john quincy adams. >> john quincy adams was probably the most qualified man to be president that theited states has ever produced. he was the son of john adams, the first vice president and then president of the united states. he had served as a congressman, as a senator, as a diplomat. he had then been secretary of state under james monroe. >> as secretary of state adams believes he's set for the top job. the last three men who held the post went on to become the president. his turn next. >> of course john quincy adams has to be the next president. because, well, his father was the president. he's from massachusetts, and he's secretary of state. and the secretary of state has always been the president. who is jackson to come in here and -- he's just from tennessee. >> the votes are counted, and the man from tennessee surprises everyone. >> jackson had more popular votes than anyone else. and more electoral votes during anyone else. >> but not enough to win an absolute majority. instead, congress will choose america's next president. >> andrew jackson was enraged. >> i have been chos

john quincy adams's father played a central role writing the declaration of independence, john quincymself was very much alive at the time. his adversary thomas marshall. and had seen him as a fanatic as a connection to the founding documents and principles, more than that, of what those principles were. what did high treason he now went on to advocate the dissolution of government never mind the declaration had been written to justify the dissolution of colonial dominion, the real danger for the republic came not from petitioners but slaveholders. there was a concerted system and purpose to destroy the principles of sublimity in the free state, the right of habeas corpus and trial by jury, the right of petition. admittedly the most biased of spectators wrote that old nestor had demonstrated a calm fearlessness and majesty that furnished highest illustration of the moral sublime that i ever witnessed in the secular assembly. now henry wise rose to deliver a rebuttal. wise was a temperate man, and he delivered a fiery blistering ugly attack on adams's personally, on his father who he c

and that was john quincy adams. thank you. [applause]. if anyone has questions their microphones set up on either side. please go to the microphone. i've be happy to talk about anything with adams whether it's what i was talking was talking about or some other thing altogether. >> i know that lincoln was one term in the house, was he in the house at this time? >> yes. so there is a kind of tantalizing overlap. they must have known each other. they saw each other. lincoln's first term was adam's last term. adam's last term. lincoln was there when adam side. when adam's casket was taken from washington northwards on the train to be buried in quincy, massachusetts, an honor guard of two representatives from each state was included. abraham lincoln was included in one of those men. for those of us who like to see a fair amount of adams and lincoln, both in some of the arguments used against slavery but also the activist government that adams talked about. that is the one symbolic part. >> hard to the media treat all of this? >> you mean the m

what i was really after is john quincy was interested in facts and dates and what happens in and then when you had someone and what she was interested in was not being the emotional landscape. so they had two contemporaneous journeys, the actual journey of her life, she thought one of her memoirs and then the other one and she grow so much. that to me was one of the most exciting things about her is how much she change. i did not want to write a biography about such and such and how they became who they are. she was this dynamic changing, growing figure. she is not a stable element in that way, i wanted to map that growth. >> that was that was something that comes through really clearly in the book, just how mysterious a character she is and how changeable she is, how flexible she is. also just how invested she is in learning her own voice. she seems like a character character she wrote three different memoirs, she drove wrote lots of memoirs, each letter is written in a very different voice. some time complaining and hyper contract another time she's incredibly sensitive. an intellec

john quincy adams takes his morning dip in the potomac. he is not feeling confident. >> adams himself became increasingly convinced that he was going to lose. he was appalled at the idea that this boob, this hick, could become president. >> but adams, like the rest of america, will have to wait a month for the results to come in. meanwhile, rachel jackson is finding life in the public gaze increasingly unpleasant. >> she was in nashville in a shop and overheard women talking about her. she said from what i have heard these people say i realize what a pitiful old woman they think i am. i am not sure if i can go to washington. >> rachel jackson is alone in her anxiety. the ambitious henry clay is all too well aware what an adams victory will mean for him. >> a pattern had developed in the early years of the country in which each succeeding secretary of state rose to the presidency. >> following john quincy adams, henry clay felt like he would be the next president. >> but clay's job prospects are now in the hands of the voters. and by early

deep inside, he favored john quincy adams. he had worked with him for eight years. in those days, the secretary of state was the most important figure in government after the president. we were surrounded by foreign powers. the secretary of state had a very important role in dealing with the rest of the world. john quincy adams had been with then or diplomatic service since he was 17 years old, and was with them when his father was in france. clearly adams was the most competent man in the field of foreign affairs. monroe was quite pleased that adams won. he really favored adams. but state out of the election. -- stayed out of the election. she did not feel that it was his role, as did washington, that it was not his role to get involved in the campaign for his successor. yes sir? >> you mentioned in your book how after the election, monroe sort of made a tour of the united states. that put him out of washington, and in a sense, out of touch with what is going on for months at a time. and very difficult for communications back and forth. is that just a sign of the t

it was of all the accusations perhaps the one in a john quincy adams held most closely to privately.mething of an intellectual to lead the people. jackson's people said well, you know, george washington misspelled a lot of words. what difference does it make? adams has shown himself to be a man disconnected from the people. >> it was incredibly stupid. and the average person goes -- that's right, i got some imperfections and i know it and so does he and i'm voting for the guy just like me. >> tim naftal certain former director of the presidential library, author of the book "george h.w. bush" and a star in this series, thank you so much for being with me. so let's begin with this. i mean you just heard the clip talking about the character assaults and turning that into a winning strategy, that's really you know, sort of apropos to the discussion today, when you talk about the character assault on rachel jackson and then the fight we just saw. play out between donald trump and ted cruz. >> wherever somebody says this is the worst election we have ever had in the united states. you jus

he now approaches the victor, john quincy adams. >> adams looked uncomfortable.ought there might be an explosion of temper from jackson. >> but he could be very controlled when it fit his motivations. you don't want to see him like a sore loser but behind the scenes his advisers were thinking about the next election four years away and how to position andrew jackson to crush this man. >> see how he secured his race for the president on the race for the white house tonight at 9:00 p.m. "in a recent flag football game with my family, i ran up the score, pick-sixed my daughter 3 times, and blocked 8 punts. did i cross a line? flag, i get it. you simply wanted to recreate the thrill of the nfl... all over your family. don't fret: training camp opens soon. but, it might be a good time to spring for a puppy. >>> this brings me to my question of the week. other than china's, how many currencies have been branded world currency status? two, three, four or five? stay tuned and we'll tell you the correct answer. this week's book of the week is midnight at the palace. the b

the others but as a little introduction of lisa adams it follows her from her romantic meeting of john quincy adams as it can be described. but it follows her to berlin and russia us then back to washington as the wife of a president. so one of the things i want to ask right off the bat is whether the fact the character's name drew you to the book? >> i do think it is true and probably noticed her a little quicker than if her name was jean. [laughter] but beyond that it was coincidence. when you are writing about historical figures you cannot assume you can step inside their head but you do need of crack of the window and for me publicly sharing a name publicly i don't know very many movies sell. [laughter] -- "louisa" so was a little bit of the window opener. >> my name had to do with who i became so defeat her indeed affected her personality? >> at the time it was more common than it is now. in berlin and everybody was named louisa. the duchesses and whenever and royalty so it wasn't quite the uncommon name and made a joke a few which were answering a question bin this character's name beca

he now approaches its victor, john quincy adams. >> adams looked uncomfortable.plosion of temper from jackson. >> but he could be very controlled when it fit his motivations. you don't want to seem like a sore loser but behind the scenes, his advisers were already thinking about the next election four years away and how to figure out to crush this man. >> see just how jackson secured his position as president on "race for the white house" tonight at 9:00 p.m. rheumatoid arthritis like me,e and you're talking to a rheumatologist about a biologic... this is humira. this is humira helping to relieve my pain and protect my joints from further damage. this is humira helping me reach for more. doctors have been prescribing humira for more than ten years. humira works for many adults. it targets and helps to block a specific source of inflammation that contributes to ra symptoms. humira can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal infections and cancers, including lymphoma, have happened, as have blood, liver and nervous s

and i was able to tell a similar story with john quincy adams who john quincy adams, you're probablyfamiliar with him, the son of john adams. he was the secretary of state and, thus, since there was no justice department in charge of all the u.s. attorneys across the united states. he did his utmost to quash this suit for freedom for these captives from the antelope. in part, the nation had just been through the missouri controversy. he was hoping to be elected president in 1824. he was. and the last thing he wanted was political conflict over slavery. he knew that it would tear the country apart and perhaps undercut his attempts to become president. finish years later some of you may remember this from a movie made by a guy named steven spiel burg -- [laughter] john quincy adams represented the captain is in the amistad -- captives in the amistad case, 1841. and he -- very different from the presentation in the movie where anthony hopkins kind of wanders around the supreme court courtroom saying to them remember what justice is or something along those lines. john quincy adams argue

john quincy adams doesn't say that until he is no longer president. only has to deal with a massachusetts-based and he becomes old man eloquence. dad john adams runs with another south carolina guy. ok. then abe lincoln gets elected, the country goes through the civil war. here's what i want to tell you now, i told you we jump to half-century. transformation, and to describe it come the 13th, 14th, 15th amendment the parties here are playing a huge role in generating the amendments. here's what they are public and party platform is in 1860. read our lips, no new slavery. no slavery in the west, but we're not what a mess with it where it is. out,64, the war and broken and they are much more in fatah, we propose to get rid of slavery where it exists. it's going to apply even in the north, kentucky, missouri, waredela maryland, slave states in the north. and their platform in 1864, the republican platform is we are for a constitutional amendment to get rid of slavery. the democrats say the union as it was. there's an election, lincoln wins, and that's wi

the first -- only o two of the first presidents to not own slaves were john adams and this is son john quincy a.d. adams they were quakers so because of their religion they didn't believe in slavery so first slaves to actually live inside the white house belonged to thomas jefferson. john a.d. adams moved into the white house first but thomas jefferson was a president who started the tradition of white house slaves. john adams complained that the white house, a southern mansion by the way was a huge putlace b at that point congress didn't provide funding for a white house staff. so unlike george washington who was able to just bring in slaves from mount vernon to philadelphia and to new york john adams had to go out and hire people to work in the white house at domestics there so he was spending money out of his own pocket for -- for a way for maids, for cooks for the white house. so when thomas jefferson moved in, he basically fires all of those workers that john adams has brought in to work in the white house and brings up -- brings in hi own slaves because for him it's cheaper. cheaper to

henry clay stole the election for john quincy adams in 1824, it was wrong then, it's wrong now. >> those rules were known ahead of time, john. >> we have to go, gentleman, cashing in in over an hour, what do you have coming up? >> hiing with money can't buy you love? presidential campaigns can give perks to delegates for their support. is that bribery or just the cost of playing the political game? >>> plus, a college fraternity builds a wall saying make america great again with donald trump's name on it. guess what happens next. cashing in, we'll see you at 11:30. >> thanks eric, we'll be watching. >>> up here first, while you rush to make monday's tax deadlines, the irs is not rushing to pick up the line when you call. now there's a plan to change that by hitting the irs >>> just two days until tax day. and if you need to reach out to the irs for help. good luck with that. the average wait time was about 30 minutes and six out of ten callers never got through. now lawmakers on capitol hill are pushing a bail to stop the arrest from dolling out future bonuses until they improve their cu

he being john quincy adams' son. he was in congress and then became the ambassador for the union -- >> right. >> -- to great britain where he kept them from siding with the confederacy. and she is just as feisty as her grandmother-in-law and mother-in-law. and she writes from washington when he's in congress that buchanan is a toad and that, you know, the senate is acting like children and silly ones at that. i can get behind that one. [laughter]. >> sure. >> and she says at one point, i would advise any young woman if she wants to have a calm, peaceful life not to marry an adams. [laughter]. >> well, now, of course, did not know this letter would be one day the subject of -- >> no, that's true. that's true. >> you know, the thing about the time that we're talking about is women were, by expectation and by tradition, i suppose, subordinate to the men. >> well, by law. >> by law. so the independence of these women that comes out, the independence of thought is really quite remarkable and it breaks the stereotype. i me

i thought he was interesting he echoed john quincy adams. the idea we would not go abroad. i think he called enemies to pick a fight with. i think the core is much more economic nationalism. >> okay. it's great having you on. thanks for coming on. >> thank you. >> what do you make -- i jumped yesterday on this charge against hillary clinton saying she went to sleep the night chris stephens was getting killed and the other americans went to sleep. a total lie. nobody has ever said that about hillary clinton. >> absolutely not. he's really just making a series of statements that sound good to him in the moment on their own and despite the fact we saw a scripted foreign policy speech that he read from a teleprompter. i don't know this is different from the comments he's made in the past. these are individual attitudes and statements of personal belief that when put together don't make a doctrine and they don't hold up against statements he's made within the same speech or previously. >> he wants to build up the u.s. military. we like to know we have the largest navy, the most

there's two new biographies which examine the lives of john quincy adams and louisa adams. plus, you'll hear about the life of missionary john birch, the namesake of the john birch society. for a complete it's schedule -- television schedule, go to booktv.org. booktv on c-span2, it's 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors, television for serious readers. [inaudible conversations] >> good evening. thanks for coming. i'm with the local amnesty international. i'd like to thank you for coming for this presentation tonight. the use of drones is becoming more and more widespread, and there's a lot of issues related to this topic. local, national, international. war and peace, privacy, you name it. before i introduce our special guests, the moderator of the event is dr. bill anderson. i'm going to introduce him. dr. anderson a local peace activist. he's the chair of the center for peace and justice. he's been over 15 missions all over the world for peace. he's a retired faculty from the university of virginia. as you know, amnesty international is the human rights group that's be

jackson and john quincy adams in 1828. take a look. >> andrew jackson was a man with a ferocious temper who was willing to challenge people to duels and fight duel s in order to win. >> 20 years before, a local horse breeder had made a fatal mistake of insulting jackson's wife. the fatal mistake. the message was clear. insult rachel jackson and andrew jackson will shoot you dead. >> "outfront" tonight, the host of npr's morning edition. the author of "jackson land." that is incredible right there. a moment in history that very few people probably are aware of. andrew jackson killed a guy because he insulted his wife. donald trump, of course, now in this fight with ted cruz over their wives. sure makes that look tame, doesn't it? >> it sure does. donald trump's tweets seem tame compared to challenging someone to a duel and actually fighting it. he himself was shot and carried that bullet years later into the white house. >> it just is unbelievable. people say we've never seen anything like it. oh, yes we have, on steroids.

no one, maybe john quincy adams, had a similar background, given where he came from and the family he came from, and served as secretary of state. she has served as a u.s. senator, she knows every inch of the state. and she also, i would suggest, knows more about new york today than maybe bernie does since he left so many years ago. and so i do think that what we have to really focus on here is being careful. i think he went to far. it's not too late to focus on the issue that everyone cares about. >> do you think, though, that if they do settle and if they can come to some type of middle ground on what this all means, ultimately there is a unicould support sanders. >> when you're talking about donald trump, who literally lives in his own world, and senator cruz, who lives in a very warped world, let's remember, senator cruz talked about new york values. he also did not vote for the 9/11 health and victim's compensation act. coming to new york is really strange in my opinion. i'm surprised, if he even comes close to second place. but when it comes to the issue of coming together, that

there's two few biographies which examine the lives of john quincy adams and first lady louisa adams and a panel of authors discuss their recent books on the supreme court. plus, you'll hear about the life of missionary john birch, the namesake of the john birch society. for a complete television schedule, go to booktv.org. booktv on c-span2, it's 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors, television for serious read ors. >> booktv tapes hundreds of author programs throughout the country all year long. here's a look at some of the events we'll be covering this week. : >> that's a look at some of the aur programs booktv is covering this week. many of these events are open to the public. look for them to air in the near future on booktv on c-span2. >> let me introduce you to another woman. her name is -- [inaudible] heidi is a venture capitalist in silicon valley. and a few years back a colleague of mine wrote a case study about her, the kind of case study that we teach really across the world to help our students understand what good business, good leadership, good management looks like

there's a great realist touchstone, john quincy adams line that we do not go abroad in search of monstersrump essentially echoed that in his speech. we do not go abroad in search of enemies. but trump proposes a kind of magical realism. when you go through that speech, everything is a deal. everything is about negotiations. every problem we have could be solved because trump would negotiate better deals. that's not how foreign policy works. the other thing is his closeness to russia. we talked about the gingrich-trump bromance. there is a trump-putin bromance and he talked again about easing tensions with russia. in any other campaign, a republican cozying up to a dictator or semi-dictator in russia would be a big issue. it hasn't hurt trump so far. >> not only that, if you want to talk about unconventional thinking, i want to play you what donald trump said to chris matthews on an issue that really should frighten people, his thinking is truly unconventional. this this' is trump talking about the use of nuclear weapons in europe. >> nuclear should be off the table but would there be a ti

presidents liked george washington, especially, but andrew jackson and the lesser-known one john quincy adams, would have an oil painting done because it was customary descendent from the kings and claims of england. -- kings and queens of england. chain moved on the food to the local almanacs and newspapers, the quality becomes not artistic. thursday to find energy that photography satisfied -- there was this thirst to find energy that photography satisfied. .e worked his way up he is becoming a lawyer and establishing himself. he has gone through this process of self teaching of where all the cliches are true. he does walk five miles to return five cents where he is walking -- working in a shop. mystery of this .odern country lincoln is coming out of the west. he is coming into prominence. in 1846, he starts to get photographed. the thing that is interesting about lincoln politically to me is that he is a classic figure of the democratic party. west. he is coming into prominence. in 1846, he starts to get which is aa wiig, party of privilege. they have taken the example of the french

starting tonight at 7:30 p.m., back to back profiles of the boat president john quincy adams and firstlady louise adams. on afterwards 9:00 p.m. eastern, sue klee bold discusses her son, dylan, the columbine shooter. she traces her journey to understand the junction tween filings and mental illness. at 10:00 p.m., terry explores the life of missionary john birch. we wrap up book tv in prime time at 11:30 p.m. with bob greisinger who took viewer calls about prison and incarceration. this program is from the recent los angeles time festival of books. that all happens tonight on c-span twos book tv. >> you are watching the tv on c-span 2, television for serious readers took the 2016 pulitzer prize winners were announced this past week or two of the winners were both featured recently on book tv. before we show you those programs, in 2013, book tv sat down with james mcgrath morris to discuss his biography of joseph pulitzer, the namesake of the award. the book: "pulitzer: a life in politics, print and power". guest: i'm james mcgrath morris and we are here today in the palace press and be

first up, james traub with a look at john quincy adams. >> james traub is a contributing writer for the "new york times" magazine where he has worked since 1998, and is a regular columnist for foreign policy.com. his books include the best intentions, kofi annan, and the u.n. in the era of american world power. the devil's playground, a century of pleasure and profit in times square. city on a hill, and the freedom agenda. in his review

john quincy adams who had a career in congress and was noted for his strong opposition to the gag rule. he does pass away on the floor of congress, but i have yet to hear his name mentioned. new biography by james traub. i have not read it. journalist who really knows his history. >> quincy adams is quite an interesting figure. johnson also had a post-career, very short. to the senate from tennessee. >> a few months. >> i am from rhode island. i just want to ask e-cig -- each , who is for each of you a has beensident who pretty good in your eyes. >> i would go back to reagan. i grew up in a liberal household. we had ar in 1980, mock debate in our high school and i played reagan because there was nobody in the school who supported him. i was the only one willing to be devil's advocate. i grew up in a reagan-hating culture. doing this book for me was really eye-opening in a lot of ways. i have not gone to the other side. i think that most of the prejudices i had growing up about reagan were in one way or another wrong. i have come to think that he was much better president than i ever wo

might call transformational going after 43 and barack obama and literally echoing the words of john quincy adams. america goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy and donald trump had a riff off of that. united states is not going to run around the world trying to make the world our enemy. >> had he, in effect, if everybody hadn't been mocking him so much, they would figure him out politically. this is how they missed the rise of donald trump. he positioned himself to the left. she's the neo-con and he's the one preaching restraint. >> it's ironic. 1992. 1992 george herbert walker bush is president. bill clinton runs for president. what does bill clinton do, he positions himself not to the left, not george mcgovern, michael dukakis but to the right of george bush on the use of force in serbia and bosnia, a bit of political jujitsu no one saw coming. what was inning about the speech in this case clint about to get out flying to the left. what donald trump was saying in some ways had echos of bernie sanders. what you have is a much more narrow vision of what the use of american force

john quincy adams, who had a career in congress, and was noted for his strong opposition to the gag rule, of course he does pass away on the floor of congress, but you hear his name mentioned. outside of -- i haven't seen any good biographies. >> there is a new biography by the journalist, james troub, i haven't read it but like jacob a journalist who really knows his history. might want to check it out. >> quincy adams is quite an interesting figure. but johnson also had a post career. very short. to the senate from tennessee. >> just a few months. >> a few months >> hi. i'm john trillo from rhode island. welcome. i just want to ask each of you simply, when you started your careers, was there for each of you a lousy president that has since been considered pretty good in your eyes? >> i would go back to reagan. i grew up in a liberal household. in 1980 we had a mock debate at my high school and i played reagan because there was nobody in the whole school who supported him and i was the only one willing to be like devil's advocate. you know. so i grew up in a reagan hating culture. and s

so many big-time players, john marshall, john quincy adams, francis got key and other people who should be better known, john mcpherson berean who represent the spanish claimants of the captives, united states senator, attorney general in the jackson administration and had it not been for the petticoat affair he was pushed down, replaced by roger 20 who was later made chief justice of the united states, might well have been chief justice. with so many important people involved and the issues so important, this decision legitimates this argument that these individuals are my property and protected by do process, my control, my power over them, my ability to do with them whatever i want and most importantly in terms of the coming of the civil war, my ability to take some wherever i want and be protected in keeping my party by the federal government, that argument is based on this case so the surprise is how did we lose track of this. i think elizabeth suggested a little bit there and this we haven't gotten to yet but americans are not good at remembering dark elements of their past and un

that's what john quincy adams said specifically before the supreme court in the hearing on the amistad case downstairs, when the supreme court was here in this building. i have no doubt justice scalia's already heard that. he's been a very faithful servant. standing up for religious liberty. so we'll see what the other eight justices do. and then we will see whether or t politics has become so extraordinarily the purpose of the supreme court, rather than the constitution, because clearly, you know, there's information that's passed and tten to the supreme court, apparently it occurred during the decision on whether or not hold on the 24-hour the bankruptcy order that violated bankruptcy law, violated the constitution, and god bless justice ginsburg when she put that 24-hour hold on an unconstitutional, illegal order . and according to what one of the justices told me, without going into detail, the white house submitted information hint the scenes that if they left that 24-hour hold in place, that everybody that had any kind of job related to the automobile industry would lose their jo

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