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

, because jefferson articulated the american ideal.ns the american idea. but his own inability to live up to those ideals during his ■e■hlifetime makes him our most conflicted founder. adam: this is peers speculation, but i'm curious. since he spent so much time studying jefferson's education, his self formation, do you suppose his particular education, his moral formation, his philosophy, made it easier for him to live with this hypocrisy or harder? jeffrey: temperament was averse to conflict of any time -- of any kind. ad a horror of conflict, and a sensitivity to papering over differences with romanti had suf the perfectibility of human reason,conflict was a horror to. i wonder whether, where in his upbringing, it came. he was devoted to his dad who died when he was 14. it was when his dad died that he writes in his commonplace book these excerpts from cicero's consultations to console himself. it is incredible that jefferson's main source of happiness is cicero's manual on grief. himself consolation at the loss of his father. what

jefferson right.all, is truly going to insist that the louisiana purchase included florida, spain and france both going to be like, we don't really think. so andrew jackson's going to go ahead and go take florida in 18 teens in what becomes known as the first seminole war so it's but jefferson thinks he's one that as well florida is important for a number of reasons, but mainly because of its accessthe caribbean. so napoleon, us, louisiana territory per the revolution in haiti world colonies are collapsing and he decides to offload this territory. and so jefferson now has a question to answer. what did he get when he bought this territoryz( of e 1@united states knows orleans pretty well and he knows that's an important it's, of course the dumbest place you could ever build a we have to work with what we got. they know new orleans is important and vital the entire mississippi river has the potential to become a trade artery that is unrivaled in the united states and. jefferson also knows there's a trib

why did jefferson leave it out? the all men are in doubt with natural rights to life, liberty and property is in locke's second treatise, which had but the phrase the of happiness is in the essay concerning human understanding, where it talks about the how to be a good person and jefferson uses the pursuit of happiness, not property, because property is an alien natural right. it's a technical thing. but when you form a state of nature and move from the state of nature to civil society, you can alienate or surrender control over certain rights in order to secure the rights you've retained. and you have to alienate control over property because property itself is alien of all the right to pursue happiness, can't be alienated because it's part of the rights of conscience. i can't surrender to the power to tell me what to think because i can't command myself to, as you or i or anyone pleases, the product of my reason. so jefferson was just being technically precise in leaving property the list, but he wasn't being in a

and he and jefferson worked on that commission. jefferson was secretary of state. kind of roman it is. it's based on roman cameo and it is neoclassical and was jefferson's favorite portrait of himself, his lifetime. before we leave this room, there's a couple of busts above. the doors. yes. so here we have john paul jones and george washington. and what i love is that we have the head of the navy and the head the army. so you've indicated that all the rooms are named after secretaries state who become president. but now we're about to go in to the ben franklin. yes. how does that make sense? well he was the father of the american service. and important to our diplomatic history. this looks like a ballroom. what's it used for? well, we again have reception and seated dinners and all forms of events you could imagine. this is where we welcomed leaders from around the world to, this room here for our state luncheons. what inspired this room? oh, well, it was a classical architecture in great of the type that franklin would have seen during his london years. tell us ab

adams and jefferson would have another difficult election at that.me jefferson winning and he would be the first prest inaugurated in the new capital of washington. but these years in philadelphia are setting the tone for the rest of our early history and all the way up to today. so the room itself will start out courthouse. so this would have been a courtroom. but around the time this building finished construction, it's the constitutional convention. so when they're finished, construct seven is around the time that philadelphia offers it to the us government. i think secret hope if we're really nice to them they'll just stay here and not go to that new city along the potomac. so they them their new courthouse building and they end up actually expanding it little bit to make more room for congress. we think the set up looks like this. we actually have a seating chars that shows the design of the and all. we don't have any of the desks that have survived we're of the chairs today unfortunately we only have about 30 of them between the two houses of c

thomas jefferson replaced him in paris and jefferson very clear on the fact that heer than repld ben. because, as jefferson puts it, no one could possibly replace him. and it's really jefferson who gi policy for a new nation. so in way that is the launching part, i would say, for for the department of state. yo book, t great improvization, is being turned into a miniseries. tell us about it. it's an eight part apple series. it wl beginning around april ine role of ben franklin. is douglas looking more like franklin than benilmed in precie sally, those hallways down, which ben franklin himself walked complaining the cold marble■ floors for all of those years that he was weekly paying visits to versailles to see louis the 16th to finesse the aid for the war. so it was really filmed exactly ere happened. everyone in the series who was french in real life, all the the entire french cast is play by french actors and the americans, americans. so it's an extraordinary bond by national cast, very true to the history and, really.

been a and, of course, burr and jefferson.nstitution. the election goes to the house of representatives. so the firstig thing we do in our new capital is that basically the house of representatives has to elect the new president and they have to vote more than 30 times before the tie can be broken. so aganou're saying, okay we've learned our lesson with these past two elections. let's it. so the 12th amendment comes along to finallyt. but again, you look back to these early days and they're managing to find out what doesn't work, which isn't much, and out that most of that constitution does. and so we're able to today look at a room that's much smaller than the senate today. but the senators sat here pretty much■q do the same things as the senators in washington today. 0 everyone on behalf of both the miller and the university of virginia press welcome to today's i'm steve cohen. i am a nonresident senior fellow with the milr

the her half of the meinroom ars jefferson standing up there.lly speaking, nobody's very happy that george washington is leaving us inis. so, john would kind of look around the room and see lot of people who weren't very happy. he'd see people with almost tears in their eyes that washington was leaving them latt as he looked around, he only saw one person that day who particularly looked happy, which was, of course, george washington had a look on his face that said, john adams, you are fairly in and i am fairly out. so so now let's find out who's the happier on day but washington go private life and i think very happily withdral the scene adams himself be inaugurated he would a difficult presidency because now really we're seeing the throes of political fighting going on but. it happened peacefully. we proved that constitution worked and we proved that we could continue in times of difficulty like this, that we continue forward with the system in place in 1800, they would leave this building, move to the current capital in, washington, dc. adam

a couple of portraits of jefferson.ost a primitive style. oh, well, this is the work of charles peale and it dates to 1791 when thomas jefferson was serving as secretary of state. now, charles wilson but prior te served in our revolution and brought his paints onto the battlefield and afterwards went on t establish america's first museum. one other jefferson portrait want to ask you about this is a copy done by gilbert stuart. he was the original artist. the artist of this one is william thorton, who is better known as the architect of the at commission. jefferson was secretary of state. kind of roman it is. it's based on roman cameo and it is neoclassical and was jefferson's favorite portrait of himself, his lifetime. before we leave this room, there'co above. the doors. yes. so here we have john paul jones and george washington. andthat we have the head of the navy and the head the army. so you've indicated that ahe afr secretaries state who become president. but now we're about to go in to the ben franklin. yes. how

it is the motto of the jefferson awards in partnership with cbs news bay area. this evening, all 45 of our jefferson award winners from 2023 will attend a special ceremony . sharon chen has a sneak peek. >> i had to ride dill pickle. that is the horses name. >> if we can stabilize one family at a time, we could stabilize the entire neighborhood. >> when you put that positivity out there, it does multiply. >> the single most powerful sign of resistance was literally planting a tree. >> trying to find your purpose and to find your purpose from giving. >> i wanted my wife to get bigger. if i only had six months more to live, i wanted to show my kids who i was. >> i knew about the impacts it can have on the emotional toll, the financial toll. >> how do we start to grow our thinking and not immediately think that black and brown folks are a threat? >> we really want people to know that there is something they can do right now, which is to exercise. >> sometimes, it gets overwhelming but overall it is a good way to think of him in a positive way. >> anyone who has bee

guest: he wrote back and argued every excuse jefferson proffered , for example jefferson says he is toold. he responded saying, look at your elder statesman peer benjamin franklin. you have such moral authority and credibility, which goes a long way to this cause. please help us. jefferson never responded after that. coles ended up inheriting a slave his father left him and immediately man emitted him. he inspired a generation of abolitionists, including abraham lincoln, where lincoln said, thank you for the example you set. it is important to have heroes who embody these values, people who even when it was unpopular, to recognize the equal personhood and moral worth of all human beings, even when it was costly to them. he uprooted his life to a more amenable environment in the midwest, yet he is someone no one knows about. he is not taught in history books and should be. host: you hold him up as an example how you can be civil even when you deeply disagree with someone. guest: and speaking truth to power. he took a lot of personal risk onto himself and calling out the most respected pe

guest: he wrote back and argued every excuse jefferson proffered , for example jefferson says he is toold. he responded saying, look at your elder statesman peer benjamin franklin. you have such moral authority and credibility, which goes a long way to this cause. please help us. jefferson never responded after that. coles ended up inheriting a slave his father left him and immediately man emitted him. he inspired a generation of abolitionists, including abraham lincoln, where lincoln said, thank you for the example you set. it is important to have heroes who embody these values, people who even when it was unpopular, to recognize the equal personhood and moral worth of all human beings, even when it was costly to them. he uprooted his life to a more amenable environment in the midwest, yet he is someone no one knows about. he is not taught in history books and should be. host: you hold him up as an example how you can be civil even when you deeply disagree with someone. guest: and speaking truth to power. he took a lot of personal risk onto himself and calling out the most respected pe

of the presidents, in george andrew abe, both roosevelts, woodrow wilson and then actually thomas jeffersonthe back are the seven presidents whom he interviewing historians, presidential experts, academic history teachers, such professors they thought were the seven most influential presidents. so that's why they are 25% larger than the remaining 35. so it was pretty easy for him to take the 35 smaller ones first and move them here, stack them in rows of 11 for some reason, thomas jefferson, who in my opinion deserves to be up front with george and abe, got stuck in the back. and that is for reasons that are unbeknownst to me. he is the only vip who row. all the other ones were stacked because his excavator had capacity to lift each ayvnd onef them based on its max capacity of lift. the problem encountered was when he got to the larger presidents. one excavator one work so he had use two and was able to successfully then stt stacking the larger presidents in front starting woodrow wilson, teddy, fdr. but then he realized that if he took the final three washington, 6éjackson, lincoln, that i

sharon chin joins us live to introduce this week's bay area jefferson award. sharon? >> it is daisy macarthur. she's not only a caregiver, but also trains helpers to provide care with the same kind of compassion. >> reporter: daisy macarthur lives a life of service because she loves people. >> i say whatever you do, have patient, have kindness, and listen to them. >> here. >> reporter: at age 76, daisy has worked more than a quarter century for the san francisco in-home public authority. she provides help to low income elderly, people with disabilities, so they can stay in their own homes instead of moving to an institution. her service, rooted in her southern upbringing. she tagged along as her mom and neighbors responded to emergencies. >> we watched them caring for the elderly people that got sick. a snakebite. or broke their leg or arm. >> reporter: on this day, daisy is picking up the protective masks as she would help her client with things like bathing, dressing, laundry, cooking. the job is not easy and can be lonely. but daisy knows, she's making a difference

it was pretty easy for him to take the 35 here, stack them in rows of 11 for some reason, thomas jefferson frot with george and abe, got stuck in the back. and that is for reasons that are unbeknownst to me. he is the only vip who isn't in the front row. all the other ones were ss excad capacity to lift each and one of them based on its max capacity of lift. the problem encountered was when he got to the larger presidents. one excavator one work so he had use two and was able to successfully then start stacking the larger presidents in front starting woodrow wilson, teddy, fdr. but then he realized that if he took the final three washington, jackson, lincoln, that it would be obscured to the remaining ones. so he had to pick and choose which three he wanted to come up front. and these are the three that he chose. and we're going why in a moment so that that is kind how the schematic and the chronological like it's fairly random but see most of the smaller ones are set and the larger ones are are upgeorge. obviously was born.ites and he he was born, i think around five miles from here in a

but jefferson express his hope nevertheless. quote, i think we have no campaign against the this year. there is some ground of expectations that they will accept a peace as we asked nothing in return for it. i mean, it's obviously amazing. i mean, they're getting pushed all the place. and jefferson was oblivious to it. it didn't turning attention to the north. in 1789. alexander mackenzie set out to find a land route canada to the pacific. this is long before lewis clark. he found large river flowing west from northern canada. it continued west as he took it. but then abrupt flowed north and mackenzie, unfortunately became the first persian person go overland to the arctic ocean. undeterred, he wintered not far from where he started on this arctic and wrote this letter in september 1790, discussing and transportation needs for the coming winter. this is the only letter in a private in there almost no letters surviving of mackenzie in october 1792. he did head west again this time overland, and was the first person to discover in