c-span: john adams, number one? >> guest: john adams is number one. he got dismissed... c-span: number two? >> guest: well, i guess thomas jefferson would not be a bad man to have for dinner. i would enjoy that. c-span: you talk a little bit in the book about his being a better writer than a speaker. >> guest: yes. this was, remember, an age of oratory. and thomas jefferson was well known for being a very poor public speaker. john adams said he rarely spoke in public more than three sentences together. his talents lay elsewhere. his talents were in writing. the congress, in a very interesting way, had a kind of a writer's corps, people who it could call upon to write its public pronouncements. john dickinson of pennsylvania was one of the favored writers and probably the most popular because he had written a set of newspaper essays already--1767, '68, sometime earlier--that had been widely copied in the newspapers, which, of course, is the television of the time, the public median--medium. c-span: did you read all those, by the way? >> guest: i re--oh, yes. i've read the

john adams, obviously a great man and patriot. a great contributor to our nation's birth, as we all know from david mccullough and the wonderful hbo miniseries. but he is not a great president. and i don't think he was even a near great president. he presided over french abuse of u.s. commercial shipping there got to be problematical. he signed, and fostered the alien and sedition acts, which criminalize public criticism of the government and used the sedition act to root out french immigrants that he considered potentially hostile to federalist and sensibilities. there is a story of one bookstore owner who immigrated here. he quietly was running a bookstore in philadelphia. in the end, he ended up being singled out for deportation. he had a friend who had some connections in washington. he asked why me? why am i being singled out. this guy made some inquiries and reported back that the president was quoted as saying that nothing in particular, but he is too french. [laughter] he presided over massive tax increases, which led the

now let's talk about john adams. obviously, a great man, obviously, a great patriot, a great contribute tore our nation's birth as we all know from david mccullough and that wonderful hbo miniseries, but he was not a great president. he presided over french abuse of u.s. commercial shipping that got to be really problem proble. he signed and really kind of fostered the alien and sedition acts which criminalized public criticism of the government, and he used the sedition act to root out french emigres that he considered hostile to federalist sensibilities. i don't think that would go over very well today. there's a story of one quiet french bookstore owner moved here, emigrated here, he was quietly running a bookstore in philadelphia, and he ended up being singled out for deportation. he had a friend who had some connections in washington, so he asked his friend, you're down there, you know, ask why me, why am i being singled out? so the guy made some inquiries, and he reported back that the president was quoted as s

john quincy adams? it was said he procured prostitutes for the russian tsar. thomas jefferson?s election would result in, "murder, robbery, rape, adultery, and incest." so until we get charges oo robbery, nuclear war-starting, or prostitute procuring, maybe this will have to wait . the president is taking things to a new low. they might be mean, cruel and cynical, but negative campaigns are not blights on history,they are our history. -----end----- cnn.script----- manny machado's firt mistake... mistake...see if it cost the o's... next in sports. ((break 3)) when it comes to getting my family to eat breakfast, i need all the help i can get. that's why i like nutella. mom, what's the capital of west virginia? charleston. nutella is a delicious hazelnut spread my whole family loves. mom, have you seen my -- backpack? nutella goes great on whole-wheat toast or whole-grain waffles. and its great taste comes from a unique combination of simple ingredients like hazelnuts, skim milk and a hint of cocoa. yeah, bye. have you seen my -- yes. and...thank you. [ male announcer ] nutella. b

where we've gone abroad and done all these things until relatively modern history he quotes john quincy adams who of course was the secretary of state for james monroe who instituted the monroe doctrine which basically drew a line around the western hemisphere i.e. outside the borders of the united states and said if you come here you're going to have trouble so we have been getting involved in affairs outside our borders since the very beginning of this country's formal founding as the united states that said i certainly think that with the changes with the with the end of the soviet union the end of the cold war i think that there have been a lot of changes in this world of self-evident to everyone the rise of islamic terrorism sarap we need to have a strong economy we can do that and i would note about the clip from h.b.o. when writer aaron sorkin who spends the words in his you know a famous hollywood liberal you can take those words and go back retroactively and apply them to any time in american history if i mean the issue here is very strongly very point say with you do you think that

he is doing a book on john quincy adams. we don't think of as a slavery president. we think of abraham lincoln as that rightly show but john quincy adams was intimately involved with making it so people could talk about slavery and help free the slaves on the other side. wonderful story. nobody tells these stories. >> we have seen a lot of books on john adams but not so many on john quincy adams. >> from having a president who went on to have a son who was a president recently, george bush. interesting to imagine the parallels between the two families. >> who is stephen brown? >> another author of ours. he has done a book -- the last vikings. of polar explorer. there were four parts of the world's -- the north pole and south pole and northwest package and northeast kerri at and he was the only person to explore all four of them and did it in less than 20 years and considering how much to those in to these that is record time to northwest passage and northeast passage. >> well-known english author martin keller. >> wonderful c

what john adams hang around a couple of day and open the mail? it was awkward crisis. finally, a letter comes from burr, he's up in albany serves as state legislature and he said nobody should vote for me. and jefferson wins. but this was not a well-established nation. it's important to keep that in mind as you look at the story. in the situation, we place aaron burr. our hero for this story. he frame a distinguished family. his father was the president of new jersey which is now price ton. he was jonathan edwards the great three low begans who said we are sinners in the hands of angry god. he doesn't sound like fun but very powerful. burr was a very smart student, a gifted student, but he at the young age, demonstrated what really moved him was military matters. the revolution broke out when he was 19, he ran up to boston where the washington was faced off against the british, and he involve volunteered for one of the worst military expetitions we ever mounted. we innovated canada in late november and december. it was a bad idea. the weather was terrible, the hardship

john adams book?>> oh, sure, but even more so their letters are amazing. some of my goals in the book were that i wanted to see what these parents told their children, how they told them, and also what the letters told -- tell us about the times in which they lived. so the adams' letters cover a lot of those sides. but the rules that you asked about the rules that i had, they're really very simple. i had two rules. the person who had written the letter had to make a substantial and worthwhile contribution to our country. and then the letter itself had to reveal something of value. >> you said that theodore roosevelt wrote 150,000 letters? >> yes. >> are they all catalogged somewhere? >> the theodore roosevelt association has many of them, the library of congress has many of them. they have been edited, i mean, they're accessible. it's amazing. and his letters to his children are just -- the letters while he's in the white house and his children are young are just incredible to see this man who is the

place could be a danger the united states global projection of military power going back to what john quincy adams said when he was secretary of state in eight hundred twenty one before was president that we could be dictators of the world what our policy would then shift from a policy of liberty and freedom to a policy of domination and control and now we are a country that's lost its way and it's not because we may not be number one in the amount of arms we sell you know we sell about three quarters of all the arms abroad or have the greatest military power but because we lost our moral stature and values of who we are as a people our influence of broad should be the influence of example period we should have self defense but not preemptive war for everywhere ok where we are now where the lines are all night where all these are all nice things jeffrey how did we get to this point then. well first of all let me say in terms of and terms of what bruce has just said and i should note here for the record that bruce is a former colleague from the reagan administration although we've not met and i can

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i can see abigail adams sitting and clutching her scorching hot cup of joe, john adams saying sit downnd drink your damn coffee, woman. she really was the brains of the outfit. my mother is overworked, tired, but her still solid body stood hard as a rock. i'm not going to cry, as a tear falls down from her face. don't cry, mom, don't cry. [cheers and applause] >> that was her first time ever. yay! and up next we have indiana telepenova. >> a recipe for water. start with the color magenta, a burning asphalt, of beach ball sighing out its life, a garden grown on accident after accident, add a father painting shelves on the cove, a pinch of guilt, statues of isabella butter flisse -- butterflies, and extinct alpha betts, a teaspoon of autumn leaves, a shepard playing with the winds, some animal begging for snow. mix vigorously like the mountain mixes up its slopes. preheat the bed of a star to -- 240 light-years away. thank you. and next is -- [cheers and applause] >> next is robin black. >> hi, robin! >> oh, ok. i had to know. this is called "eviction notice." the police turned us away.

she is the vice chancellor of academic affairs overseeing not only john adams but many different departmentsshe has dedicated her servants -- service as the vice chancellor of city college and she was the administrator of the esl different. she has been on the board of the richmond district center and she is also a leader in our richmond district community as well. i ask you to join me in commending them for their years of work as we open and celebrate the new chinatown campus and the movement of students and community people from the educational opportunities for chinatown and different coalitions of faculty and students that fought for many years. thank you for your leadership and if you would like to see a few words, both of you. -- say a few words, both of you. >> thanks for this recommendation. -- this recognition. we have nearly 60 years of experience in terms of serving the community college district. it is 75 years old and i think the chinatown campus is the latest example of bringing education to the community. we have to have a permanent home in our bayview hunters point in the nea

blair moved from number 10 downing street to this mansion in central london, where john adams once resided ambassador. now this place doesn't have enough space to house blair's multiple endeavors and charities. but none seems more important to blair than the tony blair faith foundation. his business ventures and philanthropy range from consulting with developing countries about how to improve systems of government to programs designed to get more young people involved in sports. but blair appears especially energized by what he calls his "counter-attack" against religious radicalism. >> the big issue of our time actually is this, is trying to deal with this extremism based on a perversion of religion and how you get peaceful coexistence between people of different faiths and cultures. >> how do you? >> well, i think by establishing platforms of understanding between people of different faiths and cultures so that they learn more about each other and through knowledge i think, comes the possibility of peaceful coexistence. i think where there is ignorance there's usually fear, and where the

john adams and john quincy adams and now, two great men with surrounded, who have two terrific partnersa bush and laura bush, two extraordinary first ladies of our country. >> let's talk about tomorrow. mitt romney's challenge. past two days for speeches and today delivered from paul ryan. what does he have to do? >> well, he has to keep it going. this has been building and he's got to keep it building so thifrry and tone and message have got to be powerful. he's got to show people more whof he is. and he's -- people want to know more about it. particularly voters up for grabs want to know more about the man. what makes him tick? what are the values in his heart? he also most importantly wants to tell them what his plan s people want to know they've made a judgment and want to know what it is you're going to do. how you're going to get it done. >> it's been a year of challenges for mitt romney in which he's had to rise to the occasion. during the primary season he kept falling behind other candidates and rising to the occasion in debates. he was a far more formidable candidate and a bet

angels are real and depends upon who is america's number one there's a there's a gradual decline john quincy adams said when he was secretary of state in eight hundred twenty one before was president that we could be dictators of the world what our was policy would then shift from a policy of liberty and freedom to a policy of domination and control and now we are a country that's lost its way and it's not because we may not be number one in the amount of arms we sell you know we felt about three quarters of all arms abroad or have the greatest military power but because we lost our moral stature and values of who we are as a people i. iran has rejected as a political move the latest report by the u.n. nuclear watchdog which claims the country's doubled the number of uranium enrichment centrifuges technion believes the findings are aimed at overshadowing the nonaligned movement summit taking place there so you mohammad marandi a professor at the university of to run thanks the release of the report at this time is highly suspicious. the iranians are saying that this report came at a sensitive time

could be a danger to the united states global projection of military power going back to what john quincy adams said when he was secretary of state in eight hundred twenty one before as president that we could be dictators of the world what our policy would then shift from a policy of liberty and freedom to a policy of domination and control.

john quincy adams, it was said he procured prostitutes for the russian czar. thomas jefferson.ams supporters once said his election would result in murder, robbery, rape, adultery, and incest. so until we get charges of robbery, nuclear war starting, or prostitute procuring, maybe this will have to wait. >> the president is taking things to a new low. >> reporter: they might be mean, cruel, and cynical, but negative campaigns are not blights on history, they are our history. if there is one thing that does seem different this year, it's not that the negative campaigning has started earlier, it's that the complaining about negative campaigning has started earlier. john berman, cnn, new york. >> and if you're wondering, perhaps the last presidential election that didn't go negative, well, 1820. president james monroe ran unoopposed. >>> where an easy win in '08 has become a big campaign battleground. >>> and look who's watching your every move. is new facebook technology pushing the bounds of privacy? producers are committed as to safely and responsibly providing generations of c

also of our government's longevity unless this germ of destruction be taken out and as he wrote to john adamsn nine hundred thirteen rehashing a debate the two would add over the senate which at that time was handpicked by wealthy state legislators the artificial aristocracy is a must civitas ingredient in government and provision should be made to prevent its ascendancy i think that to give them power in order to prevent them from doing mischief is arming them for it and increasing instead of remedy in the evil we were warned by president grover cleveland the only democrat elected during the robber baron era who in his eighteen eighty eight state of the union address said as reviews of the achievements of aggregated capital we discover the existence of trusts combinations and monopolies of the citizens struggling far in the rear or as trampled to death beneath an iron evil corporations which should be the carefully restrained creatures of the law and the servants of the people are fast becoming the people's masters and we were warned by franklin roosevelt in the aftermath of the great depres

in response he the adams campaign acrewsed jefferson of being the son of a half-breed indian and a mulato father. in the 1828 campaign, johnuincy adam supporters called andrew jackson a murder or, his mother a prostitute, and his wife an adulteress. in 1876, democrats accuse republican candidate rutherford b. haze of two heinous crimes -- shooting his open mother and stealing the pay of dead soldiers while he was a union general. and as brown points out, the role of the media in all this has not been exactly stellar. in 1896, the new york time was supporting republican william mckinley and ran an article about his opponent, title "is brian crazy." it cite one source the newspaper said it was not at liberty to give. clinton and mccain accused of fathering illegitimate children. the stuff about obama's birth certificate, and romney being blamed for the death of a cancer victim. so it's nothing new. that's for sure. but as my mother used to say-- just because something has always been that way doesn't mean it's right. back in a minute. real estate in hong kong, and the optics industry in germany? at t. rowe price, we understa