the chances of having the monument in washington to him soon, and will it just be john adams or john and abigail or john quincy adams or the entire adams family? >> well, this is still open to discussion. and the congress has passed the bill making it possible, and the president has signed the bill. now we have to work out a location. i say "we" because i'm part of a group that's trying to see this happen. and it has to be a location that's in keeping with his importance. it's really a disgrace. there's no monument, no statue, nothing to john adams, and in my opinion and the opinion of others, except for george washington, he is the most important american of that time, of that revolutionary founding time. but if you want to know what i think it should be, i think it should not be another marble tomb or obelisk and i don't think it should try to rival either the washington monument or the lincoln memorial or the jefferson memorial in scale. i think it ought to be 18th century in scale. in other words, it should be modest in size. and i am promoting as best i can the idea that it will

>> while i was writing "john adams." at the point where adams was in philadelphia and they're getting reports of what's happening in new york. and when the report comes back that the battle of long island has been a fiasco, that 1,000 americans have been taken prisoner, that more than 300 americans have been killed, that washington has been outflanked and outsmarted and then the escape from brooklyn. when i read all of that which was happening -- which adams, of course, was not taking part in and writing a biography, you can't stray off to write for five or six or ten pages on something that he has no involvement in, i thought, you know, i'd really like to write about all that was going on besides what was happening in independence hall in philadelphia. and how much of all that was happening in philadelphia had ended on what this ragtag army under washington, how they were performing, how much chance they had. >> when did you decide to call it "1776"? >> after it was all written. i never, never decide on a title in the b

and then he was followed up there by john adams, who was the second president of the united states, who occupied that same building until he -- until the white house was completed here in the district in 1800. so for nearly a decade the philadelphia mansion served as the white house of the united states. it was the seat of the executive branch of the federal government and was a place for both the public and the private activities of george washington. he met dignitaries there. he met his members of the congress there. it was the center of the activities of this country for a very long time. now, the irony, though, is that while he was there in his official residence in philadelphia, he also had there with him a wide variety of individuals who helped run that white house. among them were nine enslaved individuals who he had brought with him from virginia to help run that white house in philadelphia. among them was his cook, hercules, who was renowned for his ability to fashion wonderful meals for those who came to the white house. what's particularly ironic, though, when you think about

now, the first iron ny is the ft that john adams from new england, a nonslave holder, is then followed by three presidents who are all slave holders -- jefferson, madison, an monroe. in addition, the district of columbia itself was infused with slavery and an african-american presence because this new capital of the nation after much negotiation is located between two slave states, virginia and maryland. so we put our nation's capital in the middle of a part of the country where slavery is embraced and encouraged. in addition, the district of columbia itself had a fairly active and large african-american community. in 1800, 25% of the population of this country -- of the city was african-american. they told a number of about 4,000 individuals, but about four-fifths of them were enslaved people. the city they came to in which they were building the white house was one in which slave ru was an important part, a critical part of its operations. now, these numbers were swelled in part by the officials who came to live here and be a part of federal government, because many of them brought s

heard about what abigail adams experienced during the american revolution, how much she missed john adams, her husband, how much she wished they could be together. but adams' experience was not singular. many other women including esther debert reed experienced these feelings, experienced these periods of aloneness. esther debert reed's husband served in the pennsylvania assembly, became a military aide to george washington, and then was governor of pennsylvania. so she had to stay at home and take care of her four children without his help and support for many years. so what this meant is that women had to basically learn how to take care of business at home and yet support their husbands in their political activities while they were away. and as i say, this was a great sacrifice for many women. and men recognized that this was a sacrifice on the part of women. they began to publish essays, and they began to produce orations in which they noted that women were as patriotic as men, in which they celebrated women's contributions to the revolutionary cause, in which they honored women for s

and i don't care what john adams or anybody says.annot call those calls with the game on the line. referees cannot decide the game. these guys busted their hump for 40 minutes and to make a call like that, it's a disgrace. now, murray state and marquette. i'm looking forward to that game. murray state is built guard-oriented. canen and those guys, shoot threes. marquette can play with that but i think the difference in the game will be jae crowder. kenny: john adams, please change the rule. we don't want charles' held to explode. charles: you're trying to foul. just to make it look not intentional. but to give the team a foul and the ball -- i hate that intentional call. greg a.: kenny made a great point too. i think one thing the officials should do, why don't they warn the players before the free throw is taken. because you shouldn't want to have to call a violation. charles: i have a bailout. get the officials with good common sense. common on, -- come on, man! kenny: clean it up inside, no more elbows. you say hey, you can't come

and i don't care what john adams or anybody says.annot call those calls with the game on the line. referees cannot decide the game. these guys busted their hump for 40 minutes and to make a call like that, it's a disgrace. now, murray state and marquette. i'm looking forward to that game. murray state is built guard-oriented. canen and those guys, shoot threes. marquette can play with that but i think the difference in the game will be jae crowder. kenny: john adams, please change the rule. we don't want charles' held to explode. charles: you're trying to foul. just to make it look not intentional. but to give the team a foul and the ball -- i hate that intentional call. greg a.: kenny made a great point too. i think one thing the officials should do, why don't they warn the players before the free throw is taken. because you shouldn't want to have to call a violation. charles: i have a bailout. get the officials with good common sense. common on, -- come on, man! kenny: clean it up inside, no more elbows. you say hey, you can't come

. >> jon: is that a lot harder to portray -- when you are in like a john adams mini series. >> you canwant no one remembers him. >> jon: sure. but this is fresh in people's minds. >> a living figure is one thing and then a living historical figure is another and a living historical cultural important figure. she's so present in peoples minds. >> jon: and divisive. there's nothing you can go d'oh to win on that one. >> so polarizing. >> jon: it brings up the difference between someone who really knows how to act, like an actress and, you know, me -- [ laughter ] -- is it's so easy to make that a character tour. can i do my joe lieberman for you. >> please, please. >> jon: close your eyes. everybody vote for me. [ laughter ] so that -- >> that was dead on. >> jon: right? how do you craft it to avoid caricature but still capture the ticks, the essence? >> thank you for thinking that i did. first of all. >> jon: i say that from somebody who watched it. >> okay it's -- it was a really challenge. it was a huge challenge. i'm never going to be able to become that person that person exists. i

this autograph, by john quincy adams, where he signed as the secretary of state and it's routine, departmental business from january 16th of 1818. john quincy adams, who's one of america ew's great secretaries of state, arranging with england for the joint occupation of the oregon territory and obtaining from spain, the cessation of the floridas which included eastern louisiana. he also formulated the doctrine with president monroe on the monroe doctrine. and he was sixth president of the united states in 1825. the oldest document we have in the collection is this full letter that was written by vol vol tair. he was a french philosopher and flown as "the father of ten lightenment." this letter was written in 1732 and the letter is thanking the author for his criticism or review of his book of history. the history of charles xii. as father of enlightenment, this is the basis of the american revolution. and i think that's probably why the collector included these documents as well as this book as sort of the basis for his collection. and also, in the french connection, we have a letter from the

john adams said, "the age of painting and sculpture has not arrived in this country, and i hope it will not arrive soon. i would not give a sixpence for a picture of raphael." nevertheless, admiration for the artist became so great th copies of his works grew in number, especially of the madonna of the chair. merchants and landowners placed these copies in rooms filled with family portraits and memorabilia. unlike jefferson's monticello, the copy after raphael might now be the only art relating to an old master in the room. the attitude toward raphael changed during the 19th century. through prints and the new medium of photography, copies of his sistine madonna and other works proliferated. once mass-produced, they were no longer a mark of taste and distinction but symbolized their owner's moral as well as artistic values. eventually, raphael's images became so commonplace they were fair game for parody. in the late 19th century, a new, more sophisticated type of collector arose in america: the millionaire who, having amassed a fortune, was now prepared to spend it on masterpieces. the

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]

adams had been elected president in 1824, first son of a former president to be so elected. in 1828 he was defeated by andrew jackson. in 1830 john quincy adams did the unthinkable. he had been president of the united states and yet he was driven by a god-placed feeling, a need to stop slavery in america. so after having been president, he lowered himself to run for the house of representatives and was elected in 1830, sworn in 1831 and served until 1848 just down the hall in what we now call statuary hall. he was driven -- he was a driven man. he believed god had called him, as he did, to bring an end to slavery. wilberforce in the british aisles, united kingdom, and adams in america. he was concerned appropriately that it would be difficult to expect god to keep blessing america if we were putting brothers and sisters in chains and bondage. he gave powerful speeches over and over down the hall in trying to convince the other members of the house to pass bills that would end slavery, that would free slaves and he never got it done. in fact, at one point he had so alienated the rules committee that they passed a rule, he couldn't

maybe john adams because abigail had primed him. now, what happened in new jersey is that the legislatures -- legislators in the state of new jersey took this principle of no taxation without representation seriously. and took it to its furthest extremes. in 1776, the continental congress asked each state to write its own constitution. and when the state of new jersey was writing its first constitution, when it devised the provision regarding suffrage, it semple lsimply talt it in gender-neutral terms. it said all inhabitants who are worth 50 pounds proclamation money are vitaled vitaled to v. now, this gender neutral language is not in itself significant. if you look at the early state constitutions, more than half of them do not limit voting to men. what was different in new jersey is that in 1790 and in 1797, state legislators clarified the meaning of this provision, and they passed election statutes in which they referred to voters using the pronoun "he" and "she." so new jersey actually extended the franchise to all adult membe

he then was chief justice, put on the bench by john adams, the outgoing president. so what john marshall wanted to do was undo the entire jeffersonian revolution in any way he could. this was politics. so what he decided to do was with use the bench to do it. it's that simple. now, marshall was afraid of democracy. he was very much anti-democratic as well, and i think what he saw in jeffersonianism was this push towards more democracy, and he didn't like that. but, of course, marshall set the precedent that everyone followed whether it was marbury v. madison in 1803, i mean, this sets the stage for every supreme court decision that we've had from there on out. and he was being very disingenuous, but i think for marshall himself he was playing politics more than anything else, and he really didn't like the jeffersonians, and he worked against them this any way he could. other questions? don't be shy. come on down to the microphone so we can get you on tv. >> [inaudible] >> okay. >> have you ever -- [inaudible] >> i have not. um, primarily because in a survey course, y

association, i have an opportunity to choose the theme for our law day, and i chose the legacy of john adams from concord to guantanamo, because every high-school student had to think about why it is our obligation to defend those who have ideas different than our own. why we live in a constitutional democracy. a constitutional democracy is the difference of two words, each of which are two letters. that is the rule "of" law, and the rule "by" law. the rule by law as when a majority get together and get -- and decide what rights, if any, the minority has. nazi germany was one of the most lawful and unjust society is in the history of the world. the nuremberg laws were rules by law. what exists around most of the world and in cuba today come in my own experience, is that the most powerful, the most privileged, get together and decide what rights, if any, the minority have. the united states constitution is the rule by law. the rule by law is to protect the minority from the tyranny of the majority. it is the classic definition of law. now, the rule of law is what justice kennedy and justice r

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and he could keep them -- he got hamilton and jefferson and john adams in the same room. and he kept them there for three, four, most of his first term. using that same style of open leadership. it was a very flexible style of leadership. they had a cause and a principle -- set of principles, but they didn't have an ideology, a word that was just starting to come to use. they didn't have foreign policies, with a few exceptions. but what they did was to serve the idea of this new republican government in ways that moved it forward, but they were very flexible about the means. and washington would sometimes use the invisible hand of adam smith, and then he saw no con tr diction in turning to the visible hand of the use of government to actually run what he called laboratories. we call them factories, to manufacture the weapons that the republic needed to survive. and it was that sort of flexibility that, i think, was a key to what was going on here. he kept cultivating the art of silence and reserving his conduct with others. he was of the first generation to use the phrase

american revolution, but that notion of 70% that professor -- president warren mentioned, well, john adams thought that perhaps as many as 67% of the american people weren't fully on board with the american revolution. we historians think he's exaggerating a little bit. but you get the point. there were many loyalists, happily, most of them left. no, i'm joking. most of them were accepted and incorporated in american society. there were many people who thomas paine would have called fair weather friends. which army is where? the great problem was how could this republic of republics, this loose federation, survive? now, nobody was more conscious of the problems of union and the problems of the future of the united states than thomas jefferson, precisely because he was not in the united states, but aware of its weakness, of its impotence, of the absolute compelling to do something. but did they do the right thing in philadelphia? that is a short version of the question americans have been asking themselves ever since. i want to tell you, as a student of the early republic, that there is no

will have inspired so many who will pick up that banner and potential ly as was the ways with john quincy adams. he did great service to himself, his family and his nation. it's my prayer that his greatest contribution to this, the greatest nation with the greatest freedoms in the history of the world will not be those specific but amazing accomplishments he achieved, but that his greatest accomplishment will be the inspiration he was and is to so many who saw his devotion, saw his commitment, saw his goals and will just as did john quincy adams and accomplish more through those he inspired than those he could ever have accomplished individually. at a time like this, there's sometimes a temptation to blame god and ask why did god take such an individual so soon? i direct comments to our creator should instead be thank you, dear god, for the gift of andrew. we wish we could have kept him longer. but thank you for this marvelous gift. >> the comments of congressman gohmert on the house floor earlier today paying tribute to andrew who died suddenly today. ted mack is following the story for politi

during the ratification debates in the state's they had problems john adams was twisting arms in pennsylvania was a big problem. they have to agree to the amendments that the constitution is ratified then the first time these 12 amendments are put out, two of the most important amendments are 11 and 12 that began at ninth and tenth with the bill of rights talking about sovereignty coming individual authority and stateside. the constitution never would have been ratified without the promises of those amendments that were really taken from george may shed based -- george mason and those taken from john locke that we can take-- talk about later but it was crucial to the federalist and anti-federalist that the central government the very a limited it is crucial the states retain sovereignty and the interpretation of the constitution be true to the ninth amendment to hold up the individual as something that has value and worth to be protected. you have to attack the constitution, dismantle to push with utopian government and this state is them but it most prominent was woodrow wilson. looking at h

something that thomas jefferson way back in seventy nine he said you know wrote one of his letters to john adams he wrote i rely on the people not the rich for the future of this country. this is the history of this country teddy roosevelt in one thousand and seven the republican to roosevelt pass in the tillman ag making it a felony for big corporations to give money to politicians a felony that's the law that got overturned by citizens united the supreme court says that we're just going to pull this thing away we're going to do away with. they say oh you know this is a spree if you remember when john roberts was sworn in or was you know being interviewed before the son of the same sandal you know which is going to call balls and strikes we're just going to do very you know small very carefully calibrated things. these guys overturn a law passed in one thousand seven that's not more than one hundred years ago talk about syria decides it's talk about blowing up that historic foundations of american democracy we need to get back to the idea that corporations are not people money is not speech as

john quincy adams. jimmy carter. george w. bush in my view was a sankt moanous man. maybe i can debate that. woodrow wilson. at that level of politics it tends to be a trait that causes problems. polk was probably the most success ofl of the sankt moanous presidents. people can argue about joe wilson. i believe he injected world war i that led to world war ii. that's a debate for another show. >> you talked about two people there, the john quincy adams approach to -- he was a president. had been the sixth president of the united states and went on 17 years in the house of representatives. what did he do when james polk was inaugurated president? >> he had a chance to be in the inaugural procession, which he had no intention of doing because he was jr. sup set about polk's election. he despised andrew jackson but he was a giant of his time. now he had his protege and polk was elected. it was a rain "day planner" that day. it rained all day during the inauguration. quincy adams kind of watched from a distance and then put rye comments of many of them quite pointed in h

vs madison when chief justice john marshall the crankiest rightwinger of that age which is why john adams appointed him on his way out of office just to shove it in thomas jefferson's face when judge chief justice john marshall announced in that case. that that he was taking his power as supreme court president thomas jefferson went crazy he wrote in a letter to his sponsor roan who was patrick henry's father in law and old friend of his he wrote if this decision stands then indeed is our constitution a complete. a which is latin for a suicide pact the constitution jefferson wrote this hypothesis is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary which they may twist and shape into any form they make please because he had his secretary of state james madison had won that case marbury vs what is it going to be allowed so the supreme court took on a power that became precedent but there was so much public blowback and so many presidents were theories about this from jefferson to enter jackson it was rarely used in the first fifty years of american president enter jackson eight hundred thi

as john adam said, facts are stubborn things. every night we'll search for them to form our own opinions and those of our guests and you the audience. tonight we start with a saga of trayvon martin, a case that has become a more mirror in our society. the shooting hase has evolved around the idea that trayvon martin was the aggressor. zimmerman claimed that martin broke his nose and slammed his head into the concrete sidewalk. but video of zimmerman apparently unharmed brought this description of events into question. despite the seemingly contradictory video his brother stuck with his brother's version of the story. >> we're confident that the medical records will explain how he was treated and how he was not. to me his nose looks swollen. i'm his brother. >> another eyewitness has come forward. his description is telling. >> two men on the grass, one on top of each other. i couldn't see a lot of movement. it was very dark, but i felt like there were scuffling. then i heard the gunshot. which to me were like pops. i can't say i

and abraham lincoln do far more than adams himself could have done. >> he over and over again compared john quincy adams' fight against slavey with what breitbart has done. >> it's a disgrace. andrew breitbart's name should not be uttered in the same sentences as with those two men. you see what's going on here. on the right, it doesn't matter what the truth is. it doesn't matter. they have decided to demonize the acorn organization, and they practically say don't bother me with the facts. my mind is made up. here in america, out in the public square of ideas at least you can disagree. you don't have to be disagreeable, but make your case with the facts and stop, stop demonizing folks based on lies. it's a disgrace what andrew did. he never apologized for putting out these false tapes. but again, this is the new realm that we have to fight in and that's why folks who fought through these wars and the members of acorn are still fighting and we are going to continue to fight every lie every day. >> all right, better that lewis, former c.e.o. of acorn. thank you for joining us. appreciate it.

john adams may be -- securing with authority these surprise victory. 75-70 the final.te pulling that one off. norfolk a bucket better than missouri. and that is the sporting life for a friday night. everybody seems to love those upsets except the people who are getting upset. >> you see the agony. >> they make it to the tournament but haven't had a real run in a while. >> thank you. and thanks for trusting ktvu channel 2 news. see [ male announcer ] the draw of the past is a powerful thing. but we couldn't simply repeat history. we had to create it. introducing the 2013 lexus gs, with leading-edge safety technology, like available blind spot monitor... [ tires screech ] ...night view... and heads-up display. [ engine revving ] the all-new 2013 lexus gs. there's no going back.

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john adams said, "the age of painting and sculpture has not arrived in this country, and i hope it will not arve soon. i would not give a sixpence for a picture of raphael." nevertheless, admiration for the artist became so great th copies of his works grew in number, especially of the madonna of the chair. merchants and landowners placed these copies in rooms filled with family portraits and memorabilia. unlike jefferson's monticello, the copy after raphael might now be the only art relating to an old master in the room. the attitude toward raphael changed during the 19th century. through prints and the new medium of photography, copies of his sistine madonna and other works proliferated. once mass-produced, they were no longer a mark of taste and distinction but symbolized their owner's moral as well as artistic values. eventually, raphael's images became so commonplace they were fair game for parody. in the late 19th century, a new, more sophisticated type of collector arose in america: the millionairwho, having amassed a fortune, was now prared to spend it on masterpieces. these col

if you want to go back to the other's presidential campaign history of quÉbec to 1800 john adams andthomas jefferson and angst ever said particularly by their followers, not so much the two of them about each other. but with president obama, it has been attacks on his policies so much on him as a person. and we haven't seen that, i don't believe, and it went back and did a lot of research and presidential camp gains and presidential histories. we haven't seen that severe and direct it against any president since abraham lincoln. we think of lincoln of course says saint abraham. he wasn't out of that way during his lifetime. it was only after he was assassinated. when he came to washington, he was introduced to the nation by the kentucky statesman as follows. abraham lincoln is the man about to medium-high. he has a six apart by an inch or two. he is, shambled payday, bowlegged, pigeon toed, lopsided , a shapeless skeleton and a very tough, very dirty, unwholesome skin. his lips were to be on the national level of the face, but are pale and smeared tobacco juice. his teeth are filthy.

john adams and thomas jefferson, things said by their followers and their followers against each otherresident obama it has been a tax not on his policies so much as on him as a person. to a lot of research into presidential campaign for presidential history. we haven't seen that severe and ugly threats against any president since abraham lincoln. he thought of that way during his lifetime. he was fascinated. when he came to washington, he was introduced to the nation by the kentucky statesman. abraham lincoln is the man of medium height. he passes the six foot mark by an inch or two. he is a belated and not need and pigeon toes and lopsided. a shapeless skeleton in a tough and 30 unwholesome skin. his lips protrude beyond the natural level of the face that are pale and smeared, his teeth are filthy. me your new president of the united states. at the same time, and published this profile of mr. lincoln. mr. lincoln stands six feet tall in his socks which he changes once every ten days. is anatomy is composed mostly of bones and when walking he resembles the offspring of a happy marriag