because john quincy adams was the descendent of john adams and founding fathers. we enter a different world now. we are not in the revolutionary era. we can't look back in the same way we are look forward. what we have to look forward to is a series of refusal for good and ill that come to be known as the period before, during, and after the civil war. so it's very interesting. kind of continuity in that particular way. that we see history as also being embodied by humans who have such a direct and powerful response to it. >> -- and the other genre contribute in a way toward your decision to -- >> right. absolutely. haw thorn, i'm interested in the fact that nathaniel haw thorn, a man who died during the civil war in 1864 was also a man -- we often associate with salem in the early witchcraft trials with really, you know, 17th century america not 19th century america. her he was a man who met lincoln. he called him one of the homeliest men he ever met, as a matter of fact. and if that wasn't enough, one of his dearest friends was a president of the united states n

john quincy adams to their parents. e also writes wonderful letters to her sister. >> we have another example of a letter to john adams from abigail. let's watch. >> it served to show how little rounded in nature the quality is. making one evening and requested to speak to me. his errand was to inform me that as james went to school -- pray, has he misbehaved? let the master turn him out of school. there was no complaint on that kind, but they did not choose to go to school with the black boy. and why not? she continues on saying, they allow him to play and they still go. she closes this section saying, the boy is a free man as much as any of the young men. is he to be denied instruction? how qualified he need to be to procure a livelihood? >> she is recounting an experience in her life and hoping to influence his thinking. how concerned was he with rights and equality set this point and in this presidency? >> i think this is james she's talking about. james was a special person to abigail. when abigail goes to philadelp

john quincy adam, john westley, chesterson. there wasn't a single figure like that in the personnel of the arabists? >> amongst the arabists, no. there is this belief in and need for christian and muslim sessions to move closer together. and religions and the ways of life share many things in common. for some of the older arabists of missionary stock, like william eddie, the founding father of u.s. espionage in the middle east. almost has a mystical belief in the links between islam and christianity,sees himself as a bridge figure between the two civilizations. i think his happiest moment comes when he acts as the interpreter between franklin roosevelt and the saudi king at the end of world war ii. it's in the book. and he is the interpreter because he has arabic. so i think he -- i am not sure that the roosevelt cousins have quite this kind of intense belief in the convergence of christianity and islam that somebody like eddy did, but it's still there, i think, and the american friends of the middle east is sort of geared towa

well, john quincy adams, who had come back to the house of representatives by then after being president, filibustered the entry of testis into the united states for days on end, every day. every day he did so until finally he was worn out. at the end, texas came into the united states by one vote in the house and one vote in the senate. so i like to tell my friends in texas when i'm going back, and we have had all of the wars that we have been fighting in the senate for texas, but it's not you that don't love us in washington. they never have. but thomas rusk was the first senator along with sam houston. because they were in the revolution, i thought he wrote something in the report to the president of the new republic about the battle that again told the tale of the greatness of texas women. he said the men of texas deserve much credit. but moore was due to the women. armed men facing a foe could not but be brave. but the women, with their little children around them, without means of defense or faced danger or death with "unflinching courage" and that is the name of the book. it was t

his brothers john quincy and demetrius were also arrested and charged while filming the incident. the family claims the officers violated their constitutional rights when it broke into the house and confiscated one video of the confrontation. one officer has been temporarily reassigned as a result of this video. the aclu is hoping the family with a lawsuit. meanwhile in new hampshire three seabrook police officers are on paid administrative leave after this two thousandnine a rest video with by a roll monday on youtube. the video shows a nineteen year old michael berger and having his face it's really been too long like police officers after leaving the boat tomorrow. he is then pushed down to the floor and pepper spray one of the officers even takes a moment to look up and smiled for the camera. aaron was arrested on charges of driving under the influence possession of controlled drugs and resisting arrest. a police report describes them as aggressive and uncooperative. the incident is now under investigation by the attorney general's office armor and is considering a lawsuit aga

america, but by the end of it, by the end of 1813 he was known around the world, in washington john quincy adams and james monroe agonized over whether they're fledgling nation founded on principles of liberty and freedom should support his struggles for independence. in london they signed on to fight for his cause. in a -- in italy they dreamed of immigrating. but there would be five more years before spain was the rest from latin american shores. fourteen more years. a 14 year war. there were 14 years of war, and great bloodshed before spain was thrust from latin american shores. at the end one man was credited for a single handedly conceiving, organizing, and leading a population one-and-a-half times the length -- size of north america, the odds against which he thought, a formidable, established a world power, and i and trusted wilderness. there would have proved daunting to the ablest of generals. but bolivia had never been a soldier. no formal military training, yet with little more than well and genius he freed much of the spanish-american and laid out his dream for a unified consta

. >> you personally are familiar with those voices like john quincy adams. >> yes, i'm guessing that amongst the group that i am describing, they can subscribe to that view. okay. >> hello. a couple of questions. first of all, how united would you say the arabist's word when you look at how many different movements you had emerging simultaneously and there was plenty of internal conflict today maybe not quite as intense but fairly intense. how united were they and do you see examples where there were real breaks within the group and then the two roosevelt individuals, asking you about this. what do you say would he have been on their side or do you think you might have been as you call it the conservative standard american interest side of the equation, if there is even a way to speculate at? >> i think in regards to the possibility i think that they are fairly concerted in terms of their values and what they have for the arab world. and it is the more inclined to covert action. and they will get a little bit more cautious and even conservative in their approach. but nonetheless even

america but by the end of its, by the end of 1813 he was known around the world, in washington john quincy adams and james monroe agonized over whether their fledgling nation founded on principles of liberty and freedom should support his struggle for independence. in london hard bitten veterans of england's war against napoleon, mostly irish, signed on to fight for bolivar's cause. in italy the poet lord byron named his boat after bolivar and streamed of immigrating to venezuela with his daughter. there would be five more years of bloodshed before spain was thrust from latin american shores, 14 more years, it was a 14 year war. there were 14 years of war and great bloodshed after spain was thrust from latin american shores. at the end of that savage and chastening war one man would be credited for single-handedly organizing and leading the liberation of six nations, a population 1-1/2 times the size of north america or modern europe, the odds against which he fought a formidable established world power, of vast areas of untracked wilderness, the splintered loyalties of many races would ha

and the one kind of thing is that this is a good thing, he wrote about john quincy adams and profiles of courage. and this includes after a certain period after leaving the white house. so that is something that we will never know. >> and i welcome your questions and comments. and we have unexamined territory. anyone who can't believe in this was part of american voting for the dc rights amendment. and we were the last living surviving and serving republican senator and senator hatch and senator bennet. and i found it interesting that if we republicans that were senators, and i have been told that and was unaware of that. they had one thing in common. coleman at you. so it is a belated thank you. john, thank you so much. 1956 was my year. and this is when tv didn't come on in the daytime. and i am from chicago and my grandmother said that john kennedy almost got nominated. and the other two candidates from the same state and kennedy said that it was part of the book and they hadn't even read it. because he would've been the running mate of his stevenson. because he sent christmas card

that was john quincy adams. first of all, a democrat, what committees @booktv? >> financial-services. serve on the subcommittee have fedex of institutions, and i am the ranking member of oversight and investigation. >> from that perspective, from that perch what did the president said tonight? the you agree or disagree with. >> well, i agree with the president of something that is important, not necessarily from financial-services but raising the minimum wage. he said that he would take action committee said he would raise it. i think that's important. we have a bill in the house that can raise it in a jar to intend. the president mentioned that bill, but it is important for us to raise the wage, and a looking forward to working with my colleagues in the house to get done. >> will that cost u.s. taxpayers money? >> raising the wage does not require the president set up any additional bureaucracy. really requires that we give those who are working, many below the poverty line and working full time, and opportunity to lift themselves out of poverty. it will help e

>> john quincy adams. >> so it was one term. there you go. i'm so ignorant, folks. so sorry. >>> in addition to the magazine article, there were a number of interesting stories out in the last week, julie. i want to talk about it. about big democrats joining the hillary clinton bandwagon and perhaps the most interesting was the fact that jim messina, the campaign manager for barack obama in 2012, has now become co-chair of the big hillary super pac called priorities usa. from your sources in the white house, any sense of how the president is reacting to the idea of all of these people of his team so early jumping on the hillary bandwagon and what about poor old joe biden? is he feeling like he's being left out in the dust, in the cold? >> so i don't have a great sense of how the president himself is thinking about this but people around him in the white house and people who are close to him outside the white house, when you do talk to them, there is some sense of, maybe this is happening a little too early. part of the reason why they think it is, it is a money issu

and i use that word because i'm taking it from a wonderful speech that was taken by john quincy adams in 1821 and he made that famous statement. that america does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. but the dulles brothers did. and they saw these monsters as the face of evil that they had seen in the evil that they saw in bolshevism. and they naturally equated both of these leaders as tools of the soviet. and that is the way the world looks at him. and i found an interesting document written by the ambassador from brazil in the united states during the period when the brothers were overthrowing us and wal-mart. they came to see him and they said, how do you know that the land reform program was ordered by the kremlin? and he said that dulles told him that it is true that we have no evidence that we are proceeding on the assumption that must be solved. that was the way that they solved the world. and so the first two monsters that they went out to slay in the world were against whom they had a deep grudge from their days as private lawyers. and by the time we get to the mid

and the one hand in that direction is his book profiles in courage when he writes about john quincy adams who had been a president, he was defeated, and then he ran for the house and served a number of years as a very distinguished house member, independent, outspoken, did not feel like he was beholden to anyone. and it might be a kennedy might have thought about doing something like that at a certain time after he left the white house. that is something that, of course, we will never know. it is an area of conjecture that i find interesting. let me just wind up my comments. thank you for listening. glad to answer any questions and hear any comments. [applause] >> first of all, i can't wait and i was not paid to do this, to read the book is unexamined territory. anyone who has lived here for so long, before i ask my questions to my one subplot him i came here to hear about the book. here in the district of columbia. i don't know if you remember our last conversation. you were -- the elevator doors closing. thank you for 1978 making d.c. a part of america by voting for the d.c. voting righ

miller fill more, john quincyed a -- adams. james monroe. 1790 george washington delivered the first president's address to the congress. that was up in new york. that was in 1790. woodrow wilson revived the habit of bringing the speech up here to congress. and ever since woodrow wilson, every president has delivered his state of the union in person. some presidents have delivered it on some years in written form. jimmy carter in 1981, as he was leaving the white house was the last president to deliver it in written form. the first time the speech was televised 1947, harry truman. the first time it was on radio 1923, calvin coolage. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] as you can see, crews are starting to pick up the equipment now as the room empties out. that was going wrap up our coverage from hall this even. president obama's fifth state of the union. you can rewatch the speech on c-span and at c-span.org. thank you for being with us. [inaudible conversations] >>> combing up on c-span2 tonight, house foreign

. >> john quincy adams. >> still. we are still waiting for the documents on quincy.he ideology on which he had run is the first time we had a transfer of party between parties which is jefferson. he exceeds two federalists and he doubles size of the country with the stroke of a pen which with john adams or george washington had done it, a attack point, thomas jefferson's head would have exploded. >> he would have passed out. which, by the way -- exactly. which, by the way. >> well done, jon. >> no. that is extraordinarily relevant to today because barack obama has been able to do things with a drone policy and with nsa and collecting data on reporters that would have gotten george w. bush impeached. >> no doubt about it. >> remember, republicans also reared back against republicans, right, jon? after he had shrunk a government so much they felt the government wasn't adequately building on itself and not able to protect itself. >> gene? >> i don't know if that is relevant but i wanted to talk about history! >> david gregory, do you like the broncos? >> gene? >> don't

we do know a former president who ran for the house, john quincy adams, but a former senator? i think it's happened but i can't remember off the top of my head, but it's a good point because the house of representatives really is meant to be the people's house, and the senate really is meant to be the house of the state legislature, and the senate really isn't the people's house. it's not the house of the state legislatures. we don't know what it is. it's a mess. and that was pushed in 1913 by the progressives as was the federal income tax, those two amendments adopted the same area. progressives were republicans, too. taft, roosevelt -- excuse me -- and -- this is great, because now we're enfranchised. we can vote for our own senator. the problem is you're voting for a senator who is anxiousable -- answerable to whom? they treat the states like just another group. so they'll spend as much time dealing with -- a governor, say. they feel no obligation to these state governments, the state legislature whatsoever so that was quite revolutionary when that occurred. i think that's

maybe a former president ran for the house, john quincy adams, a former senator, i think it happened but i can't remember off the top of my head. it is a good point. because the house of representatives really is meant to be the people's house and the senate is meant to be the house of the state legislatures and the senate really isn't the people's house, not the house of the state legislature, we don't know what it is. it is a myth and that was in 1913 by the progressives as was the federal income tax. those two amendments adopted the same year. progressives were republicans. taft, roosevelt, this is great because we are enfranchised and we can vote for our own senator. problem is you are voting for a senator who is answerable to whom? the senator is no longer grant durable to the state. they treat the states like another group so they spend as much time dealing with lock as they might with somebody, a governor, they feel no obligation to state governments, state legislature whatsoever so that was quite revolutionary when that occurred. i think that is right. i don't think there is

host: john in quincy, illinois, republican caller. the last month i've been listening to the show in the morning and they've been interviewed libyans who lived in the area and they told how the area was cordoned off before the attack. and then there was a light attack. and then they talk like a couple armored vehicles left this so-called compound -- he said it was actually just a house. a couple of armored vehicles left the compound and then there was the heavier attack and they brought stevens out. he was dead, apparently. the man across the street said "i couldn't figure out why he was dead. what didn't the vehicles take a man? host: heavier the report, -- have you read the report, john? caller: no, but you can get the report -- host: in the report they talk about 3 separate attacks. there was the attack on the embassy there, where ambassador stevens was, and then the cia annex, and itcia says in a report that the demonic security personnel and thought at that time that ms are stevens had been kidnapped so they left without him and

i am in quincy, massachusetts, the birthplace of john adams. i have a question and a comment.ou mentioned earlier that mrs. bush is the only first lady after abigail adams who was the mother of a president. is it also true that she is the only first lady after abigail adams who was the wife of a president and a vice president? >> pat nixon. >> but not the mother of a president. thank you for your call. from watergate, chief of the republican party, to china. >> this is a great story. watergate occurs. president nixon resigns. george bush is considered very strongly to be one of the potential vice presidential picks for gerald ford. you have been a loyal soldier and i would like to get all of the people involved in watergate out of the limelight. what would you like to do? where would you like to go? i can offer you paris, london. george bush says, i would like to go to china. gerald ford says, would you like to go to london or paris? bush says, china is going to be the future. it is an exciting place. this is really key. china is a lot cheaper than london or paris. the ambassa