yes quincy adams, i think is you know, to most people when i mentioned that i'm writing about john quincy adams, they immediately assume i'm writing about his john adams. the quincy adams was. an extension of his father. they were as close as any father and son in public life. when john adams traveled to paris. 1778 to implement the franco-american treaty during, the american revolution, he took john quincy with he was 11. the younger adams was 18 before he returned to united states to go to harvard. and when he returned, was the best traveled american of his day and the two were john took him to education, but also for support and. they remained intimate emotionally and, intellectually throughout john's very long life. he dated and. 1826 abigail adams equally as. significant as. her husband a self-created intellectual, a spokesman for women's rights, the epitome of the enlightenment american woman. she could run a farm and read lost paradise, lost in the original. she was also a a very intimidating mother. women in that day and time the only outlet they had their brains and for their amb

we have got got some follow-up there sounds like people are wondering more specifically about john quincy adams allen is asking could it be that if john quincy adams -- he would have faced more political controversy with the enslaved people that he hired? >> that i don't know. i would have to look through some of the adams papers and the thing that's interesting about him was it was such a departure from his family and also later if he ever saw the movie -- john quincy adams was a ball with that slave ship situation. alas you one final question here. this question is for melissa and if you could givee us some of te research. are they going to speak with mr. emhoff about how he feels being the first white house gentleman and not a woman and she notes his take in the future. do you have any thoughts about that? >> absolutely. and asking about the first male spouse. he's doing something similarly in the same position and he continued to have a a career. it's a male spouse and that spouse will find their way to do something that doesn't create conflicts of interest and if he does do some things wit

it sounds like folks are wondering more specific about john quincy adams, given, you know, the feelings of his parents and things like that. allen is asking could it be that if john quincy adams had paid enslaved people, he would have faced more political controversy? or did he respects the craftsmen ship of the enslaved people he hired? that i don't know. but, you know, once again, i would have to dig through some of the adams papers so that i think the thing that's interesting about him more than anything else was just the fact that it was such a departure from his family and also from later when, if you ever saw the movie on a side, you know, john quincy adams was involved with that slave ship situation and so it was it was really a contradiction for him in terms of his family background. but some of this became a practicality issue for some of these presidential families. all right. i can't believe it. but we're almost up at our time. so i'm going to ask you one final question here. so this question is from melissa and i assume you maybe don't know the answer, but i'm wondering if y

well, john quincy adams father, president adams, suffered huge depression. and john quincy had a child die of suicide. he had a brother die of alcoholism. you know, sam houston, another one of john f kennedy profiles, was personally shamed for being an alcoholic. he he he was called the big drunk. i mean, sam houston was the first president of texas and then a u.s. senator, a tremendous profile in political courage. but he also had to endure the shame that still exists and many respects today, those that cast judgment on you because of your illness. and, of course, lucius lamar saw his father come into the house, write a note, saying goodbye to everyone, walk out and take his life with a pistol right in front of their house. so and then, you know, in other stories, daniel webster, one of my dad's, all time political heroes, died of cirrhosis of the liver. i mean, this is not a new issue. obviously, we protect and because of covid, that all of a sudden we're in a new day and oh, covid created all these problems. frankly, these problems were here before covid.

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john quincy adams was president by time, had to arrange a navy frigate uss brandywine selected for that name because of his lafayette's morning at brandywine. but he couldn't afford what it would take to take treasure haul back to back to under a regular commercial route. so he did a lot of shopping. he was gifted everywhere he went. his economic circumstances had changed bit when he was the rich, young year old who had come here to the post french revolution in person who was not as wealthy as he once had been. we put it that way. is that flight enough? my question is know that while the americans were highly enthusiastic delivery with joy at his his tours, the french were not. can you comment on. what's going on in france? well, france had gone through a number of changes since then, and he had even been in jail for while. so his his circumstances are quite different than when he was like the boy wonder as a 19 year old coming over here. but he never lost his commitment to liberty. he never lost commitment to ending slavery. you have up here and he never his commitment to to the oneid

officials involved included united states secretary of state john quincy adams, u.s.attorney general william wirt, british in london, british consuls in charleston, the south carolina delegation and local officials such as the sheriff, one francis g. dulles, aileen. as sheriff de leon was responsible for carrying out and enforcing the police bill. he was the county sheriff. he was the local official. he seized and confined. ellison, along with many other sailors when this law was enforced. ellison however, brought suit. now, elko since case was not entirely unique. other black sailors also sought to challenge their confinement. but one major difference set apart ellison's case, and that was that the british government's supported and helped to fund his suit. they helped him find lawyers who brought his case before the federal circuit court, not the state courts. significantly and over the federal circuit court presided. justice johnson, meanwhile, one might wonder who was defending the state statute, who was carrying out the of henry wilkerson. interestingly, not the

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said, you know, adams was going to create a monarchy and he wanted to instill, install his son, john quincy adams, as his heir. and, you know, one of the i think the funniest arguments in the in the election and was that jefferson's supporters alleged that john adams had sent charles coatsworth pinckney to london to bring back for british women as mistresses adams and pinckney. and retorted, well, if he did, i have not received my two, which i think demonstrates his sense of humor. on other side, federalists allege that jefferson was an atheist and he wanted to destroy religion. this was part of this anarchy and violence concept. and so they told their supporters that if jefferson won, they would need to bury all of their bibles to protect because jefferson was going to come, sees them. so lindsay chervinsky building up to november of 1800. how were the campaigns conducted? were there kickoffs? were there rallies? were there speech ups, etc., etc.? the campaigns really kicked off with sort of secret convention in which a group of leading democratic republicans or federalists and decided their can

said, you know, adams was going to create a monarchy and he wanted to instill, install his son, john quincy adams, as his heir. and, you know, one of the i think the funniest arguments in the in the election and was that jefferson's supporters alleged that john adams had sent charles coatsworth pinckney to london to bring back for british women as mistresses adams and pinckney. and retorted, well, if he did, i have not received my two, which i think demonstrates his sense of humor. on other side, federalists allege that jefferson was an atheist and he wanted to destroy religion. this was part of this anarchy and violence concept. and so they told their supporters that if jefferson won, they would need to bury all of their bibles to protect because jefferson was going to come, sees them. so lindsay chervinsky building up to november of 1800. how were the campaigns conducted? were there kickoffs? were there rallies? were there speech ups, etc., etc.? the campaigns really kicked off with sort of secret convention in which a group of leading democratic republicans or federalists and decided their can

season is part of the dark side of politics for john adams, which smear campaigns against each other during the election from 1800. andrew jackson john quincy adams exchange accusations of murder and impropriety in the election of 1820h questions about grover cleveland activity and campaign election in 1884. all to say 30 campaign tricks are not foreign to politics. former president trump and this lie has real life consequences. in recent weeks false claims have been circulating on social media, members of the haitian immigrant community, springfield, ohio were objecting killing and eating people's pets former president made this claim during his debate. this claim is not only outrageous and patently false but both city officials and law enforcement confirming they have received zero criminal reports of such conduct. it is now becoming a safety concern for the entire springfield, ohio community. despite this the former president and his running mate have continued to knowingly spread this lie. shockingly in an interview with cnn this week, senator vance admitted he was willing to quote create stories" to get media attention. that is exactly

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you know, john quincy adams in 1824, who was elected from the house of representatives, had actually won a few fewer in the popular vote. and and also was not really mandated in the same way people in the united states had accepted the fact that there was going to be a lot more instability in their political process in this way than we appreciate today. it was a very different kind of political party system than we have now, where there were parties that were growing and dying and competing with one another all the time. every party that people in this period had ever known had died before. there had never been the same two parties or same three parties or four parties ever to exist in american history. the federalist party, the party of the very first president of the united states, george washington, did did not exist. the whig party, which lincoln, lincoln's first love, his first party did not exist in 1860. so people understood that this was sort of the instability of the political system was going to produce these kinds of results. rachel seldin even though we're talking about t

you know, john quincy adams in 1824, who was elected from the house of representatives, had actually won a few fewer in the popular vote. and and also was not really mandated in the same way people in the united states had accepted the fact that there was going to be a lot more instability in their political process in this way than we appreciate today. it was a very different kind of political party system than we have now, where there were parties that were growing and dying and competing with one another all the time. every party that people in this period had ever known had died before. there had never been the same two parties or same three parties or four parties ever to exist in american history. the federalist party, the party of the very first president of the united states, george washington, did did not exist. the whig party, which lincoln, lincoln's first love, his first party did not exist in 1860. so people understood that this was sort of the instability of the political system was going to produce these kinds of results. rachel seldin even though we're talking about t

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popular vote yet he was more or less stabbed in the back by henry clay and the election went to john quincy adamsf new hampshire at the time. host: we will have to leave it there. steve in new jersey, independent line. caller: good morning, how are you. i'm very upset no one has mentioned this issue and it just shows you how desperate it is is directed hatred in this country. i can tell you i have never been more afraid to be a jew now. it is an epidemic. our synagogues have armed guards. i constantly see anti-semitic graffiti on the streets of new york city. we have had an insurgence of people coming into this country who are anti-american anti-jew. they've taken over our universities. jewish kids are afraid to go to school and no one is talking about it. no one is talking about it. it is frightening what's going on. it's going on in many other western countries. france, england and it is a huge issue and a issue being ignored. that's kind of out was during the holocaust. everyone knew it was happening but it was ignored. once again it's happening and people are paying attention. host: democrats

john quincy adams resurrects it as soon improvement. a phrase picked up by henry clay and then by lincoln, frederick douglass. after the civil war, insists on the urgent importance education as being crucial to self-improvement. that's why he says that equal access to education is necessary, the pursuit of happiness. and then emerson defines the american as so self mastery and intellectual liberation. so it's just this extraordinary throughline throughout, ancient history all the way up through american history. and it persists in america, the 1950s, and then it just drops of the literature and this was news to me. i never read these books when i was in college, despite my, you know, the great teachers that i had. and something happened in the sixties, happiness changed from being good to feeling good. let it all hang out. you do you, you know, and and now we have a different meaning. and that's why it was so to recover the classical definition of the pursuit happiness. carlos i. i wanted to tell you that at some times and i was reading

and 9:00, university of arkansas his for dran randall woods on president john quincy adams sharing decadesrch and first chief executive to follow his father into office. exploring the american story. watch american history tv. saturdays on c-span 2 and find a full schedule on your program guide or online any time at c-span.org/history. this week on the c-span network, house and senate are in. both working to pass a funding bill before the september 30th deadline to overt a touchdown. tuesday, the ceo of november nordisk, testifies on his companies high prices of system pick and wagovy. and tuesday, a house subcommittee on the faulty software update and thursday the task force on the attempted assassination. into the secret service security failures and reliance on state and local law enforcement. this week live on the c-span network or c-span now our free mobile video app. also, head to c-span.org for scheduling information or watch live or on demand any time. c-span your unfiltered view of government. . host: we'll start with mutual on the independent line. good morning. michael. caller:

called shakespeare in america and it is these primary sources that started with a letter with john adams to john quincyms fearing that hamilton and burr would take over the republic like caesar on horseback and then quoting julius caesar. adams felt we can learn from shakespeare's history plays the fact that politics divorced from principal could degenerate into violence. isn't that amazing, just to start off with the question that we begin with the show. what is standing between us and violence, shakespeare's lesson according to john adams is it is the principles of the constitution that keep us from degenerating into violence. that was just a skim of his book for a half-hour. it doesn't take a lot to learn a tremendous amount. host: michigan, joe, line for democrats. host: you're on with jeffrey rosen. caller: i think they've got to get rid of the electoral college. but they have to get rid of gerrymandering, too, because it wouldn't be independent for all votes to come. but that's what i think. host: jeffrey rosen, the electoral college. guest: initially, both are conservative and progressive teams

john adams, thomas jefferson, infamously waged smear campaigns against each other. andrew jackson and john quincy adams exchanged accusations of murder and i am -- impropriety. all to say dirty campaign tricks are hardly foreign to american elections, but today i want to address a particularly vile lie being circulated by former president trump, his vice president candidate j.d. vance and their supporters during this campaign and this lie has real-life consequences. in recent weeks, false claims have been circulating on social media that members of the haitian immigrant community in springfield, ohio, are abducting, killing, and eating people's pets. the former president even made this claim during his debate with kamala harris. this claim is not only outrailingous and patently false with both city officials and law enforcement confirming they've received zero credible reports of such conduct, but it is now becoming a safety concern for the entire springfield, ohio, community. despite this, the former president and his running mate have continued to knowingly spread this lie. shockingly, in an in

and then on the presidency, the university of arkansas historian randall woods on president john quincy adamsring a decade of research and biography as the first chief executive to follow his father into office. exploring the american story. watch american history tv saturdays on c-span2 and find a full schedule on the program guide or watch online at c-span.org/history. >> c-spanshop.org is c-span's online store. browse through our products, apparel, books, home decor, something for every fan. shop now for any time at c-spanshop.org. >> "washington journal" continues. host: democratic congressman paul tonko you have been around the government funding sites before, we are 12 days away from a potential shutdown. how do you think this ends? guest: i would hope common sense prevails and that we avoid a government shutdown. no one wins with that. we have been guided by earlier legislation in the fiscal responsibility act that set it toward a 2024 and 2025. we should move forward accordingly and not put various services at risk and avoid the government shutdown which would be disastrous for everyo

popular vote yet he was more or less stabbed in the back by henry clay and the election went to john quincy adamsw hampshire at the time. host: we will have to leave it there. steve in new jersey, independent line. caller: good morning, how are you. i'm very upset no one has mentioned this issue and it just shows you how desperate it is is directed hatred in this country. i can tell you i have never been more afraid to be a jew now. it is an epidemic. our synagogues have armed guards. i constantly see anti-semitic graffiti on the streets of new york city. we have had an insurgence of people coming into this country who are anti-american anti-jew. they've taken over our universities. jewish kids are afraid to go to school and no one is talking about it. no one is talking about it. it is frightening what's going on. it's going on in many other western countries. france, england and it is a huge issue and a issue being ignored. that's kind of out was during the holocaust. everyone knew it was happening but it was ignored. once again it's happening and people are paying attention. host: democrats lin

and 9:00, university of arkansas his for dran randall woods on president john quincy adams sharing decadesrch and first chief executive to follow his father into office. exploring the american story. watch american history tv. saturdays on c-span 2 and find a full schedule on your program guide or online any time at c-span.org/history. this week on the c-span network, house and senate are in. both working to pass a funding bill before the september 30th deadline to overt a touchdown. tuesday, the ceo of november nordisk, testifies on his companies high prices of system pick and wagovy. and tuesday, a house subcommittee on the faulty software update and thursday the task force on the attempted assassination. into the secret service security failures and reliance on state and local law enforcement. this week live on the c-span network or c-span now our free mobile video app. also, head to c-span.org for scheduling information or watch live or on demand any time. c-span your unfiltered view of government. . host: we'll start with mutual on the independent line. good morning. michael. caller:

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abigail will observe to john quincy in the spring of 1816, as adams eagerly embarked on a french history in 16 volumes, telling america's stories is an exciting challenge because there are so many different voices in these united states. for many reasons, i think the job of the writer is to share these stories, to be the voice, to provide an opportunity to be heard. and that was the late historian david mccullough speaking at the very first national book festival gala over the past 24 years. he often would come on and take calls. when we were here at the national book festival, where we are, we are live at the washington convention center. if you do happen to come down, come on down and pick up a free book bag. the festival itself is free. coming up in about an hour, so you'll have a chance to talk with historian pulitzer prize winner doris kearns goodwin. she will be out here to take your calls and talk about the 1960s and the memoir she has written about her life in the sixties, along with her husband, richard goodwin. so that's coming up in about an hour. but right now, we're going to

eastern on the presidency, university of arkansas historian randall woods on president john quincy adams sharing his decade of research and biography of the first chief executive. exploring the american story. watch american history tv. saturdays on c-span two. find the full schedule on your program guide or watch online anytime at c-span.org. >> vice president and 2020 for democratic national -- discussing a variety of topics. including the economy, the israel hamas war, and the state presidential race. she says she's working to earn the vote of black men and not taking anyone in the electorate for granted. she also commented on the situation in springfield, ohio which has been dealing with bomb threats and school evacuations