we were issued french helmets, french rifles, wrench .mmunition, french canteens >> pulitzer prize-winning historian david mccullough talks about how the founders, particularly john adams, valued education, viewed slavery, and persevered in the face of hardship and how these ideals shaped american society. >> he grew up at a time when they had no money. his mother was illiterate. his father, we know, could sign his name. maybe he could read. there was a bible in the house, and that was the only book. they worked hard every day from he gotod on, but because a scholarship to this little college in cambridge called harvard, and as he said, discovered books and read forever, he became the john adams who helped change the world. >> for our complete american history tv schedule, go to www.c-span.org. sunday -- anybody thinking in 1962 after nixon's last press conference 10 years later, he then win a landslide, and it all came apart. >> columnist and political commentator pat buchanan served as an advisor and speechwriter theixon and discussed battles that made and broken president and divided am