go down to the jefferson memorial you will see jefferson is portrayed wearing this fur coat. now, it was not just blacks, jews and peasants that kosciuszko stood up for. he also stood up for the native americans when they saw the founding fathers began murdering them and pushing them west. this is chief little turtle who showed up in kosciuszko's room in philadelphia with the present. it was a combination tomahawk and peace pipe and he gave kosciuszko this piece by bennie said i hear you are this righteous white man who is standing up for everybody's so we wanted to show you we appreciate this. kosciuszko saab that chief little turtle was squinting so he gave him his glasses and chief little turtle put on these glasses and said my god you have given me new the eyes. kosciuszko also gave him his jacket and then he gave him two pistols and he said, these pistols i have carried and used on many hard-fought battle field in defense of the oppressed, the week, the wrong that my own race and i now present them to you with the injunction that with them you should dead the first man w

to the jefferson memorial you will see jefferson is also portrayed wearing this fur coat. now it wasn't just blacks, jews and peasants that kosciuszko stood up for but he also stood up for the native americans when he saw the founding fathers began murdering them and pushing them west. well this is chief little turtle who showed up in kosciuszko's room in philadelphia with a present. a combination tomahawk and peace pipe and he gave kosciuszko this peace pipe and said i hear the your a righteous white man standing up for everybody so we want to show you that we appreciate this. well, kosciuszko saw chief little turtle was squinting so he gave him his glasses and chief little turtle put on the glasses and said my got to have given me new highs. and kosciuszko also gave him his jacket and then he gave to pistols and said these pistols i've carried and used on many hard fought battle fields in defense of the oppressed, the week, the rahm of my own race. i now present them to you with the injunction with them you shoot dead the first man who comes to subjugate you or to spoil

before the inauguration of thomas jefferson. he left at 6:00 in the morning, at daybreak and did not stay for the inauguration. he was so hurt. not only by losing office but his son, his second son had just died, and his son died that day. he learned that his son died the same day that he learned that jefferson won the presidency. he was not a happy camper that day, so he didn't stick around. are there other questions? well, thank you very much for coming and hearing about abigail incheon. [applause] >> edith gelles is the author several books, including "abigail adams: a writing life." she is currently a senior scholar at stanford university's michelle r. climate's institute for gender research. for more information visit stanford.edu/group/a gender.

it sounded like jefferson plates and dirty tricks so he wouldn't get elected, so jefferson would. and i was wondering, i imagine that abigail played a big role in supporting her husband. did you find out much about that? >> yes, i know about that election. and the fact of the matter is that's correct. we came to think that we live in the age of dirty politics. and bad journalism. it was nothing like that age, or if anything, it is not worse now than it was then. politics was played in this country from the beginning, and journalism was dirty from the beginning. journalists, for instance, could make up their stories which provoked abigail enormously. she would be a very angry because she would read in the newspaper that she had attended a concert the night before. well, she hadn't been there for john had, or george washington had. they made stories up in the newspaper. and we know journalists don't do that today, right? affect. >> report the news and just news. so that was one thing, and journalism plays into politics. is very important in politics. jefferson became alienated from

go down to the jefferson memorial, you'll see that jefferson is also portrayed wearing this fur coat. now, it was not just blacks, jews and peasants that kosciuszko stood up for. he also stood up for the native americans when he saw that the founding fathers began murdering them and pushing them west. well, this is chief little turtle who showed up kosciuszko's room with a present. he gave kosciuszko this peace pipe and he said i hear you're this righteous white man who's standing up for everybody. so we wanted to show you that we appreciate this. well, kosciuszko saw that chief little turtle was squinting so he gave him his glasses and chief little turtle put on these glasses and said, my god you gave me new eyes and he gave him pistols these i have fought in defense of the oppressed, the week weak, the wronged of my own race and i'll present them to you with the injunction you shoot dead the first man to subject gait you or despoil of your country. eventually in this room kosciuszko was visited quite often by thomas jefferson and they had very long discussions on slavery.g8 and th

jefferson became alienated from john adams. he was vice-president in the early adams administration, and he left and he went home, because their politics had grown apart. and they -- they came apart politically. they came apart politically, early on when they were in europe, but they both tolerated one another. but during the adams' -- during john adams' administration, what happened was france was a very great threat. and the french revolution had happened and americans -- americans were sympathetic with the french revolution. they thought, an jefferson was particularly sympathetic with the french revolution, because he thought it was going to be another american revolution, that what was happening over there was its same thing that was happening over here and it took a very long time for them to discover that heads were flying, that heads were being chopped off and there was a reign of terror in france and it was in fact a civil war. but jefferson was most sympathetic to france, and it took him a long time to become disabused

it was the elections, adams ran on god or jefferson, or no god.ferson did believe -- she was not a materialist, he was equally -- it was observed, the virgin birth, give me a break already. he denied any possible rationale. religion is a complicated process in the united states. above all, religion has been instrumental in the african-american community. both from the noble period of the antebellum slave churches through the right movement. you can't possibly think of the civil-rights movement having been affected without preaching and teaching around the corner. barack obama's involvement with the church, more generally, it wasn't surprising to me although it may have been unpalatable to my little friends to find that barack obama wants to continue george bush's policy of faith based initiatives, is in keeping with his sense, that is not necessarily a reactionary move. to cut a long story short, the desperation parts, trying to write a book that would explore stories with you, with the american public, but also try to educate out of these simplic

jefferson's death in day anniversary, we became the 13th generation. so the question would be, what will we do to pass on to the 14th generation? to replenish what will become hours whether we are as teachers, parents or myself as well historians -- is our challenge to pass the torch on. and i guess as teachers how would you pass this on to a generation that is somewhat preoccupied with ipod's, text messaging? how do we make this matter to our children? that is the big question i think for myself as parents and as teachers. one of the things i really thought about it is how you instill in someone that tomorrow matters? well, one of the ways is to remember that you will be presiding in that tomorrow and how they passed that on is basically our challenge. later that day i drove on to washington d.c. but, again we're talking july 4th, 2005, to rendezvous with this gentleman sitting over here, john, and he even reverse this. he had staked out, he is my stake out guide -- the exact spot because again photography is about alignment. you want to align differe

adams ran on god or jefferson. jefferson of course did believe in the almighty creator.eved the universe created itself, he wasn't materialist or atheist but he thought it was equally absurd the virgin birth, give me a break already. so delight any possible rational jesus the moral teacher. religion is a process in the united states and above all the milledge of course has been instrumental in the african-american community with self-determination both from the noble period of antebellum slave charities of way through to the civil rights movement. you can't possibly think of the civil rights movement having been affected with a preaching the teaching of riverside churches around the corner from where i teach at columbia right through the involvement with the church both for jeremiah rights but the church more generally. so it wasn't a surprise to me it may have been on palatable to some of my friends to find obama actually wanting to continue george bush's policy of the faith based initiatives keeping with the sense that is not necessarily reactionary move. so to put thi

so i will continue to work on reading thomas jefferson's letters. i always had a particular fascination with history so i will continue to read works by a number of different authors. one i'm working through right now is james mcpherson's book on lincoln's role as commander in chief during the civil war, which i have found particularly relevant to the debate going on today with the outrage by liberal about george w. bush's use of interrogation of these killers at guantanamo, which has saved lives in fact. dropping a cat pillar in a box with a terrorist is not any idea of torture and frank live its a choice of diking a guy's head in water and saving the lives of americans, i would dip the guy's head. and abraham lincoln exercised incredible power in his authority as commander-in-chief, which is what frankly george bush has done, president bush took his role as commander in chief very seriously and used the very broad grant of authority given to the president by constitution to interrogate these killers and find out what they're up to and save lives,

well, years later, i found my first house was in jefferson county and jefferson county at that time was actually geographically the population center of the united states. so now the story is emerging. we've got the eye of america with the camera, with the most typical community in america growing up on the banks of the mississippi, and he's named joe shmo. the story starts to emerge. heir in the midwest, where of the river that separates the east from the west, frequently in st. louis is one of the things i like about it and if you grew up there, you could attest to this, is that basically, they call it the last city of the east or the first city of the west. that's why that big gateway arch is there. so if joe shmo grew up in st. louis, i guess you could say it's sort of like where superman came from, which is crip ton. so we would specialize as a youth, off of route 66 as getting lost and ultimately not doing a very good job of it because i ultimately found my way home and back to washington, d.c. but this became almost an obsession in my youth and it became an obsession as i'm embar

>> guest: lewis' relationship with thomas jefferson. i love writing about thomas jefferson, and he had a very special relationship with meriwether lewis. they were neighbors. lewis' father died when lewis was very young, but he had been a friend of jefferson's. then lewis was jefferson's secretary for two years, living with him in the white house, just the two of them. you know, jack kennedy had that great line, when he had the nobel prize winners for dinner at the white house. he said, "there has never been such a gathering of brains and talent in this house since thomas jefferson dined alone." the only thing wrong with that line is, thomas jefferson never dined alone. he dined with meriwether lewis. c-span: our guest has been stephen ambrose. you can find him at the university of new orleans, and a lot of other places, and this is what his newest book looks like, "d-day, june 6, 1944: the climactic battle of world war ii." we thank you for joining us. >> guest: thanks for having me. stephen ambrose pass delay in 2002. tiananmen number

because kosciuszko was very good friends with jefferson. and one of the letters that i've found jefferson writes to kosciuszko saying we are both older now and we don't have many years left ahead of us. in fact, i have this plot of land, this plot where i'm going to be buried. and come to virginia and live, you know, on my estate, live at monticello and you can be buried right next to me. but i think the reason kosciuszko did not return it because he had these high hopes that either napoleon or somebody would attack russia and freed the polls from the russians and the prussians and the austrians who had all taken them. and kosciuszko was also given 500 acres in ohio as a result of his being a general in the american revolution. so he had his own land. he could have come and live in ohio on that land as well. the reason i think he didn't return it because he always held out hope that he would be able to free the presence of bold. that was his obsession. not only did he want to freed american slaves but he wanted to into feudalism, frieda s

thomas jefferson had no humor and he thought the plot is real. this is something, i just got an e-mail from a friend of mine who is considering a political biography of bill. the parallel he came up with, this was fascinating, was frederick douglass. frederick douglass was also a private man, in a voice held office but he was a journalist, an eloquent organizer, and that worker, he was obviously an outsider for obvious reasons. i am eager to see how he worked this out. it is interesting. there are people you can find some resemblance to, we just have -- we can't produce the next one, we'd just have to be sure the opportunities are there and when they knock on the door, the doors will open. >> at the moment that we speak, we have 2 book very much on hand, chris buckley's book has been on the best-seller list for weeks. >> i haven't looked. >> seriously, in each case, we have 2 brilliant writers writing about the great man, the current man. journalistically speaking, many of the interviews that have been on television and other media for chris's bo

joann freeman said she was pulling jefferson's leg. big mistake because thomas jefferson nod humor and he thought the plot is revealed. [laughter] >> federalism tipped its hand. i just got an email from a friend of mine, a historian named al felzenberg and he's considering a political biography of bill and the parallel he came up with -- and this was fascinating was frederick douglass. and frederick douglass was also a private man. he never held office. but he was a journalist. he was an eloquent orator. he was an organizer. he was a networker. he was a wire-puller. he was, obviously, an outsider for the obvious reason that he was, you know, a black man in pre-bellum america. i'm excited to see al work this out 'cause i thought, gee, this is interesting. there are people that you can find some resemblances to and we just have to -- you know, we can't produce the next one. we just have to be sure that the opportunities are there and that when they knock on the door those doors will open. yes. [inaudible] >> at the moment that we speak,

you know, richard jefferson gives them now four solid players who can score the basketball. if manu ginobili and tony parker and tim duncan can be healthy, then i think this improves them a great deal. motivation in getting the veteran trio? >> the bucks, it's financial. many of those guys if not all of them may even be cut by the bucks because they simply traded them to get rid of richard jefferson's long-term contract, two years left on that one at big money and to get these expiring contracts. and it also clears up some room for them to resign their free agent charlie villanueva and sessions. for the bucks it was about money and staying young and resigning their bright young players. >> all right, chris. the other big news today, yahoo! sports reporting on the for three players. what can you tell us about boston swapping players around? >> that's the surprising thing. detroit did not consider that trade at all, but the issue that boston is shopping a rajon rob doe is the big story. it boils down to he's been headache for coach doc rivers. he's very hard to coach, and he's

thomas jefferson, the man that wrote all men are created equal on slaves. and kosciuszko thought he was a hypocrite. kosciuszko end of serving the rest of the war in the carolinas where he developed the report with slaves and the sovereign states. he brought grippy and the friendship helped him out and kosciuszko was drawn to other continental soldiers were also abolitionists. one of them was colonel lawrence, outspoken opponent of slavery but when he was killed the other men started taking off his clothes and kosciuszko wrote to general green who was the commanding officer that this was mean and low thinking and the two negro's belonging to lawrence r. naked and wash shirts, jackets, breeches and their skin can bear as well as ours good things. kosciuszko was in charge now of south carolina and basically surrounding and putting the stranglehold on charleston. and the way he kept track was going on in charleston was he had black spies of going to charleston and come back and tell which people were loyalists and which people work with the rebels. even shible

i am a passionate jefferson/libertarian. want the government off my back, out of my pocket and out of my life. and that's what the lone star stood for. i collect these worn by texans and the army of republic of texas and the war between the states so i had a particular interest in fascination with texans and texas history so i'll be reading a lot of texas history as well. i'm doing a lot of times studying the coming generational storm. this is a particularly important subject for all of us as americans to pay attention to because the comptroller estimates we have about five years to act, five to six years to really get spinning under control or we're on a path that would lead to the day in about 12 years from now when the u.s. treasury bills, the safest investment in the history of the world will be graded as junk bonds and that's unacceptable to me. it's outrageous. i voted against $2.3 trillion of spending under george bush. i voted against $1.6 trillion of spending under this new bunch already. they're spending money fast

thomas jefferson, the man who wrote "all men are created equal" owned slaves. and kosciuszko thought he was a hypocrite. kosciuszko ended up serving the rest of the war in the carolinas, where he developed the rapport with slaves in the southern states and brought grimy with him and the friendship helped him out a lot an kosciuszko was drawn to other continental soldiers, who were also abolitionists, one of them was colonel lawrence, who was an out spoken opponent of slavery. and when colonel lawrence was killed, the other men started taking off his clothes. and kosciuszko wrote to general green who was the commanding officer in the south, this was mean and low thinking. and the two negroes longing to lawrence are naked and want shirts, jackets, and breaches and their skin can bear as well as ours, good things. kosciuszko was in charge now of south carolina, and basically surrounding and putting the stranglehold on charleton. and the way he kept track of what was going on in charleton, was, he had black spies that would go into charlton, and then come back and

william jefferson represented parts of new orleans. those are some of the headlines on c-span radio. >> "washington journal" continues. host: a lot of people heard what the president had to say about health care. what goes through your mind? guest: i think what he said at the speech, and c-span covered it. i had a chance to listen to almost every word. i think he pretty much laid out his plan. he did a wonderful job in rallying troops and addressing an audience that perhaps he thought was hostile. there were very warm and gave him many ovations. there was only one boo. he is sticking with the program. host: when doctors here about a public plan, what is there -- why are they against this? guest: there was the public plan and malpractice, which is been a major platform issue. not that there should not be malpractice but that the should be on it. the public plan is truly -- has turned out to beat the hottest part of the proposals appeared to be coming in the bills and with what the president is opposed -- is proposing. the president said

-- the same holy koran that one of our founding fathers, thomas jefferson, had in his library. [applause] i have known isislam on three continents. that experience? my conviction that a partnership between america and islam must be based on what it is not what it is not. i consider part of my responsibility as president of the united states to fight against negative stereotypes of islam wherever they appear. [applause] but that same principle must apply to muslim perceptions of america. [applause] just as muslims do not fit a stereotype, america is not the crude stereotype of a self interested empire. the united states has been one of the greatest sources of progress that the world has ever known. we were born out of revolution against an empire. we were founded upon the idea that all are created equal. we have shed blood and struggled for centuries to give meaning to those words. within our borders and around the world, we are shaped and drawn from every culture and end from the earth. we are dedicated to a simple concept. out of many, one. much has been made of the fact that

the stand that military intelligence showed that they were responsible for the death of william jefferson. was there evidence that you felt was inadmissible in terms of making this case? >> the determination that we made was that there was insufficient proof to tie him to those serious and regrettable crimes. it was a question of sadness ability as well

military intelligence shows he was responsible for the shooting death of a diplomat, william jefferson. was there evidence that you felt was inadmissible to make this case? >> the determination we made is that there was insufficient proof to tie him to those very serious and regrettable crimes. it was not a question of the admissibility of the evidence but the insufficiently of it. >> another detainee reportedly received instructions directly from one person and is believed to be the accomplice in the al qaeda plan for a second wave of attacks after 9/11. the charges tie him to a plot to blow up high-rise apartment buildings and explode a dirty bomb in the united states. did you approve his release? >> the releases that have occurred have been done with my approval and i take responsible for them. >> were you aware of the serious allegations that he was involved with? >> in the determinations we made, we made the conclusion that with regard to any charges or allegations that have been lodged against people that there was insufficient proof to bring those cases -- anybody who poses a da

this is a picture of william jefferson. they are entering district court on tuesday. the federal bribery trial opens. they say he used his office to carry out bribery schemes. one of the most powerful officials, a member of the u.s. house was using his public office for private gain. the assistant u.s. attorney told jurors that mr. jefferson is facing 16 criminal cases of racketeering, bribery, and obstruction of justice for receiving bribes. he has pleaded not guilty. you can see the write up in "the wall street journal." caller: i always like your disposition. the callers are not paying attention. it will be private health care paid for with public money. i happen to be a marine corps veteran. we have socialized medicine in the marine corps. it seems to work well. it's still private health care. i'm calling about iran. you can watch democrac ynow.org. you may want to look in your own american history. there was a guy who thought health care was important. the corpse wanted to take is oil -- the corporations wanted to take its oil. they hired a guy. a fellow marine.

and on friday they transferred suhare, that's responsible for the murder of william jefferson, a u.s. citizen and diplomat in 1995. planting a car bomb in 1997. and the involvement with the attack on the u.s. s. cole, did you release suhari to saudia arabia . >> i did with the former administration, released by the bush administration. there was not significant proof to bring a case to him. and he was transferred, not released, transferred to saudia arabia where he will be subject to judicial review and the education program they have. >> was that based on a question of evidence? that could not be utilized? i understand there were military intelligence showed that he was responsible for the shooting death of william jefferson when a diplomat to bosnia. was there evidence that you felt was inadmisable. >> no, there was not sufficient evidence to tie him to the crimes. not that but submission. >> and mohammed received from jose badias accomplice in the attacks after 9/11. and there was a plot to blowup buildings and with a bomb? did you approve his release? >> i take responsibility. >>

[applause] indeed, we can recall the words of thomas jefferson who said, "i hope that our wisdom will grow with our power and teach us that the less we use our power, the greater it will be." today america has a huge responsibility to help iraq forge a better future and to lead iraq to iraqis. i made clear to the iraqi people -- [applause] i have made it clear to the iraqi people that we pursue no bases and no claim on their territory or resources. iraq's sovereignty is its own. that is why i ordered the removal of our combat brigades by next august. that is why we will honor our agreement with iraq s democratically elected government to remove troops from iraqi cities by july and to remove all our troops from iraq by 2012. [applause] we will help iraq train its security forces and develop its economy, but we will support a secure and united iraq as a partner and never as a patron. finally, just as america can never tolerate violence, we must never alter or forget our principles. 9/11 was an enormous trauma to our country. the fear and anger that was provoked was understandable, but i

i was reminded of the words of thomas jefferson when he wrote that all men are created equal, and guard in doubt by their creator -- and are in doubt by their creator -- endowed by their creator, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. it is important that the world understands that america is that shining light of liberty and freedom that patrick henry and thomas jefferson spoke about. we support the iranian people. we condemn the violence. >> the time has expired. >> i am pleased to yield two minutes to my good friend from california, the ranking member on the subcommittee of international organizations, of human rights, and oversights. >> i rise in strong support of this resolution which ratchets up to a degree, america's willingness to express its heartfelt support to the iranian people. it has been said you cannot champion the oppressed unless you're willing to take on the oppressor. america should not intervene in every struggle taking place. but we should be on a pot -- unapologetically on the side of those who are in desperate battle for their own freedom. tempered rhetoric

i wrote a chapter on the correspondence between abigail adams and thomas jefferson that focused on the way women and men at use language differently. eroded topic of the conversation of abigail and james lovell who was a member of the first continental congress and that chapter focused on gossip because win talk a lot. what this chapter did was rescue that topic of gossip to say it is important and that is how we form communities and no ourselves to be part of a community. i have written 30 years about abigail adams and along came the clinton candidacy and i thought now is the time i should start writing about the marriage and focus on the marriage of "abigail & john" which i did do. of course, history changed in three years and hillary instead became secretary of state. but that was my starting point* for this book. nevertheless when i started i was left with the same challenge that i had faced when i wrote chronologically about abigail, that is how to write a double biography and keep the focus on abigail and not let it move over onto john? the way i did that and decided to do that w

i would love to go back and talk to those who founded this country, washington, and jefferson. this remarkable group who came together. these great minds that all happened to be in one place at one time. the great advances in humanity have come about when a group of very talented people wind up in one place at the same time. the greeks on the hillsides of athens, and then our own founders. i mean, the more you find out about them the more fascinating they become. stop and think about this. we take the american revolution for granted these days. think what was bound to happen. i think a was thomas paine who said it will happen -- and island cannot rule a continent. but that was not necessarily the case. when america broke away from england which in that time was the most powerful country in the world it was the first time that a colony had ever broken away from another country. the first time. we forget that. no one thought it was a done deal. no one thought it would just happen, that it was bound to happen. it was a very difficult thing to do and had never been done before. yet

thomas jefferson burned his correspondence with his wife. so we don't even know anything about his wife. traces of these women have been lost, but not only did they erase their wives from history, but they erased their own emotions in a way that john adams didn't. he left these documents for historians to work with, and it makes it wonderful, because he was a person who becomes very human if all of his own writings about himself. he was brilliant. he was an amazingly creative man, and it's fun to be around creative people, so that it's fun to read the ideas that he had. and john adams never used -- he was a wonderful writer, he never used two adjectives when he could use 12 and he did use 12. he just had this amazing capacity to invent and play out ideas in just wonderful prose, so that reading him is reading a very fun person. he was courageous. he was courageous in two senses. he was courageous in a intellectual sense, in that he defended the unpopular members, the british soldiers who participated in the boston massacre, with many other l

and so i wrote a chapter on the correspondence between abigail adams and thomas jefferson that focused on the way that women and men who use language differently. i wrote a topic about the correspondence between abigail and james lovell, a member of the first continental congress, and that chapter focused on gossip because women talk a lot and with this chapter did is rescue the topic of gossip and say it is important in our lives. gossip is how we form communities and we know ourselves to be part of the community. anyway, i wrote these -- i've written 30 years about abigail adams and along came the clinton candidacy, and i thought wow, now is the time i should start writing about the marriage and focus on the marriage of abigail and john, which i did do. of course history changed in three years and hillary has become instead secretary of state. but that was my starting point for this book. nevertheless, when i started i was left with the same challenge that i had faced when i wrote chronologically about abigail. that was how to write a double biography and keep the focus on abigail an

i was reminded of the words of thomas jefferson when he wrote that all men are created equal and are denied -- it in doubt by their creator with certain inalienable rights. among those, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. that is what we stand for. so it is important that we put this resolution forward and it is important that the world understand that america is indeed that shining light of liberty and freedom that patrick henry and thomas jefferson spoke so eloquently about. we are proud and support the iranian people and we condemn the violence. >> the gentleman from florida. >> pleased to yield two minutes to my good friend from california, the ranking member on the subcommittee on international organizations, human rights, and oversights. >> today i rise in strong support of this resolution which ratchets up to a degree america's willingness to express its heartfelt support for the iranian people and their struggle against the mullah dictatorship that oppresses them. it has been said you cannot championship the oppress unless you are willing to take on the oppressor. am

were he alive today, jefferson would not take too kindly to liable tourists. the subject of h.r. 276 5 -- 2765. oh, it seems true that some u.s. media more recently have become fan clubs rather than objective pursuers of truth, there's still some very dedicated journalists in the united states who should be free from harassment from inappropriate liable suits in overseas courts. in the wake of 9/11, the american media have been -- become increasingly alarmed over a phenomenal called liable tourism. the term refers to a subject of critical -- of a critical news story suing an american author or reporter of an article, story or book for defamation in a, quote, plaintiff-friendly, unquote, overseas or foreign forum. these suits are filed mostly in great britain as its liable and slander laws provide journalists with less protection than those under the u.s. system that honors a first amendment and a free press. persons identified in news stories as terrorists or terrorist sympathizers have brought some of the higher profile suits. so how would american courts tre

one person who i always read on a regular basis is my hero, thomas jefferson's writings. nodded day goes by that i haven't read something that he has written, continuing to work my way through his letters in particular. mr. jefferson wrote so much that although i have spent the last almost 30 years reading through his works, i only made it may be halfway through. i will continue to work on reading, stephenson's letters. i always had a particular fascination with history so i will continue to read birks by a number of different authors, one of them i am working through right now is james mcpherson's bullet on lincoln's role as commander-in-chiefook on lincol commander-in-chief during the civil war. the outrage by liberals about george w. bush's interrogation of these killers in guantanamo which has saved lives, dropping a caterpillar and a box with a terrorist is not my idea of torture. the choice between giving a guy's head in water and saving thousands of americans, i would it is head and water. if you read about what clinton did during a civil war, lincoln as commander-

, -- a latter- day thomas jefferson, he should look at the existing constitution, as almost anyone in the country would ask him to do, use that traditional constitution to ask her magazine to dissolve this parliament so that they can elect a new one? >> mr. speaker, i am grateful for is his 300-your perspective on these issues. it is right that christopher ke lly's committee report -- it is also right that we take further action. it is not right that there emerges a conflict of interest between public interest and the mp's' interest, and that is why it is greater benefit to us. >> joan ryan. >> thank you, mr. speaker. my right honorable friend will be aware of the valiant campaign led by the british war allegiance to of council tax benefit we branded as a rebate, which would increase to take up and with thousands of pensioners out of poverty, including 20,000 veterans. this saturday marks the 65th anniversary of d-day. does my right honorable friend agree with me that this would be an appropriate time to announce such a change so that all pensioners, especially our veterans, who have

a continental nation was the one certain that president thomas jefferson had deemed it optional, whether we remain in one confederacy or form into midlantic and mississippi and in paris are believe not important to the happy the part. the coming of a steamboat in 1807 gave hope for a connectedness but illustrated the lack of it, there were boats on the hudson and mississippi rivers but no to navigation between them. the war of 1812 approved over its three-year course of the u.s. remained a shaky nation, britain burned washington, president james madison escape of course, but separate from his dolly, they also burn buffalo and neighboring black rock. the pioneers of western new york pledge east in terror, there is no different in the state's western flank and effective transportation of arms and supplies. the few roads were so abominable that the federal government spend a staggering $60 million on wartime transport including a dollar a pound for cannonballs the acosta fraction of that to produce. the cost of moving all telerate to the major naval or fan on lake erie was more than double

a continental nation was so uncertain that president thomas jefferson had deemed it optional quote whether we remain in one confederacy or formed into atlantic and mississippi confederacies i believe not very important to the happiness of either part. the coming of the steamboat in 1807 gave hope for a connectedness but illustrated the lack of it. soon there were both on the hudson and mississippi rivers but no true navigation between them. the war of 1812 proved over its sultry three-year course of the united states remain a shaky nation. the british burned washington. president james madison escaped on horseback separated from his dolly. the british also burned buffalo, and neighboring blackrock are the pioneers of western new york fled east in terror. there was no defending the state's western flank by the effective transportation of arms and supplies. the few roads were so abominable that the federal government spent a site staggering $60 million on wartime transport including a dollar a pound for cannonballs that cost a fraction of that to produce. the cost of moving artillery from al

crime is the number one concern of my constituents in orleans and jefferson parish's in louisiana. crime is my top concern, too. my district includes the city of new orleans, which as of june 1 has already seen 80 murders. further, according to the f.b.i.'s annual report on crime released last week, new orleans leads the nation in murders. and this says nothing about the incidents of other types of crime from sexual offenses to robberies. i hold in my hand a photo of sergeant manual curry. he was a popular and much loved member of new orleans police department. at 62 years of service he was one of america's longest serving police officers. tragically for new orleans he passed away last week and our thoughts and prayers are with his wife, his family, and his nlpd colleagues. and -- nopd colleagues. here is an article from today's newspaper. it reports that within hours of his death, three people broke into his home and stole guns, money, jewelry, and medication. his wife was notified of the burglary while at the funeral home arranging her husband's burial. and our thoughts and praye

i am not going to get into the jefferson case because i think the counsel over here at the end. i will only say, to me, they did a very coup thing in distinguishing between using the state secrets privilege as a kind of close the door because of the subject matter of this. in this case it was extraordinary rendition and the court said no, the state secrets privilege is only about particular pieces of information which you can raise them, you can debate them, you can litigate them but you can't say no, we are not going to talk about secret prisons are we are not going to talk about extraordinary rendition because if you have other evidence not-- i thought that was very worthy. the fair-- fourth point very briefly, i will point out some of the things in this bill that i think are very useful. they require initially that the government asserts an affidavit form a on a factual basis for the claim of privilege. i don't think anybody could object to that, that the judge then makes a preliminary review and then confers with the party even at that early stage as to whether there are spe

he's allegedly responsible for the murder of william jefferson, a u.s. citizen and diplomat in 1995 planning a -- planting a car bomb in bosnia in 1997, and the involvement with the attack on the u.s.s. cole. do you a-- did you approve the release of zuhair to saudi arabia? >> i did as did the former administration. he was approved for release by the bush administration. the determination that we made was there was not sufficient proof to bring a case against him. and he was transferred, not released. transferred to saudi arabia where he will be subject to judicial review. and in addition to that, to the re-education program that they have. so -- >> was that based on a question of evidence that could not be utilized? i understand the military intelligence showed that zuhair was responsible for the death of william jefferson. was there evidence that you felt was ined a missable to make -- inadmirable to make the case? >> well, i think consistent with the bush administration was there was insufficient proof to tie him to those very serious and regrettable

something that i believe would lead as the republican leader, john boehner, said earlier today, thomas jefferson would be spinning in his grave. it would leave james madison to be horrified. the notion of casting aside democracy and debate because we have to maintain our schedules. and i will say again on this scheduling notion, madam speaker, last week, rather than 127 amendments i believe we would have had 30 amendments. and before we had gotten to consideration of the legislative branch bill i'm sure that hours and hours and hours ahead of that we would have been completed with the work of the commerce justice, science appropriations bill. i urge my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to stand up for the rights of democratic members of this institution who are being denied this, reject this rule, let's come back with what has been the case for 220 years under both politicalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalala

the jeffersonian said the white house, the jefferson orleans could block of the supreme court. there were trying to pack the court with federalists. marshall does not even get to it. he pulls back and resolve the case on a much narrower ground. the court has to resolve issues that are of great political significance. as marshall did, i think it is important to see if you can do that. it is important to recognize the consequences if you involve the court in politics. but some want to return to his somewhat personal thing. i remember during her confirmation hearings with senator shimmer and he asked you what your favorite movie was and i think that you responded that it was dr. zhivago and. that is my favorite movie, too. it is a good one. i am sure you have more profound reasons for liking it. i wonder if you could tell us why you responded by saying dr. zhivago was your favorite movie. >> it is my favorite movie. i was under oath, after all. if i were under oath here, all have to answer pretty much the same way that you did. [laughter] aside from that, i am certainly no film cr

jefferson received by the senate on june 2, 2009, be referred jointly to the help and veterans' affairs committee. mr. reid: without objection. mr. reid: i ask unanimous consent that when the senate completes its business today it adjourn until tomorrow morning june 9 at 10:00 a.m., following the prayer and pledge, journal of proceedings be approved to date, the morning hour be deemed expired, the time for the two leaders be reserved for use later in the day and there be a period of morning hours to be divided between the leaders or their designees, with the majority controlling the first half and the republicans controlling the second half, senators permitted to speak up to 10 minutes each during that time. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: following morning business, madam president, the senate will resume consideration of h.r. 1256, tobacco legislation. i ask furtsz area that the senate -- further that the senate recess from 12:30 p.m. until 2:15 p.m. for the weekly caucus luncheons and the time for the adjournment or recess be counted postcloture with the matter be

then, how the followers of jefferson, and jesus are battling to transform the world. then, what is next for the economy? the former reagan economic policy adviser on taxes and the end of prosperity. later, "for closure nation." the housing crunch and where it is headed. the weekend is filled with books and authors on "tv." look for our entire schedule online at booktv.org. >> here is our present policy. we are really anxious, willing, and eager to stop the bombing, just as we are eager to stop the war. >> telephone conversations from the final months of president lyndon johnson's presidency. vietnam, and his troubles for the supreme court chief justice. listen on c-span area -- radio in washington-baltimore area, or nationwide on ex-im satellite channel 132. -- xm satellite channel 132. >> there's still time to get your copy of the c-span's 2009 u.s. congressional directory. district maps, and how to contact committees and caucuses. it is $16.95 online at cspan.org/products. >> next, a look at the economy, the future of health care, and the federal deficit. our guess