he mentioned that he was only born in the thomas jefferson foundation oversees monticello. the foundation is also my employer where i spend most of my time not talking about the british side of the american revolution but about thomas jefferson whose retirement papers we edited as part of the riggs series started in 1950 as jeffersons papers became to be the definitive edition and which would have taken two generations to complete from monticello stepping and so in so they will now be finished in 2026. and this afternoon we put on many programs including international programs, the latest of which was in china and before that in cuba. i am delighted to have with me today some of my colleagues including the president of monticello, leslie green bowman. [applause] as you can imagine it should joy to drive in there each morning and i particularly am lucky to have an office on the estate which was used by franklin roosevelt in the four days leading up to d-day. this is where i wrote up look. the nice thing is that it commemorates the very different moment in anglo-american rela

i am delighted to have with me today some of my colleagues including the president of monticello. [applause] says you can imagine it is a joy to drive did each morning and i am like bucky if only by state use by franklin roosevelt in the-- leading up to d-day and where i wrote the book and the nicest thing is to be ample sides of the atlantic but with the british during the american revolution it is the war that britain should have won. but it is often blamed on poor leadership. but what explains is why britain lost america. and of course, it has to be georgia's third to share the belief that britain would cease to be a great power. he was not responsible for the policies that led to the revolution but he refused to negotiate with leaders but the time being of the second world war describing and valley he would never surrender. he call it the sacrifice. and run from the rest. this response to the revolution that the british simply did not care. they care deeply this is still the third longest war in the american history. native very determined effort. this incidentally is a painti

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thank you also for wearing a monticello time. i'm very grateful to the kansas city public library. .. the foundation is also my employer, where i spend most of my time not talking about the british side of the american revolution, but about thomas jefferson. we edit as part of the great series started in 1950 of jefferson's papers which aim to be the definitive edition, and which would have taken another -- they they will be finished in 2026. and about who we put on many programs including international programs. the latest of which was in china, and before that in cuba. i'm delighted to have with me today some of my colleagues, including the president of month monocello, lezly. as you can manage, it's a joint drive in there each morning. i particularly lucky to have an office on the estate, which was used by franklin roosevelt in the four days leading up to d-day. this is where i wrote that book. the nice thing is, it -- a different moment in the relations. one that we can celebrate, and one that is important to democracy on bot

i loved he's growing up in he gerdemann monticello, i like wind, he went broke drinking wine. i just loved him. i thought he was fantastic and then i read or book. [laughter] >> it is a fantastic book. i changed my mind on jefferson. i have two questions. one of my questions is in all of your research have deliver change your mind on any of the people you've written about and by reading your book on adams' right now so i think, you know, they tend to agree with him more i know it's difficult to bring the past and the modern times. but when i read the books i try to figure out where politically and jefferson and adams and jefferson and hamilton where they would be politically on the spectrum. i kind of gets the feeling jefferson and the it team party guy that he did the government. so can you just briefly go down a couple of those and see where you think they are politically right now. >> what i sense of the l.a. times reporter that i don't think i mentioned -- maybe i did -- try to bring them into the present like trying to plant cut flowers and they want to grow. you have to

thank you also for wearing a monticello time. i'm very grateful to the kansas city public library. ..

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lucie and newport rhode island petitions from oklahoma and suggestions from saratoga valley forge monticello and williamsburg. bizarre communication signed by chase osborne in's lane somewhere in georgia. south dakota and photographs from philadelphia. starting with a smattering of five suggested capitals in september of 1945 locations increase by 13 in october 17 more november and 85 and december. a few suggestions arrived to locations outside the united states but most of the correspondence came from american public officials publishers business leaders and other individuals promoting their own hometowns. the appeals became more and more elaborate. these are some examples of the promotional materials that landed in the mail in london. philadelphia is at this point still promoting its historic significance as its main appeal. chicago is situating itself at the center of the planet and on the right what san francisco called a brochure is clearly much more than that. it's being displayed by a flight attendant who was sitting on a crate of these that were headed off to london. so here you see

borrowed by the british and the americans famously jefferson was a huge fan of pa laid owe and built monticello based on that model so the taking that building as a starting point i wanted everything to be off center, off kilter and stable. so the peace on the outside of the building climbs up from one side and over the top of the building and the existing things that are there that opposed this symmetry of the building are one tree which used to be symmetrical because the entire garden had been symmetrically planted and very rigorously symmetrically planted. now it's say symmetrical because of the death of trees and the window that in 1970 before the building was landmarked was cut like a gash across that building sand now actually covered for the majority of the time with a faux brick painting. so i pulled that off and tried to make that whole building feel off kilter. >> rose: the next slide is -- you tell me. >> the next slide is one of the interior rooms. this is a pendulum. there's a pendulum -- all of the works in the interior are loosely based on the systems of modeling information. of

they'll have a great opening act during the naturalization ceremony at monticello.ly, guys. >> thank you very much. happy 4th to you. >>> the arrival of the royal baby could come any day now. >> people starting to talk about the fashion choices that will be made for the future king or queen. we have more from london. michelle, good morning. >> reporter: hi, guys. this will be the first british royal birth to be endlessly tweeted about. this could be the first future king or queen to wear baby gap. many people feel that kate is bound to modernize royal motherhood like never before. we've all watched kate turn even her pregnancy into a colorful, conservative, modern statement that has brits calling her the fashionista of the people. >> you see her in peter pan collars, big buttons, broaches. and i think that's something that can translate into the hierarchy easily. she's a dream. >> i think if you compare kate's pregnancy wear with princess diana's, she was wearing smocks. huge smocks with -- i remember great, big, white sort of peter pan on steroids necklines. kate's

he had been in mon at that cello more than six months before that time -- monticello. he is the delegate's vote to elect the committee that will draft the declaration of independence. jefferson receives the largest number of votes which is interesting because he was really, hadn't said almost anything in the continental congress before that time. i think because people had understanding of his literary gifts. there is back and forth conversation between john adams and jefferson says to adams you do it. adams says no, you do it, back and forth, back and forth. jefferson in a letter later says, excuse me, bull pucky. i was the one, i was chairman ever the committee and i was going to draft it and i drafted it. >> that is my favorite song in the show. mr. adams, i say you should write it. thanks a lot. you're destroying our dreams. >> i love "1776." it is wonderful. >> yes it is. >> certainly if you ask jefferson how that conversation went. there was no conversation. and he went, you know, just a couple of blocks from here, to do that drafting. his first draft of the decl

[laughter] i'd like to thank her, but now i know why i never get invited to monticello. ok. [laughter] there's a mystery solved. i'm here today to talk about dolley madison in times of challenge and crisis. dolley madison continued and built upon the work of martha washington and abigail adams. their mission was to put in practice the abstract series of governance designed by the men of the founding generation, to translate the theories behind, say, the constitution into real life. the american revolution ushered in morning just a new form of government, transforming what the founders would call society and what we would call culture was essential to a republic that was invested in political power and a virtuous citizenry. springboarding from the ideas of the sinkers of the scottish enlightenment which included david hume and adam smith, the founders theorized that in a new nation manners could be more important than laws. and they counted on the women of the ruling classes to secure the nation through manners. and that's the context within which we can understand the work o

highway 128 is shut down due to a wildfire out here at monticello dam.atoga. this is involving a car that went into a pole. right now take a look at the heavy backups as you come out of the park, bumper-to-bumper traffic slowing you down. >> leyla, thanks a lot. we'll check in with >>> good morning. temperatures in the 50s and 60s most areas except for antioch, already at 72 degrees. that's the area that could see 90 today while the rest of us are in the 70s and 80s. day game today, mid-60s and sunshine at [ cheers and applause ] >>> mario batali at the grill. we love having him here. a little something different on the grill today. all kinds of veggies. we cannot wait for that. mario, thank you for coming by. >>> and robin, you have special guests upstairs, too? >> we're having a great time. here with adam sadler, kevin james, and shaq. we have some hoops set up. we might have a little competition. >> my specialty, free throws. >> so, lara and everybody will have to come up here in a little bit. we're going to talk about the brand-new comedy "grown ups

[laughter] i'd like to thank her, but now i know why i never get invited to monticello. ok. [laughter] there's a mystery solved. i'm here today to talk about dolley madison in times of challenge and crisis. dolly madison continued and built upon the work of martha washington and abigail adams. their mission was to put in practice the abstract series of governance designed by the men of the founding generation, to translate the theories behind, say, the constitution into real life. the american revolution ushered in morning just a new form of government, transforming what the founders would call society and what we would call culture was essential to a republic that was invested in political power and a virtuous citizenry. springboarding from the ideas of the sinkers of the scottish enlightenment which included david hume and adam smith, the founders theorized that in a new nation manners could be more important than laws. and they counted on the women of the ruling classes to secure the nation through manners. and that's the context within which we can understand the work of

the great thomas jefferson the architect of monticello and the declaration of independence wrote notes on virginia where he questioned the cerebral ability and the intellectual acuity and the reason of black people even asked at night retiring from his study engaged in relations with the young woman whose loins strapped his logic so that the reality of our humanity being under suspicion is critical as the backdrop to understand the unfolding and evolving perception of black people in america. our humanity has been questioned and our intelligence has been questioned. as a result of that, teens inherit a culture where the suspicion and skepticism about their humanity and their intelligence are part and parcel of what we deal with on the daily. this is why for instance to echo mr. johns we only talk about black male stereotypes of talk about black female stereotypes. had rachel dentel had the representation that articulates her as somehow subhuman and not just from white americans the black too, skeptical about what she is speaking three languages perhaps her testimony would have been bel