on the flip side, one of my favorite john adams quotes is by benjamin franklin and he said, john adams is often a wise man. he is always an honest man, but sometimes he's absolutely of his senses and adams and franklin were oil and water. but where i think that comes into play is that john adams was always honest, sometimes to a fault. he would he had a temper. he was not a great salesman. and so the importance of the bully pulpit to articulating principles for the american people, whether it's the peaceful transfer of power, whether it's things like peace or executive power that requires the president to tell americans why democracy matters to them, why it's important that these things exist. and adams often failed to do that because he either didn't think it was part of his job or he didn't think it was essential and allowed non-democratic forces to often take over in the federalist party, like with the alien and sedition acts, jefferson well. curiosity, jefferson's curiosity and optimism, i think, are things that were positive about him and he defined his political career. he really

would go to really good research libraries andet in the catalogs and just say, let' look up john quincy adamsy his st name. how many books are there about john quincy adams? it was astonishing how many books there were. and how many strange books. herbert hoer wrote a mining textbook. who knew? but also there were these really intimate books and these really important books. i started to realize that abraham lincoln, calvin coolidgeulysses s grant, jefferso adams, there were so many examples of these books, and i started to realizehere is a story to tell here. host: you alluded to this, you book is also the history of nonfiction book publishing in americ why do you tell that par of the story as well? craig: i think it is important because it helps us realize how important ese books have been. even if you read a good biography about a lot of the presidents i talkeabout, their books don't come up very much. their books aren't central. that's because i thi biographs and historians, they have a lot of work to do -- they are worried about the white house and policiesnd legislative debates. my book

the english monarchy really was a republic in saint john adams says john adams says that but other do what askew says that he says it's got a because it has a house of commons and of course there's no place else in the world that has a house of commons or a representative body representing people. so it's a very ambiguous term, but there are different kinds of republics and differently organized, but they have to have some of democratic element in it. and there's no doubt nobody ever denied that even in england, that all power ultimately came from the people. it's that's not the same as saying that people can. so having deriving your authority from the people and no good whig in england, whatever that the people are the source all authority. there are very few people left who are arguing that divine right of kings. so you can have authority from people. but having the people rule another thing altogether and you can have a republic has a democratic element it but also has an aristocracy, a house of lords or a senate. i should say, or a governor so republic could be organized in differ

and if anything, i would make the case that john adams was the much more significant intellectual architect of the document. you trace adams writings throughout the course of the year. he is developing the case for the language of happiness as an orienting ideal to shape how a community can talk about a shared vision for south. populate premium access to the idea that the and well-being of the people should be the supreme law. he is drawing on that tradition, using the concept of happiness to articulate it. he makes an articulation of the relevant principles that is quite like the declaration of independence in shape in january of 1776. in massachusetts and of course, during 1775 and 1776, he and richard henry lee are the prime mo force linking virginia and massachusetts, moving the politics of independence forward. so it's really adams and lee, who architect the politics of, the period from mid-april through july 4th in april. adams releases his essays and thoughts government. he makes the case that the the end or purpose of government is the same as the end or purpose man. and that's happ

john adams was a passionate participant in the floor and the challenge writer. he, however, felt overburdened with important committee work. the other two appointments livingston from new york and sherman from canada. kent had no special interest in or talent writers. all five, though, are of the same mind so as congress they wanted another document, this one a conclusive statement for almost every delegate already signed on to a declaration. the colonies were now independence states was to be a document justifying to the world their reasons for this extraordinary assertion was to be a collective statement intended to be signed by every delegate they all had read. jefferson's summary view of british america. his writing talent was recognized. it helped that he was from virginia, one of the two tales that, wag the colonies dog. every member of congress understood he would have a chance some later stage in the process to participate in revising the committee's document at a later date. adams wrote that he and jefferson had had a conversation about which one of the

and on hearing the news, john quincy adams, who was serving as a u.s. congressman at the time and no fan of tyler, he was a whig and president. tyler had thrown the whig party into disarray because he kept vetoing all of their legislation. and john quincy adams, quote, as he was fairly nauseated by their marriage and he called it the old fable of january and may because he was disgruntled by their 30 year age difference, with tyler being 54 and julia being only 24. next slide, please. so the annexation of texas became president. tyler's main focus. and as this slide shows how he thought it might be, he might be able to use this issue to win a presidential term in his own right in 1844. however, it wasn't to be because right before he married julia, the treaty, his administration was working on to bring texas into the union failed in the senate so that went by the wayside. but he married her right at that time. and next slide, please. so let me give you a little background on tyler's first wife, leticia just suffered a series of strokes before he became

bill brand about these and his newest offering about hamilton, madison, jefferson and john adams in a book called "founding partisan." >> henry william brands jr. with his book "founding partisans" on this episode of book notes+, available on the c-span now free mobile app or wherever you get your podcasts. ♪ >> c-span is your unfiltered view of government. we're funded by these television companies and more including buckeye broadband with. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> buckeye broadband supports c-span as a pluck service along with -- public service along with these other television providers, giving you a front row seat to democracy. >> welcome to today's "washington journal." we'll start with the latest on that which is from ax a owes with this headline -- axios, late night if vote sends historic mayorkas impeachment vote to house floor. it says that the house homeland security republicans approved two articles of impeachment against homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas just after midnight wednesday, sending the vote to the house floor. finish if the historic vote succeeds, mayorkas would be

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. >> john adams, his son, john quincy adams, he went back to h didn't abolish slavery. >> i'm not tellinge hsa were not going to listen to thomas jefferson or they're founding was illegitimate because they were deeply flawed is every bit as bad as someone who's going to say i'm going to entirely dismiss the fact. >> first of all, nice looking i the black t-shirt, that was ver cool to be on, but, why do you think some republicans seem to have such difficulty with the american past and history? they are very scared when they are talking about people like thomas jefferson? >> look, i am open about the fact that thomas jefferson was my favorite president he signed the declaration of independence and at the age of 33, he also actually invented the swivel chair, think about that, they were inventors, they were intellectuals and yes they were our founding leaders, where the imperfect? of course they were in the same way that every person today is too. the very people who are decryin our founding fathers for being slave owners, following the written lines are supposed to recite, republicans and d

like john adams, we we inhabit anything but the age of reason. i think we would agree. but perhaps like his generation, we can sort of muddle through some extraordinarily challenging circumstances to enliven and strengthen the democracy that the founders set us down the path to. so thank you very much. i'll be happy to take any questions. you may have. questions. and. services. did you detect any british attempts to influence american public opinion, like subsidizing newspapers clandestinely printing pamphlets, especially in the run up to the war? so were there russian trolls effectively? is that is that the question in the 18th century? yeah. i mean, certainly there were a lot of accusations about that and patriots often accused folks like james rivington, hugh and other other loyalist printers of being agents. the british. and, you know, it's not far fetched because know that in britain there were some really massive subsidies actually paid out to to government friendly printers. i think the evidence a bit thin on that and i think that in a sense you didn't really nee

like john adams, we we inhabit anything but the age of reason. i think we would agree. but perhaps like his generation, we can sort of muddle through some extraordinarily challenging circumstances to enliven and strengthen the democracy that the founders set us down the path to. so thank you very much. i'll be happy to take any questions. you may have. questions. and. services. did you detect any british attempts to influence american public opinion, like subsidizing newspapers clandestinely printing pamphlets, especially in the run up to the war? so were there russian trolls effectively? is that is that the question in the 18th century? yeah. i mean, certainly there were a lot of accusations about that and patriots often accused folks like james rivington, hugh and other other loyalist printers of being agents. the british. and, you know, it's not far fetched because know that in britain there were some really massive subsidies actually paid out to to government friendly printers. i think the evidence a bit thin on that and i think that in a sense you didn't really nee

. >> john adams, d joho you know o his son is john quincy adams.regretted not doing as a president is abolishing slavery. >> but you can't ignore the fact thomas jefferson. i'm not telling people to ignors that we will not listen to thomas jefferson or founding wae illegitimate because they wereb deeply imperfect and flawed is every bit as bad as someone who will say i will entirely dismiss the fact they were slave owners. >> laura: nice look in the black t-shirt. that was very cool., but why do you think some republicans seem to have such difficulty with the american past and history? ver they get very scared when they are talking about people like thomas jefferson. >> see, look i'm open about the fact thomas jefferson was myent favorite president. he signed thion e declaration of independence, laura, at the age of 33. while also inventing the swivelo chair.ut think about that.ere these people were inventors, intellectuals and yes, alsothe founding leaders.th were theeyy imperfect?e of course, they are the same way you, in every american is pure t

there is john adams, who is, who said a long time ago that america, it is a need, a new type, a new type of nation. but, you know, only work in a moral and religious society, but it is fully unfit for any other type of society. so if you don't have people who are internally moral and are guided by their collections, you can't have citizens you up subjects, you'll have people who will just be inclined to fall prey to whatever shadows are created by shadow puppet tiers. who damaged devices. the nasty, that's all, but that's all by design is we all the general internal data and lady were good to go to a short break. and after that short break, we'll continue our discussion on leadership decline. stay with our to the, the russian states never is as tight as i'm one of the most sense community best ingles, i'll send, send up the assistance must be the one else calls question about this, even though we will then in the european union, the kremlin machine the state on russia cruising and split the smooth net keeping our video agency, roughly all the band on youtube tv services. for what questio

men like john adams, teddy and franklin roosevelt, john f.nedy who famously said, "to be a harvard man is in enviable distinction." the legacy of the harvard man is a little duller appear at the palling on its sword. today, claudine became the shortest serving harvard president and 14th centuries. she was caught plagiarizing half of her academic scholarship, the gravest in academia. 50 instances of academic fraud and counting whereas cnn calls it, sloppy attribution. >> we should know that claudine has not been accused of stealing anyone's ideas in any of her writings. she has been accused of sort of more like copping other people's writings without attributions. so it's been more sloppy attribution then stealing anyone's ideas. >> jesse: cnn redefined shoplifting without shopping without money and sloppy attribution. i'm going to ask cnn for a better way to describe me not helping around the house. investing in on household activities? we never would have known the harvard president was an intellectual phony if she had not drawn attention to

, but my favorite president to cover in history is the second president in history, and that is john adams, and i do think that i was sad that mitch mcconnellsuperya yacht yacht. >> no, no. and i have to ask you, i do want to get to one more impersonation that just killed me every time. but before i do that because i don't want to laugh h hysterically, is anyone offended or does everyone just love it? >> every loves it. lindsey graham was a little strange. everyone was really kind and it was a dream doing it at the golden globes. i want to have a better moment with andy cohen. i met cnn's andy cohen on the street. he was really nice. yeah. he was incredible. kind of shaking his head, that's a good impression. you're young and cute. yes. it's amazing. everyone has been so kind. no better person to talk to about that than jim acosta, who handles our politicians with the highest of class, i would say. >> i appreciate that. opinions vary. we have to get to the, we were just talking about taylor swift in the previous segment and apparently, howard stern had some interesting advice for her and h

there is john adams, who is, who said a long time ago that america, it is a neat, a new type, a new type of nation, but in only work in a moral and religious society. but it is fully unfit for any other type of society . so if you don't have people who are internally moral and are guided by their collections, you can't have citizens, he loves subjects, you'll have people who will just be inclined to fall prey to whatever shadows are created by shadow puppet tiers. who damage devices? the nasty, that's all, but that's all by design is we all the general internal data and lady were good to go to a short break. and after that short break, we'll continue our discussion on leadership decline. stay with our to the the the in 18. 81 began to expand its property in north africa, france decided to attack and easy. the invasion began with a bomb barred man of the french fleet on coastal cities and was followed by sending in the ground through the french easily occupied one of the key city. please eric, and the bay of doing this bomb at the 3rd us deep agreed to humiliating negotiation . lombardo 3

leads and everybody else, matthew, you know, you're right in and i mean that's the thing i there is john adams who is, who said a long time ago that america it is a need, a new type, a new type of nation, but you only work in a moral and religious society, but it is fully unfit for any other type of society. so if you don't have people who are internally moral and are guided by their collections, you can't have citizens, you love subjects, you'll have people who will just be inclined to fall prey to whatever shadows are created by shadow puppet tiers. who damaged devices. the nasty, that's all, but that's all by design is we all the general internal data and lady were good to go to a short break. and after that short break, we'll continue our discussion on leadership decline. stay with our to the the, the, the band list to go ahead the, the assumption semester. but after the civil, which is almost a typical of somebody's by video or students teaching them to go to check on board is showing that emissions on here. and then we'll ship them to the doctor to be available. solution accessible was i

leads and everybody else, matthew, you know, you're right in and i mean that's the thing i there is john adams who is, who said a long time ago that america, it is a neat, a new type, a new type of nation. but in only work in a moral and religious society, but it is fully unfit for any other type of society. so if you don't have people who are internally moral and are guided by their collections, you can't have citizens. he loves subjects, you'll have people who will just be inclined to fall prey to whatever shadows are created by shadow puppet tiers. who damaged devices. the nasty, that's all. but that's all by design is we all the general internal data and lady were good to go to a short break. and after that short break, we'll continue our discussion on leadership decline. stay with our to the the, the russian states never is as tight as i'm one of the most sense community, best of all sense and up to 5 must be the one else holes. question about this, even though we will then in the european union, the kremlin media mission, the state on russia, routing and split the archie smith. net keepi

matthew, i know you're right in and i mean that's the thing i there is john adams, who is, who said a long time ago that america it is a neat, a new type, a new type of nation, but in only work in a moral and religious society but it is fully unfit for any other type of society. so if you don't have people who are internally moral and are guided by their collections, you can't have citizens, you love subjects, you'll have people who will just be inclined to fall prey to whatever shadows are created by shadow puppet tiers. who damage devices like the nasty, that's all, but that's all by design is we all the general internal data and lady were good to go to a short break. and after that short break, we'll continue our discussion on leadership decline. stay with our to the the, the experience for the rest of the lama show us jamie process before the so vice chair, as i mentioned earlier, is up to steep requirements. not express here, submit item. so you may, to a matter of the way, can we cods no problem? no, no, open up in the front. and then for the 5th, and if i know for will be stree

there is john adams, who is, who said a long time ago that america, it is a need, a new type, a new type of nation. but he only worked in a moral and religious society, but he is fully unfit for any other type of society. so if you don't have people who are internally moral in are guided by their collections, you can't have citizens, you love subjects, you'll have people who will just be inclined to fall prey to whatever shadows are created by shadow puppet tiers. who damage devices? the nasty, that's all, but that's all by design is we all the general internal data and lady. we're going to go to a short break. and after that short break, we'll continue our discussion on leadership decline. stay with our to the the welcome back to the prospect where all things are considered. i'm peter, to build your mind. you were discussing leadership decline, the pace, go back to garland, garland. and the last sentence of my introduction to this program is i said that then when there is a, a vacuum, others will fill it. there is a leadership vacuum in the world and we see a number or a number of count

john adams said facts are stubborn things and these are facts and you can't look away.t of why chairman green and house homeland security marked up articles of impeachment last night and wrapped up at 1:15 this morning and did important work for our country and we will move forward swiftly on those articles. it is long overdue. secretary mayorkas is only part of the problem. i released a memo documenting 64 specific actions that the biden administration has taken to undermine border security and promote release of dangerous illegals into our country. 64 times. these are alarming actions and these are public, anybody can look at this. day he took office, president biden revoked executive order 9844, ending construction of the border wall congress had paid for. materials are rotting in the sun and elements. why? joe biden decided he didn't want a wall inform february, administration stopped applying title 21 to children and incentivize families to send unaccompanied children by cartels and traffickers. they admit they have lost track of 80's,000 unaccompanied minors. what

and john adams would say over and over and over again. oh, no, no, no, no, no. we didn't have any miracles. we didn't know what we were doing. we were trying really hard. there's a wonderful letter. if you go to founders online website through the national archives, if you look it up, find it. he says to one person, we made a mistake. 1775, 1776, 1777, 1778. and he just like marches over time. we made a lot of mistakes. all right. you can't check out and assume that it's all good, he says i sat and i watched people sign the declaration of independence. i could see their faces and could see that some of them were not happy to be signing that document. so his message was, it isn't perfect. it's never perfect. we knew that even whatever we were doing and in whatever way they understood a democratic mode of government, which is how we do, they understood whenever they were doing, as many of us up here have said, was a work in progress. adams particularly, who like to sort of poke things in any sort of pompous claims or assumptions, he said essentially over and over

there is, someone sent me one, john adams, i even remember, a graduate student. from the university of you just want her to come up to him, specifically, from you this is enough for me to make you want, you want her to come up, yes, yes, i and my feelings connected to these characters, really, of course , let larisa answer, please. and so what does she want from this vegetable garden, which, as you say, is hers? kills, kills her love, but nothing of the kind, here is my aunt, who was the prototype of this zoya in general, who drives 40 km there every day, 40 km back, and to whom i told 100 times, why the hell do you need all this, because anything is possible it’s to buy these potatoes, she says that, and you can’t imagine how happy i am there, i don’t have anything there... it hurts, she goes there, if you noticed, she’s always in a beautiful dress, why does my aunt go there in a beautiful dress , and i say, why are you dressing up? yes, because this is life, on a bus in which she travels, first on a trolleybus to get to this bus, then she walks along the road, then she talks to someo

john adams was called old sink or simpler no relation. andrew jackson was called sharp knife for his fighting style. zachary taylor, old rough and ready for being rough on the battlefield. teddy roosevelt, telescope teddy. for always having a little telescope mounted on his rifle. of course there was bill clinton they called him slick willie for being a little slippery. and then there was barack hussein obama whose nickname was the deep order in chief. the former president deported over 3 million illegals and was showered with heckles. >> we will make our country more secure, strengthen our families and most importantly we will live up to our character as a nation. >> that's exactly what we are talking about. what i would like to do, don't worry about it, guys. let me finish. >> as you can see a president has always been responsible for his administration's border policies. not congress, not the vice president, the president. once upon a time joe biden agreed. >> did you make a mistake with those deportations? >> the president did the bes

we were able to maintain a safe haven at john adams community college the street, so luckily on a cold night we had a place for people to get out of harms way and in the end due to the bravery, the strong work, the training, all the things that go into the operation of san francisco fire department, 7 people were displaced and we don't like to see anybody displaced from 44 to 7 was quite the boom. i find myself in a position again and promise i will tell you when i think we are failing, we are not failing. this is a fire that had a huge head-start with the potential to expand well beyond the footprint it was contained to and the bravery, ingenuity and strong work chief of operations are doing with all the membership down to the line firefighter emt and paramedics showed itself again and close 2023 with commending them for the strong work at this fire. as you can see, with 3 alarms of fire, they were cognisant keeping the front of the building open and at this point the master stream is no longer in operation, but good the scene. close 2023, give a greater alarm report not included in t

very well yesterday, the biden administration is the most anti-free-speech administration since john adamser aspect of this administration -- did you know that our secretary of defense was in the hospital, did you know he went into the hospital it wasn't even yesterday. 5 days ago, just now learning the secretary of state lloyd austin had a days long, a weeklong hospital stay that was kept completely secret so i am going to read this letter from the pentagon press association and love to get your thoughts on this. here is what they said. the fact that he has been at walter reed medical center for four days and the pentagon is only now alerting the public late on friday evening is an outrage at a time there are growing threats to us service members in the middle east and the us is playing key national security roles in israel and ukraine, particularly critical for the american public to be informed about the health status and decision-making ability of its top defense leader. what is the balance here? do we deserve to know? how out of bounds is this? kayleigh: the secretary of defense is in

administration, i have written before most anti-free speech administration since the administration of john adamsistration has carried out what a federal court called orwellian censorship program with the help of social media companies charlie agrees with you what represents a threat to our democracy they would have us believe that joe biden would like to run against donald trump that he has a chance to beat donald trump. listening to him today is he already taking on trump that would seem to empower trump. seem to suggest a he knows it's inevitable that his oh i don't know that i do want to run against donald trump so i need to start attacking trump. >> first of all, same polling all of us have seen in the swing state showing historic leads for president trump. secondly, the prosecution themselves are of the proof of the point. their election strategy is literally to put president trump in jail. that is their election strategy with multiple criminal prosecutions. this is another very important point i want to make. who is the audience for that speech? is it the american people? yes, but somebody

administration, i've written before is the most anti-free speech administration since the administration of john adamshis administration has carried out what a federal court called an orwellian censorship program with the help of social media companies. >> and it's documented, you look at bari weiss, they have documented exactly what happened there. they shut down dissent. >> it really doesn't matter at this point. people have already decided they are going to rival with president trump. i don't know why the biden campaign is starting late. if they are deaf, dumb or both. at the end of the day you've had president trump, former president trump for the last four years rally consistently year round 365 days a year. maintaining his base and here we are eight or nine months before the election and joe biden's campaign has not even started yet on the ground. you're absolutely right with president trump talking about the economy today, talking about immigration, while joe biden is talking about democracy and although that's important, people just are not buying it. president biden has to be able to convince

as he handed over the reigns to his successor, john adams, the american experiment began in earnest. we cannot replace votes and deliberation with violence and intimidation. our great democratic experiment requires nurturing and a shared sense of the importance of protecting its continued existence through both laws and norms. without a shared commitment to the rule of law, our future remains in question. we have seen that shared commitment though in our prosecutions, where countless fellow citizens have prioritize our country over relationships with coworkers, family and friends, doing their part to hold those who committed crimes on january 6 accountable for their conduct. and we continue to call upon our fellow americans to provide the invaluable assistance that they have been providing in connection with this prosecution. thank you very much for attending today. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2024] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org]

the facts are stubborn things as john adams says. >> that's interesting to me to hear you say. that i'm not surprised you hold that opinion, of course. you are the republican house speaker. but we heard from house republicans, people like chip roid who say that the house republicans have noing to show for what they've done. they've been the least productive. >> yeah, chip is one of my very good friends. he and i talked about this at length. when he said that, he was discounting the fact that we only have the majority in one chamber and one house of the legislative body here. the sna tenate is controlled by chuck schumer. we passed landmark legislation, hr-1, energy bill we passed. hr-2, secure the border act. things that we sent over are sitting on chuck schumer's desk. we have control of one house of congress. >> but doesn't that mean you have to compromise on things like immigration? >> well, that's why i went to the white house today to talk that through. of course, we have divided government. that's what's required. the framers of the kons const -- constitution understood i

>> you know, in the interim, my staffer handed me the quote from john adams, there must be decency and respect and veneration introduced for persons of authority, or we are not done. yes, the circus is in town. i missed the coverage of the dancing bears. but the serious context of this is we have two international crises to address, and we haven't got close to passing those supplementals. we haven't funded our government. i know there's a tentative deal, but many -- the slip between the cup and the lip, we had a deal in june and didn't get it done then. so there are critical issues that have to be resolved, and as you say, we're dealing with theatrics. >> there is always theatrics in public hearings. we know this. this is a tale as old as time. what's unusual is seeing kind of the target of the hearing surprise the hearing to show up. there was some conversation about rules of appearing before the committee -- i don't know if you know the rules of the committee, if there's a three day heads-up or if hunter biden could have sat at the table, taken the oath, and testified publicly. how u