benjamin franklin. benjamin franklin. that's right. benjamin franklin was noted as a first-rate scientist before he became a statesman for 13 the colonies. benjamin franklin did a lot of work in electricity. benjamin franklin is said to be the isaac newton of electricity, an enormously prominent scientist in his day before the 13 colony-type thing and before signing the declaration of independence. ben franklin, he did a lot in electrostatics. so this then is negatively charged and the cat's fur then would be? positive. positive. which, by the way, underlies a very important principle called the conservation of charge. and the conservation of charge simply says that, "hey, gang, whatever charge you got, "it's what you got. "you don't make any more, you don't make any less. all you do is transfer it from one place to another." it's like maybe a brick road. there's so many bricks in the road. now, you take some of the bricks off the road and put them on the sidewalk. what's the total number of bricks i have before and after? same. the sa

benjamin franklin claimed, for example, thatthe invention of a machine is of more importance than a masterpiece by raphael." john adams said, "the age of painting and sculpture has not arrived in this country, and i hope it will not arrive soon. i would not give a sixpence for a picture of raphael." nevertheless, admiration for the artist became so great th copies of his works grew in number, especially of the madonna of the chair. merchants and landowners placed these copies in rooms filled with family portraits and memorabilia. unlike jefferson's monticello, the copy after raphael might now be the only art relating to an old master in the room. the attitude toward raphael changed during the 19th century. through prints and the new medium of photography, copies of his sistine madonna and other works proliferated. once mass-produced, they were no longer a mark of taste and distinction but symbolized their owner's moral as well as artistic values. eventually, raphael's images became so commonplace they were fair game for parody. in the late 19th century, a new, more sophisticated type of collect

(cheers and applause) >> if you have a problem take that up with thomas jefferson and benjamin franklin because they believed in separation of church and state and no governmental control and the supreme court would later rule if the government taxes the church it thereby can control and destroy anything that it taxes and freedom of speech and freedom of religion is the first amendment. that's all we're asking for. >> stephen: so separation of church and state i've never been a big fan of. i believe you should preach your religious beliefs when you advise people how to vote. do you agree? >> stephen: yes. >> okay, i'm glad i've always supported mitt romney because it's in conflict with my catholic face because i know he's a member of a cult, okay? (laughter) but now now i'm free to exercise my catholic belief that he's an apostate heretic who should not hold the high fest job in the land in god's chosen country. do you believe i should be able to preach that?çó (cheers and applause) >> i absolutely do. if you're a preacher--. >> stephen: how am i not a preacher? this is my congregation

ever benjamin franklin said if we sacrifice our liberty for security we will wind up losing so let's take back our liberty that is the foundation of true security rock you. know taming america. why i went to law school because i believed. as deeply as one can believe in the rule of law and justice in the fact that our system of justice can provide for everyone and what we have seen with through the bush years and now with president obama has been so absolutely subversive an anti-american there's been no more anti-american act i think in our history than the n b a and president obama don't be fooled about this in two thousand and nine. for the power to indefinitely detain people without charges without a trial without legal assistance without the right of p.b.'s corpus. we are on the road toward to tella terry and his and that's not an exaggeration take a look at this one person if one person can determine against whom and under what conditions laws passed by congress and our constitution are going to be applied that spells tyranny it's the very definition of tyranny so what happened

throw in that i think president kennedy said- and he may have been quoting thomas jefferson or benjamin franklin- i know franklin said that when you find yourselves choosing security over freedom, you end up with neither one. the other quote that i was starting off with though was he said- great. this is not my day. >> first your memory goes - >> if you make peaceful disagreement or revolution impossible, then you make violent revolution inescapable. and i think that is maybe more where some of these groups are coming from, where they begin to feel that they have no influence. whether they vote, i don't know, but this is their response to feeling that they have no power, that all it all belongs, you know, to something or somebody else. and that's another place where you can get the same mentality. >> it is. in fact, the more intelligent people within the government community are beginning to realize that you have to invite these people into the discussion, because once you ostracize them, you see how that sets up your apocalyptic theodicy- you're outside, you start with violence. that proves the

. >> reporter: benjamin franklin said the only certainty in life is death and taxes but then he hadn'tn to monaco. in less than a mile square monaco is smaller than central park but a magnet for the super rich and the attraction is simple. in monaco they pay zero income tax, zero capital gains tax and zero inheritance tax. this is one of an army of accountants who help the wealthy tax kpiexiles. >> if you have a lot of money you're welcome. >> reporter: is this a safe place to enjoy wealth, is that right? >> absolutely. the monaco lifestyle. >> reporter: he lives in monaco and tennis championship and the super model and former beatle ringo starr are reportedly residents. keeping them company are thousands of millionaires to park in monaco they have to show they don't have a criminal record and residents of the european union. only a few can pass the test. having a bank account in monaco you need a minimum deposit of $400,000 and the country's real estate is the most expensive in the world. this apartment sold for more than $300 million. >> monaco is very safe. >> reporter: she sells mo

when i first wrote about benjamin franklin. he creates the education in philadelphia.s back and it was the blackboard and 300 years later technology has changed every industry. my industry in journalism, yours in politics and leadership. but education has not been transformed. one of the things that is happening now in innovative classrooms is what is called flipping the classroom where the lecture is done electronically online. you watch a teacher give a great lecture. you do some of the lessons online intertively. then you come to the classroom in order to collaborate, do projects problem solving with the teachers. that would be a game changer and that's what technology could do for us. >> gavin: just briefly as we talk stem, stem, stem, but what i keep hearing you say creativity, arts are we missing the "a" in stem theme. >> well, steve jobs believed the arts training added to his ability to stand at the intersection of the arts and sciences. whenever he launched a new products the very end of the presentation would be that slide on the screen of the liberal arts st

. >> reporter: benjamin franklin said the said the only certainty in life is death or taxes.t then he hasn't been to monaco. less than a square it's a a magnet for the super rich and the attraction is simple. they pay zero income tax, zero capital gains tax and zero inheritance tax.nheritance one of an army of account ant ss who helped monaco's wealthy tax exiles. >> if you have an amount of kpils money, first of all, you will be welcome. >> is it a safe place to enjoy >> reporter: wealth, is that right? >> absolutely. the life monaco lifestyle. aco >> roger moore lives in monaco and tennis champion super model forme and former beatle ringo starr reporte are reportedly residents.ing them compa keeping them company are thousands of millionaires. of they have to show that they show don't have a criminal record and that they are already residents of the european union. but only a few can pass the final test proving that they union. have enough money to live here. pass th to open a bank account in depos monaco, you need a minimum deposit of nearly $400,000 and the country's real

benjamin franklin claimed, for example, thatthe invention of a machine is of more importance than a masterpiece by raphael." john adams said, "the age of painting and sculpture has not arrived in this country, and i hope it will not arrive soon. i would not give a sixpence for a picture of raphael." nevertheless, admiration for the artist became so great th copies of his works grew in number, especially of the madonna of the chair. merchants and landowners placed these copies in rooms filled with family portraits and memorabilia. unlike jefferson's monticello, the copy after raphael might now be the only art relating to an old master in the room. the attitude toward raphael changed during the 19th century. through prints and the new medium of photography, copies of his sistine madonna and other works proliferated. once mass-produced, they were no longer a mark of taste and distinction but symbolized their owner's ral as well as artistic values. eventually, raphael's images became so commonplace they were fair game for parody. in the late 19th century, a new, more sophisticated type of collector

[applause] >> ten second spirit >> benjamin franklin said if we sacrifice our liberty for security, we will wind up losing both. so let's take back our liberty. that is the foundation of true security. [applause] >> rocky, detaining americans indefinitely. >> i went to law school because i believe as deeply as one can believe it until the rule of law. and justice. the fact that our system of justice can provide for everyone. what we have seen through the bush years and now with president obama has been so absolutely subversive and anti- american. there has been no more anti american act in our history than the ndaa. president obama, in 2009, he asked for the power to indefinitely detained people without charges, without a trial, without legal assistance, and without the right to habeas corpus. we are on the road toward totalitarianism and that is not an exaggeration. [applause] this one person -- if one person can be determined against whom and under what conditions law passed by congress and our constitution are going to be applied, that spells tyranny. it is the very definition of ty

. >> benjamin franklin, when they finally came to the constitution, he's walking down the road and theoes a woman came up to him and said what have you given us? mr. franklin? he said "a republic if you can keep it." >> eliot: we have the most powerful nation on the earth the largest economy, the greatest wealth, the most creative innovative economy anywhere in the world and the world is imitating us. how is that? how is that? [ applause ] we're not at the precipice. continued greatness. >> stand up for what you believe in. you might end up being wrong. i might end up being one of the most incorrect men ever. whatever. so be it. i believe what i'm saying. >> eliot: beck's arguments wandered from the bizarre to the irrelevant. the passion he and his fans summoned for their anti-government rhetoric is based on a strong emotional need to channel a deep-rooted visceral anger caused by god knows what and the government has become the perfect target for their ire. what transforms their an high ilist views is the way they turn the founders of the nation into paragons of virtue. they say that

charles dickens; a document penned by lorenzo de medici 533 years ago; an epitaph written by benjamin franklinnd he wrote, "lies here food for the worms, yet the work shall not be lost." pretty good stuff. ...a letter written by john hancock with a real john hancock signature. and for 20th century buffs, there was the original reading copy of fdr's 1937 inaugural address-- this one... >> president franklin roosevelt: one third of a nation, ill housed, ill clad, ill nourished... >> rosenstein: it was a rainy day. in fact, the reading copy of the speech, the document the president read from that day was waterlogged. and you can see that on the document that we seized from mr. landau. >> simon: and landau didn't just steal from historical libraries. he had taken his campaign of kindness all the way to the white house, befriending president clinton's former secretary, betty currie, who made the mistake of inviting landau to her house. landau was pretty good at making friends with people who could help him, wasn't he? he spent nights at her place. >> brachfeld: bad, bad offer to invite him into you

the first american, about benjamin franklin and tea are about theodore roosevelt. together these books comprise not haphazardly but purposefully a history of the united states for the last 200 or so years. a number of these books have been best sellers. traitor to his class and the first american were both finalists for the pulitzer prize and you can see h. w. brands on tv all the time if you go to the history channel or turn on the tv, there he is. this book is -- i will hold this up again so you can see and recognize it easily at the book signing tend, it is a tremendous biography of ulysses grant filled with stuffed i certainly never knew and was delighted to find out. it is very authoritatively and readable. before we get to grant himself i wanted to ask bill a broad question about biography. here at the book festival there are a number of biographers. i have read several of these already, robert caro's latest volume in his massive history, biography of lyndon johnson. janet reed's biography leonard cohen, all these people at the book festival among others. dav

>> well, take that up with thomas jefferson and benjamin franklin.hould be true separation of church and state. that means that would include such a thing as tax exemption. supreme court would later say if the government can tax a church, it can control it and manipulate it. most people would not want their pastors to be controlled and manipulated by the state even in the arena of speech restriction as well. that's why we're making the case. it's time to take this to court and see if it's constitutional or not. 2,200 attorneys of the alliance freedom contend that it is, in fact, unconstitutional. >> can't you preach politics outside of church? you can say whatever you want to outside of church. why not gather your congregation at a restaurant somewhere and endorse whoever you're going to endorse for president? >> on what basis would you deny me the right as a pastor to be able to speak on any topic i want to from my pulpit? do we need pulpit police now to monitor what 300,000 pastors are saying in america? i'm simply saying a pastor should be able to

i have to admit my prejudice because i work at a printing museum and my full time job is as benjamin franklin, researching the eighteenth century and everything else down the line. that is how i stumbled on you. when i was checking out about priestley and there you were talking about jefferson and so forth on the internet. i still maintain as much as there is a wide range of wonderful things, the old saw argument we all gravitate towards our own prejudice as opposed to when i look at a print newspaper in the old days i may be forced that looking at an editorial or a letter or an essay about something i may not have agreed with in the past but might change my perception. it seems with the internet i can gauge myself to my own prejudice or predilections or my own taste and live in a cocoon and not be connected with anyone else except myself. i want to throw that out to you. i expect -- respect and admire your observations especially with priestly and jefferson and franklin. what is your response to that? >> guest: a very important question. i talk about it in "future perfect: the case of progre

admit my prejudice because i work at a printing museum in carson and my full-time job is as benjamin franklin where i'm researching, great actor's job incidentally, where i'm researching the 18th century and everything else down the line. priestly, that is how i stumbled upon you when i was checking out about priestly and there you were talking about jefferson and so forth. the internet. but i still maintain, as much as there's some wide range of wonderful things, i guess it is the old saw argument, that we all graph state towards our own own prejudice as opposed when i look at a print newspaper in the old days i might be forced looking at editorial or letter or essay about something i may not have agreed with in the past but might change my perception. seems with the internet i can gauge myself more or less to my own prejudice and predilections for my own taste and live in cocoon and not be connected with anyone else except myself. i just want to throw that out to you. i really respect and admire your observations on especially with priestly and jefferson. and franklin. but, you know, what i

[applause] >> ten second spirit >> benjamin franklin said if we sacrifice our liberty for security, we will wind up losing both. so let's take back our liberty. that is the foundation of true security. >> rocky, detaining americans indefinitely. >> i went to law school because i believe as deeply as one can believe it until the rule of law. and justice. the fact that our system of justice can provide for everyone. what we have seen through the bush years and now with president obama has been so absolutely subversive and anti- american. there has been no more anti american act in our history than the ndaa. president obama, in 2009, he asked for the power to indefinitely detained people without charges, without a trial, without legal assistance, and without the right to habeas corpus. we are on the road toward totalitarianism and that is not an exaggeration. [applause] this one person -- if one person can be determined against whom and under what conditions law passed by congress and our constitution are going to be applied, that spells tyranny. it is the very definition of tyranny. what

[applause] >> ten second spirit >> benjamin franklin said if we sacrifice our liberty for security, we will wind up losing both. so let's take back our liberty. that is the foundation of true security. >> rocky, detaining americans indefinitely. >> i went to law school because i believe as deeply as one can believe it until the rule of law. and justice. the fact that our system of justice can provide for everyone. what we have seen through the bush years and now with president obama has been so absolutely subversive and anti- american. there has been no more anti american act in our history than the ndaa. president obama, in 2009, he asked for the power to indefinitely detained people without charges, without a trial, without legal assistance, and without the right to habeas corpus. we are on the road toward totalitarianism and that is not an exaggeration. [applause] this one person -- if one person can be determined against whom and under what conditions law passed by congress and our constitution are going to be applied, that spells tyranny. it is the very definition of tyranny. what

we were all children at one time, and so you can imagine if your subject, if little benjamin franklin is toddling around colonial boston, you can imagine what that might have been like. when i wrote about frankly, though, i realized a large part of the story was going to consist the franklin growing old because he became america's emissary to france during the american revolution, and i started writing about franklin when i was around 40 or so, and i really wondered whether i was going to be able to understand what it was like to grow old and infirm, which was a large part of the franklin story, and partly for this reason, i decided, and this is carried through in my other books, i decided to tell my story, relate the lives of my characters as much as possible through the perceptions, the words of people who saw them, people who knew them. my books tend to have more of, sort of, eyewitness stuff than some others, and if i have a choice between writing a scene in my own words and writing a scene in the words of somebody there, i pen towards the person there. that conveys a certain auth