together, elizabeth and james monroe saved the lives of lafayette's wife and family. it's truly a thrilling story that i hope he will read. on his next mission to france a decade later, this time for president jefferson, monroe went with $9 million from congress to negotiate the purchase of the island of new orleans. that's all he was supposed to do. so the farmers west of the appalachians could float their grain doubt the mississippi to new orleans for shipment overseas markets. instead of buying an island, monroe borrowed 6 million more dollars from an english bank on his own signature and doubled the size of the nation, by an almost 1 million acres, the largest territory ever acquired by any nation in history from another peacefully without war. 1 million acres, and at a bargain price of 2 cents an acre. even in those days the average price for wilderness, land was $2 an acre. the louisiana purchase stretched the nation's boundaries to the rocky mountains and gave ownership of the great mississippi river valley. it was monroe, not jefferson, who engineered the louis

predecessors include thomas jefferson, james madison, james monroe, daniel webster, george marshall, and of course, madeleine albright. when she was secretary of state, madeleine worked together with secretary clinton to launch the federal government's model voices democracy initiative, and today vital voices is a nonprofit organization that works to train and organize women leaders from around the world. before being appointed to work current position by president obama, secretary clinton served as a united states senator from new york, where she was a strong advocate for the expansion of economic opportunity and access to health care. prior to that, she was first lady for eight years and worked -- on many issues relating to children and families, especially health care, leading a successful bipartisan effort to provide care to millions of children through the children's health program. her biography is also one of firsts. the first first lady to hold a law degree, the first sitting first lady to be elected to the senate, or any public office. the first woman to win statewide electi

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secretary of state (to reporters as include thomas jefferson, james madison, james monroe, daniel websterrshall, and of course madeleine albright. when she was secretary of state, madeleine worked together with a secretary clinton to launch the federal government's vital voices democracy initiative. today, this is a nonprofit organization that works to train and organize women leaders from around the world. before being appointed to tear position by president obama, she served as a u.s. senator from new york where she was a strong advocate. as first lady, for 8 years, she worked many issues relating to children and families, especially health care. she led a successful bipartisan effort to bring care to millions of children's through the children's health care program. her biography is one of firsts. the first first lady to hold a law degree.4' the firstçó sitting first lady o be elected to the senate or any public office. the first woman to win statewide election in new york. the first woman to win the president as a primary. the first first lady to ever win a grammy. [laughter] that was

this was the lowest enrollment at dartmouth since 1819 when james monroe was president.although the student body was more than eight times as large in 1942, it was -- it was -- it remained during the war larger, the mexican war and the civil war than it was in world war ii. that, i think, describes what we shared in a way that very few people understand. all veterans of world war ii share something. but few shared as much as bill and i. as an example, justice stevens had a distinguished career in the navy in a special organization that was involved in cracking codes. now, he was an officer, a naval officer, and distinguished himself. but always as bill said where somebody served him his meals. it took us two years to become sergeants. and we never advanced beyond that. we always lived in fear. and this is what i think reflects itself in his judicial conduct. that some low level military bureaucrat would have us is destroyed barricaded where we would wounded our killed. privates learned of a new posting when a sergeant read your name on a clipboard at revelry and there we

admit something else would come off but i think there are other people behind the scenes, james madison and monroe, who were telling him to distance himself particularly from callender. >> what about the studies on the sally hemmings descendants? >> the dna on sally hemmings? did dna study from what i have learned and from what i know matched all they can say is that it matched a male white,, a descendant from a field of jefferson matched the descendants from the having said. that is all the dna says. it does not thomas jefferson. there were at least 12 other jefferson's in and around that area at the time, at least of child-bearing age. again, my research shows that in all likelihood the most likely candidate was randolph so all the dna said it was that a male jefferson was a match to a male descendants of sally hemmings. >> as you know, the thomas jefferson association has accepted the professor recent version of the opportunity. would you care to speculate why they may have done that and would you be willing to, or have you been invited by the morals association up in the monticello to dupage?

predecessors include thomas jefferson, james madison, james monroe, daniel webster, george marshall,madeleine albright. when she was secretary of state, madeleine worked together with secretary clinton to launch the federal government's model voices democracy initiative, and today vital voices is a nonprofit organization that works to train and organize women leaders from around the world. before being appointed to work current position by president obama, secretary clinton served as a united states senator from new york, where she was a strong advocate for the expansion of economic opportunity and access to health care. prior to that, she was first lady for eight years and worked -- on many issues relating to children and families, especially health care, leading a successful bipartisan effort to provide care to millions of children through the children's health program. her biography is also one of firsts. the first first lady to hold a law degree, the first sitting first lady to be elected to the senate, or any public office. the first woman to win statewide election in new york,