even more, or either john adams even more, or john adams is more eloquent about it. but the lines in both adams and samuel adams, well, at different junctures in their lives, right? these kind of indignant paragraphs about hutchinson and all the titles that he has. and they're each of them, like a half a page long because it is this just litany of titles but but people mercy otis warren as well resents johnson for his tremendous success. on the other hand, he's a diligent, dutiful, enormously decorous crown official, he couldn't he means well, he loves the massachusetts bay colony all his heart. he writes an exceptional variable history of these years, in which he writes of himself in the third person, which is probably a good because otherwise he has so many titles. you wouldn't whom he was talking about but he's you know it's very hard not feel sorry for him and this comes to a4i think around the time of the stamp when a rumor floats around boston that hutchinson has in fact endorsed the stamp act, which has fixed it, which is false, but he can't exactly deny as muc

caller: john adams, abraham lincoln. three tkoer reviews, martin luther king were all of these trials well attended and considered in a sense entertainment? dan: i want to go through in my head each. the answer is absolutely. in each one of these five cases the courtroom was filled with people. there were more people there than the courtroom could handle in every single one. for some it was entertainment. for others it was their life. it was really important to them. in the abe lincoln case it much for entertainment. it was murder and interesting. in the alabama v king the people in the pews were impacted. they were people who had a vested interest in the outcome. jack ruby case i think again was more entertainment. people were interested, fascinated by saying jack rebeccay. so, it depends on the case as to the motivation for the people who were there. but in every single one of the cases even though the majority of them with the exception of the john adams case had largely been forgotten to history, when they happened,

, john adams was the heartbeat of the revolution.n no one else wanted to declare independence, adam stood up on the floor of the continental congress and demanded it day after day after day. if you saw the old place 1776, there was an entire song written of everyone in the continental congress singing, for god sake, john, sit down. john adams kept getting up and saying the only passive true freedom and liberty for our colonies was independence. he stood for it and vote for it every day, ultimately became one of the country's greatest diplomats, the first -- first vice president of the united states and the second president of the united states. and when he left office and retreated back to massachusetts, he begin to write for his diary near the 50th anniversary of our country. he wrote for posterity, he was riding in the book saying in writing this for the future americans. he was writing it for us. having no idea what we would become or hoping what we would become. and he was concerned that we were losing our way back in the early 1

[laughter] the only reason i love the john adams. john was the heartbeat of the revolution. e else wanted to declare independence adams stood up on the floor at the continental congress and demanded it, day after day, after day. if you sell the old place 1776 there was an entire song written about everyone in the continental congress saying, for god sakes, john sat down. john adams cake -- kept getting up saying the only path to true freedom and liberty for our colonies was independence. he stood for it and fought for it every day. ultimately, became one of the country's greatest diplomats, the first vice president of the u.s. and the second president of the u.s. when he left office and retreated back to massachusetts, he began to write in his diary for 50th anniversary of his -- this country. he wrote for posterity, writing saying i am writing this for the future americans. he was writing it for us. having no idea what we would become, but hoping what we would become. he was concerned that we were losing our way, back in the early 1820's. he wrote this for us. he said, you s

her next book, an honest man, the inimitable presidency of john adams is on their contract ishein the fall, 2024. i like that definitive. >> thank you. >> yes. >> just in time for another election. she will be talking about the transition of elections in 70 76 in 18 hundreds. second up is ted whitmer, ted is a real writer, librarian, and musician who is honors at currently. -- he also served doesn't buy -- historical adviser to bill clinton and was an adviser to hillary clinton when she served as secretary of state. he is has taught at harvard, washington college, director of the library carlton brown library and director at the library of congress. his next book is lincoln on the verge, 13 as washington. he's also 2010 recipient of the guttenberg polish fellowship. it will be talking about the transition after the election of 1860. it's futile, we are choosing good ones. rachel sheldon is and associate professor of history and director of the record civil war era center, at sea university she specializes the long 19th three and teaches about slavery allocation, the civil war, and con

john adams felt confident enough on december 30th, 1796. so several months after the elections had begun to write back to abigail saying, i believe that. i know the outcome. but he wasn't sure and he wasn't sure until he himself opened the results on february 8th. 1797 in declared himself the winner that actually left him just about a month for the actual. so the timeline i think essential there fast forward four years. of course the result a little bit different the by the time he came around to opening the earth excuse me by the time thomas jefferson opened the results in 1801, it was pretty clear everyone knew that john had lost, but it wasn't clear who had actually won. and just a little of a refresher, of course, aaron burr and thomas jefferson were tied in that election. it took 36 ballots to select who indeed going to be the next president. and in that process, john adams, thomas jefferson and burr were all invited to meddle that process to try and put thumb on the scale to determine who was going to be the right person. and as these

even more, or either john adams even more, or john adams is more eloquent about it. ut the lines in both adams and samuel adams, well, at different junctures in their lives, right? these kind of indignant paragraphs about hutchinson and all the titles that he has. and they're each of them, like a half a page long because it is this just litany of titles but but people mercy otis warren as well resents johnson for his tremendous success. on the other hand, he's a diligent, dutiful, enormously decorous crown official, he couldn't he means well, he loves the massachusetts bay colony all his heart. he writes an exceptional variable history of these years, in which he writes of himself in the third person, which is probably a good because otherwise he has so many titles. you wouldn't whom he was talking about but he's you know it's very hard not feel sorry for him and this comes to a4i think around the time of the stamp when a rumor floats around boston that hutchinson has in fact endorsed the stamp act, which has fixed it, which is false, but he can't exactly deny as much

john adams felt confident enough on december 30th, 1796. so several months after the elections had begun to write back to abigail saying, i believe that. i know the outcome. but he wasn't sure and he wasn't sure until he himself opened the results on february 8th. 1797 in declared himself the winner that actually left him just about a month for the actual. so the timeline i think essential there fast forward four years. of course the result a little bit different the by the time he came around to opening the earth excuse me by the time thomas jefferson opened the results in 1801, it was pretty clear everyone knew that john had lost, but it wasn't clear who had actually won. and just a little of a refresher, of course, aaron burr and thomas jefferson were tied in that election. it took 36 ballots to select who indeed going to be the next president. and in that process, john adams, thomas jefferson and burr were all invited to meddle that process to try and put thumb on the scale to determine who was going to be the right person. and as these

the deal was done, a compromise between client and john quincy adams that john quincy adams agreed to put in his cabinet, making him secretary of state, if clay threw his support to duncan evans. that allowed john quincy adams to get enough electoral votes to win. you can imagine how jackson felt. it was a dirty deal in his mind, but that was a compromise in play -- caly's own interest but he was also staving off civil war. the mitch mcconnell center, located here at the university of louisville, and for those of you who do not care for the senator, i can tell you he put together a compromise with paul weber, who was a liberal democrat. the two of them came together and compromised about the issues and said let's do this for the good of the commonwealth of kentucky. we have a lot of good tunes and we have a brain drain. they going to eastern schools. one person -- can we give them a full ride, internships in washington, take them to china? it has been highly successful, as well as teaching civics in a nonpartisan way to teachers in the commonwealth. that is a local example of a compro

. >> john adams and. [inaudible]. >> so july 4, 1826, on the 15th anniversary john adams and thomas jefferson, old archrivals on the second and third presence, they both died. and you have all of the speeches celebrating of course the revolution from the declaration. declaration through the 1820s is a big booming business, speeches and memorials and commemorations all of the time and this is again at the building of a public history memorials and monuments are super important it is how people make their identity and remember it and all of these civic rituals and all of these ways of sort of building a cultural identity printed one of those commemorations happened in 1920, because of course 200 years since the lighting of the pilgrims. so one thing to keep in mind is up until 1820, the pilgrims were celebrated but mostly in new england and that his if you're in charleston's, you're like the pilgrims who. why is this important to me and in 1820, partly through the work of the sky daniel webster, the pilgrim

president, john adams, moved into the newly renovated president's house.t to liver in the white house. how do you like that, leigh? >> i love it. there's very few things that make me prouder to be a american than going down and seeing the white house and the capitol. it restores my optimism, my hope and faith, it's a beacon and it's such an amazing, beautiful symbol of our country, and i'm so thankful for all that it stands for and all that it means. no matter who's in it. maria: well said. totally agree. your thoughts, chris. >> it's great the history of the country and i said something a few minutes ago, let's not forget to learn the lessons and make sure we don't make the same mistakes today. maria: yeah, it's a great point. john adams, in 1800 moving into the white house. it's been a great show, you guys. thank you so much. leigh carter and chris verone for joining us this morning. we have a market rallying at the highs of the morning and dow jones up 225 and we're waiting to hear what the federal reserve has to say tomorrow at 2:15 p.. eastern. have a

on his watch -- john adams said facts are stubborn things.rime has gone up 40% since he has been in town. he is unfit for office and he should be disqualified, if you ask me. on his watch, we have a record number of homicides. when he came in office in 2016 in philadelphia, 277 hall -- homicides, last year was 562. people are dying because of his incompetence. that's why we have to just say no to schapiro. i don't know why he's not defending the people of philadelphia, especially the latino americans and african-americans, he has turned his back on them. he is allowing their babies to be killed in the streets and doesn't care, he lets criminals out early. about 10,000 during the wolf administration released early, this is a problem. we have an opportunity to stop this individual in his tracks on tuesday. we will do it big, come on. you know it. you know it. with your help, we will do this. we are the eighth highest in overdose deaths in the nation, fourth highest in fentanyl deaths. josh shapiro stood aside and watched our lives be shattered

and deputy director john adams takes me inside. - [john] we're going into the lung of biosphere 2. and when it was originally constructed, they designed it to be hermetically sealed. but they knew that they had to deal with changes in pressure. and this is the device, that they came up with to compensate for that. (door unlatches) - [justin] whoa. - [john] this is just a remarkable structure from an engineering perspective. - [justin] i didn't expect to walk in and see this. - [narrator] the lungs are connected to the rest of t biosphere by a series of tunnels to continuously balance the air pressure inside. - [john] what we're standing inside of is an extremely large diaphragm. and that diaphragm helps to modulate pressure inside the facility as it has a counterweight and aluminum dish. - yeah. - flexible rubber membrane. the combined weight of those two is 40,000 pounds. and the only thing that's keeping it up in the air, as you see it right now is differential air pressure. - wow. that is etty insane. - [narrator] this weighted rubber diaphragm regulates the two basic kinds of a

the moment was dramatized in the hbo miniseries john adams as ian first lady abigail adams moved into a smoke lee smoky, largely unfinished white house 176 years later, our own barbara walters gave us a glimpse into what life was like behind the scenes in the personal quarters of the ford white house. let's open the abc news vault to january 19th. 77. this is a perfectly beautiful room, mrs ford, but it's not your everyday cozy living room, is it so actually, it's referred to as the yellow oval room. and it is so formal that in fact, i call it the standing room because people hesitate to sit down the yellow oval room decorated by jacqueline kennedy in the style of louis, the 16th. and most often used to greet visiting heads of state before going down to formal dinners. it is mrs ford's least favorite room in the family suite, she says, because she finds it so stiff. had she remained as first lady, she would have redecorated it. the view from the oval room is the loveliest in the house overlooking the jefferson memorial and the washington monument. in the center of the room. there is a

with john adams to the attention of the american most successful book was being interviewed among the 20th century residents. the president really needs to be known better. so here we are march 10 rainy monday a spring and washington talking to his chief of staff don rumsfeld were in the background as a fellow by the name of john percy. john is a pulitzer prize winning novelist, journalist she's working for the "new york times" magazine and they asked ford for permission to follow him for a week during his presidency. president ford agreed to that the object was to write a lengthy story about gerald ford because they said americans are more about the president. the polling that was being done inside ford's own sense confirmed just what the magazine was asserting. they needed to be better known by the american people. he was well known in the beltway on capitol hill and his district would we go to the next slide where he had run for office in 1948. i notice the image on the left of ford leaning in their work dungarees, he talking to them one of the things that came to be known very wel

and john quincy adams made his announcement in 1821, the united states had negligible military capabilities and as they pivoted the nation and protected by the existence of two neighbors and nations to reverse only by wind powered ships. two centuries later, the world is together by economic civilization and the globe has been trump by technologies of travel, communications and the projection the military power. the united states foreign policy should therefore adopt the prudence of the secretary adams recommended. it must however have a 2 trillion cents of the great responsibilities that come with america's great power and america's great principles. both of which were subject of the speech made 75 years ago in fulton, missouri. in the guiding foreign policy, the american mind is bifurcated. and on the one hand, we are a nation of immigrants, we are all descended from people who came here to get away from their, wherever there was really is too entangled with the wars and revolutions so, america's extinct of isolation sleep lightly when it sleeps at all. and on the other hand, where nation

the tactics of john adams side. right. there were rumors that persisted that rachel jackson's marriage had not legally ended before she married andrew jackson. and these kinds of rumors circulated during the campaign. right. and jackson would attribute them to contributing to her death. right. so jackson is without a wife. his secretary of state and chief diplomat martin buren was also a widower by point in time. so some believe that with official position of first lady being empty that peggy eaton might fill role. right. might be the symbolic head of washington society. right. to be clear, she would not. it's going be jackson's late wife's niece, emily donaldson, who will fill that role. but there is a lot of anxiety that. this woman, right. is going to be, you know, organizing parties and events at the white house in the name of administration. right now, some of these fears and anxieties about too much democracy are going to seem to come true. as you can see here in this rendering of inauguration day at the white house.

secretary of state john quincy adams said, and i quote wherever the standard of freedom independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will america's heart hurt and her prayers be. but she goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. she is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all, she is the champion and vindicator only of her own. she well knows that by once enlisting under other batters that her own, she will involve herself beyond the power of extra cash in and all the wars of interest in intrigue. of individual, avarice, envy and ambition. the fundamental maxims of her policies should insensibly change from liberty to force. and quote. now and secretary adams recommended this the world was very different. and what he recommended is proven to be easier said than done, in the two centuries in which the united states is filled the continent and risen to responsibilities around the world. it simply is not possible the united states be merely wet adams called the well-wisher. although we long for freedom. it is not possible because our national premise is that t

so, bob, talk to us a little bit about andrew jackson, john quincy adams, and who was first and why there's difference between them? >> well, actually, john quincy adams was the first, it was after he was president. he was returning to washington to be a member of the u.s. house of representatives. and on december 30th, december 17th, 1830, he got there and he traveled to massachusetts several ways, steamboat, road. they got to baltimore, the railroad had just started with cars being pulled by horses. he had a horse and wagon but they put up on a flat car and hauled him about seven miles from baltimore to his relay house. and then they lead his horse and wagon off the flat car and went the rest of the way on the road. that is possibly, well, definitely, it's the first piggyback operation anyone ever saw. piggyback means truck trailers placed on flat cars and when they get to where they're going, a truck picks them up, takes them off the flat truck. very few people know that that first piggyback operation took place in 1830. >> yeah. >> andrew jackson was the first sitting president to ride

by that point, having -- lesser-known presidents, harry truman and john adams, to a fuller attention of the american public through successful books, he was being interviewed and asked by interviewers, among the 20th century presidents, which president really needs to be known better by the american public? and without hesitation, mccullough said gerald ford. so here we are, march 10th, 1975, a rainy monday spurring in washington, and gerald ford is sitting behind his oval office desk, which he has occupied for seven months by this point, talking to his chief of staff, don rumsfeld. in the background, sitting in the -- is john hershey. he has that -- a poll surprise winning novelist and journalist. he's working for the new york times magazine, and the magazine had asked permission from fort to follow him for a week during his presidency. president ford has agreed to that, the object was to write a lengthy story in the new york times magazine about gerald ford because, they said, america needs to know more about their president. the polling that was going on inside the ford administra

"john adams. and that's not part of the test." "you're right. you studied more than you had to."chool so i could take her with me for the swearing-in ceremony. when my name was called up, she clapped and took pictures, and it was such a fun day. when i got my canadian citizenship-- my family and i had immigrated from korea to canada when i was younger-- that was a saderemony. we had to renounce our korean citizenship. as a new american, i could still be canadian, and i could vote. for the 2016 election, i voted for hillary clinton. i wanted her to break the glass ceiling. canada, great britain, israel, and new zealand already had female heads of state. i wanted my daughter to have a president that strived for equality. and so i looked up the website, signed up to be a poll worker, had a phone interview, and signed up for my training session. at the training session, i was surrounded by people who really cared about democracy. in the lineup for the women's restroom, we all talked about how long we had been poll workers for-- "16 years," "20 years," "30 years." and we clapped when

much of figures of john adams, especially. really feared what they called the excesses of democracy. too much democracy. that might lead to anarchy, mobs. so we overtime as we get closer to the jacksonian period, more and more people are seeing the benefits of democracy. mainly those people who are seeing expanded rights as a result of that democracy so those folks who are seeing the benefits of expanded democracy are going to look at the aristocratic nature of american politics and be really fearful of that. that focusing on this kind of aristocratic political culture will lead to corruption, the overthrow of a republican form of government, tyranny, we talking very extreme terms. so we have this pro democracy, anti aristocracy folks on one side, and then on the other side you have folks who are really interested in cultivating this aristocratic sense of political culture. because they fear democracy. because they are really looking at the dangers inherent democracy as a sought. that it would be mob, like and that there is su

she is the series editor for the papers of john adams and the editorial process based on the historical society. she is the author of -- the religious lives of the adams family. -- smithsonian. miss reed gochberg received a ph. d. from boston university. without further ado, please join me in welcoming miss reed gochberg. grateful to the >> thank you so, much, gavin for that introduction. thank you so much to all of you for being here tonight. i'm so grateful to the massachusetts historical society for hosting me. and i'm really looking forward to my conversation with sarah giorgione i also want to thank david and olivia for organizing this event. it's a pleasure to be here and have the chance to share my work on the history of museums with this community. i'm grateful to all of you for taking the time to i listen in and join in this conversation. i'm just gonna share my screen to get us started. i want to start out with a strange and perhaps surprising story from the early history of american museums. some of you might be familiar with the work of charles wilson peele who was a portrai

have seen these before because both of these specific cars were used in a movie which featured john quincy adams traveling aboard these very cars. which leads me too another item, bob, the first railroad in the united states also involved john quincy adams in 1833, do you want to talk a little bit about that? >> i don't remember that much about it. the first railroad accident in the united states on friday november 8, he was going across new george jersey towards washington about halfway between an emberley railroad. in an unheard-of speed of 25 miles per hour. because the cars careened down the embankment the coach remained upright no one in it was hurt. but the one just behind his overturned and two men were killed instantly. they were mutilated beyond expectation. >> this is from a contemporary report, bob correct? >> corrected. >> so quincy adams even though he was not the first sitting president to write he certainly was involved in several early milestones in presidential train travel and unfortunately the railroad wreck is one of the ones is most notable because the 25-mile per our travel

and margarita slide it takes too much time but the issue here is it falls apart john adams one of the founding fathers recall them. said the democracies die by committing suicide seldom by outside intervention they commit suicide. read the papers. the next k. someone to bring up your it is this the here is. how did the democracy of the weimar republic after world war one. descendant in the world of gear to and shalane and great german philosophers how to become the world of hitler and himmler in paris france. and so how did these people the most educated people on earth how do they fall for hitler what was the origin of that. so how did this occur. and essence could draw from that in our own life. now the second point. is the us system how many do you think the us is a democracy with your hands. put him up really high realize shout. well established up for it i guess we agreed what. do you have any of your favorite oil to. the data is not encouraging this is from one of the other great stories american boxer by two of the best political scientists observe this and they say that your o

it's a vision very close to what john quincy adams will have as president. and it is a vision of a nationstate that makes domestic and foreign policy in the robust way. and in that washington is a member of a very small minority in the nation. and anybody that opposes can lay onto his position because he is attempting to re-create the monarchy and of course jefferson is the main guy that is doing this behind the scenes. malone has spent 50 years writing about jefferson and said jefferson the 17 '90s i don't really understand what he is doing. it's been 50 years we don't understand what is doing. what he's doing is lying it is a treasonable. he is stabbing washington in the back. i might be wrong, kevin tell me, i have often said to students and i hope i was right, jefferson wrote to martha when he became president he was close to mount vernon, can i come see you? she never answered i don't think. she said that washington said i never want that man on my property. >> is right after washington's death in particular martha has a very powerful statement for jeff

as i said, john adams was in a sour mood that day. this is a copy of the earlier one, but i think cannot be shows how dear this portrait of the children was and how very do these two children were to both church in martha washington who are not to have children together. and through, i particularly like the cardinal birds. the symbol of virginia. i hope it is a cardinal. but i martin jackie's hand, but this is a different phase of martha's life. the section in the papers that dwells on this book, on this period of happy married life happy and tricky educative experience for jackie at home, and he is as he grows more. and i'm afraid martha spoils him which is probably plain both in the papers of george washington, and if you look at martha's correspondence with her sister nancy, plane there to. and here is poor patsy. this aires, and i am not sure if you can see but she is festooned with expensive jewelry from london. but that perhaps doesn't entirely to tracts, or if you like it can't do away with that very pale and frail appearance w

she is a series editor for the papers of john adams part of the adams papers editorial project based at the massachusetts historical society. she is the author of household gods. the religious lives the addams family and frequently writes about early america early american thought and culture for the smithsonian. um similar to whichberg. she also receives her phd from boston university. so without further ado, please join me and welcoming miss kochberg well, great. thank you so much gavin for that introduction and thank you so much to all of you for being here tonight. i'm so grateful to the massachusetts historical society for hosting me and i'm really looking forward to my conversation with sarah georgini, and i also especially want to thank gavin please fees and olivia saya for organizing this event. it's really just a pleasure to be here and have the chance to share my work on the history of museums with this community, and i'm really grateful to all of you for taking the time to listen in and join in this conversation. so i'm just gonna share my screen screen to get us started.

i was the fellow who wrote the john adams book. i can't believe. oh, oh, david mccullough. sorry whom i knew and whose name has now flowed from my memory, obviously, how mortified i was once with him at an event and i said to him, i know you don't want a glass of wine before we start public discussion. and he said, as larry once told me, and i said, larry. and he said, olivia of course, i said, oh, okay. as larry once told me if you drink before a performance, it affect your lines. it only affects the pauses. and he had a glass of wine. he was great. but what put me in mind of that story is with stephen it's it's the blanks pauses in his biographies. and i'm struck because i possess that talent by subtlety and the choices he makes in telling the story what he admits is almost as telling what he features and includes. he's, as i say, a brilliant, selfish, and he lets us come to the story. he doesn't it all at us. what a rare talent. speaking of brian, again at the time, to purge this line with, blood appeared. eric foner found it and i quote so engrossing that the book reads