can feel just like us and for the first time i met john adams was the late president john adams of the summer of 1812. he was a steadfast nationalist and sometimes farmer at this home that he affectionately called peace field. he was a combustible critic who could be more than a little cranky about claiming his role in the revolution. and that historical society alone, we have about a quarter of a million manuscript pages of juicy correspondence to choose from, but i often think i came in on a particularly good year for the historian of religion. so, rewinding through american history in the-you will remember 1812 for the adams's and for america. here in massachusetts, eldridge gerry signed off on a redistricting plan that claims him the terms of prosperity, gerrymandering james madison's war bill moved through congress and customs duties doubled. british forces searched to the modern-day michigan and napoleon swept into russia. from the retirement just down the road here, john adams kept in touch with old contacts and commented generously on the fluctuating world theme. so i ha

from the retirement just down the road here, john adams kept in touch with old contacts and commented generously on the fluctuating world theme. so i had plenty of long monologue letters to work for transcribing while he commented on all of these events and i also had a chance to get his voice in my head. thanks to the efforts of mutual friends and benjamin rush, john adams romance with thomas chuck was back on. by early 1812, the statesman had resumed her lively correspondence with a new level

[laughter] during the administration of john adams, the country lurched into it. reaction.od of congress approved an act that againstillegal to write the president in the press. john adams not only lost his real election in 1800, but as jeffersonian opponents reigned supreme for the next quarter century. campaigns against the press do not get your face carved into the rocks of mile rushmore -- of mount rushmore. when you chip away at the press, you chip away at our democracy. [applause] >> people now say that we are ofhting for the soul america, but we have always been fighting for the soul of america. we have always fallen short of the hollowed ideals in our founding documents. america has always been a work in progress, a perpetual journey. a freedom ride with the final destination. it has been forced to renew and rediscover our country's promise. dr. martin luther king jr. said never believe that the moral are universal -- fieldscious republic gradual, even perishable at the moment, after the shooting in the synagogue, our civil society feels fragile as a. -- a

as john adams said, fax are stubborn things and our wishes cannot -- to them. do the hard marching and should wear no ideological coloring without the facts, we cannot have agreements and are -- in our badly divided nation. more importantly, without them, we cannot have an honest disagreement. i implore any president who aspires to the noble rise for peace, but we don't want one in the running for the noble prize for fiction. [applause] grant was not a flawless president, but he was a stickler for the truth. one day in the white house, he was busy when a stranger called, knowing that he was occupied. on aide informed the usher, tell the guest, he is out. he said, don't tell them that, tell him i am engaged, and must be excused. i never live for myself and i don't want anyone to live for me. that is a powerful example that all -- i never lie for myself, and i don't want anyone to lie for me. that is an example that every president should emulate. during the civil war, we saw woodrow wilson stifling dissent with the espionage act of world war i. but what is happe

during the administration of john adams, the country lurched into a parry owed of reaction.f reaction.eriod at this dark moment, jefferson privacy -- with a little patience, we shall see the rain. let it be noted that because of his anti-press record, john adams not only lost his reelection campaign in 1800 but his jeffersonian opponents rained supreme for the next order century. campaigns against the press do not get your face carved into rushmore butmount when you chip away at the press, you chip away at our democracy. not deal- history does leniently with president that punish the free press. people say we are fighting for the soul of america that we have always been fighting for the soul of america. we have always fallen short of the hallowed ideas enshrined in our founding documents. we are a perpetual journey. with no finale destination forcing each new generation to renew and discover our country's lofty promise. dr. martin luther king jr. said memorably that it never does so in a smooth and unbroken line. our precious republic fails fragile and even perishable at the

, the great- grandson of john adams and great grandson of john quincy adams and the adams family was in this state of political decline where there were two atoms presidents and their background but henry adams cannot even make a start in politics but he became a very distinguished historian and when he was writing in the 1860s , when ulysses grant was president 10 years after the publication of charles darwin on the origin of species, the introduction of the theory of evolution, adams is take on this was that anybody who looks at the progression of the presidency from george washington to ulysses grant understands that evolution is a crock, utterly refutes the theory. anyway, i was going to say in most cases it looks as though there is this linear line that they can go down and up but there is a striking thing i'm going to pros this to you and you can decide whether you agree or not there is one sense in which donald trump is positively and this is an additive i have not heard applied to him that he is positively washingtonian, very much like the father of our country. and can you g

and, let's not forget the first former president to live to 90 was john adams. adams would have been a fine president, at least physically in his 70s and he was our second president. so, it's genes, it's nutrition, it's medicine and it's a little bit of luck. >> let's talk about the message that often comes with the younger candidates, that youth, that new generation, the message of change. look at obama in 2008. you have clinton in 1992. you have kennedy in '60. in this cycle, it's interesting that some of the younger candidates are making the experience argument against the 72-year-old sitting president. >> well, victor, first of all, this is a president who, despite his age, gives the impression of activism. remember the disruption, the theme of the trump presidency, is not something you associate with older people. now, i'm not sure if we actually looked at what donald trump does during the day, we would think he was an active, vital president. he spends a lot of time playing golf. the image of his presidency is not the image of an older man's presidency. th

during the administration of john adams, the country lurched into a period of reaction and made a warcare with france and a rampant fear of foreigners. congress enacted the alien and sedition act which made it a crime for journalists to write about the president in a scandalous or malicious fashion. in this dark moment, jefferson, with his faith in the people prophesied -- with a little patience, we shall see the rain which has passed, their spells dissolved. let it be noted, that because of his anti-press record, john adams not only lost his reelection campaign, but his jeffersonian opponents reigned supreme for the next quarter century. campaigns against the press don't get your face carved into the rocks at mount rushmore. when you chip away at the press, you chip away at democracy. [applause] history does not deal with presidents will punish the free press. people now say that we are fighting for the soul of america, but folks, we have always been fighting for the soul of america. we have always fallen short of the hallowed ideals enshrined in our founding documents. america has a

i also love, there is currently john adams tea set in the greenroom. it is a beautiful silver tea and that has adaps on it and has the presidents house, and you could have poured water out of it. i think it is an incredible nod to the history of the house, president adams was the first president that lived in the white house. i think it is mind boggling that it still exists and is in such great condition. that room i really love. i also really like the state dining room. not because of necessarily how it is now, although it is lovely, but that corner of the room is where jefferson's private study was and where he had his cabinet meetings. i think my next book will be looking at adams and jefferson's cabinets. that space really holds a special spot in my heart because it does not exist really anymore like it did look at the time. trying to imagine what it was is a special thing. host: both of you have only known working with a trump administration. hard to compare with press -- past presidents. but you said each administration brings their own different

a bastard brat of a scot peddler was how john adams referred to alexander hamilton, for example.scovered, it can be taken too far. part of the problem, i think, is that everything now has to be definitive. it's black and white. there is no room for doubt or uncertainty. i'm right, you're wrong. i'm good, you're bad. i'm smart, you're stupid. wouldn't it be good to show just a little more humility? a very wise person once said i wish i could be as certain of anything as he is of everything. well, there's a real wisdom in knowing that we don't, in fact, know everything. one thing i'm certain of is that's all for this week. for the latest show updates, follow me on twitter, facebook and instagram, and i'll be back next week right here on "the wall street journal" at large. thank you for joining us. weeke. lou: good evening everybody. president trump today inspecting the southern border, dressing the national emergency and the influx of illegal immigrants. the president warning prospective border crossings today telling them to turn up round and not continue their journey north. >> t

a bastard brat of a scot peddler was how john adams referred to alexander hamilton, for example.part of the problem, i think, is that everything now has to be definitive. it's black and white. there is no room for doubt or uncertainty. i'm right, you're wrong. i'm good, you're bad. i'm smart, you're stupid. wouldn't it be good to show just a little more humility? a very wise person once said i wish i could be as certain of anything as he is of everything. well, there's a real wisdom in knowing that we don't, in fact, know everything. one thing i'm certain of is that's all for this week. for the latest show updates, follow me on twitter, facebook and instagram, and i'll be back next week right here on "the wall street journal" at large. thank you for joining us. ♪ >> a farmer with an unusual hobby hands down a humongous collection to his family. >> anybody that collects 150 tractors -- doesn't that make you eccentric? ♪ >> he spent a lifetime, and a pretty penny, amassing it. >> definitely a method to grandpa's madness. >> is it a treasure trove of valuable americana? >> it was al

there's a tie between thomas jefferson and his running mate and third-place john adams in fourth place, adam's running mate. remember the 31 days in 2000, our country was driven over that? congress meets in the middle of the break, 1801 and house of representatives has to decide the election and commit several blinding snowstorm, each state has one vote, maryland is for democratic and for, if he feels to show up, maryland will go for burke, now the semiofficial candidate of the federal federalists. carried on a pallet through a blinding snowstorm for 2 miles in washington d.c. and installed in committee room next to the house so he could vote. they vote starting at noon and cast nearly 30 ballots by noon the next morning, straight through the night. every boat is exactly the same, conclusive. they talk about it at work for the next six or seven days and finally alexander hamilton ways in. he says i hate jefferson. i also hate burke. jefferson at least had some character. he tells him of delaware, given a choice between two evils, go for the lesser every time. so he makes himself, basic

whether it's john adams or abraham lincoln, john kennedy, barack obama and yet he is said to be the moste ever had. what you make of that. >> it's easy to take comments that's he's made and say this is an attack on the press. i've never encountered a white house that ever took questions from a journalist they didn't want to take questions from. i've never encountered a white house that didn't control how they communicated with the media. in my experience as a journalist, whether it's the state department or the white house or the pentagon, they are always in control of how they communicate. i have never seen this as a threat. i've never felt threatened by any of it as a journalist. i know what it is to be threatened as a journalist. i know what it is when you're on the battlefield or you're in a very difficult situation with a hostage threat and you're just trying to survive. i know what it is to be targeted. in egypt when they declared journalist the enemy of the state, i was gang raped and sodomized and almost murdered. i know what it is to be targeted and i would never, i will stand b

sarah talks about the religious life of the john adams family at ten. we wrap up the prime time programming at 10:55 p.m. eastern with a presentation of the book of the year award. check your cable guide for more information. now here is clive thompson.

he is looking closely at the john quincy adam's diary, which those of you that have ever rear read orit come it is a magnificent thing in the front of our book. >> we know from our work at the c-span he's been a white house reporter for 11 years. he has discussed with the attacks on the press happening rightt now and once i hear the anger and deep distrust after the administration, how do we restore the trust? one thing that is clear every president has a problem with the press. you talk about that in the podcast how these are not new things we are going through. is the relationship with the press worse now than it has been in history? >> i think the problem is that when we deal with alternative facts, when we deal with enemies of the people and use terms like that, it does erode trust in the near sacred american institution. so, although we have had those issues in the past i don't think that it's been quite the way that it is now. americans have learned to distrust what they are reading, and that isn't necessarily a bad thing. but, when you believe that the press is out to get someo

it is an electoral tie between thomas jefferson and his running mate and third places john adams and in fourth place is adams's running mate. 31 days from hell in 2000, how our country was riven over that. congress meets in the middle of february 18, '01, the house of representatives has to decide the election, they meet in the midst of a blinding snowstorm. each state has one vote. maryland has four democratic republicans and four federalists and one of the democratic republicans is ill and fails to shop, maryland will go for burr who is the semi-official candidate of the federalists. he insists on being carried in a pallet through a blinding snowstorm for 2 miles in washington dc and is stalled in a committee room next to the house for so he can vote. they vote starting at noon and cast nearly 30 ballots by noon the next morning, straight through the night, every vote is the same, inconclusive. they talk about it and work over the next 6 or 7 days and alexander hamilton ways in and says i hate jefferson but i also hate burr. jefferson at least has some character. he tells baer of d

our second president, john adams, said, "power always thinks it has a great soul, and that it is doing service when it is violating all his laws." with that thought, from american history, we conclude this course. thank you for attending, and we will see you next semester. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] announcer 1: listen to lectures in history on the go by streaming our podcast anytime anywhere. you are watching ""american history tv" only on c-span3. announcer 2: "american history tv," university of chicago political science professor austin carson on his book "secret wars: covert , conflict in international politics." he delves in the way state powers secretly intervene in foreign wars, offering examples from the korean and vietnam wars and argues that covert participation helps to keep wars contained. the woodrow wilson center hosted this one-hour event. mr. pomeranz: it's a great pleasure today to welcome bac

let it be noted because it is anti-press record john adams not only lost his re-election campaign inaigns against the press dent get your face carved into the rocks of mount rushmore. for when you chip away at the press you chip away at our democracy. you know, people now say we're fighting for the soul of america. but folks we've always been fighting for the soul of america. we've always fallen short of those enshrined in our documents. a perpetual journey, a freedom ride with no final destination. and it falls to each new generation to renew and rediscover our country's lofty promise. dr. martin luther king, jr. said that the moral arc of the universe extends towards justice. our precious republic feels fragile, even perishable at the moment and after the shooting at the synagogue in san diego today our civil society feels fragile as well. i shudder at the sheer savagery to which washington politics has descended. but we've also seen the wisdom our kaunlsitution at work with boldly asserted press, an independent judiciary and a rejuvenated congress providing checks on executive pow

but i really don't see this president doing things past presidents did, john adams, woodrow wilson, franklini-press president we've ever had. what do you make of that? >> well, it's easy to take comments that he's made and say that this is an attack on the press, right? because he's more brutal. in fact, ironically, more brutally honest about it. i've never encountered a white house that didn't take questions from a journalist they didn't want to take questions from the, that didn't control how they communicated with the media. in my experience as a journalist whether it's the state department, the white house or the pentagon, they're always in control of how they communicate. so i've never seen this as a threat. i've never felt threatened by any of it as a journalist. i don't buy -- i know what it is to be threatened as a journalist. i know what it is the when you're on a battlefield or when you're ine a very difficult situation with a hostage threat, and you're just trying to survive. i know what it is to be targeted. in egypt when they declared journalists the enemy of the state, i was ga

it is peter drumming looking closely at the john quincy adams diary which those of you who have never read it or seen it, it is a magnificent thing. that is at the front of our book. susan: this is from someone in the audience. we know from our work at c-span, he has been a white house reporter for 11 years. he was distressed with the attacks on the press happening now. he writes, i fear the anger and distress will endure long after the trump administration to how do we restore trust? one thing that is clear, every president has had a problem with the press. you can find it in chapter after chapter. you talked about that in the podcast we did about how these are not new things we're going through. is the relationship with the press worse than it has been at any point in history? edna: i think the problem is that when we deal with alternative facts, when we deal with enemy of the people, when we use terms like that, it does erode trust in a sacred american institution. although we have had those issues in the past with presidents and the press, i don't think it has been quite the way i

john adams 2. it gets murky after that. >> he knows them all. >> knows them all cold.liam howard taft. 340 pounds, whatever. he knows all of that. that's stored away in his head. >> helpful. >> it's helpful. especially for a baseball player. >> he'll be on jeopardy. >>> thanks, larry. join us tonight at 9:00 on kofi cable -- tesla says new versions of its cars can go farther than ever. we'll look at the see how thepa to other electric cars on the market. that's at 9:00. >> on abc 7 news at 11:00, b.a.r.t. revives plans for parking lot readers. what will protect your privacy. >> that's later tonight. that's our addition of abc 7 news now. look for breaking news on the abc 7 news app. we appreciate your time. i'm dan ashley. >> i'm ama daetz. and for everyone here, have a great evening and stay cool. you need to place yourself whilein the moment.ears, ♪ our products make the wins more victorious... and the rewards even sweeter. you need confidence in the appliances you select to build the home and life you love. our products and services bring moments like these to every

office of housing and community development and i am joined by her deputy director of housing, john adams. first of all, a little overview of our office's mission, which is to support san franciscans with affordable housing opportunities, and essential services to build strong communities. we described that in four priorities, which is to create 100% affordable housing, mixed-income housing to transform communities and to provide affordable homeownership opportunities to preserve existing public housing, and existing affordable housing, to protect vulnerable residents and their communities, and to empower communities and neighborhoods and people seeking housing. first, i want to start off by providing a little bit of context for our office's work around senior housing. we recognize that the demographic of this population is growing, as director mcfadden has described, particularly in the homeless population, i think 30% of more -- or more of the population is at age 50 or above we know this is a challenge. unfortunately, our office has relied for many decades on federal subsidy through th

at the end of his presidency, john adams, who is a sour prone to giving compliments easily, he wrotehe james madison administration had covered itself with more glory than any predecessors. that is the great compliment. i do think he has been under appreciated, and it has been really so much fun. i know five years of labor does not sound like fun, but discovering things to put it into a form that i hope would reach a wide audience. but to reconfigure his life. mr. cheney: was the most important contribution? if you had to pick just one? , what would it be? mrs. cheney: well, it would have to be the constitution. i think he was a genius, because the kind of genius he had with conventional thinking, when everyone was thinking one way, madison did not accept it. he did that with the case of the constitution with the great republic of what we are. the conventional wisdom is you could not have a great republic , you know, a great republic where people voted for representatives for themselves, representative government. that it would be to lose over too loose over a long, vast, you had lan

it is peter drumming looking closely at the john quincy adams diary, which those of you who have never read it or seen it, it's just a magnificent thing. that's at the front of our book. >> this is from paul in the audience. we know from our work at c-span, he's been white house reporter for 11 years. he is distressed with the attacks on the press that are happening right now, and rights, i fear anger and distrust will endure long after the trump administration. how do we restore trust? one thing that is clear, and the president has had a problem with the press. you can find it in chapter after chapter. you talked about that in the podcast we did about how these are not new things were going through. is the relationship with the press worse now that it has been at any point in history? >> i think the problem is that when we deal with alternative facts, when we deal with any of the people, when we use terms like that, it does erode trust in a near sacred american institution. so although we've had those issues in the past with president president and the press, i don't think it's been q

sarah talks about the religious life of the john adams family at ten. we wrap up the prime time programming at 10:55 p.m. eastern with a presentation of the book of the year award. check your cable guide for more information. now here is clive thompson. [inaudible] >> thank you so much for coming out tonight my name is serena i am the assistant at books of magic and is not your first time you may notice something new, we have a crew from cspan training us to record the talk. during the q&a portion we will have the gentleman in the blue come around for the mike to get your questions answered. tonight we are hosting clive thompson in his new book the making of a new tribe in the new attorney remaking of the world. it's a comprehensive and entry point to the world of code, history heroes and consequent is. he interrogates the ethics of computer programming in our modern digital age were certain decisions have the potential to cause serious device on the economic disruption. coders offers the field as gatekeepers and legends including instagram, google's an

john adams, a geologist said, we will give you a piece.er the museum opened, one of the most significant things happen to me is when i see young kids coming to look at it. a boy and his brother touching it. an old woman that had difficulty walking. she said, i have been waiting for this all my life. some things may be whole effort, going to get that piece of the moon. next. there are all kinds of little things like this that made a huge difference. several missions afterwards. the features of the back of the moon. the far side of the moon. there are no features of the man in the moon. dark folk can the there are all kinds of things for the japanese mission. the southern region of the moon. we know it may be icewater in the southern region of the moon. it is in shadow all the time. if there is water, it is going to be frozen. next. the last mission now is a chinese mission. rover.nese have a they move away from the spacecraft to investigate part of the far side of the moon. this will allow us to consider what the chemistry of the farsighted

i know john adams did have a relationship with bankers. in the adams family in general in terms of financing their own rise. thomas jefferson as well but i'm not entirely sure about george washington. someone had to finance some of those wars. in a lot of cases, even the initial war that created our country. you had to have financing to do that. often times, it was financiers involved with the army and ultimately, the government who helped to provide some of that. >> and during world war ii, were banks important to fdr? >> banks were very important in world war ii. if we look at the memories of that in terms of war bonds that were issued through the banks to individuals. i looked up documents where you could see at the put out - - ads being put out. thing open up an account, get a war bond certificate. all sorts of deals that were being sort of run by banks as well as providing their own money into the war effort. as well as directing some of that war effort. different banks provided different funds ii, there's a lot of communication going

[laughter] john adams, a geologist from the university of washington said, if you get a fierce lookingith a sword, we will give you a piece. and we got it and were able to touch the moon. after the museum opened, one of the most significant things that happens to me is when i see young kids coming to look at it. to actually touch it. a boy and his brother come touch it. one, an old woman that had difficulty walking. she said, i have been waiting for this all my life. some things like this make the whole effort of going to get that one piece of the moon for people to touch. next. there are all kinds of little things like this that made a huge difference. several missions afterwards, we showed the features of the back of the moon. the far side of the moon. there are no features of the man in the moon. it is all this white rock. very little of the dark volcanic -- next. there are all kinds of things for the japanese mission. going to the southern region of the moon. we know there may be water ice in the southern region of the moon, because of the fact that it is in shadow all the time. if

john adams said facts are disturb earn things and our wishes cannot alter them.ological coloring. without the facts, we cannot have agreement in our badly divided nation. more importantly, without the facts, we cannot have an honest disagreement. i applaud any president who aspires to the nobel prize for peace, about you we don't want one in running for the nobel prize for fiction. [ applause ] u leasei ulysses grant was a stickler for the truth. one gday in the white house a stranger called. knowing he was occupied an adeoye informed the usher tell the gentleman that the president is out. hearing this outrage, no, don't tell him that. tell him i'm engaged and must be excused. i never lie for myself and do not want anybody to lie for me. that's a powerful example that all presidents should emulate. you know, we have seen past administrations threaten the press directly whether it be lincoln shutting down disloyal papers during the civil war or woodrow wilson stiefing dissent with the espionage act in world war i. what is happening today is perhaps more insidious.

john adams was a rather unpleasant fellow, it turns out, who didn't like to be criticized. had he been reelected, we would have had an act that would've made it illegal to criticize the president. the current president likes being criticized. but we don't have laws against it. we might have. if you look at the united states and corruption, until at least teddy roosevelt, corruption was rampant in -- patronage, buying of positions, etc. it was only the civil service under roosevelt that began to change that. if one looks at the united states in terms of minority rights, i couldn't go to a movie theater in my hometown. so, is this really -- does the united states reach the sweet spot so easily that we shouldn't say to others, maybe it just takes you time to find that place at which people can self govern through institutions rather than through tribe or family or ethnic group? when you think about it, democracy is an odd concept. i ought to trust my interest, my right to these abstractions called constitutions and rule of law and elections and so forth. so, should americans b

looking at indictments and stepping on things, and trump will play the game well, but it is -- john quincy adams said john tyler almost approached mediocrity and he didn't have the act bility to rise to the office he was put in. he might have been the worst president before donald trump. >> last question. very quickly. big debate. gene robinson on "meet the press" yesterday raised the possibility. he said maybe the smart candidate who runs against trump or runs for the nomination of the democratic party, your party, the smart candidate, man or woman, whatever, of any age, is the one who really is anti-trump, who says i'm here to beat donald trump. no more nice. no more issues. my problem's with him being in the white house. do you think somebody with a real hard ball mentality would be the smart candidate or do you think you need to be nuanced? where are you? >> i think you have to be right in his face. he's in our face. he did, you know, lil marco and low energy jeb and lyin' hillary or crooked hillary. you got to be in his face and take him on. we need somebody. the american public doesn't lik

i know john adams did have a relationship and then the adams family in general in terms of financing o their own rise he thought of banking and thomas jefferson us all. i'm not entirely sure about george washington. someone had to finance some of the wars and in a lot of cases even the initial war that was created in the country, you had to have financing to do that and often times it was years involved with the army and ultimately the government who hope to provide some ofo that. >> host: during world war ii were banks and fdr?fd >> guest: they were really important in world war ii. if we look at the memories of that inme terms of what was issd through the banks and individuals, there were situations i looked up documents where you could see ads being put out by the population in new york city can open an account, get a war bond certificate. there's all sorts of deals being run by banks as well as providing some of their own money inton the effort and distracting and they provided a different element to. they had a role in the finances during that period there's a lot of communicati

abigail adams died six years before john quincy adams got into the white house.barbara bush waited not just with her husband but with her son. he ignored her when she saidn -- he ignored her again which you raise concerns about the course of the war in iraq when he was president. her husband, george hw bush, made about not to meddle in his son's presidency and not to give advice. he was almost never asked for advice and did not offer it. barbara bush made no such commas. [laughter] she went to her son and said you're listening too much to vice president cheney and donald rumsfeld. advice he did not take and advice that people wish he had. >> yes, sir. right here.er ... we are going to get you a microphone also. >> one of the things that impressed me. >> can you speak into the microphone. >> at one time he asked for a big cut. [inaudible] then he refused to live in a mansion in the move to the bed.ment with just one >> this is true and his frugality is well-known. he would say i am cheap. that is how he cared or iced himself and a lot of it goes back to the semina

. >> for the first time since john quincy adams in 1925, a president's son reaches the white house. >hing your own son being sworn in as president. it was a joyful moment for the whole family but especially for mom and dad. >> there is that iconic photo where he goes to the oval office for the first time as president and his father joined him and his father said, hello mr. president. and he said back to his father, hello mr. president. it was an extraordinary day in that family. >> 6:50 a.m. and the president is already on his way to the west wing with first dogs barney and spot. >> let's go to work. they're okay. >> it was very much a domestic centered presidency. focused on his economic agenda, domestic agenda, education reforms. he had gotten his tax cuts. >> it's a budget that protects taxpayers, protects children, represents compassionate c conservatism. >> the first months weren't impressive. you got the sense of a guy trying to find his sea legs. he didn't quite know what he was about. >> but the direction of bush's presidency is about to tack a dramatic turn. >> george w. bush

. >> for the first time since john quincy adams in 1825, a president's son reaches the white house. >as being sworn in as president. it was a joyful moment, but especially for mom and dad. >> there is that iconic photo where he goes to the oval office for the first time as president and his father joined him. his father said, hello, mr. president. and he said back to his father, hello, mr. president. it was an extraordinary day in that family. >> 6:50 a.m. and the president is already on his way to the west wing with first dogs, barney and spot. >> it was very much a domestic presidency at that point, focusing on his economic and domestic agenda and education reform and tax cuts. >> it protects taxpayers and protects children and represents compassionate conservatism. >> the first months were not very impressive. you got a sense of a guy who tries to find his sea legs and did not know what he was about. >> but the direction of push's presidency is about to take a dramatic turn. >> george w. bush was in florida at an elementary school. he was sitting reading my pet goat, when someone h