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 right. as i've already told you 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 going hang in the balance but jefferson thinks he's one that as well florida is important for a number of reasons, but mainly because of its access to the caribbean. so napoleon, us, louisiana territory per the revolution in haiti is his mind his new 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 territory of the 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 city. but they went ahead and did it. so we have to work with what we got. they know new orleans is important and vital the entire mississippi river has the

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

and when jefferson takes over, he the power of the federal government.i mean, unless you you you get the mail delivered. but that's it how the government never touched you in any way. there was no major army and there's no there's no except for customs duties, which you never felt so. and you had the mail coming in and that's the way you'd know you were living in the federal government. by 1810. let's take another question up here. we see a thing out here. they exist. i ask about the new army in the adams administration. how big a concern is the creation by congress? a second american army, and how serious a concern was it that hamilton leading it would use it against political enemies, i should say? this is corey sharkey runs foreign and defense policy know one of america's great experts on civil military niceties and there's always been a problem of why madison turns against the administer the washington administration because he is such a nationalist in the 1780s he would be really engineered as anyone i think if anyone's going to be the father of the

memorials to thomas jefferson, franklin d roosevelt and martin luther jr stand on its banks. the tidal basin started as an engineering project, but has also served as a swimming hole, a protest ground and scene of a political scandal. national mall and memorial communications chief met us on site to talk about the area's history and famous japanese cherry trees. we are at the edge of. the tidal basin in washington, d.c. home to the world famous cherry trees which blossom every spring. well-known to washingtonians, people across, the country, and in fact, people across the world. but had you been here before 1890 or so? we would be in the middle of the potomac river. this area has evolved over the years. there's always been an element of recreation out around the tidal basin. but with passing of time recurring, fashion has become much more important than initially was. now, as early as 1890, there was an established swimming area around what we know today as the tidal basin. with the planting of the cherry trees originally in 1912, that really created interest and tourism and

jefferson. right. so say lincoln. lincoln elevates jefferson as the author of the declaration of independence and but for for someone like campbell, what's critical about jefferson is that he is the brilliant advocate of the as campbell sees it, as the kind of politics he wants, which is a highly, you know, based on the overt principle of white supremacy. but for the for full, for white, for or at least for white men, it's absolute an egalitarian vision. it's really, really egalitarian, radical vision. it's everything he was always advocating in britain. right. the only difference when comes to the united states is that he cannot cope with the idea that black people can be incorporated into his kind of emancipate, honest, egalitarian vision. and you can see why for him. jefferson. jefferson worked perfectly all right, because jefferson said all men wrote all men are created equal, while enslaving, you know, 200 or have many. it was people in monticello. so that's how he did it that way of time.

he's number two on the committee after jefferson. jefferson was young, not very busy in philadelphia, you know, generally reclusive. adams was basically on every committee that mattered. so as a result, he was too busy to be a drafter. he did admire jefferson on a number of dimensions and again worked for the politics to have the result that jefferson get the most votes when it came time to select a committee to write a preamble for declaration of independence. so the declaration's, i believe, properly understood as adams's declaration. that's the first and most important point that then leads to a second important point, which is the one professor would made at the very end his remarks. and i was so glad that he did that. it is indeed the revolution brings us the beginning of the end of enslaved it. and it's adams who is a part of that as is ben franklin, also on the committee of five that drafted the declaration. and so immediately before the end of the revolution. so before we get to even eight states having a boston slave man bef

thomas jefferson was president, as says, for eight years. during those eight years, he gave two speeches. his two inaugural addresses, because he knew he wasn't a good speaker. his first inaugural address, though, was very important in that his predecessor obviously was john john adams during his presidency when the federalists controlled congress enacted the sedition act, which made it a crime punishable by incarceration for anyone criticize john adams or federalist policy. fortunately, that act expired by its own terms at the end of adams, but jefferson became president in a world where people had been thrown in jail for having conflicting opinions, he knew that this country wasn't going to last long. if we were operating on that basis. and so in his first inaugural address, among his opening words were, look, folks, we are all we are all republicans we are all americans, and we better start acting that way or this isn't going to last. but to your knowing, he wasn't a great, but he was a dazzling in small groups and he knew it. and so his

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thomas jefferson replaced him in paris and jefferson very clear on the fact that he has succeeded rather than replaced ben franklin. because, as jefferson puts it, no one could possibly replace him. and it's really jefferson who begins to craft a foreign policy for a new nation. so in way that is the launching part, i would say, for for the department of state. your book, the great improvization, is being turned into a miniseries. tell us about it. it's an eight part apple series. it will air, i believe, beginning around april in the role of ben franklin. is douglas looking more like franklin than ben franklin? and it was filmed in precise 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 where it where it all happened. everyone in the series who was french in real life, all the the entire french cast is played by french actors and the americans, americans. so it's an extraordinary bond b

but then you have jefferson and and lincoln. i would say that are much more concerned about this has to be captured by changing opinion before. you deal with the institutions. and that brings me back to the i guess, the divergence in the founders, you know, jefferson's arguing that, you know, a revolution every couple decades is the way to go versus obviously somebody like hamilton and even madison that the institutions really to be at the center of the process and so i guess any comments or how do we think about i mean, there's this interesting sort of rebuttal to jefferson in the federalist papers. i think it's around 50. is it 49, 50, when. i madison replies that you know, this moment of founding as in i think he says something like an experiment to take a nature to repeat, you know, that there are certain facts about having just fought a war about the unity that comes with that moment that this goes to peter berkowitz this point about the danger of thinking one can have re. very often in a healthy way. so so that's why i spe

jefferson had nothing to do with the treaty of tripoli.ew seidel's book is full of inaccuracies and falsehoods. you began your statement with a claim that all sorts of americans are afraid of christian nationalism. this is somewhat of an empirical question. recent pew studies in 2022, 2024, the studies find 54% of americans have never heard of the phrase christian nationalism and those who have, 25% have a negative view of it and only 5% have a positive view of it. there seem to be precious few christian nationalists, so many few self identified christian nationalists out there. host: this is bill in pennsylvania, republican. caller: thank you for taking my call. that fellow said that our country wasn't founded -- to these folks ever go to the state capital buildings and see the 10 commitments and bible verses that were put on them hundreds of years ago? as far as reading a book, i think the problems started when our country stopped reading the book. christianity isn't just for certain countries. as you read the word of god, god extended m

jefferson had nothing to do with the treaty of tripoli.ew seidel's book is full of inaccuracies and falsehoods. you began your statement with a claim that all sorts of americans are afraid of christian nationalism. this is somewhat of an empirical question. recent pew studies in 2022, 2024, the studies find 54% of americans have never heard of the phrase christian nationalism and those who have, 25% have a negative view of it and only 5% have a positive view of it. there seem to be precious few christian nationalists, so many few self identified christian nationalists out there. host: this is bill in pennsylvania, republican. caller: thank you for taking my call. that fellow said that our country wasn't founded -- to these folks ever go to the state capital buildings and see the 10 commitments and bible verses that were put on them hundreds of years ago? as far as reading a book, i think the problems started when our country stopped reading the book. christianity isn't just for certain countries. as you read the word of god, god extended m

this is a celebration of jefferson davis's birthday. he was the president of the confederate states well, there's a bill making its way through the state legislature to make juneteenth the state holiday. okay. june 19, the commemorate the end of slavery but but to pass the bill some house members required a compromise state employees would have to pick you, take off juneteenth or jefferson davis's birthday freedom or the confederacy joining me now to discuss is wanted linda van an alabama state representative and sponsor of the juneteenth bill, representative gov. >> and thank you for being with me and we were talking a little bit during the break. this is not the way you want it to be but there is no other federal paid holiday that is not an alabama state paid holiday. why does juneteenth get this treatment in alabama? >> well first of all, again, thank you, victor off for having me. i'm excited to be here, but very disheartened in a way. this is sweet home alabama as i said a moment ago, this is sometimes the best that you're going to