in the life of john quincy adams. even people in massachusetts tend to not remember that john quincy adams as a young man served in the u.s. senate representing massachusetts. elected here as a senator, and this was back when members of the senate were elected by the legislature. the massachusetts legislature elected to john quincy adams as a senator with the understanding that he was a good federalist like his father. being a man on his own, john quincy adams went to washington being a nationalist, was being somewhat sympathetic to thomas jefferson, supporting the louisiana purchase, the embargo. so john quincy adams has the peculiar honor, if it is one, having his elector elected by the legislature of massachusetts during his term. massachusetts basically fired him before his term was up. he resides at that point. that point. at that is how much he was resistant. james: i was surprised that historians only ranked john adams two places ahead. i think of john quincy adams as a terrible president. john adams was not a g

john adams's political life. of what we the idea think of as political parties. adamsk that john quincy inherited some of that sensibility but, at the same time, had of course, of age in was veryepublic and so much a product of that system. one of the problems that john -- that john adams had in his presidency, you could see the indicators for these things in the life of john quincy adams. even people in massachusetts tend to not remember that john quincy adams as a young man served in the u.s. senate representing massachusetts. senator, --re as a elected here as a senator, and this was back when members of the senate were elected by the legislature. the massachusetts legislator -- legislature elected to john quincy adams as a senator with the understanding that he was a good federalist like his father. being a man on his own, john quincy adams went to washington , was beingionalist somewhat sympathetic to thomas jefferson, supporting the louisiana purchase, the embargo. theohn quincy adams has peculiar honor, if

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one of the -- so let's get back a little bit to how john adams -- john adams goes to philadelphia and he meets benjamin rush on his way to philadelphia. benjamin rush warns him about what he is about to encounter. stephen, do you want to pick up the story there? stephen: one of the amazing things about the story is that benjamin rush is like a 29-year-old doctor, not in the continental congress. he goes out to meet adams because he is one of the sons of liberty. he co-authored the proclamation that led to the boston tea party. so he went out there and they were out of there, the massachusetts delegation figured they were going to run the congress. rush said to them as did others in the pennsylvania delegation, if you don't put aside your belief that you think you should be in charge, even though you are right, and let the virginias virginias think they are running it, we are doomed. this is john adams first introduction to this. a young man, good-looking young doctor who talks a lot, very opinionated. rush make sure that they get in the same carriage together, they are in the same sub

to be here to talk about john adams, to remember john adams, is altogether particularly appropriate at this occasion. he was a man of genuine brilliance, and great heart and humor, devoted to his country, truthful, devoted to his wife, to his family, hard-working, god-fearing and altogether one of the bravest patriots in our history. he was abrasive, sometimes temperamental, sometimes tactless, sometimes overly concerned with his own position or place, the estimate of his friends or austerity and was also a man, to his credit, also to his disadvantage, who as he said never considered popularity his mistress. he never courted popularity. he was a man of principle. his courage with the courage of his convictions was one of the most vivid and important examples of his principal behavior and conduct in life, he is the only founding father who never owned a slave as a matter of principle. now we know it is important to judge those who did own slaves in the context of their time, that is correct and fair and historically a sound thing to do. let's not forget john and abigail adams opposed sl

news and founder of media and co-author 'd of the new book john adams on the fire we'll talk about that later that can't wait to talk about that john adams the founding fathers fight for justice in the boston massacre murder trial then is like and wales hosed up the new york them for some other things what do you make of mitch mcconnell asking for more liability protection well look this is kind of like tort reform right what mcconnell saying is that in exchange for this next round he wants to make sure there are protections in place for companies so let's take a step back and talk about if that doesn't happen where are we and so the standard then becomes like in any other case which is negligence and there are going to be a lot of lawsuits there are going to be people who are going to say that they were exposed to the virus either by going to work or being at a particular place etc but the standard still requires a level of irresponsibility on the part of the person being sued meaning if you just go to work and you happen to get the virus from someone else at work that doesn't mean tha

up next he discusses his biography, "john adams," the recipient of the pulitzer prize. >> guest: john adams was born in 1735. he lived until 1826, the age of 91. he lived longer than any president in our history. he has been commonly thought of as a rich boston blueblood. he was none of those. he wasn't rich, wasn't a bostonian it wasn't a blueblood. he was a farmer's son who because of his scholarship to harvard discovered books, he said, read forever. john adams most deeply and broadly read american of his bookish time, and let's please today remember it was john adams, the second president in nine state to sign the legislation that created the library of congress. to talk about john adams, to remember john adams is altogether particularly appropriate on this occasion. he was a man of genuine brilliance and great heart, great humor, devoted to his country, truthful, devoted to his wife, to his family, hard-working, god-fearing and altogether one of the bravest patriot in our history. he was abrasive, sometimes temperamental, sometimes tactless, sometimes overly concerned with his ow

john adams for example advice john quincy don't try to write literature when you write a letter. don't strain for thrills and fancy effect. write the way you talk. it's a letter, remember that. write the way you talk so when you read his letters of john quincy you were hearing them talk. one of the things that i have done in my books and particularly in this book one of the ways i approach biographies simply my way is to let them talk as much as possible. most of life is talk if you think about it. how they talk in the words they use and the figures of speech and expression and the cadence all at their reflection of personality, style, the person. abigail was usually influenced by the writings of samuel richardson particularly the great novel clarissa which was one of the most popular novels of the 18th century and she wrote a very interesting letter to her knees saying you want to read colors and you ought to write your letters the way they are in that novel. the whole novel as many of you know are just letters. it's people writing letters back and forth to each other and they a

though to be here talk about john adams, to remember john adams is altogether particularly appropriate at this occasion. he was a man of genuine brilliance. he was also a man of great heart, great humor. voted to his country. truthful, devoted to his wife , to his family hard-working, god-fearing. one of the greatest greatest patriots in our history area he was as well named, abrasive, sometimes from a. overly concerned with his own position or place in the f of his friend. he was also a man to his credit also to his as he never did her popularity as mistress. he never reported. >> he was a plant man for it was. behavior was that is the only founding father who ever never owned a slave as a matter of principle. we know it's important to judge those who did own slaves in the context of their time. and fair and historically, the sensible sound do not forget that john and abigail adams were also of their time and they opposed slavery . even more likely that one point i wonder if all prevails and suffering are going through our god's punishment or the sin of slavery. slavery one through 40

john adams who suggested i be the author. no, mr. adams, you must write it. he said, no, you.e said i'm generally considered obnoxious. you have quite the flare of writing. i think you should write it. besides that, he said, a virginian ought to be at the head of this business. yes, we had put forth that resolution for independency first. your next question? >> [indiscernible] on? documents did you draw thomas jefferson: you asked what sources of inspiration i drew upon in drafting our declaration. well, firstly, i would tell you that i still write. desk,l write on this lap this slope, if you will. you can even refer to it as a laptop. this is my design and it was created by my cousin, a cabinet , in 1775philadelphia and 1776. not to writen this anything new and original. i drew on the sources of the justinian code of the 16th century. i drew on the sources of the writings of john locke. i drew on mr. thomas paine's pamphlet, "common sense." all of this together provided a foundation, nonetheless the virginia declaration of rights written by my friend colonel george mason. he

john adams who suggested i be the author. well, i said, "no, mr. adams, you must write it." he said, "oh, no, you must write it." he said, "i'm generally considered obnoxious, disliked. no, you have quite the flayer for fluid and fluids of this writing. i think you should write it." "besides that," he said, "a virginian ought to be at the head of this business." yes, we had put forth that resolution for independency first. your next question, mr. light? >> [indiscernible] thomas jefferson: you asked me what sources of inspiration did i draw upon in drafting our declaration. well, firstly, i would tell you that i still write. i still write on this lap desk, this slope, if you will. you can even refer to it as a laptop. this is my design, and it was created by my cousin, a cabinet maker in philadelphia, created at that time, 1775 and 1776. i set about on this not to write anything new or original. i drew on the sources of the justinian code of the 6th century. i drew on the sources of the writings of john locke. i drew on mr. thomas paine's pamphlet, "common sense." all of thi

and he died, so i've heard, on the same day as john adams, four hours apart. albeit on july the 4th. i thought that was an interesting piece of history. on dry days in the summer, often we allow our guest to walk through here. you can see that this area is pretty wet. we have some significant weather here lately. we have never seen snakes back here, but it looks like it is an area that is completely conducive to snakes. i always make sure that my guests are mindful of that as they are walking through here. there are all kinds of different weather where we will conduct these tours. the neatest thing i have seen is a bald eagle circling georges head. we have been out here in electrical thunderstorms that night, where it looks like there is these crawler lightning strikes that are coming out of fdr's mouth. i have not been back here in the wintertime, but i know there's a lot of people that would absolutely die to photograph or see these in the snow. that will be very exciting. and then fog, fog would be the perfect element to see these and experience them. come

john adams was defending the british at a time when the american people hated the british. facts are stubborn things, and whatever may be our wishes, our

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 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 s

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i would go to really good research libraries and get in those card catalogs and look up john quincy adams by his last name. how many books are there by john quincy adams? making that list, it was astonishing how many books there were. herbert hoover wrote a mining textbook. who knew? also, there were these really intimate and important books. i started to realize that abraham lincoln, calvin coolidge, ulysses s. grant, jefferson, adams, there were so many examples of these books really mattering. that is when i started to realize that there was a story to tell here. host: your book is also, and you alluded to this, the history of nonfiction book publishing in america. why do you tell that part of the story? craig: that is what helps us realize how important these books have been. even if you read a good biography about a lot of the presidents i talk about, their books don't come up. there books are not central. biographers and historians have a lot of work to do. they are worrying about the white house, policies, and legislative debate. my books are about the human side and the publishing

eddie roosevelt, john adams, and more. my team comes to me is as a boy, with new prison break, there's a flood coming there is a hurricane, and here's on fire. slow down, deep breaths, let's look at the facts. let's understand the situation and must take action based upon the facts. that is the way to lead, as we have billy lead 15. we have a lot of facts, we know the hospital right, the number of deaths, the the antibody test, we are taking diagnostic test. doing tracing. make your decisions are based on the facts and the data. sensible but is more important now, than ever before. and it is working for us. this nudges me saying that because i'm the governor. you look up what is happening in new york and you look at the rest of the nation. in new york, the numbers coming down. as coming down dramatically. you take new york out of the rest of the nation's numbers, the rest of the nation is going up. we are coming down. so, what we are doing is working. and what is working, stay the course. winston churchill, the one through

that was john adams, that was lincoln, that was fdr, that was teddy roosevelt. me and team comes to says oh boy, we had a new prison break, there is a flood coming, a hurricane, ebola virus, and your hair is on fire. slow down, deep breath, let's look at the facts, let's understand the situation, and let's take action based on the facts. that is the way to lead and that is the way i believe you lead one's life. here, we have a lot of information, we have a lot of facts. we know the hospitalization rate, we know the hospitalization rate, we know the number of deaths, we are doing antibody tests, we are doing diagnostic stress -- tests, we are doing tracing. make decisions based on the facts and the data. it sounds simple and basic, but it is more important now than ever before. and it is working for us. it is working. me saying thatst because i am the governor. you look at what is happening in new york, and look at what is happening in the rest of the nation. in new york, the number is coming down. and it's coming down dramatically. you take new york out of the r

it's one that john adams said left everyone in the audience weeping. it was so pathetic about the terrible things that happened during the boston massacre. hancock was definitely an ally of samuel adams and the committee of correspondence. his also a smuggler but how much of it was t? i don't know. he was well known for smuggling madeira. he was well known wine smuggler but whether or not t, i don't know. other questions. i cannot see you up there at all. there's a light in my eye. >> [inaudible question] >> they didn't react so much to the buildup of troops as they reacted to the closing of boston harbor. they definitely reacted to the blockade of boston, they sent money, they sent supplies, some people in connecticut sent a herd of sheep driven into boston so that people could be slaughtered and people could eat mutton. other colonies were very helpful in helping, and giving boston assistance in the blockade, they'd didn't -- wasn't really a buildup of troops as it was assistance to boston. i might add, it became controversial because rumors spread, t

of suspicion and of much earlier, president john adams felt that americans were in the best cause that ver employed the human heart but feared success was doubtful not for want of power or of but of virtue. similar w engaged in a challenge and a new world emerging. women of e men and congress to bend their energies positions of hen privilege but to the extent ossible reduce privilege in favor of the common wheel. laws, not a nation of men, and the responsibility of allrnment is the benefit of its citizens. to , may each american rise our shared effort, to remind ourselves that we are all the greatness of ur nation and to make the sacrifices necessary to emerge better in virtue and stronger in well-being. it your grace, o lord, may be so. and may everything done this day greater honor and glory. amen. the speaker: thank you, father. housent to section 7-b of resolution -- 7-a of 891, the of the last day's proceedings is approved. the pledge of allegiance will be led by the gentleman from north butterfield. mr. butterfield: please join me pledge. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the un

facts are stubborn things as john adams said.alk and sabin, they drove their processes in a search for a vaccine that would alleviate an enveloping national gloom that was not simply emotional but physical and ambient. and they did it by pure research and unfortunately right now and michael posted a picture of this the other day, you had president eisenhower in a rare moment. i can only think of two moments, michael, where ike cried publicly. one was the polio vaccine and the other was 1964 when he was at d-day with cronkite. i think that's right. the anniversary. >> yes, also '52 when he was talking to a group of d-day survivors. that really brought it out in him. >> right, you have that remarkable moment and then you have this -- today our problem is, it seems to me, is you have a president who is not -- at least staying out of the way of science. he's actively interfering with it. because of political and economic short term indicators. when everything, every person who knows what they are talking about tells us is we have to

the president was seated directly in front of the fireplace and just beneath the inscription from john adams that says "may none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof." and from that place, the president said this about the coronavirus, quote, i feel about vaccines the way i feel about tests. this is going to go away without a vaccine, and we're not going to see it again. and that is not true. as we go into this weekend with close to 80,000 dead in this country after we lost just under 2,000 people just today, it is more important than ever to point out this is not just going to go away. and from that same room, the president went on to say, some people don't want our country to come back for political reasons. then he said, quote, the real people -- and he defined the real people as those who want this country to be great and great again. they want to get back, as he puts it. more on the president's comments in moments. but as we delve back into the real world now, we tested 300,000 people today in our country of 327 million, give or take. and the death toll tonight stands at 77

[inaudible conversations] ideologies of father and son presidents john adams and john quincy adams.thank you. welcome, everyone. good afternoon. i am president of the massachusetts historical society and i'm so happy you could be with us today as we welcome the two celebrated historians as they present their books the problem with democracy president adams confronts the personality. as many of you here in the room no it's hto

drew to find a little place where we are quite and there is no mystery of so much troubling with john adams family life inside would have a family life with little room we don't need to be 810-0000 people to ear at the same time the same person a musician or all to see a politician we don't have to be some rich people just find a way to come back to family and perhaps to tribes scimitar to try to make the international is that where you're saying basically travelling and socializing and connecting we're still global well is about is going to become a luxury is that what you're saying and we have to go back yes to take the most basic things are staying with family that there were not those who don't have family yes i think we have to come back as you say or do more legal group but we couldn't keep the community is a big community with social network. you know every in really sort of day i make you a t.v. show there is. an 1000 people wore earring me just we sat was a computer so it's a new way to have a big community of people without. using cost without using every single make pollution jus

john adams 19th in a recent ranking, quincy adams comes in at 21st place. >> hello, everybody. good evening. good evening, everyone.

john adams was a realist.e did not believe all men were created equal, didn't believe in american exceptionalism. harold: he believed in english exceptionalism. that was one of his problems. i think he believed in a certain class system out of new england, but i think he bought into the founding principles. so with all due respect to gordon wood, i think, it may be a little bit of an oversimplification. amity: i thought that a little strong. i'm also a fan of john quincy adams. i'm wondering how he does here. that's all i'll just say about, brian. brian: a quote from bob merry who wrote a book on mckinley, he was maybe one of the finest human beings who's ever made it to the white house. harold: i'm very persuaded by a recent interview you did by him and with richard norton smith in which he -- who was featured in the book, of course, in which he made a very good case that mckinley deserves higher recognition. he was very popular, maybe the war he led was a little bit contrived, but he was humane. he was lovel

and john quincy adams the most humane president believed the country where reach the pacific. they couldn't figure out how to make it happen or the capacity to remove native americans they have some calls and responsibility of the all out assault of native american communities event jefferson issued instructions into predatory debt. there is a way the desire for expansion didn't match the capacity. he represents the sweeping away of the qualms. john quincy adams loses the presidency to jackson and becomes a one term president that is increasingly radicalized by the jacksonians. he wasn't opposed to expansion and then opposed to launching a violent all out war. and then through texas and mexican-american war. and andrew jackson all those that came later. and then to rip the nation apart would harden the nation into two opposing camps which it did. free versus slave. and that only thing the essential identity and the racial violence on the frontier. and then to go into it in detail it is remarkable. and that is unsparing in the condemnation and what that portends and that would

in the reagan administration we acquired john adams by john trumble.ve been adding portraits consistent with mrs. kennedy's interest in that activity. there's the green room when she had started decorating, it had the heavy green fabric of the truman administration. she started to add this federal style furniture from about the period of 1800. two views of that room. here's a black and white picture of the wall that shows the daniel webster sofa she cited. that's in the upper right-hand side corner. the bottom is the card table that is one of my favorite pieces. both of these pieces haven't been used in the house for a while. we selected them as examples of what mrs. kennedy was doing at the time. they're in our gallery right now. when she finished with the room she installed this silk fabric on the walls with her federal collection and a proper period style rug. there's the angelica van buren portrait she cited in the tour. there's also this great portrait of benjamin franklin which is over the fireplace. she moved mrs. van buren just past the chandel

it was activated in an active congress signed by president john adams in 1798. the service was originally supported by a tax on american merchant seamen, but this was later abolished. the tax was collected by the treasury department. the marine hospital service came under the jurisdiction of that department, where it remains today. the first marine hospital in norfolk, virginia, the second built in boston, massachusetts. some medical personnel were utilized by both the union and the confederacy for the care of wounded forces. it frequently happened that medical officers of the early marine hospitals were the first physicians to diagnose diseases such as cholera. the work of the service became of such increasing importance that congress extended its duties until it became in function a federal health service. wrecking -- recognizing the value of mobility, congress authorized the organization along military lines, with officers holding positions in great similar to the army and navy. in 1912, the name was changed to the united states public health service. it is a

historians of the french, haitian revolution, but would please the founding fathers to know and as john adams wrote jefferson in 1913, what do we mean about the revolution. the war? there was no part of the revolution, only and effect and consequence of it. adams and his peers scrubbed towards violent from their history. there's was the good revolution, the gentlemanly revolution. but adams is a revolution was not the one it's victims remembered. recently, historians such as alan taylor, patrick griffin, and tea age green, to name a few. influenced by our post 9/11 world ongoing confrontation with political revolution and political violence, read, terrorism have work to bridge the gap between the revolutions rhetoric and its reality. unearthing shocking levels of violence in the process. but highlighting this violence is not enough. we must seek to understand its social, cultural and political causes and effects. if not, we will continue to accept a narrative of the american revolution divided into two halves. on one side, the war, destructive and repressive. and on the other, the political r

history is fascinating but to cut to the chase thomas jefferson does prevail and the federalist party john adams and alexander hamilton on one side and jefferson and james madison on the other with intense competition like we have today hyper partisanship so to rebuild the electoral college thinking about jefferson's reelection in 18 oh four. he is the new image where there is partisan competition it isn't a consensus anymore us versus them if one side wins the other side loses the other side should be the majority party not the minority party. the majority rule based on the federal constitution the united states of america a compound majority were jefferson wins the electoral college to accumulate so that is the new idea adopted in 18 oh three ratified in 18 oh four. no one ever taught me that in constitutional law class that was ignored. and with those fundamental principles are as rich if not richer than the philadelphia convention. they had 12 years of the country under their built on - - belton republican form of government with the image of majority rule. that is the creation the basically

in the reagan administration, we acquired john adams in the lower right by trumbull. collection was consistent in mrs. kennedy's activity. here is the green room when she started decorating it, is still have the green fabric of the truman renovation. she started adding the federal style furniture from about 1800. here are two views of that room. here is a black-and-white picture of the wall that shows the daniel webster sofa she cited, in the upper right-hand corner. there was a wonderful baltimore card table, one of my favorite pieces because of the incredible inlays and veneering. both of these pieces had not been used in the house for a while so we selected them as examples of the perfection of what mrs. kennedy was doing at the time and they are now in our exhibit when she was -- exhibit. when she was finished with the room, she put silk on the walls with a proper period rug. burenis the angelica van portrait she cited in the tour, over the fireplace when she gave the tour. other parts of the tour agent she was collecting other art, including this portrait of benj

and then in the reagan administration we required john adams.have been adding portraits to the collection inconsistent with mrs. kennedy's interests. there is the green room, when she had started decorating it still had the heavy green fabric from the truman reservation. they carve the presidential seal. she added this federal style furniture. two views of that room the. here's a black and white picture of the wall which shows the daniel webster sofa, that is the sofa in operation corner. in front of that is a card table which they show at the bottom. one of my favorite pieces because of the incredible in lay in veneer-ing on this piece. both of these have not been used in the house for a while, so we have selected them as our examples of perfection of what mrs. kennedy was doing at the time. they are in our exhibit at the smithsonian right now. when she was finished in the room, to install this wonderful silk wool fabric on the walls with her federal collection and proper period style rug. there is the portrait that she cited in the tour, which

that's what always drove these great innovative americans forward, and it reminded me of john adams whoself battled smallpox and he wrote this in 1765, liberty must, at all hazards be supported. we have a right to it, derived from our maker, and if we had not our fathers have earned it and bought it for us at the expense of their ease, their estates, their leisure and their blood. today we are willing to trade that liberty, i worry, for a quickie pizza and a netflix subscription. our liberty is more valuable than that. we have to strive for and find innovative ways to move on with our life. >> very well said. you are reminding me what i love about this country, why i'm so proud to be here. literally why i decided to become an american citizen, and by the way, i don't take the old british stuff personally at all because my parents were hungarian immigrants, all that old stuff, that wasn't my people so you can be as rude as you'd like. >> exactly. all right. i thought that was beautifully put. let's bring in lisa and charlie. let's start with you. what were your reactions. >> raymond's ex