john quincy adams' mission to russia changing th nation's destiny. mpton cook is >>> a brand new book tells the talef louisa and john quincy adams' missi to russia at makes the war of 1812 the centerpie and relent to today's global dynamics, of course. joining us now is presidential historian, author of the compellingew book "american phoenix" jane hampton cook. great to have you with us. we recommend the book highly and commend it to you. it's doing great. let me ask you this. what brought your focus to this mission and the war of 1812? have to be honest with you, i love the stories of the 1812, andrew jackson and the btle of new orleans. what brought you to it? >> well, i was really fascinated with the story of louisa adams she was such a strong woman back during the jane usten era. i became intrigued with john quincy adams because he was down on his luck. he lost the job of his dreams and had to go to russia of all places, yet he uses that opportunity, makes the most of it, and it really resurrects his political service career and it puts him on tr

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somehow john quincy adams promised henry clay secretary of state for his vote. how could this john quincy adams, who spends all of his life disavowing any ambition about politics, how could he stooped to this kind of politicking? we do not know the answer to that until we look at what catherine adams is doing. from 1818, she instituted the social program every tuesday night, bringing people and to washington. -- into washington. adams, a great line, mr. john quincy adams goes over my calling cards every day as if they were a battle plan. when you look at what she is doing, this historic mystery assault. -- mystery is solved. wives who acted as campaign managers. >> we get to the house of wins.sentatives, adams all of those men had been entertained by adams. one of them went back to his boarding house where he promised where he would not vote for adams on the first ballot. they will not let him sit down to dinner, because they are very mature -- [laughter] wife, them writes to his everyone says his wife made him do it. >> she instituted something -- .his is a town

somehow john quincy adams promised henry clay secretary of state for his vote. how could this john quincy adams, who spends all of his life disavowing any ambition about politics, how could he stooped to this kind of politicking? we do not know the answer to that until we look at what catherine adams is doing. from 1818, she instituted the social program every tuesday night, bringing people and to washington. -- into washington. she has a great line, mr. adams, john quincy adams goes over my calling cards every day as if they were a battle plan. when you look at what she is doing, this historic mystery is solved. it was their wives who acted as campaign managers. >> we get to the house of representatives, adams wins. all of those men had been entertained by adams. one of them went back to his boarding house where he promised where he would not vote for adams on the first ballot. they will not let him sit down to dinner, because they are very mature -- [laughter] one of them writes to his wife, everyone says his wife made him do it. >> she instituted something --

the secretary of state at that time, john quincy adams, was running for president, and there was a lot of sort of politics that went around it. and there were also concerns about the british and whether the british were using this abolitionism campaign as a kind of cover to advance their desires to control the oceans. and that had been a long source of tension between the u.s. and britain. one of the causes of the war of 1812 was the way that the british navy would board american ships, would conscript americans onboard and say, hey, actually we don't think you're really american, you're british, and guess what? we're drafting you into the british navy to fight in the war against france. so this had long been a tension between the u.s. and britain, and it was not politically popular in the u.s. to sign a treaty that would give the british the right to search american ships if they thought they were participating in the slave trade. it did go to, a different version of the treaty went to the senate. the senate attached a bunch of reservations or changes to it including a provision that

calhoun who was under john quincy adams and andrew jackson's first term. jackson declared the formula whereby slavery would be tolerated in the missouri compromise line of 20 and would be tolerated and encouraged and protected but secession or any reduction of the prerogative of the federal government opposite the individual state wouldn't be tolerated. that effectively -- i don't think there is any evidence this was an andrew jackson's thinking of the time but it effectively enabled the states to become strong enough demographically and economically that when a showdown did happen 25 years later, the north by the narrow margin and the brilliant leadership in the country's history was able to suppress the insurrection and abolished slavery. and that wouldn't have happened if the south had attempted to secede in jackson's times successfully. if the had actually attempted to secede i think it wouldn't have been possible to suppress them at the time. >> the second section of the book, predestined people come 1836 to 1933. what are you trying to relay? >> a tr

relation shfment luisa katherine describing abigail adams at the end of the life as the planet around which all revolved. luisa katherine and john quincy, unlike john adams, did not live at peacefield year around. they would only return during the summer months to get relief from politics of washington. in his work's the education of henry adams, he describes luisa katherine and her role in this house and her relationship with the family. he always felt that she was the odd man out, if you will, because she was born in england and educated in france. and she remained a foreign personality to many of the adamses but not to henry as a world traveler himself. his fondest recollection is lisa sitting in the panled room using her civil ver teapot set she brought with her from her home in england and she would entertain both herself and many of her guests in this room. john quincy adams and luisa would inherit this home. johns quincy thought about selling this house but after discussion and thought with luisa they decided that this was important to the family story, to hold on to this house for future generations. >> prior to the election of

john quincy adams' wife. he was a really impossible person. she would write letters to old john adams about what was going on in washington to amuse him, to make him happy. she wrote one letter saying "it is my vocation to get john quincy adams elected president." the m the beginning, politics were there. >> it is interesting when we look at what the women are doing, it opens up a sense of what political process. that's what i hear both of you saying, that we understand this idea of process. camagna it a becomes clear that they are running for president. >> so this is something we'll read in our history books. but it is this moment before the election of 1824 where apparently the very uptight john quincy adams makes a deal with henry clay. he won the majority of the popular vote. so the assumption was that jackson would win. but it became jackson-adams -- clay. so clay being the third dropped out -- i'm sorry. it was jackson and crawford and clay. so clay, being the bottom man is out of the running. and he's a very powerful member of congress.

and i might not have appreciated it but the court found, appropriately, for john quincy adams' side of the case and those free africans were allowed to leave as free africans, as they should have been. so back then, the lead abolitionist, he knew, he believed with all his heart, someday people are going to meet their maker, he's going to be their judge and i might have enjoyed with john quincy adams were able to come become as lazarus did when jesus raised him, and go before the supreme court and say, let me tell you, i've been there. you are going to go before your judge someday and you better not pretend to be god himself because you're going to meet god himself someday. but the -- this supreme court , the have that benefit holy quintet decided to rewrite the law. i want to touch on briefly law down the ust passed senate, really appreciate it mitigating circumstance good friend senator ted cruz's statement down the hall, quoting from his statement, unfortunately all of the concerns that have been repeatedly raised about this bill remain. it repeats the mistakes of the 1986 immigratio

ben franklin, john quincy adams, harriet beecher stowe, abraham lincoln, frederick douglass, booker t. washington, ghandi, martin luther king. they knew that the march toward freedom never ends and man must be vigilant and pray less with his lips and more with his legs. [applause] those few people inspired just handfuls of people. they never forgot the truth, justice and freedom are the wellsprings of the water of man's civil rights and so they must be upheld for all men. for those of you that don't know, those that you don't like, most importantly those than you do know and really don't like. because if their rights are violated, all rights are violated. [applause] in the past these historic stands an america which we now call civil rights movement were all done by a small but dedicated portion of citizens which led to great and profound changes in the nation. but they always started in the same place. the church and with people of god, and usually not the popular churches and usually not the creatures that everybody loved to hear. they were the preachers that put it all on the line.

john quincy adams said america goes not abroad searching for monsters to destroy. very important message. he said we may actually be very sympathetic to people but if we go out around the world looking for trouble that's going to come home to us. 1821 we knew that. >> very good advice for 2013. >> bill: congressman peter welch, we're glad you're on the job. there is hope, right? people like you fighting the good fight. john nichols you and i can keep working and making a difference in our own way. thank you for being here. congressman, great to see you. >> this is the "bill press show." >> asking the tough questions. >> chris brown, i mean you wouldn't let one of your daughters go out with him. >> absolutely not. >> you would rather deal with ahmadinejad then me? >> absolutely! >> (singing) >> i take lipitor, thats it. >> are you improving your lips? >> (laughter). >> when she's talking, you never know where the conversation is going to go. >> it looks like anthony wiener is throwing his hat in the ring. >> his what in the ring? >> his hat. >> always outspoken, joy