when i wrote about benjamin franklin, nobody was alive under benjamin franklin, so you do what you can. but when i met ralph hauenstein and he could tell me what kind of commander eisenhower was ... i've heard other people talk about it, but to hear someone i can actually ask questions up and who could tell me about ... basically, to fill in the personal human detail that often falls between the practice of the paper record. it was immensely valuable to me. actually, still a bit too late, i wish i knew him when i was writing the book about eisenhower. but he was wonderful to talk to. he was very approachable. you will hear more about his career, but i would just say that for all the good work he did while he was alive, his good work continues in the hauenstein center. i had a chance known in his final years, but i had the say that i have been a great beneficiary of the great work he's done for michigan, for grand valley state and for the hauenstein center. also great for anyone interested in world war ii and white house and how are. thank you very much. you've been a wonderful audience

do you have any inspiration from benjamin franklin? >> no, not yet. i just think that it's very -- i am very proud and humbled to be in the seat that he occupied. i read his book. i know he did an interview with walter isaacson on his book. it's a public service. i am a patriot. i enjoy the aspect of. it when you look back of who was one of the founding -- i'm honored by the fact that i'm sitting. here >> thank you very much, mister postmaster general. thank you for explaining the issues i tried to raise with you. i appreciate all your time and effort. good luck to. >> thank you, david, for having me. >> thank you very much. we appreciate it. as i mentioned to everybody, this will be on our website in a few moments and i hope you all enjoyed and learned a fair bit about the postmaster general, the postal service and the electoral ballot situation. thank you all very much. ginsburg was the second woman to serve on the nation's highest court, following sandra day o'connor. in 2009, justice ginsburg gave us a tour of her office. inside the supreme court.

. >> a prophetic statement from benjamin franklin is the constitutional convention ended its labors in september 1787. a republic, if you can keep it so. it was here in philadelphia the george washington penned his immortal farewell address, and which he established the great american tradition unbroken for 145 years and our safeguard against dictatorship and tyranny, that no president should serve for a third term. (music) >> friends and fellow citizens, the period for a new election of a citizen to administer the executive government of the united states, being not far distant, and a time already arrived when your thoughts must be occupied in designating the person who is to be clothed with that important trust, it appears to me proper, especially as it may conduce to eye more distant expression of the public voice, that i should now apprise you of the resolution i have formed, to decline to be considered among the number of those out of whom a choice is to be made. >> and here in philadelphia in june 1940, members of another history-making convention opened their sessions. >> the 22

of first was published in 1845 the life of frederick douglass, was very much influenced by benjamin franklin'shich is public in 1790 right after franklin died and in english shortly thereafter. not in franklin's lifetime. and, so reallyea is every influencedography by his autobiography. which is to say franklin established the idea that the story of the auto biographer will serve as a story of a much bigger struggle. franklin's case the story of the whole country. so franklin told the story of his bride which was a new thing to do. there were biographies of things, you weren't supposed to write the story off your life. he told the story as if he was a self made man. the expression was not quite current them. but franklin said i was born into poverty, having been born into poverty, this is a rough paraphrase. i write this book in order people who are interested can know how to emulate me, how to go for mixed security to reputation. how to go from income ignorance too knowledge. how to go from rags to riches, from poverty to prosperity. so franklin had also on the way to wealth silver franklin s

. >> the statement that of benjamin franklin as the constitutional convention ended labors in september 1787. a republic if you can keep it so. he established the great american edition of 145 years and our safeguard against dictatorship that no president should serve for awe third term. a third term. >> friends and fellow citizens, the period for a new election of a citizen to administer the executive government of the united states being not far distanced. and the time already arrived when your thoughts must be occupied. it appears to me that especially as it may conduce to a more distant expression of the public voice that i should now apprise you of the resolution i have formed. there are a number of those of whom a choice is to be made. >> um here in philadelphia in june 1940, members of another history making convention opened their sessions. >> the 22nd convention of the republican party will now come to order. >> resolve we'll keep this nation republic. minnesota's youthful governor is the spirit of free men. >> hello republican delegates. lights are going out as we meet in euro

. ♪ ♪ >> a pathetic statement of benjamin franklin as the constitutional convention in 1787, a republicankeep it so, and it was here in philadelphia that george washington then his i mortal farewell address in which it established the american tradition unbroken for 145 years with dictatorship and ter me that no president should serve for a third term. >> friends and fellow citizens, the period for a new election for a citizen to administer the executive government of the united states being not far distant and the time already arrived when your thoughts must be occupied in designating the person who used to be clothed with that important trust and it appears to me proper especially as it may confuse to a more distant expression of the public voice that i should now apprise you of the resolution i have formed to decline to be considered among a number of those of which a choice is to be made. >> and here in philadelphia in 1940, members of another history-making convention had their sessions. >> the 22nd convention of the republican party will now come to order. >> with the result that we

and the six volumes began with benjamin franklin and then went to andrew jackson, ulysses grant, theodore roosevelt, franklin roosevelt, ronald reagan. if you read those biographies, they link together to form a history of the united states from the 18th century to the 21st century. when i started off, i thought this was going to be a great idea. i still think it was a pretty good idea. needless to say, i recommend it to all of you. every house should have the set. but one of the things that i concluded by the time i got to the end of this was that there are certain things that are hard to tell, there are certain stories that are important but hard to tell if you can find yourself to write a biography. i didn't intend to primarily write about presidents, but i eventually did because if you're trying to tell a story of the united states, the president is a very convenient character to hang your story on. but there is a lot going on if the presidents are your focus that you can't really get at. and some of it has to do with sort of the give and take, the thrust and parody of what goes on at

published in 1845, the narrative of the life of frederick douglass was very much influenced by benjamin franklin's autobiography which was published first then in english shortly thereafter, not inin franklin's lifetime. so [inaudible] which is to say franklin established the idea. the story of the although biographer will serve for a much bigger struggle. franklin told the storyca of his life, which is a new thing to do. it's like a new genre and he told the story but the expression wasn't quite current. but he said having been born into poverty, i write this book in in order tha an order that pe interested can know how to emulate, how did it go from ignorance to knowledge and from rags to riches, from poverty to prosperity. so, franklin had also written an essay called the way to wealth or advice to a tradesman. his work is about how to become free and prosper. and kind of less about how to do good. so, for franklin, it is the story of a how to start with nothing and become somebody. the story is about you do it all on your own. that is crucial. like you shouldn't have to need other people's hel

and the six volumes, began with benjamin franklin, then went to andrew jackson, ulysses grant, franklin roosevelt, and ronald reagan. if you read those biographies, they link together to form a history of the united states, from the 18th century to the 21st century. and i started off i thought this is good idea. and i still think it was pretty good idea, and i recommend it to all of you. every house should have a set. but, one of the things that i concluded, by the time i got to the end of this was, there are certain things that are hard to tell. there are certain stories that are important if, you can can find yourself to just barked the. and if you're writing about presidents, and i didn't intend to write primarily about presidents, but i did because if you tried to tell the story of united states, a president is a convenient character. but there's a lot going on, if the president is your focus, you can't really get that. and a lot of it has to do with, the give and take of what goes on at the other end of pennsylvania avenue. but when you write about a president, when you write a bio

remembering that frederick douglas who wrote three autobiographies was very much influenced by benjamin franklin's autobiography, which was published first in 1790 after franklin died and in english shortly thereafter, not in franklin's lifetime. so really is every american autobiography influenced by this autobiography which is to say that franklin established the idea with the story of the autobiography will serve as an allegory for the story-- in franklin's case the story of the country. this was anything to do like you know there were biographies of famous people-- well, you are not supposed to write the story. this was a new genre franklin was hoping to invent and he told the story of his life. franklin said having been bored into poverty -- this is a rough paraphrase, i write this book in order people interested can know how to emanate-- emulate me and go from ignorance to knowledge. how did i go from rags to issues, from poverty to prosperity. franklin had written in essay called the way to wealth or another essay called advice to be tradesmen took his work is about how to become free and p

i would get drafts of their papers someone like jane franklin or benjamin franklin. or thomas jefferson. or joseph brant. whoever. they would treat them as if they were not human beings. to be on to say their lives. and to go behind the curtain. and then the student would say whatever. they would quote them and then beat them up about what they just had them say. i was baffled by this.m it's not like math when you're doing approve these were people. these were children. they have child birth pains. they are human beings. it seems so brilliant. with a determined and hide a hard-working is frustrating to see how we see this to one another in the world. to make use of other people. i'm not on social media. that's what people would do. thanks for holding. you are on with professor joe lepore. i think this is the longest hold i've ever had on i think this is the longest hold i've ever had on they really do insert thoroughly. and thank goodness students had you as a teacher. and your writing has been wonderful. it was recommended to me by one of my second grade students fr

i think that my great great great great great great great great grandfather benjamin franklin. would be. very discouraged 5 the state of the country at this point i feel like we are victims of our own success and we feel entitled to a lot of things and willing to give up those rights that we have. you know. my ancestors did trainings about they can probably tell us probably so that they can deal with all the things that were being savaged and i wonder what joint training looks like the only difference is one by one so as we sit back trying to project i'm really are we could not use my ways and yet that's exactly what you all her parents to do the black lives matter and it is definitely going to have an effect on. the outcome of the election whether that helps or hurts donald trump is why we have elections and you got to go through the process and find out you know polls are inaccurate people aren't always forthright with their answers you have to go if you're the election the find out. and i. think. a lot of people are concerned about lawlessness and taking out these bad shoes

idea of removing or altering the washington monument, the jefferson memorial, the statues of benjamin franklinew jackson and christopher columbus. this is a serious report. i agree, i am not allowed to say it. it is a star-spangled group. let's get rid of the washington monument, that is a great idea. we laugh and smile. when this first started happening with statues of people that almost all of us never heard of. i said be careful, they will go after jefferson, washington, lincoln. he said you did. you said all of a sudden it will keep going up. they took out robert e. lee, they want to take out grant, they want to take out anything. they want to take out our heritage. we are not letting this happen. biden has absolutely no control. even if he wasn't shot, he doesn't have the kind of control you have to have to be president. you have people that want to blow up a gorgeous thing. this wasn't even going to be at and we had the plague come in. i didn't have to come to michigan. we are building all of these plants. you had the best year you have ever had. you will have a better year next year. th

papers which is responsible for washington, thomas jefferson, john adams, james madison and benjamin franklin. also alexander hamilton was part of that originally. these and other additions like that are responsible for basically making all of early american history accessible to the reader without having to go and try and read the original documents. we are in close contact with our friends at the atlas papers and some of these other places. we we use their volumes when they are out ahead of us and vice a versa. we aren't usually working on a document at the same time. so most of our disagreements are in how we handle a document. we we don't do gotcha in the values -- volumes that we print, but we will do it our way and we will tell them that they might want to put it into theirs and certainly the opposite is for us. most of our differences are not so much disagreeing about how it was transcribed. theirs will go into another direction and they may have annotated something somewhere a great excluding massive material that was routine and formulaic, but was not imperative to jefferson himself.

allowed me one day to stand in the ben franklin room in the state department under portrait of benjamin franklin and take the oath of office to a constitution that counted my ancestorst sworn in y a jewish woman supreme court justice named ruth bader ginsburg, they need to know th that, they also need to understand that governing over differences hard, authoritarians don't have a problem with this, they just the people that are different, look at what the chinese are doing to the uighurs. in democracy, it is hard to govern, we are not the only one to have this problem, i would like them to have a a fuller picture of what the race issue looks like in america. >> let's segue back to educational although it's always part of what were talkinglw abot here, how wide is the learning gap in e education gap, your ben exposed by covid and you refer to it a few minutes ago, how wide is it. >> i think the education gap is wide and it will widen after this experience. , we continue to have third-graders that cannot read and if you cannot read by third grade you will probably not read, we have to ask yourselv

benjamin franklin. >> andrew jackson. great, great general, really good president.ew orleans. the rag tags. the british came in with their beautiful uniforms. they had the rag tags. the battle happened a half-hour. they want to take that statue down of andrew jackson. thomas jefferson. they want to take down the jefferson memorial. i will tell you what, if i wasn't your president last summer you may have the jefferson memorial taken down. it may be down. they weren't playing games. we weren't playing games either. here is the beauty. we want to take down the george washington memorial, the monument. okay? this is the commission. this is what we are dealing with, folks. they wanted to remove the name of george washington from all of the places all over the country where they used it. then they found there are like 5,000 places. no, we'll keep the name george washington if you don't mind. if the media would perhaps put it correctly -- there are a lot of people back there. you watch those red lights. as soon as i start talking the red lights go off. joe biden said noth

democracy when benjamin franklin spoke to it and they discussed, why don't we call it a democracy rather than a republic, he defined the democracy and the republic. a democracy meant mob rules and a republic means liberty. army in a word in english -- when you have a republic it means in regards to the republic. the republic controls the government, not the government controlling the people. americansevans, on speaking the same language to each other but not understanding each other. guest: i think one of the things -- dr. evans: one of the things our survey showed is that there is a lot of stress related to the election. it was it was very high, 56% of the population had significant concerns about the election. now we are in the 70's. 71% is the number. arere reporting that people extremely stressed out by the political environment. connection to what the caller was talking about is that we have to think about the civility of how we talk about the politics of the nation. we can disagree, but do it in such a way that we reduce the level of disagreement and the stress that causes. i think

benjamin franklin in paris in 1784 to negotiate commercial treaties with european powers. the following year, i believe it was 1785. he succeeded dr. franklin. bill: you're quite right -- quite correct, general. he took a leave of paris to return to our country and happily to be there as soon as soon was convened the constitutional convention over which you, sir, and none other, in my opinion, served as the president. kind, but i didn't stop watching your accomplishments, sir. while he was minister of france, he negotiated a commercial treaty with prussia, and a consular convention with france. this is a man who had diplomatic ability, so it was appropriate to pick mr. jefferson as my secretary of foreign affairs, what you might refer to as the secretary of state. and in the beginning, colonel hamilton and jefferson agreed. they were actually friends, if you can imagine. but things began to bifurcated betwixt thely federalists and the anti federalists. now by way of explanation in the broadest terms, federalists supported ratification of the constitution, a strong, central

early because i want to be healthy, wealthy, and wise that of course a quote from the great benjamin franklinmy wall. we have this from kenneth who emails i'm up because i'm still perfecting a presentation that i have in three hours. he added the hash tag did i possibly start way too late? you sound like me in college. thank you all for those responses. i always love it. >>> coming up next here, we've got a look at the axios one big thing. >>> and coming up on "morning joe," as new york faces critical moment in the battle to prevent a second wave of coronavirus infections, governor cuomo will join the conversation. and why these three race cos help determine the presidency. "morning joe" just moments away. . "morning joe" just moments away. . however, there is one thing you can be certain of. the men and woman of the united states postal service. we are here to deliver your cards, packages and prescriptions. and also deliver the peace of mind knowing that what's important to you-like your ballot-is on its way. every day, all across america, we deliver for you. and we always will. - with the n

it's something benjamin franklin is rolling over in his grave due to what we're seeing and watching thisuagmire play out in front of us as it relates to the voters in this district. florida was decided in the last gubernatorial race. so lawrence, if you figure that calculation, you realize that the state of florida is only a 1% state when it comes to elections. this is why we believe sounding the alarm to the younger voters, to those voters who normally do not participate in the process, that their vote must matter because this is not going to be a five-point race or four-point race or ten-point spread. this thing is going to be decided between 30,000 and 60,000 votes, and that's why it's so important that every vote matters, especially those that are trapped at the postal service as we speak. >> thank you very much for bringing our attention to this situation in that post office today and the country's attention to it, florida's attention. really appreciate you joining us tonight. thank you very much. >> thank you so much, lawrence, for being a voice for us. >> thank you. >> thank you.

meltzer new book out today i am benjamin franklin and i am anne frank. what about this scene again? americans but now they are targeting lincoln and teddy roosevelt. what did they do to deserve this fate? >> listen, you know my love of history. that's why i write these books for kids. you don't tear down abraham lincoln, right or teddy roosevelt. my two books were about abraham lincoln and teddy roosevelt. what we need to do is preserve history for our kids. that's where these books come from we have to start them young. i started writing these books because i wanted to give my kids better heros who look up to heroes of compassion and kindness. the thing we need right now. the most important thing we see is character. losing that in the country. that's the battle we need to be fighting not tearing down abraham lincoln. brian: what are you learning in schools if these are indeed americans and i believe they are but their faces are covered that makes you think lincoln and roosevelt are the problem? >> you are not learning history. i can tell you that and let's start with the person we

i happen to think that they got this right and it speaks to the ideas that benjamin franklin had in his discussions in public religion when he is thinking through the necessity of having some kind of common belief or atopn values which sits the particular expressions of values in the corporations around them. saids chief justice burger in lynch v donnelly. it's too late in the day to impose such a crass reading of the establishment clause which would allow the supreme court to unearth those preferences. i think on that one, the chief got it right. >> thank you for an extraordinary panel. [laughter] each week, american artefacts takes you to museums and historic places to learn about american history. here's a brief look at what is airing this sunday night. we travel 15 miles northwest of washington, d.c. to the visitor center a false tavern where we will take a book ride to learn about the history of the chesapeake and ohio canals. [horn blowing] >> i would like to introduce myself, i'm cassondra, i'm a seasonal park ranger at the chesapeake and ohio can now. as you can see, they are ob

wrongwho knew slavery was like benjamin franklin and james wilson but accepted the compromises believed they were leading a path that would be incrementally to freedom for all. they chose freedom for some over freedom for none. so, why then do i love the constitution? for its tactical leadership. i love it because it is the and oneeatest document part of the story of freedom. citizensand equal protect themselves from domination by one another and mutual protections from external forces that might seek their domination. it is the story of how ambition can be made to check ambition. >> our modern-day global space race. dr. go with haley. >> terror scale, soon we will have access scale. >> the next frontier. the 18th.s 10 to that is one with 18 zeros after it. you get to an access scale. >> once you have the ability to simulate at that level, then you can find more answers to questions because you have not had the ability to model at that level. >> other countries are working on the same research. whoever gets there first has the key to innovation and discovery. >> a patient who might have

as successful contenders, harrison and cleveland used opium along with benjamin franklin, and jfk with speed and lincoln used medical marijuana, and each of our last three successful contenders used both grass and coke medically as preventatively and recreationally? thank you. >> what we're really getting at is the so-called war on drugs which became a popular phrase in the 1980s in the united states. the problem was all these urban centers had whole generations of kids that were getting addicted to different types of narcotics. his whole life he was working for public school systems on drugs in particular. there were some you couldn't even go into, including dallas, which was a very rough city, people forget, back in the '80s and '90s. perot took a pretty hard line cracking down on drugs, and we have the crack epidemic that hit the united states after that. he was tough on that issue. so if you are somebody who is a libertarian and believes that drugs should be legal in the united states, perot would not be on your side. >> matt is watching us in plano, texas and you're on. good morni

right, so you take a country, i was reading a quote by benjamin franklin that talked about the negro,ring in those people to overpopulate the country, which is going to be filled with white people, so i understand that even in the inception, because racism mythology created 500 years ago, in its inception, we have had this entanglement of race and what we have is the ability to unwind that, you can unwind on a social level about proper education, history, and about our proper relation to one another. you can undo racism systemically in banks and undo things like red lining, refusal to give gi loans, and things of that nature, we can undo that by creating a fair place in which people who are comparable, i might be black, another person might be white, we go into the banks, and i have a 21% greater chance of being turned down for a loan, yours is 8%. we level that ground, the first accrual of wealth is home ownership, make sure more blacks can step into the middle class, and then black bids, small and medium like mine and my wife's have an opportunity to get capital and growth, we creat

democracy when benjamin franklin spoke to it and they discussed, why don't we call it a democracy ratherpublic, he defined the democracy and the republic. a democracy meant mob rules and a republic means liberty. army in a word in english -- when you have a republic it means in regards to the republic. the republic controls the government, not the government controlling the people. americansevans, on speaking the same language to each other but not understanding each other. guest: i think one of the things -- dr. evans: one of the things our survey showed is that there is a lot of stress related to the election. it was it was very high, 56% of the population had significant concerns about the election. now we are in the 70's. 71% is the number. arere reporting that people extremely stressed out by the political environment. connection to what the caller was talking about is that we have to think about the civility of how we talk about the politics of the nation. we can disagree, but do it in such a way that we reduce the level of disagreement and the stress that causes. i think that is s