if you read that, you go way back to the summer of 1756, when john adams was 20 years old, 1756, 20 years short of the summer of 1776. and he was teaching school in western massachusetts which was than the frontier, keep in mind that in that time two thirds of all of massachusetts were still forced. two thirds of pennsylvania were still forced to. the largest building in america was nassau hall at princeton. civilization was just a little rim along -- european civilization, american, western civilization a little rim along the coast, only 50 miles deep. it was a vastly different world not just from the present but from europe. here he was with what he thought was the frontier teaching in a 1-room schoolhouse, miserable, he knew he didn't want to be a schoolteacher and his father thought he would be a minister. that is how he got, why he got his scholarship to harvard. he decided he didn't want to be a minister, wasn't cut out for that. he decided he wanted to be an attorney, a lawyer, to get into public life. on the night of august 22nd, a sunday 22, a sunday, after having attended church

but even john adams eventually had to acknowledge the pamphlet's extraordinary power. after the war was won months later, add tams -- adams wrote that -- [inaudible] indeed, this little 46-page pamphlet would soon push the members of the second continental congress to adopt independence as the fundamental objective of their escalating war with britain. their july 1776 declaration of independence owed an obvious department to "common sense." thomas paine had no hand in drafting the declaration, because by then paine was no longer in pennsylvania. he had joined the continental army on its march towards new york to try to capture that city from the british. but the british would soon put the continental army on their back foot, forcing them to retreat back across new jersey towards their headquarters in philadelphia. paine was with them as they advanced forward, he was with them as they had gone back working as an aide throughout that dispiriting summer and fall campaign. it was as the continental army fell back to trenton that tom paine authored the first and most famous

and john adams says, be careful. who knows where this is going to end up and depend upon it, or women will ask for a vote. so he says that in 1776, before the declaration of independence, because he knows that the meaning, the heart, the soul of that document is that all men, women, whatever are created equal. and so it's kind of this internal logic that really drives american history. and women are so much a part of that. right. but i guess sort of for me, the cognitive dissonance is that, well, the surprise for me was to know that, yeah, they really did actually talk about inclusion. like they considered being inclusive. and that meant no. so it wasn't like it wasn't like they forgot. it wasn't like they were only looking at the men in the room and they were they really gave it some thought and some discussion and thought. and i don't want to go down that road. that was i was taken by that about. sure. and we often say, you know, do people know slavery was wrong or maybe they just didn't know back then. right. righ

if you read that, you go way back, way way back to the summer of 1756 when john adams was 20 years oldtwenty years short of the summer of 1776. and he was teaching school in western massachusetts which was then the frontier. keep in mind that that time two thirds of all of massachusetts was still forest. two thirds of pennsylvania was still forest. the largest building was nassau hall at princeton. civilization just a little room along european civilization. just a little room along the coast only about 50 miles deep. it was a vastly different world. not just from the present, but from europe. he was out and what he thought was the frontier of teaching in a one room schoolhouse. he knew he did not want to be a schoolteacher. his father thought he would be a minister. it is why he got his scholarship to harvard. he decided that he did not want to be a minister. he was not cut out for that. he decided he wanted to be an attorney. a lawyer. getting into public life. on the night of august 22, a sunday, after having attended church all day which was to be a lifelong habit for john adams, h

remember john adams and thomas jefferson really had a great dislike for each other.later in life wanting to send a unifying message they began an incredible correspondence about the american revolution and kind of became friends. but just cut to the election of 1,800, it was brutal as it is now with trump and biden. the fact is we just kept turning it over. we just kept turning it over. and any time a group does election monitoring in the world today, that's what we tell countries the key to democracy is. if you lost, you lost admittedly. otherwise you're an authoritarian regime where you're running a dictatorship. the first president that's tried to be a dictator is donald j. trump, and it's now trump vs. the united states with jack smith's four felony charges this week. >> the other word for it may be king. and the judge who is overseeing this case at trial has already issued a ruling in which he said presidents are not kings. and speaking of trump -- speaking of someone else not trump, and plaintiffs -- i'm sorry, the plaintiff was trump. the plaintiff is not pres

we've had some great ones starting with john adams and teddy roosevelt and harry truman. it's hard to think of any who has been more intensely tested than the vice president. we're to hear from. in fact, i met mr. pence only back when he was a congressman. i doubt he'd remember it. the encounter was on the sidewalk in front of the harvard club of new york. i'm not accusing just to be clear, not accusing mr. pence of having been in the harvard club. this was on the sidewalk he was with a mutual friend, as i recall it, steve forbes, which might be why when we were introduced briefly, i leaned over and said to mr. pence, did i hear? you're for the gold standard. i'm reluctant to repeat what? mr. pence replied because i hadn't informed him that i was with the newspaper. but it was substantive. several sentences, and i don't think it's a violation of ground rules to disclose that. when i got home that evening, i said to amity, i shook hands today with mike pence. he strikes me as a man to watch and he went on to be governor of indiana, of course, and history calling. one day w

he only he only talked about that in private and and didn't and not in public with john adams. yes. he they very famously rekindled their correspondence. they'd become good friends and it was here in france. actually adams was one of it was kind of an all-star lineup of diplomats when jefferson got there benjamin franklin and john adams were already there as ambassadors as ministers to france too. so he joined them and he they had you know, adams and jefferson had worked together in the continental continental congress. they bonded even more and and he with her whole family there in paris. he visited jefferson visited adams in england and they toured some of those english gardens together, so they were very close friends. they broke apart bitterly, you know over the politics of the 1790s and then in their retirement, they rekindled the correspondence. they did not talk about slavery almost never in in the letters and i suspect it was because atoms didn't bring it up because he knew this was a painful subject. it was one that jefferson didn't have a good answer for he didn't like conf

john: adam, does it seem that getting to the supreme court was in the minds of the people who proposed, john, it actually seems like it was a goal of the people who proposed this. they have talked pretty openly about wanting to cnge precedent, to allow uh public funds to go to religious institutions like this. they have kind of spoken about this being the test case to get to the supreme court to change that. john: do they belie the conservative majority in the supreme court would be receptive to this argument? >> yeah, i think they've seen the number of positive rulings that religious institutions and the like have received from the supreme court in the past couple of years. and i believe they're hoping to take that next step. john: are any other religious groups or churches in oklahoma talking about doing the same thing here? >> there's already been some talk that a few different religions have already reached out to inquire about how to submit an application to to do this exactly, to launch their own charter school. so far, none of those have come through. but the catholic church is

john adams didn't want to create a king, but it was a tagline that worked. you say monarchy that is the kind of codeword but we have today. >> reassuring they were just as vicious with each other as we are today. they didn't have the internet to do it but they had pamphlets, ways of getting the message across. just as unreasonable and mean as we are today. >> guest:'s holy and underhanded. in jefferson's case, here he is in washington's cabinet getting increasingly alienated by washington and hamilton's policies. doing everything he can to secretly undercut washington's administration. what does he do? he didn't have the internet, but the internet of the day was the newspaper so he hires a guy supposedly as a translator for the state department but his job was to start a newspaper that is critical of the government. it makes washington's life miserable, this paper. jefferson portrays no knowledge of what is going on and by this time he and madison are the ringleaders in organizing what will ultimately be the opposition party, the republican party. this is go

when john adams famously went to quote help benjamin franklin negotiate with the french richard palms was on board that ship serving as adam's personal bodyguard took adam's son bike thursday cured so they could meet with angela and franklin. in my book when you read it you will see so many incredible coincidences of history and you are about to hear about another one. the same time as richard palmes with john adams and anchem and franklin robert townsend's older brother solomon was there to. they know it seems hard to believe but he was there also meeting with benjamin franklin and get this and oath of allegiance to america. so solomon with this oath and hand came back in the same convoy is captain richard palmes back to america. meanwhile two years it gone by before robert found out he was in charleston and when he finds out he and brother solomon frantically write demands that they believe will care about the antislavery movement and will help them by elizabeth in new york. these letters which i discover at the east hampton library going to incredible detail about the man who helpe

but it was four years later that both men, adams and jefferson, passed away on the same exact day, jul. and while he was not present when his father died, john quincy adams later recorded his father's last words, three very poignant words, thomas jefferson survives. he had no way of knowing that jefferson had died on the very same day. as americans then gathered across the country to honor the 50th anniversary of the declaration of independence, news of adams andnd jeffersons passing spread here and what had begun as a month of celebration was now one of the mourning and commemoration, as the citizens began to listen to eulogies, speeches and tributes in churches, government buildings and in public spaces. while jefferson and adams have their own opinions on how they should be remembered, it would be up to those living in 1826 and successive generations, even up until now, to define and to shape their memory. presidential sites such as your are frequently called upon to discuss the legacies of people who without the highest office in ourn country, and one way, oe very important way, what iconic weight as we all know these men would eventuall

but it was four years later that both men adams and jefferson passed away on the same exact day july 4, 1826. while he was not present when his father died johnuincy adams later recorded his father's last words three very poignant words thomas jefferson survives. he had no way of knowing jefferson had died in the very same day. as americans then gathered across the country to honor the 50th anniversary of the declaration of independence news of adams and jefferson's passing spread. what had begun as a mop up celebration was now one of morning and commemoration. the citizens began to listen to eulogy speeches and tributes in churches, government buildings and public spaces. whileir jefferson and adams had their own opinions on how they should be remembered it would be up to those living in 1826 in successive generations eat up and until now to define and to shape their memory. while, presidential sitequ suchs ours are frequently called upon to discuss the legacies of people who have held the highest office in our country. and one way, one very important way and iconic way we know these men will eventually die. it is how that death is marked an

"john adams. and that's not part of the test." "you're right. you studied more than you had to."e 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 sad ceremony. 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 someone said, "36 years." here i was w

perhaps one of the most divisive elections in our nation's history was the election hundred president john adamsnt thomas jeffers

my study at the national historic park, john quincy adams home and the families home as well and so wet there for research and they interested me in a jobor and i'd been working for them ever since but i looked back to my training and diplomacy and every day that i worked here at the white house -- [laughter] i never used it as much. every single day no matter what you do you need to be a diplomat. remind yourself of what you are tryings, to accomplish and what that a goal is so that you have to cooperate andra appreciate at the same time. we have 13 other federal agencies working on the complex and partners like the white house historical association who help us in this unsurmountable attack that we have to preserve and protect and tell the story. we couldn't do it without s collaboration, cooperation, so that needs to be done and sometimes those partners have totally different missions then we have. .. also make sure they're going to be protected and taken care of. and so we got the slide there. so you can see the historical fact here that was in front of the white house. when we are

the popular vote by fewer than 39,000 votes, captured 99 electoral votes, secretary of state john quincy adams took 84 electoral votes came in second. 41 votes, for william crawford, treasury secretary, and 37 or house speaker henry clay, no candidate earned a majority electoral votes, election to house of representatives clay was, lim eliminated. high of lowest vote -- he was lowest vote getter, ar a month of back and forth it won't on and on, henry clay supporters put their weight behind john quincy adams, he had fewer votes than jackson and fewer ewell elect college votes. this enraged andrew jackson, and he resigned from senate, said the election was a fraud, he would go back and run again next time and debate adams, this almost led to a civil war. in 1860, presidential election, was not just contentious, has was pointed out, ite offe tore the nation apart, lincoln got 39% of popular vote against stephen douglas, democrat from illinois. also running for president was john brekenridge, and john bell of tennessee, lincoln won about 39% of the vote. but took most of the electoral college vote

it quits show in the 1960's post the question which american met in his lifetime both john quincy adams -- john quincy adams and alger hiss? that was oliver wendell holmes, who had met six presidents, another friends -- friend of his foster boyhood when he was five years old, and would employ a future soviets fight as one of his favorite law secretaries. but it was the civil war that was his touchstone. i hate to read about those days, he told friends, and had no interest in reliving any more squalid player luminaries poured the blunders and worse of the battles. -- for the blunders and worse of the battle. when he was sent a biography of lincoln, he said that i should please god if finished -- i should finish this book are some it. but he was keenly aware to the oars meaning for him, the profound waste those terrible and ennobling experiences of youth had shaped his life. the drive to fort stevens was always part of the program, for out-of-town visitors, and for each new secretary. he marked each anniversary of his brushes with death by solemnly drinking a glass of wine to the living a

and it brought me to adams national historical park, which was john quincy adams' home and the fan theadam's family's home as well. and so i went there for research and you know, i they interested me in a job with the national park service. i've been working for the park service ever since but i looked back to the my training and diplomacy and every day that i work here at the white house. i can tell you i would never have used it as much overseas every single day no matter what. you you need to be a diplomat. you need to remind remind yourself of your mission of what you're trying to accomplish of what that goal is, but that you have to cooperate and appreciate everyone else's mission at the same time. we have 13 other federal agencies working on the complex, and we also have obviously a partners great partners like the white house historical association who help us in this unsurmountable amount of you know about tasks that we have in order to preserve protect and tell the story we couldn't do it without collaboration cooperation. and so that needs to be done and sometimes those partn

john adams lost and he also taught everybody when you lose, you go quietly.lly fundamental question. >> laura: i'm glad she liked play. now, not wanting to leave politics apparently is a bases for a federal crime. are you listening to these people? has anyone by the way told nancy pelosi and dick durbin about this? the bottom line is this: trump was charged with two counts of conspiracy and two counts of obstruction of an official proceeding for adopting and pressing an unconventional and controversial legal view. that the electors in this presidential race could be replaced with new electors. well, the indictment, according to that analysis is, a complete sham. if this is how low the bar is set going forward, then smith and garland and every prosecutor who pushed this fraud of a case should all expect to face similar treatment to what they're putting trump through. in indictment the drama queens in smith's office claim that trump was determined to remain in power in conspiracies that targeted a bedrock function of the united states federal government. the na

john adams,. harry truman, nine. john quincy adams comes in at 10.issue of moral authority. at the bottom of the list, the bottom five. warren harding, richard nixon, andrew johnson, james buchanan and donald trump coming in last in the rankings of moral authority according to the latest c-span historian survey. this is carmen in florida, independent. good morning. you are next. are you with us? if you are, you have got to turn your tv off. this is peter, dallas, texas, democrat. caller: good morning. host: who is your favorite president, peter? caller: my favorite president is barack hussein obama. host: and why? caller: more character. that man built the economy. that man being a care to all america, what republicans fight against. as a black president and other presidents tried to give america -- i do not care what they could not do. barack obama can. he made that promise and he kept it. he had no investigations. he did everything by the book. our republicans do everything to bring him down. but, he goes into the white house and came out with a cl

john adams,. harry truman, nine. john quincy adams comes in at 10.issue of moral authority. at the bottom of the list, the bottom five. warren harding, richard nixon, andrew johnson, james buchanan and donald trump coming in last in the rankings of moral authority according to the latest c-span historian survey. this is carmen in florida, independent. good morning. you are next. are you with us? if you are, you have got to turn your tv off. this is peter, dallas, texas, democrat. caller: good morning. host: who is your favorite president, peter? caller: my favorite president is barack hussein obama. host: and why? caller: more character. that man built the economy. that man being a care to all america, what republicans fight against. as a black president and other presidents tried to give america -- i do not care what they could not do. barack obama can. he made that promise and he kept it. he had no investigations. he did everything by the book. our republicans do everything to bring him down. but, he goes into the white house and came out with a cl

congress appropriated funds studying with john adams for $14,000. $20,000 during andrew jackson's presidency stated that amount until the presidency of calvin coolidge. as you can imagine, the money went quickly. it was not evenly distributed across the room. since these funds did not go very far, broken items, shifting items between rooms to address different concerns andnd when necessary filling outdated or worn out items at public auction and using the proceeds to buy new items for the house. congress passed legislation that mandated all furniture purchase for the white house should be as faram as practicable american or domestic manufacturer. all off this was included as pat of the appropriations bill. there were ways around this as we heard for example the china services. french maidte and brought to the united states and purchase from american firms. the white house was after all an office in a home and an extremely acceptable one at best this impacted the house, the appearance and its furnishings. 1842, author charles dickens wrote of his experiences in the white house. he noticed a m

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mind another naked president john quincy adams.he evidently enjoyed skinny dipping in the potomac and there's a story that's told of a female reporter who found him one day when he a female reporter found him one day in the water and she yield she wouldn't let them come out in this is an exclusive interview andse promised to get dressed. n teddy roosevelt was able to relax wildly exporting activities in not only relaxation but simulation, roosevelt was able to find replenishment and that was by taking these train trips around the country he would get out of washington. he said he had to get out on these long train trips one lasted nine weeks and covered 24 states freed from the vexations of congress. he radiated delight as he was stopping the train stations along the way connecting to these huge crowds that had come to see him they would bring him bizarre gifts some of which are probably in the house a badger. well, not that a lizard a horn toad two bears a silver loving cup capable of holding. types of beer now, of course he had t

one of the great books that david mccullough wrote and it's really rather extraordinary was on john adams, one of my favorite presidents, the second president of the united states. and also it's now forgotten his extremely important tent book on the constitution in some or all of you may know that adams was not present the constitutional convention nor thomas jefferson. jefferson was in paris. adams was was in london. right. i'm sure. they were emailing and texting to find out what was going on. independence. but but a number of years after right after not the constitutional convention, adams in a famous to the massachusetts militia, this is 1798, right? by the way, adams lived to be a very old man. he wrote that ouronstitution was made only, you know, only can be a very dangerous it's like always and never. right adams was a was what was a genius. he knew what he was saying here. he said, o cost of tuition was made only for a moral and religious people. it is wholly in adequate to th government of a i'm raising our right hand. adams was not an evangelical christian by the lights of the 2