jefferson, reagan. i want to thank you all for letting me come today and if we have time we -- we'll have a few questions. how about that? [applause] >> here we go. as far as i know nothing biblical about 14 or nothing too -- well, double seven i guess. maybe there is something biblical about it. but as i went through there were people that i really thought about adding and took out and as i went through there were couple like bailey that i hasn't known so much about. i didn't start out by saying that i have to find 14. okay. >> who were those who quite didn't make the cut that you thought about or didn't quite get into that -- >> well, lets see. i started on the chapter on bailey. i start today make -- started to make it burkely carter glass. maybe because bailey is so obscured i thought it would be more fun to write about him. i did think about andrew jackson, i don't know, sort of a mix, several ways to read his career and i wasn't quite comfortable with that. also on the chapter of macon and randolp

conservative heros. 14 leaders who shaped america jefferson, reagan. i want to thank you all for coming today. if you have questions and we have time. [applause] >> there we go. >> 114. >> well, as far as i know nothing biblical about 14 or nothing too -- is it? double 7 i guess. maybe there's something biblical about it. it just -- as i went through there were some people that i really thought about seven and took out and as i went through there were a couple that like bailey that i hadn't known much about. i wound up with 14. i didn't start off by staying i have to find 14. okay. >> who didn't quite make the cut or didn't quite get into -- >> well, it's -- i start it had chapter on bailey, i start today make it bailey byrd and glass. they were great friends of baileys and were mentioned in the book. there are quotes from bailey and carter glass. maybe because bailey fun to write about him. i did think about andrew jackson. several ways to read his career and i wasn't just quite comfortable with that. also in the chapter on macon and randolph john tay

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park i'm not sure when jefferson park was establishes or names but st. paul has a corner on the place literally and figuratively we have cards for the park and been part of its activity for those hundred years in which the church building stood unfortunately, the church building burned our congregation moved into the school next door but conditioning concern for and care for the park has continued loss of the building was extraordinary proposition and ironic that even though it was a devastating loss it was a plus for the park because there was a rather significance shadow also that of eliminated and now we come back to the commission here and requesting that we be allowed in some a ways to return to the spot all be that with the residential unit as well but the cast the shadow to be cast was much less than the other building important issue for me is that this this or that this park across the street continue in its pristine way encouraged and supported and cultivated and st. paul has delivered for those hundred years and want to make sure that it is ca

his expeditions were not directly authored by thomas jefferson, the way lewis and clark was. but we think that he is a very important figure in the era of western expedition and exploration, because he is the first to really create a visual image of the american southwest. a visual image through the words that he wrote, the journals that he compiled, and the fact that he got those journals into print before lewis and clark did. they were translated into many languages. people were eager to understand what the west offered. he helped us understand the geography. he certainly did not get the map correct, and the territory that he covered was he helpslimited, but us to understand the connection, the potential connection between settled parts of the united mexico.nd what is now his journals encouraged what would become the santa fe trail, a trade route that link to the united states with mexico -- that linked the united states with mexico. idea thatther to the the west was when he and others called the great american desert. and that visual image is something that we still see in

>> jefferson changed my life. he wrote a letter to his nephew peter car and peter was 13 or 15, i don't know remember, somewhere in that area. his mother had died and his father was about to die. his father went to thomas and said thomas will you oversee the ed ed education of my son when i pass on and he said sure. peter comes of age and writes this beautiful letter in mathematics learn this, when it comes to literature never read a book from outside of the native tone because you will lose too much. the last one is religion and with he said above religion stick reasons in her seat and question with boldness even the very existence of god for there to be a god he would rather have questions over blindfolded fear. that changed by life. that coupled for the fact thomas jefferson fought the 1st war against islam in the office. he had the barbary pirates. he was trying to understand what they want. he owns one of the first copies in enlish of the koran. he was a scholar and read everything in native tongue when he co

thomas jefferson and andrew jackson, they were slave holders to be sure. but i think their views went beyond simple slavery to a view of the united states as a racially exclusive republic. >> reporter: last month connecticut, georgia and missouri voted to jettison jackson and jefferson and others follow suit. joseph ellis is a pulitzer prize-winning historian of early america who finds these decisions silly. >> it's a mentality that's not comfortable with irony and paradox, and that seeks to find answers in the past that confirm their own convictions in the present. you say you're going to drop jefferson out of the party, i mean, he's the author of the most important words in american history. i think they're losing more than they realize. >> reporter: several democrats cited as their impetus last month's removal of the confederate flag from the south carolina state house. but clashes over political correctness have dominated our discourse in recent decades, with the president himself weighing in on whether a private company, the washington redskins, shoul

even jefferson davis can't hide. nobody will serve under bragg, but now he is jefferson davis advisor. but what has just happened by the defeat of the confederates in chattanooga, the door is wide open to atlanta. sherman takes control of the armies there. he knows what his job is. his job is to go to atlanta. it is enormously important. robert e. lee's army is in virginia. the rail lines are critically important, sherman recognizes, that's where we have to go next. assuming command after bragg is gone is joe johnson. he is one of the highest-ranking generals in the confederacy. there is another guy who hates jefferson davis, the feeling is mutual. they feud all the time. but davis realizes we need someone to take up this defeated army and put them back together again to try to stop sherman from taking atlanta. it doesn't really work because johnson is, first of all, a master of retreat. [laughter] sometimes that's really important. you can preserve your army, live to fight another day. johnson's good at that. he rea

the secretary of war at this time was jefferson davis, oddly enough. as secretary of war, he was in charge of the military. not a military position, but a civilian administrative decision. the years that weitzel was at west point, jefferson davis was secretary of war. the superintendent was robert e lee. the lee family would host cap connect at their home on sunday afternoon and entertain the boys and try to teach them some manners. from time to time, mrs. lee would invite some of the girls from the community to entertain some of the boys. some of the memoirs say how awkward it was between the young cadets and the young girls, but lee took note of the young cadets who were doing well in school and took note of this tall boy, godfreid weitzel. godfrey was one of the top students in his class all four years. this is the grade from his junior year. the number one position was held by cyrus comstock from massachusetts. godfrey weitzel was in third place by the end of their junior year. comstock was 20 when he entered west point. official records say weitze

they sit down in jefferson davis' dining room and eat the meal that was prepared for jefferson davis. day two. abraham lincoln knows the end is near. grant has been giving him hints. we are making good success here, i want you to come down. when he gets word at city point that richmond has fallen, said, it seems to me i've been dreaming a horrid dream for four years, and now the nightmare is gone. i want to see richmond. the next day, he goes on a ship up river to richmond. he takes his son with him. his son, tad. it is his 12th birthday, but it's a very small contingent that arrive in richmond. lincoln arrives early. weitzel gets word the president is coming but not for several hours. they made better time than expected, and when lincoln arrives, he is greeted by slaves who see lincoln coming up river. word begins to spread, and they gathered to greet the liberator. abraham lincoln. little tad, 12 years old, always wears a miniature union uniform in the pictures you see of him. always dressed like a miniature soldier. lincoln marches through the streets for a 12 mile walk. no officia

jefferson -- can we talk to for a minute. >> police say it's not clear why jefferson did not see jefferson in the crosswalk and should have felt something when the rear wheels of the bus ran over the victim, they could see it from police headquarters across the street. >> after impact it shows a little lurching on the right hand side, the bus kept going taking a group of 19 chinese tourists to washington, d.c., they say that the driver has a valid drivers license and one violation. >> it was like a fail to yield in 2013, he paid it and took care of it. >> joseph herd was on his way to a kidney dialysis appointment, police found a pair of head phones at the scene and it's possible he never saw or heard the bus coming and that jefferson's view was blocked by the pillar when he made the turn. >> we are getting a search warrant for the phone records that will reveal if there was texting or calling. >> now, at the very least, jefferson will be charged with negligence but it will take week orz months before it is determined if he will face criminal charges. david henry, channel 6 "action news."

that's very much on the minds of jefferson and others. this idea of slave insurrections, bringing more slaves into america becomes part of that. we don't want more slaves we have to worry about in these kind of days. so he goes after the slave trade, blames the king for importing these folks, and that is a bit controversial in this room. you do have a fair number of slave holders and slave holding states that kind of don't want to talk about this. it does get put aside. it's not really an attack on slavery, so to speak, but slave trade and some of these things we're worried about the british doing that would affect lives in america. so at any rate as you get into july 4th, they are going through pretty well every bit of that declaration of independence, but they finally, you know, taking a little out, adding words here and there, they get to something that all of the men in this room representing all of the 13 states can agree. and they are ready to vote. on the 4th it's 12-0 with, again, new york waiting and so july 4th becomes, for amer

thomas jefferson and andrew jackson, they were slave holders to be sure.hink their views went beyond simple slavery to a view of the united states as a racially exclusive republic. >> reporter: last month connecticut, georgia and missouri voted to jettison jackson and jefferson and others follow suit. joseph ellis is a pulitzer prize-winning historian of early america who finds these decisions silly. >> it's a mentality that's not comfortable with irony and paradox, and that seeks to find answers in the past that confirm their own convictions in the present. you say you're going to drop jefferson out of the party, i mean, he's the author of the most important words in american history. i think they're losing more than they realize. >> reporter: several democrats cited as their impetus last month's removal of the confederate flag from the south carolina state house. but clashes over political correctness have dominated our discourse in recent decades, with the president himself weighing in on whether a private company, the washington redskins, should change

why you open with thomas jefferson on library of congress. >> because jefferson changed my life. he wrote a letter to his nephew. peter was 13, 15, somewhere in that area. he was -- his mother had died, father was about to die. father went and said thomas, we will you oversee the education of my sons when i pass on? so when he comes of age he writes this beautiful letter and says in mathematics you have to learn these things. never read a book out of its native tongue because you lose too much. and then he gets to the last one for religion. and he said, when it comes to religion above all things , fix reason firmly in her seat. question with boldness even the very existence of god. god. if there be a god she must surely rather honest questioning of her blindfold despair. that changed my life. that coupled with the fact that thomas jefferson was the man who fought the 1st war against islam when he was in office. we had the 1st 25 the barbary pirates, and he did not really understand. he was trying to understand, you know, what do these people want? he owns one of the 1st copies in

you're going to meet this week's jefferson award winner up knicks. >> and we want to invite you pet lovers, send us questions about their health and well being. e-mail us ,,,, >>> it is the perfect addition for a weekend barbecue. >> it's the season for sweet white corn. >> taste of the day is going to be with white corn. i did it a couple months ago, it's august. this is corn time. this is when it peaks, and this white corn is so fresh you can eat it raw. when you peel it back you smell the freshness of that corn, and that's what you've got to look for, the white, all the kernels plump and tight together, nice and firm. when you peel it back it's got to feel nice and fresh with that crispy sound. you can hear it just like that. look how beautiful that is. when you bring them home, store them in the refrigerator right away. don't hold them for too long, even though it's a super sweet variety which means it's about 67 days for that sugar to turn to starch. don't wait, 6, 7 days enjoy it when you bite to get that full sweetness of corn, summertime, august, the best time for corn. if you cook

he didn't write like jefferson, what he envisioned for the future. but when he makes diplomatic arguments, he certainly established that america was important and a rising power and deserved respect. he had national pride and he thought they deserved to be treated like an equal. >> as you read his papers, can you hear his voice? cassandra good: it is tough to know what his voice is, because we don't have private letters. >> why is that? cassandra good: in many cases, people ask that their letters are destroyed after they die. or destroy them themselves. in his case, personal letters we have are from friends of his, but the ones with his family were destroyed. family members probably made that decision that they didn't want to keep them. he did not have the sense that jefferson did about wanting to keep records of everything and that people would want to read all of it. or else, he didn't want us to. io of himuick i/o -- b and his family. >> he was born in virginia, he grew up mostly raised by an uncle, because his father died. he went to the college

>> jefferson changed my life. he wrote a letter to his nephew peter car and peter was 13 or 15, i don't know remember, somewhere in that area. his mother had died and his father was about to die. his father went to thomas and said thomas will you oversee the ed ed education of my son when i pass on and he said sure. peter comes of age and writes this beautiful letter in mathematics learn this, when it comes to literature never read a book from outside of the native tone because you will lose too much. the last one is religion and with he said above religion stick reasons in her seat and question with boldness even the very existence of god for there to be a god he would rather have questions over blindfolded fear. that changed by life. that coupled for the fact thomas jefferson fought the 1st war against islam in the office. he had the barbary pirates. he was trying to understand what they want. he owns one of the first copies in enlish of the koran. he was a scholar and read everything in native tongue when he co

meteorologist amy freeze in poverty jefferson -- port jefferson with more. amy. >> reporter: early potent storm for sure but a day and a half later a lot of folks here in port jefferson are still waiting for their power to come back on and the reason is the damage that was done to the trees and the powerlines, it's taking crews a lot of time to get them. you can see that right now working just above me a couple hundred feet in the air, the size of these trees just a massive height they have and also how long they have been alive, they are very wide, big trees and to get to them it's taking a lot of time, making for a frustrating situation. everybody is having to pitch in just to clear the streets in port jefferson. >> i see the guys doing the best they can, working hard diligently out there. >> reporter: powerlines still dangling 36 hours after the storm that snapped this pole on pat darling street. >> literally is a war zone and it literally cut like a laser, cut through all the trees. this is like a tornado. it really spun around. i mean, it threw things a

cassandra good: monroe's writing is not as eloquent as someone like jefferson. he is not concise or easily quotable. sometimes it is meandering and he had bad handwriting, so his letters can be a real challenge to read. but he was also very careful in his wording. he would cross things out in over things. i think that he was thoughtful about what words he chose, especially the public documents he was working on. host: what time frames have you focused on? cassandra good: james monroe volume five focuses on the years 1803 to early 1811, he was in a europe, england, france and spain. so that is what the bulk of the letters in that volume focus on. host what was interesting? cassandra good: he was sent on that trip to negotiate the louisiana purchase, which that was not supposed to be the louisiana purchase. it was initially to help get the port of new orleans. then napoleon offered louisiana partially because of having to pull back resources during the larger war in europe and the revolution in haiti. also, it had not been as productive for a him as he had hoped s

encouraged people to grow hemp, but my response to that is always, well, jefferson grew lots of things, it doesn't mean they were all that important. they had -- he had everything else that a normal farm family would grow back at the time. just because he did it doesn't make it all that special. ms. rios: what else are you working on now? mr. abernathy: right now, i'm working at just a straight history of hemp in the u.s. i'm trying to get down exactly when hemp was first grown here, to the extent that it was a major actor cultural -- agricultural crop. where it reached its one of top level of production. in the early 1800s, it was the third most important agricultural commodity in the u.s., but that in another itself doesn't really tell us a whole lot. and that is really the top level it has ever really reached. i think it is so inexorably tied to marijuana and legalization of marijuana that that has really prevented a lot of movement toward getting it legalized. it is not -- it hasn't been up until the 2004 farmville -- that was passed farmville -- farm bill that was passed that it h

>> guest: because jefferson changed my life. he wrote a letter to his nephew, peter carr, and peter was -- i don't remember -- 13, 15, somewhere in there and he was -- his mother had tied. his father was about to die. and the father within to thomas and said, will you oversee the education of my son when i pass on. you're he smartest man i know. he said sure. so when peter comes of age he writes him this beautiful letter and he says, in mathematics you have to learn these things. when it comes to literature, never read a birth out of its native tongue because you lose to much. then he gets to last one is religion and he said, when it comes to religion, above all things fix reason firmly in her seat and question with boldness even the very existence of god for if there be a god he must surely -- over blindfolded spirits. that changed my life. that coupled with the fact that thomas jefferson was the man who fought the first war against islam, when he was in office. we had the first -- the barberry pilots and he didn't understand i

>> because jefferson changed my life. he wrote a letter to his nephew, and peter was 13 15 somewhere in that area and his mother died in father was about to die. the father said will you oversee the education of my son you are the smartest man i know. so when he comes of age he writes a beautiful letter and says you have to learn these things and went it comes to literature he gets to the last one of religion and he says when it comes to religion above all things question the boldness. that changed my life. that, coupled with the fact thomas jefferson is the man that fought the first war against islam when he was in office and he was trying to understand what do these people want. he had one of the first copies of the english koran in the united states. so he had everything in its native tongue when he could. he tried to be as fair as he could and he also read the entire koran. we should all read the koran and don't take soundbites, don't take this from me. in the back we had all of our nodes so don't take it from me. thi

signed by thomas jefferson. >> jon: then he signed year of our lord christ. licked the envelope, put a stamp on it and gave it to one of his slaves to take for a couple weeks to get it to maryland. my point is this: it's that simple. we know what to call a progressive. cancer. what do you call someone that follows this better path. we must label without a label. we we, we, we, we would have no idea which web sites. >> i'm not a journalist. i'm a conservative. i'm much more of a libertarian. >> jon: conservative libertarians, two great tastes that taste great together. [ laughter ] how do we get back from china, be a conservative libertarian who follows the rules of god. hmmmm, jon, hmmmm, hmmmm, what would that look like? what could that possibly look like? what could you possibly have that would look like that? oh, i don't know, jesus. [ laughter ] with libertarian gillette and alex p. keaton. >> look at that space on the right there what if you drew ovals from here to theocracy. what if you drew a shape like this or like this or like this to theocracy. wait

james and here in port jefferson. as you'll here in just a moment, the sounds of the storm, the winds that reached up to 80 miles an hour in some places, scared the daylights out of some homeowners. the extent of the damage surprisedp here along suffolk north shore but not don. >> i heard this one coming down. that one made a very loud thought. >> the man was so shaken by the storm, he and his wife spread fled to the basement. the high winds did pummel 100-year-old trees right outside their door. >> we did what we had to do. we got out of danger as much as we could. >> reporter: now police are trying to keep drivers safe with traffic lights out. as close to 200 crews work to restore power. a utility spokesman says that work might not be finished until friday morning. some are speculating a tornado did all this damage, but the national weather service says right now there's no indication that was the case. >> i think something hit the top of the tree and took the whole thing down, twisted it right out of the ground and

service remains suspended on port jefferson bridge between port jefferson and stoneybrook. all because of downed trees and downed wires. alternate side rules. they are in effect. greg, rosanna back to you. >> kelly, thank you. this is the rent is too damn high guy, jimmy mcmillon. rosanna what was him that captured the imagination. >> i loved his slogan, the rent is too damn high. >> beard from the 19th century. wore gloves. rent is too dam high mobile. >> did we find he lived in the rent stablized apartment. >> he feel like a kid again with dunkin's new cookie-flavored iced coffees. for a limited time, dd perks members can enjoy any sized iced coffee for $1.99. america runs on dunkin'. >> hi, everybody. >> time to get down to business. >> lauren simonetti. what's going on? >> rosanna, do you have a coat in the office? >> yeah, but not today for some reason. >> it is quite steamy. most women agree say it is freezing at work. there is a reason for that. the reason is the office thermostat is totally biased. it is settings, its temperature was based on a 1960s standard that l

port jefferson suspended between port jefferson and stony brook. port jefferson hourly between smithtown and huntington. alternate side of the street parking rules are in effect. ken, over to you. >> heather, that is the news for now. coming up on "good morning america," a secret trick to save big when you shop online. what the web sites won't tell you about. shopping secrets revealed next on gma. join the millions who have already switched. we switched. and now, we're streaming netflix. who knew time warner cable's internet was so fast! mom switched. and now, we can watch our favorite shows together, on demand. i switched. so i can connect to the internet just about anywhere with my free twc wifi hotspots. join the millions who switched to time warner cable. for $89.99 a month, you'll get 100meg internet, and hundreds of hd channels. you'll also get unlimited calling to the us, mexico canada, china, and now india. call today. i switched. now i have a free app that lets me watch tv whenever i have the time. for $89.99 a month you'll get tv, interne

in the wig story championed by jefferson, the depraved normans were the evil doers. the french speaking normans imposed feudalism and temporarily formed the rights of englishmen. magna carta, fortunately, restored these rights. the constitutional battles of the 17th century were further examples of the english asserting their rights. americans saw themselves in a continuation of this struggle to preserve the ancient rights of english men against usurpers. as tensions blts between the north atlantic colonies and britain, american invocations of magna carta became more aggressive. this is a $4 bill printed in maryland in 1775. my children were very interested in the idea of a $4 bill. they wanted one. i'm not sure it would be legal tender today. we'll take a closer look at it. i hope. there we go. this wood cut shows the figure of liberty on the right there. as she's holding a pole with a cap on it, typical symbolism and she is standing on the word slavery underneath her there. and she's backed by american troops carrying the the the banner of liberty. you might be abl

>> because jefferson changed my life. he wrote a letter to his nephew, and peter was 13 15 somewhere in that area and hi

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you're going to drop jefferson out of the party.s the author of the most important words in american history. i think they're losing more than they realize. >> several democrats cited as their impetus last month's removal of the confederate flag from the south carolina state house. but clashes over political correct edness have dominated with the president himself weighing in on whether a private company, the washington red skins should change their name to avoid offending native americans. >> if i were the owner of the team, i wow think about changing it. >> alexander hamilton is being kicked off the $10 bill in favor of a women as yet unnamed. and the ap history course revised last year to portray thomas jefferson as one of a tight circle of colonial elites who used revolution for their privileged status. >>> hundreds of high grants arrive in italy after thousands of men, women and children had to be rescued from the dangerous waters off of the coast. >>> plus, north and south korea setting recent tension aside and coming together

the state of jefferson would like support in all 20 counties it is not necessary. the decision would have to come from the state capitol. you know, where the south greatly outnumbers the north. >> do you think this has a chance of succeeding? >> i do. absolutely. >> reporter: they plan to take their fight to sacramento in january. they say they won't give up until this flag is flying up there. in placerville, george warren, abc7 news. >> we'll see. >>> it is back home at last for crew members of the coast guard cutter stratton, after two massive cocaine seizures. family and loved one stood by, waiting for the ship to dock. agents confiscated 74,000 pounds of cocaine over the past few months. >> it's very surprising, you know? very fortunate to be part of that group. hopefully they'll keep it going. >> this the cocaine was taken off the ship on monday in san diego. officials estimate it's worth more than $1 billion. >>> a group of oakland residents want a seat for the coliseum city city project. in it, they asked for a community benefit agreement to make sure oaklan

it was jefferson's time. -- just as it was in jefferson's time. it was really something to have to do. and then he was defeated. in 1942. went into the navy for the war, they came back in 1946 in that huge postwar congress, which was a republican congress. and he was a democrat. of course, there was the huge 1948 congress, which was a democratic congress. jerry ford was elected, such a close friend of our family for all those decades. and so in 1949, my father came on this committee. i had just turned five. i grew up in this room. my parents both worked on the hill. my mother worked in my father's office. and they were just park me here. that people who work here -- worked here took care of me. my page can now go to jail for this. [laughter] ms. roberts: but it was fun. i liked it. everybody was really nice to me. and i liked being here. by the time my father left this committee when he was elected majority leader, i was 27 and had two children. so that was my donation as a child of congress. in this room. and i learned not only to just be happy h

the state of jefferson would like support in all 20 counties it is not necessary. decision would have to come from the state capitol. you know, where the south greatly outnumbers the north. >> do you think this has a chance of succeeding? >> i do. absolutely. >> reporter: they plan to take their fight to sacramento in january. they say they won't give up until this flag is flying up there. in placerville, george warren, abc7 news. >> we'll see. >>> it is back home at last for crew members of the coast guard cutter stratton, after two massive cocaine seizures. family and loved one stood by, waiting for the ship to dock. agents confiscated 74,000 pounds of cocaine over the past few months. >> it's very surprising, you know? very fortunate to be part of that group. hopefully they'll keep it going. >> this the cocaine was taken off the ship on monday in san diego. officials estimate it's worth more than $1 billion. >>> a group of oakland residents want a seat for the coliseum city city project. in it, they asked for a community benefit agreement to make sure oakland re

>> very true very true. >> but particularly true of. >> jefferson, and jefferson parrish, jefferson parrishs where the causeway concentration camp was housed, where we experienced the gestapo keup type oppression as opposed to being rescue, we were three minutes away from the airport they could have taken us to the airport military vehicles, could have taken to us any dry safe city in america, instead, they dumped us at a dumping ground, sealed us in there, and they backed up all their authority, with military m-16s. >> and there were thousands and thousands of people in the last day we were in there. and let me tell you something they handpicked the white people to ride out first, yes racism was very much involved, they handpicked the white people to ride out first, every day, the crowd got darker and darker and darker, until finally there were only there were 95% people of color in that place. >> miss hodgees would you be offended if i respectfully asked you not to call the causeway area a concentration camp? >> i'm going to call it what it is, if i put address on a pig a pig is still a p

that is true for every human being. >> dickerson: you studied jefferson, roosevelt lincoln spent timehinking about presidents and the long scope of history. give me your reflexs on the presidency now what we tolerate, left right center, whatever. in our leaders now and whether our lack of patience, whether there's a problem with that or -- >> best question. really only question there is. about contemporary elections i think what the election of 1800 between thomas jefferson arguably the man of the millennium despite all his faults and john adams one of the most important and interesting figures in all of american history was as low and dirty as you could get. if you were to vote for jefferson your wife and daughter were subject to rape by those -- if you were voting for john adams your voting for next king of america. that didn't happen. so we can sit back and exhale a little bit go, okay, the kind of circus that we see is kind of always gone on. we do have a problem in which we have media that is bigger than the ideas and the talk itself. if abraham link on delivered gettysburg addre

it was jefferson's time. -- just as it was in jefferson's time. it was really something to have to do. and then he was defeated. in 1942. went into the navy for the war, they came back in 1946 in that huge postwar congress, which was a republican congress. and he was a democrat. of course, there was the huge 1948 congress, which was a democratic congress. jerry ford was elected, such a close friend of our family for all those decades. and so in 1949, my father came on this committee. i had just turned five. i grew up in this room. my parents both worked on the hill. my mother worked in my father's office. and they were just park me here. that people who work here -- worked here took care of me. my page can now go to jail for this. >> [laughter] ms. roberts: but it was fun. i liked it. everybody was really nice to me. and i liked being here. by the time my father left this committee when he was elected majority leader, i was 27 and had two children. so that was my donation as a child of congress. in this room. and i learned not only to just be happ

about contemporary elections i think what the election of 1800 between thomas jefferson arguably thean of the millennium despite all his faults and john adams one of the most important and interesting figures in all of american history was as low and dirty as you could get. if you were to vote for jefferson your wife and daughter were subject to rape by those -- if you were voting for john adams your voting for next king of america. that didn't happen. so we can sit back and exhale a little bit go, okay, the kind of circus that we see is kind of always gone on. we do have a problem in which we have media that is bigger than the ideas and the talk itself. if abraham link on delivered gettysburg address which is only two minutes, c-span would cover it, but would say president came to gettysburg to try to detract attention from his military campaign out west. and that is partly true. that's what -- not trying to distract attention trying to honor the dead but that would have been the news story we might have missed the greatest speech even though somebody saw it on c-span say that was -

why do you open with thomas jefferson and the library of congress? ... >> guest: never read a book out of its native tongue, because you'll lose too much. and then he gets to the last one is religion. and he said when it comes to religion above all things, fix reason firmly in her seat and question with boldness even the very existence of god for if there be a god he must surely rather honest questioning over blindfolded fear. that changed my life. that coupled with the fact that thomas jefferson was the man who fought the first war against islam when he was in office. we had the first, you know, the barbary pirates, and he didn't really understand it. he was trying to understand, you know what do these people want? he owned one of the first copies in english of the quran in the united states. so he was a scholar, he read everything in its native tongue when he could he tried to be as fair as he could and he also read the entire quran. so i think he gives us a good example that this is a good place to start but we should all read the quran. we should

park i'm not sure when jefferson park was establishes or names but st. paul has a corner on the place literally and figuratively we have cards for the park and been part of its activity for those hundred years in which the church building stood unfortunately, the church building burned our congregation moved into the school next door but conditioning concern for and care for the park has continued loss of the building was extraordinary proposition and ironic that even though it was a devastating loss it was a plus for the park because there was a rather significance shadow also that of eliminated and now we come back to the commission here and requesting that we be allowed in some a ways to return to the spot all be that with the residential unit as well but the cast the shadow to be cast was much less than the other building important issue for me is that this this or that this park across the street continue in its pristine way encouraged and supported and cultivated and st. paul has delivered for those hundred years and want to make sure that it is ca

the port jefferson branch suspended in both directions between port jefferson and huntington because of a downed tree and wires west of stoney brook. and now in new city, the right lane blocked on the southbound palisades parkway, and you approach exit 10, and delays back to exit 11. alternate-side parking rules in effect citywide. >>> meg, thank you so much. >>> author judy bloom to the rescue of one couple's -- blume to the rescue of one local couple whose husband accidently gave away the book his wife's late mother gave her. >> at the time it was accurate. i felt like a terrible husband. >> it was the last book that i wanted to be in that freebie box. >> they are hoping someone will return the original copy. >> there's a lesson here, yes, twitter can can help you reach out to authors and other people if you're in need, and number two, never, never throw anything out unless you're told to throw it out. i have only been married a few weeks, and i already know that. >> very good. >> he's learning. >> very good advice for all married people. absolutely. >>> we were at the scene and he