cliques quincy adams was the first it was after he was president. to be a member of the u.s. house of representatives. he traveled to massachusetts we got to baltimore, the railroad had just started because to go by horses. he had where they put up on a flat car and hauled in about 7 miles from baltimore and then they lowered his horse and wagon off the flat car and with the rest of the way on the road. since the first piggyback operation that piggyback means placed on flat cars and when they get where they are going they fix them up and take them off the flat car. very few people know that first piggyback operation took place in 1840. it was the first sitting president to ride a train. he went to maryland by horseback and when he started back he had a crossing and they had railroad cars the call steam cars because the steam locomotive was part of the train. he got in the steam car and road several miles back. and he was astonished the train was traveling so fast. >> i can imagine that new technology back then was certainly impressive and quite frightening to a lot of people

>> well, actually, john quincy adams was the first, it was after he was president. he was returning to washington to be a member of the u.s. house of representatives. and on december 30th, december 17th, 1830, he got there and he traveled to massachusetts several ways, steamboat, road. they got to baltimore, the railroad had just started with cars being pulled by horses. he had a horse and wagon but they put up on a flat car and hauled him about seven miles from baltimore to his relay house. and then they lead his horse and wagon off the flat car and went the rest of the way on the road. that is possibly, well, definitely, it's the first piggyback operation anyone ever saw. piggyback means truck trailers placed on flat cars and when they get to where they're going, a truck picks them up, takes them off the flat truck. very few people know that that first piggyback operation took place in 1830. >> yeah. >> andrew jackson was the first sitting president to ride a train. he went out to -- elliott city, maryland by horseback. and when he started back he got to a crossin

secretary of state john quincy adams said, and i quote wherever the standard of freedom independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will america's heart hurt and her prayers be. but she goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. she is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all, she is the champion and vindicator only of her own. she well knows that by once enlisting under other batters that her own, she will involve herself beyond the power of extra cash in and all the wars of interest in intrigue. of individual, avarice, envy and ambition. the fundamental maxims of her policies should insensibly change from liberty to force. and quote. now and secretary adams recommended this the world was very different. and what he recommended is proven to be easier said than done, in the two centuries in which the united states is filled the continent and risen to responsibilities around the world. it simply is not possible the united states be merely wet adams called the well-wisher. although we long for freedom. it is not possible because our national premise is that t

and john quincy adams made his announcement in 1821, the united states had negligible military capabilities and as they pivoted the nation and protected by the existence of two neighbors and nations to reverse only by wind powered ships. two centuries later, the world is together by economic civilization and the globe has been trump by technologies of travel, communications and the projection the military power. the united states foreign policy should therefore adopt the prudence of the secretary adams recommended. it must however have a 2 trillion cents of the great responsibilities that come with america's great power and america's great principles. both of which were subject of the speech made 75 years ago in fulton, missouri. in the guiding foreign policy, the american mind is bifurcated. and on the one hand, we are a nation of immigrants, we are all descended from people who came here to get away from their, wherever there was really is too entangled with the wars and revolutions so, america's extinct of isolation sleep lightly when it sleeps at all. and on the other hand, where nation

really, this took off by the tenure of john quincy adams and andrew jackson. that is when the kitchen garden really got going. what i find very interesting, i hope other people do as well. i was able to track down the receipts for fruit and vegetable seeds purchased during the lincoln administration. >> can people eat today why american presidents and first ladies eight? >> absolutely, it is good to have a list like that from any american president, it is great if you can have it from abraham lincoln. today you can still purchase all matters of fruits and vegetable seeds, beats, turnips, lettuce, cabbage, beats, the like of that. you can purchase those online for specialized seed growers, i believe as a treat to those attending the event in person, in picking up their boxed lunches there is going to be a type of seed that would have been grown at the white house during the 19th century. >> that is a wonderful legacy, it is in our backyard. i live in washington d. c., same house for 40 years. my husband always had a big vegetable garden. it was only during the

and while he was not present when his father died, john quincy adams later recorded his father's last words, three very poignant words, thomas jefferson survives. he had no way of knowing that jefferson had died on the very same day. as americans then gathered across the country to honor the 50th anniversary of the declaration of independence, news of adams's and jefferson's passing spread. and what had begun as a month of celebration was now one of mourning and commemoration as citizens began to listen to eulogies, speeches, and tributes in churches, government buildings, and in public spaces. and while jefferson and adams had their own opinions on how they should be remembered, it would be up to those living in 1826 and successive generations, even up til now, to define and to shape their memory. while presidential sites such as yours are frequently called upon to discuss the legacies of people who have held the highest office in our country, and one way, one very important way, one iconic way, is we all know these men will eventually die. and it's how that death is marked and remem

so jules brings to mind another naked president john quincy adams. he evidently enjoyed skinny dipping in the potomac and there's a story that's told of a female reporter who found him one day when he was in the water and she yelled to him that she wouldn't let him come out unless he gave her an exclusive interview and then she promised he could go away and get dressed. so i don't know. this is another naked man. you're gonna hear four naked men in my talk tonight. you'll see how they come along. but anyway the other way that teddy roosevelt was able to relax his wildly eclectic sporting activities were matched by his reading of books in books. he found not only relaxation. he said but stimulation they were his greatest companions. he would carry a book everywhere. he went even waiting for edith to come down to dinner. he'd be reading a book. and somehow in 1902 when he was faced with the worst political situation. they had to face a strike by the mine workers against the mine owners when it was fearful that the fuel couldn't even get to new england.

it's a vision very close to what john quincy adams will have as president. and it is a vision of a nationstate that makes domestic and foreign policy in the robust way. and in that washington is a member of a very small minority in the nation. and anybody that opposes can lay onto his position because he is attempting to re-create the monarchy and of course jefferson is the main guy that is doing this behind the scenes. malone has spent 50 years writing about jefferson and said jefferson the 17 '90s i don't really understand what he is doing. it's been 50 years we don't understand what is doing. what he's doing is lying it is a treasonable. he is stabbing washington in the back. i might be wrong, kevin tell me, i have often said to students and i hope i was right, jefferson wrote to martha when he became president he was close to mount vernon, can i come see you? she never answered i don't think. she said that washington said i never want that man on my property. >> is right after washington's death in particular martha has a very powerful statement for jeff

it's a vision very close to what john quincy adams will have as president. and it's a vision of a nation state with fixed domestic and foreign policy and a robust west. in that view, washington is a member of a very small minority. and anybody that opposed it, he is a tory because he is attempting to recreate a monarchy. jefferson is the main guy that's doing this behind the scenes. douglas malone who spent 50 years writing about jefferson, they said that jefferson in the 17 90s, i don't really understand what he's doing. it's been 50 years, and you don't understand what he's doing? what he's doing is lying. what he's doing is treason. he is stabbing washington in the back. and i might be wrong, i've often said to students, i hope i was right. that jefferson wrote to martha when he became president, because he was only close to mount vernon. can i come see you? and she never answered, i don't think. but she said, washington said, i never want that man on my property. >> and it's right after washington's death in particular that martha has a very powerful sta

it centers on a statuette by john quincy adams ward, you might recognize the statuette from its larger than life-size version that stands in central park at the south and of the mall. is an elegant sculpture it contains these gorgeous textural contrast that you can see here between the two sides of the hide and the figure is posture evokes that of the ancient greek sculpture the borghese gladiator. it's defined by this strong diagonal and long stride. but this celebration of a young and free roaming indigenous hunter was completely at odds with the reality of the indigenous situation in the mid 19th century when the united states was brutally subjugating indigenous people through violence forced assimilation and land displacement and that's really the purpose of the larger vignette to contextualize and complicate the statue wards romanticized hunter is set against a map of the us reservation system. and in conversation with a painting of the new england pilgrims who appear in this installation to be walking across the continent to be walking across the map armed with rifles and bibles

slaves in the 1820's and supported the amistad decision which was a famous slave ship that john quincy adamsepresented the rights and resulted in the release of the captives of the ship. one thing about history is that it is not as history -- it is not as simple as it seems and probably he deserves some reconsideration. susan: in the war of 1812, was francis scott key a soldier? mark: he was a quartermaster in the militia defending georgetown and then in a battle one month before the attack on fort mchenry when british troops marched almost unopposed into washington dc and desecrated the federal buildings of the city, burned the capital and the president's home and the navy yard's and patent office, he was running messages back and forth between commanders. so he was considered an upper-class gentleman in georgetown and have certain privileges. he was opposed to the war of 1812 but when british troops were threatening his town and family, he volunteered to fight in the war. but his total service was probably just a couple of weeks. not a major or important military figure and that is one rea

john adams advised young john quincy, don't try to write literature you write about it, don't strain for thrills and fancy affect. write the way you talk, it's a letter. write the way you talk. so when you read his letters, you're hearing them talk and one of the things i've done my books, particularly in this book one of the ways i approach biography simply my way and i think it's the only way, to let them talk much as possible. most of life is talk if you think about it. how they talk in the words they use and figures of speech and expression, cadences are a reflection of personality and style, the person. abigail was hugely influenced by writings of samuel richardson, the great novel of orissa, one of the most popular in the 18th century and she wrote an interesting letter to a niece saying she wants to read clarissa and hugh ought to write the letters the way they are there. people fighting letters back and forth to each other and that's all it is. even when she wasn't separated from her husband, she would write to somebody else, to her sister, mary, some of the best letters she

in a brought me to adam's national historical park, which was john quincy adams home, and of adam family's home as well. if i was out there for research and they interest me in a job for the national park service and i've been working for the park service every since. but i looked back to my training in diplomacy and every day that i work here at the white house, i can tell you, i would never have used it as much overseas every single day and no matter what you do you need to go be a diplomat, you need to remind yourself of your mission, of what you're trying to accomplish. but you have to cooperate and appreciate everyone else's mission at the same time. we have 13 other federal agencies working on the complex, and we also have great partners like the white house historical association who help us in this and surmountable amount of a task that we have to preserve, protect and tell the story. we couldn't do it without that collaboration, cooperation. so, that needs to be done. sometimes those partners have totally different missions than we have and i'm sure all of you know that we have be

john quincy adams having all of his adventures in europe give us a good tenet story. >> okay so his back story he is this noble he is a rich orphan grew up in the equivalent of the sticks. he was a lord he lives in the manor house the big house of the small village. but is from a small village and today even a particular populated part of france, who moves to paris and winds up marrying into one of the richest and most powerful families in france. they are second only to the bourbon dynasty the royalty in place of wealth and lafayette enters this world. he just doesn't quite fit in. his manners are bit more bumbling. he barely clearly went through a growth spurt were he was physically awkward as he is going puberty and transitioning into being someone who could carry around he was kind of a bigger guy. and so he comes into this world and he has to hang with basically the rich kids. this is kind of a tale we are all very familiar with. someone who's come into a rich high school and is now suddenly trying to hang out with the jocks and the captains of the football team and hang out with th

kansas is your example >> in a now famous speech delivered to congress on july the 4th, 1821, john quincy adamse and sixth president of the united states said america, quote, goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. but two decades earlier, his newly independent country had already contradicted him. in 1801, the u.s. and its first foreign war for entirely overseas. the first barbara war was a conflict between the united states and tripoli located in modern-day libya. after pirates from the barbree states seized american merchant ships and held its crew for ransom, presidential must thomas jefferson fought back -- the 1805, after a series of battles, the united states formed an alliance for the deposed brother of tripoli's leader and soon emerged victorious. the conflict has been viewed by some scholars as the first u.s. attempt in a coup d'État through military interventionism. we all know it was not the last. this week, and your report asked for the first time, actually quantified americas interventions abroad. researchers from the military intervention project found that between 1776

i love his regard for john quincy adams for example. i liken that quote and i'm not here to comment but what i like so much on that quote is the word civility which is a lost art in the public discourse of america today and the sense of comity that existed among people who share a common goal and know that there needs to be a common and. it's gone and you write that in many instances we had a deep chasm's. the two sides seemed so opposed when politics trumps policy and in the sense of a national goal is gone and party goals matter more. leaders had to stand up for their convictions which had the backbone to do what's right irrespective of what it means to their political future or their chance of being reelected. we talk about the segments of government and legislative judicial and executive but there's a fourth factor. when we stand up and say no more of this, we don't take this anymore. when we stand up and say there's a person right there saying and doing the right thing and we are going to get behind her or him and make sure that at

john quincy adams, having all his advantages, trying to secure loans. give us his story. >> lafayette -- his back story is that he's this rustic noble and a rich orphan who grew up in what is the equivalent of the sticks. he was a lord and lived in the manner house of a small village. but he is from this small village, even today not a particularly populated part of france. he moved to paris and winds up marrying into one of the richest and most powerful families in france. they are basically second only to the bourbon dynasty, the royal family themselves, in terms of wealth and power. and lafayette enters this world and he just doesn't quite fit in. and so he clearly went through a growth spurt where he was physically awkward and he was kind of a bigger guy. he comes into this world and he has to hang with, basically, the rich kid group. this is a tale we are familiar with. somebody who has come into some rich high school. and he's gone to hang out with the captain of the football and the jocks and head hang out with a head cheerleader and he is really

john quincy adams, who the democratic hated because he had been elected president instead of jackson back in 1824, he's the one who had drawn up that tweet in 1819 between mexico and the united states. so they blamed him for giving it away, in other words. so if you want to annex texas you vote for polk. polk from tennessee. known as young. this is about polk, maybe i, might be wrong about this, but i think he may be the only president we've ever had with a mullet. [laughter] if you oppose texas annexation or are ambivalent about it, you would vote for henry clay that you. and so it's a play versus polk. clay never really comes out against texas annexation, but he never comes out in favor either. polk won by less than 1%, just about 38,000 votes, and it was new york state that tipped the balance for polk. he takes out his referendum on texas annexation. but it's a very close election election. in fact, had anti slavery purists not left the whig party clay probably would have won because new york would have swung to polk. maybe there's a lesson there for third-party -- i don't know. b

what -- john quincy adams, who the democrats hated, because he had been elected president instead of jackson back in 1824, he's the one who had drawn up the treaty in 1819, between mexico and the united states. they blamed him for giving it away, in other words. if you want to annex texas, you vote for polk. he is from tennessee, known as young hickory. this is polk, maybe. i may be wrong about this, but i think he may be the only president we've ever had with a mullet. if you opposed texas annexation, or are ambivalent about it, you would vote for henry clay that year. it's clay versus polk. poke -- clay does not come out in favor of it either. poke won by less than 1%, just about 38,000 votes. new york state tipped the balance for polk. he takes a referendum on texas annexation. it's a very close election. in fact,at's for another day tok about the so the whig party kind of splitting a little bit over the issue of slavery hands of democrats the election three days before polk took office in 1845, texas entered the union via tree. so while from some standpoints taxes is part of the

we should listened to george washington, john quincy adams, dwight eisenhower about getting involved in wars and foreign entanglements. i am so sorry. we shouldn't have ever been in afghanistan, especially as long as we were. i'm sorry. i'm an antiwar person and that's it. host: we are coming up on 7:30 a.m. the legacy of the war in afghanistan, we are asking for your calls and comments. here are a few of your comments from our text messaging service. again, we have that special phone line for those who served in afghanistan, (202) 748-8003 is that number. we will prioritize that if you call in. otherwise, phone lines are as usual. one veteran of the war, david petraeus the former commanding officer in afghanistan, he wrote an article in the atlantic. here is a little bit more from that. toward the end he writes: clark in new jersey. good morning. your next. caller: ok. we had a stable afghanistan until joe biden got in there. he abandoned our people behind the lines. he made the big mistake of taking the military out before our regular people. it was an unbelievable blunder. if dona

abigail adams the mother of john quincy adams and barbara bush was the mother of george w. bush.our of the white house and won a special emmy award for it? michelle obama, barbara bush, pat nixon or jackie kennedy? rachel: jackie kennedy. pete: really? will: i'm going with jackie kennedy. i'm going with you two because i don't know. thank you, rachel. will: she was so certain. did you see her? she buzzed. pete: i was going to say michelle obama. rachel: seems appropriate to say michelle obama. pete: definitely was not melania trump. which first lady was the first to own and drive a car? helen taft, florence harding, grace coolage, or eleanor roosevelt? rachel: going with helen taft. will: really? pete: eleanor roosevelt. will: me too. pete: he was in office for a time and for the car to be invented. what do we have? rachel. you got that right. will: yeah, she did. pete: look how proud she is. get that off screen and show her face. wasn't howard taft a hefty man? will: he was a very hefty man. pete: who set fire to a painting in 1800s? dolly mod san. james madison in the war of 18

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