pinckney did about as poorly against him as james munro did. monroe hadn't been monroe , we would never know . noone would talk about this becauseon to madison it was so feeble. monroenified that jonathan becomingested in president. the secretary of state in madis that time.t in position tom a succeed madision. jefferson had been secretary of state. looked like a position of succession. known.was already well across the country, people had known who he was. he was fairly well-known. fighting secretary of state, this kept him in the public view. then the war of 1812 came along. the war of 18. monroe.n a disaster for the u.s. was unprepared to fight this war. there was a lot of opposition to the war. generally it went very badly. up until the end. the u.s. didn't exactly win the war, they didn't lose either. the peace treaty was generally a cease-fire agreement. army won the last three major battles of the war. it is sort of a basketball tournament. you can win all season but if you win at the end you come out front. americans felt like they did

james munro was gone by them. the sellers will be able to tell us in closer detail when the house was destroyed. tell with thee to finishes of the house, the plaster, maybe types of woodwork and hardware. we have a long season of archaeological excavation ahead of us. we are in the development phase for being able to open that and keep it open for a good period of time. our best days are still ahead of us. we look forward to the time when archaeology is a daily occurrence here. >> you are watching american history tv. all weekend, every weekend on c-span3. of 1950 comeing almost one year into world war i, an american journalist and photographer left chicago bound for berlin, germany. they traveled with the berlin army on the front lines in german and pressure. they shot about 5.5 hours of film. summer ofned in the 1915 and

ultimately during jefferson's lifetime all his trend of former james munro was president they foundedthe west african country of liberia. the capital is still named from munro. the first settlers of liberia were free black people of the united states. so this, i think was clearly not a feasible solution to this problem solution to this problem check now it is set you should add the idea of a biracial society. the jefferson deadens, and yet again it's not true that he thought slavery is fine and i'm not going to do anything about it and i can talk about it. i'm not good to take any action in that regard. besides the significant legal reforms i mentioned that his former political lieutenant, monroe signed the missouri compromise bill that met ultimately entice people we control the u.s. senate another virginians that that was the end of slavery. the virginia compromised at the end of slavery. this ongoing campaign of slavery and me attempted to figure out what to do about it within this colonization context was a serious effort for jefferson. i should've mentioned earlier jefferson at v

monroees successor james -- munro totally subscribe to the doctrine of congressional supremacy, and to idea that presidents existed to execute the will of -- he was utterly silent as president on the burning issue of his day, the admission of maturity -- missouri to the union and the status of slavery in louisiana territory. in his 1933 inaugural address, franklin roosevelt called for a temporary departure from the normal balance between executive and legislative authority. 84 years later, the temporary departure has produced the following reality. visitors to utah, senator mckinley's office, see displayed to piles of paper. tall, itfew inches contains about 800 pages. some a lost congress passed a bill a particular year. the other pile is 11 feet tall. it contains 80,000 pages. those contain all the regulations proposed and adopted in one year by executive agencies. logically, executive power is secondary. having as its defining duty, the execution of the results of legislature's primary power. until the late 1920's, the election of the president was doubly and direct. presidentiald b

albemarle county hav has been hd to united states presidents, thomas jefferson's monticello and james munro's, ashland highland. it is from albemarle county that maryellen lewis and william clark set off on their core discovery expedition, the first american expedition to across the american west. of course these historic figures were prolific writers and chroniclers of the events there times. giving us a front row seat in the formation of our country and government. >> welcome to charlottesville, and virginia book tv. charlottesville is in albemarle county, with population of about 50000. no parts rich history and attracts numerous people every year to explore monticello, founded by jefferson in 1819. with the help of our comcast cable partners for the next 90 minutes, we'll look at the city's history and literary culture from local authors. >> we begin the special feature on charlottesville with a driving tour of the city. >> charlottesville is divided into three parts. there is the city, the county of albro morrow and then you have the university of virginia, that really is the window thro