him soon and will it be just john adams or john and abigal or john quincy adams or the entire family. >> this is open to discussion. 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 is no monument, no statue, nothing to john adams. 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 where i think it should be, i think it should not be another marble tomb and i don't think it should try to rival either the washington monument or the lincoln memorial or 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 the best i can the idea that it will be the adams library of american letters and it will be a library open to visitors in a garde

we heard about john adams. of course later on david mccullough is going to be part of these proceedings and the pre-eminent scholar john adams. i asked a question about adams' son, john quincy. we've heard about thomas jefferson. we've heard from the jefferson chair at the university of virginia which is jefferson's university in the person of peter onuf, the so-called father of the constitution, james madison, jefferson's good friend. we saw a picture of james monroe in that boat right there right beside george washington. again, john quincy adams was mentioned. that's the spine of american history. and i want to suggest, just because i wanted to -- my talk today is going to be about the constitution. that's what i do, that's where i live and move and have my being as intellectually as in the constitution, and i wanted to basically give you one kind of memorable way to to pull together the basic theme of my talk. i want to suggest that our constitution is in its basic structure far more jackson, andrew jackson

there is what conversation 1820 between john quincy adams and john calhoun. in john quincy adams's diary. calhoun is secretary of war. adams is secretary of state. calhoun is quite a young man. adams is middle-aged and they are both working for president james monroe. missouri has applied to join the union as a state. and missouri is part of the louisiana territory. it was not part of the united states by the treaty of paris in the revolutionary war. it is new land and relatively unsettles. it is not like new orleans which was an older city where slavery was established a. here is missouri applying to be a state. libya slave states or free state and this sets off a huge fight. two yearlong fight in congress over this issue. already we can see sections beginning to split apart. henry clay manages to compromise. while this fight is going on the personal animus and calhoun are in monroe's cabinet and there's a discussion at the cabinet meeting. calhoun and adams go off and keep talking about it. what is interesting about this is calvin is one of the few men john

it's three presidential libraries in a way, all the adams papers, all the john adams papers and the john quincy adams papers and a great part of the jefferson papers. host: i wanted to ask you about boards because you pop up, i mean, everybody wants you on their historical boards. how many do you serve on now? guest: at the moment, i'm on no boards. but i'm as active as i can stay working for mount vernon and the library of congress and the massachusetts historical society, the national trust for historic press evaluation, the new york historical society, monticello, public libraries in general. i do as much as i can to support, help, make known the opportunities presented by public libraries but also the responsibility communities have to spurpt them. i'm an honor rather member for a big drive now for the pittsburgh carnnagey library, which was the first public library i ever went to. i owe so much to libraries. i owe so much to the library of congress that i will do what i can to help the library of congress for as long as i can. host: you've probably given henry knox more pub blissity

there was a conversation in 1820 between john quincy adams and john calhoun. and invest in adams' diary. calhoun is secretary of war, adams is secretary of state. calhoun is quite, still quite a young man. adams is middle-aged, and they're both working for president james monroe. and missouri has applied to join the union as a state. and missouri is part of the louisiana territory. it's a territory that was not part of the united states by the treaty of paris that ended the revolutionary war. it's new land and relatively unsettled. it's not like new orleans which, you know, was an older city and where slavery was established. so here's missouri applying, applying to be a state. will it be a slave state or a free state? and this sets off a huge fight, two-year-long fight in congress over this issue. already we can see the sections beginning to split apart. henry clay manages to compromise it. but while this fight is going on, adams and call are -- calhoun are in monroe's cabinet, and there's a meeting. and after the meeting ends, calhoun and adams go off, and th

again, john quincy adams was mentioned. that's the spine of american history. and i want to suggest, just because i wanted to -- my talk today is going to be about the constitution. that's what i do, that's where i live and move and have my being as intellectually as in the constitution, and i wanted to basically give you one kind of memorable way to to pull together the basic theme of my talk. i want to suggest that our constitution is in its basic structure far more jackson, andrew jackson-like, than we've been taught. i'll tell you at the end of today, three ways to sort of remember that it's all about jackson and for all of you, but in a nutshell our constitution is more small "d" democratic, more open to men that are born in lower strata of society, small "d" democratic than the standard story that many of us were taught, a story in the 20th century is associated with a charles beard whose work was mention mentioned actually in several earlier today. more democratic talking, andrew jackson was basically the leader of the so-called capital "d" democratic pa

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

and even great northerners like john quincy adams, he doesn't say that much against slavery. afterwards he does. there's no openly anti-slavery presence before 1860. your simple test, someone gets up, slavery is wrong, you should eventually get rid of it. there's no anti-slavery cabinet officer before 1860. all american history. slavery is wrong, we should eventually get rid of it. andrew jackson, john c. calhoun from my college. residential college named after him. it is pro-slavery. the democratic party more and more pro-slavery and ruthlessly so and aggressively so. it's a cancer that grows and grows and grows and that's called the civil war. we were lucky not smart. and sometimes it's better to be lucky than smart. bismarck said providence in its infinite wisdom, god has a special place in his heart for fools, drunk ardz in the united states of america. so more democratic than you were taught, more pro-slavery than you were taught and, finally, much more about maturity. that's andrew jackson, too. why would 13 -- and you know the history of the world, up to 1787, why woul

john adams said facts are stubborn things. have you heard them and their allies claim it's never been done before and therefore, it would be unconstitutional? well, here is the fact as revealed in a new republic article and then here on the show last week by the professor that same john adams signed into law an individual mandate relating to health kash. it had almost exactly the same set of obligations as the current bill before the supreme court. and there were others one even mandated that every man buy a gun. so much for saying congress can't require us to participate in some form of commerce. so the originalists on the court arer refutably and complete wrong. but the issue goes way beyond this one case. it reveals the flaw in the entire originalist argument. the conservative wing has imposed its own world view. when we actually found out what the founders did think, as here, it turns out they were settle jk pragmatic, avoided bars understood change was inevitable and therefore government would have to adpapt. they wanted

>> abigail adams was writing letters to john adams, to remember the ladies. ♪ >> elizabeth stanton anders held the first women's rights convention in seneca falls, new york. >> when i held rigid when they held a convention in 1848 and at subsequent conventions in the decades after that, there were not just talk about the right to vote for it was not until after the civil war that the .ocus of women's rights became >> many joined the movement many more scoffed at the ludicrous idea. it was a contest that went against everything society had taught a generation. >> after she meant stanton that women's rights convention, susan b. anthony joined the cause and together they would make a significant step towards women's rights. how did the civil war affect women's rights? >> the movement comes after the anti-slavery movement. they work for a northern victory and an acknowledgement of slavery. in turn, they expected they would receive their due rights as women. that did not happen at the end of the civil war. the 13th amendment passed that ended slavery and the 14th and 15th amendment were est

>> he was secretary of state for four years, for adams four years in office. john quincy adams was a one-term president like his father had been. the corrupt bargain arose out of the fact that in the election of 1824 there were actually four candidates for president. and none of them received a majority. in the electoral college, so it went to the house of representatives, where clay came in fourth in that election, which meant according to the 12th amendment that he would not be one of the ones that would be brought before the house. only the top three would be brought before the house. he was convinced and i think he might have been correct that if he'd made it into the top three, he could have used his influence as speaker to get himself elected, but now he became a king maker because he wasn't in the election, but he was still speaker, a very powerful speaker, and he did use his influence to have john quincy adams elected. >> you mentioned ghent. where is ghent? >> in belgium. >> treaty of ghent. we hear about it all the time. what is it? >> it ends the war of

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 ester deberdt reed, experienced these periods of aloneness. ester de berdt 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 as 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 stepping up to the plate, f

thomas jefferson was then chief justice, put on the bench by john adams, the outgoing president. what john marshall wanted to do was undo the jeffersonian revolution in any way he could. this was politics. what he decided to do was use the bench to do it. it is that simple. marshall was afraid of democracy. he was very much anti-democratic i think what he saw in jeffersonian at him was a push for more democracy. he did not like it. whether it was -- [inaudible]. this sets the stage for every decision here on out he was being very disingenuous. but i think for marshall himself, he's playing politics more than anything else he really did not like the jeffersonian. >> anymore questions? don't be shy. anyway we can get you on tv. >> [inaudible question] >> i have not. primarily because in the survey course, the general things and move from there -- we have a textbook and that is how it is. we tried to study at in very general terms during the course. other questions? >> [inaudible question] >> [inaudible] >> [inaudible question] you did a wonderful, wonderful job. [inaudible question]

i can see abigail adams sitting and clutching her scorching hot cup of joe, john adams saying sit down and 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

john adams.e have great wars over the judiciary, the role of the supreme court is at a time when we're settling huge issues in the national -- in national life. john adams wanted to create a federalist enclave because he felt that thomas jefferson was bringing this french revolutionary wave into office. that was a midnight appointment. that's how we got judicial review. was by john marshall, a very politically astute, much like a lot of these justices, a politically astute justice. jackson had it, lincoln had it, fdr tried to pack the court. and overreached and was pulled back. >> what's the historical impact for barack obama, though, if the signature piece of legislation that he spent his first two years -- after a huge election, a change election, is overturned 5-4, what's the historical impact not just for the president but for the court? >> i think it's -- i think it will be a permanent black eye. this is the great achievement. >> for the president or the court. >> for the president. >> for t

maybe john adams. because abigail had primed him. now, what happened in new jersey is that the legislature -- 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 simply talked about suffrage in gender-neutral terms. it said that all inhabitants who are worth 50 pounds proclamation money are entitled to vote. now, this gender-neutral language is not in and of 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 was that in 1790 and 1797 state legislators clarified the meaning of this provision and they passed election statutes in which they referred to voters using the pronounce he and she. so new jersey actually extended the franchise to all adult

vice president john adams lets washington occupy his seat. and then adams reads the draft of cherokee treaty to the senate article by article. and asking for their advice and for their approval. now as he is reading one senator interrupts to say there is too much noise on the street and he can't hear what the vice president is saying. could they please close the windows. this is done. then a second senator interrupts and says this draft treaty is referring to previous treaties that we have made with other tribes of indians and if we are to give informed advice we ought to have copies of those treaties so that we know what is being referred to. a third senator says that if we have to read all of these previous treaties that will take too much time. we should have appoint ad committee to read the treaties and report to us on what they say. a fourth senator says well, committees take the business of everyone and give it to the hands of the few. we are all responsible for this treaty so, therefore, we should all see the texts of the previous trea

john adams, for example, creates caucus but the second president also creates bobolink -- or the first derided down. it may have existed in full speech of the oxford english dictionary gives in the credit. my favorite is warren harding, who sort of brings back or popularizes normalcy, returning to normalcy. obloviate to get up -- >> of low va it is much in love on fox television -- obloviate. >> but the two who really surprises me -- harding created i think in his campaign, the term founding fathers. he said the founding fathers never meant for as to ban alcohol. the founding fathers never -- it was always done in a negative. before then, they were always before -- referred to as the framers. the one i found the other day that literally blew me out of the water that was so funny -- everybody knows roosevelt created things like pump priming, new deal, fireside chat. the one that got me was, at one point really early in his presidency he said, he referred to the supreme court decision as being iffy. the next day, the lead is in the papers -- the president of united states created a new w

phil: well, the co-owner of a foreign affair, john adams, is here with his wife and executive client ant tanya. now, they've been on the show before. john says plenty of men go back to the ukraine and do not end up homeless. >> dr. phil, that actually happened. >> dr. phil: how did this happen here? >> when cary first came to us, he wanted to go on the organized tour. he did. he had a wonderful time. he was introduced to lots of people. all logistics were taken care of for him. then he came back. i think he was so enamored with everything, he wanted to go back. he said he was going to quit his job, sell his truck, and go back over there. this woman he met was not through our company at all. and i said, cary, that's kind of crazy. and he ended up homeless. i've been doing this for 17 years, dr. phil. i've never, ever, had anyone end up homeless in the ukraine. >> basically, john, the plan was to meet, court, and marry a lady in the ukraine. so i thought i'd be able to get that done within 30 days, because the ladies are -- excuse me, within 90 days. beg your pardon. that's the plan. >>

john adams used to drink cider every morning.m of your thermometer. now, i haven't told you the price you're going to pay for this. the vices from idolness to hay dread of just government. that's an important one. this is the critical period. and next thing you know you'll be a murderer. now, in case you weren't aware of the implications of these various vices, many diseases from gout to apaplexy accompany these. then death to black eyes. i think you need help on that one usually. rags, hunger, the jail, the whipping post, castle island, and folk, if you are there, doing pepper and rum, you are either going to commit suicide or you are simply going to die or we'll hang you. >> who had pepper with rum at the reception here? anybody? >> peter, that's harrowing. and fortunately we had my sense tear come along and tidy up after you. because we launched then in

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 contradiction 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 independence, it's virtually certain that no one in that room with the possible exception of john adams was thinking about the consequences of their pronouncements for the status of women. in the revolutionary era matters of politics and government were thought to be exclusively the province of men. men were the primary land owners. ownership of land was thought to give men the virtue, independence, and stake in society that qualified them to vote. women, on the other hand, were political ciphers. legal proscriptions prevented women from owning property. most women lacked the benefit of formal education and were believed to lack the knowledge to make decisions about issues involving politics and government. but perhaps most important, war, diplomacy, and state-making were considered to be beyond women's understanding and interest. women were supposed to care more about hearth and home than about tyrannical kings and the right to self-government. yet even as the delegates gathered in philadelphia, they had already set in motion a chain of events that would significantly alter women's par

they won the american revolution, but that notion of 70% president boren 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 xnlg rating 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? 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 imtensi impotence, of the absolute compelling need to do something. but did they do the right thing in philadelphia? that is the 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 ther

into gadsby's tavern where he entertained george washington and other notables like jefferson and john adams. he later put the tavern and farm up for lease and left for baltimore in 1808 where he became the proprietor of the plush hotel the indian queen, which he later sells to david barn ham in 1819. around 1822 he moved to washington, d.c. and opened the franklin hotel in 1823 and later at the pinnacle of his career builds the national hotel where he entertained presidents such as andrew jackson, hosted congressmen and welcomed various foreign dignitaries. the national was host to a flurry of balls, galas, and meetings of the washington's elite. john gadsby moved into the upper echelons of society by announcing his retirement from the hotel business and acquiring decatur house in 1836. he then continued the entertaining he was well known for as a hotelier. he died in 1844 and bequeathed 17 enslaved people to his wife probbie gadsby. his son on the other hand leaves little in the historical record. williams gadsby was born in 1810 presumably in baltimore. it is possible he opened a cigar an

john adams, the second, thomas jefferson, the third. but where his picture should be hung as the fourth president, madison hangs the picture of the fifth president, james monroe. and visitors note that. why doesn't he put his own portrait here? and then as they look around the room, they discover that madison has hung his own portrait as one visitor said, in the corner behind the door showing his modesty, but he has also hung his portrait next to his beloved dolley. so, again, he is telling you an awful lot about himself, the importance of dolley in his life. over this thomas jefferson, his best friend, and next to it a picture of mary magdalen. i thought he long hung it next to jefferson to poke a little fun at his friend. you also see other features that impress visitors. the bust, these are notable people of american history from george washington to the marquis d 'lafayette. they served tea here. they welcomed their guests. they had many visitors. while every visitor had access to this room and would be welcomed by madison or dolley

john adams used to drink cider every morning.>> that's the worst. >> that is at the very bottom of your thermometer. now, i haven't told you the price you're going to pay for this, the advices from idleness to hatred of just government. now, that's an important one for someone like benjamin rush. this is the critical period. and next thing you know, you'll be a murderer. now, in case you weren't aware of the implications of these various advices, many diseases >>> go out to of apoplexy will accompany these advices. and then the punishments take you from debt to black eyes, i think you need help on that one. usually rags, hunger, the alms house, the work house jail, the whipping post, castle island and folks, if you're there doing pepper in rum, you are either going to commit suicide or you're simply going to dial or we'll hang you. >> so let me hear it. who had pepper with rum at the reception here before? anybody? >> well, peter that's harrowing. and fortunately, we had might century to come along and tidy up after you once agai

john adams used to drink cider every morning. rum is at the very bottom of your thermometer.e price you're going to pay for this, the vices from idleness to hatred of just government. now, that's the important one. this is from rush. this is the critical period. and next thing you know, you'll be a murderer. now, in case you weren't aware of the implications of these various vices, many diseases from gout to apoplexy will accompany these vices. and the punishments take you from death to black eyes. i think you need help on that one usually. rags, hunger, the work house jail, the whipping post, castle island, and folks, if you're there, doing pepper in rum, you are either going to commit suicide or you're simply going to die, or we'll hang you. >> pepper with rum at the reception here, of course. well, peter, that's harrowing. and fortunately we have my century to come along and tidy up after you, once again. because we launched then in the 19th century the thing that people have worked hardest on in the united states history, from then until today, to try to contain the evil

famously abigail adams john adams' wife when he was helping write the constitution wrote him a letter saying don't forget the ladies and he wrote back saying we men are not going to give up our privileges and she wrote back saying that we will foment a rebellion rebellion didn't happen she was pushing for at least women have a right to vote being written into the constitution didn't happen. we've come a long way since but there's always been this undercurrent of of disparity and hierarchy and you know it's male patriarchal hierarchy is this is this so a bump in the road is this a recent uptick or is this just part of that continual i think what we're seeing is frankly republicans in positions of power to have more impact so there's a lot of really nasty things happening in states around the country and it's happening in large part because republicans now have majorities in the state so they can enact legislation that before maybe got introduced but didn't go anywhere so we're going backwards from the progress we've been seen that's think i think we are but i think there's a real fight

you want to know not only about john adams or harry truman but the people they -- who with their contemporaries. and so it drives history publications. >> who would be the third? >> well, i like -- i like the work of robert mann who is at louisiana state university, who wrote a book a few years back called "the walls of jericho" about a fight for civil rights legislation in congress from 1954 on through 1965. and focusing on hubert humphrey, lyndon johnson, and richard russell. robert mann then did a more recent book. he's done an abridgement of that book probably for classroom use and then he did a more recent book on russell lawn of louisiana, nice biography of him. >> anybody else? >> oh, i like -- in terms of institutional history, i like my friend ross baker, no relation, up at rutgers university, who has written two very good books on the senate. one in the 1980s called "friend and foe in the senate" about the nature of friendship in the senate. and he really does a lot of interviews. he doesn't attribute who told him what, but he got into the fiber of the institution. and he's done anoth

adam or crawford. crawford had a stroke, so said can't vote for crawford hate andrew jackson. i'm going to support john quincy adams. so he made adams president. adams then made clay secretary of state, and jackson's people said there was a club -- he sold out his vote to be secretary of state. now, the reason i'm telling you, sounds kind of arcane, is that what happened out of this, jackson started running again against adams and clay, and clay realized that jackson was going to be a for mid able opponent so the thought about the only way to beat jackson was to organize so the did things never been done in america before. he said we need a county committee, a committee in every county to organize again andrew jackson and we need people there to help form a committee at every state level, and a national committee. we need have a platform, so we can have candidates run under. we need newspapers and raise a lot of money to put advertising in the newspapers. and so what you have this beginning of the political party, as we know it today, and it was all based on his antipathy towards andrew jackson. then a