. >> we played for john adams and his wife and a small party of guests before john adams left office, but it was really thomas jefferson, who took office right after that, that gave us the name "the president's own." >> the president needed his own musical unit to perform at different white house functions for foreign dignitaries and those that may attend, well, his very nice estate. >> we've played at every inaugural since thomas jefferson, and i believe that's 52 inaugurations over 210 years. so we're very proud of that fact, as well. >> the marine band is composed of people from all over the country, and only the best of the best are allowed into the president's unit. >> the band does not go through basic training. their sole duty is to provide musical support for the president. >> over the years, many great musicians were members of the marine band. >> the most prominent of all is john philip sousa, known as "the march king," and he was the one who wrote "the stars and stripes forever." [ "the stars and stripes forever" plays ] >> being sousa's band as we are, we play a lot of his

john quincy adams and louisa would inherit this room from john adams. they thought about selling the house, but after discussion they decided it was important to the family story, to hold on to this house for future generations. >> during andrew jackson's brief hiatus from the military in the early 1800's, rachel jackson entertained family and friends at their home, the hermitage. >> they came to this property in 1804. he was just retiring for a while. when they first moved here, he spent a lot of time at home. the primary people who would have visited prior to 18 -- the war of 1812 would have been friends and relations in the area. rachel had a huge family and they all had lots of kids. there were a lot of them and they were in and out all the time. rachel was very close to her family. jackson being an orphan, grew very close to rachels family. after the war of 1812 when he has become this national hero, there were people here all the time. basically, they were acknowledged to be nice horses, very cordial and very welcoming. -- nytes hostess, very cord

later, the aging franklin had retired, and jefferson, the new minister, is urgently invited by john adams to come to london for negotiations with the british jefferson has never gotten on with the english too well. "their architecture is in the most wretched style i ever saw," he says, "not meang to except america, where it is bad, nor even virginia, where it is worse." but the gardens of england are another matter. "the gardening in this country," he says, "is the article in which it surpasses all the earth." jefferson has read for years about these romantic places, where all nature seems to have been turned into a garden. but it is in the parks of paris where jefferson's life will be, for a short time, transformed. he has met a young woman. his capitulation is complete. his love letters to he are unlike any other words he has ever written. "our friendship is precious," he writes, "not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life. "and on the days we have lately passed, "the sun has indeed shone brightly on the presence of my charming companion." she is maria cosway. at 27, she has a mu

and john quincy adams had said no. he was voting against draping generals from the mexican war in more gold, brass and medals. he wanted no part of that war, the war was over. he knew what was going to happen or he forecast with gloom because he'd been dealing with the anti-slavery movement for a very long time, and he said no. and i thought that was rather marvelous, because at the end of one era and, of course, it's very much the beginning of another era, an era of resistance and, as i said, of change. an era of ec that ecstasy in all sense of the definition, ecstasy as rapture, as enraptured, ec that city as delirium. so it was a way to begin to understand for me what those nos were going to come to mean and what it meant to try to change the law or to put one's self up against the law or to say no in so many cultural and political ways. and with that and with that sense is where i want to read you from my remarks -- leave you from my remarks and actually just read you very briefly from the opening of the book which

it's written by john adams, requesting each of the colonies to redo their colonial charters as state charters. adams says, for obvious reasons, this is a de facto declaration of independence. give you a state is going to rewrite your charter, it's because you decided to go to independence. they sent these to every governor. the governor sent to the legislature. the legislature senate it to all the counties and towns in each of the colonies. this recently obscure source called american archives added by a guy in 1840s has preserved all the responses. for example, there are 42 towns in massachusetts that respond. they all say the same thing. we cannot imagine having this conclusion only six months ago, when we still believed in our king and her membership in the british empire. but he has betrayed us. he is no longer our friend. in effect, he has declared his independence of us. and, therefore, we have no choice. and then they used this phrase, and this is where jefferson gets it am a we pledge our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor. it must come from some british poem that i don'

john adams, john jay, henry laurens, and yours truly signed the document at the grand hotel muscoviteurvive in peace? dr. franklin, forgive me for interrupting, but i'm in an absolute state! the british ministers refuse to let me paint them signing the peace treaty. i won't be able to finish. look at it this way, mr. west. you must abandon a painting. the british must abandon a country. dr. franklin, your legs! they're still strong enough to kick king george across an ocean. uh, you going to have some of those yams? sarah! henri! working on a story! general washington! army! congress! you have to come with me! oh, i'm sorry. you're eating. forget eating! this sounds exciting. besides, we hadn't really started yet, had we, henri? huh? uh, no. so, what's this about a story? it can wait. [humming] i haven't eaten all day. but we haven't seen you in months! and you can't just leave us hanging. yeah! we're journalists, too! ok, ok! what if i told you general washington could've had the chance to become king of america? if he had become a king, then i am the prince of france. i don't unders

for all the liberals that think this is malarkey but i believe there would george washington and john adams and benjamin franklin believe how can the tea party year be a scream talking about limited government like the founding fathers? of that is extremely and guilty as charged. >> host: as a u.s. senator wayne allyn root what could do a fact? >> i would not expect to be in the minority white and a betting man to put this in it to be turned over to the republican party so when i get there we are in the majority then i think you can do whatever in the liberal president might want to do and maybe get something is passed like limited government lowers taxes by model for america is hongkong the best economy in the world 3.5% unemployment with 15 percent flat tax for everyone. a deduction for mortgage interest you get both. deduction for charities in zero capital gains. this country would go from a disaster under obama to the greatest economic expansion in world history in america would be back again. that is what i will fight for until the day i die. >> host: we have been talking with teeeight

pulitzer prize for biography or autobiography went to david mccullough in 2002 for his book on john adams and a national will critics circle award for general nonfiction went to some and the power for a problem from hell. miss power, current u.s. ambassador to the united nations was on booktv in 2002. >> my book is an effort to understand how so many individuals who believe in the promise of never again and if france would even say when asked to define what never again means would say not that it means never again should genocide happen which is something one could interpret as meaning but rather that they see it as meaning never again will we stand idly by and let genocide happen. there are individuals in the u.s. government, individuals in this room, this museum, the city, our realm world who believe they should be active in the face of genocide yes when genocide confronts us in real time, when we see the early signs or the description of intent, the alarm bells don't go off or we feel so disempowered within the bureaucracy or outside of it that we don't -- we don't summon the reserve o

take john adams. he is openly jiri about an entire society of atheists, freedom of conscience, absolutely but a society of atheists he was cheery about because where would the average is come from? the grounding of honesty, loyalty, patriotism? what is it that is the highest inspiration of any virtue? what is the solid teaching of the content of what bridge to is? also what assumption when people are not virgin was? in almost all cases that is somewhat lacking in a secular world view and very strong for example in jewish and christian world views. but not established. >> host: let's come to the current era. in your book, before we go global, this is after all "the global public square" 11, so there is truly a worldwide perspective os guinness is bringing to bear but you identify in pretty strong language what you see as violations of full freedom. right here at home in the united states. one institution that comes under harsh criticism is vanderbilt, pages 101-104 you take them to task. why are you so

. >>> i've been at ocean john adams, civic center, downtown mission evans. each one is unique and special. >> i'm sorry. last sentence. >>> oh, they can you tell me? >> last sentence. >>> we need the centers. the centers are fiscally sound. they were studied a year. they are not a drain on the blog. they are a plus. they are fiscally in the red. ~ >> that's a run on sentence, but thank you. >>> the centers are good -- >> thank you. thanks. >> i'll call a few more cards before the next speaker. dmitri toboyatz. sorry for the pronunciation. [speaker not understood]. [speaker not understood]. raul barer a. lena carew. >>> board of supervisors, fellow human beings, my name is diamond dave, a long-time member of the associated student council, pacific college, elected by my fellow students. first off, i want to mention that already lifelong learning, [speaker not understood] enrichment and civic involvement has been taken off the mission statement. i think that's a good sample of things to come. we have no more elected board of trustees. instead they say super tr

adams. he was the grandson of john quincy adams, the great grandson of john adams. >> i have read some of his novels, but i have never read his autobiography. friendly, i was surprised to see included on a list of 20th 20thh century books because i think of henry adams as a 19th century figure. even if you have to go quite a ways down the list to get to more current books. even with neil she hands book, it is downline and robert caro'k as well. lbj. the great classic of the urban reporting, covering these reports. anyone who needs a new book to read to read the powerbook. >> as we talk a little bit more about this list and what is on and what is not. maybe you have some opinions about it if you have been reading the list over the past several days. the next call from huntsville, alabama. >> caller: yes, my question comes in two parts for mark. number one, i was in mogadishu with an aviation track unit. unfortunately, one question is positive and one is negative. i will start with a negative first. most of the journalists, don't get me wrong, because congrats on writing this book, but most of

the second president and states john adams once the government is instituted for the common good for the protection safety prosperity and happiness of the people and not for the profit honor or private interest of any one man family or class of men since the founding of our nation there's always been a strong and clear distinction between public space and private space between things that are done by the government and things that are done by businesses in the private sector these distinctions are at the very core of our democracy and frankly of capitalism in america which operates in that private space for example capitalism requires an impartial court system over here in the public space so that they can enforce contracts obviously if this court system was run by the corporations themselves wouldn't work that's why it's run by the government unfortunately over the past several decades the lines between the public in the private space between corporations and government have become blurred as more and more things that have traditionally been part of our commons controlled by the gov

. >> arrestos son que la reforma migratoria tambalea en cámara, john y adams se retira, alba y vela presentaranención de aprobar el obama care, además el financiamiento del gobierno es incertidumbre. >> mientras tanto organización que ayuda a mujeres latina lleva 36 años de servicio, nos acompaña con invitada especial. >> la chicana latina foundation es para sobresalir a la mujer y ayudar a la comunidad, el invitado es dolores huerta co fndadores de trabajdores del campo, el punto clave de migración?. >> estamos en la lucha para presionar a republicanos, ganamos a varios y dicen que sí, pero sabemos que los lideres, mccarty dice que no apoyara, estamos para ver que va a pasar. >> punto clave en la comunidad latina?. >> es punto de derecho, por que no estamos donde deberiamos estar. >> algun mensaje de la mujer latina?. >> celebramos a la mujer latina y todos tomamos papel importante por que sí no agarran poder no cambiara nada. >> gracias dolores y el trabajo en pro del trabajo, es todo porla parte regresamos. >> gracias, miles de personas hicieron filas para tener el iphone 5s y 5c, en bahia a

he realized that a president had basically not set foot in the congress since john adams left in early 1801. nobody -- even now we have this great institution every year at the state of the union address where we have a big ceremony, all that. i did not exist for 112 years, until woodrow wilson decided, i will come forth and i will present the state of the union and what i foresee the state of the union is being. and he did that every year, such that it became a washington institution of course. more than that, wilson had this very progressive agenda. he thought in order to pass that, in order to emphasize its importance, i want to say to the congress homeport natives and i will do it by voting with my feet. it's a wilson, get this, wilson called 25 joint sessions of congress during his two terms. this is once every few months both in would show up, gave a speech, see this tariff address is extremely important. we've got to get a tariff bill moved. this labor bill, whatever it was, wilson would show up and gave a talk and 90 with the period that would be fine. it was extraordinary. the

later, the aging franklin had retired, and jefferson, the new minister, is urgently invited by john adams to come to london for negotiations with the british jefferson has never gotten on with the english too well. "their architecture is in the most wretched style i ever saw," he says, "not meang to except america, where it is bad, nor even virginia, where it is worse." but the gardens of england are another matter. "the gardening in this country," he says, "is the article in which it surpasses all the earth." jefferson has read for years about these romantic places, where all nature seems to have been turned into a garden. but it is in the parks of paris where jefferson's life will be, for a short time, transformed. he has met a young woman. his capitulation is complete. his love letters to he are unlike any other words he has ever written. "our friendship is precious," he writes, "not only in the shade but in the sunshine of life. "and on the days we have lately passed, "the sun has indeed shone brightly on the presence of my charming companion." she is maria cosway. at 27, she has a mu

there is one that is part of john adams administration. he planned to unite his family with the warehouse of great britain and i would say there certainly was no shortage of that sort of vitriolic fear. >> education, etc., that would dampen that a little bit. >> i don't know. it's not like people writing pamphlets in this area. >> recently there has been a release of government archives that have conspiracy theories and looking for people being true over the years about the cia and also sort of saying that that is someone that does exist. and not that i'm starting a new conspiracy theory, but it should do you think there is a reason why things are happening and if there is an attempt to get attention away from prison -- >> i don't know why the cia chose this moment to reveal it. they may well have said why they did it. i just read the headline. but i don't know what the source of these are. but i will say the british government is part of a regular interval and that is sometimes a couple of things that are not part of this. i hope that i a

john quincy adams knew how to save no but the negative could be a flexible,, fanatical, particularlywith a better tool than compromise on compromises of was so i'm just to be meaningless, particularly if it invaded matters of human life in dignity. in short, america was an ecstatic nation, smitten with itself and prosperity and in love with the land from which he drew britches, exciting from one to another in which citizens felt entitled coming if there is a problem, hh, a block. because of that he forecast with doom the price the country would have to pay. some of the people are so familiar, lincoln and his grief stricken face, the confederate general george pickett charged at gettysburg the elegance and battle weary property late, cigar smoke in an oddly gentle s. grant. the richness and variety of america lies during this time of confidence in christ is in its consolidation, bring it to purpose other events, other care areas, the schooner pearl as it tried to flee washington d.c. with a boatload of fugitive slaves. today, hungry women ran through the streets of richmond, begging f

there is one john adam's administration he planned to unit his family with the royal house of great britain the bright room to be king of america. there certainly was no shortage of that sort of -- yeah. and i would like to think the rise of education and et. cetera, et. cetera would dampened that a little bit. perhaps not. i don't know. it's not like people were writing pamphlets were real educate at that point. [inaudible] >> recently there's been release of government archives to substantiate conspiracy theories, people basically knew to be true over the years about the cia -- [inaudible conversations] also sort of saying area 51 does exist. do you -- not that i'm trying to start a new conspiracy theory. but do you see any reason why these things are happening? do you think there's in intent to sort of get attention away from prisonment? >> i don't know why the cia chose this moment to reveal it. and they may women have said why they did. i read the headline. i didn't read all of the stories. so i don't know what the stories -- , i mean, i will say that it's -- the british government at

conspiracy theories about @booktv vitriolic ones about each other -- and there is one which did john adamsdministration. he tried to unite his family with the royal house of great britain, the bridegroom to be king of america. it is -- there certainly was no shortage of that sort of vitriolic fear. >> and what i would like to think about the rise of education, it would have dampened that a little bit. >> well, i don't know. it's not like people were writing pamphlets and really educated. very well-educated people. >> recently there has been the release of government archives that substantiate conspiracy theories. the people basically due to be true about the cia also say area 51 does exist. not that i am trying to start a new conspiracy theory, but do you see any reason why these things are happening? is there an attempt to get away from prison? >> i don't know why this case does is moments rivulet. they may well have said. i just read the headline. that did not read the story. i will say that the british government at regular intervals releases all documents. there is one in there, a ufo

it's a letter to then president john adams. washington still participated in a little politics in government after he left office. he accepted adams to return to the army in order to raise troops amid a conflict cold war style with france. >> they pass and create the new provisional army and make washington the lieutenant general of that army. >> essentially like the chairman of the joint chiefs. that's what he creates here. >> that's right. adams remains the commander in chief, but washington who has military experience. this letter was written from washington to adams. >> and publicized. this became a political letter and it's a letter shared. it's interesting here. a letter that is shared for the public and adams has a political statement he is trying to make. >> if you look at the handwritten letter, none of this text is in capitalization. somebody on his staff said we need to point this out. it says this is from washington to adams. believe me, sir, no one can more cordially approve of the measures of your administration.

monroe did not have an extensive library like thomas jefferson or john adams had. but he did own and collect books and he bought books, jefferson gave him a copy on notes of virginia, and they gave him the books that he was writing on slavery in these sorts of things. then he would buy books. and some of them were on law, government, history. these sorts of things. various language, but in french which was a diplomatic language. a lot of folks spoke in french. those books in spanish and german, all of these part of the international library makes it eclectic. but it is contemporary and he was also interested in writing books and was not very good at it. he was not exactly successful. he started working on an autobiography that he never finished and working on a more analytical political thing which he wanted to explain why the united states was succeeding as a republic when the republic's history had always failed, going back to classical groups and he never finished and it has since been published. but it really was not a successful book. what we have here is when

negotiated one of our first treaties the famous treaty of tripoli which was signed by president john adams two thirds of the senate consented and it had to do with trade it was also george washington secretary of the treasury alexander hamilton who successfully proposed the first major protectionist laws in the united states and in terms of eleven point plan which he proposed in seven hundred ninety one and was largely adopted by congress in the washington administration by seven thousand nine hundred three imposed import taxes called tariffs on pretty much every manufactured product coming into the united states that along with explicit government support for new industries built two hundred years of prosperity the strongest economy in the world and the largest and most dynamic middle class the world had ever seen then came the religion of reaganomics and free trade. average tariffs from the administration of george washington through jimmy carter had been in the thirty percent range reagan began dropping them and clinton pushed them through the floor when he signed nafta and gatt average

but of course, there is no formal established religion that is what they denied but if you take john adams he is open about it entire society of a fiesta but a society because we're will lead to the virtues come from honesty and loyalty your patriotism? what is the highest inspiration of any virtue? what is the solid teaching of the content of what virtue is? in almost all cases in a secular world view it is very strong in the jewish and christian world views. >> host: in your book with a global public square fear is a world wide perspective but you have identified pretty strong wing which what we see is violation of seoul freedom right here in the united states. one institution that comes in with harsh criticism is page one headed one through 104 you take them to task white you saw said of the commodore of vendor built? >> since then they have been followed even most recently university of california entire system. they have derecognized religious groups not just christians and jews, muslims all sorts of religious groups they cannot have their beliefs as a requirement for membership. for

monroe did not have an extensive library like thomas jefferson or john adams had. he was never able to collect on that scale. but he did own and collect books. he bought books, people he knew gave them books that they wrote. jefferson gave him a copy of notes on virginia. will yam wilber forest gave him the books he was writing on anti-slavery, these sorts of things. and then he would buy books. he was interested -- most of his books were on, as one would expect, law, government, history, these sorts of things. in various language, not just english, but in french which was the diplomatic language. and those books in spanish be, german. so it's really this sort of international library that he collected. but like his contemporary, he was also interested in writing books. was not very good at it, wuss not successful -- was not successful. he wrote -- in his retirement he started working on an autobiography that he never finished, and he started writing on this other political, analytical/political thing in which he wanted to explain why the united states was succeedi

equivalent of halloween for of in that we all dressed up when we go to synagogue, i used to dress up john adams regalia, red coat, short stockings, that is the whole deal. we groper that patriotic sensibility and as i got older inclined me toward being more conservative. >> host: is there a political split among orthodox jews -- >> orthodox jews the republican. conservative reform jews the pretty much the opposite, 90% democrat. there is a reason for that. unfortunately most jews are not really connected to any of the tradition. there is ethnic judaism, you are born of a jewish mother and are therefore jewish, known chauncey is a jew. you care about judaism and believe in values and philosophy, we a philosophy. most jews do not believe in. they believe in the bagels and going to synagogue once a year maybe, fasting until noon on yom kippur war and considered a minority and a lot of jews out there don't want to be considered -- don't want to be those folks, they want to be a minority because you get special status in america for being a minority. they don't really have much to do with judaism be

south carolina in the chief carolinian at the time kowloon who was the vice president under john quincy adams under the first term and jackson declared the formula where slavery would be tolerated with the missouri compromise line is even encouraged and protected but secession or any reduction of the federal government opposite any state would not be tolerated. he carried that proposition. that effectively, no evidence this was his thinking at the time but he effectively enable the free state to become strong enough demographically 25 years later of the narrowest margin in this late -- table to abolish slavery. that would not have happened just two new seceded jackson's time successfully. it would not have been possible to suppress. >> host: predestined people this exit -- the second section of your book what do you try to relate? >> a tremendous period of growth it was the terrible crisis of the civil war for the reasons i just mentioned the north could prevail and to it was a great struggle to overcome but then the country just grew. the population almost tripled to a little over 90 million

royal subjects of the king, away from the right -- the due rights of englishman and that's the way john adams taught the americans to conceive. they weren't revolting. they were insisting their rights be recognized. and this was very important for another reason, which is if they had been out on the cry of rebellion, how could they get the assistance of the french king? ... because these quotes show up later and he collected the best sermons that his chaplain sent him and he published them as a book. well, kyra you know that vitality is in america. god bless america. now we are losing it. we are giving up on it and turning it away from it. i kind of stand with washington. our country does that, it's gone. this nation with its constitution cannot be maintained without a certain metaphysical view and a certain set of moral virtues. it just cannot and it will collapse. and i never wanted to believe that but i must say it makes -- it seems more and more credible to me. i didn't want to believe it because i didn't want to argue god for the sake of the united states. do you understand what i mean?

keep the citizens of the king away from the right, the two rights of englishmen and that's the way john adams taught the americans to conceive of anything. they weren't revolting. they were insisting that their rate be recognized. this is very important for another reason, which is if they had had out in the cry of rebellion, how could they get the assistance of the french king who we call it a rebellion his own. so anyway, washington collected books on providence ever since he was young. his mother gave him one at age 11. you have to reduce weight class to handle these things. i had chewing gum and i got royally bring out. because these quotes show up later in his work. he collected the best sermons on providence and he published a message book. well, you know, that fatality is in american. now, we are losing it. we are giving up, turning away from it. i don't know, i kind of stand with washington. this nation was its constitution cannot be maintained without a certain metaphysical view in a certain moral set of virtues. just cannot. it will collapse. i never wanted to believe that, but i mu

aristotle--now each--each one heads up a little quoted chapter--aristotle, shakespeare, samuel johnson, john adams, montesquieu, frederick hayek, "the federalist papers," tocqueville, thomas paine, milton and yogi berra. and your yogi berra quote--you lead off your first introduction there--"you can observe a lot by watching." where did you get the yogi berra quote? >> guest: the yogi berra quote, i--i--you know, i picked up from the repertoire of yogi berra sort of classic one-liners. and it--it appeals to me very much because i--my opening chapter is subtitled anthropologist in a strange land. there are lots of guys who want to be insiders in the new economy and identify, you know, what they call the next big thing. my approach here has been, here is a--an academic guy, a--a public policy guy, going into the new economy as an outsider and saying, 'let me watch. let me approach the new economy in the same way that an anthropologist might approach the--the natives in new guinea, and let me notice things that are strange about these people that they think are--are perfectly normal.' having grown up

the second president and states john adams once said that government is instituted for the common good for the protection safety prosperity and happiness of the people and not for the profit honor or private interest of any one man family or class of men since the founding of our nation there's always been a strong and clear distinction between public space and private space between things that are done by the government and things that are done by businesses in the private sector these distinctions are at the very core of our democracy and frankly of capitalism in america which operates in that private space for example capitalism requires an impartial court system over here in the public space so that they can enforce contracts obviously if this court system was run by the corporations themselves wouldn't work that's why it's run by the government unfortunately over the past several decades the lines between the public in the private space between corporations and government have become blurred as more and more things that have traditionally been part of our commons controlled by the

treaty of tripoli written during the washington presidency and signed a year later by president john adams the treaty of tripoli one of our nation's first said as the government of the united states is not in any sense founded on the christian religion as it has in itself no character of m. and maty against the laws religion or tranquility of muslim. and as the said states never entered into any war or act of hostility against any muslim nation is declared by the parties that no pretext arising from religious opinions shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries in case of any dispute arising from a violation of any of the articles of this treaty no appeal shall be made to arms nor show ward be declared on any pretext whatsoever. russia's president vladimir putin spoke eloquently to this idea of nations respecting each other and always favoring diplomacy over war in an op ed he published a new york times back on september eleventh president putin is no stranger to variant nationalism he's lived long enough to see it damages own nation which no doubt

a story went around that she once said on president john quince--john quincy adams's closed when he took a dip in the potomac and refuse to get up until answering her question. historians say that never happened, but no less a famous washington journalist, then the trail blazing helen thomas who unfortunately died a few days ago called it a wonderful legend when she spoke to a society of professional journalists audience in 1990, but there was no rule against, quote, irritating presidents with impudent questions. by the time franklin roosevelt was elected president in 1932 women journalists were washington freaks. if you got close to a president. you were allowed to be in the same room, in the same city room with men reporters. imagine ourselves back in an era when most women in journalism worked in segregated quarters for what were called women and society pages. do you remember the women in society page? newspapers dropped in the 1960s going to lifestyle section but anyway these were segregated sections of the newspaper and they were segregated in terms of where the women were, not eve

well, john quincy adams, who had come back to the house of representatives by then -- after being president, filibustered the entry of texas in to the united states for days on end. every day he filibustered until finally he was worn out, and at the end texas came in to the united states by one vote in the house and one vote in the senate. so i like to tell my friends in texas when i'm going back and we've had all the wars and -- that we've been fighting in the senate for texas that it's not new that they don't love us in washington. they never have. but thomas rusk was the first senator along with sam houston, and because they were in the revolution, i thought he wrote something in the report to president of the new republic about the battle that, again, told the tale of the greatness of texas women. the member, -- men, he said, the men of texas deserve much credit. but more was due the women. armed men facing a foe could not but be brave. but the women, with their little children around them, without means of defense or power to resist, face danger and death with unflenging courage. becau

>> so many interesting things are what you would not expect like john quincy adams was a freemason that there is a'' said the election of 1832 that no matter who wins the election i don't remember the exact phrase with the encroaching power budget to discuss the less familiar figure but certainly interesting to read about was a man in the '70s said that he would tell the very elaborate stories from the rockefellers to denny's with the collective meaning this is nine rand was to be a communist which have been he went to jail but that is a colorful story itself but then the into the mainstream in the '80s and people went to jail in serious news programs did not go as far but actually came pretty close at times. >> host: andrew jackson was part of a conspiracy theory? >> i open the book with him he survived an assassination attack richard lawrence tried to shoot him and afterwards he became convinced the senate race had hired the assassin at the same time they thought maybe it was a false flag attacked in that is why the guns didn't fire and it was never proven but he ended up dying decade

delivering a state of the union address to a joint congress, wilson was the first to do that before john adamsl income tax, american military adventurism. it is no accident the president and george w. bush's policy compared to was woodrow wilsons. shortly before the end of world war i, he wrote to an arizona senator saying i am thinking now only of putting the u.s. into a position of strength and justice. i am now playing for 100 years hence, now, the u.s. 100 years later, most of those years, wilson's rep takes has been re-assessed downward in many ways, by african-americans, free speech, dissent. they all suffered. even wilson. >>> was dissatisfied, frustrated by his limits in the way he was ultimately thwarted by congress. maybe a little of that sounds familiar these days, too. his legacy is a complicated one. someone here analyzing it is pulitzer prize winner. scott, thank you for joining us. >> happy to be here. >> i have been look forward to haveing this conversation. make you can take us back to that time and look at the presidency as wilson envisioned it. the way he changed it. how jus

john adams pored out the inner most feelings all of his life on paper. sometimes to his detriment. sometimes he tell us more than he really should. he was a wonderful writer as was abigail. either one of them could have been a professional writer. scrolled had a career as a reporter or as a biographer or novelist. they had a perfectly super command of the language. one releases when one thinks of what they had to go through just to get through day in the 18th century, the discomforts, the labor, the hard work, the threat to one's health or one's security. in everyday life beginning early, beginning about 5:00 in the morning. the idea that the end of such a long strenuous day, putting up with inconveniences and concerns that never even enter our minds today. they would then sit down by a candle at the kitchen table or a little desk in philadelphia in some cramped boarding house room, and with a quill pen write the letters they wrote is really exceptional. and humbling. humbling. one of the reasons that i tried as best as i could to explore that other time, and that was a very differ

and saving lives so i agree on that points but i feel that we should go back to the words of john quincy adamsess that the earmark i've republic is a group that does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. everybody though i think his actions are more about saving face than saving lives i don't think we could be involved in the first play. >> well, max, i think you mentioned something about the red line, right? let's check it out. here is an online comment, he's actually in -- >> prem did not seek congressional approval before he acted in libya. atrocities that we witnessed in syria have gone way beyond what we saw in libya. chemical weapons are being used hundreds of thousands of lives have been lost. people's people are being destroyed daily. what is he waiting for? why does he all of the sudden care about congressional approval? >> we also have off this great branch conversation we started today, syrian american says look, all we are asking for is weapons being killed and used to terrorize our people are taken away. we don't want war, we have enough force to take us out, nothing mor

since the administration of president john adams, congress has acted several times to authorize the use of met -- bill jerry forced by the president. one thing different here is the administration proposal supports the u.s. military response against a country in civil war. needless to say, this complicates the consideration. i think we are all troubled by the unfortunate lack of international support. although the proposed action aims to upholding international norm, or is no united nations resolution of support nor nato backing. as we will hear today, the president views striking the syrian regime is a way to strengthen deterrence against the future use of chemical weapons by assad and by others. that is him portland's incineration. -- that is in important consideration. countries like iran are watching. and yes a credible threats is key to putting the brakes on iran's nuclear program. there are concerns. the president from this is a military operation in syria of limited scope and duration. but the assad regime will have a say in what happens next. that would be particularly true as p

he was influenced by the speeches down the hall by john quincy adams. and it has been an honor for me to be in the church and worship god in the church where an incredible human being wore came -- wore shpped, close to god in frederick douglass who had such a profound effect on abraham lincoln as well and made a tear change in this country for the better. it is amazing here with all the hatred being spewed toward christians, and i'm shocked that in my lifetime that we have seen the lessons of anti-semitism and the hatred toward jews start coming back even in this country . when i read about what happened in the concentration camps after -- during world war ii, i couldn't believe, and i just knew we would never allow that kind of hatred to raise its ugly head again. and yet not only in some hate philed countries in the middle east is it resurfacing, it's resurfacing here in america. there were five of us, republicans here in the house, that signed letters to five different departments asking we set out facts in those letters, there were facts, sained the

and john quincy adams hated web steer.imes only the dignified and only official politeness allowed them to converse with one another at all. >> guest: i looked in to it. i hasn't realized hatred for one example of john quincy adams and danielle webster. he called him a man with a rotten heart in his diary. it was webster who blocked adam's one major aspiration in political life to be a united states senator. and webster didn't want his other cosenator from massachusetts to be john quincy adams. former president who he couldn't manipulate. so he wanted somebody less threatening and got somebody less threatening. for the rest of his life john quincy adams resented web -- webster for that. they hated each other. they loved each other. it was webster who wrote the inscription on john quincy adam's coffin. c-span: they loved and hated each other? >> guest: a love-hate relationship. c-span: clay himself could be savage. so could many others. and 1832 clay and ben ton engaged in a shouting match so -- they feared a fistfight. >>

secretary of state john kerry is adamant that the plan will work. >> we are not going to war. we will not have people at risk in that way. >> reporter: kerry also said assad could bring this conflict to an end if he hands over all of the regime's chemical weapons within one week be but kerry said assad is not ready to do that. there will be a series of votes on the authorization of using force. the heavy hitter the white house is bringing in to rally support i'm working on that story for you at 7:15. live in washington kyla campbell. >> protests for and against military action in syria are being held in the bay area. >> code pink protestors also rallied on the golden gate bridge. they fear a limited military strike could lead to long-term u.s. involvement in syria. activists in favor of u.s. intervention also rallied in union square. >>> time 16:18. let's go to sal keeping an eye on traffic. how are things at the toll plaza? >> they are getting more crowded. as you look at it now you can see the traffic is going to be more crowded at the toll plaza westbound. it's backed up fo

john adams spoke about how the duty to serve our country ended but with our lives. throughout history presidents from both parties put into place initiatives that put our people into productive service to our nation. examples include franklin roosevelt's civilian conservation corps, john kennedy's peace corps, richard nixon's senior corps, george h.w. bush's points of light, bill clinton's americorps, george w. bush's freedom corps, and more recently, the passage of the serve america act which reauthorizes and expands national service programs. today congress should step up. with so much division and discord throughout the country today, national service can help bring our country closer together. drawing from lessons learned from the programs of the past, a renewed commitment to national service by this body can unleash the ingenuity of the american people and their desire to contribute to causes greater than themselves. it can channel the energy of the institutions of civil society, all to get our country moving again. think of it ... passionate, engaged young peo

adam. working on john fox. the two coordinators have the head coaching jobs. third and nine.mas, touchdown! >> cris: well, we talked about it earlier. you beat them up on the inside and then your outside guys get a chance. there's no help whatsoever. beautiful relief off the line of scrimmage. i went up to demaryius before the game. tell me, is peyton throwing it harder and longer than last year? he said, no doubt about it. he's been throwing them great. >> al: six touchdown passes. tying a career high. prater the extra point. what a night for peyton. what a night for the broncos who actually trail by 3 at the half. [off screen] give me a kiss! [speaking mandarin] what do you think? do you like it? [off screen] happy birthday! can you see that? [speaking polish] [off screen] did he apologize? [off screen] thanks, micah! [off screen] bye, guys. bye. see ya. oh my god! every day, more people connect face to face on the iphone than any other phone. i miss you. [ male announcer ] once in a while, everything falls into perfect harmony. [ engine revs ] and you find yourself in exac

since the administration of john adams, congress has acted several times to authorize the use of military force by the president. one different thing here is that the administration's proposal supports a u.s. military response against a country in civil war. needless to say, this complement -- complicates this consideration. there all frustrated by lack of support. even though this aims to uphold the international norm, there is no united nation resolution of support nor nato backing. the president's views on the syrian regime as a way to strengthen deterrence against the future use of, the weapons by assad and by others, that is an important consideration. bad actorsoo many out there. countries like iran are watching . yes, a credible threat is key to putting the brakes on the nuclear program. there are concerns. action ofent promises limited scope and relation but the assad regime would have a say and what happens next and that would be particularly true as president obama isn't aiming to change the situation on the ground. what are the chances of escalation? our different scenarios acc

he was deputy security advidor, he spoke at the all dulles area muslim society, adams, i'm sure john adams appreciates this, but he spoke at the all dulles area muslim society and thanked the imam for his wonderful prayers during the iftar celebration at the white house. we know the head of isna, the imam, has been in the center of the state department. was there when president obama gave a speech. supposedly had helped him with his speech about the middle east. which explains why there were problems with things the president said in his speech that were an insult to israel and not factually accurate. so just as the letter that we sign -- five different letters, five different statements of fact, in each of those five letters, but just as they pointed out, we know there is muslim brotherhood influence in each of those departments. all we were asking for, not an indictment, just please investigate your department as this limited i.g. inspection did at justice of the f.b.i. and tell us how extensive or how little the influence is. we know there's some there. so is it very little? is it great