john adams. i think there are a couple of letters from john adams that will be out. and the thing that i didn't know that we had was we will have a copy of a book that john adams actually gave the boston athenaeum in 1818. so some very fun things to go see. this is actually the great treat about being the director of the atheneum is i actually am constantly surprised by what we have in our collections. so tonight we are in for a very interesting conversation between dr. lindsay chervinsky and dr. catherine al gore, and they'll be discussing dr. drew pinsky, his latest book making the presidency. john adams and the precedents that forged the republic. and this book really focuses on john adams, who had the truly unenviable task of following george washington to become the second president of the united states. and he became president in a moment of enormous challenge for a brand new country that still had fairly tentative institutions. and dr. trevaskis will share with us tonight her thoughts on john adams leadership and his legacy. dr. stravinsky is a historian in an

did how did he interact with john adams? so harrison gray otis was one of the few. well, not one of. so there were these moderate federalists and harrison gray, otis sided with adams over the arch federalist, which really annoyed a lot of the other arch federalists who happened to most of them were located in boston, which felt like really a purse or massachusetts, i should say, which felt like a personal betrayal to adams. and the fact that otis did side with them and supported his efforts at diplomacy and supported the peace treaty meant a great deal to john adams and harrison great. otis apparently started every morning with a pot of potato and yet lived to be a great age. that's an interesting choice for beer. i don't know that i would choose that for breakfast. he also wrote phenomenally interesting letters to his wife. and i will confess that i tend to judge historic figures based on what they write to their wives. do we have any sedgwick ancestors here? well, back on sedgwick. theodore sedgwick, who was a senator from massachusetts and, then the speaker of the

and i'm wondering if you can discuss the two john adams's as a two john adams is as a way to talk a littlebit about the american revolution and start to introduce us to your generational thesis. yeah, yeah. so the adams's the book actually the first sentence of the book is about john adams. i'm always so cone of silence. right? we're not going to tell doug. that's right. he loved john adams much more than others well, you can. so what i always say is, you people have got to pick it's important because people say, you know, you've written with rest you what do you think? and i say respect washington love adams because you can someone with all of their flaws but the tremendous respect for washington sort of unparalleled so yeah that's how i approach it i think that's very good. yeah. so i mean, the adamses were amazing. i mean, among other things, of course, they had this especially the elderly, the elder one, but the younger one even worse, you know, a kind of logan mania, like they could not stop writing. and they also knew that they were going to be important. historical figures never thr

john adams, samuel adams, george believed that there should continue to be at least at state level a, role for the state, promoting the interests religion, hopefully not persecute anyone but, promoting the interests of. and it was widely assumed it would be some christian protestant denomination would would be the denomination that received favorable treatment. but there were others, madison and jefferson most obviously who believed that religion and christianity would do better and flourish better if there was no state involvement, and that that was coming from traditions of the enlightened that was that arguing for religious people like john locke. but it was also coming from. the council of religious dissenter in the american going back to people like roger williams, the founder of rhode and in the revolutionary era. it was definitely coming from baptists who had been persecuted by many of the state churches, especially early in places like virginia and massachusetts and the baptists were sort of, you know, the the most fervent evangelicals can imagine. and they were adamant that t

he's really he's not in congress, but his political allies of sorts of john adams and benjamin franklin, who are trying to push congress to get to independence. and there are a number of letters that survive or gates writes to adams and franklin saying, you need to do this and to do that. he's giving benjamin john benjamin franklin advice for how to get john dickenson on board, who is notoriously a holdout on independence. and he insists that britain can never be trusted. freedom isn't possible unless you have independence. and he he says, who cares? setting up the government, you got to get into it. get freedom first and then we'll worry about the government, which now is the best approach. but that was his approach in congress course in july 1776 will declare independence. but that point a month earlier in june 1776, he had been promoted major general in over the course of the revolutionary war. he's going to have a lot of highs and a lot of lows, have a high at saratoga, of course where he's going to oversee an absolutely crucial victory at saratoga, capturing army and others. debate

representatives and lafayette was present on the house in the house chamber on february 9th, 1825, when john quincy adams was elected sixth president of the united states. that evening, president monroe hosted a reception at the white house where lafayette to john quincy adams and andrew jackson were all in attendance. lafayette was witness to the first public moment of the new president elect and the man he had defeated had had when jackson entered the reception, many guests had kind of been hanging around hearing that jackson was going to come and they kind of wanted to see what would happen. jackson had a little bit of a reputation, so they wanted to know how these two men would interact. and to the delight or maybe the chagrin of many jackson quickly made his way over to his opponent to clasp his hand. and and congratulations. and perhaps no one was more relieved than adams, who appeared profoundly moved by the gesture. lafayette's arrival seemed to be a magic balm for what newspapers were calling the electoral zeal that envelopes the nation. now, he didn't sway politics by personally, publicly endor

john adams was constantly compared to george washington unfavorably. washington would receive in a black velvet suit, and he was very stately and tall, and his silver sword. and adams unfortunately had a black velvet suit made and he would stand in front of the portrait that now hangs in the white house that was always there, of washington himself, and he would sit there. he didn't have many teeth and he smoked his pipe and smelled that way, and he'd stand beneath that portrait and kind of get some titters, you know, what is happening? >> the backdrop to the adams brief occupancy of the white house is one of political defeat and personal tragedy. within days of moving into this borough, the president learned that his tenancy was going to be very brief indeed, because he had been defeated for reelection by no other than his former friend, thomas jefferson. and then to make matters infinitely worse, he would within days of that news, his son, his alcoholic son had died. it was a house of great gloom for the remainder of their term. the adams is pretty muc

when george washington handed off power to john adams, when john adams handed off power to thomas jeffersonrs and people throughout the earth because the norm had been that leaders only changed over through death, through bloodshed, through coups, through violence. and america demonstrated something different, and then donald trump marked dishonor upon that 250- year tradition. now, i'm told that he's trying to invite world leaders and celebrities to his inauguration, but no amount of glam is going to ever remove that mark of dishonor what he did on that day. >> it was clear, though, in terms of, you know the politics of it, voters when it came to this last election, this wasn't weighing heavy loin them, what happened four years ago. and you know, democrats, we heard, and president biden, had talked about democracy and january 6th and there is, of course, the january 6th committee, why do you think it hasn't stuck in the minds of americans in terms of how they vote compared to what you're laying out now? >> i actually do think it has stuck in the mind of americans. january 6th and what happ

president and massachusetts favorite son, john adams. his presidency unfolded against the backdrop of the politics and personalities of a new nation. exploring the american story. watch american history tv, saturdays on c-span2, and find a full schedulonour program guide or watch online any time at c-span.org/history. inues. host: welcome back. we are joined by representative bruce westerman, a republican of arkansas and chair of the natural resources committee. welcome to the program. guest: good morning. host: you are the chair of the national resources committee, can you talk about your priorities and your goals. guest: we have a lot of work to do and if you look at the jurisdiction of the committee, a lot of that is energy and minerals so energy production and mining, we are going to be a huge part of the work of -- that we do. but we have jurisdiction over federal lands, forestry, and fisheries and indian and insular affairs. we have a full work load not to mention california water, wildlife and fisheries. lots of things will be on

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he is serving on diplomatic duty abroad as is john adams. so neither of them are in attendance here. didn't start thomas jefferson, by the way, from referring to this convention, that assembled there as an assembly of demigods, which while a bit an exaggeration there, i think if as long as we're not too cynical, you can understand jefferson's comment that is there is a pretty impressive assembly of individuals who are in attendance. all right. ben franklin is there. james madison, of course, of virginia is there. i'm it would have been very hard to have imagined the philadelphia convention ultimately in terms of its ability to kind of secure some level of support without george washington's support. washington being someone that was widely he was the american sense that he was someone who had laid down power when he had the opportunity to take it up. so if you were worried this turning into, you know, a power play, power grab, something sort of anti populist in that sense, then presumably washington's presence his support from it would give

john quincy adams called it a critical period. it's critical if you're interested in the united states as the united states. you know, the post war downturn, economic downturn was pretty much over by 1785, 1786. most people had it. not all. most people had it presumably a bit better than they had had it before. nation hood really is the fundamental question. let's look at these three areas and see what the problem is. i'll start first with the government, the central government, the government under the articles of confederation. as i said, it is a product of its time. if you're trying to throw off what you regard as onerous, central authority, then you don't want to replace it with another onerous central authority. right? so you look at the confederation congress and the emphasis is on the congress by the way, in other words, it's on the legislative. it's not on the executive. right? they have an advisory board that handles executive decisions. the focus is on the legislature, the congress, right? you might say sort of people po

power from one and ministration to the next and exhibits online, discover how the transfer from john adams to thomas jefferson back in the early 1800s featured -- set this precedent of a peaceful transfer of power. a senior historian speaks to the white house historical association. you can learn about the long history of that. this is charlotte, north carolina, democrat. caller: good morning. thank you for having me and letting me speak. i do not look in the past of anything. i know there was an insurrection, but we need to look into the future. donald trump and the project 2025 is what i am concerned about. what are citizens supposed to do to get their children educated if they defund public education? host: this is mary, republican. go ahead. caller: good morning. thank you for allowing me to speak this morning. i think the lady just said on the call before about public education. i think there is too much government involved in everything. put it back to the states. for january 6, that was a riot. it was no different than black lives matter burning down cities. i think the media feeds

carter and i were rivals but for many wonderful years that followed, friendship, bonded us since john adamsimmy has a good decade on me by entrusting my remembrances of jimmy to my son steve. according to a map it is a long way between grand rapids, michigan, plains georgia, but distances have a way of vanishing when measured in values rather than miles. because of our shared values that jimmy and i respected each other as adversaries even before we cherished one another as dear friends. this is not to say that jimmy never got under my skin, it has there ever been a group of politicians that didn't do that to one another? during our 1976 contest, jimmy knew my political vulnerabilities and successfully pointed them out. i didn't like it about little could i know that the outcome of that 1976 election would bring about one of my deepest and most enduring friendships. in summer of 1981 the two of us found ourselves together again this time aboard air force one bound for the funeral of the great peacemaker and marsha. --anwar sadat two presidents in a room is one too many. frankly, i wondered

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. >> john: adam, joe said that things are going to get worse.e things changed in the trump administration? >> reporter: yeah, so i just got off the phone with joe, and he said that in the early days of the trump administration, the going rate for moving people smuggling people across the border and across america, has more than doubled, and in some cases, it's even tripled. he also says that he was drawn into this line of work by a buddy of his, and he himself knows of 20 other guys, of americans who are willing to take on these jobs. >> maurice: adam, for the migrant in your piece, why did she pick this guy joe to bring her over here? how did that work out? >> reporter: well, she says that she tried to get into the country legally. she applied for asylum. she was denied, and so she turned to smugglers, who she said really was the only other choice, and she says that if she were to be deported, she'd turn right back around and do it again. >> john: what about joe? is he worried about getting arrested for doing this kind of work? >> reporter: yea

but for the many wonderful years that followed friendship bonded us as no 2 presidents since john adams and thomas jefferson. it is said that president adams last words were thomas jefferson still survives? now since jimmy as good decade on the i'm hedging my bets by i remembered says. but jimmy to my son, steve. according to a map. it's a long way between grand rapids, michigan. in plains, georgia. distances have a way of havana sheen. >> when measured? and values. rather than miles. and it was because of our shared values that jimmy and i respected each other as adversaries even before we cherish one. another. dear friends. this is not to say that jimmy never got under my skin. but has there ever been a group of politicians that didn't do that to one another? during our 1976 contest, jimmy knew my political vulnerabilities and he successfully pointed them out. now i didn't like it. but little i know that the outcome of that 1976 election. wpuld bring about one of my deepest. and most enduring friendships. the summer of 1981. the 2 of us found ourselves together again. this time aboard

i think the most important one perhaps occurred early in 1801 when john adams had left washington, d.cent back to massachusetts. that election had been nearly catastrophic. the threat of violence was real and palpable, and it was a real constitutional crisis. and he got back home and he said to jefferson, everything is peaceful here. i wish you a safe and happy administration. and that really set the tone for what we want presidents to do. john: the notes that have been left since ronald reagan, are there any others that sort of stand out? lindsay: well, i think reagan's is really fun because, you know, they had been in the administration together. and as you said, the stationery is quite silly. it's an elephant with little turkeys on it. and it said, don't let the turkeys get you down. and you might sometimes want to use this stationery. and i think that humor is important because the job is so hard and the decisions are so difficult that if you don't have a sense of humor, i think it can crush you. john: you know, you talk about the peaceful transfer of power in 2020. there was almos

local composer john adams has a nomination for best opera recording.e goldenwest tells the story of california's gold rush from those who lived it. and essa pecasalaman up for two grammys, for best orchestral performance, and with the san francisco chorus, best opera recording. >> incredibly intense experience putting it together. the piece is extraordinarily timely. >> reporter: the nomination is for the world premiere recording of adriana matter, set in modern times in an unnamed country on the brink of a brutal civil war. and you can watch the grammys live on cbs news bay area. it all starts at 5:00 p.m. sunday on kpix or streaming on paramount plus. good luck, bay area artists. "cbs evening news" is next on kpix. local news continues on our streaming service. we're back right here in 30 minutes with more news at 7:00. see you then ♪ ♪ >> announcer: from cbs news headquarters in new york, this is the "cbs evening

time the two first political parties in the united states going at each other hammer and tongs, john adams, the incumbent federalist president against thomas jefferson's party, called the democratic-republicans and famously at that 1801 inauguration, thomas jefferson said, we're all federalists. we're all democratic-republicans. in other words, let's all come together. let's put parties and politics and partizanship and polarization aside. now, that didn't happen. we have to say. but it was a nice thought. it was nice to call people to unity. and i would like to see that come from donald trump. barbara perry is a presidential expert, and she'll be watching the inaugural address, as we all will be. thk you, barbara, for joining us. thank you. coming up, sports arenas usually come with an influx of cash, but why? philadelphia's chinatown worried it would be destroyed if a new complex moved in. and we head to california to find out how homeowners are coping with insurance rates that have more than doubled. and that's even before the ongoing wildfires. ♪♪ wait. noom has glp-1 meds now? noom, t

but for the many wonderful years that followed, friendship bonded us as no two presidents since john adams president adams' last words were thomas jefferson still survives. now since jimmy has a good decade on me, i'm hedging my bets by entrusting my remembrances of jimmy to my son steve. according to a map, it's a long way between grand rapids, michigan and plains, georgia. but distances have a way of vanishing when measured in values, rather than miles. and it was because of our shared values that jimmy and i respected each other as adversaries, even before we cherished one another as dear friends. now this is not to say that jimmy never got under my skin, but has there ever been a group of politicians that didn't do that to one another? during our 1976 contest, jimmy knew my political vulnerabilities and he successfully pointed them out. now, i didn't like it but little could i know that the outcome of that 1976 election would bring about one of my deepest and most enduring friendships. in the summer o of 1981, the two of us found ourselves together again, this time on air force one, he

john adams wrote about the few, the wellborn, and the rich, and concerns that this country was goingput too much emphasis on them. this is a problem that has come up before it has been addressed, and he is signaling to his party tonight, focus on that, that populist message, and maybe that is the way to win back the white house. >> norah: ed o'keefe, thank you. i also want to focus on the big news of the day, carried out with the biden administration. they have in working on this for months at the president's directive, this new cease-fire between israel and hamas and his hostage deal. margaret, you have been at the forefront of this reporting. how will these three phases of the steelwork? >> margaret: well, this is a capstone for joe biden's foreign policy legacy, so key to him, and it is donald trump who will have to execute it, so two of the three americans still in captivity would come out in phase one, the other american, edan alexander, would come out of donald trump can see this all the way through to the end, but it is 33 hostages, 42 days. if they get to phase two, which wou

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it really is my worldview, i believe in the produce john quincy adams said resorts, do your best every day and give the results to somebody higher than you. >> is your chaos. >> i genuinely love you know it's frustrating times because i value and appreciate all of this and the best use is working together and it's like a big family but we got to the job done. >> i want to start with the debt ceiling. reconciliation the whole thing is all around with the leverage they have there is pushback. majority leaders that he has no expectation many have your own pushing back so is this your plan? >> in the chambers and these are very difficult to do any office the senate the house either. when you have the smallest margin the biggest chunk, you have to build momentum and it cost me member driven. it won't be placed on the membership. member driven organic bottom of. i know what we need to do in the proverbial football group but we talked about the playbook and we determine the queens and we have this information with my teammates because of her but it will snow the position on the field so we ar

but for the many wonderful years that followed, friendship bonded us as no two presidents since john adamsmas jefferson. it is said that president adams' last words were thomas jefferson still survives. now since jimmy has a good decade on me i'm hedging my bets by entrusting my remembrances of jimmy to my son, steve. according to a map, it's a long way between grand rapids, michigan, and plains, georgia. but distances have a way of vanishing when measured in values rather than miles. and it was because of our shared values that jimmy and i respected each other as adversaries, even before we cherished one another as dear friends. now, this is not to say that jimmy never got under my skin. but has there ever been a group of politicians that didn't do that to one another? during our 1976 contest, jimmy knew my political vulnerabilities and he successfully pointed them out. now i didn't like it, but little could i know that the outcome of that 1976 election would bring about one of my deepest and most enduring friendships. in the summer of 1981, the two of us found ourselves together again. t

still unhealthy air across a really large portion of southern california. >> john: adam, keep watchingus. appreciate it. >> sandra: joining us for more on this is it steve bardak who owns two properties in the pacific palisades. thank you, sir, very much for joining us. what concerns you most at this hour? >> i think what concerns me most at this hour is the gross mismanagement by mayor bass of this entire operation. she's been absent and asleep at the wheel and was in ghana until yesterday. we don't have a real plan. you know, we had hydrants that were dry in the palisades, which is inexcusable. we really don't understand what the plan is to retrieve the hundreds of cars that were abandoned, mine included, on sunset boulevard. there was no evacuation plan. when we got the order for evacuation, we had thousands of people trying to leave through the same egress and it turned into gridlock. then the fire came down to sunset boulevard. it consumed both sides of the roads and the cops told us to get out of the car and to run for our lives. so i grabbed my dog and ran down sunset boulevard.

they forged a friendship that lasted and was spoken today and is only rival, thomas jefferson and john adamsibraries and joint speeches partially to raise money and partially to promote peace. president ford said and this is so telling today, he wrote they made a commitment and went to the press and said they made a commitment to doing something to complete the camp david mission. that had not been finished, the rights for the palestinian people. how poignant that is in this day and age. >> you know, there were three things ford said in the eulogy that summed up carter quite well. he said honesty was in his very soul. he said he reminded us that christ had been a carpenter. and he said jimmy carter would leave a legacy of peace and compassion. i think the sense that these you will adjust gave of both jimmy carter's contributions and what he was like as a person gave us a very evocative funeral. >> and as the eulogy ended, he said as for myself, jimmy, i'm looking forward to our reunion. we have much to catch up on. thank you, mr. president. welcome home, old friend. peter alexander at the wh

the man to the left of him is john adams, who trumbull painted in london. between the two of them are roger sherman and robert livingston and then to the right of jefferson isbenjamin franklin. and then, the 42 men seated and standing are the other members of the second continental congress. all the signers, plus john dickinn, the man in the head at the back ofthe room, who will t sign. now, we can't see anything on the piece of paper that jefferson is handing to john hancock, who is the seated president of congress. we can't see what the declaration of independence says, but trumbull shows us things about the kind of society and government that these men want to have. one thing is that they are all civilians. when there is a war on, we can see the battle trophies hanging on the back wall. those are captured reddish flex and george washington wore his uniform to the second continental congress. but he's already been sent to be commander in chief a year earlier. so all of these men are civilians. there are no men on horseback in this room. they are also all

he does go to what john adams said. they are the object of all eyes because they are in many ways an embodiment of who the country is at a given moment. and so, you know, a, a eisenhower, kennedy, you know, the passing of a generational torch, the george w bush and bill clinton, you know, the boomers handing it back and forth. and so i think what we all want to do on a day like this is hope. and there's reason to do so. i do think that these political norms, which are often scorned and people think, well, it's all just kind of beltway stuff and it does matter because, okay, here you go. you want you want jane austen. how about that? yeah. >> will that do it okay. >> pretty good. try it okay. >> jane austen talked about that. manners weren't hollow gestures. they're actually representations of how we feel. so if we're generous to someone, it's a sign that we are, in fact, accepting of them. we grant them respect. manners are morals. and what president biden will do today is he will act in a well-mannered way that signals

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and early side of this comes from john quincy adams, the only president to subsequently serve in congress. adams was elected to the house of representatives from a suburban district in in boston, and adams, along with a handful of other members, the best known is probably joshua giddings, who was awakened by later a republican congressman from from ohio, begin to think of ways to challenge this idea of slavery as a positive, good and working in concert with abolitionist movements, they come up with the idea of in covering these movements to present petitions, which is, of course, something that is guaranteed by the constitution to congress. the petitions could then be debated on the floor of congress. those debates then could be sent far and wide through the congressional frank, which literally was members of congress signing a document so that it could be mailed for free and sent these to the south. so basically, this is a propaganda effort designed to spread abolitionist ideas into the south in a region that had become very hostile to the to the concept of a freedom. southern members re

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and it really came to a crux. 1824 around the election of 1824, between john quincy adams and andrew jackson. this the first presidential election where candidate had had a hand in the founding documents or served in the revolution. so what was really going to decide the future of the country with this election and people have very strong opinions on either side? it's absolutely nothing we can relate to a 2020 form, right? yeah. so monroe looks for a lafayette to come here lafayette is the last surviving major major general of the american revolution and he's hoping that his arrival is going to kind of help stoke the spirit of 76, kind of revive that patriotism. and it did work because lafayette, with a universally beloved a big reason for that is because the french revolution kept him in france. if he came to america, he would be forced to choose a political party that telecom the american system worked and early american politics were really bitterly divided between federalist democratic republicans and by remaining of the fray. lafayette remains, this beloved figure, he's good fri

when john adams, after the country's first contested election, handed off power to thomas jefferson, it shocked the world and impressed the world all over again. i grew up with pictures of those founding fathers on my bedroom wall. i swore an oath to the constitution as a marine officer. i came to congress worshipping those hallowed halls. to see them defiled by the insurrectionists was a terrible day. now, i'm back here four years later on a snowstorm because i'm going to watch kamala harris certify her own defeat in an act of patriotism that donald trump could never understand. >> what does it say about our country, in your view, that it has played out this way? >> i think that the country takes for granted that members of congress walked back into those chambers on january 6th and certified the election results. it allowed americans to move on to concerns about the economy, to concerns about border security, because they are able to presume that our institutional and constitutional order has been taken care of. that's a good thing. today should be boring. as joe biden said, we sho