i condemn slavery so did jefferson. i don't condemn jefferson. i, i don't know that i would have done any better if i been in jefferson's position, born into his virginia and into his family. and i don't find it easy to put myself into the shoes of someone from the past and be judgmental all because i know that we are all so much a proud act of circumstance says considerably beyond our control. jefferson was hated in his own, of course, just as to some extent he's hated now. he's hated as a jacobean revolutionary, as a, theist as and agnostic, as a populist demagogue. he was also a president to preached against strong executive but excess, very strong executive power when he felt it was in his ideological and his view of the nation's selfish to do so. for example, of course, the louisiana purchased a it was also a man who preached against and detested actually more than preached. again, she detested a lot of the things we take for granted as desirable like banks and banking and wall street and industry any sizable way. and he certainly detested i

jefferson. and he's recently turned his gaze to george washington, which the subject of his book that's a finalist for the george washington prize. so all of you. thank you very much much. so i have to meet with another mike. so give us a second here. i'll just try to think of the names, friends. don't exclude yourself. i miss my. well, that would be a that would a great question. what your relationship is to each one of these both while writing it afterwards. and but first, i might actually note that this is the first time that all four finalists have been biographies. and i thought that might be a great way. start the conversation. and i'll ask you a few questions. and i want to be clear to feel like you can be rude. interrupt me. you know, interject when you feel necessary not here to hear me. talk here to you all. share your thoughts and your work in these. so, stacy, i thought i'd start with you and your biography on somebody named sam adams, who may be the most well-known known revolutiona

jefferson was a child of the enlightenment. he knew the significance of enlightenment through exploration. that people on the ground have seen things, writing them down and recording those would be very valuable for science. his attempts to explore what became the united states are legendary. these are three of the attempts he made. the first was to george rogers clark in that letter we just read. he was a military soldier through campaigns during the american revolution. he said he wanted him to lead this expedition. clark replied he was not in very good health. if you decided to do it in the future he should think about asking his little brother, william. he eventually joins the lewis and clark expedition, that is pretty cool. the second was john ledyard. he had an interesting idea that you could explore the western part of the americas by coming from russia. he actually tried to cross russia and go through alaska to come down the coast. he was stopped by catherine the great. andre michaux was a french botanist. as a founding

he donated the jefferson library as the foundation. i went to jefferson high. theodore roosevelt, constant reading. he would be up all night long. he would have insomnia and pore through books. t.r. wrote like 35 books and 150,000 letters. he read. the book that i think influenced him a lot was charles darwin's "on the origins of species" which came out in 1859, right when his father was creating the museum of natural history. we probably take for granted what a revolution darwin's book was on evolution and species. t.r. spoke multiple languages and could read books in french or german. jefferson, that classic line of john f. kennedy's, there was a dinner at the white house that there were never that many brilliant people there that night except when jefferson dined alone. [laughter] those two in my mind are the ones. sometimes a writer can help a president along. harry truman was not a great writer. he never graduated from high school. his memoirs are solid. he was living in independence, missouri without a lot going on with the vietnam war and civil rights, a

this is thomas jefferson's reply.t jefferson does is she thinks madison for -- he thanks for the news but says he knew it already. madison has sent him a copy and jefferson says he already has a copy. jefferson flatters madison and says with respect to the federalist, the three authors have been named to me. he says i read it with care and pleasure and was satisfied there was nothing in it by one of those hands and by that he meant john jay. and he continues and not a great deal by hamilton. jefferson continues, does the highest honor to the third, by that he means madison who he is writing to, as being the best commentary on the principles of government. these two letters by jefferson and madison preserve the context of which the federalist essays were written and also how they were received. >> arizona state university professor colleen sheehan, what was the role of the bill of rights in the federalist papers? >> first of all, i have to mention that arizona state university and the school of civic and economic thoug

when thomas jefferson met thomas paine in paris in 1787, he begged him to sit -- [inaudible] jefferson collected portraits of celebrated men, and in 1787 there were few men as celebrated as thomas paine. he wrote "common sense," the 46-page pamphlet that catalyzed the independence movement and overthrew the british monarchies and the colonies. paine agreed to be painted, and jefferson hung the portrait in quite a place, on the walls of monticello, his house in virginia. that was 1787. now fast forward 40 years to 1828. thomas jefferson is dead. his family are selling off his possessions. when the auctioneerens dig out thomas paine's portrait, they find the canvas torn and battered. there are knife holes through his eyes, stab marks in his chest. as if some children in jefferson's family had been allowed to vandalize it. the fate of thomas paine's painting is, i think -- [inaudible] for -- apt metaphor for his own extraordinary life. the man toasted around the world in the 1790s -- 1770s and 1780s as the hero of the american revolution ended his days as a discredited pariah, unceremonio

credit for establishing it and thomas jefferson. >> jefferson had a large library the british, they burned down the library of congress so what did jefferson do the library of congress. >> being used some of the capital and jefferson and present in the e united states, over 6000 covered henry subject so he had the opportunity to fill his election and solar told it to the library congress paid for it? >> is a discussion about it because he has a collection. >> some of his or not sufficiently christian and i think the books and okay so the library of congress they met at 16, you can there are 19 so you can come and look at the materials and visit and we have a good to go from normal 179 items. >> they have they return them? [laughter] >> we keep track and ask politely, no. >> behind? >> no fines. they do appropriate. >> when jefferson's collection, the books sold, some were burned in the subsequent fire over the years the library trying to replace them, how many do you have the equipment of. >> about three quarters. >> you have jefferson's copy of the declaration of independence. >> yes we h

and that's what jefferson is really responding to. so there's really the last chapter of the book is about this and frankly, i thought it would be more of the book when i my original plan was and it's such a fascinating story, how people have continued to respond to her. i call it her afterlives, but so i'm starting at the beginning and i'm going to get to the message i was asking. so really, secretary, really, really. what you have is black and white abolitionists in the early republic keeping her memory alive. she's she's they are they republish her poems in william lloyd garrison's liberator, both black and white anti-slavery people use her as an example or they teach her they use they use her poems in schools so people know who she is. but what you see is a backlash against that. that happens that you can already see starting to happen with jefferson and then in the in the in the early republic and of really building by the time you get to the late 19 century but so what and what eventually happens in the jim crow reconstruction a

well bill, washington and jefferson and lincoln are dead. they began our democracy, but they knew the job would have to be finished by those who lived after them. and they knew that this democracy would last only as long as its citizens were willing to keep working on it. it's our government bill. from here on it's up to us. all right. well, welcome to another edition, a north carolina history. so this lecture today actually well, with what we're studying right now in the class, the turn of the 20th century in north carolina, the tumultuous 1890, but i'm sure you've heard me call every time period in north carolina history tumultuous. but this is no exception. so today's lecture is called worth bagley, the southern

well bill, washington and jefferson and lincoln are dead. they began our democracy, but they knew the job would have to be finished by those who lived after them. and they knew that this democracy would last only as long as its citizens were willing to keep working on it. it's our government bill. from here on it's up to us.

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once again, jefferson gives away the game when claims as self-evident. the assertion quote all men are created equal. despite our enormous inequality in practically every respect we indeed all equally children god created by his and destined to share eternal life. him take god out of the and it becomes extremely difficult to defend this crucial principle of, a democratic polity. finally, both the rule of law and the notion of limited government, biblical inspiration. time and again, the prophets remind the israelite kings of their obligation to follow torah, and that those potentates stand, whether they like it or not, under the of god. this means that the law has primacy over, the whims and private designs of anyone including and especially kings more to it, the sovereignty of god implies that the scope and power of any rule are strictly limited hemmed in by the demands of, the moral law. we might refer in this context to the magnificent of the corruption of kings found the speech given by the prophet samuel the fusion have long argued persuasively. i t

bay area jefferson award winner. sharon? right, vincent said what began as a family outing to get out of the house has become a full-time job and his passion in life. vincent nguyen would walk his kids to school and passed by what others left on the street. >> we were like, somebody should pick up, but we never did it. >> reporter: until one day, when vincent and his family set out to pick up trash, just a simple way to get active outside during the pandemic. >> it was satisfying to see a street that is so much cleaner. >> reporter: so he never stopped cleaning. >> now that i have seen the light, a civic awakening. like, if more of us would do this, you can see some amazing results. who needs extra bags? truck event as part of the group, refuse refuse sf in 2021. grassroots campaign spread throughout the city, volunteer teams regularly tackle some of the filthiest streets. like a stretch of masonic avenue in laurel heights, where syringes often get swept up. >> there used to be trash everywhere. tents, graffiti, now that we

we will put thomas jefferson visited there and put him at port jefferson.t george washington who visited the stifling which has been written about multiple times. we will celebrate them as men like we all are. we all have perfections but they lead, they found the foundation of this country, god bless them. we will celebrate them in long island. >> you join history, it matters a lot to you. you are a proud american, we see the flag on your lapel not by accident. are you shocked this doesn't happen at the city council in our history books in our schools? so many of the kids now are linked to almost apologize for our past rather than celebrate if they learn little. >> i taught history in public schools and in colleges. i'm proud of our history. we are not perfect, no one is. but let me tell you, the men we are talking about, elitist, they stepped up when we needed them. our liberties ran out, when our freedom wasn't dark, they stepped up to the plate. they put their lives in fortune and fame on the line. i don't know any men devoted to cover these statues were

maybe the court grants certain that thomas jefferson case. two points about that. fourth circuits rationale and upholding what i think you're right to describe it as a pretty heavy, we need fewer asians and more non-asians, i kind a message. the lower court said asians are still overrepresented and so they can't claim to be discriminated against. that made no sense to me for reasons i've explained in writing at a don't think that's going to move. i want to go back to your point about the difference between an extreme and and softer variants thereof. in that extreme form let's remember that in his dissent in kruger, the michigan law school case, justice thomas said if you want diversity, universe of michigan, just have a lottery. the dissent was the only reason you move to a latter is because you want racial proportionality. that would be okay. i was just his way of putting a thumb in the eye of the majority and then of course 20 years later he's voting to grant certain or dissenting from the denial of a state any application and the thomas jefferson case because ap

jefferson thank you.ng here. >> thanks, michael. >> checking in on social media reaction which i'm told there is a ton just quickly. no, people are not going to mask up again in 2023, 2024, ryan, there's the one certainty that i have about all of this. because there's enough fodder, grist for the mill for people to take away whatever they want they will continue to go on believing whatever they're cliented to do so because of media outlet or politician of choice and that's a shame. >>> the convicted murderer who escape add pennsylvania county jail on run ten days. 400 officers are after him. my next guest said he had his own run. in in his kitchen. what happened when he realized the intruder was the convict. make sure you're going to smerconish.com and voting. there's a poll question every day. at smerconish.com. today's happens to be will the lawsuit to bartram from the colorado ballot under the 14th amendment help or hurt him politically? >> . >>> what would you do if an escaped murderer showed up in yo

sharon chin introduces us to this weak's jefferson award winner . >> reporter: when he immigrated tos ago, the movie critic says he discovered films outside of his native philippines were plain miserable. >> people miserable, desperate, poor. i would like to correct that misconception. >> reporter: the writer and journalist decided to change the narrative. founded and directed filipino arts and cinema international. he organized annual film festival in san francisco 30 years ago for and about filipino community. >> we are a diverse people with certain history, culture, traditions. we have our own dreams and aspirations. >> reporter: his media arts festival and competition started as part of a month long exhibition of 60 films at the first filipino american arts ex position. three decades later, it is held over several days at the roxie theater. it draws hundreds of people and filipino film makers. works range from documentaries to animal videos, music videos. >> today i decided to visit your grave. >> reporter: he has introduced several of his own films including reflection on a fili

he is the author of the bestselling book what jefferson read. i watched and obama tweeted 200 years of popular culture in the white house. his most recent book is white house rival rivalry rooms in the white house from truman to trump, which was named as one of 2020 top political books by the white power by the wall street journal. dr. terry has a b.s. from cornell university and m.a. and ph.d. in american civilization from the universe ity of texas at austin. so tell me when we have people that work and worked in the white house like you did. tell us a little bit about your time in the white house. how you got there. what did you do and tell us about do you have a favorite memory from the white house or a favorite place within the white house complex? great. well, first, thank you for having me for doing this event, for reaching out to me 20 years ago. the first book, intellects from american presidents. she wrote great reviews for like nine years of millions. your. hair. i was just singing colleen's praises for all those who didn't hear it. so

they don't care that thomas jefferson had a koran. they don't care that the corolla is split and right down the street and the see at the smithsonian. what they care about is that god made this a special nation. and so when you talk about this nation being special, those documents can read them how you want to read them because you don't read the same history that kristen is teaching in her history class, or i'm teaching in american religion class. they're not reading that stuff. they are reading these kinds of made up homes. this is, this is a nostalgia movement. and we have to think about christian nationalism as adults delta massage before time that never exist. it does delta for time that didn't exist at the beginning of this nation. why did people come here? they came here to escape, you know, ty, radical religion in england. they wanted to have religious freedom to do what they wanted to do. they were religious people. and now we see this being used as no, no, no, we need to have a state religion just like english. this is crazy

so, madison, jefferson, hamilton, they all for political parties. when you are out of government, easy to say oh, we should just approach every issue independently. when you get into government, suddenly you want to pass bills or you want to oppose a bill so you need to start organizing a team. those teams quickly become political parties. you want to run for elections and you want to be up to coordinate among multiple candidates to share branding and other resources and mobilize supporters, well, you need a political party to do that. very quickly, the framers formed political parties and you read madison after his in government, he says political parties are kind of good and important things for a democracy. so, there is this sort of time in the u.s. from what we typically call the first party system, from about, from the first election, from 1788 through, 1790, you know, and onward and up through the 1820s and we know it as hamilton versus jefferson, democratic republicans of jefferson and madison versus federalists of hamilton and john adams. an

weber: the constable is a mainstay in the jefferson county community. a leader in his precinct and in his church. he is truly an amazing example of the best from texas 14. i could not be prouder representing constable bates as he not only represents galvesto, but the entire united states. with his accomplishment behind him, i'm very excited to see what constable bates' future will hold for him and our community. please join me in recognizing the extraordinary service of constable christopher bates sr., constable, we are extremely proud of you. mr. speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to clause 12-a of rule 1, the chair declares the house in recess subject tannouncer: wl continues. host: representative john larson serves as the first district of connecticut. he's the ranking member on social security here to join me to talk about the events of this week when it comes to a shutdown. thank you for your time. guest: good to be with you. host: -- how are house democrats preparing to keep a shutdown from happening? guest: when you listen t

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>> jefferson, i see wanting to weigh in.a central question. 60 years later, is his memory really something that we can base a pretty provocative theory like that on? >> his account cannot be confirmed. it is consistent with the evidence. mr. rockstool doesn't explain why even the people who were hit by bullets, the people in the car, don't believe the magic bullet theory. jackie kennedy didn't believe, it governor connally didn't believe it, and roy kellerman, the secret service man sitting in the front seat to said that we were hit by a flurry of bullets. okay. according to the official theory, they were struck by two bullets. so, the weight of the evidence shows that the president was hit by cross fire. the cia director, director of the cia himself john mccallum told that to bobby kennedy after he saw the supporter film of the assassination. so, landis's account may be open question on certain, point but it is consistent with the evidence and it compounds the severe doubts and credibility problems that the magic bullet the

jefferson, thank you.re. >> thanks, michael. >>> checking in on social media reaction, of which i'm told there is a ton. just quickly, no, people are not going to mask up again in 2023, 2024. well, ryan, there's the one certainty that i have about all of this, because there's enough fodder for the mill here for people to take away whatever they want to take away, they're going to continue to go on believing whatever they're inclined to do so, probably because of their media outlet or politician of choice, and that's a shame. >>> still to come, the convicted murderer who escaped a pennsylvania county jail has been on the run for ten days, 400 officers are after him. my next guest says he had his own run-in in his kitchen. what happened when he realized the intruder was the convict. please make sure to go to smerconish.com and vote on this week's toll question. there's a poll question every day at smerconish.com. today's happens to be, will the lawsuit to bar trump from the colorado ballot under the 14th ame

he is not writing for the thomas jefferson's of the world.e is writing for the man or woman in the street who can be persuaded by well-reasoned yet clear and accessible pros. peter: take it forward, where would you put him on today's political spectrum? prof. bell: his politics are completely fascinating. to understand his politics, you need to realize that common sense is not all there is to thomas payne. i would argue that tom payne wrote three masterpieces for which he is remembered. in some ways they are very different from one another their are common sense, the rights of man, and the age of reason. he wrote the other two in the 1790's about two years apart and they have a lot to do with the context of the french revolution which was unfolding by that time. what we can say at the general level is that payne knew what he thought, and that his ideology was consistently pro-republic with a small r, and pro-democracy of course with a small d. he wants all people to have a responsive, accountable, elected, transparent government. he is suspic