monticello is more than a house on a hill. the house is incredibly well preserved. and we want people to walk in jefferson's footsteps. we also want them to understand that monticello had nearly 200 people living here during jefferson's time and most of them were enslaved. so when you walk outside the houts, you look down on the road and can you understand that there was a center industry and enslaved life there. and that if you tour the south wing and the north wing and under the house, you will see that this was a home for the people that jefferson enslaved here as well. it was their work that made monticello what it was and many senses made jefferson who he was. when people leave monticello, i hope they get a sense of the complexity of jefferson but also how relevant his story is to the nation that we became. he's a man that wrote "all men are created equal" yet is a slave holder. here is a man that truly believed that government should be representative of the people even though he was very much a virginia aristocrat. i ho

so he returns to monticello thinking his political career is over. but then he is sucked back into politics and in 1796 he doesn't want to be in politics but his friends and supporters like madison were pushing him he gave no speech but then when the votes were cast jefferson discovered he was elected vice president. totally accidental. he said the president was a splendid misery. but then again he is caught up in politics now hamilton is out of office and there is a split in the federalist party. so hamilton and adams dislike each other more but now this is the beginning of the party system is without meaning to he becomes the head of the jeffersonian party. so that election was very very complicated in that diary is with the supposed said vice president aaron burr. so then the hamiltonian federalist say we all like jefferson and so have her elected then hamilton came to his senses and absolutely despised aaron burr so there is the total energy behind jefferson. said jefferson is elected president in february and takes office two weeks later than re

monticello. monticello's the first place i went, historic site i ever visited. i grew up in pittsburgh, pennsylvania. i was very interested in history. when i went to monticello, things changed. but when i started to believe about adams, i thought, what an amazing story. and when i began to try and get inside jefferson's life, i thought, they're roadblocks everywhere. you can't get very far into the personal life. you can't get very close to the human being the way you can with others. and particularly adams. jefferson destroyed every letter his wife ever wrote to him. he destroyed every letter he wrote to her. he would write friends of theirs who might have received a letter from his wife saying if you have any letters from my wife, i'd really love to have them. and then he'd destroy them. now, exactly why he did that, we'll never know. we don't even know what she looked like. and contrast with abigail adams is phenomenal. abigail adams in my view is one of the greatest americans ever. and the more i read about her, the more i read her correspondence, the more

. >>> so if you had visited monticello 20 years ago you would have come up the mountain and seen jefferson's villa. what we wanted to do was change that. we wante

brian: in your lifetime, you've been involved with jefferson and monticello, the whole sally hemmingselationship, they -- was not exposed. they fought to not expose it. what impact has that had on jefferson's character? david: it has had impact and it always will. the fact that he paid reporters to smear john adams. he was funding that. not the rules of the game. jefferson destroyed every letter he ever wrote to his wife and she wrote to him. what does that tell us? i don't know. washington did the same thing. it is a shame because we cannot really know those men as i wish we could. because of that. you take the adam's papers, there are thousands of letters between john and abigail adams. they are marvelous revealing letters. if only we could have some from jefferson and washington. they are always in debt. john adams was not in debt. he never had any money. it was a different ethic. i think we need to know more about the puritans. the puritans were not what most people imagine it i'm finding that out -- i'm finding that out with some of the characters i'm working on. the idea that th

if you go to montpelier and monticello and visit monroe's house you think this is modest. i thought it was unbelievable how modest it was. through archaeological digs the theory now is what we thought was monroe's house was a little guest house and he had something much bigger there that he and his wife and family lived in and that it burned and the record of that is a little hazy. but it makes sense this whole theory that the house burned and they have excavated a large part of the foundation for it. that just tells you the past is not totally understood. there is always more to learn. >> and each one of these homes, montpelier, monticello, mt. vernon they are wonderful to bring children to. they have so many child friendly programs. my kids have suffered through me dragging them through all of these places. when we were in the green room earlier, the vice president and i were talking. i knew he was a great military history buff and civil war buff. do you share his enthusiasm from visiting the various battlefield sites in the country and is that discussed in your book? >>

were more than 65 ceremonies across the country. 76 people took the oath at thomas jefferson's monticello home near charlottesville, virginia. a proud moment for them. by contrast, some young citizens face an uncertain future because their parents are undocumented. a florida woman has made it her job to protect them. here's manuel bojorquez. >> reporter: for norah sandiga, friday night means play time with the kids. >> i love her as one of my children. >> reporter: her children are from so-called mixed-status families. the kids are citizens born in the u.s., but the parents are undocumented immigrants, many facing the threat of deportation. there are hundreds of thousands of them in immigrant communities like homestead, florida, where sandigo has done something remarkable. look at that smile. she's become the legal guardian, not just for this group, but all of these. each of these files represents one child? >> one child. >> reporter: and how much do you have here? >> 1,029. >> reporter: 1,029? >> uh-huh. >> reporter: wow. sandigo spades every day fielding calls for worried parents lookin

. >> he was on the call at this apartment complex at monticello and congress avenue. >> we attemptedresuscitate the patient and assisted with transport. >> a rookie with the fire department, he has experience. he was a firefighter in salinas and a paramedic before that. the experience kicked in. >> someone was screaming my baby is in there. >> he went inside the home looking for the child room by room. >> the visibility was poor. we had to crawl around the room. we ended up finding the baby lying between the bed and the wall. >> he made his way out where the team took over. >> he handed to to me. like ooh i am holding a dead baby. >> thanks to the quick work and an intervention of a higher being the 2-year-old survived. >> the baby started breathing, pulse was back after cpr. >> we brought the crew back to the house for the first time since that day. >> a lot of emotion. >> they don't like the title of hero. that's what they are to people. >> we effected a rescue, which we have been trained to do. like i said i am fortunate the baby had a positive outcome. >> the 2-year-old made a fu

how would you respond to folks of eagle river, monticello, wisconsin.what is the fcc going to do to make sure people like them have access to the political resource? >> thank you for the question and advocacy on these issues. there's a lot the fcc can and should be doing, when is to reduce the costs of getting services, networks out to these parts of the country. spectrum will be a key resource as well. there's more to push them out of the marketplace and universal service support can be critical to many parts of the country, to areas that need it. >> i want to focus on broadband deployment and mention this is for the whole panel. there has been some confusion or lack of clarity as to whether the president's infrastructure proposal would include broadband or not. the initial proposal unveiled did not mention broadband, it was reported last month in iowa, broadband would absolutely be part of the $1 trillion package. because i'm concerned about the lack of clarity, and miss rosen and mister chi, i want to know where you stand with regard to whether broad

and monticello, which is in green county, near the illinois border, southern border of our state. and they are very diverse communities but there were certainly very similar themes i heard in their communities with their lack of broadband access and how it harms their economic development, how it affects their ability to attract new amilies to live there or vacation there, how it affects local health care providers to fully utilize the promise of health i.t. and electronic medical records. an example of which is in green county, the southern county i visited, the local hospital does have a sophisticated health i.t. system, but patients can't access their electronic medical records at home without access to broadband or do something simple like uploading a photo of a healing wound to avoid a travel to a clinic or hospital if there's no need. and so these were themes i know you're well familiar with. i also heard intense frustration of those people on the ground who just want to fix this problem, who want to deploy the fiber or whatever means. the disconnect between the needs of the

were more than 65 ceremonies across the country. 76 people took the oath at thomas jefferson's monticello home, near charlottesville, virginia. >>> proud moment for them, by contrast, some young citizens face an uncertain future because their parents are unok to protect them. >> reporter: for norah sandigo, friday night means play time with the kids. >> one of my children. >> reporter: her children are from so-called mixed status families. the kids are citizens, born in the u.s., but the parents are undocumented immigrants. many facing the threat of deportation. there are hundred of thousand of them in immigrant communities, like homestead, florida. where sandigo has done something remarkable. she has become the legal guardian, not just for this group, but all of these. each of these files represents one child? >> one child. >> how many do you have here? >> 1,029. >> 1,029. wow. >> uh-huh. >> sandigo spend every day fielding calls from worried parents looking to sign over legal guardianship in case they're deported. >> nobody knows where they go. nobody think they have a roof, this room i

at monticello to inspire himself. and then the third draft as we the people of the united states signaling the belief that we the people are behold are sovereign. as opening next week we opened an amazing exhibit on john marshall and his constitutional legacy. not only the great chief justice but also his golf stones which were at the modern ms. museum down the street. it was in operation that almost killed him. i'm really thrilled to announce that recently the charitable trust gave up a very important grant that will provide the money for new gallery on the constitutional legacy of the civil war and reconstruction it is exciting and important but we raised the rest of the money that will allow this to be open because we will display along with rare artifacts in a partnership with the gettysburg foundation the flag that he flew over independence hall. rare copies of the 15th amendment to the constitution. which made the promise of a new book the freedom of gettysburg reality and the constitutional progress. in a way t

there was someone who went to monticello and visited the house. he climbed up to the top of the dome of the house, and in that dome was sally's bedroom. it was only accessible to jefferson. for me, that is an architectural symbol of some of the contradictions he seems to have harbored at the same time. he took pleasure from the flesh of african-americans, both carnal flesh and -- both carnal pleasure and economic pleasure, but he would not allow that african-americans could have intelligence, or had rights. for me, his dismissive attitude toward phillis wheatley is not really a surprise. >> i just want to thank you for having this. apologies, because i have laryngitis. i wanted to ask -- there was something i read about an inquiry that phillis wheatley was subjected to prior to the publication of her book. i think benjamin franklin was there -- subject to this inquiry by john hancock and the declaration of independence. i was wondering if you could talk about that. that seems to correspond with the idea of phillis living at a transitional point, a

you have been to monticello.e know it's one of the three accomplishments that he put over his grave. jefferson was the author of the statute. and he declared that neither religious nor political leaders had any dominion over the faith of others. punishing people for their religious beliefs or declaring them unworthy of public office was depriving them of advantages with which they had a natural right. our civil rights, jefferson wrote, have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in psychics or geometry. now again, madison and jefferson were on the frontier of thought here. it had long been believed that there should be an established church in the church in a case of virginia. and that religious conformity had to be imposed. but madison and jefferson saw it differently. now the statute failed to pass when they first tried to get it through the virginia assembly. then jefferson went off to paris for five years and while he was gone, madison who was the sharpest politician among the foun

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i lived in boston and there was a nightclub, caesar's monticello in framingham massachusetts and it took my wife. it was 9 million guys and they were all half drunk and tiny tim had walked in. everybody was tiny tim, tiny tim. he was just a crazy time. frank sinatra took pictures for "life" magazine. there were no precedence. if muhammad ali was just another guy, he got celebrity justice singled out because of things he had said so he was kind of singled out and classified eligible for the draft but at the end he got saved with celebrity justice because his reputation was such. it's an odd dating the way it all went. if he had been another guy he would have been either in the service or at leavenworth i think. he had lawyers to back him up. >> any more questions? i will come over with the microphone. >> i remember his later years and how weak he looked from parkinson's disease. did he ever talk about that and how boxing had affected the rest of his life? >> well i mean, you know it's an easy top medicine kind of thing to say that boxing is what happened. the rope-a-dope and all that wher

i live in boston and i went to this, there was a nightclub, caesar's monticello and framingham, massachusetts, and no place i think my wife, she was young and we were there, there were 9 million guys and they were all happy drunk and the whole place went crazy. tiny tim had walked in. [laughing] everybody, tiny tim, tiny tim. it was just a crazy time. frank sinatra took pictures for life magazine, you know? no, there were no precedent. if muhammad ali were just another guy, and he kind of got celebrity justice in the first part, singled out because of things he had said and so he is kind of singled out and classified one a and eligible for the draft. but at the end he got saved with celebrity justice because his reputation was such. it's an odd thing the way it all went. if you been another guy, he would've been either in the service or in leavenworth i think. he had legal copy of lawyers to back them up. >> any more questions? i'll come over with a micropho microphone. >> i remember his later years and how weak he looked for my guess parkinson's disease. did he ever talk about that and wheth

take monticello, thomas jefferson's home. when i went to visit the first time it needed repair.e president of the thomas jefferson foundation and we agreed how much money was necessary and she helped transform it to a better place than before, i think. take the magna carta. the only copy in private hands? the united states. they lorn moearn more because i important in our own history, not just the british system. you can graduate from almost any american college as a history major and not have to take history. most colleges today you're not required to take any coarseness american history to graduate. no civics courses taught largely in high schools anymore. the truth, people who are naturalized citizens, you are. the test you took to pass and become a citizen, i doubt if most native-born americans could pass that test without an enormous amount of studying. we don't teach people these things anymore. it's unfortunate. famously it was said, those who don't remember history are condemned to relive it. they don't remember the past, as much, as they should. i'd like to preserve the

i lived in boston and he went to this, there was a nightclub, caesar's monticello in framingham massachusetts and i took my wife and she was young and we were there. there were 9 million guys and they were all half drunk. the whole place went crazy that tiny tim and walked in. everybody, tiny tim, tiny tim. [laughing] it was just a crazy time. frank sinatra took pictures for life magazine, you know, stuff that, and no, there were no precedence. you know, it's muhammad ali were just another guy, he kind of got celebrity justice in the first part, singled out because he was, because the things he had said and so he was kind of singled out and classified one a and eligible for the draft. but at the end he got saved with celebrity justice because his reputation was such, so it's an odd thing, the way it all went. it he had been another guy, he would've been either in the service or in leavenworth i think. he had lawyers to back him up. >> anymore questions? i will come over with the microphone. >> i remember his later years in how wiki looked for my guess parkinson's disease. did he ever talk abo

susan stein, vice president of thomas jefferson's monticello.t historical society, catherine robinson, president and ceo of historic charleston foundation. david row sell, the executive director of wintter museum garden and library. beth hill of for tying of new york, and bonnie cho of the delaware tribe of indians. [ applause ] >> and now i'd like to introduce the members of the board of directors of the museum of the american revolution. will you raise your hands so everyone knows where you are and that you are here today. [ applause ] >> these are the volunteers who have guided and sustained the multiyear initiative to create the museum. and now it is a very great pleasure to welcome the mayor of the great city of philadelphia, mayor jim kenney. [ applause ] >> good morning, everyone. i can't tell you how proud i am as a native life-long philadelphian to be standing here in front of this building and in front of all the great dig that dignitaries that have come here today. i just personally very much honored. it's fantastic to see so many of

jennae was a good friends with jefferson and spent time at monticello and they had a long correspondence with jefferson, who later repudiated it. they were mostly in federalist political circles. their kind of closest political sympathies were with the federalists. but they never got involved in federalist policies. that changed by 1796, as did the falling out began between france and united states. there was no smoking gun or anything like that that i find. but a french person was passing information, kind of political information to the then-french ambassador, who jennae had been expelled long ago and so they were understood to be in alliance with france at that point and there were some fears and not unfounded fears, vollnay was traveling in the west. it wasn't clear what he was doing. he was in the ohio valley. french officers were actually spies mo who were traveling along the ohio valley, along similar roots, looking at american forts and who were clearly drawing up designs for taking back this area. now i don't think ian kr kuhl was doing that and i don't think that vollnay was do

whether it's the mount vernon, like monticello, freedom trail in boston, our neighbor here in philadelphia, independence hall, and then also museums like the american revolution museum at yorktown and the museum of the american revolution in philadelphia. we're trying to hook more and more people on to becoming lifelong lovers of history, engaging rising generations in a real appreciation of the sacrifices and struggles and achievements and the ongoing need as americans to continue to be actively engaged as citizens. so we couldn't be warmer wishers for our companions in virginia. >> and one of the goals that we have here. we'll go to gary in michigan next. >> caller: hi, scott. i wanted to ask you about the mannequins. i'm sure you were involved in the french and indian war exhibit that tousred the countr and they have some excellent mannequins. can you talk a little bit about the mannequins at the garry. including the two behind you. >> yes, right over my shoulder. ur like to say at this time of the night they all come alive and they look like they're from real people. and in fact they a