adams, was overly cerebral. there was something even darker at work here. john quincy adams concluded that jackson's lowers were really, this is his words and very important, obsequious champions of executive power. jacksonian democracy was, in fact, a warrior cult of conquest. democracy was a smokescreen. western expansion drove politics. slaveholders wanted slavery to expand to the pacific and behind screen was a union of land speculators and southern slaveholders. john quincy adams was elected to congress in 1830 after his one term presidency ended. it was an unusual move never to be repeated. he remained in the house onto the died at his desk in 1848. parties rule in the art of party drilling as he called it was because i military. party membership became riotous and that is his word, too. sanctimonious called to liberty allowing southern democrats to purchase auxiliary support for slavery from freemen of the north. what could be a greater irony? jackson head of the democratic party, jefferson supposedly small government party was now a party of unchecked ex

john adams rubbed people the wrong way and we include that in our book. laughter] one of the things that's important to understand the founding generation and john quincy adams is to get the full picture. they are human beings there are elements to their personality that today we might have trouble with they are not always perfect and say the wrong things. so the key thing is part of the reason the ideas are distorted is from party advantage. look at politicians today and think about those were nominated to the supreme court the less they have written the more likely they are to be put on theut court because there is tons of paper documentation that can be selectively used against them and this is what happens with john adams because he published a large book in defense of the constitution of the united states and then publish discourse and the these materials were mined for selective quotes to be used againstse him. >> over the last couple of years i have had occasions to reflect on john adams remarks of presidency in the white house may wise and honest m

jefferson himself and john adams recognized that there is a natural aristocracy among men. the grounds of which he said are virtue and talents. now, a natural aristocracy by definition is going to mean inequality. so why doesn't the declaration say all men are created unequal? because that would seem to be just as true as saying all men are created equal. so we have to ask the question, what exactly did jefferson mean by the concept, by the idea, the principle of equality? well, for jefferson, equality does not mean quantitative sameness. we are not all the same in terms of measurable characteristics and qualities. we're just not. i just watched this past weekend christian coleman win the 100 meter dash at the world track and field championships. as much as i would like to think that i'm as fast or used to be even when i was his age, christian coleman, the fact is i am not and i am not as strong, right, as the greatest weight lifter in the world. i am not as handsome as brad pitt. i am not as intelligent as einstein. so in terms of measurable qualities, we are not the same.

, chip was and he thought john adams is much more clearly committed to this. he is capablhe's capable of dois behind the scenes to his political competitors but there's a long tradition in the politics of the country of people doing similar things. a little bit of a follow-up to that question, so you said that jefferson didn't like contention that he was a great politician. on the ruling myths and unseriousness of the students at william and mary he manages to engineer an opposition party that comes to power and this place is a very formidable first party tha but is it to accomplih that and he pulled it off and then he comes obligated the power of this party and he consolidated the power and basically destroyed the federalists. so there is that accomplishment and then he achieves things like the louisiana purchase. we have to set aside and do something that isn't in the constitution. he was a strict constructionist until it didn't serve his purposes at which point the constitution becomes more of an accordion. but it's a good accomplishment for the country sav

patty: john adams also does not appreciate being criticized by the press. we have the alien and sedition acts. this was during his administration. at that point, we are kind of on the verge of war with france. so these acts are passed, one which makes it illegal to criticize the president or the congress. this is a way that the government is saying, we don't want anyone to be undermining our government at this time of war, when we're possibly at the verge of war. the passage of the act, just a few years after the first amendment has been passed, is the first test of this first amendment freedom, freedom of the press. he ends up being a one term president, and leads to jefferson being elected, because people did not like the idea of their freedom of the press, which they did not have under the king, being undermined come anyway. -- in any way. susan: let's return to ron chernow for a minute. [video clip] >> during the administration of john adams, the country lurched into a period reaction in the medium, rampant fear of foreigners. congress enacted the alien

led that john adams not only -- let it me known that john adams not only lost his reelection campaignn 1800, but his jeffersonian opponents range supreme for the next quarter century. susan: however, we heard thomas jefferson was not above using reporting to go after washington's policies, and he also had some difficulties himself reporting about his own private life during his administration. what are the lessons of thomas jefferson? patty: thomas jefferson is an idealist. the famous quote of -- even the -- given the choice of government with no newspapers, or newspapers with no government, i would not hesitate to choose the latter. that quote is often used as he is a champion of the first amendment and freedom of the press. was again, what you are in office, the nice come out, a very highly partisan press, the beat goes on. the scurrilous charges those newspapers are throwing at politicians at the time would really shocked people today, the language that was used in the things that were said. he did not appreciate that. so while he likes the ideal of the first amendment and freedom

it will be john adams which it was. and he fought john adams is more clearly committed to this federalist vision of the country and would rather have washington. it is very complicated but you are right. jefferson is capable of doing things behind-the-scenes to his political competitors that don't look so good. there is a long tradition in our politics in this country of people doing similar things. >> a little bit of a follow-up to that question. so you said jefferson didn't like tension but he was a great politician and the second question as well. what do you think about that illustrates how great a politician he was? second question in terms of the unruliness and an seriousness of the students at william and mary and asked uva in the 1820s how does that contrast to the northern universe or those students? >> that is a very good question. jefferson made a great politician. he manages to engineer an opposition party that comes to power, a formidable first party that found of the federal institutions of the country, fe

the boston massacre this is to experience the ramifications of the events not only to talk about john adams that the citizens of boston and how this moment of violence impacted their lives our speaker for the entire american revolution his new book the will of the people explores towns and cities looks at the continental army and those that fought from the battle lines to send troops and weapons to support the collapse a long time friend of the historical society professor of law and governance at the library of congress in the founding director at northwestern university. teaching american history at yale and is the author of a number of books recently including george washington's journey and marketplace of revolution and frequent contributor the time supplement thank you please help me to welcome him. [applause] thank you. does this sound all right? thank you for coming out on a rainy night given a number of talks about my book know if they are successes or not but it always rains. it's a great experience for me for my entire career has been focused to do research i have published nine m

lovedft john adams -- john adams, and i loved thomas jefferson. i miss the debates we would have about jefferson and adams. she gave her my love for politics. steve: how so? mr. walsh: she was a historian through and through. my mom, who raised nine kids, seven boys, the longest lasting image i will always have of my mom, and maybe it was this way my mom waseve, always a less to go to bed and the first one to get up. my image of my mom is always at 11:00, for midnight, -- or midnight or 1:00 a.m. after she had cared for us all day, my mom, with a book, often times with a cigarette, in her room, reading a book until 2:00 or 3:00 a.m. read, shend read and ate up american history, which settled down to me, because american history is my greatest love. steve: why did you decide to enter politics both in illinois and at the federal level as a member of congress? mr. walsh: you know what? have always been fairly libertarian and free-market oriented. i worried even since i was a young man that we have moved away from the country are funding fathers gave u

it's probably going to be john adams, which it was. and he thought john adams is just much more clearly committed to this federalist vision of the country, and i'd rather have washington. so it's all, it's very complicated. but you're right, jefferson is capable of doing things behind the scenes to his political competitors that don't look so good. but again, there's a long tradition in our politics in this country of people doing similar things. >> a little bit of a follow-up to that question and an earlier one, but -- so you said that jefferson didn't like contention, but he was a great politician. and maybe, and i'll have a second question as well, but what do you think about that illustrates how great a politician he was? so that's the first question. second question just in terms of the unruliness and unseriousness, i guess, of the students at william and mary and at uva in the 1820s, how does that contrast to the northern universities that you mentioned and those students? >> two very good questions. first of all, jefferson made

often pick their children to serve in government the first president of biological children was john adamshis son john quincy serve served. no less than george washington and said please don't withhold the appointment simply because he is your son. when i sat down i with ivanka the newspaper said this is unprecedented but she was the 1h son or daughter of an american president to be appointed to work in the white house with the father and roosevelt ran the white house fdr in fact she ran the multi- conference her mothere s the first lady eleanor roosevelt comes to her daughter and banks to be put on the manifest to go to yalta and her daughter says i'm sorry i can't do it. this has been going on for a long time. but if you become president of the united states you will want people you can trust that are loyal to you and you will pick people that are closest to you and normally it is your family and all througheny histy and modern history to change the law and with the payroll with the rnc payroll like gerald ford did like a white house photographer. there's a few things a child will do wit

republican presidents have often pick their children to serve in government actually the first was john adams whose johnwa quincy administered no less than george washington said please don't withhold appointments on john quincy so when i sat down with t3 the newspaper said this is unprecedented but she was the 1h son or daughter of an american president to be appointed to work in the white house with the father and roosevelt ran the whitete house in fact she ran the yalta conference and eleanor roosevelt comes to her daughter's aid to be put into the manifest and her daughter says sorry i can't do this it's been going on for a long time we call itasg nepotism but when you're president of the united states you want people you can trust that are loyal to you and you have a tendency to pick those that are closest to you and often that is your own kids. >> through history they change laws and say you can't but the president will put them on the dnc payroll like carter did in gerald ford did to his daughter. so there's two things a child will do to be loyal and offer continuity so if you are work

john adams. guest: amen, ed. caller: what happened to blackstone's ratio? it is an embarrassment. "all presumptive evidence of felony should be admitted cautiously, for the law holds that it is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer." also, we wrote the bill of rights and we have more people locked up than any country in the world. it ruins all of these families. and to quote david kennedy, if you want to ruin a community, lock it up. we over criminalize everything. we have more children locked up. you can back me up on this purity we have more children locked up for life that committed a crime as a juvenile than the rest of the world combined. and you can tell us -- the bard university had debates and beat harvard university. guest: all the smart people are up early on c-span. host: every week. guest: i couldn't have said it better myself. i am grateful for your call and your learned approach to these issues. i wanted to share with you, as i was getting off the plane last night, coming in from kentucky -- it was a moment. the fair chance act had just

and of course john adams, abraham lincoln, and lyndon johnson and more. tell me why he wrote this book. i know you're patriot in our country's history is important to you. >> let me talk about the background of it. right now we don't talk of about history and civics much in our school. right now three quarters, 75% in a recent survey can name the three branches of government. one third of the government could not answer one branch of government. forty-nine out of 50 states citizens could not pass the basic citizen test the naturalized citizen test have to pay past. 91% of those that take that test pass. recently the native born citizens and 49 out of 50 states cannot pass that test. so what i want to do is educate more people at history. in one subject i'm interested is members of congress could because they pass our law spirits i start a program six years ago to have a great historians, let me interview them in front of members of congress. we just once a month, we get 20300 member shot. and i think i have had some of the best interviews in this book. it

she loved john adams and i loved thomas jefferson. debates weof the would have about jefferson and adams. she gave me my love for politics. steve: how so? mr. walsh: she was a historian. -- nineaised seven kids kids, the longest image i will have of my mom, and maybe it was like this for you, my mom was the last to go to bed and first to get up. is my mom atmy mom 1:00 in the morning after she mom with as, my book, oftentimes with a cigarette, in a room, reading until 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning. she read, she ate up american history. it settled down to me because american history is my greatest love. steve: why did you decide to enter politics? i wanted -- i have always been fairly libertarian and free-market-oriented. i have a word since i was a young man that we have moved away from the country our founding fathers gave us, we moved toward a country where we asked government to do too much and government has gotten too big. this was 30 years ago. look where we are today. i wanted to get involved in politics to remind americans of w

she loved john adams and i love thomas jefferson and i genuinely miss all of the debates that we have about jefferson and adams but she gave me my love forpolitics . >> she was a historian through and through. my mom who raised nine kids, seven boys, the longest lasting image i'll always have of my mom and maybe the comic was the story for you. my mom was always the last go to bed and the first one to get up. and my image of my mom is always at 11:00 or midnight or one in the morning after she had cared for nine of us all day and then been there for my dad, my mom with a book often times with a cigarette in her room reading a book until two or three in the morning. she read and read and read. she ate american history which settled down to me because american history is my greatest love. >> why did you decide to enter politics in illinoisand at the federal level as a member of congress ? >> i wanted to, i've always been fairly libertarian and free-market oriented. and i've worried even since i was a young man that we've moved away from the country of our founding fathers gave us. that

she loved john adams and i love thomas jefferson. and i genuinely miss all of the debates we would have about jefferson and adams. but she gave me my love for politics. >> how so? >> she was a historian through and through. my mom who raised nine kids, seven boys, the longest lasting image i will always have of my mom, and maybe steve it was this way for you. my mom was always the last to go to bed in the first one to get up. and my image of my mom is always at 11:00 o'clock or midnight or one in the morning, after she had cared for nine of us all day, and been there for my dad, my mom, with the book, often times with a cigarette in her room reading a book until two or three in the morning. she read and read, and read. she ate up american history. which settled down to me because american history is my greatest love. >> why did you decide to enter politics both in illinois and then at the federal level as a member of congress? >> you know what, i wanted-i've always been fairly libertarian and free markets oriented. and i have worried

tried to outlaw the press. >> i bet trump didn't even know that. >> i think he thinks john adams is sam. >> they are both doing great work. >> talk about this. we have been called the enemy of the people. information which some people don't agree with. you have been doing this a long time. you have been on both sides. you've been on the inside recording history and the outside journalistically. >> i would see president ford not ricochet off the walls. there is not one president who hasn't been unhappy about what has been written about him. it's really not that complicated. i covered trump a lot in the campaign and it strikes me in my gut. i hate what he says. we go out there and die doing what we do. that's a first amendment right. if it wasn't for writers, photographers, you would have idea what is going on out there. people got it wrong. newsweek never got it wrong. when i hear some of the attacking us as a group. it's so deeply disturbing to me, i can't begin to tell you. >> gillibrand comes populace a phrase that journalism is the first rough draft of history and david and i sta

when john quincy adams became president, john adams did not have to change his name, so i am sticking with george bush and his immediate successor, bill clinton. and george w. bush, the one who came next, then finally, we sort of get >> our toe into the obama presidency. part of which pat oliphant was able to capture in his cartoons. we will also see at least one example of pat oliphant's great gift as a sculptor. unfortunately we only get to see it in two dimensions. it is an extraordinary work. one of our >> panelists, mary kay carey, can tell us something about that sculpture and the president who it portrays. mary cate is a senior fellow at the miller center. she has been teaching this year and the politics department of the university. she was a speechwriter and communication specialist of all sorts in the bush/quayle >> campaign in 1988, and during the george bush presidency. philip, former director of the miller center, and a member of the history department here held prominent positions in both bushes administrations. both george and george w administrations, and probably did

subject to impeachment under the current articles being debated in the house of representatives, john adamsld be impeached. he shutdown newspapers, imprisoned reporters. abraham lincoln would be impeached. he shutdown 300 newspapers, imprisoned reporters. thomas jefferson would be impeached. the louisiana purchase without budget approval from congress. woodrow wilson would be impeached. he reset segregated the civil service and put political opponents and reporters in prison. he would be impeached. fdr would be impeached, interment of japanese americans, italian-americans, german-americans, john kennedy would be impeached, used the irs and fbi against his political opponents. lyndon johnson would be impeached, use the iris scan the fbi and cia. we have a lot of impeachment going on under these bogus rules that the rogue house democrat leadership has put in place. heather: the next stop is the rules committee were rules will be ironed out before the full house vote. 5 impeachment hearings come to a close, inspector general horowitz takes center stage to rip the fbi failure to meet basic cris

six days later on christmas eve, president john adams asked for consent to move martha yes has been spotty. that there was a national mourning period until february 2. and gerald taylor detailed all the different funeral pro sessions. -- processions. different over 400 instances. i mean, this was an outpouring of national grief that the young country had never seen before. now, at mount vernon itself, letters of condolence streamed in to martha. not all of them were sympathetic. some of them were very opportunistic. for example a number of individuals were asking for locks of her deceased husband's hair. which sounds strange to us but what common in the 18th and 19th century. there was one man who claimed he had served with george washington and he asked if he could get a pardon because he had been accused of stealing the horse. they had not been able to find the real thief and only the widow of washington could faith him from his unfortunate fate. she did not reply. now, with this resolution to move washington in the future in 1799, this opened up a new question about worship in early ame

new year and see how that works out for them. >> maybe we ought to look at adam schiff actually digging out the phone record on john solomon. this is an extraordinary violation of constitutional rights that adam schiff has now admitted to. jerry nadler and professor carlin made this point, and it's a laughingstock point. that trump invited russian hacking when he said hillary destroyed the emails on her private server. maybe we should ask the russians for them. the notion -- they are making this into the big lie that he somehow invited the russian hacking, which is utter nonsense. he was making a laughable joke about hillary keeping emails on a private server that every government of the world had access to because it was unsecured. it would be laughable if it wasn't so deadly serious, and what they are doing, undermining this country. the president is over at a nato meeting and they are pulling this crap. this is stunning to me. >> laura: i will say it again, any time the president of the united states can be mocked the way he was by academic elites. he looks like he is right out of nicholas nickleby from 1997. on

neither did john adams. >> day number 52. >> the men cheering in candidates couldn't destroy us fasterabled veterans to quote hurry up and die. >> what you saw in the media universe in the 2000s was the splittering of the audience and in news, it splittered largely along political lines. ronl roger ailes had a brilliant idea to create a network for conservatives, fox news. msnbc kind of stumbled into the idea of a liberal counter part. >> people watch fox news thinking there is news in it. paranoids, racist, luns and pinheads. >> there was no longer a shared factual basis for our political views. we didn't all go home and watch walter cronkite. >> fire on the left, james carville. on the right, robert novak and tucker carlson. in the cross fire. >> i remember when john stewart went on "cross fire" it was 2004. john kerry was the democratic presidential nominee facing george w. bush. i thought, you know, watching it, i said this will be a funny show. >> can i say something very quickly? why do we have to fight? [ laughter ] >> the two of you. say something nice about john kerry right no

and now please help me welcome john adams. [applause] >> get the gamble. gamble.i don't say it's official. [laughter] we're just going to dive right in and start with questions. we will jump right in. scott here, no interest in giving a speech before we start. so we will just start a

. >> i will say i think that people think it's a rude city because john adams second president of thestates said about new york city, i have not seen one gentleman, no well bred man since i came to this town. there is no modesty or attention to one another. >> ed: it's a nice city. our fight was i think it was who was being promoted more, uri. we had a beef about it. >> clearly you win. merry christmas. the christmas spirit is alive and well in tennessee. >> so what do you guys think, are you having fun? >> yes, and it was so great. >> tvs doc pyro gets a special tour of dollywood, next. he's ♪ for ten. ♪the beat goes on it looks like jonathan on a date with his wife. ♪la-di-la-di-di entresto is a heart failure medicine that helps your heart, so you can keep on doing what you love. entresto helped people stay alive and out of the hospital. heart failure can change the structure of your heart, so it may not work as well. entresto helps improve your heart's ability to pump blood to the body. don't take entresto if pregnant; it can cause harm or death to an unborn baby. don't take entres

nonetheless, this photograph of seven people, the oldest born during john adams' administration.the youngest dime during franklin roosevelt's presidency invites the historian in to understand what is there and explore what is not. the photograph certainly drew me into the archives and that is where i found sophie's parents and discovered both of them came into fort laramie in the aftermath of general harney's attack. harney's actions set in motion the events that led them to meet mary and raise a large family. his frontier violence triggered their frontier love. the photograph alone does not tell that story. it does leave me there. over the past 50 years as photography has become an increasingly ubiquitous part of modern life, the media increased attention from critics and become central to a host of disciplinary subfields including visual anthropology, media studies, visual culture, visual studies, these fields all focused largely on the analysis of contemporary images. not historical ones. even in fields like memory studies where historical images can play a central role, the p

john adams arrested and jailed journalist.aham lincoln, suspended habeas corpus, shut down treasonous newspapers in the civil war. arrested and jailed journalist. woodrow wilson a racist and segregationist, re- segregated the government, he locked up socialist opponents and locked up critical journalists fdr,. [inaudible] upheld by the supreme court by the way. kennedy and the irs and his opponents are not just democrats, i'm giving examples, lbj irs, fbi, cia tapped the phones of his opponents. we have republican examples too. is this a joke that the phone call by donald trump is the worst example that these professors can come up with that that's not impeachable, nothings impeachable, under their theory every one of these men should have been impeached. >> they have created open-ended criteria which there is no relationship to the words of the constitution itself. if president trump is impeached it will set a terrible precedent that will weaponize impeachment and the next democrat who gets elected will be impeached because t

subject to impeachment under the current articles being debated under the house of representatives, john adams would be impeached. he shut down newspapers and imprisoned reporters but abraham lincoln would be impeached. he shut down 300 newspapers. he imprisoned reporters. thomas jefferson would be impeached. the louisiana purchase without budget approval from the congress. woodrow wilson would be impeached. he re-segregated the civil service and he put political opponents and reporters in prison. he would be impeached. the great fdr would be impeached. internment of japanese americans, italian-americans. german-americans. took the property, took their homes. use of the internal revenue service against the "philadelphia inquirer" owner against the connect use the irs against political opponents like you belong. fdr would be impeached 25 times. john kennedy would be impeached, used in the irs and fbi against his billable opponents, leaked information against them. lyndon johnson would be impeached, used the irs, the fbi, and the cia, to protect and tap into his belittle opponents into civil rig

give people a look at american history through the eyes of the greatest historians talking about john adams, fdr, and so forth. >> rick, let's get to the substance. you wrote this great book about the end of the nixon presidency, invisible bridge. you point out, you know, when we think about the impeachment hearings, there was a lot more going on with nixon than just the impeachment hearings. describe the kind of breadth of the investigation. >> well, by the time nixon resigned, what the public referred to when they said water gate was this sins that went back to the beginning of his presidency. it was 1969 when he did his first phone tappings of his own staff because he was terrified about leaks. and in 1970 one of the things the investigation in 1973 found out was that he approved a memo recommending break-ins of his opponents. he unapproved it, but obviously there were break ins of his opponents. water gate, the burglarly followed by payoffs by secret funds. even as they were investigating, they would turn over rocks and turn over rocks and each would reveal another thing. nixon using pu

that if this is not an impeachable offense, this of phone call -- john adams arrested journalist. abraham lincoln suspended avery's corpus shutdown theater newspapers and civil war. arrested and joe are journalist. edgar wilson a ration racist he re- segregated the government. he locked up socialist opponents. and locked up critical journalist. the espionage act. fdr, japanese-americans upheld by the supreme court by the way. also use the irs contain a break in the inquiry with newspapers. kennedy and the irs. and not just democrats, lbj tapped the phones of his political opponent. tapped the phones as vice president. and we have republican examples too. is this a joke that the phone call by donald trump is the worst example that these professors and others could come up with? if that's not impeachable nothings impeachable. under that theory everyone of these men should have been impeached. >> they have created open ended criteria which does not go along with the constitution itself. and if president trump is impeached, it will set a terrible precedent which role weaponize impeach

a journalists named john solomon who was reporting a whole lot of just rudy was leaking. but instead of a major break through, adamchiff is leaving many americans wondering, can anyone in congress get someone's phone records and publish them? i saw how subpoena powers only extended so far. this columnist from the hill, john solomon, accusing john solomon of having a phone conversation? i hate to break it to you, mr. schiff. but that's what the american media does. do you know how many phone calls i make every single day? do you know how many people i talk to? this is what we do. we have conversations with sources. sometimes we report on those conversations and sometimes we don't. conversations are our job. we are free to have them, adam schiff. the last time i checked. the first amendment was an is still in play. as kimberley strassel at the "wall street journal" points out, schiff's report means it's open season on the press. why stop at john solomon, adam schiff? this is a mccarthy witch hunt. he's doing a lot of people a lot of harm along the way. namely american citizens. it's clear this is the tip of the iceb