where we've gone abroad and done all these things until relatively modern history he quotes john quincy adams who of course was the secretary of state for james monroe who instituted the monroe doctrine which basically drew a line around the western hemisphere i.e. outside the borders of the united states and said if you come here you're going to have trouble so we have been getting involved in affairs outside our borders since the very beginning of this country's formal founding as the united states that said i certainly think that with the changes with the with the end of the soviet union the end of the cold war i think that there have been a lot of changes in this world of self-evident to everyone the rise of islamic terrorism sarap we need to have a strong economy we can do that and i would note about the clip from h.b.o. when writer aaron sorkin who spends the words in his you know a famous hollywood liberal you can take those words and go back retroactively in apply them to any time in american history if the man i mean the nation is very strongly very following say with you do you thin

place could be a danger the united states global projection of military power going back to what john quincy adams said when he was secretary of state in eight hundred twenty one before was president that we could be dictators of the world what our policy would then shift from a policy of liberty and freedom to a policy of domination and control and now we are a country that's lost its way and it's not because we may not be number one in the amount of arms we sell you know we sell about three quarters of all the arms abroad or have the greatest military power but because we lost our moral stature and values of who we are as a people our influence of broad should be the influence of example period we should have self defense but not preemptive war for everywhere ok where we are now where the lines are all night where all these are all nice things jeffrey how did we get to this point then. well first of all let me say in terms of and terms of what bruce has just said and i should note here for the record that bruce is a former colleague from the reagan administration although we've not met and i can

he is doing a book on john quincy adams. we don't think of as a slavery president. we think of abraham lincoln as that rightly show but john quincy adams was intimately involved with making it so people could talk about slavery and help free the slaves on the other side. wonderful story. nobody tells these stories. >> we have seen a lot of books on john adams but not so many on john quincy adams. >> from having a president who went on to have a son who was a president recently, george bush. interesting to imagine the parallels between the two families. >> who is stephen brown? >> another author of ours. he has done a book -- the last vikings. of polar explorer. there were four parts of the world's -- the north pole and south pole and northwest package and northeast kerri at and he was the only person to explore all four of them and did it in less than 20 years and considering how much to those in to these that is record time to northwest passage and northeast passage. >> well-known english author martin keller. >> wonderful c

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angels are real and depends upon who is america's number one there's a there's a gradual decline john quincy adams said when he was secretary of state in eight hundred twenty one before was president that we could be dictators of the world what our was policy would then shift from a policy of liberty and freedom to a policy of domination and control and now we are a country that's lost its way and it's not because we may not be number one in the amount of arms we sell you know we felt about three quarters of all arms abroad or have the greatest military power but because we lost our moral stature and values of who we are as a people i. iran has rejected as a political move the latest report by the u.n. nuclear watchdog which claims the country's doubled the number of uranium enrichment centrifuges technion believes the findings are aimed at overshadowing the nonaligned movement summit taking place there so you mohammad marandi a professor at the university of to run thanks the release of the report at this time is highly suspicious. the iranians are saying that this report came at a sensitive time

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i asked him about when andrew jackson took on john quincy adams. >> this is the campaign most historiansld point to the most negative ever because of the vicious attacks and personal assaults on jackson and adams. adams forces said jackson's mother had been a common prostitute. they said his wife was a big mist. these were vicious attacks that both sides felt unrestrained in delivering. there was no tv. there was no monitoring of some of the things that were being said so they felt like they could say almost anything. >> then people forget that abe lincoln's re-election got very, very ugly. in what way? >> one of the worst ever. lincoln in the beginning of 1864 was very unpopular. the war wasn't going well. he was being attacked by all sides. he was being called all kinds of names. he was being drug through the mud by the newspapers who wanted him out of office. and so that was a very tough re-election fight. fortunately for lincoln, the battlefield changed. they started winning battles. here in atlanta, 1864, september, that's really where it started to change for him. and his campaign

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have been known for a long time now is america's number one there's a there's a gradual decline john quincy adams said when he was secretary of state an eight hundred twenty one before was president that we could be dictators of the world what our policy would then shift from a policy of liberty and freedom to a policy of domination and control and now we are a country that's lost its way and it's not because we may not be number one in the amount of arms we sell you know we felt about three quarters of all the arms abroad or have the greatest military power but because we lost our moral stature and values of who we are as a people. and. let's now check some other stories making headlines around the wild two hundred seventy south african miners have been charged with the man's assistant full day colonnades despite the fact it was the police that. prosecutors say officers only opened fire because they were under a time by armed protesters more than one hundred fifty of the miners being claimed to have been beaten up in custody canings at a strike as they sometimes became the bloodiest incidents. s

have been known for a long time now is america's number one there's a there's a gradual decline john quincy adams said when he was secretary of state an eight hundred twenty one before was president that we could be dictators of the world what our policy would then shift from a policy of liberty and freedom to a policy of domination and control and now we are a country that's lost its way and it's not because we may not be number one in the amount of arms we sell you know we felt about three quarters of all the arms abroad or have the greatest military power but because we lost our moral stature and values of who we are as a people. i. i . i. with the you are seeking a sign that shall save you europe's biggest hater. the german chancellor is in china clutching billions in contracts to be signed in they train pounds could not aid from the european council on foreign relations believes china is a country worth spending some time with to make friends. the big hope in europe is that the chinese would invest in some of the new vehicles that have been crazy like the european stability mechanism. the ch

angels are real and defense bending is america's number one there's a there's a gradual decline john quincy adams said when he was secretary of state an eight hundred twenty one before his president that we could be dictator of the world what are its policy would then shift from a policy of liberty and freedom to a policy of domination and control and now we are a country that's lost its way and it's not because we may not be number one in the amount of arms we sell you know we felt about three quarters of all the arms abroad or have the greatest military power but because we lost our moral stature and values of who we are as a people. all right german chancellor angela merkel is on a visit to china hoping to tap into the country's monetary muscle to help pull europe out of the downward spiral she's seeking to boost the flow of investment from beijing into the european stability front a firewall against financial trouble that the chancellor worked hard to create however holland me from the european council on foreign relations says the chinese are not in a hurry to lend a helping hand to berlin.

>> the sanctimonious president have been john quincy adams, james capel, quincy adams was a one term or, james pulled brought it upon himself much more difficult, political difficulties during his one term in office than was needed. jimmy carter, in my view, and george w. bush, i don't think that helped any of those presidents. but the historians consistently have rated wilson as consistently in the great war near great category. voters come as i say, they had a totally different view of him. let's talk about when the voters converged and they converge on the greatest of the great. the man i call leaders of destiny. and i have three criteria for those presidents that we have put into the category of leaders of destiny. i believe that these assessments are valid and in and of themselves, not necessarily complete, however. consistently high ranking in the polls, and consistently high ranking in terms of voters, and then a third test, presidency transformed the country's political landscape and sent the country on a new course. this is very difficult to do. it is difficult enough to be

john quincy adams wanted an astrophysical. everyone wanting their little pet project and so there were i think 11 bills and goes on and on and people across the country are renting in saying this is completely criminal. it's embarrassing we have to do something to acknowledge this wonderful gift. could you please get on with it. so this clause a congressional compromise where just about everything gets thrown in in this initial institution had lots of different functions inside of it but what happens in the early decades of the smithsonian is that this is the time there are all these government expeditions out west and their spending thousands and thousands back to washington so more and more is becoming dhaka depository for these national collections so eventually the head of the smithsonian nutter she gets this appropriation from congress to take care of the national collections because they want to safeguard the system to pursue science which is what he felt was the most important mission so it starts becoming more and more

john adams and john quincy adams and now, two great men with surrounded, who have two terrific partnersa bush and laura bush, two extraordinary first ladies of our country. >> let's talk about tomorrow. mitt romney's challenge. past two days for speeches and today delivered from paul ryan. what does he have to do? >> well, he has to keep it going. this has been building and he's got to keep it building so thifrry and tone and message have got to be powerful. he's got to show people more whof he is. and he's -- people want to know more about it. particularly voters up for grabs want to know more about the man. what makes him tick? what are the values in his heart? he also most importantly wants to tell them what his plan s people want to know they've made a judgment and want to know what it is you're going to do. how you're going to get it done. >> it's been a year of challenges for mitt romney in which he's had to rise to the occasion. during the primary season he kept falling behind other candidates and rising to the occasion in debates. he was a far more formidable candidate and a bet

john quincy adams, it was said he procured prostitutes for the russian czar. thomas jefferson. ms supporters once said his election would result in murder, robbery, rape, adultery, and incest. so until we get charges of robbery, nuclear war starting, or prostitute procuring, maybe this will have to wait. >> the president is taking things to a new low. >> reporter: they might be mean, cruel, and cynical, but negative campaigns are not blights on history, they are our history. if there is one thing that does seem different this year, it's not that the negative campaigning has started earlier, it's that the complaining about negative campaigning has started earlier. john berman, cnn, new york. >> and if you're wondering, perhaps the last presidential election that didn't go negative, well, 1820. president james monroe ran unoopposed. >>> where an easy win in '08 has become a big campaign battleground. >>> and look who's watching your every move. is new facebook technology pushing the bounds of privacy? producers are committed as to safely and responsibly providing generations of cl

john quincy adams, it was said he procured prostitutes for the russian czar.homas jefferson, they said his election would result in murder, robbery, rape, adultery and incest. until we get charges of robbery, nuclear war starting or prostitute procuring, maybe this will have to wait. >> the president is taking things to a new low. >> they might be mean, cruel and cynical but negative campaigns are not blights on history, they are our history. >> if there is one thing that does seem different this year, it is not that the negative campaigning has started earlier. it is that the complaining about negative campaigning has started earlier. john berman, cnn, new york. >> if you are wondering, perhaps the last presidential election that didn't go negative, 1820, president james monroe ran unopposed. what a difference four years make. the president shakes hands and buys beer at the iowa state fair. for an easy way, it has become a big campaign battleground. look who is watching your every move. this new facebook technology pushing the bounds of privacy. where to go f

and that is john quincy adams by the ray standing at center. the treaty can be phased out which is status quo antebellum, that is the way things were before the war. very little change that in some way psychologically and politically an issue. and while this may not have proved a memorable work on my way to make the case is nonetheless a very more in shaping the american character. to put it in more contemporary terms, we were being bullied and we stood up for ourselves. it was david and goliath and although we didn't knock to the ground, the world's expert tatian and her of self-confidence was altered as a result of the war. it think it might be useful to explain mr. and mrs. madison in the title. partly it's a function of chronology as the war began and is a declaration that began at. so he got the blame and eventually whatever credit airways. in new england, as eric alluded to, no one really wanted to go to war would interfere with the trade and politicians in the east as the region was known by most merchants in the way new england pamphlet

[laughter] the sanctimonious presidents have been john quincy adams, james k. polk -- quincy adams, a one-termer, james polk a one-termer by choice but who brought upon himself much more political difficulties during his one term in office, jimmy carter and george w. bush. and i don't think that trait helped any of those presidents. but the historians consistently have rated wilson as consistently in the great or near-great category. and voters, as i say, had a totally different view of him. so let's talk briefly about when the voters and the historians converge. and they converge on the greatest of the great. the men i call leaders of destiny. and i have three criteria for those presidents that we put into the category of leaders of destiny. they have to have -- because i believe that these assessments are valid and up to, you know, in and of themselves not necessarily complete, however. so consistently high ranking in the historians' polls. then consistently or high ranking in terms of the voters. two terms succeeded by their own party x. then a third test tha

john quincy adams, 1824. rutherford b. hayes, 1876, benjamin harris, 1888 so it's not enough to win, you've to win the electoral college and it is explained but i'm not going to go through it here. the truman beets do election does have similarities relative to today. a true man rather famously ran against the do nothing congress and president obama is doing the same thing. tom dewey was the former governor of new york and a progressive much like mitt romney once was, former governor of massachusetts. some think mitt romney still is. in any event, he wasn't as conservative as the republican controlled 80th congress and he successfully tied him to do nothing congress and that gets me to today's politics because mitt romney is broadly acceptable to the american people in a way that his party isn't so his challenge is to establish himself as a centrist conservative and keep a distance from his party particularly the house republicans. the obama campaign challenge is to more for the republican party and its agenda with mitt ro

john quincy adams used a law book. they could find on air force one for lyndon johnson was a catholic missal. did romney campaign isn't presumption. they wouldn't take a question about the inauguration. but here's a good clue -- when romney was sworn in as governor of massachusetts, he did use a bible and it was his father's. we'll be right back. a bible and it was his father's. we'll be right back. >>> now another special edition of "this week" next sunday. at the millar center in university of virginia, we're go to ask, is america the next greece? >>> and that's all for us today. thank you for sharing part of your sunday with us. check out david muir on "world news" tonight and i'll see you tomorrow on "good morning america." news" tonight and i'll see you tomorrow on "good morning america." our abundant natural gas is already saving us money, producing cleaner electricity, putting us to work here in america and supporting wind and solar. though all energy development comes with some risk, we're committed to safely a