the jackson people told john quincy adams he was a pound. their reason was, so preposterous, but the reason was that when he was the american ambassador to the court of st. petersburg that he procured women for this are. now, you know, it is -- if there had been television and if anyone had been able to lay eyes on john come to television they would have known how preposterous this was. but, you know, it happens. i mean, the charges were made. and not that the other side was immune. the atoms people called jackson's mother a prostitute. his wife was an adulteress and claimed that he had negro blood. so, i think we can say that in this area we have made little progress. at any rate he then finally got the job he wanted, jackson. and it was -- it was fascinating to the other party to see the celebration this set off in the united states. as daniel webster's brother noted, he said, you know, it is as though jackson has come to save the country from some great hapless john quincy adams, but there was that sense that he was -- jackson was going t

and so, he met confidentially with john quincy adams, and they struck a deal, and the deal was that ifclay through the votes he controlled to adams, enough to put him over the top and make him president, adams would appoint clay as secretary of state, and in those days that was about as short a path to the presidency as you could have. it was done. it was unusual because these two men had met and gotten to know each other very well in the peace treaty negotiations in brussels that ended the war of 1812. and they didn't like each other at all, and for good reason. john quincy adams -- i think we have to have a grudging affection for him but he was very stiff neck to them, self-righteous. and henry clay was exactly the opposite. they sharedar

. >> i unfortunately, haven't read it, but i will say probably one of my favorite diaries is john quincy adams. he has 11 volumes. to get through all of his works are something. : >> caller: i just want to make a few comments. one of them is that i have found both the bush book and and presidency is uneventful and that they were, if anything the peter principle took sway. however, i would say that the latter bush, the younger bush will be well known and well revered for the financial crisis at the end of his presidency while he was heavily criticized for katrina et cetera. the truth is like quite frankly think he saved our system economics is done at the end of his presidency. one other point that is the product is this -- the unpopularity of president or the presidency, you know, the honeymoons were shorter and shorter. i personally think that mr. clinton was one had to the presidency several notches -- right there with warren g harding. the guy was impeached. he pled guilty to perjury himself. get a $25,000 fine and he can practice law in any court in the united states. >> host: hey, jim, wh

[applause] >> robert remini has authored biographies of john quincy adams, daniel webster and henry clay. he also received the national book award for his work on andrew jackson. you can watch other programs with robert remini at booktv.org. >> we are here at the conservative political action conference talking with amanda pritzker from sentinel. can you tell us what's coming out of this your? >> absolutely. would you cannot with secretary rumsfeld's book this week. we are very, very excited that he is there signing books today. and at the end of the month we have governor huckabee's next book, a simple government which is coming out at the end of february. in march we have found a stay, larry schweitzer's next book. >> can you tell us about your latest book? >> sure. i looked at 10 issues that seem to be at the top of the news today. everything to government bailouts, together and to religion and i went back through this document of the founders. not what it said but what they have read and what they have done. .. >> gun ownership was meant to be an individual right, not just for person

great patriots from abraham lincoln to john quincy adams to eugene debbs, jeanette rankin and dennis kucinich have combined their love with country -- of country, of combined their patriotism with an insistence that the country that we not fight, that we not shed blood, that we not shed our own blood or shed any other's blood except in a just cause. and what's so corrosive about what we're experiencing now, it seems to me, is that -- and may i say it seems to me un-american as well. is the attempt to undermine the just cause doctrine. i started out this little talk by saying that we uniquely in our country don't fight unless we're convinced that it's in a just cause. yet, many people would like to us to fight because war is now normal. and because the appeal is not made to just cause. so that, for example, if one looks at the current situation with our wars in afghanistan and the war ending in iraq, sort of -- if you call leaving 50,000 troops in a country ending a war, the war not -- not at all ending in afghanistan although there's some signs there's possible negotiation, more than

for that, john quincy adams is hurled from office by the way after four years. he really doesn't believe the states are sovereign. he believes the federal government has responsibility to make domestic policy. both of these issues, jefferson and madison disagree. he is the father of american nationalism as much or more than hamilton. thank you for those questions. i appreciate your attendance. [applause] >>> what i would like to talk to you about this afternoon, as walter says very briefly, is a catastrophe, a catastrophe in which 14 million people chiefly children and women were killed over the space of just 12 years by the two regimes, the nazi german regime and stalin regime in the soviet union. this total figure of 14 million is in itself life think it's astonishing. it's a number which is too large to grasp, and i will return to what that means and how we might try to grasp it, but it is also a number that tells us something very special about the two regimes. we now know or at least have a pretty good certainty about the total number of people killed by th

american president, american secretary of state's have been talking in this vein since 1823 when john quincy adams wrote and james monroe announced the monroe doctrine, western hemisphere is america's failure. and so by 1898 people like theodore roosevelt, henry cabot lodge, henry woods contended we need to get the europeans out of the western hemisphere. but interestingly enough, it was always spoken by those people who said we have to keep the spanish out that this is not to make you a part of an american empire. this is for the good of the cuban people, not primarily for the good of the united states. despite what is something that occurs in every word that the united states goes to. there is an aspect of altruism in the wars, and there's also an aspect of self interest. so many americans decided that we need to go to war against spain to say the suffering of cuban people. and that was a strong aspect of it. and those folks who had broader, we'll call them or in more imperialistic design, even though you could hardly find an american who had accepted the label and realism because imperialism re

was it john adams, john quincy adams, ulysses s. grant. >> let's go with ulysses s. grant.ile in office. see, the law applies to everyone, hoda, and don't think it doesn't. >> i'm shocked. which president was a tailor? andrew johnson, lyndon johnson or zachary taylor. >> i'm going with zachary just because. >> i'm going with andrew johnson. in 1827, he moved with his family, finally settling in greenville in eastern country where he opened his tailor shop. thomas jefferson might be one of my favorite of all of our founding fathers. he invented all the following except what? the coat hanger, a dumb waiter -- >> what's a dumb waiter. >> back then it was on pulleys and you brought it up from a secret compartment in the floor. >> brought what up? >> anything. i'm going with the martini. >> roll tup. >> the martini! he was credited with inventing the coat hanger, the hideaway bed and the dumb waiter. >> how did he lose it in the fire? >> i'm going with a tantrum. >> i'm going with a fire. >> poker. >> what did i say? tantrum. well, he had the tantrum after losing at poker. >> an