quincy police department have been unbelievable, they're with you 24 hours a day helping out.hey're doing what they can, even their families, wives, girlfriends, even the kids get involved, which is unbelievable. >> for o'shea who witnesses the fire, the scene has a dramatic impact. >> it's sad. it's very sad. i went out a couple of days later and bought more smoke detectors. >> despite the devastating fire, bose has an optimistic attitude. >> thank you, sergeant. >> my main thing is my parents and my neighbor got out and no injuries. nobody was hurt, no lives were lost. the fire department, nobody was injured. it's a house that can be rebuilt. everything can be replaced. it's going to take a while. but we can get back. >> within two weeks bose is back on the job working the 911 phone lines. >> one of the first calls we took last night was for a house fire. at first it was -- normal routine. transferred to the fire department and sent a cruiser down there and you have to be there when they call 911. that's what we do. >> from one dedicated city worker to another. >>> on a satu

john quincy adams was a one-term president like his father had been. the corrupt bargain arose out of the fact that in the election of 1824 there were actually four candidates for president. and none of them received a majority. in the electoral college, so it went to the house of representatives, where clay came in fourth in that election, which meant according to the 12th amendment that he would not be one of the ones that would be brought before the house. only the top three would be brought before the house. he was convinced and i think he might have been correct that if he'd made it into the top three, he could have used his influence as speaker to get himself elected, but now he became a king maker because he wasn't in the election, but he was still speaker, a very powerful speaker, and he did use his influence to have john quincy adams elected. >> you mentioned ghent. where is ghent? >> in belgium. >> treaty of ghent. we hear about it all the time. what is it? >> it ends the war of 1812. and it's an interesting arrangement because it is establis

again, john quincy adams was mentioned. that's the spine of american history. and i want to suggest, just because i wanted to -- my talk today is going to be about the constitution. that's what i do, that's where i live and move and have my being as intellectually as in the constitution, and i wanted to basically give you one kind of memorable way to to pull together the basic theme of my talk. i want to suggest that our constitution is in its basic structure far more jackson, andrew jackson-like, than we've been taught. i'll tell you at the end of today, three ways to sort of remember that it's all about jackson and for all of you, but in a nutshell our constitution is more small "d" democratic, more open to men that are born in lower strata of society, small "d" democratic than the standard story that many of us were taught, a story in the 20th century is associated with a charles beard whose work was mention mentioned actually in several earlier today. more democratic talking, andrew jackson was basically the leader of the so-called capital "d" democratic pa

quincy's right.y thing that would surprise me would be if we didn't have a 5% or 7% correction in any upward move. look at the united states equity space. fixed income in the united states, not necessarily treasuries. and that be your base camp. the valuations are still reasonably attractive. the earnings season is still quite strong for many areas of the market. even within europe there's troubled countries on the fiscal side but there's good companies within europe given all the valuations. we get some attractive entrance points. but emerging markets for longer term disciplined investors, look into commodities and emerging markets. we think the globally diversified multiasset risk portfolio makes a lot of sense for a lot of people. especially given liquidity as your benchmark -- >> stephen, where are you in the united states? in particular on the growth and fears that perhaps we're beginning to store and where we are on the earnings revision and the forward looking statements at the height of earni

to time and you could go and sit in the garden and it would be the kind of garden that they had at quincy with fruit trees and flowers and herbs and so fort. it would be sort of a oasis in the midst of washington and there would be other exhibits as well from time to time. the library of congress and the massachusetts historical society, which are the great repost torse of adams' family papers, have thus far said that they would be very happy to have some of their treasures on lone at the library. i think it would be in keeping with part of their great contribution to american life. it isn't just my view, it isn't just that john and abigail adams did what they did as patriots, as believers in the cass of america and the independence and's quality, but that they wrote what they did. they recorded what was happening. they described the people, the feelings of the time, in a way that no other couple did, and that in itself, those thousands of letters, were an enormous service to their country. i don't think they wrote them with that in mind, but that has been the result. host: a couple minut

that is a case-john quincy adams is a real son of a bitch. one i wrote the book how to live right about this guy? how can i write about this guy? he is awful. he is a full. i found he wasn't always a full. but he could really be hateful land he channels that you had to be a real son of a gun. he was defying the majority sentiment in that body and you had to be tough and you had to be pretty unpleasant. why the years 1735-1918? john adams is born in 1735 and henry is a fourth generation. he dies in 1918. that is the span of history these formats cover. henry is of the fourth generation, the grandson of john quincy adams, the great-grandson of john adams. he does so behind-the-scenes. the looking back at the history of america. he is trying to understand what this is all about and he is trying to sum it up and interestingly here is the man -- he is a sign of things like the defendant of the -- is history of the administrations of thomas jefferson and james madison are basically written from a populist point of view. as the heroes of those books

john quincy adams is a real son of a bitch. i remember when i started writing that adams book, i thought, how am i going to write about this guy? how can i write about this guy? he is awful. he is hateful. but i found he wasn't always hateful. but he could really be hateful. and he channels that when he is fighting the south to do what he did in the congress, you had to be a real son of a gun, and you just had to not care what people thought about you. because he was defying the majority sentiment in that body, and you have to be tough, and you had to be pretty unpleasant. >> host: why the years? john adams was born in 1735 and henry in the fourth generation. he dies in 1918. so that's the span of history that these four men cover. and henry, who is -- of the fourth generation, he is the grandson of john quincy adams and the great-grandson of john sad dams. henry is not himself active in politics. he does a little bit as a young man, kind of behind the scenes and what we now call liberal'll republican party politics. not succes

i'm going to support john quincy adams. so he made adams president. adams then made clay secretary of state, and jackson's people said there was a club -- he sold out his vote to be secretary of state. now, the reason i'm telling you, sounds kind of arcane, is that what happened out of this, jackson started running again against adams and clay, and clay realized that jackson was going to be a for mid able opponent so the thought about the only way to beat jackson was to organize so the did things never been done in america before. he said we need a county committee, a committee in every county to organize again andrew jackson and we need people there to help form a committee at every state level, and a national committee. we need have a platform, so we can have candidates run under. we need newspapers and raise a lot of money to put advertising in the newspapers. and so what you have this beginning of the political party, as we know it today, and it was all based on his antipathy towards andrew jackson. then after he lost, jackson defeated clay in 192

john quincy adams retained belgium. ulysses s. grant and william howard taft brought filipino to the white house when he become president in 1909. between 1860 and 1940, waves of african-american migration from the south brought an influx of new comers to the nation's capital. almost a reverse tide as we've heard from alexander this morning. related to the forced migration of blacks southward. some found jobs in the white house and established decade long careers at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. this afternoon, we are going to hear stories of a free man enterprising labor and life on the square. and a singular event often called the white house tea incident that reflect the growing tide of black contribution to economic, social and political life in washington in the 19th and early 20th centuries. first we'll hear from don graves a descendant of hotelier, who has spent decades researching his family's contributions. don called me out of the blue one day to inform me about his research and out of that conversation has grown a wonderful

john quincy adams. martin van buren. andrew jackson. their faces were made familiar through the work of matthew brady, preserved for us, too, are those early writers. pride of our early growing culture. nathaniel hawthorne. edgar allen pau. washington irvin. the beloved poet, walt whitman and what schoolboy doesn't know the faces of our statesman? henry clay. john calhoun. daniel webster. men who shaped and guided our young republic. they built well, but soon within the country's capitol, still awaiting the completion of the now familiar dome, the storm clouds of the slavery issue threatened national unity. as the crisis sharpened, brady saw a new use for the camera. abraham lincoln, whom brady has photographed as a young congressman from illinois now sat in washington as president of the divided nation. from him, brady received permission to make a record of the war that could not be held back. we are coming, father abraham, so sang the volunteer units responding to lincoln's call to arm. hastily constructed camps sprung up. cruel by t

john quincy adams was accused of being the czar of russia. they claim jackson's mother was a prostitute and was living in sin because they were on the frontier and the process, married his wife and so they called mrs. jackson horrible names and she died and jackson blames clay. the first time they tangled was in 1824 and both -- not two parties, only one. jackson, clay and john quincy adams. the results were split. jackson won the popular votes. had to go to the house of representatives were clay was speaking. play finished fourth. he wasn't one of the three names that got forwarded to the house of representatives. sir whoever he backed, jackson or a fellow westerner picked up the legislature passing the bill is going to back atoms or crawford? crawford had a stroke. can't vote for crawford. i hate andrew jackson. adams made play secretary of state. jackson sold out his vote to secretary of state. the reason i am telling you this, what happened out of this was jackson starts running against adams. clay realized jackson was a real opponents so

>> my name is quincy vladim er. >>it hasthis building has fecitd lighted for a number of years. structural soundness is for jerkily concerning. and offices have also stated the building is used as a shield for criminal activity and would like to see reduced. it is used not only as a public urinal, but at least four people to defecate on a regular basis. the department of public works spent a great deal of time and money cleaning that building. it does not make sense the building is allowed to remain under unsafe conditions for so violation and give the building, but the department seems to be very unwilling to use the tools at their proposal to bring the property to code and a reasonable amount of time. an example of this would be $6,000 in fines for apparently no reason. it does not seem to make sense. i want to ask the commission to look into this matter and take aggressive action against the owners. thank you. >> think you for your comments. -- thank you. >> any additional public comment? item #6, appeals pursuant to section d3750.4 of t city charter. appeal by joseph butler.

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and, in fact, john quincy adams in 1819 will negotiate this adams/oneese line that created a southwestern border to the louisiana purchase. now, many americans chastised adams because he had given up texas. he had sacrificed texas. and by doing so, he got that toehold on the pacific northwest. by doing so, he made the united states a continental nation. and guess what? adams had read latour's report. he can give up -- he can make some concessions there because it's just a matter of time before those americans will find their way into texas and take it for themselves. well, you know, some of my distinguished fellow speakers will tell you about how that really happened. but in a nutshell, jefferson's vision is coming to reality here. and beginning in the early 1820s -- come on up, there we go. stephen f. austin, as you know, will begin leading settlers into texas. other impresarios will bring americans into texas. how quickly were they coming? well, by 1824, there were roughly 2,000. by 1830, there were 20,000, and by 1835, there were 35,000. someone has turned the spigot on and forgot to t

polk was a democrat but there are complimentary things by sarah by john quincy adams and henry clay who didn't get along well with her husband. she was a gracious, elegant first lady. mr. smith had mentioned the sumptuous furnishings. sarah surprised folks that this wife of a democrat would have an interest in fashion and fine european imports. french gowns and elegant gown. one of you commented on her size, 5'2", very petite, wore a size 3 shoe, obviously a small waist. but it's sarah's sense of style reflected in the furnishings. the french vases, chandeliers. i mentioned this table, a gift right at the end of his presidency, from a friend, a diplomat in after friday california the egyptian marble with eagle and 30 stars for 30 states. if you look, and a list of when states come into the union you'll notice texas, iowa and wisconsin. florida came in the day before he became president but polk added territory in the west that would become states. now most of present day new mexico, western colorado and all of utah, yef, washington. all of that came into the country. united states truly

and even great northerners like john quincy adams, he doesn't say that much against slavery. afterwards he does. there's no openly anti-slavery presence before 1860. your simple test, someone gets up, slavery is wrong, you should eventually get rid of it. there's no anti-slavery cabinet officer before 1860. all american history. slavery is wrong, we should eventually get rid of it. andrew jackson, john c. calhoun from my college. residential college named after him. it is pro-slavery. the democratic party more and more pro-slavery and ruthlessly so and aggressively so. it's a cancer that grows and grows and grows and that's called the civil war. we were lucky not smart. and sometimes it's better to be lucky than smart. bismarck said providence in its infinite wisdom, god has a special place in his heart for fools, drunk ardz in the united states of america. so more democratic than you were taught, more pro-slavery than you were taught and, finally, much more about maturity. that's andrew jackson, too. why would 13 -- and you know the history of the world, up to 1787, why woul

he wanted to see documents of the precedence apparently really fascinates him, john quincy adams so we showed -- >> did he explain his interest? >> well, he didn't beyond the point that he was fascinated with the father son aspect of this adams senior -- bush senior, bush junior. >> i see. did he comment on anything like transparency of his from the documents? >> well, we tried to explain that we're an access ancy and that americans are entled to see the their country. i think in fact that i've been invited to come to bag dand see if we can't bring a delegation to advice them on organizing the archis which we may do. >> you've had an awful lot of experience before the archives with the arrival of measure of freedom to russia. the yeltsin and earlier in fact when you headed up the center for democracies, is that correct? >> 18 years you. >> are kind of an expert on freedom. >> not an expert -- >> you know that the iraqis -- did he bring any of this signing a constitution this year? >> i think all that i would say, john is they seem very determined on the score. he talked to the press in

three presidential libraries in a way, all the adams papers, all the john adams papers and the john quincy adams papers and a great part of the jefferson papers. host: i wanted to ask you about boards because you pop up, i mean, everybody wants you on their historical boards. how many do you serve on now? guest: at the moment, i'm on no boards. but i'm as active as i can stay working for mount vernon and the library of congress and the massachusetts historical society, the national trust for historic press evaluation, the new york historical society, monticello, public libraries in general. i do as much as i can to support, help, make known the opportunities presented by public libraries but also the responsibility communities have to spurpt them. i'm an honor rather member for a big drive now for the pittsburgh carnnagey library, which was the first public library i ever went to. i owe so much to libraries. i owe so much to the library of congress that i will do what i can to help the library of congress for as long as i can. host: you've probably given henry knox more pub blissity than a

adam, john quincy adams, had the same impression. he and jackson were looking over a map about something and jackson just exploded about william h. crawford who was the secretary of the treasury in the monroe administration in georgia and jackson himself was his biggest rival. just exploded and went on in a raving rant about it how despicable crawford was and adams was dumbdumbfounded. this is a man that doesn't understand the game. >> repeating what we said earlier. henry clay ran in '24, '32, '40, '44, and '48, you really want to say why didn't he give it up? wasn't there a message there after a while? he was the actual nominee of his party three times and the other two didn't make it to the nomination. do you have any sense of why he didn't give it up? he'd been speaker of the house. he'd been in the united states senate for a long time, he was there while he was running. >> well, he came very close in '44, there's some evidence he should have won that election. >> that was the polk election? >> yes. new york state had a great dea

has some stunning photography of the racks of the quincy. and they are still down there. these racks will be with us forever, you know? nature is reclaiming all that metal. and so, you know, being able to grab history like that i think is very valuable. >> did you not have close watchers -- [inaudible] all down towards giving us some advance warning of what was coming? >> we did. the question is about the coast watchers. these were brave souls in the. if you look at this chain of islands, the gentleman mentioned new georgia, there were essentially rogue agents equipped with radios. these were australians. these were men who had been working, they might have had kind of an administered role on one of the islands. this is basically a british protection of most of these on the. so you have these agents of the ground. you had people who are attached to one or another business, such as the pineapple trade, or what have you, maybe some kind of a government role as well. when the japanese invaded they headed to the hills and is applied the crucial function of observing movements

who warn that we should heed the words of john quincy adams not to go abroad in search of monsters to des provide. i disagree because all around us, we see the human face of america's influence. it actually begins not with our government but with our people. millions of people have been the cat at that time lis of democratic change in their own countries but they never would have been able to connect with each other if an american not invented twitter. the atrocities of kony would be largely unknown but in fact, millions of people know about it because an american made a film and distributed it on another american innovation, youtube. and even in our military engagements, the lasting impact of our influence on the world is hard to ignore. millions of people have emerged from poverty around the world in part because our navy protects the freedom of the seas, an you log the ever increasing flow of goods between nations. long after the last american soldier has left afghanistan, god willing there will be millions of strong independent and productive afghan women because today, they will

. >> quincy, what about technology? do you want to own it? >> you want to own it. they have pulled up and it's not just apple. take a look at where the old technology companies are. >> ibm is on fire. >> they are all moving. and we're seeing m and a activity in technology. the small and mid-cap in a slow growth environment. year going to buy another company for it. >> would you buy that here? >> no. i never buy anything that has moved up at this rate. >> some analysts say it could go up to $1,000 now. >> it will without me. it could go there. >> you know what i think is pretty interesting is the bid that we're getting in retail. i don't know if it's based on economic fundamentals, if it's based on what our guests in the last segment said, people just want to spend money now because they haven't been shopping recently. is this real? does it have legs? >> it is but i think you're going to see the retail one by one move over. it doesn't mean that it's dead. americans are going into their savings in order to spend. as long as the work week continues to expand, we know

bill clinton, princess diana, mother teresa, nelson mandela, quincy jones. these are like the icons of my lifetime. all taught by the inspirational hand of tony robbins. >> i don't know about that. i've had a ticket to history. i've been a chance to be around magnificent people and learn from them and in some ways help them as well. >> what is the common theme in their kind of positions where they're hugely famous and the pressures that brings. >> they all have something different. i get the phone call when the athlete is melting down in the middle of a sporting event, you've got to do something right now to turn him around. >> what do you say? when that specific thing is happening, what do you say? >> it's not a say, it's putting him back in state. you look at somebody like tiger woods. he has the same skills. what he's lost is the state, that certainty. i'm sure you've seen a sporting event, any sporting event and watch the person walk out on the field, go for a free throw, kick, and you know before they do it they are going to miss. that certainty is miss

vincennes, quincy and astoria went down with about a thousand men. you really could say the battle of salvo island was a disaster. the so-called defeat at pearl harbor, if you will, was simply the natural result of a with the l-force defending on a sleeping naval station. there's really nothing you can say about the failure of u.s. combat arms when they're rolling out of their bunks at 7:00. salvo, you had a combat-ready screen. competent command. we had a couple of captains and four-stripers in command. but they, essentially, patrolled this position. ie, they're sitting ducks. and here comes the crews rigorously trained for combat. this laid bare a number of deficiencies in the u.s. navy's fighting spirit and their doctrine all across the board. all the way to the shores of japan itself, launching airstrikes. but the surface navy, the black shoe fleet had yet to see its day. so the battle on in the potential loss, four cruisers, a thousand sailors, scarcely a scratch on the japanese showed us how far we had to go. so the theme of the campaign become

host: tom in quincy, massachusetts. we've got another tweet, this one from eddy evans who writes unintended consequence of publicly funded loans will be like this year after year after year. sthruent suffer as a result. next up is wilma in laraine, ohio. wilma is working on a two-year degree. caller: it's our experience with education. me and my husband both came from poverty. and i don't think those professors are worth millions of dollars a year. i think they should cut their pay, and i feel we could be educated for a lot less money, and these students are winers. my husband came from poverty. he put himself through high school, college, paid all of it himself. and the government, taxpayers don't owe these little darlings anything. let memory work and put themselves through school like we did. host: wilma in laraine, ohio. the off lead in this morning's "washington post," the consumers boost spending but low savings raise worries. this is by peter who writes the economy grew by 2.2% in the first three months of the ye

president john quincy adams used to skinny dip in the potomac and almost drowned.he fact that there were the fdr polio condition had a swimming pool build later and joined by jfk. and also richard nixon. we now have a president and at the end where you see the press secretary and members of the it ministration that is right on the deep end! {laughter} it is a metaphor. >>henry: beating suits. >> women in bathing suits we used to have to cover most of our bodies. do you remember the old ones? blunders! i have a picture of the police using a measurement tape on a woman. >>henry: using this as an amazing chronicle of history. -- bloomers! >> coming up changes with alameda county ♪ picking a wireless network is a lot like picking a team. you could go with the fastest, most reliable, and at the very least, talented at what they do. or... you could go in the other direction, and see what happens. pick the right team. with over 6 times the 4g lte coverage, verizon is the obvious choice. >>marty: welcome back. we are taking a live look at san francisco and mt. tam with ple

we should heed the words of john quincy adams not to go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. i disagree because all around us, we see the human face of american. it begins not with our government but with our people. millions of people have been the catalyst of democratic change in their own countries but they never would have been able to connect with each other if an and america did not invent. the atrocities of joseph kony would be largely unknown but in fact millions of people know about it, because an american made film and distributed on distribute it on another american innovation, youtube. even in our military engagements, the lasting impact of our influence on the world is hard to ignore. millions of people have emerge from emerged from poverty around the world in part because our navy protects the freedom of the seas, allowing the ever-increasing flow of goods between nations. long after the last american soldier has left afghanistan, god willing there will be a million strong productive and independent afghan women because today, they are the first girls in generat

we've got quincy jones even talking about this yesterday saying rest in peace, my good friend, dick clarkculture will be felt forever. and barry manilow, this was a sad day. he was a dear friend supporting me in my music for all my years in the business. great businessman and true gentleman, an inspiration. my heart is so heavy right now. so lots of heavy hearts. i've got just a stack of these quotes and rememberances from stars all over hollywood. so certainly, his legacy will be felt for generations. back to you guys. >> all right. thanks so much. we'll be talking more about this later in the show. steve? >> we will, thanks, brian. back in 1964, president lyndon baines johnson declared a war on poverty in the united states. at that time, the poverty level was 19%. little did he know that almost 50 years and $15 trillion later, the united states would only have lowered that rate by 4%. so is it finally time to admit that maybe we're not fighting this poverty war the right way? joining us right now is the author of a new study that asks this, cato institute fellow michael tanner. >> great

party who argue that we should not engage at all, who warn that we should heed the words of john quincy adams not to go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. i disagree, because all around us, we see the human face of america's influence. it actually begins not with our government, but with our people. millions of people have been the catalyst of democratic change in their own countries, but they never would have been able to connect with each other if an american had not invented twitter. the atrocities of joseph kony would be largely unknown, but in fact, millions of people know about it because an american made a film and distributed it on another american innovation, youtube. and even in our military engagements, the lasting impact of our influence on the world is hard to ignore. millions of people have emerged from poverty around the world in part because our navy protects the freedom of the seas, allowing the ever-increasing flow of goods between nations. and long after the last american soldier has left afghanistan, god willing, there will be a millions-strong and productive a

john quincy adams was the leading candidate of the establishment, if you call it that.ndrew jackson from the far west was the candidate of the fronti frontier. henry clay from kentucky was the candidate of the middle states and thomas from georgia was also involved. he suffered a stroke. essentially what it came down to, since you vote for the three candidates was an election between adams and jackson and clay and adams won the vote in the house of representatives despite the fact that jackson won more popular and electoral votes. he then -- adams then appointed henry clay his secretary of state and a corrupt bargain was alleged by the jacksonians and although it wasn't proved, it put some fire in their belly and the jacksonian democrats came back four years later and defeated adams handily and thus began the two terms of old hickory. host: back to the phones. linda waiting on the republican line from south dakota. good morning, linda. caller: good morning. my question is regarding the national initiative for the popular vote. host: the national popular vote interstate