in in session, thomas kidd will explore the enigma of franklin's faith and the tension between franklin's well-known skepticism and the enduring influence of his puritan upbringing on his familiarity with the bible. thomas kidd is a distinguished professor of history at baylor university and associate director of baylor's institution for studies of religion. he is the author of "benjamin franklin: the religious life of a founding father." please join me in welcoming dr. kidd. [ applause ] >> thank you to kay and thank you to the museum of the bible for hosting this wonderful event. it's a pleasure to be here at the museum. i hope to consult with some of the section on bible in america and it is just a wonderful thing to be here and see this lovely facility. so thank you for having us and thank you to those of you that are joining us online or on tv. it is great to be here. i do want to talk to you today about the enigma of ben franklin's faith and to open with a story of something that happened at the constitutional convention. in 1787 at the constitutional convention, time dragged as del

but what of ben franklin's religion? was franklin defined by his embrace of deism? his work with thomas jefferson on the declaration of independence and its invocations of the creator and of nature and nature's god. or his solitary insistence on prayer at the convention. when you add franklin's propensity for joking about serious matters, he becomes even more difficult to pin down. regarding franklin's chameleon-like religion, john adams once remarked that, quote, the catholics thought him almost a catholic. the church of england claimed him as one of them. the presbyterians thought him half a presbyterian. and the friends believed him a wet quaker. which basically means a quaker who's not so well behaved. um, the key, i think, to understanding franklin's ambivalent faith is the contrast between the skepticism of his adult life. and the indelible imprint of his childhood puritanism. the intense piety and faith of his parents acted as a tether. restraining franklin's skepticism. as a teenager, it's true, he abandoned his parents' puritan beliefs. but that same, tradi

franklin would say, i am all set. they even have these conversations, my favorite is in the 17 fifties, whitfield wrote a letter to franklin, again, they are business partners. whitfield said i need to take care of this publication and so forth. now, by the way, i don't -- i noticed how much success you have in electrical experiments, you made so much progress in understanding the mitch -- mysteries of electricity, he said to him. now i implore you to considering the mysteries of the new birth increase. you can imagine franklin rolling his eyes. . whitfield was constantly talking to him, and i wonder what they're private conversations that were all recorded, i wish i could have been there for some of the conversations. franklin and his sister had conversations like that. there was one time when franklin, after he had made it big and went back to boston from philadelphia to visit his family. it is clear that franklin and insist sister thought -- fought. this is one of the struggles you have written a biography, especia

but it is true that there were people all through franklin's life who were very directly imploring franklin to accept christ as his savior. this is one of the reasons why i don't see franklin as a traditional christian because the traditional christians around franklin didn't think he was a christian. so i think the best example is george whitfield, who i mentioned a minute ago. whitfield and franklin were friends and business associates for 30 years. and they had a very transparent relationship about understanding that they were not on the same page spiritually and that whitfield thought franklin needed to do something about that. you know, whitfield would just pull no punches and say, you need to put your faith if christ for salvation. and franklin would sort of say, i'm all set. and they would have these conversations. my favorite is that in the 1750s whitfield wrote a letter to franklin. again, they are business partners. franklin publishes a lot of whitfield's stuff. whitfield is saying i need to you take care of this publication, and so forth. now, by the way, i have noticed how much

and say what does franklin know about the constitution?in writes a spoof and then appeal tona a democratic culture so some of those arguments why we should preserve slavery something that happened 100 years ago and there was another slaveholder who was defending the enslavement of the infidel christiansns in every single argument the georgians made about enslaving black people of course he makes this up is that african arabs that someone has to do the work and they are better off here than in the homeland and wants to intermarry and hold the scripture this is good for them. to take every one of the arguments to rips that around it is a brilliant spoof but then to pretend he was a middlee- age matron franklin spoofs his own brother who doesn't realize he has created this fictional character and he does it he knows america willll eventually recognize this is his dying message to america. we want toef still be defending slavery the way it was defended when they were enslaved with european christians? >> one of theav i funniest thins it was a

franklin gets better and the last chapter, all of them, you know. >> and tell that last story of franklin before we get to questions and it's so franklinesque and funny and it's a great story. >> i talk about these great men and in my last scene i kill them all off and the death scene, you know dramatically and tell you each one in death there are some deep idea there. and for both washington and franklin, the deep idea, their rose bud, their dying breath emancipation, abolition, on slavely. and washington is a quite man, he's-- and franklin is a newspaper guy and proposes to congress, creates this to congress and maximum extent possible congress should try to demolish slavery. and the people from georgia and south carolina don't like that. and they rail against franklin and one guy actually says, what did ben franklin know about the constitution? so franklin writes a spoof and he's brilliant at satires. and he's brilliant with cartoons and satires appeal to a democratic culture and it's tongue in cheek. he writes as if he actually says well some of the arguments i just heard why we shoul

oh franklin will.is the royal governor of new jersey and the fellow new englanders or something but lots of people that were more obscure i think that hutchinson in particular because i want my audience to see there was another side came into the american. and if you were alive today, he was on the t at all. my analogy would be, is mitt romney, he's harvard educated, be sober, traditionalist, he believes in hierarchy and •-ellipsis country but his country is bitten any of his hometown which a is boston if hs lucky enough to be in for 20 years earlier, he would not have had to pick between them but he does and he ends up taking his king. so i do trying to write beyond the first residents of washington avenue jefferson madison and of course franklin and hamilton. >> you just mentioned benjamin franklin and in a way for title almost sells your conversational because it's also images involved. so tell us about this great cartoon franklin generate rated very early on in this conversation. erakhil: so he is

is been franklin know about the constitution, nothing party to so franklin writes in these brilliant and it cartoons and satires. in the appeal to the democratic culture and is and he writes as if he actually does this and then some of the arguments unregistered about why we simper deserve slavery. something that happened 100 years ago, there was this era slaveholder who actually was defending the enslavement of the christians in every single argument that the georgians made about enslaving the black stuff ofnd makes the course, made by basically african eras were enslaving white european christians. after do the work in the don't believe in god better off here than their homeland and he was to intermarry with a lesser blooded holy scripture and authorizes this and actually this is good for them. so he takes every one of the georgian arguments and he flips it around racially. and it is a brilliant spoof it is the same guy but at 16 years old pretended that he was a middle aged nature and at franklin's post on his own brother runs newspaper and doesn't realizeea that franklin has crea

so washington is the embodiment of america and he is franklin's snake.: so there's another virginian. you also link to washington into hamilton throughout not only outlives them but he stays in office. many years after the gone. as john marshall. what is his role in this conversation. akhil: so you mentioned that their friends and one of the things that is most proud of my work as an author for them also proud of my work as a news, i try to inspire other authors my favorite authors. and try to learn from my favorite offer so both unite really respect interested in images for example. so do that with cartoon yes okay so i encouraged to you early on to write a book about lincoln is only 18000 books written about him, if you need another one by you, lincoln relationship to the founding and i love that book. even if you're thinking with the title, founders son. i give you title and they told you oh event john marshall and you did. you didn't use my title though, my title for that one was the last of found it. and yes, actually madison outlived marshall a few

smack you also mentioned benjamin franklin. the way it almost selzer conversation, images are involved. can you tell us about this great cartoon that franklin generates very early on in the conversation. >> yes, so he sets a gene genius and he invents a lightning rod and social institutions in the first secular university and he's also someone that invents the world's first real political cartoon and it's not from britain and it's a very democratic culture. and it is the picture of a snake that is cut up into pieces and he has a slogan. it is the first viral means in which we could say hash tag join. the colleagues after work together with the mother country to deceive the french in the early stages what would become the french and indian war. and i'm very same page, he is a newspaper madman. if he were alive today he might be rupert murdoch. there is a picture of a snake and in effect he's also telling his audience about a young 22-year-old military officer from virginia who bravely is confronting the french named george washi

it was franklin? he is actually newspaper guy. i proposes to congress he writes the petition to the maximum extent possible congress should try to diminish slavery. the people from georgia and south carolina do not like that. they appeal to a democratic culture. some of the arguments i just heard why we should preserve slavery from plant is 100 yearss ago who was defending the enslavement of the infidel christians. everyct single argument the georgians made about enslaving black people, was made by african arabs for enslaving white european christians. someone has to do the work, they don't believe in god, they're better off here at than theirla home and who is to intermarry with lesser blood. in holy scripture authorizes this. there's this good for them it is a positive step. six every one of the georgian arguments rips it around and it is a brilliant spoof. it's the same guy 16 years old pretended he was a middle aged matron. at 15id years old franklin spoofs his own brother and doesn't realize the creative fictional character.

franklin. >> reporter: jennifer hudson, the oscar and grammy-winning actor and singer plays franklinie is going to live or die based on your performance of this song -- >> don't scare me. ♪ r-e-s-p-e-c-t ♪ >> that is the song, out of all of the songs, that stunted me, that made me stop the windmill. ♪ i ain't gonna do you wrong ♪ >> reporter: how did you get comfortable enough to say, i'm just going to do it? >> i'm just going to do it. ♪ >> all i hear is her voice, jennifer, now you go do it. and it's, like, okay, i, i, i have got my marching orders. >> reporter: those marching orders came straight from aretha franklin herself, who was impressed by hudson's 2006 performance in "dream girls," and hand-picked her for her dream role. >> the very first thing aretha said to me, when we sat down, was, you're going to win an oscar for playing me? and i was, like, uhh...when i was doing the color purple, she gave me a call and said, young lady i made my decision, it is you who i want to play me and don't say nothing. and i was, like, yes ma'am. >> reporter: the film con cullschronicles the

and it was going to be the last chance for benjamin franklin to see william franklin.so temple brought the two of them together. at the critical moment william, the son, and by this time he's 57 years old or something like that a full grown man. he has decided that his father will not live forever not much longer, and so william holds out his hand to make amends with his father benjamin. and i'm sitting there writing this part of the story and trying to keep my distance. but trying to imagine what is going through benjamin franklin's head. i have three children. and i cannot imagine anything that any of those children would do that would cause me to permanently write them out of my life. especially, even if they had done something and then afterwards said let's let bygones be bygones. so, i wanted them and i had found myself without wanting to, sort of rooting for ben franklin. get him to do the right thing. most of the time he did the right thing. but when william was holding out his hand, i want to reach across the centuries and just take benjamin franklin and i take

but this was a big part of franklin's emotional life. and i realized that i don't know why he did this very important thing. and it's toward the end of the book. and i thought, i don't know, maybe he snowed me all along. maybe there's this dark franklin character that i'm just not getting. so i had to, quickly write the end of that scene and get to the end of the book. i still don't know the answer, but, yeah. other questions. yes, sir. yes. >> former student of history -- >> former student? are there such things. [ inaudible ] >> you've told us a lot about what burr did and most of us are used to thinking of the villain, without giving away all of your book what do you think was in his heart? >> i think that burr was ambitious, i know that burr was am bisciotti. ambitious. i think he saw the path to political achievement was closed in the east. because both of the major parties were dead-set against him. so he wanted to go west. before the day of steam boats and rail roads once you get west of the appalachia mountains gravity pulled you

i wrote about benjamin franklin. i have to say the first 30 years of benjamin franklin's life go by like this in my book. why? because there are no sources. you can measure this in a wonderful published collection of the franklin letters that is about 38 volumes. they can them 50 years to publish it. it was about that thick. volume 38, if that's the last one, is equally thick and covered three months. not decades but months of franklin's life. why? because then he was world famous and people saved everything. you can write about extreatinary people in ordinary times. ordinary people in extraordinary times. for example, you can write the ordinary person's history of the civil war. why? because it was extraordinary sufficiently to where people wrote down wha they were thinking and feeling. they'd never shared that before so they wanted to share it or else kept a journal. there is no lack of information on ordinary people who went to california. in those days, before cameras, cell phones with cameras. how did people enc

franklin came out to see her. and they said dr. franklin? you mean the black doctor? and he said, yes. they said, oh, no, a black man can't touch a white woman. and they were coming to kill him. they were going to lynch him. and the husband tried to control them, but he couldn't. so he ultimately got dr. franklin on the train. at the time he had two children. and they came south and got off in africatown. and that's how he got to mobile. there's some stories in the "mobile press register" on the encounter. but once he got here, he started practicing. a lot of the patients from the "clotilda" were his patients, because he was here in 1914. and he continued to practice and ultimately moved his practice down on the other end of dr. martin luther king boulevard. and he had an enormous practice, and he passed in 1972. he was 84 years old. well, when urban renewal took out his building -- he built a three-room office right over in the parking lot behind us. and he continued to practice medicine. and at 84, he was still making house calls. he just enjoyed practicing medicine

knew aretha franklin.'s show them. >> what are you going to sing? show your love for me by aretha franklin. >> stephen: go for it. ♪ it's an evil wind that blows no good, yeah, yeah ♪ ♪ it's a sad heart that won't love like i know it should ♪ ♪ oh how long you must be, it's a shame if you don't share some of your love with me ♪ ( cheers and applause ) ♪ >> don't you play it! don't you do it! >> stephen: why did you choose that song? >> because i was going to a singing competition. you got to get the best if you're going to try to be in a competition so who better than to get aretha franklin. thai was at the wool worth as a kid. i saw that song and i said, i'm singing aretha franklin. and now i'm playing her. ( applause ) >> stephen: when you look back at that, do you want to give advice to that young woman about how she's singing that song? are you happy with that performance? >> you know, i was a little nervous, obviously. i would say, jennifer, don't back yourself up, too. because i sang the lead and bac

aretha franklin. she says you are going to win an oscar for plainly, right? r-e-s-p-e-c-t find out what it means to me ♪ ♪ >> the musical performances are oscar worthy. the director insisted every song and recording in the film be done live endnote lip-synching or replacement vocals allowed. >> the power of people singing live with each other is something that i just felt like cannot be faked. >> ♪ freedom ♪ ♪ >> when everything is not singing, it slips into a biopic territory. we watch aretha rise and fall. >> ladies andentlemen, this aretha frankn. -- miss aretha franklin. >> this song is for anyone who has ever felt mistreated. >> and we see her rise again. ♪ her political engagement, including her friendship with martin luther king, is central to the film. [applause] as is her spirituality. the movie ends with the retune to the church music that made her and the recording of her legendary gossip album "amazing grace." >> when you grow up in church singing the way we did, you learn toing with a purpose, with substance, to a higher calling, such as god. it

james franklin. he was an elevator operator in 1884, and you know that the lehman brothers started in mobile? and the reason was is that cotton was the cash crop. it was the moneymaker. it was really the moneymaker in the u.s.. so the sky, used to operate the elevator. and he would hear the brokers talking, in between the floors. so he said i want to do something more with my life, and he started an insurance company. would he would do is he would sell policies for people to provide a respectable burial for their relatives. he started an insurance company, right around the time that johnson and alan opened. and he hired six other guys, and they sold over 10 million dollars worth of insurance in the early 1900s. and you put that in the calculator today, that would be about 100 million dollars. so he was very wealthy. that was in the 19 hundreds. it paid out over 3 million dollars worth of insurance, so here's where we try to inspire children, we do not live in the past on this trail, we tell the past,

. >> the dora franklin finley. up next in part two, we pick up the story after the civil war with mr. finley describing african-americans established businesses in the north side of town. but the real story is mrs. allen. she started a private school directly behind us in the 1880s. it was called josephine allen institute. before the emancipation proclamation it was against the law for african-americans to be educated. so after the emancipation proclamation, schools started opening everywhere. and she opened one to educate young african-americans. but this family actually came to mobile from virginia so they were never slaves. they were free and they were somewhat elite because they had a big home down near dauphin island and they had a big home in the city. well, in the 1880s and 90s, most african-americans had shotgun homes, unfortunately, but that was the way it was. well, they had a lot of friends. and some of their friends were booker t. washington, president of tuskegee university. george washington carver. a

colonial printers like benjamin franklin published these. franklin published this one in 1945, so a year after the treaty at llancaster. these were not best sellers of their day. i'm not going to sit here and tell you people gather around franklin's print shop waiting for the next indian treaty to come out. they did circulate. and often times editors gave glosses to try to explain the rituals that were described here. so they did become kind of a guide for people who were interested in understanding the rules, the protocol of native american diplomacy. in the case of the treaty of lancaster, which did circulate in london, the chief iroquois speaker gave famous speeches at the treaty of lancaster, so famous that in 1755 when a london novelist was writing a novel, he made him a character, had him coming over to london and falling in love with an english girl. he had been dead for five years by then. but his figure had become, you know, familiar enough to readers in london that he could serve this purpose in a romance novel. for the native amer

the franklin library. [inaudible] so mr. franklin and i are a second generation of alliance. his family making room for mine with sacred, thoughtful basis. i would also like to note one proud of my harvard degree, i'm proud of that i'm like my great grandfather had an opportunity be to be a writer in residence. and i'm very glad to use my pwi to agree to serve. now to the matters at hand. it is a privilege of my life that i get to be a part of these conversations in this moment in history. i like to think lately this is kind of a riff on the hamilton effect the version of the effects of the world turned its back on me i wrote my way out. so i think it may wrote my way in. that feels right. i think this whole conversation comes down to a predicament of what to do with a reliable witness, of being some sort of faithful countrymen. they are not the same essential thing. with written into law and what is truly just are two different things. when what is a riot tells us race right as it's called, what is a riot and what is a massacre comes down to a matter of perspective. funny, t

thank you. >> thank you franklin. nice to meet you. before we take board action, donald, is there any public comment? >> seeing none. >> okay directors. this item is for action. is there a motion? >> so moved. >> i think director tumlin and i couldn't catch -- >> director forbes i believe. it was a close second. >> moved and seconded to appoint franklin wong as cfo for tjpa. (roll call vote) it is approved. >> welcome to the family. >> thank you very much. >> item 9 is authorizing the chair of the board of directors to execute an amendment and -- for the greater rincon hill benefit plan. the director will have this. >> hello again. my 30 plus years in public service, that may be the longest title i have presented on. shortly after i arrived to the tjpa, engaging the salesforce committee. i have had the honor of chairing it over the past year. the marketing director is the chair. the committee of eight is composed of four appointed by the executive director and four appointed by cbd. the mou touches on governance, how the items are cons

aretha franklin's not here? what are we going to do?such a connection to peep when she sings, that that will be with us forever, thank goodness. >> hearing you say that t makes me wonder what it was like for you onset to see jennifer hudson bring aretha back to life for the big screen. >> it was incredible. i was very moved by jennifer's work in this film. for me, started to morph into aretha. and the more i thought about it, the more i realized they have a lot in common. they both have voices that are just touched by the heavens. they both have an incredible connection to the world when they sing. it transcends everything when they sing. and they both had a rough beginnings. they had a lot of things that they had to overcome. and jennifer is the most incredibly sweet, dedicated, lovely person, especially coming out of hollywood, that i've ever met. and her ability to inhabit aretha in this film, i thought was uncanny. and for me to be able to watch it up close, was amazing too. >> i'll let you put it back in. i know aretha even chose h

. ♪ >>> the bio about aretha franklin "respect" hits theater today.picked jennifer hudson to play her in the movie. hudson who won an oscar for "dream girls" says she's nervous and excited for people to see the movie which is her personal tribute to the late singer. franklin died in 2018 at the age of 76. >>> on the cbs money watch now, which parts of the country saw the most population growth. >>> and a special delivery in space. diane king hall has those stories and more. from the new york stocks ek exchange. good morning. >> good morning. stock futures are pointing to a flat open after another record-setting day on wall street. investors remain optimistic over the pace of the economic recovery. now the dow added 14 points finishing at a record. the nasdaq gained 51 and the s&p 500 was up 13, also closing at a fresh record. >>> new census data shows amic the multiracial population exploded from 9 million in 2010 to more than 33 million in 2020. the white population, which remains the largest racial group in the u.s., saw its first drop ever, falling

franklin.ing her voice to new heights this morning. the incredible live performance you'll only see on "gma." >>> whoo! we're ready. >> yes, we are ready. good morning, america. it's great to be here with george and robin on this tuesday. we cannot wait to see what jennifer hudson has in store for us this morning. it's gonna be good. >> it will be spectacular. >>> first, we're going to get the latest on the pandemic. right now every state in the us. except for vermont has reported either high or substantial transmission of covid. the delta variant is infecting kids at increasing rates and doctors are now urging the fda to fast track vaccines for children. >> florida currently has the highest number of young children hospitalized with the virus. victor oquendo is there at a children's hospital in hollywood with the latest. good morning, victor. >> reporter: good morning, robin. it's the emergency department here at joe dimaggio children's hospital where they have seen the sharpest rise in cases.

hampton vice for problems is that remarkable to me it should've been ben franklin. it should have been john adams, thomas jefferson we had some remarkable renaissance men. well educated well-traveled, extraordinary intellects. it was not then that identified these problems and came up with the solution was a one man among them who is not well-traveled well educated. one trip abroad spent in barbados. the ability to think outside the box. here for the proms a focus on in the book. number one the government was not going to endure. as soon as the revolutionary war was ending and the headquarters in newburgh along the hudson in new york that newburgh conspiracy as david noted and fleshes out in his book their efforts to remove washington. washington's rea the third problem he identifies is in his ear. we are an upstart a republican area monarchs and of course the image of americans running around the wild wearing bearskin and raccoon hats. how do we conduct treaties and how do we have alliances? how do we deal with europe if we can't repay them and don't have any credi

and if you've ever read ben franklin's autobiography, he and franklin were close. business associates first and then friends. franklin, when he -- when whitefield first came to philadelphia, franklin did a little experiment. franklin does experiments, right? so he's walking around the edges of the crowd trying to figure out how many people can hear him speak at one time, and franklin said, you know, i think maybe 25 or 30,000 people can hear him speaking at one time. so that tells you that whitefield, he had a background in the theater as a teenager. he was a play actor before his conversion is. he knew how to project his voice. and i think he must have just been enormously loud. okay? and he's, when he -- a lot of the portraits we have of whitefield are when he's old and kind of sick, so i like portraits like this one when he's a young man. relatively young. they thought he was good looking. you know, tell for yourself what you think about that. young man, very dynamic. and unlike edwards, whitefield's presentations were without a manuscript. he would pretty much

what would i say to miss aretha franklin?she had thought you would be the right person to take this role on? >> well, we first met 15 years ago. this was right after i won the oscar for "dream girls." we met here in new york. and she was like, "what you shy or something?" and i was like, "well, i am sitting at the table with aretha franklin. jesus! and then it wasn't until "color purple" when she called me she said, "now i've made my decision and it is you who i want to play me. don't go and tell the -- don't say a thing. and i said, "yes, ma'am, i won't. and then the next day she went and told them. [ laughter ] >> seth: now, did you know that based on the first time you met her? did you know this was something she was thinking about when you first met her 15 years ago? >> yeah. that's what that meeting was for. but it was just talks of it, and there was no script at the time. and then a few years later, she came back again but it was always in the back of my mind from that moment, so any time -- because i was able to do a l

franklin when he first came to philadelphia franklin did an experiment, franklin does experiments and he's walking around trying toan figure out how many people can hear him speak and franklin said he was a play actor before his conversion and projected voice and i think he must've been in war mostly loud. okay, a lot of the portraits that we have a winfield is when he was old and kind of sick so i like portraits like this one when he is a young man relatively young, they thought he was good looking and what do you think about that, a young man. anyone, unlike edwards winfield presentations were without a manuscript, he would pretty much memorize his sermons and he had a repertory of ten or 15 15 sers that he would rotate through because all he did was return array he did not have a aggregation. ld rhe could really short lesson sermons anyhow to memorize. and see what people were reacting to and he was moving around the stage and he would in effect act out if he's talking about the story of the prodigal son from the gospel he would put himself in the character, the father waiting for

so sour was a contemporary to benjamin franklin, they competed against each other. christopher sour was in germantown, pennsylvania, ben franklin was right next door in philadelphia, pennsylvania. the story goes that sour was critical of benjamin franklin's german translation because sour was a german himself. so there's kind of a i don't know if you call it war, there was opposition against the two. the story is reported because of that when sour was buying paper, he was told he had to pay for the paper completely. so when he was ready to produce a second bible in 1763, he went to get the paper and the paper maker said you pay in full or you don't get any at all. christopher sour has a paper mill and prints the first in 1763. then in 1776, typeset is wearing out. his son has taken over the business. christopher sour jr. they produced new typeset. they produce this german bible, luther bible, 1743, 1763, and then in 1776, important date in american history they would print the first bible printed in america with american made typeset. but the story is really interes

ben franklin or most perhaps among them so the dinner party on june 20 1790. as they wrapped in the musical, the room where it happened. so you have 2 factions, the jeffersonian faction and hamiltonian faction, the less government, more governments, the south and north just to make it simplistic. the problem for jefferson was whenever he and hamilton butted heads hamilton typically carried today because of washington. washington was more ideologically aligned with hamilton, but washington saw hamilton as more of his son. hamilton seeing washington as a father figure he really never had and hamilton is washington's right-hand man as they say in the musical. washington would side with hamilton including on neutrality which hefleshes out in this book . so in june 19 the day before jeffersons waiting outside of washington's office house and he hears a great commotion and washington and hamilton have a fight in both washington and hamilton had full tempers. part of washington's legendary stoicism is, can be contributed to maybe a lifelong effort i should say to con

ben franklin foremost perhaps among them.inner party on june 20, 1790, as they rap in the musical, the room where it happened. you have two factions, the jeffersonian faction and the hamiltonian faction, the less government, more government, the south and the north. when jefferson and hamilton butted heads, hamilton carried the day. why? because washington was more ideologically aligned with hamilton, adams that faction of federalists. washington saw hamilton more his son. hamilton seeing washington as the father figure he really never had. hamilton is washington's right hand man as they say in the musical. washington would side with hamilton including on neutrality which david talks about in his book, as opposed to jefferson's involvement on behalf of france and that issue. so on june 19th, the day before, jefferson is waiting outside of washington's office, house, he hears a great commotion and washington and hamilton have a fight. they both had volcanic tempers. part of washington's legendary stoicism can be contributed to

if you asked ben franklin he would say i left massachusetts forn pennsylvania.we didn't have united states describing capital states. you find letters that say these plural united states instead of the capital letter now singular the t united states so that is e fourth problem. how does washington address these problems? the capital city. a grand and glorious inspired by rome. a city for the ages located halfway between the north and south and it helps bring it together if it is too far to the south or to the north, one half of the faction is unhappy. how did youhe view the people wh a sense ofof national identity f you have a small federal town with a couple of brick buildings, you don't. you have a glorious romanesque capital. the capital city as they stated in the constitution, something david has written about, a 10-mile square. it's 100 miles, everybody. this would put paris and london to shame. it's quite an ambitiouss undertaking. the government won't endure. well if we have legitimacy, strength it c could. and you have basically two visions for the capit

franklin was just 29 when she recorded. hudson says working on the film has even inspired her to get back into the studio as she gets ready to record new music with the franklin herself handpicked. for the role. she made a big point of choosing her. yeah. >> well, a chef guy fieri. he's got something unique hooked up for fans of thursday's field of dreams game in iowa available at the yankees white sox game. what he's calling the apple pie hot talk. it includes bacon jam it's her kind of flaky. looks kind of like a pop tart flaky pie crust. it's topped with apple mustard. apple pie spice. if it catches on could migrate west at only sounds kind of good now. i think it sounds maybe i'm just hungry. some kind of young wouldn't say it sounds like a pop looks yeah, they can alright. that does it for us here tonight on kron 4 news at night. stay with us. our primetime news continues with a pam moore and ken wayne pam was wrinkling her nose as >> thank you. katharine and johnathan can and i coming up next at 10 as thousands of stu

i don't believe we know the makeup this one either but we do own the benjamin franklin. i'm not sure how it came to his eye care. that's a great question. i'll have to look into that. oh like here. yeah. yeah where it was the washington desk now it is so it was also with the philadelphia history museum and i believe it's now with the collection currently stewarded by drexel. i don't want to get this wrong, so i'm not going to detail about it, but i know it is safe and sound. yeah. so yeah drexels it will be with drexel's collection, but i believe i'm sure it's in storage. yes. yeah. yeah, we love it to come back home. yeah, exactly. all right, susan mcgill what happened to the love letters that elizabeth found in the desk. so in that letter she does say to washington that she will give them to tobias lear, but at first to buy his leader doesn't want them. he is too nervous that his personal correspondence between martha and george, which i think is very interesting because tobias lear was his longtime secretary so you would think that there would have been some overlap,

we were to ask ben franklin hits a left my massachusetts from pennsylvania. so we did not have united states describing capitol s the states. you find it letters that say these plural united states instead of capitol u, noun, singular the united states. that is the fourth problem. how does washington address all these problems? a capitol city a grander romanesque inspired by rome. the city for the ages. that helps bring it together. if it's too far in the south, too far in the north one half of the faction is not happy. how do you view the people with a sense of national identity the federal tells a couple brick buildings you don't prove you have a glorious romanesque p-uppercase-letter the capitol city as they stated in the constitution a 10-mile square. this is 100 miles everybody. is about paris and london to shame. the government will not endure. if we view the government with legitimacy and strength that could endure. you basically have two visions for the capitol. one is led by jefferson and southerners in kind of a slave owning a vision. jefferson's fe

franklin roosevelt change the political weather. after 1933 people fundamentally whether they liked it or not, whether they voted for it or not, recognize there is a fundamental change underway in the relationship between the average american and their government. brought about first by the great depression and the second world war. in much of the same way franklin roosevelt's consensus about the rule of government prevailed like historical stature standing in the top ten. when he talked about in his own time in the next 40 years arguably as change in the political consensus. we were no longer talking about centralizing power in washington, personalizing power in the presidency. an activist if you will, a proactive approach of the nation's problem. ronald reagan always talking about the problem itself we are at a crossroads. forty years later the reagan consensus, members bill clinton famously said the era of big government is over. he said that not because in my opinion was an activist by temperament. he recognize the how true poli