jefferson. he was a master of so many different worlds and he was indefinitely curious at the time when human curiosity and the ability to lead us to our own destiny to fulfil in many ways our greatest potentials to discover, to explore was new in the world and this was the enlightened era. they had been a day before yesterday. for the first time ever, priestley and princely authority was in the dhaka, and jefferson was there to reap the harvest of the shift, the fundamental shift and was able to take the intellectual life and breakthroughs of the enlightenment in europe and scotland and apply them in many ways to american politics. self-government was only going to work in jefferson's mind if the people who were governing themselves knew themselves, cared about each other because why would you sacrifice with someone for whom you had no common interest, and you could find that your individual rights and your individual being had come from nature or god and therefore couldn't be taking away from

jefferson. he reports that despite his strong beliefs and opposition to confrontation, president jefferson was able so successfully lead the country in a highly partisan political environment. this is just under an hour. [applause] >> it's all downhill from there. [laughter] my lawyer will take any complaints later. thank you so much, and thank you to what, for what you all do here. i am a, i shopped here as a young washington monthly editor. shopped is too strong. we didn't have any money. as you all may remember, washington monthly editors were paid $10,000 a year which, as kate boo -- who won the national book award last night adding to her amazing list of of accomplishments -- kate used to say she knew she had actually graduated from the monthly when she could buy entrees as well as appetizers in restaurants. so i never actually spent money here, but i'll try to fix that. i am enormously grateful. i am a southerner, i'm from tennessee and think that understanding jeffson in his regional cont

jefferson to free mr. jefferson slaves remains fixed. now, if mr. thomas jefferson walked into the county courthouse carrying kosciuszko's will, caring and letter from kosciuszko business i want is acted upon, do you think the court is going to delay? well, only because jefferson didn't press it. he didn't want to press it. anything else? billy speakers access to money -- [inaudible] income were going to john barnes account on which jefferson help held a signatory authority, power of attorney. so $4000 at least went into that account and john barnes said why don't you use this money for your own purposes and it comes out of kosciuszko's money. city was using it like william schwartz money, collateral and is a very ingenious method of financial methods that makes today's time managers looks like pikers. he was very skillful's and that was one of the ways he got access to money. >> actually -- >> is not just kosciuszko and short but there's a list of people. that's what he was able to live with the debt. >> did you see the letter written after jeffers

by then remember in the jefferson era everything jefferson did, not everything but many of the thingswere proven wrong. he tried to keep us out of the french and english conflict and put an embargo on all of foreign trade so suddenly america was shut down. he had it in his head all americans were self-sufficient. we don't need to be involved in foreign trade but he put the coastal cities out of business. the merchant bankers of business and the shipbuilding industry out of business and merchant marine out of business. he couldn't trade. by ben jefferson was sharing his own course and john adams was out of it. >> his son was a senator and he voted for the embargo and did talk jefferson out of it with a new policy whereby we wouldn't trade with either france or britain until they stopped attacking our ships. but we would trade with the rest of the world and reopen the trade. >> it's interesting that back then the secretary of state was the stepping stone for the presidency. it hasn't happened in a long time. >> he had his responsibility. remember the indians were considered for an natio

jefferson had lost one of his daughters and his wife and when jefferson got to paris as our ambassadorthere, he was really forewarned and quite lonely and he started hanging out at john adams house for john adams appurtenant and john quincy was a youngster is it taking john quincy to museums and concert coming up are a. john adams later wrote to jefferson. john adams and jefferson later in life had wonderful correspondence between two of them and john adams wrote thomas jefferson to john quincy had become more of a sent to you think jimmy. so that so close he was to jefferson as a boy. later on jefferson comes to power in the kittens against the grain as far as john quincy adams was concerned. he was a strict constitutionalists. jefferson pretended to, but he was a hypocrite in so many ways. he rates the declaration of independence that all men are created equal, urges and doesn't fire a shot in the war and goes to monticello to watch his slaves from the plantation. >> and more than that. >> so they fell out later on in the political lives. later when both jefferson and john adam's fat

on jefferson street when the construction work is done and even though, here at jefferson plaza, we were all in the same situation about this time last year when the occupied the encampment was across the street from all of the businesses all along the quart front and we you and -- we were at the front line of all of that and acting as a buffer to protecting a lot of business and is interests along the water front. and we would like for to you take that into consideration that you know, we not only park the colorful city in term of locally made art. , but also we were brothers and aunts at one time when then campment was there and to you know, like beggings and asking that you keep us in your good instead and keep us at jefferson when that renovation is complete. thank you. >> thank you. phillips and then debra king. >>> thank you commissioners i'll be brief my name is steven phillips i'm a photographer and a street artist in san francisco and have been on transportation since 1970 and used to live in jefferson and mason and walked down to the agency 'em cafe before it was a pier 39

and they pick jefferson. if you look at jefferson's career, he had been governor of virginia, ambassador of france, secretary of state, vice president of the united states, member of the congress. author of the decoration of independence. it's one of the few people in english history have been evaluated or inspected as closely as thomas jefferson was before he became president of the united states. people were looking at him and saying this is the guy we want. this is the person who should be president. >> host: the opponent said this isn't the guy we want. it was a close election. >> guest: it was. it was a strange election. >> host: it was strange election. it was hard fought. he had a lot of animation. you're saying, i guess what you're really saying is that both the supporters and the opponents knew who they were talking about. >> guest: partly that. what i'm saying is that especially when parties become ideological. any democrat is going different from any republican or any democrat is going different fr

ahead, thomas jefferson. >> jefferson professed to hate slavery, called it an abominable crime,,,,,,,children, the holidays can be an especially difficult time. everything's different now. sometimes i feel all alone. christmas used to be my favorite. i just don't expect anything. what if santa can't find me? to help, sleep train is holding a secret santa toy drive. bring your gift to any sleep train, and help keep the spirit of the holidays alive. not everyone can be a foster parent, but anyone can help a foster child. who, as a young man, attempted, however feebly, to reform the institution, but in the end he was ultimately someone who was trapped by or allowed himself to be trapped by the economic, political and cultural circumstances into which he was born. >> jefferson has the earliest memory of being handed up on a pillow as a toddler to a slave on a horse. we know that his last words were asking his slave to adjust his pillow here in this room. >> reporter: jefferson's butler was also a slave. >> there would have been intimate relationship really from birth to death. >> reporter

the most important question, how can people nominate someone for a jefferson award? >> we couldn't do this if it wasn't for the public and we really ask that you -- if you know someone in your community that maybe should get some recognition, you think they're dog a good job, you go to our website, cbssf.com, and then you click on jefferson awards. and there is a button that says nominations. so you can go there, do it electronically, nominate someone. tell their story about them, because we read through these stories with a steering committee of people made up, they are all from the non- profit world so they help us kind of choose people who best exemplify the jefferson award ideals. so please, if you know someone we would love a nomination. >> yes. we need your help. all right, kate, thank you so much. and remember, tonight's jefferson awards special airs at 7:00 right here on cbs 5. >>> who knew they were such sticklers? how a mispronounced word on the wheel of fortune cost one woman the entire game. [ female announcer ] this is a special message from at&t. [ male

on jefferson street when the construction work is done and even though, here at jefferson plaza, we were all in the same situation about this time last year when the occupied the encampment was across the street from all of the businesses all along the quart front and we you and -- we were at the front line of all of that and acting as a buffer to protecting a lot of business and is interests along the water front. and we would like for to you take that into consideration that you know, we not only park the colorful city in term of locally made art. , but also we were brothers and aunts at one time when then campment was there and to you know, like beggings and asking that you keep us iy

reportedly have included san bernardino mammoth lakes both in california central falls rhode island jefferson county alabama a few others have filed for bankruptcy but had their claims rejected and over the summer stockton california was poised to and then subsequently did file for bankruptcy in line to be the largest u.s. city to fail with the city council halting bond payments so hurriedly talk about what is going on in muni land the risks the rewards the reality is kate long she's a guest contributor to reuters dot com where she writes the muni land column and i'm so excited to talk about this because i have to say kate we don't cover this ever so i'm so excited to have you here today. thanks so much joy yeah so let's just start with a very big picture and tell us where you are in terms of are you more with team whitney who saying they're still going to be more pain in union land or are going to be more defaults more disasters this is not going to end well or are you more in the camp of those say i'll say david kotok camp who is someone that's been on our show who says meredith whitney was

yet there is this lack of modern scholarly study of jefferson. look at john adams. that got more attention and more focus. but jefferson has been this -- is it that too many folks don't want to touch the slavery issue and touch sally hemmings? what do you make of it? >> the focus has largely been on the issues of race whether it's sale hemmings, as you say, or slavery. the failures to use these forms of political scales to pursue the course. as a young man he pursued. on four or five occasions in 1784, he tried to reform slavery. he lost decisively. we know two things politicians hate most are losing publicly and decisively. >> their personal rejections. linger longer with politicians than any other and they overreact to how they lost something early. >> you can say a politician is thin skinned is to be redundant. there was this wave of vendration after he and adams died on the same day. they used him in a run up to the civil war and lincoln used him to articulate the experience of the human equality saying the honor to jefferson. fdr needed him wonderfully. i love

jefferson county commissioners i mean it's absurd how did you morgan make out of this deal. they will definitely be have substantial losses through the bankruptcy they've been a primary. party in the bankruptcy proceedings and they they will have losses i'm sure they reserve for it in some way but. they definitely instigated they paid i think almost eight million dollars in bribes to get this business initially and there was just layer after layer after layer of interest rate swaps piled on jefferson county they were all very highly priced so they were way off the market when they were priced it was unnecessary most of it was just blue blue green just it's a real disaster it's a real story agreed years ago. disaster and j.p. morgan you're saying it's going to take some losses but the bigger picture does this hurt a bank like j.p. morgan because i've seen reports that over the last few years j.p. morgan is anywhere between the top or the number three underwriter of municipal bonds so j.p. morgan shook it off ran the bankers off to did the deals and said that there were not th

street plan to include the beautiful stories of jefferson street and so like the trees of jefferson street and the street art ises we and in making everything else that i make and i always refer people to the ferry mark and tell them to pick up beautiful piece of foods and to go to the hotels and the mayor time museum and the restaurants restaurants and this is what i do on continuous basis for 40 years and i never get upset and i always ask answer the questionings as of if i have never been asked that question before and so i just want to tell you that as the i didn't think i can't think similar biological boll of life, i think i do not want you to forgot us, i want you to see what we make, i think that is important and i want to you to know what that what we do is a real asset and a lot of the art done in the early 70's is done by famous people. i have a couple of designers such as ralph lorn for instance and this art is collected by a lot of people and it's rare and usually or that epipock or the period of time in the early 70's when we were chased out like the sales and now we c

jefferson wrote those ringing words of the declaration, but jefferson was a utilitarian when he urged his nephew to inquire into the truth of christianity. "if it ends in a belief that there is no god, you'll find virtue in the comforts and pleasantness you feel in virtue's exercise." james madison always explained away religion as an innate appetite. the mind, he said, prefers the idea of the self existing clause to an infinite series of cause and effect. even the founders who were unbelievers considered it a civic duty in public service to be observant unbelievers. two days after jefferson wrote his famous letter endorsing a wall of separation between church and state, he attended church services in the house of representatives. services were also held at the treasury department. jefferson and other founders made statements like accommodations for the public's strong preference for religion to enjoy ample space in the public square. they understood that christianity fostered attitudes and aptitudes associated with useful to a popular government. protestantism emphasis on the individ

now, jefferson had one problem.rtant and influential friends yet in court among the french aristocrats were all abolitionists. and they couldn't understand how we fought a war for universal liberty without freeing the slaves. and they put him under tremendous pressure and they kept asking them kept asking him, when is america going to free the slaves? so he began making promises that america, that emancipation was really just around the corner. he was imminent. we

jefferson had one problem. the most important and influential friend he had in court among the french aristocrats were all abolitionists and they couldn't understand how we had fought a war for universal liberty without freeing the slaves and they put him under tremendous pressure and kept asking when is america going to free the slaves? he began making promises that emancipation was around a corner, imminent and waiting for opinions to write them, none of this was really true but it was in interests for h

my argument in my book is that jefferson is quintessentially a political being. a man of ideas, yes, but actually for 40 years, day in and day out, he was a working politician, putting together coalitions to solve problems in realtime. and on four or five occasions prior to 1784, he took a very progressive stand on slavery. and he lost publicly and decisively each time. and there are two things you know that politicians don't like, and that's losing publicly and decisively. and in 1784, he wrote a version of the northwest ordinance that would have prohibited slavery in the northwest territories. it lost by one vote. and he said eloquently, which is redundant for jefferson, and he said in that moment the voice of heaven itself was silent. and then he did something very uncharacteri uncharacteristic. he gave up. and he never marshalled those formidable political skills again because he believed -- he chose to believe -- let me put it that way -- he chose to believe it was an intractable political problem for his generation. >> sorry, go ahead, mike. >>ist just goin

even thomas jefferson were about his wife at the same time. and i put that in. i did not dwell on it. i think it is a footnote or something like that. but washington had a personal concern there, to. >> lord dunmore, what was his position? >> he was the royal governor of virginia and he was also a guy with an incredible ego. an awful lot of inability to make the decision because he was so caught up in himself and his potential success. >> you called him combative, touchy and arrogant. >> well, arrogant like so many of the british aristocracy would have been. but he was an odd duck. when he captured and build some of the ports in the ohio valley, he named them after his subsidiary titles. he was the beer and blair -- the baron blair. it was fort dunmore for a while. he had an ego a mile wide. >> so what was the relationship in those days between george washington and dunmore? >> they knew each other. late winter, before the hostilities got intense in the capital of virginia, they were on some terms. there were both land speculators and they shared in this interes

jefferson left under a huge cloud. truman is the modern example of every president who gets in trouble wants to be truman because it means history implicates you, right? one of the things that happened was watergate. and it took 30 years, maybe a little bit less, but truman -- remember that one-man show -- >> the merle miller one? >> the plain speaking -- but there was a one-man show that went on just as watergate was breaking. and truman had the great good fortune of having disliked richard nixon early and had a lot of quotations about it. and he suddenly, as faith in the public sector is falling in the early '70s, all the examples you're talking about with truman are looking better and better. a president who, as evan wrote about the wise men, he was the popular embodiment of an american willingness to project power and to stand guard over a really complicated dark world. >> by the way, during the mid'70s, also, even chicago, the band chicago had a song, "america's calling harry truman, harry, you know what to do." s

envoy to france and and adams was charging the jefferson was too friendly with the french and jefferson was charging that adams was you know had secret alliances to the british and and i mean american history is littered with these these kind of you know semi's you know phobic but sometimes there's a little substance to typically not concerns but now oh it sounds like it could be real. look there are a lot of issues confronting our country that matter greatly to foreign interests. canadian interests would like to see the trans the cake so pipeline. bill across the united states china would like to see more of chinese investment in this country saudi arabia has been been on the record saying that they'd like to scuttle our efforts to enact a price on carbon pollution clean energy laws and that sort of thing so a lot of foreign countries have a big interest in american politics now they can play an outsized role in the challenge for both the press and the public is to figure out where this is happening the problem is so much is undisclosed and in the senate republican senators have abused

and abominable crime, jefferson called it. madison said that it was a moral, economical and social evil. jefferson acknowledged that if it ever came down to a war between slaves and slave owners there was no question on which side god would be. see an end t. how what do we do with them, the free blacks? we can't change -- share the country with them. was the concept of colonization came to the 4 that would involve free blacks transported to finally after some other possibilities transported to west africa to liberia. mattison said this concept gave him an opportunity to if not be so disillusioned about the future because he envisioned it as the green light to begin with gradual emancipation. however he called this a double operation and he thought that the country should not embark on emancipation until it was firmly coupled with colonization. that one should not begin the first half of this double operation until they were sure of the second half and that was not to be. there was -- monticello and monday leader are 20 miles a

sharon chin reports, this week's jefferson award winner has equipped thousands of kids to save a life>> you are the first responder. you are that person's lifeline. >>> reporter: monique bradley's message comes from her heart. >> i want them to know that if someone collapses, it is your duty to save their lives. >> reporter: her lesson stems from tragedy. her 15-year-old son darius collapsed playing competitive basketball in 2009 and everyone froze. >> i froze. i know c pr, which i thought i did. but i hadn't practiced it or used it. but when it happens to someone you love, it goes out the window. >> reporter: monique says darius was one of 7,000 young people nationwide who die when their heart suddenly stops. many cardiac arrest cases like his come from undiagnosed conditions. >> ha, ha, ha, ha, staying alive... >> reporter: in her son's honor monique founded the darius jones foundation in 2010. the pittsburg-based nonprofit teaches east bay students hands- only cpr. >> it has become my life's mission, my purpose. >> reporter: pam dodson of contra costa county emergency medical servi

jefferson's party put forth a teams of democracy and expansion. after are the themes of national regulation and internationalism. the u.s. has rarely had a two- party system but rather, a one and a half party system consisting of a regime party and a competitor forced to adapt its dominant position. these competitors, the whigs of the 1840's and the republicans of the post-war iraq occasionally won national elections. it is interesting to read the platforms of the democratic party in the 1840's because the assault the whigs for copying them. that was the case. the federalist party which died era,n the jefferson nian did not try to do that and they did die out. issues developed that could not be addressed within the existing structure. such issues tear apart parties in the interests associated with them and promote a new politics of invention and creativity. thomas jefferson and james madison and then to the mass political party as the instrument by which they defeated alexander hamilton and its mercantileless policies. they thought the party shoul

i think a little at jefferson. >> there is some along the eddy of the jefferson street project. >> it looks like green uncut hair. >> but beautiful hair, wouldn't you say? >> denny, what part -- >> chia pet. >> what part of cavallo point. on the playground? >> the playground they actually mow but in between murray circle and the main office, then interspersed between some of the -- the hillsides area, there is no mow. >> in other words, we can't use it on a putting green? >> your ball won't go in the hole. >> it would change the game. >> commissioner bonia. >> yes. the water usage, 7,718,612 gallons we are using in this park. is any non -- poetable water or -- >> all that is poetable. be substantial water conservation. >> you are saying all is -- >> poetable. >> all poetable. so all this time we have been using all this water. >> yes. >> wow. >> irrigation and -- >> that is phenomenal. >> with outright leaks in this. >> i would say this is long overdue. >> thank you. >> is there public comment? please come forward. >> i'm katrina, on the board of the alamo square neighborhood associat

. >>> this week's jefferson award winner was inspired by her own aunt's experience to create something better for people with developmental disabilities. as kate kelly reports, she is expanding the world for her clients in the name of a stronger community for everyone. >> i put things away. i fold. i say hi to customers. they talk to me and they hug me and see me smile. >> reporter: 39-year-old robin sloan has been working at banana republic in corte madera for 15 years thanks to a program called pacific diversified services, or pds. >> our mission is to help people with disabilities become active members of their community through work and also through community interactions. >> reporter: founded 22 years ago by lisa markey girarldi, pds is about getting out and doing everyday activities. >> the reward for me is seeing people improve their quality of life and seeing them enjoy simple pleasures. >> reporter: so an important part of lisa's program is finding part-time work for her clients. like kevin who for 16 years has worked at woodland's market and salley harrison who stocks the she

you can nominate your local heroes for a jefferson award online at our website, cbssf.com. >>> with the prince by her side, the duchess of cambridge left a london hospital today after an eventful few days of medical tests, media coverage and one infamous prank call. monica villamizar has the latest. >> reporter: the duchess of cambridge smiled as she made her first public appearance since the royal family announced she is pregnant. she and her husband, prince william, left the london hospital where kate spent three nights for severe morning sickness. as the duchess was still feeling symptoms, she didn't show it. she told the press she was doing much better. kate was bundled up to guard against the cold and to protect the royal bundle of joy. >> it's a great end to a great year. so i think everybody in the uk will be very excited. >> reporter: kate is going to take it easy here at the couple's london home kensington palace. the duchess has canceled all her public events for the weekend. >> really excited about it. >> reporter: prince charles the soon-to-be grandfather said he is thrilled

>>> item seven b informational update on jefferson street. >> ladies and gentlemen i would like to introduce john thomas the department of public words works the department public works and has taken this on together with a number of port staff that will be supporting him so if you would like to. >> good afternoon commissioners director moyer and as al, leaves i would acknowledge that i worked with him before and it's a coincidence we had worked together judge and for me to be here and so i'm here to provide with you a brief update on the jefferson project and judge snow the project extends from jounce street to hide along jefferson and includes complete replacement of the sidewalks sidewalks and road way and the sides will remain 15 feet and an all knew 19-foot sidewalk will be added to the north side of the street this will result in had a twin road way and park parking is eliminated within those limits. in terms of where we are the bids were opened on october third in the to proceed was granted to bell man landscape and construction on december third and construction is scheduled to begin

i wish brian lamb would have the jefferson -- jefferson wrote his own new testament and i wish brian lamb would have somebody on it. i never read it but i would like to know what it is about. i appreciate c-span. having wonderful day. host: thanks, jerry. columbus, ohio. we will keep talking about culture, politics, and social changes in america. coming up next, bill bennett, former education secretary. and clarence page from "the chicago tribune," syndicated columnist. we will be right back. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> issue is not whether it will be stigmatized or morally condemned. he is. precisely the same false claims. the issue is how many times the government can punish him as a result of that moral condemnation. the answer in the double jeopardy clause is ones. >> starting monday and throughout christmas week, c- span radio is featuring supreme court oral arguments by current justices before they were on the bench. all this week at 7:00 p.m. eastern time. you can listen to c-span radio in