as you can see in the right hand, this is benjamin franklin's copy of the constitution. and we are the repository of franklin's papers. franklin'sr 70% of correspondence in our vault. i always like to show this because this is what you might call an original interpretation of the constitution. the next item here, it was founded in 1743 but it was another founder of the united states who also helped to create the american philosophical society in the early republic, and that was thomas jefferson. jefferson served as president of the society for about 17 years. he was president of the aps while also vice president and president of the united states of america. what you are looking at here is a that's in jefferson's hand -- is a document that's in jefferson's hand from 1793 while he was in philadelphia. what it is, is a proposal of a frenchman who had come to north america to explore the flora and fauna that inhabited the eastern seaboard. by 1793, he had done all the research he thought he could do and now he wanted to explore the interior of north america. he was in philad

benjamin franklin's grandson.y last question before we get to yours comes up time and again in the book and i was briefly mentioning it, the mythologizing of these men in their lifetimes, afterwards, turned into marble, adams, washington in particular issue that deification even then. in this book you don't struggle, you turn them back. >> guest: if you put adams on mount rushmore it would have to be flesh rather than marble. >> host: you can answer this question as a historian or you personally. why is it so important to turn these people back? >> if they are really gods, what can we learn from? if that is what they are, i haven't seen anyone here who is. i know i am not. the fact that they are flawed the years makes them truly important and relevant. people whose struggles we can learn from. it is probably inevitable that all new nations create mythical heroes. rome has romulus and remus, england has king arthur, spain has illustrated. all those fictional characters, these guys are real and they cared so much ab

the benjamin franklin middle school band. we played right here in this rotunda at city hall.vie symphony hall , we played when the san francisco 49ers won the super bowl. we played for their event at the fairmont hotel. let me tell you, i was a piece of work until that first day when i joined band and mr martin made me write lines. my behavior changed after that because i wanted to be a part of something amazing. something that made incredible music and the lesbian gay freedom band make incredible music for all of us to enjoy so we are so happy and proud, and i'm so excited to be here to sign the legislation against an eight hour official unofficial official pick and with that, i would like to introduce the person who authored the legislation, and the legislation that we are going to sign today, that is supervisor rafael mandelman. [applause] >> thank you, mayor breed. thank you for your work and thank you for getting us the rotunda today. is that this at this fabulous? normally they put us up -- is into this fabulous squad normally they put us up in the mayor's balcony. i'm

at the constitutional convention of 1787, benjamin franklin was asked to be the first to sign the new constitution. it had been at montrose convention, it was a miracle that they had even produced the constitution at all. franklin pointed to the chair, at the front of the chamber, from which general george washington had presided over the convention. the chair featured a son that sat low on the horizon. franklin remarked i have often in the course of my session looked at the sun behind the president, without being able to tell whether it was rising, or setting. but now, at length, i have the happiness to know that it is rising, not a setting sun. if we meets the challenges that lie before us, if we overcome the tribalism that has dominated our politics, if we set aside, if we set the interest a part of hard-working taxpayers as our true north, but i have no doubt the state of florida will bring it úwe will see that rising sun, so sale on, osha estate for the future of florida is strong and great. god bless you, and thank you. >>> the senate confirmation hearings for william bolling to

franklin, did you get us monarchy or republic, benjamin franklin said a republic, sir, if you can keepquestion he asked in 1787 and it's a question we may have to ask ourselves in 200. can we keep it or are we going to lose it. trish: if we lose it, what's at stake? >> the social i am that would come upon us today would not be quite the socialism of denmark or venezuela. i suspect it -- would be a crony ask socialism. it would be empowerment and advantage for a tiny few. venezuela if you are friend with maduro you are living quite well. and maybe you are involved in some bad things as we have learned including the drug trade. but you are doing okay, right? you are part of the protected class. so i would include venezuela in that group. denmark, dare i go into denmark? they will jump all over me. denmark is not quite the socialist country venezuela is. i would never compare it quite to venezuela. but even there they have challenges as well. you know, again, there is this thing called human instinct. i don't like it, but it's there. and greed actually is part of our dna. when you try and

at the constitutional convention of 1787, benjamin franklin was asked to be the first to sign the new constitution. it was a tumultuous convention; it seemed like a miracle that it had succeeded. franklin pointed to the chair at the front of the chamber from which general george washington had presided over the convention. the chair featured a sun that sat low on the horizon. franklin remarked, i have often in the course of the session looked at the sun behind the president without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting. but now at length i have the happiness to know that it is a rising and not a setting sun. if we meet the challenges that lie before us; if we overcome the tribalism that has dominated our politics; if we set the interests of hard-working taxpayers as our true north, then i have no doubt that the state of florida will cruise to bright new horizons. we will see that rising sun. so sail on, o' ship of state, for the future of florida is strong and great. god bless you and thank you. thank you very much. [applause] >> sunday on q&a, , author and columnist jam

it's the change in attitude towards benjamin franklin that matters. the titles of my books -- the title of the first of the trilogy, think i mean that there was a change in that business people became more virtuous in the 18th century, say. it's the same way they feel if they haven't read any of my books on the rhetoric of economics. they think i'm advocating more fancy language in economics. i am saying that there's a change in social attitudes. why, you ask? you evidently haven't read the third book of the trilogy, because that's where i answer it. you must run down and get it. thank you, dear. and it says, the causes were accidents in europe. nothing deep about europe. my argument is not as -- so many of my conservative friends want to make it, a story of the deep superiority of people -- i call them mel -- mel anyone challenged people. that's out in about the deep innovativeness of europe which wasn't the most innovative society in the world in 1492 is china. it had the best ships, the best growing, the best science, the best market mat ticks, the

right can see in the hand, this is benjamin franklin's copy of the constitution. we are the repose tore of franklin's papers. and, i always like to show this because this is what you might interpretation of the constitution. the next item here, it was 1743 but it was another founder of the united states who also helped to create philosophical society in the earlier republic and that was thomas jefferson. he served as president of the society for about 17 years. aps as president of the while also vice president and president of the united states america. what we've got here is the document that's in jefferson's and from 1793 while he was in philadelphia. what it is, is a proposal of a to north who had come america to explore the fauna eastern bited the seaboard. by 1793 he had done all the research he thought he could do wanted to explore the interior of north america. he was in philadelphia. approached jefferson with this idea. he said i want to travel all the way to the pacific ocean to be cross the erson to continent and to observe all of that things that we don

optimized business management and higher profits the american inventor and later founding father benjamin franklin coined the term time is money in seven hundred forty eight the clock became the heartbeat of the industrial revolution. it meant exact working hours and in the banking enabled the concept of futures trading money became a time factor. but initially the time wasn't the same everywhere not even in villages a few kilometers apart train drivers and passengers had to adjust their pocket watches from station to station so functioning timetables were impossible at the same time the pace of life excel aerated as people increasingly face the race against the clock. more tasks to do every hour more places to travel to and more to consume every day the internet has made everything available everywhere every second of the day or night. people may appear to have more time available today than ever before but many feel more rushed than ever before. that's why more and more people now long to return to nature when it comes to work in line for them. to the gentle period of their own internal clock. i

if you're referring to the work of benjamin franklin, he did not "discover electricity," he merely usedat lightning "consists" of electricity. he also invented the franklin stove, bifocals and the flexible urinary catheter. kites, ho. we're heading out for some kite fighting. "kite fighting"? oh, yeah. it's an extremely competitive, cutthroat sport. well, actually, the risk of throat cutting is very low.

could keep its government and freedom it has been granted to us from generation to generation —— benjamin franklineople still have similar concerns. they wonder if congress truly represents them. if it is still capable of solving big problems. there's no guarantees. it is up to us, all of us in this room, to make congress work. to create and debate, just like our founding fathers did many years ago, with courage, with commitment and resolve. we were a very small group with a very large responsibility. the burden on us members is to represent 325 million americans faithfully. to work together so that tomorrow is better than today. aasmah brechin advised us, —— as ronald reagan advised us, america is too great for small dreams. when we work together, we succeed together asa work together, we succeed together as a nation. we enter a period of divided government but that is no excuse divided government but that is no excuse for gridlock or inaction. we are at our best when we focus, not on retribution but on building a more perfect union. kevin mccarthy, the top republican in the house of representati

the grand tour, in which he met benjamin franklin. degree the his medical in 1784 from the university of aberdeen and was to spend two years in paris before leaving for the british virgin islands. apparently dismayed at the condition of the 70 slaves who worked his plantation, he emigrated to the united states where he sought to lead free blacks from philadelphia. to the newly funded state of sierra leone. this commitment did not deter him in trading in human lives himself, however, even as he moved to washington. becoming an american citizen in 1788, he brokered his way into architectural competitions, as early as 1789, winning a commission from the company of philadelphia. scotland, england, france, the caribbean, and the united states. thornton's atlantic world, which was to be transformed in 1793 as his career was reaching its apogee. from the 21st of january, the jacobin republican administration in france executed king louis the 16th. following a political trial and a predictable guilty verdict. among those condemning the monarc

cheese-in-crust pizza, hot dog-in-crust pizza, and pizza-in-crust hot dogs. ( laughter ) thank you, benjamin franklinl find your real killer someday." and if you think that request was strange, just wait until you hear the logic behind it. he wanted to mention skyscrapers to remind visitors of his own career in real estate, saying, "then i could add a little, 'which, of course, i know a thing or two about,' right?" evidently not! because you thought we invented them! ( laughter ) and that's not the only bizarre story in this book. sims writes that back in 2017, trump talked to a nasa administrator and said, "what's our plan for mars?" the administrator explained to the president that by the 2030s, nasa would attempt a manned spaceflight. (as trump ): "but is there any way we could do it by the end of my first term? ( laughter ) also, unrelated question: can you be subpoenaed in space? ( laughter ) are there space muellers? are there what if i... what if?" nasa told him no, that was impossible. but trump was willing to do anything to make it happen. (as trump ): "but what if i gae you all the money yo

many disparage their work, including famously the young benjamin franklin. franklin studied prose when he was a young man by copying essays from the spectator, and then later trying to reproduce them, reproducing them in verse and putting them back into other language and then he would compare it back to the original so he could see whether he had really captured the essence of the spectator. i won't argue franklin later copied their attitudes toward women as well. i will only cite a couple of passages. in 1711, joseph addison asserted too many women had been consumed by rage. so bad, there is nothing for the face as party zeal. he claims he never knew a female partisan who retained her beauty for more than a year. i love the image, a woman is beautiful for 365 days, and on the 300 66th or 367th, she immediately turns ugly. if women value their complexions, they should avoid all political disputes. this is joseph addison. he said women's proper role was to distinguish themselves as tender others and faithful wives. female virtues are of a domestic charm. the

benjamin franklin said, you know, that benedict arnold betrayed 3 million. trump is betraying 320 million. >> before we go. brexit is a part of this that we know there was a russian connection to that as well, what is going to be the outcome now that theresa may has not been able to fix that debacle? do we have chris? i don't think we have him. >> i'm sorry. >> i love talking with chris. we will bring him back another day. thank you to sara kendzoir and malcolm nance. donald trump's major announcement on the shutdown will now be at 4:00 p.m. eastern. that's a change. more time to prepare for it. for the first time in his life somebody is telling donald trump no and her name is nancy. that's next. e is nancy that's next. ♪ [ dog snoring ] baxter. it's bedtime. peace of mind should never be out of reach. [ voice command beep ] xfinity home. xfinity home connects you to total home security you can control from anywhere on any device. and it protects you with 24/7 professional monitoring. i guess we're sleeping here tonight. xfinity home. simple. easy. awesome.

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we saw a british authority collapse in new jersey in the benjamin franklin book. the british authority in new york collapses. dunmore is on a british warship. in december, he lands his combined force of about 1200 in a place called great bridge. they try to defeat an american militia force and take the city of norfolk. the americans defeat his force at great bridge. the battle of great bridge is an american victory that secures virginia for the colonist cause. december 9, 1775. at the same time montgomery is in canada, there's finding in virginia. dunmore hangs around on the coast in a small british squadron, and don j. wright first, he burns the city of norfolk to the ground. , burns the city of norfolk to the ground. some will argue that very much alienates british sympathies in virginia, because of dunmore will burn the city, will the british burn anything? how do you win this war, how do you make civilians like you, how do you promote the loyalist population? maybe burning cities is not the answer. very soon after burning norfolk, disease breaks out on his shi

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we see british authority collapse in new jersey in the benjamin franklin book. authority all across america collapses. december, dunmore lands his combined force of about 1200 and a place called great bridge and they try to defeat the american militia forced to take the city of norfolk. americans defeat his force at great bridge. bridge is an great american victory secures virginia. december 9, 1775. the same time montgomery is in canada, this fighting in virginia. dunmore hangs around off the coast of the small british squadron and on january 1 he burned the ground. he burns it. some will argue that very much alienates british symbol in virginia because dunmore wilburn other cities. will the british burn anything? talking about how you win the war, how you make civilians like you, how you promote your loyalist population, may burning cities is not the answer. burning soon after norfork, disease breaks out. scatter, what sort of tragic, and they will pick this up later, the slaves are taken to the west indies and sold as slaves. the british did not free them, th

it also addresses the positive sum game aspect of we are in this together as benjamin franklin said. if we do not hang together, we should surely hang separately, that democracy and the universal asked addresses this positive sum. i would be interested in your take on that and perhaps if this were more of the focus, it would perhaps be that black box that you look for at the end. >> just briefly, when i originally thought about the piece, because i am a lawyer and a linear thinker, i thought of it as you start with the idea and the idea is as i mentioned in the primacy of we the people, not the supremacy of the divine right of kings, monarchs or whatever. that idea gives you an attitude and that attitude is kind of the attitude about having to come together and under institutions to safeguard liberty and this is the republican notion of how you essentially take that idea and give it life in an organized society. so you go from an idea to an attitude. the attitude is this positive sum notion of institutions working for the benefit of all but you and i can be interdependent and work to

benjamin franklin. 81. and the youngest person, you've never heard of this guy. jonathan dayton, he was 26 years old. is it was ratified in 1788. it had to have nine states to ratify it. two future presidents signed the constitution, who were they? adam, who? >> jefferson. >> who else? adams? no, you're both wrong. i hate to say that. two future presidents signed the constitution. george washington. and james madison. why didn't tomas jefferson sign it? huh? he was in paris and why didn't john adams sign it? he was in london. a lot of people think -- you're thinking of the declaration of independence, when you talk about thomas jefferson. just interesting little tidbits there. as you all know, the bill of rights was not included in the constitution, as it was signed by those delegates and promulgated by the states in 1788. the same year that george washington was elected president. it went out to the states, these 10 amendments for ratification and they were ratified in 1791. three years after the constitution. while george washington was still in his first term.

we did a recent program and benjamin franklin pointed out that for notch -- much of the nation's history, there really was not much else to it. you find a lot of these scandals having to do with the post office. harry truman naming special assistant to the attorney general. was called the bureau of internal revenue. 162 staff fired but no indictments. fired attorney general mcgrath. there is a moment there. theill go back-and-forth to watergate resignation, saturday massacre. the numbers and topics for the special councils pick up quickly in the 70's, 80's, 90's. come tot, we have today's subject, which is capturing the intention -- attention of the nation. allow me to introduce our panel today. -- which touches on the subject of today's program. in the clinton administration he was u.s. ambassador to the european union undersecretary of commerce, secretary of state, take -- to be secretary of the treasury, on matters pertaining to holocaust era issues. and the obama and trump administrations. he continues his work on holocaust as a special advisor to the state department. ,rofessor jona

benjamin franklin understood the pow over negotiating, the power of compromise, the power of bringing two sides together and he began to negotiate. he began to bring the sides together. and by the time they took the second and final vote for independence, he had garnered enough votes to actually pass the motion to declare our independence from great britain. now, the difference between john adams and john dickinson wasn't that they disagreed on the problem they were facing. no, they both agreed that there was atrocities committed on the american colonies by great britain. they only disagreed on how to eal with it. as i mentioned that -- and as you know from history, the second vote barely passed. john dickinson remained opposed to declaring independence. in fact, he voted no on the resolution when it was brought before the floor. however, as soon as the resolution passed, john dickinson left philadelphia and he joined the fight for independence. we're at an impasse here in this chamber, this historic chamber today, not because we have a differing opinion but because we're even refusin