i went to john and they with the adams. then when they got to the middle of the pac ago grover, they would see clinton. i with you benjamin, they would say harrison. i would say grover and physically the again and it was a we should do a children's book to introduce people to the president would say kleven, i would say benjamin david sadie harrison, and then they would get very excited and i said we should do a children's book to introduce people to the presidents. to introduce them as human beings and to tell about their families and their siblings, and their pets and hobbies. talk about the central features of their administration without necessarily going into sex scandals, you can talk about race, you can talk about money, you can talk about things that went wrong, but you could communicate love for the idea of a service. the extraordinary variety of people went there. we have people with great physical disabilities who are president for longer than anybody else but cannot stand on their own. we have people who are just

john adams, turn washington spies. sons of liberty, book of negros, she sleepy hollow a hill pit and of course hamilton, right? and my argument today about the rece recent coalesce doesn't procollude our thinking about these earlier thinking of belonging although they may have thought of them differently. perhaps as history films. the sail way that many films of the late 1940s at the time were considered mellow dramas or detective or mystery or crime movies and only later were they thought and sort of about and lumped more broadly so things can come out earlier and still fit and effect those conventions and how people write about them and remake them. so here i'm going to talk about three major conventions. first, patriotism is the protaggist position of course and it's assumed of all angelo americans, right? the good guys are indeed what american culture has coded as good guys. hetero sexual white men. markers of british deviance include cowardess of feminism and brutality. they're painting them as being deviant, righ

abigail adams, you may recall famously says to john adams, remember the ladies. she's not asking at the time. it's a private letter between two people who love and respect each other, and john adams takes his wife very seriously, and she's an impressive political operative. she's not asking for rights to vote, she's asking for rules that will prevent husbands from beating their lives. that's what she's asking for. remember the ladies. women's suffrage wasn't even in play. but when it eventually happens, think about abigail adams for just a second because, you know what? women didn't suddenly become smart in 1920. they always were. but abigail adams has to hide her political intelligence in some ways because it's not going to help john politically, okay? and dolley madison is a political operative. and so is mary todd lincoln. and they have to hide it. women's suffrage comes along, and now eleanor roosevelt does not have to hide it, and she can appeal to a different group of voters, to the moderates, she can appeal to the crusaders. two for the price of one. and w

remember, john adams and john quincy adams, ambassador to france and ronald neumann and his father were both ambassadors to afghanistan. in addition to his remarkable , heer including that taurus for george w.ador bush from 2005 2 2000 seven and stayed active on the subject ever since. to his left, ambassador jim , not quite what ron newman pulled off in the late 1960's late-night to 70's, but i think it is fair to say to be deputy ambassador for more than three years in recent times probably counts even more than chronological years would suggest. remarkable dedication to the subject and has been associated ever since with the council focus on thes and american security. speaking of american heroes with amazing careers, ambassador

john adams, turn washington spies., book of negros, she sleepy hollow a hill pit and of course hamilton, right? and my argument today about the rece recent coalesce doesn't procollude our thinking about these earlier thinking of belonging although they may have thought of them differently. perhaps as history films. the sail way that many films of the late 1940s at the time were considered mellow dramas or detective or mystery or cme movies and only later were they thought and sort of about and lumped more broadly so things can come out earlier and still fit and effect those conventions and how people write about them and remake them. so here i'm going to talk about three major conventions. first, patriotism is the protaggist position of course and it's assumed of all angelo americans, right? the good guys are indeed what american culture has coded as good guys. hetero sexual white men. markers of british deviance include cowardess of feminism and brutality. they're painting them as being deviant, right? it consists of

we have john t adams of a hat wh the help with the big drum. and they will have the big party here tonight. >> the national media all over as wellni gorgeous. we are great city. coming up on fox eight news in the morning. more the spanish voice of your cleveland cavaliers is here to talk about the upcoming season e while come back to fox eight in progressive field with the queue l is such a wonderful and exciting night at the iq because thee cavaliers start their seasn with their rain. >> the championship care looks good on uk. >> we cannot way itcon will do a routine with these guys listening to you on the airwaves you are such a big part of the cavaliers talk about this year and whatat it has been mike and nobody in cleveland is complaining after everything we went through with all the changes we went through the postseason and the fact thatat these guys were wearing thin and the kenny historic what was the cavalierss and in the season coming back from down three ?- oneinn and then over a million people me parade. tonight is the night the gam

of my own, no sons to succeed me at least know the legitimate ones, james madison has no sons, john adams has a son and his name is q. and he becomes president of the united states and the framers were aware. part of the reason they were so freaked out about alexander hamilton, he was washington's adopted sons and washington took him under his wing, robin to washington's batman or something like that, and there's even a conspiracy theory. did you hear the rumor alexander hamilton is actually the illegitimate son of george washington. people say that's preposterous. washington was never -- actually, he was in the west indies but three years before hamilton was born. but there's no birth certifica certificate. [laughter] why is washington befriending this fellow he's freakishly smart but when he came to the united states he was 17, not 15. you know the rule that you don't know the reason behind it. it's not just that in 2,000, we had a. who was on the other side, al gore, whose father al gore senior was a leading political statesman and we talked about the governor. not just jack and robert

david mccullough's biography on john adams should not be the last word on john adams. having read her book, it is to defame the founding of the united states and act as though the founding of the united , then her a giant con view, academic or not is incorrect, in their view of celebratory is correct. i have no amount of shading in detail that is going to take away from the fact that americans have responded to the portrait of alexander hamilton and this musical because it is positive, because they are hungry for a portrayal of the united states that it does not treat the united states is a great evil, but rather as a great experiment and good. reason hamilton is the new flavor of the month, and her terminology, is precisely because he sets a more liberal-modern liberal anti-trump view. he is portrayed as the immigrant. came here, goes to college, teams up with lafayette and the two of them together, at some point say in the middle of the show, immigrants, we get the job done. the audience of reps and applause because we are at a moment in which there's a big debate in

david mccullough's biography on john adams should not be the last word on john adams.the ideological purpose of nancy isenberg, if it is, is to defame the founding of the united states and act as though the founding of the united states was basically a giant con, then her view, academic or not, is incorrect, and their view of celebratory is correct. and no amount of shading or detail will take away the fact that americans have responded to the portrait of alexander hamilton and this musical because it is positive, because they are hungry for a portrayal of the united states that does not treat the united states as a great evil, but rather as a great experiment in goodness. the model, the reason hamilton is the new flavor of the month, in her terminology, is precisely because he sets a more liberal-modern liberal anti-trump view. he is constantly portrayed as in the immigrant. here, goes to college, teams up with the marquis de lafayette and the two of them together, at some point say in the middle of the show, immigrants, we get the job done. the audience erupts in app

and john adams and sam adams were not there. they needed somebody from the boston committee of correspondence to show up and calm things down. this moment, a new person began to reemerge as the boston revolutionary movement. a young doctor named joseph. he was 33-years-old, and he had been an acolyte of samuel adams , from within a decade. and he had gained more of a public presence and he was a different type of guy van sam ndams -- type of guy van -- tha sam adams. sam adams almost two decades older. andy had charisma about him. into what to read a passage in my book that describes him, because you have a young, 33-year-old man joseph warned -- who steps to the front of the patriot movement. here is his background. where samuel adams was part political boss and part warren was two decades younger. he was often seen wandering the streets when he was a boy. of four brothers, he was recognized as an unusually gifted boy. when he was 14 he began his studies at harvard. the follow that year his father was picking apples when he fel

the election of 1800 there was no presidential debate and the race between thomas jefferson and john adams political slanders came out in the papers. murder, robbery, rape, adultery and incest will be taught and practiced. >> reporter: adams supporters were some of the first to smear the jefferson campaign in print. jefferson, the man whose head is now on the nickel, also had support from journalists and it was easy to get writers to take sides without getting their hands dirty. she is with the uc davis civic engagement project. >> it could be very powerful to get a rumor placed. >> reporter: in 1828, the race between drew jackson and john quincy adams. headlines surfaced that jackson married his wife before she was properly divorced. adna he was providing foreign politicians with sexy women. >> many argue in our history. >> reporter: abraham lincoln had haters. his opponent called him a drunk. when radio and television came into play the debate was born, and so was the art of intimidation. some say kennedy made nixon sweat profusely in the 1960 debate. >> it said that those that watched i

>> welcome to boston, home of the american revolution, home of palmer beer, sam adams and john f. kennedy. it is ted williams, larry burt. it is the town, pocket con, that's the boston we all go. what if i told y different boston, one undergoing a new revolution, one that moves and sounds to the cha-cha, spanning and english all of the same. it is jamaica plain in east boston. it is one that extends to chelsey, lawrence and beyond. a city where immigrant communities are experience ag re-birth and where latino parents are seeing the as college freshman and graduate as strong, confident leaders poised to take the world by storm. [spanish]. all across the city and state young latinos are itch chaing the way businesses are done, our communities are served and telling our own stories. it is time for the 24 meet the new boston and the young latino faces behind it. those who will one day be the future leaders of america, this fall for the first time ever we will recognize and honor american cities with newfound ideas, talent, [spanish]. this is the el-mundo boston latino 30 under 30. ? ?

the boston historical society and they have thousands of letters from her where she's lobbying john adams to remember the laidedies and slavery. so, you go from one extreme to the other. and the farther along you make it in time, you see the adaptation of technology, and the role of first lady begins to emerge as well. now you have a very public role. in the past, they could get away if they wanted to be behind the scenes. >> first lady, former first ladies running for president? mark: the chapter on hillary clinton, for anyone who wants to know how she approaches campaigning, how she approaches politics, read that chapter. one, you know right away she is the most famous woman in the world, the most well-known woman in the world. eahy is with her when she is on the campaign trail in 1992 when things are getting sort of rough. it shows how hillary reacted. i think she would rather not have happened but she goes on the attack with republicans. it shows a very savvy first lady and politician. >> what did you learn working on the book? favorite stories are the ones where i knew nothing about

both houses of congress which would have included john adams, james madison, and a worship to st. paul's. a 9/11 chapel is opening a place for quiet reflection that contains art facts, including patches of first responders. >> i think because i grew up in new york. >> it's quickening to my spirit to know that, that those people were had a refuge they c >> a ceremony will take place this sunday to celebrate st. paul's 250 years. there will be prepare service and events throughout the year. lauren green fox news. >> i loved that church. it's right in the middle of everything. you got beautiful old church and got all of these enormous buildings. >> think of all the things that >>> a piece of your halloween costume you may be better off leaving home. >> costume contact lenses can make your eyes look creepy but come with real risks. i've spent my life planting a size-six, non-slip shoe into that door. on this side, i want my customers to relax and enjoy themselves. but these days it's phones before forks. they want wifi out here. but behind that door, i need a private connection for my

charlie: john adams? justice breyer: john adams put people in prison for what they say. abraham lincoln put 18,000 people in prison. charlie: he won an award. justice breyer: correct. but they were not soldiers. you had wilson, woodrow wilson, , continuously stopping what people said, and you had report to -- you had world war ii, 70,000 citizens of japanese origin put in camps. charlie: so what is your point? [laughter] justice breyer: why does he want to know the point? such an interesting story. the point is that in guantanamo, the court turned. -- sandrasaid o'connor -- the constitution does not write a blank check to the president, not even in time of war. four detainees won the four cases, and it resident lost. that's the point. the point is what is in your mind right now. what is the question in your mind when i say that? if it does not write a blank check, what does it right? that will be our job. terrorism is international. countries all over the world are democracies too -- so we are to be influenced by all information -- justice breyer: not be influenced, but

. >> and when people say, "oh no, because thomas jefferson's john adams was a hermaphrodite." [ laughter ] but that wasn't thomas jefferson saying it. >> seth: right, and thomas jefferson had terrible friends who said stuff like that all the time. >> and you know, john adams was a hermaphrodite. >> seth: he was a hermaphrodite. [ laughter ] you, my last question for you, because last night, you know it is such an incredibly high stakes and i feel like anderson and martha did such a nice job keeping things in line last night. >> two great people, great people. >> seth: you moderated a debate with 11 republican candidates was that just impossible? >> don't do it. >> seth: yeah. >> don't. 11 is too many. >> seth: yeah. >> and when you --and also by the way, these are not small personalities. you know, i mean, trump, christie. i mean, so yeah, 11, that was ridiculous. and was it 7 hours long? how was it -- >> seth: it was really long. they're real bummers. but you did a great job. are so are you looking forward to it being over. >> real bummers. >> seth: they are, it's just a here. [ laughte

melissa: thomas jefferson called john adams, a heromophidital. character. different. >> saying his character is male and female. >> he wasn't physically attractive john adams. harris: what is the next one, melissa? melissa: a lot in here. remember george w. bush when dui came out. it was an october surprise. that is so tame by comparison. now people -- sandra: that is the thing, eight days to go. final stretch we're there but so much can happen. >> odds of another surprise? harris: absolutely! >> another surprise? one more? harris: could we see situation by end of the day donna brazile might leave the chairperson open at dnc? melissa: i think not but we'll see. more "outnumbered" in just a moment. imy moderate to severeng crohn's disease. i didn't think there was anything else to talk about. but then i realized there was. so, i finally broke the silence with my doctor about what i was experiencing. he said humira is for people like me who have tried other medications but still experience the symptoms of moderate to severe crohn's disease. in clinical studie

glenville taken on john adams. the merriest good one. he is a good one. he is gone. touchdown there. no point after the touchdown. they practically never do. they practically never need them. 26 ?zero. moving along. larry catholic and the panthers taken on rocky river pirates. ec cheerleaders tearing a 10 ? seven lead. they had it picked and just clean sure halted in for the panthers. fourth-quarter getting points. look at this run. spin move. break and attack all. they got him down after 30 yard advancement. straight ahead running. all elyria catholic 41 ?seven. this is big on the west side. made view though would rule the night. dustin crump looking long for keith jackson. they run away with it 55 ?34. >> >> sports anchor: workout today progressive . i also gave me the chance to catch up with chewing game and shoelaces. how about this ?this is a bombshell. i'll put that out theren essay danny salazar throws a three inning simulated game. he said he is ready to pitch. he can throw his breaking ball, that is big news. he will not rule out using starting pitcher. >> m

i would say john, david dave adams. when they got to the middle of the pack, grover, cleveland, benjamin, harassing. it's a cleveland again and it gets very excited.d. we should do a children's book to introduce people to the presidents, to introduce them and tell about their families and siblings in pets and hobbies to talk about central features of their administrations without necessarily descending intold do scandals. he could talk about race, money, things that went wrong. but you could communicate a love for the idea of public service and people who went there. we've had people with great physical disabilities who are president for longer than anybody else but couldn't stand on the road. people who are dyslexic, people five feet tall and 64. the people, tiny people, people that got very unexpectedly. some who grew up and due politics in their father's tavern. it's a wonderful story. too often, kids think history is boring and too often our kidss like history disappear. the word history is mostly made up of the wor

he couldn't believe someone would voluntarily give up our and john adams was elected but after one term he lost to thomas jefferson. the time people said it was a miracle that a president would pass power to a rival simply because he got fewer votes. adams did skip jefferson's inauguration. 24 years later andrew jackson -- jackson won the popular vote in the most electoral votes but didn't get the majority he needed to win. other candidates combined forces and congress made john quincy adams president ray jackson said the people i've been cheated but again there was no violence. the transition was peaceful. in other countries it is and always peaceful. in kenya 20 years ago the presidential election came down to a narrow vote, 46-44% of the loser is used to accept the results and he said there was fraud. 1000 people were killed in the violence that followed. 40,000 people fled their homes. john: etsy is it important trump said a peaceful transition. >> he is rather clumsy and how he says that in effect peaceful transition of power is one of the great assets of this country but if we tru

. >> rose: john adams. >> john adams, abraham lincoln put 18,000 people in prison. he had a problem. >> rose: he wanted to win a war. >> correct. but they had no trial, no nothing and they weren't soldiers. you had wilson, woodrow wilson, great man and continuously stopping what people said. and you had world war ii 70,000 citizens of japanese origin put in camp. >> rose: so what is your point? >> my point is, why does he want to know the point. such an interesting story. you always have to have a point? the point is that in guantanamo, in seal seizure case, the court turned. and the court said sandra o'connor, the constitution does not write a check blank. no blank check to the president. not even in time of war. and the four detainees won the four cases. and the president lost. that's the point. the point is what is in your mind right now. what's the question in your mind when i say that. if it doesn't write a blank check, what kind of check does it write? and that's going to be our job. quite possibly. and terrorism is international. countries all over the world

john adams writing letters back and forth, at least twice -- thank you. i hope that works. it may be prophesy, but this team of prophesy, everywhere. >> isn't this part of the problem. this is religious notions with historical notions and i think part of the problem the seeds being planted that we assume it's going to be gradual release of these virtues that trace back to the founders and it's narrative that we like, because we want to assume the evolution of progress, when, in fact, our history discounts that, even in the basic rule of suffer aj, it's not a gradual expansion of the right. so part of the problem is exactly what you're talking about, shakes sphepeare history nobody calls it history. we call it literature. but the other thing is just to think about how these powerful narratives, eclipse important elements that we as historians spend time recovering, talking about, have to be part of the narrative. and the power, there's no doubt, the power of the drama is about the time casting, is about the music, is about getting people to believe in something, yes, but is

david mccullough's biography on john adams should not be the last word on john adams. if the ideological purpose of nancy isenberg, which i believe it is, is to defame the founding of the united states and act as though the founding of the united states was a giant con, then her view, academic or not, is incorrect, and their view of celebratory is correct. no amount of shading or detail is going to take away from the fact that americans have responded to the portrait of alexander hamilton and this musical because it is positive, because they are hungry for a portrayal of the united states that does not treat the united states as a great evil, but rather as a great experiment and goodness. and the model, the reason hamilton is the new flavor of the month, in her terminology, is precisely because he sets a more liberal, modern liberal anti-trumpian view. he is an immigrant. he came here, goes to college, teams up with the marquis de lafayette. the two of them together, at some point say in the middle of the show, immigrants, we get the job done. the audience erupts in ap

he couldn't believe someone would voluntarily give up our and john adams was elected but after one term he lost to thomas jefferson. the time people said it was a miracle that a president would pass power to a rival simply because he got fewer votes. adams did skip jefferson's inauguration. 24 years later andrew jackson -- jackson won the popular vote in the most electoral votes but didn't get the majority he needed to win. other candidates combined forces and congress made john quincy adams president ray jackson said the people i've been cheated but again there was no violence. the transition was peaceful. in other countries it is and always peaceful. in kenya 20 years ago the presidential election came down to a narrow vote, 46-44% of the loser is used to accept the results and he said there was fraud. 1000 people were killed in the violence that followed. 40,000 people fled their homes. john: etsy is it important trump said a peaceful transition. >> he is rather clumsy and how he says that in effect peaceful transition of power is one of the great assets of this country but if we tru

nation's first vp and second president of the united states, john adams, but in the time since, nine vice-presidents have had to fill head office due to december or resignation. so we went to the region's most notorious melting pot to find out how recognizable is donald trump's running mate indiana governor mike pennsylvania senator tim kaine. >> kind of looks like pat toomey honestly. >> huckabee. >> huckabee. >> kind of close. >> neil die manned to me. >> who is this. >> i could not even tell you. >> how about this one. >> nope. >> reporter: these people are in good company, and latest cbs poll, 67 and 57 percent of voters were either undecided or didn't know enough about the vice-presidential hopefuls to rate their favor ability. do you know who this guy is. >> mike pence. >> had about this guy? >> tim kaine. >> what about that guy. >> for those who knew faces they feel that a vice-presidential debate will provide an opportunity to discuss, issues, beyond personal jabs taken during the presidential debate. but as for vice-president's influence in the direction of the country. >> t

abigail adams has thousands of letters where she is lottery -- lobbying john adams to remember the ladies. --tha washington has all of has only two letters that exist. the further along you make it in time, you see the adaptation of technology and the role of first lady begins to emerge. now, we have a very public role for the first lady. in the past, they could get away if they wanted to be behind the scenes. you can't do that anymore. >> former first ladies running for president. mark: the chapter on hillary clinton, for anyone who wants to know how she approaches campaigning and politics, read that chapter. number one, you note -- you know right away, she is the most famous woman in the world. with her on the campaign trail in 1992 where things were getting rough. it shows how hillary reacted. things that she would rather not happened, but she goes on the attack with republicans. it shows a saddened first lady savvy firstan -- a lady and politician even back then. my favorite stories are the ones about theew nothing first lady. lucy hayes is knowing -- known as lemonade lucy for prohib

but in the jefferson wrote against john adams. jefferson hired a newspaper editor to write incredible slander about adams in the press, that he was horrible things. and everyone said when trump bragged about the size of his penis, that was -- oh, we can't braghtd about the size of his penis. >> stephen: but in private. no, there is a very famous story where he pulled out his penis in front of reporters when asked why they were invading vietnam and he said this is why. he would whip it out in front of congress people in the capital bathroom and say, have you e >> stephen: because he's from texas. >> exactly. ( laughter ) you know, so we can find those points of comparison and that can hopefully relieve our anxiety about the election because everyone is so upt. >> stephen: ruin orange orange s 100% is artificially flavored. >> stephen: mouthwash. listerine was initially sold invented the term "halitosis" in the 30s to sell it as a mouthwash. >> stephen: tom hanks. oh, you can't ruin him. h he's perfect. ( cheers and applause ) > >> s

thomas jefferson running against john adams hired a newspaper and wrote he was a hideous calendar. >>tter. >> it took a lot longer to call people names. >> that was great. >> thank you. >> definitely trying to deburching tdebunk the idea that these things are new. you don't think this election is somewhat? >> it definitely is. every election is obviously unique. this has elements we've never seen before. in trump wins he'll be the first president to have never held office or a position in the military. that's one small way in which it's jen rgenuinely new. the elements, we can find historical analogs to a lot of these things. i think it helps you understand it better if you realize these things. democracy has been through a lot of raisy things before and got through them. maybe we have a better chance of pulling through this year. >> what do you say when people say, oh, it's never been this polarized before? >> i actually agree with that. in our special we go through, hey, this isn't that different, that isn't that different and at the end we say partisan polarization is really at rec

one was engraved with the nicknames of samuel adams and john hancock who happened to be in lexington. today, the john hancock is on display and the samuel adams was conserved by the national park service and it is also on display next to the bunker hill monument. in boston, you can see two out of the four. i will be happy to take questions. [applause] in the time, did they find out that young was a spy? >> there was another doctor but he was a good one. yes. in the fall of 1775, dr. -- he hadistress asked her to send a letter into boston. she was living in newport. she made the mistake of asking her ex-husband to mail the letter for her. suspicious sowas he sat on it for a while. he got another question asking, have e-mailed it yet? mailed it yet? he went to the authorities and a discovered that it was in code. nothing suspicious here. [laughter] washington had this person brought to headquarters and interrogated her for hours until giving up the name of dr. church who was not simply a patriot, he was the surgeon general of the continental army. interrogated him. she denied everything