this is john quincy adams spot. ss he served in president. >> brian: they say john quincy adams put his head on the desk. well the old man is falling asleep. what was he really doing? >> he was listening to the conversations on the other side of the aisle because there is a spot right, this little mark here, if you are over there and you whisper the way the acoustics work in the building can you hear very clearly what is being said on the other side. >> brian: the other party on the other side of the room and john quincy adams trying to find out what they are plotting and planning. >> this is the original gallery to the house. that was the original house chamber statuary hall. >> brian: where anybody could come. >> that's right. >> original flooring and now these curtains obscure the view. you would have had chairs lined here and people could look over the balcony and watch the proceedings on the floor. >> brian: mr. speaker, one last request we check out your balcony? you. >> you got check out the balcony. boast pho

i want to make a spin on your comment, john quincy adams, before social media he was in the house afterthe gag rule against slavery was in play, he was not supposed to present anti-slavery positions, but he banged up against that and deliberately presented positions and things he knew would get him attacked. he did it for the publicity. he did it because he knew that northerners would not necessarily get riled up about the cause of slavery but they would get very riled up about the right of petition been denied, the right of representation being denied, freedom of debate being denied. so, he knew that the larger meaning of him being silenced again and again has something to do with democratic governance. and he made that point part of why the gag rule went down to its death, because northerners were upset that their rights were being attacked. i mentioned that now because that is one obvious message you could take from what we just solved with representative mcgovern, and, people are not paying attention to the fact that happened, it has meaning multiple ways an important meeting. >> ta

james monroe, john quincy adams andrewilliam henry harrison, john tyler, franklin johnson benjamin harriman,, jfk, lyndon johnson, richard nixon barack obama, joe biden. host: only two of v -- thinking this through to be sure -- so, lyndon johnson and barack obama went directly from the senate to the vice presidencym barack obama was never vice president. betty:. presidency. host: lbj was vice president jfk went straight from the senate. itfk obama are the two that went directly from the senate to the most had other service in between. host: and other senators have run for president, john kerry and bob dole. is it intimidating at times working with 1y: [laughs] it can be. with 100 senators period because when you work in theateposition like my position was bosses. because we worked directly for the secretary senate, so that the senate, but we also work for the 100 senators. we do is screw tonight by 100 one people so there can be intimid-- it's scrutinized by 101 times. most of them are appreciative of the work we do so i am happy to say we haven't had many difficult moments through the

john adams, period. there was a brief john quincy adams presidency. otherwise presidents who'd sat in the executive mansion throughout that period had been slaveholders or effectively the supporters of slave holders in one way or another. that was obviously a big majority on the supreme court, which is also hugely consequential in the 1850s and was political the way that political alliances worked as the party system developed in the 1830s and forties, meant that effectively southern slave holders could exercise a veto in almost all circumstances over any attempt by the federal government to interfere with the rights of slave holders. and yet the republican party, the whole raison d'etre of the republican party in the 1850s was to stand up to that of northerners. the majority of them by 1860 had come to embrace that. and the question is a critical question for the coming of the civil war is why that was so, how, when and why did white northerners who had once been content, many of them, to tolerate the existence of enslavement, especially if it was el

different scriptures no other president had ever quoted a scripture in an inaugural address except john quincy adams. it quoted one lincoln quoted four scriptures. he appealed to prayer about ten times, so he was consumed with his faith by the end of the war and throughout this horrible civil war going on, all these people dying amputations, everything. he's trying to figure out what is our loving god thinking how can allow this to happen and. he finally figured out the answer, and that was he said in his second inaugural address that because we have tolerated slavery for as long as we have, this is god's punishment. we don't know when it will end, but we deserve it. we've got to accept it. and sooner or later we are going to be finished with we are going to put slavery behind us. but but what we've done for long as we've done deserves some serious. and that's what the civil war is. that is the essence of his second inaugural address, somebody who had a harder time being humble was teddy roosevelt, one of the good things that you do in your book, actually, is that with each president to stop and say

the motion at the constitutional convention but then it is picked up by every president until john quincy adams and comes up again in interesting ways right after the civil war for reasons we will not get into in just a moment and there the fight and this is where charles elliot of harvard returns they start to resist the president of the established university start to resist and call for national university because they want to keep this for themselves but also gets debated for the last time in congress in 1914 or 15 but the important part of it is early america is precisely constitutional project that they're trying to create democratic institution that is we take largely for granted. the real revolution is just begun, benjamin rush echoes this again in the months before a constitutional convention. and so their argument is that we need to bring out the idea and the principles of what they will call constitutional democracy in order to sustain this experiment in government, education is an absolutely essential part of this. i'm going skip over all the calls. george washington, james madison

different scriptures no other president had ever quoted a scripture in an inaugural address except john quincy adams. it quoted one lincoln quoted four scriptures. he appealed to prayer about ten times, so he was consumed with his faith by the end of the war and throughout this horrible civil war going on, all these people dying amputations, everything. he's trying to figure out what is our loving god thinking how can allow this to happen and. he finally figured out the answer, and that was he said in his second inaugural address that because we have tolerated slavery for as long as we have, this is god's punishment. we don't know when it will end, but we deserve it. we've got to accept it. and sooner or later we are going to be finished with we are going to put slavery behind us. but but what we've done for long as we've done deserves some serious. and that's what the civil war is. that is the essence of his second inaugural address, somebody who had a harder time being humble was teddy roosevelt, one of the good things that you do in your book, actually, is that with each president to stop and say

one of our key sources, including john quincy adams, they were unavailable for comment a jump oh, that's too bad because he's a great interview yeah. yeah. barn burner. >> i will say the american woman one. just, you know, we won the revolution now will winning the cheese rolled down the hill competition that's why, why do you just take her out? any reference to the revolution? john berman is always good for one, beat them in everything. >> let's look at the slow-mo again, man, i would look i would break something. there's no question. >> putting your life on the line for cheese. >> all for cheese are happening now, millions of americans under severe storm watches, we have live pictures to show you from dallas where there is a dangerous situation developing. >> you just saw lightning strikes right they're also standing by for a response from pope francis after for he allegedly used a homophobic slur behind closed doors the good stuff brought to you by amgen learn more about thyroid disease at, is it ted.com if you have graves disease and itchy eyes, the truth may be even more uncomfortab

my bloodline has a heritage of ronald reagan, john adams, john quincy adams.stand political royalty. i understand what comes along with political royalty, like royal families. with our country that is a divided nation, under one god, and we swear by oath on the bible which is the new law of christ -- host: what is your top news story this week? caller: we should not be so divided. the political debates between republican and democrat is a division of what is written in the bible. in my personal opinion, and trying to be loyal to my country, my state was not very well to me. they took my rights away with the religious freedom act. they forced me onto suicidal drugs, pharmaceutical drugs. it is a big influence in indiana . big political gains come from those organizations. can't find a human rights lawyer that would take a case like that. it is a bigger message. that christ consciousness is a real thing. with that comes supernatural powers that most people do not understand. host: thank you. gary is in florida for democrats. caller: yes, i want to talk about inf

my bloodline has a heritage of ronald reagan, john adams, john quincy adams.stand political royalty. i understand what comes along with political royalty, like royal families. with our country that is a divided nation, under one god, and we swear by oath on the bible which is the new law of christ -- host: what is your top news story this week? caller: we should not be so divided. the political debates between republican and democrat is a division of what is written in the bible. in my personal opinion, and trying to be loyal to my country, my state was not very well to me. they took my rights away with the religious freedom act. they forced me onto suicidal drugs, pharmaceutical drugs. it is a big influence in indiana . big political gains come from those organizations. can't find a human rights lawyer that would take a case like that. it is a bigger message. that christ consciousness is a real thing. with that comes supernatural powers that most people do not understand. host: thank you. gary is in florida for democrats. caller: yes, i want to talk about inf