kyle mccord to omega ebuka on a third and 19. that gives the buckeyes a first down at the one. then as time expired, chip trayanum muscled his way into the end zone. not a lot of room to spare, but trayanum gets it. ohio state, a 17 to 14 winner in a game between two teams in the top ten, the giants have seen seven games left in the season and they ar