john. to adams was forever writ. ing about your skill with the pins sir in addition to the arguments and compromises be worked out in that sweltering heat. it was terribly hot and during all of the congresses, but particularly the extension of the second in in that was in the spring of 17 and 76, but i had heard about your husband. well before that. oh, yes indeed. he had become renowned throughout all of the colonists because of his defense of the british soldiers during that massacre in boston when that was march of 70 was it not it was indeed stands in start contests in my memories because my husband risked so much to stand in defense of the british soldiers who had fired upon a crowd and there had been lots of life. but john announced at that time and it has always been true to him that facts of stubborn things and if one seeks the facts one will find the truth and though he feared his reputation might be ruined it was it was that trial and the exoneration of many of those accused and blessed sentences for those

um, he had been an archival of course of john adams. the united nine following his victory in 188 election a major newspaper. we got this in our collection the boston patriots you see there in the massachusetts of john adams. yes. the boston john adams is in quincy only a stones throw away and it published what he said an authentic sketch of his political life madison's political life that the editors anticipated would be quote acceptable to the public. as entitled biography of james madison and if you could yeah. well, i mean in the newspapers very easy to read it. so one wonders, you know how to why did people need to be reminded of james madison he had been in the public stage for 30 years. he'd been very prominent. he was a central player in the writing and ratification of the constitution and three decades of public service. he'd been active in congress is jefferson secretary of state for eight years, it's street. it seems strange to us that he needed an introduction to the public that was given in this in this newspaper, but you k

john adams called it the gift of silence which is gift john adams didn't have but it made a difference, and i was surprised to discover that on several occasions he wept in book and was not brasessed -- embarrassed and showed it and i tried to take this understanding i was working towards of howl he made -- remade himself from the first constant anyone tall congress in 1774. george washington is the guy we reek nice as george washington and i think he is. and then look at specific episodes in his mature career where he demonstrates the political tall lenz he developed and -- talent he developed and a quick overshoe i focus on seven months at valley forge, the army was a bit risk of unraveling. he needed to build bridges to congress, make that work. needed to repel an effort to replace him as commander in chief. actually a bureaucratic maneuver to get him out, and it turned out that he was a pretty good -- pretty good at political knife fight and was able to survive that cleanly. the second period i look at is the transition to peace time. his resignation with the army is a huge moment,

like dementia or what john adams calls dying at the top. and let's face it alzheimer's is one of the most feared diseases. dying of heart disease isn't actually that much fun either. and it's wrenching for those who love you dying of cancer is wrenching for just about everybody. and cancer we fear it too. but alzheimer's has a hold on our imagination and it turns out it had it on them, too. so much so that they sometimes say it would be better to be dead. than to be living with dementia. this is two brothers writing to each other about their father in his 90s. and what one says is, you know if you're a friend to him if you care about him, you can't wish for a continuance of this existence. another place thomas jefferson calls it no better than the life of a cabbage. and how many times have we heard people today? talk about they're just vegetables. especially in debates about preserving life through technological means we have now. that idea has a long history and you see it popping up in the american revolution. i don't actually see this mu

but we have got issues. john adams is the _ years.ve got issues. john adams is the former chairman of this golf club. what we have lost is about 30 metres of fairway since 2007, it was fairway, it's now beach. this course is fallin: fairway, it's now beach. this course is falling into _ fairway, it's now beach. this course is falling into the _ fairway, it's now beach. this course is falling into the sea, _ fairway, it's now beach. this course is falling into the sea, and - fairway, it's now beach. this course is falling into the sea, and that - is falling into the sea, and that process is accelerating. i'm fearful, i want people to come and play here, it is a great course. so wired some of these historic links" —— golf courses at risk of disappearing? links" -- golf courses at risk of disappearing?— links" -- golf courses at risk of disappearing? because of climate chance, disappearing? because of climate change. sea _ disappearing? because of climate change, sea levels _ disappearing? because of climate change, sea levels are _ disa

john adams essentially saying i have to study politics and war. i have to be a leader in the revolution itself so that my sons could study mathematics and philosophy. we might understand useful art. both an intellectual endeavor. they should study geography. they should study history. in order to give their children the chance to study poetry, music, architecture. he is thinking generationally both about his own family but it is a metaphor for the united states in general. i have to make war so my sons could study industrial pursuits to build a nation and its wealth , status, safety. so their children could enjoy liberal learning. it is a beautiful metaphor i think for the american revolutions hopes for the future. it is explicitly generational. the first people to think and generations were a baby boomer, we are a special generation, never trust anyone over 30. early americans, they absolutely cared about age, right? we have been through a recent presidential cycle. there was a lot of conversation, how old is too old? remember that? i chose this

georgini who is a series editor for the papers of john adams. she will be speaking on the style and substance of abigail adams. sarah will be followed by dr. cassandra good assistant professor of history at marymountain university dr. good will focus on social relationships in the founding era. our third presenter is dr. marie jenkins schwartz professor emeritus of history at the university of rhode island. she will discuss the gendered and idealized role of first lady, martha, washington. the fourth and final presenter on our panel will be dr. gwendolyn dubois shaw the class of 1940 bicentennial term associate professor in the department of the history of art at penn. dr. shaw will discuss the role of gender and portraiture drawing from the exhibit featuring the first ladies. she recently curated at the smithsonian national portrait gallery. after the presentations are complete the panel will be happy to take questions from our online audience. please enter those questions in the chat function and we will get to as many as possible at the end of

well, john adams, ultimately reconciled with jefferson. it was years later actually abigail weighed longer to rekindle that friendship. as political actors then you can see that women would have also needed emotional support in the same way that politicians did in a world when politics were often quite ugly. male politicians were ideal friends for this task next slide, please. abigail adams commented on this need to referend james lovell a member of the continental congress in 1780. she talked about being sick sick of politics. she knew he was in the thick of political ugliness and it is cruel for female to wound who ought to soothe the statements herod brow, but at that moment my indignation overpowered my tenderness. annual recognize the idea that women's role was supposed to be to soothe the brow of the herald politician because of her supposed removed from politics. but she was unable to do so she was in too deep herself. next slide in fact, it was abigail who turned to level in many cases for comfort rather than the reverse with john

john adams had off it time politically.ally people said you know what, he was right. i just think due process is very, very important. and to bring a charge like this, so quickly there was no investigation. that was it. when we come back i would be curious about your response to tlaib and other politicians newt. we'll be right back. limu emu... and doug. so then i said to him, you oughta customize your car insurance with liberty mutual, so you only pay for what you need. oh um, doug can we talk about something other than work, it's the weekend. yeah, yeah. [ squawk ] hot dog or... chicken? [ squawk ] only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ mark: welcome back newt gingrich what do you make of the response of these democrats other people, who seem to be pouring a fuel on the fire here? >> well, i think we -- infuse ideology with insanity. iit think some of the people who are calling for -- for example, for eliminating police closing down all prison you have to wonder what planet they are on. and yo

he's a biographer of george washington and john adams. i can't read the names of the books and awards but i prefer to tell you about john the man. though his parents were from west virginia he grew up in galveston texas according to his biography his mother was college educated in the 1920s, taught school for 11 years until she was banned by west virginia law for marrying. his father attended college on a baseball scholarship in the 1920s but the depression ended his academics. he took a job in texas and they had one son in 1940. john is a bachelor's in houston university and masters in history from baylor university. although he is retired and hasn't stopped him from attending and speaking at seminars and these kind of events lecturing on podcasts and spending time. he and his wife and therefore cats live near atlanta but there's one more thing he likes to share, his love of baseball. the first game he's always 1947 between pittsburgh when jackie robinson scored the winning run. especially to boston to see the red sox. for those of us in

all of the people the city came to hear this music among those who came was a man by the name of john adamsoved into a building called the presidents house half a mile from our camp. he enjoyed music very much and on new year's day the first time that he opened the doors to the white house, he invited the marine band to provide user for that occasion and we have provided music for every occasion since that time. music is based pretty much on the popular type of music. we're going to play one that we feel quite sure was popular in the early days of our country and was danced to. we're going to play with instrumentation the minuet. ♪ ♪ that was the minuet played by the marine band in the white house around eight hate -- for route 01. -- around 1801. for the inauguration of thomas jefferson. when his successor james madison take over office we played for the inauguration and then after the inauguration we played for the inaugural ball. on that occasion, we played marches that were dedicated to the retiring of the president. onto shoe first of all a manuscript -- i want to show you first of all

which is a gift john adams did not have. as i said earlier, this ability to draw other people out, to get them to talk to him. i think it allowed him to seem non- manipulative. he was not out there, it was not lbj grabbing by lapels and saying folk this way i'll get a new pipeline in your neighborhood. he was following a dignified quiet approach. as a quiet form of leadership that was very effective. anything that is ultimately how he was able to rise, succeed, continue to be a hero, what are we 200 some years later? one of my favorite stories and help like play a joke on him. what is he do? you pass them on the back which is something you would never do to someone of washington's stature at that time. something we would do today but something you would never do them. he said washington turned and looked at him. and had such a stare on him governor morris said the blood in his veins was chilled by the look that washington gave him. i don't think washington said anything to him. hamilton that morris cady asks the question out

among those who came was a man by the name of john adams.d just moved into a new building called the president's house, about half a mile from our camp. he enjoyed the music very much, so much so that on new year's day 801 month the first time that he opened the doors to the white house to the citizens of the city to come in, he invited the marine band to provide music for that occasion. we have provided music for every occasion since that time. music is based pretty much on the popular type of music. it wasn't the foxtrot or rumba in those days. we're going to play one that we feel quite sure was popular in the early days of our country and was undoubtedly dance to in the east room of the white house. we're going to play with instrumentation of about 801, a minuet. ♪ ♪ that was a minuet, that must've been played by the marine band in the white house at the early dances in 1801. you have seen marine band take part in an inauguration. we begin our inaugural duty at the inauguration of thomas jefferson. when his successor james madison took ov

was it john quincy adams? james polk, thomas jefferson or donald j trump? was a bad idea. >> i'm going to play this straight that's probably true. kennedy: know you did not get it right. it was old cold pickles thomas jefferson. he maintained this habit for 60 years and he started his own fire and he put them out with this little foot soak. fun facts about presidential history. you and all expense paid ticket to guam in august during the season. >> great. thank you. >> i'm glad you won enjoy that trip. >> great time. man panel think al verplanck did a great job. tim, gary, richard that's how you do it. all right there a lot of swearwords in their. thank you. inflation across the nation is heating up. prices for everything from lumber, cars and copper. hosting the biggest and income on record but why is the president still itching suspended plans despite the surge? hottie scotty martin is here to celebrate salonpas day and our mission to improve people's lives through topical pain relief we invite you to try our powerful, long-lasting patch for muscle and jo

john adams would be a passenger. i arrived too late too late to make a reservation upon the ship. i did have the opportunity to meet witnesses adams, but her short time and then she embarked and i had to wait for the next ship the ship that i sailed upon was the serous out of boston. in fact, it left boston on the 5th of july. i spent the fourth of july in boston and do you know a number of years later you may recall? i was sailing the atlantic. when you were sailing the atlantic westwood to return to our new nation for the first time since the war do you think that your ship? and mine passed in the night the undoubtedly did my friend they've only we knew. that was elwagner. wagner. are there other questions for us? so this means that both you and mr. jefferson were in france during the storming of the bastille on july 14th. 1789. how did each of you experience that moment? well, i dare saying this feeling markey you were very much an actor upon the stage of all the turbulence that was brewing then paris and out of their sight of before the occurrence at the bastille on july 14th.

gun powder is essential as john adams says the colonists had plenty of guns. they had no gunpowder. and that british and they tried to disarm us through gunpowder. it would be the contacts that the marble headers had was spain that brought in that crucial gunpowder. would also be a novel way washington would try to capture more gunpowder by attacking the british stores and halifax. he needed a ship or ships to do that operation. so we turn to john glover to create a navy. in the navy, which is really preposterous is to take basically a fishing vote that john glover had, which is about 74 tons. and somehow take on the greatest navy of the world at the time the royal navy. that is exactly what they did. they attacked british ships. in the story of the navy is extraordinary. some of the most colorful captains in american history. the red dragon that is a giant cloak as an incredible sense of humor. martindale who decides to outfit a ship with six guns but spend a lavish amount of money. but as soon as the ship gets out of court he's immediately captured by the british. he sells out his

he was more like john adams and he decided they were too expensive and to elaborate. he did not want part of. it's so we started the second period of time in which they didn't hold any inaugural balls until we begin to get past world war ii with president nixon. let's take a break. will go upstairs and take another look at with this place looked like. we are standing now on the fourth level of the building. remember when we first showed it it was only three stories high and it turned out that when the general realize what was going on he realized that there was enough room on the third level to add another level and so he constructed a design and another level which was used for the records and that is what you are looking at now, it's this extra railing and balcony that he added to provide access to these other spaces in these levels appear did not have windows outside. they only have windows like skylights and windows, the light that is coming in from the first story windows up at the top. down at the bottom on the level floor we were talking about president taft be

ac academia culture you see them we're surrounded by them and we must take solice and warren sam adams, johncock paul revere yes thomas paine become energized spirited by wisdom and genius of george washington thomas jefferson john adams james maddon ben franklin, and so many others. while they've been smeared and degraded by american left and democrat party in the man who occupies oval office, we must continue to celebrate them. be invigorated by them and remember together they defeated most military force on earth founded greatest most extraordinary nation in the history of mankind, in fact, piewngs generations of patriots a tremendous sacrifice fought the civil war to end slavery, something no other country has ever done. costing hundreds of thousands of lives on fields and in towns throughout america over 700,000 casualties. in a nation of 25 million people. and gettysburg 50,000 casualties but there are other battles with terrible casualties. the wilderness, chancellorsville, shiloh, stones river, bull run twice, fort donaldson fredericksburg petersburg gaines mill in addition their rid

john adams had some great writings on the importance of the jewish people and the importance of their existence to civilization. and there's a good chance, you know, if you see people that think the answer to their problems is blowing up innocent people that they hate, they're badly mistaken. and so so coming back around to january 6, anybody that engaged in violence here on january 6 should be punished. and any such violence should not be minimized. as -- if i were still a felony judge and people that had engaged in violence on january 6 here came before me, i would have no problem sentencing them. we can't have that kind of conduct. and as i and so many of my friends have said repeatedly, the most effective protests -- protest is peaceful protest. learning from the incredible christian man, christian minister named dr. martin luther king jr., you know, the weather underground, bel air's friends, they tried violence, it didn't work, they didn't accomplish anything. then when they started moving into universities and getting tenure and teaching children to love socialism, they became

john adams used to save more public morality the foundation of a national morality laid first in thewhen we step back we have to ask what is the government incentivizing now and what can we do to extend the family? it is about marriage so without healthy marriages you cannot have a healthy family. it's in the government's interest to have healthy couples, a mom and dad raising those children teaching them love and giving them virtue and a sense of morality the only get that to observe that in their parents. susan rice says she wants my mothers in the workforce. no. went moms and dads who want to stay home should be allowed to stay home. we should subsidize that. that's the best thing we can do. there should be family leave and vouchers for private education. joe biden in the first 100 days, we have spent $470 billion subsidizing abortions. that is not in our national interest particularly now with the birth rate statistics. we went more families and healthy families and more children. we have to find a way to make that happen. then the other part. social service and private foundatio

drafts followed after mine was received by the committee and corrections were made a particularly by john adams. he was incessant in the amount that he wanted to change and and then of course the committee was finished to draft and it went to the larger delicate body to the continental congress and it was the support if you will. for arguments and debates towards voting on the resolution of virginia. for independency now you may wonder what does this have to do with your birthday mr. jefferson? it's because i have never really cared to have my birthday recognized rather the birthday of our nation as i have referred to earlier. and yet there would be a difference of opinion because another member of the committee mr. adams to whom i just referred has always believed that the true birthday of our nation is july the second because that was the day that the continental congress did vote. for independency it was not immediate. there was one abstention. never forget that mr. lewis morris a new york did not feel he could properly represent his constituents in new york, and he requested to take leave t

our first vice president, john adams, said that my country has in its wisdom contrived for me the mostignificant office that ever the imagination of man contrived or his imagination conceived. i can do neither good nor evil. woodrow wilson was a political scientist before he became president and in 1885 he wrote about the chief embarrassment in discussing the vice presidency is that when you've said how little there is to be said about it, you've said all this is to be said. his vice president was thomas marshall. in retirement, mr. marshall said i don't want to work any more. but i won't mind being vice president again. and when president ford became our 40th vice president when he was sworn in that position on december 6th, 1973, he referred to, quote, the limited powers and duties of the vice presidency. his vice president nelson rockefeller disparaged his final office as quote simply stand-by equipment in 1976. so how do we get from the office that president ford called the limited powers and duties of the vice presidency and rockefeller referred to as simply stand-by equipment, in

and it is gift of silence which is what john adams will is gift john.wh it was, his ability to draw other people to get them to talk to. and it allowed him to see non-manipulative. he wasn't out there moving in , lbj -granting you my lapel and saying this way and how you you. he was following identified client approach. it was quiet for leadership was very ultimately is how he was in you rise, 60 continue to be a hero. what are we to some years later. >> one of my favorite stories about washington's is when comes up to him to let you? he will do something you never do to someone washington's center at the time. something we would do today something you would never do that and he said washington turned and looked at seth astaire, a stony silence that governor morris said the water in his veins was killed by the look washington gave him and i don't think lwashington said anything to him. >> that's a great example piece of the story i love was hamilton and that mars, they were a couple of years together, he went happen afterwards was mortified. >> we've got a lot of questions from our viewer

i don't know why he didn't name it the john adams or john winthrop. we moved to the coast.hese photos will be more familiar to all of us but one of the things i think we don't remember as clearly was we had water, we had snow but then we had mud, dirt, rocks. some of them were probably ice flows knocking on dennis' door but also rocks. you can see all the stuff that was pushed into somebody's living room. this was a long minin. this is the damage. this is what was left over. >> [indiscernible] christopher: i'm not exactly sure where this is. i thought this was the top of a house picked up and pushed over but it was stuff pushed into a house which is amazing to me. this when i think is amazing. this car was just parked in someone's driveway and all of that stuff piled it up. >> [indiscernible] christopher: i would guess. this is probably the best plumber ever. [laughter] the entire house was destroyed except for the plumbing. [laughter] whoever that guy was, you've got to see some humor in it. our hometown paper. the headline, which i think is interesting, this is days later

our first vice president, john adams, said my country and its wisdom has contrived for me the most in significant office that ever the imagination of man can conceive. i can do neither good nor evil. woodrow wilson was a political scientist before he became president, and in 1885, he wrote the chief embarrassment in discussing the vice presidency is when you've said how little there is to be said, you've said all there is to be said. his vice president was thomas marshall. in retirement, mister marshall said i don't want to work anymore, but i wouldn't mind being vice president again. [laughs] and when president ford became our 43rd vice president on december 6th, 1973, he referred to the limited powers and duties of the vice presidency. his vice president, nelson rockefeller, disparaged his final office as simply standby equipment in 1976. how did we get from the office that president ford called limited powers and duties of the vice presidency and rockefeller saying standby in the mid 1970s to the different, robust office we have today? what i want to do in the next few minutes is g

douglas was familiar with john quincy adams loss statement -- john quincy adams's statement who said to southerners, if we keep being belligerent, there will be a civil war. if there is a civil war, the constitution allows under its war power clause the congress and the president the power to end slavery constitutionally. for frederick douglass, slavery itself represented a state of war. he believed that because of slavery representing a state of war, he called for the immediate end of slavery even before the actual war broke out because, in his mind, for constitutional reasons. douglas said, immediately after fort sumter, he started calling on the president and sending his newspaper to the white house saying, in slavery, that will be the quickest way to end the war because the slaves constitute the stomach of the rebellion. unless you emancipate the slaves, 4 million blacks, roughly one third of the southern states, are aiding and abetting the confederacy. they are feeding the confederates. they are building worlds -- roads for them. they are building fortifications and trenches. if

she's back in massachusetts and rights to her husband john adams in philadelphia. i remember the duties, and she was talking a lot of people think what she was talking about. there was a soft was suffrage women's right to vote. she was talking about an issue larger than that actually temperature which is the idea that we inherited from british common law that a married woman took on her husband's civil identity upon marriage. so a married woman couldn't own her own property was not the legal guardian of her own children. couldn't own her own business in her own name couldn't sue or be sued, so she was hoping that in the new laws that those declaring independence in july 1776. she was hoping that in the new laws that were being declared there would be a rejection of that old british common law idea and there was not we don't have state laws being passed to overturn covature until the decades leading up to the civil war. 1839 is the first one but most famously the most far-reaching of the they were called married women property acts is the new york law of 1848. so it

first vice president john adams said that my country has and its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the imagination of man contrived, his imagination conceived. i can do neither good nor evil. woodrow wilson was a political scientist before he was president. and in 1885 he wrote that the chief embarrassment, the disk gusting of the vice presidency is that when you say how little there is to be said about it you said all there is to say. [laughs] his vice president was thomas marshall. mister marshall said in retirement i do not want to work anymore. but i want to mind being vice president again. [laughs] when president ford became vice president, sworn in to that position on december 6th, 1973, he referred to, quote, the limited powers and duties of the vice presidency. his vice president, nelson rockefeller, disparaged his final office as quote, simply standby equipment. that was a 1976. so how did we get from the office of president ford, the one he called the limited powers of duty a vice presidency, and a rockefeller referred to as simply standby equipment, in t

our first vice president, john adams, said that, my country in its wisdom has contrived for me the most significant office that a man's imagination conceived. i can do neither good nor evil. woodrow wilson was a political scientist before he became president. and in 1885, he wrote that the chief embarrassment in discussing the vice presidency is that when you've said how little there is to be said about it, rockefeller, disparaged his office's, quote, simple stand-by equipment in 1996. how did we get to president ford's limited powers in the vice presidency and rockefeller referred to as simply stand-by equipment in the mid-1970s to the very robust office we have today? what i want to do in the next few minutes is give a brief overview of the vice presidency as it existed for most of our history and then to sketch the office as it exists today, what i call the white house vice presidency, and then to make a few suggestions as to what i think we can learn from this transformation. the vice presidency wasn't one of the founding father's great successes. it was created for reasons that are

adams is up here in new england in that odd pink color. and what happens is the election of this era goes into the house of representatives and in the house john quincy adams turns out to be the victor in a deal that andrew jackson will believe was corrupted by promises made to clay by adams for in exchange for clay support at image of degrees to make him the secretary of state and the common view in those days and perhaps the view today is the secretary of state is a natural position to step up into the presidency. so in 1824 adams wins on the strength of his deal with clay the next election. the 1828 election will see andrew jackson win triumphantly move into the white house as the president and jacksonville will be president for two terms. this is the infamous party inauguration party after a jackson was inaugurated as president all his friends from the backwoods. allegedly materialized in the white house drank themselves into a stupor and tore the place apart and this is a cartoon that speaks to that. we now have atoms. i'm sorry. andrew jackson is president. is now 1832. and american trade american vessels all of new england is trying to

similarly, in 1824, without the electoral college, it is possible that john adams would've won a popularvote. we don't know because we don't have all the votes for 1824. but the point is, the electoral college is created to allow the south to gain political power in the presidential election because of slavery, while we do not have slavery, we do have a three fifths clause anymore, we are still saddled with this weird system that is historically allowed people to be elected president who lost the popular vote. and as far as i know, there is no other election in the united states for that is the case. i'm sure when mayor campbell ran to beat mayor, she didn't say, the other guys will win because they have fewer votes. that is not how it works except for in the presidential election. that is as far as all go because anything else will take weeks. >> there's a lot in your question, just a couple of points, i will start with -- here i think there might be some distance between professor finkelman and myself. i think we tend to celebrate our constitution far too much. both the constitution of

of the slave trade, and you were eloquent, and i thought at the time when i read it, that john, himself, mr. adams was it not? >> precisely, and it was when i was with the virginia house of burgesses. abigail: not long after when i first heard the declaration read, i was in boston at the time, my children, and smallpox was ravaging our towns and cities and the army, as well, but nonetheless, i was in boston and heard the declaration read from the statehouse balcony, and i remarked that that was no longer -- that manly statement that stand against this great sin had been omitted, and i wondered. no one else in the city knew what almost could have been. why was it stricken? thomas: protests. protests from certain delegates. at that time, we were still drafting the declaration but were still colonies. i almost hesitate to pronounce what colonies these delegates represented, because we allowed it to continue to fester, but it was compromise. it was a compromise. and as i mentioned, the constitution later followed in kind. announcer: learn more about thomas jefferson and monticello 5:00 p.m. pacific, 8