constitution was written madison mailed it jefferson was in france at the time he was the u.s. envoy to france mailed it to his his mentor thomas jefferson and said what do you think you know if you put jefferson in a long list of law i like this and this and this and then he said and now i'll tell you what i do not like here it is i will now tell you what i don't like first the omission of a bill of rights providing clearly and without the aid of soft isn't for freedom of religion freedom of the press protection against standing armies restriction of monopolies jefferson although we didn't get the restriction monopolies just look around you of corporate america and he didn't get the elimination of standing armies but he threw out he got everything else he got a bill of rights in fact he threatened explicitly james madison and numerous others there's dozens of letters that jefferson wrote around this time rod being from france that he was going to pull the entire virginia delegation all three members of the virginia delegation out of the constitutional convention and refused to

jefferson in fact he was jefferson was his vice president clashed over how senators would be elected to serve in congress at the time it was left to the states and most to crony appointments by governors or elected by state legislatures that often and. former president adams was of the belief that the senate should be comprised of a wealthy elite he was a genuine original conservative he thought we should have a natural aristocracy that was his phrase what he called it but it could serve as a check against the masses or the rabble adams word for people like you and me an eight hundred thirteen letter to adams on this issue jefferson this is five years after he left the presidency lashed out at what he saw as a flaw emerging in our democracy he wrote of this a couple all in the senate of the united states has furnished many proofs nor do i believe them necessary to protect their wealth because enough of these will find their way into every branch of the legislation to protect themselves i think the best remedy is exactly that provided by our constitution is to leave to the citizens a

you mentioned with the congress when it moved to the jefferson building in 1897, we look at the jeffersonuilding now. was it as ornate than as it is now? this is the way that was designed? >> yes, it was and there's a long story which is told in the encyclopedia as well. >> i've got the book open to the reading room and we will show the dome in fact let me turn the page on the right is the dome, absolutely stunning building for a library. was there any opposition to this grandiose architecture? >> interestingly the objection really came from quietly with the library of congress and the new englanders who desperately wanted space. used to get the fact it had kept growing more and more grand and the reason it happened was congress, congress fired the architect once the approval of the appropriation was made. there were huge disputes and scandals and they hired a general, when kim cayce the head of the army corps of engineers to finish the library of congress. casey was the man who just brought us the conclusion of the washington monument you know how you look at the monument and see the poi

get people who actually fit, someone like george did, thomas jefferson of course is the great jefferson scholar but garrey did a book, george mcgovern did lincoln - get so the sort of mix of historians and long historians looking at the presidency is telling the basic story, but also giving your own sort of individuals been, and he asked me to do the johnson book and i guess that he figured i would put my individuals been on it. i agreed to it because arthur asked me and i had great respect for him. i knew him from the papers of thomas jefferson and we were both on the advisory committee for that. and also because paul was the editor who's also the general series editor for the

joyce appleby did thomas jefferson and she is a great jefferson scholar. gary hart did a book. george mcgovern did lincoln. it is a mix of historians and non historians looking at these presidencies telling the basic stories but also giving your own individual spin on it. and he asked me to do the johnson book and i guess he figured i would put my individual spin on it. i agreed to do it because arthur asked me to endow ahead great respect for him. a new him from the papers of thomas jefferson on the advisory committee and paul was the general series editor of the series, was my editor on the book i did with vernon jordan. you know how it is when friends ask you to do things. who asked me to do this. i put aside my misgivings. i knew it was a fascinating topic. so much material and very rich but i wondered if i would be able to curb my natural feelings of antipathy about living at this particular period in american history and i agreed to do it. that was many years ago. this book is long overdue. in between saying i would do that i wrote monticello which took a lot of time and

i guess it's better than mcdonald's thomas jefferson wrote the declaration of independence he served two terms as our third president and as one of the most iconic figures in american history or jefferson was most proud of was not his eight years in the white house but he was most proud of was his founding of the university of virginia in fact before he died he drafted clear instructions for his tombstone to read here was buried thomas jefferson the author of the declaration of american independence of the statute of virgin for a junior for religious freedom and father of the university of virginia jefferson instructed by these as testimonials that i have lived i wish most to be remembered nothing about being remembered as a two term president jefferson want to be remembered as the founder of the university of virginia that's because he along with the rest of our founding fathers knew that the most important part of our nation's infrastructure is an educated populace not roads our bridges but educated young people it's from this pool of intellect to put next great leaders would emerg

speaking of the ideals of jefferson let's just you know get right into it i mean you know thomas jefferson said here just a few quotes these are just some simple you know these are some of his letters actually most i'm from the eight hundred sixty this is after he was president he wrote the article nearest my heart is the division of counties and awards is that we pure in elementary republics the sum of which together compose the state so what he's talking about here is breaking break you know is breaking everything down to the lowest level in other words the at the at the city level people get to vote at the ward level he goes on to say the division awards constituting the people in their wards are regularly organized power. enables them by that organization to crush now he's talking about what happens if the state goes nuts what happens if the federal government goes nuts what if what happens at the county goes that allows them to enables them by that organization to crush regularly and peaceably usurpations their faithful agents and rescues them from the dreadful necessity of doing it i

so jefferson davis also resigned. and they were preparing to leave. now, vania comes to elizabeth and says, well, we're leaving, why don't you come with us? and when we win the war and come back, you can come back and be with us in the white house. right. now, elizabeth says that doesn't sound like too good a plan. first of all, i don't support you guys in the war and, second of all, no. right? so she says i'm not going down that road. now, later on she gets introduced to mary lincoln. and she actually becomes her best friend forever. they become really tight. she does all of her dresses and all of that. but even more so they bond as women, they bond as sisters, and they become really, really, really close. when lincoln dies, when lincoln gets assassinated the first person mary looks for is elizabeth. both of them had lost children, the lincolns lost a son while they were in the white house, and during that same period or elizabeth had lost her son in the war. so they bonded at several different levels. and then after the war when mary lincoln -- simi

that's what this week's jefferson award winner is doing.ron chin on the man behind an innovative program in oakland. >> reporter: in a tough east oakland neighborhood where gang violence is a part of life, there is hope. >> come join us for the dinner. >> reporter: old rivals cook up friendship under cruz. >> it is really hard to kill someone when you know them. >> are you all ready? >> yeah. >> reporter: he invites sworn enemys to cook and eat side by side every wednesday night at the ymca on 45th avenue. afterwards there is food for thought, a message of peace. >> you can be a peaceful gang member. you can be someone who takes care of the community. >> reporter: take adrian arius and nestor. they live in rival neighborhoods but discovered they can find common ground. they share the grief gang violence can bring. >> we can relate, like, the things that we go through but in a different way, you know. they are going to go through the same pain that we go through. and it's all the same pain, you know. we are just going back at each other. and

the people were enslaved to jefferson and the other presidents they were there at every moment when the discussions and it's about american democracy, american freedom, the principles of the country were happening. they had more of an easier and more of and access to those debates and discussions than any of the journalists and scholars and people writing about the government at the time. so how could they not be influenced? how could they not understand these contradictions much more profoundly than anybody else out there? most of them didn't have the opportunities to east cape deacons -- escape but she did. she's one of the people who said i will risk it all. she got caught, the washington's really wanted to punish her and send her down to mississippi somewhere. it could have been a really horrible. she said i've got to go. we were never told this story. there was another individual who was a slave to washington in hercules. hercules was washington's cook. apparently one of the top five cooks in the country would have been on the show "top chef," because he was the man, and hercules w

now, at one point sally hemings' brother buys his freedom, but the deal is jefferson says you can buy your freedom, but you've got to train somebody else to cook for me before i let you go. which he did. now, he's in philadelphia at the same time as hercules. hercules had to see this going on. he had to, he of course knew that onie had escaped. so hercules at one point takes off. washington looks for him, never catches hercules. hercules is gone. again, we don't get these stories, right? now, another character said -- studied about in this period was paul jennings. and paul jennings was enslaved

. >> when jefferson was growing up, his parents worked a lot.e needed a safe place to go after school. the ymca was his home, his friends, his second family. >> it gave me a place to go. if you come here and are angry, you come here and work out. you talk to your peers and leaders so you have a lot of resources here. >> jefferson has friends who knew andy zang. he was shocked when he heard about his death. he bleefs the shooting was an accident and his friends panicked. >> i have my whole life ahead of me and i took my friend's life away and he had a life ahead of him. >> denise is the team director at the y in china town. like andy and the teens accused of killing him, 90% of the kids in her program are from first generation immigrant parents who work long hours. >> these are hard working families. make sure there's enough money for college. there's enough money for food on the table. it's work, work, work all the time for the parents and the kids kind of fend for themselves. >> oftentimes the kids get into trouble if left unsupervised. jeffers

sharon chin, cbs 5. >> and nominate your local heroes for a jefferson award online at cbs sf.com. click the connect button at the top of the page. and then jefferson awards to find e-mail nomination forms. >>> after the break, what exactly does one do with an old railroad car? >> april showers in the forecast. the day this easter weekend you should expect it to rain as eyewitness news continues on cbs 5. [ music ] ,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, your chance. as john ramos tells us, all you need is a lot . >>> did you ever want to own a piece of history? soon you are going to have a chance. as john rahmos tells us, all you need is a lot of cash and a lot of muscle. >> reporter: when rails look like this, you know they haven't been used for a long time. >> 1998 after a series of el nino storms the federal railway administration came out here and looked at the track and said it is unsafe for train service. >> reporter: so the northwestern pacific railroad which used to carry people in freight from wine country has been islands idol ever since. they would like to fix up the tracks and start hau

in addition to the center median of the embarcadero road way and jefferson street. be executive director may approve banners on of the streets have become appropriate, such as a newly developed pier 70 area. the criteria described banners in three categories. just some examples on the graphics here that you can look at as i talk. a banner announcing an event to the port or its tenants, a public agency banner, which is announcing an event sponsored or supported by the city or its departments or other government agency, and that furthers the mission of that agency, and an even better, which announces an event which will benefit a government agency or charitable nonprofit organization and that will take place on publicly- owned property within the city of san francisco and further a public purpose. banners would not be allowed for political purposes or for general commercial advertising. as for duration, banners would be permitted for up to 50 days or until five days after the day of the sponsored event. banners could be reinstalled for an additional 50 days after they

played i understood this and set out to form a government based on the ideals laid out by thomas jefferson and the declaration of independence by virtue of our humanity we are by our nature free and independent . any use or threat of force against you be it by a mugger or a tax collector is a violation of your freedom and joining us now from ontario canada is philosopher sofar knowledge host of freedom in radio dot com the most popular philosophical conversation in the world sit on thank you so much for joining us so thank you ed and congratulations on the show thank you thank you we're very honored to have you on for our first episode tonight let's cut to the chase tell us what is the gun in the room what do you mean when you say that government is backed up by violence well adam there's an old chinese proverb which says that the beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper names and we so often forget this when it comes to government when it comes to the state. governments are different from every other social agency that we have in that governments have a legal right in fact an

i mean jefferson davis did set up a government. it is hard for me to pretend that they were not real, that what they had was not a real thing and i think congress, they should have been governed as territories and i think they should have kept the military rule over them a lot longer than they did to actually reconstruct them. so i understand the legal argument about it, but practically and realistically they setup their own government and they stopped participating and they went their own separate way for a time period. >> right here in the third row. >> well, what was basically the base of support for johnson? after all he was regarded as a traitor of the southern diehards and as an unreliable president by the northern abolitionists. >> well, before -- do you made while he is president? while he is president he didn't have that much support. he gets to be president because lincoln gets killed and at this point he begins -- he wants to try to make a base of these conservatives that i talked about it being lenient with the former s

i knew him from the papers of thomas jefferson and we were both on the advisory committee for that. and also because paul was the editor who's also the general series editor for the

i mean jefferson davis did set up a government. it is hard for me to pretend that they were not real, that what they had was not a real thing and i think congress, they should have been governed as territories and i think they should have kept the military rule over them a lot longer than they did to actually reconstruct them. so i understand the legal argument about it, but practically and realistically they setup their own government and they stopped participating and they went their own separate way for a time period. >> right here in the third row. >> well, what was basically the base of support for johnson? after all he was regarded as a traitor of the southern diehards and as an unreliable president by the northern abolitionists. >> well, before -- do you made while he is president? while he is president he didn't have that much support. he gets to be president because lincoln gets killed and at this point he begins -- he wants to try to make a base of these conservatives that i talked about it being lenient with the former s

hamilton and jefferson heading up different wind. like two years there has been a political honeymoon for washington do to his stature but once the attack start in the opposition they are ferocious and relentless. washington is actually accused of being a british double agent all along during the revolutionary war. sound familiar? ladies and gentlemen, let's hear more about george washington from his biographer. join me in welcoming ron chernow. [applause] >> thank you for that wonderful introduction. always a thrill to be here at the miami book fair. in 1789, two months before george washington was sworn in as the first president he received a fascinating letter from his friend governor morris reporting for the first time on the sudden madness of king george iii. he said in the king's delirious state, quote, he conceived himself to be no less a personage than george washington marching at the head of the continental army. then he added facetiously you have apparently done something or other that sticks most terribly in the king's st

in addition to the center median of the embarcadero road way and jefferson street. be executive director may approve banners on of the streets have become appropriate, such as a newly developed pier 70 area. the criteria described banners in three categories. just some examples on the graphics here that you can look at as i talk. a banner announcing an event to the port or its tenants, a public agency banner, which is announcing an event sponsored or supported by the city or its departments or other government agency, and that furt

jefferson a don't think had -- jefferson continued to believe until the end that slavery was going to die out. i don't think he thought about the full implications or understood the full implications of what the cotton gin would bring about. i think he had given up on slavery in the sense that he thought it was a retrograde system that would die away but i don't think it was those two inventions -- it was not linked to those two inventions. >> i think it is time to bring this session to a conclusion. the 146th anniversary of we's surrender, what emerges knowledge the union won the war but won the piece partially. that emerges from these two books. the first, complete history or new york times complete civil war edited by harold holzer and craig symonds and "andrew johnson," annette gordon-reed's wonderful little volume. thank you very much for attending. all the authors will be available to sign books in the gymnasium next door. thank you very much for coming. [applause] >> that was annette gordon-reed, harold holzer, craig symonds and joseph glatthaar giving a few perspectives of the

there is a time when the father is were jefferson and jackson, now it is roger ailes and rock -- and rupert murdoch. cash the check. as mike huckabee was candid in saying, a tough race for the nomination, and then the president is sitting there a year from now, 14 months from now, with $1 billion and in a primary challenge. if there were a primary challenge against president obama, which i don't see on the horizon, he would see more republicans in the race. >> i bring this up every week, because to be a is very important. does anybody have a candidate besides romney? >> there is an event that happens. something happens in the world which could create the circumstances that would bring a republican in. but the money thing is interesting, because you have to get that going. you cannot wait until the last second. >> mccain has challenged the president on some of the things he said on libya, and other candidates have tiptoed around him -- >> you watch both the right and left on libya, and it is not like a tennis match. nobody agrees on anything. that is probably the best thing we have go

kate kelly with how this week's jefferson award winner makes sure they're not forgotten. >> reporter: this is a daily event for gail snyder. >> hi! >> reporter: a trip to her pinole post office shipping c.a.r.e. packages to military outposts overseas. they are going to what see calls her teams, k-9 units, handlers and dogs in afghanistan and iraq. >> i started doing it myself. i didn't ask for any help. this was my project. this was going to be my way to say that i care. >> reporter: gail cares about the military men and women working side by side with dogs as sentries, scouts, bomb detectors, trackers in harsh conditions. >> that's very unforgiving territory in iraq and afghanistan. >> we have medical supplies that need to go in. >> reporter: for ten years gale packed boxes of supplies for handlers and their four-legged partners out of her home. but word spread and so did requests. so last year she formed a nonprofit chapter of the united states war dogs association. today with volunteers at her local church she asks for donations to help fill the needs. >> it's not like there is a d

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someone like joyce appleby, she is a great jefferson scholar. george mcgovern did lincoln and so there's guardedly make vmax of historians and non-historians looking at these presidencies, telling the basic stories, but also giving your own sort of individual spin on it. and he asked me to do this to the johnson boat. i guess he figured i would put my individual spin on it. i agreed to do it because arthur asked me to do it and i have great respect for him. i knew him from the papers of thomas jefferson were both on the advisory committee for that and also because paul pollock was the editor, who is also the general series editor for the series was an editor for the book i did for burning jordan. it's two friends. two friends asked me to do this and i said sure. i put aside my misgivings. i knew there was so much material, very, very rich, but i wondered if i would be able to curb my natural feelings of antipathy about looking at this particular. in american history and i agreed to do it. that was many, many years ago. this book is long overdue.

kate kelly introduces you to this week's jefferson award winner in the bay area. >> and i thought i'moing to step through that door and i'm going to see what i can do to make a difference in someone else's life. >> reporter: and she is making a difference. just the way she says others helped her when she was a young girl and her family immigrated from hong kong. >> we didn't speak english. we had very little money and resources. and it was really hard starting life in a new country. >> reporter: with supportive teachers and her church she became a nurse, married and settled in san francisco. but never forgot those who helped her along the way. >> i wouldn't be where i am today without them. >> reporter: today she is visiting san francisco ronald mcdonald house where the director says she has become a fixture. >> she is all heart. she is supporting us at the house coming here with her family. working on volunteer projects. >> reporter: projects that help support the many families who stay here when their children are seriously ill. >> her relationship with mcdonald house has gone on fo

the entire experience and i'm introducing a resolution to accept a grant to really advance that jefferson street re-design. i do have one in memoriam, and this is a very personal in memoriam for a good friend named ben golfin, who's an affordable housing developer here for his son, who is a teenager. this past sunday there were hundreds of friends of eli who gathered together to celebrate his all-too-short life and to share stories about the ways in which this very sweet teenager, with an incredible sense of humor and a fundamental goodness, touched the lives of hundreds of people around him. i want to mention that eli took his own life. and let me read a little bit from his father, who wished there to be a little bit of a public statement on this. for us as his family, honoring eli publicly at this sad moment is to honor all of the city's teens who, at this particularly vulnerable time in their lives, run the risk of losing track of how deeply they are loved by their families and their community and of taking an impulsive step in the wrong direction. we want to have eli's memory honor al

dinner time and it was remarkably social and it was hughes and this book that named what thomas jefferson and all his writings and speeches always referred to as the incident in boston harbor into something called the boston tea party hughes literally queen the phrase and here's why he dressed up like an indian and showed up for the tea party the east india company was trying to corner the team market after all it was the drink of choice of the colonists and there's pretty much a tea shop on every corner in america we imported millions of pounds of tea every year and most of it was brought in by small american entrepreneurs but the british called smugglers and the east india company wanted to put those smugglers out of business and their strategy undercut their prices they wanted to pull a wal-mart but the colonists were having none of it as hughes wrote trying to get around the east india company quote render the smuggling of tea an object that was frequently practiced and the resolutions against using it the colonists resolutions against these in the chain had greatly diminished the imp

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that is what this week's jefferson award winner is doing. sharon chen on the man behind the innovative program going on in oakland. >> reporter: in a tough east oakland neighborhood, where gang violence is a part of life, there is hope. >> come and join us for the dinner. >> reporter: old rivals cook up new friendships under caesar cruz empowerment program. >> it's really hard to kill someone when you know them. >> y'all ready? >> yes! >> reporter: cesar invites sworn enemies to cook and eat side by side every wednesday night at the ymca on 45th avenue. afterwards, there's food for thought, a message of peace. >> you can be a peaceful gang member. you can be someone who takes care of the community. >> reporter: take adrian air yes, sir, and ramirez, living in rival neighborhoods, but they discovered they can find common ground. they share the grief gang violence can bring. >> we could relate, in a different way. >> they are going to go through the same pain that we go through, and it's all the same pain, you know. just going back at each oth

this would be a shock to thomas jefferson, james madison and to our founders. who never concede the federal government would be so big that it would not be just as big as that would be incredibly much bigger than the collective states and cities that originally the federal government was to serve. but that's what we have come. and so my title in his particular view is that the further you drew from shore, the more likely or to be lost at sea. the premise is to me again, a common sense simple principle, that if i govern my own family, i can do that because i know my children. my wife and i have three children, they're all grown. every 30 for your son, 30 year old son and a 28 year-old daughter, two of those children are married. and for some reason, and i don't think it was intended, but we ended up once the kids all got grown and moved away, we ended up with three dogs so we did have three kids, now we have three dogs. the kids think that the dogs have replaced them. they also believe we treat the dogs better than we ever treated them. i simply tell them that t

he's the only founding father we don't recognize in quite the same way as hamilton, madison, jefferson. here we are in madison, hamilton and monroe territory. with reagan something interesting happened. he started quoting paine quite often. he also appropriated the notion of common sense. he often spoke of his own ideas as stemming not from, you know, his political wisdom or his advisers, but from the people's common sense. and he opened the way for a kind of -- as opposed to a left-wing populism adoption of paine and beck is, therefore, now the last in a long line of reappropriaters of paine to new effect. but it was again a best seller. but i think beck writes a book pretty often. >> host: professor sophia rosenfeld, in your view was ronald reagan's adaptation of thomas paine purposeful? >> guest: i think he recognized in paine, very cleverly, certain themes that continue to have a really good american rez advance. resonance. a kind of tomorrow will be sunny outlook, a sense we can do this. and in paine a kind of folksy quality that didn't have to necessarily be applied to the set of

i heard on the radio that thomas jefferson owned slaves. he bowed to cultural pressure. some things are just wrong. week 32, i make the mistake of telling my mom i'm struggling with circumcision. i don't think so. i think of the stuff that can get caught in the vagina. that's not nice. andrea. if this child is jewish. he needs to be sircumicized. you don't want your boy to feel strange. that's true. i think my anxiety is fear of having a boy. i am terrified of boys. they are wild and smelly. i said, there is no way to know that. well i know for a fact you don't need it. like i wanted to talk to my dad about his penis. week 34, i don't have the double wide vagina i was hoping for. with just six weeks to go. instructions for peroneal massage. lock hands. apply lubricant. extra virgin olive oil. hold the thumb in place for two minutes or until it becomes numb. slowly massage over the vagina. it's best done with a partner. instead, i take a back door approach and use my finger. i have a lot of stretching to do. week 41, 3:45 p.m. it feels like i have to pee and poo. she says