we have the thomas jefferson papers, 27,000 items. >> without them, we could not tell the story of ourast. we could not explore the important personalities, the major events in the history of the country. >> that is what this place does. whether it is books, manuscripts, music, maps, photos, movies, audio -- daymark many of the pivotal events in the evolution of the united states and the world. >> in 1948, just to give you a small snapshot, we acquired one collection. 40,000 glass plate negatives. that is the first photo news agency in america. >> if he spent one minute with each photo in the library of congress, it would take 24 years to see them all. if you spent 10 minutes with each map in the library of congress, it would take you over 100 years to see them all. and what about bookstacks one day with each book would span over 60,000 years. the jefferson building tells a story of the need for knowledge and the love of books. with its ornate italian renaissance style, it harkens back to european ancestors while also moving forward and featuring elements exclusively american. bill tha

thomas jefferson and john adams didn't have television, but what if they did? >> john adams is a blind, bald, crippled, toothless man who wants to start a war with friends. while he's not busy importing mistresses from europe, he's trying to mary i one of his sons to a daughter of king george. haven't we had enough monarchy in america? >> if thomas jefferson wins, murder, robbery, rape, adultery and incest will be openly taught and practiced. are you prepared to see your dwellings in flames? female chastity violated, children rising in a pipe. >> using that video, using actual statement made them. the editor in chief is nick gillespie, you made that because you were sick of hearing how much worse everything is now. >> yeah, every political election seems to be worse than the previous one. that's what we hear. when you crack a history book you find out it's prech status quo. >> covering your jackson, andrew jackson against john quincy adams. >> there were hand bills that accused jackson of massacring indians. indians. >> it on the flip side. adams was accused pi

in 1784, the congress and signed thomas jefferson the task of coming up with a way to create new states. it's not in the constitution, so we needed some kind of method for doing so. this was the proposal for new states that jefferson handed in, probably the first thing to street q. well that isn't what we got. [laughter] nor do we keep most of those names although two of them have kind of survived. but jefferson, what's intriguing to me is jefferson had a question as well, and when he issued this report and made this suggestion, she made a statement that you may not quite follow everything that he's suggesting here and i will get into that right after, you will hear the question and recognize the quest of thomas jefferson. with respect to the new states, the question to stand simply in this form, may be a ultramontane territory, that means west of the allegheny mountains and the deep delete to be disposed of so as to create the most immediate benefit to the inhabitants of the maritime states, these are the darker green states along the east. the plan would be laying it off into two or m

one of the constitution the first among equals the judicial the judiciary is article three as thomas jefferson wrote in an eight hundred twenty letter to mr jarvis we thought supreme court justices should have the power to strike them as jefferson wrote you seem to consider the judges the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions a very dangerous doctrine indeed and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy the constitution has erected no such single tribunals i know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves please read the constitution nowhere in it there's a say that the supreme court can strike down laws passed by congress and signed by the president nowhere and for the first fourteen years of our republic the court never even considered the idea as new pointed out hamilton wrote in federal seventy eight this is when hamilton and madison were writing the federalist papers to sell of the constitution he said he wrote the judiciary from the nature of its functions will always be the least dangerous to the political rights

thomas jefferson was the was credited with bringing eggplant to the united states so we have thomas jeffersonch break ... >>and he had his own weather center at his home and monticello virginia ... >>speaking of whethereather.. it is 80 degrees in chicago the 12th straight day we are at 80 degree temperatures it is a lovely july day we are going to take a look at the 10 day forecast ... temperatures will be going up over the weekend along with the humidity ... no cool air in that forecast ... overnight temperatures will drop to the '60s it will be slightly cooler along the lake tomorrow ... the beaches will be in the upper '70's tomorrow a little higher than the word today ... it will get quite warm this weekend.. we will begin to feel at saturdaythat saturday.. storms will develop by sunday afternoon and that may link error into monday and tuesday and scattered storms can persist into wednesday

and speaking of that declaration, of the 56 signatures, the guy who wrote the bulk of it, thomas jeffersoned here on his sprawling 5 thousand-acre property called monticello. what was once his home is today a year-round museum. >> after jefferson retires he is popular. >> reporter: andy marshall is a tour guide here. he first visited the property when he was 7. clearly something stuck. >> starts off. >> reporter: to say he is a fan of our nation's third president would be an understatement. have you memorized the declaration of independence? >> during the course of hume aenchs it becomes necessary for one political body. kidding. >> reporter: i think he called my bluff. one day a year monticello is more than a museum. on july 4th it becomes a symbol of american citizenship. when it serves as the backdrop to the most prideful swearing in ceremony in the country. how symbolic is it to be naturalized here in monticello at thomas jefferson's home? think of it this way. it is the difference between getting married at a courthouse and at a grand cathedral. she was born and raised in the former c

. >> this is the thomas jefferson building. the last time i went there, for the national park service, this is so important to them. everything about the system is so fascinating. you can see the atoms building behind us, and the madison building, which you can hardly see. this is the ceiling of the reading room, and as a depiction of civilization. this is the detail of this, and you can look in on this and you can see abraham lincoln representing us. of all the different countries to put together civilization, but i did, at the library of congress, everything has to do with the theme, of justice or knowledge or motions, chemistry all about us as a people. and knowledge, especially. anyway, he asked them to take these photographs in the library of congress. this is the great hall. i took a few pictures and i could see that they wanted to have more. i kept on going for a few more years. i was able to take a journey and get even with the art. it is everywhere you look in that building. and you can walk just by this. with this can

and i mean republican in the sense of the republic, of thomas jefferson, those kinds of people. the last lawyer who really believes that to enunciate the important principles of america is going to work. this is in a town where their first reaction -- i mean, tom ewell is an incredibly evil, disgusting person. everybody in town knows that. but they believe him. you know, they're willing to take his word even though they know he's lying completely, they're willing to take his word. they're willing to go out and try to lynch tom robinson, right? they have taken one of their upstanding citizens, bo radley, and locked him in the attic. he's been there for god knows how many years. has anybody in town done anything about it? no. lock your kids in the attic. that's the kind of town you're dealing with. as we're seeing this through the idse of scout, a child, we have -- through the eyes of scout, a child, we have to dig into it ourselves to see what's going on and once you do you realize that atticus doesn't have a chance. there's nobody to appeal to. he's going to lose. and the moral

you will recognize the quest of thomas jefferson. with respect to new states, with the question to stand simply in this form, how may the altar montagne territory, that means the territory west of the allegheny mountains, be disposed of so as to produce the greatest and most immediate benefit to the inhabitants of the maritime states. those are the darker green states along the east. the plan would be laying it off into two or more states only. it requires us to put the question and it's just form. how may the territory are beginning to be disposed of so as to produce the greatest degree of happiness to its inhabitants? there is that quest. jefferson had two things in mind here with happiness. one was much smaller states than then we ended up with. he believed that if a state was too big, it would end up containing people from too many, too diverse groups and would eventually crumble. he knew of what he was speaking because his state, virginia, at that point in time, included what is now virginia, kentucky and west virginia. and it w

c-span: and then you wrote about thom--thomas jefferson being interested in getting rid of the wig, getting rid of the bow. >> guest: yes. c-span: what's that about? >> guest: well, i think jefferson was very, very shrewd. and he saw that if you wanted to have democratic politics and you wanted to have participatory politics where voters were not just opinion-givers at--on election day but active participants in the political process, informed and giving opinions and sharing information, that you had to collapse the distance between officeholders and voters so that there wasn't this awe that made people tongue-tied. so he did everything he could to remove formality from the presidency. if the doorbell rang and he was near the door, he opened it. if he was still in his morning coat, he opened it still. he got rid of all the protocol. there was a--protocol at state dinners was that the president usually entered the dining room when the dinner was served with the wife of the ambassador of great britain on his arm, and then the ambassador would come with the president's hostess on his arm, a wi

i photographed the library of congress itself at the thomas jefferson billand you will appreciate the quality, because this is just amazing. >> we have our producer, we are doing a documentary that will be shown on c-span about the library of congress. we will get to your photobut people can go to your web is in a moment. site to see a lot of these photos. and this is a windmill. where is the>> this is in the state of aztecs texas. some of them are at the library of congress. they will all be given to the library of congress. i have a lot of planning to do. -- scanning to do. that is theodore roosevelt andthere is glacier national park. ilem. there is no where i haven't been. this is pennsylvania in the thomas country. -- tom>> what is your web site? and country. >> carolhighsmithamerica.com. >> the 21st century project -- what is that? >> i have done alabama, and 21st century alabama. so that people can see what i am doing in alabama, also. some of these are on the web site and some are not. >> will reward you get out of this, personally? -- other than going out to the country, what

and members of the democratic party thomas jefferson founded continue to promote the general welfare of america when for example franklin roosevelt passed the new deal or when lyndon johnson created the great society and cut poverty in afternoon ited states and for years the republicans have always a good general welfare they opposed the new deal they opposed medicare they filibustered things like unemployment benefits food assistance programs and now they're out rageous demands in the debt limit debate republicans with their libertarian and agenda read the general welfare clause differently than the founding fathers did they think the best way for the government to promote the general welfare is to get the hell out of the way and leave it up to the mythical free market the billionaires and the transnational corporations to promote the general welfare health insurance corporations that use death panels to determine if your organ transplant will hurt their bottom line like will corporations the spew of crude all over our oceans and suffocate us with the missions as they laugh all the

i heard on the radio that thomas jefferson owned slaves. he bowed to cultural pressure. some things are just wrong. week 32, i make the mistake of telling my mom i'm struggling with circumcision. i don't think so. i think of the stuff that can get caught in the vagina. that's not nice. andrea. if this child is jewish. he needs to be sircumicized. you don't want your boy to feel strange. that's true. i think my anxiety is fear of having a boy. i am terrified of boys. they are wild and smelly. i said, there is no way to know that. well i know for a fact you don't need it. like i wanted to talk to my dad about his penis. week 34, i don't have the double wide vagina i was hoping for. with just six weeks to go. instructions for peroneal massage. lock hands. apply lubricant. extra virgin olive oil. hold the thumb in place for two minutes or until it becomes numb. slowly massage over the vagina. it's best done with a partner. instead, i take a back door approach and use my finger. i have a lot of stretching to do. week 41, 3:45 p.m. it feels like i have to pee and poo. she says

. >> if thomas jefferson, rape and incest will be openly practiced. >> and what about regulate regulate. >> mr. gorbachev tear down this wall. >> and this is more to end the cold war. ♪ >> john: finally we're all taught that politics changes history but larry flint says sex lives just as much. >> private lives of presidents and first ladies did shape you on how things went. >> a politically incorrect look at history. that is our show tonight. >> john: what built the middle-class? unions i'm told you about unions landlords tell me when i confronted them about it, we built the middle-class they say. the head of wisconsin firefighters union. >> the middle-class would not be where it is today without the union. >> john: and they claim they help minorities. here is the sample of my interview with new york city's 34,000 member transit union. >> you discount the extremely positive impact that the trade union movement has had in this country, launching people into the middle-class. particularly african-americans and latinos. >> john: but that is just not true, say tom woods and day monday route

. >> thomas jefferson read about it in the newspaper. he offered to sell the library -- to sell to the library his own book collection. >> it turned out that he needed the money at the time. he was a very eclectic collector. he believed that you had to study philosophy, foreign languages, he had a huge number of books that were poetry and english literature. >> it was very flattering to congress. if you were going to govern this new country, you need to have books on all subjects. >> that created some controversy in the house of representatives. should we have books in foreign languages? spending the money on? jefferson himself. part of it was personal. there were some people who just would not vote for it because it came from jefferson. >> in the end, the house voted 71-61 to buy his library. 6487 volumes or just under $24,000. >> in 1870, congress did the single best thing ever did for the library of congress when it passed the newly expanded copyright act. it was a requirement that every new book needed to be copyrighted. if you look

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so i say thomas jefferson. >> the framer that towers over the rest is little thomas, little james madisonsomeone said never so much high ratio of mind to mass. and the argument we're having today is whether james madison, of the princeton class of 1771 can save the constitution from woodrow wilson of the princeton class of 1879 and the progressive movement. that's an intramural argument at princeton. >> thank you very much. and up next, will the melting boil spoil over? with immigrant change and politics struggle to keep up. >> announcer: this week with christiane amanpour from the newseum in washington, d.c. will continue in a moment after this from our abc stations. >>> the words of every american and many immigrants know about heart. give me your tired, poor, huddled message, yrning to breathe free. those lines greeted new immigrants at the dawn of the last century and now the conversation has changed and so has this meltingngot nation today's newcomers are not welcome with open arms. thee new immigration wave sees unforeseen challenges and unexpected opportunities. joining me, george

thomas jefferson wants the church out of the government, okay? these people want the government out of the church, but they come together in their views. presbyterians write: no law should pass to connect the church and state in the future. baptist louis longford, a very famous preacher, says the unlawful cohabitation between church and state which has so often been looked upon as holy wedlock must now suffer a separation and be forever put asunder. the notion we hear today from the right wing that secularism is invented in the 20th century, separation of church and state is something that's made up, these are 18th century evangelicals saying we will have separation of church and state if you want us to fight for the government. i'll conclude, i'll just read a short comment from the very end of the book. during the american revolution, virginia' religious disscepters demanded religious freedom in return for their full support for mobilization. the resulting negotiations changed virginia's pollty such that after the war efforts to reinvigorate the

think about somebody like benjamin franklin or thomas jefferson. they'll believe god created the heavens and earth. it is up to us to glorify and feel his glory and all of that. i think you have to come to a reckoning and have a moment in your life where this is something you can embrace and observed. and when i go out and let the beauty of nature, i can be overwhelmed by a more just like any person that has a consummate feeling. the source, i am not sure of. i just saw a film, a beautiful film. the attempt to render creation, the beauty of the afterlife. all of these very deeply kristian kind of things. it is moving to me. i can be moved to tears but i don't feel like i can embrace it. tavis: my mother and all those folks the on veronese as we speak, praying for you, that god will show you a lie. the light. >> i will take all the pressures i can get. tavis: it is one thing for us to pray for you and you welcome the players, but the question is whether or not they should feel sorry for you. >> if they want to, they can feel compassion for me, but i

dozens of immigrants made the trek to thomas jefferson's home to mark america's 235th birthday and become u.s. citizens. 77 people from 44 different countries were sworn in at the annual naturalization ceremony, making them america's newest citizens and a welcome addition. always great to see that on the fourth of july. you think of traditional fireworks and everything like that, but that's always a good way to remember what it's all about. >> i always like to see regular americans take the test and see how many of those questions they -- >> that we're not going to do here this morning. we are not going to do that here this morning. i'm lynn berry, and this is "early today," just your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. >>> right now back to work after a night full of oohs and aahs in the nation's capital. >> that was last night. this is this morning, very early this morning, skies are clear of fireworks this morning. we'll find out about the weather in just a minute. good morning. i'm joe krebs. >> and i'm aaron gilchrist. eun yang has the day off. welcome to "news 4 today."

dozens of immigrants made the trek to thomas jefferson's home to mark america's 235th birthday and become u.s. citizens. 77 people from 44 different countries were sworn in at the annual naturalization ceremony, making them america's newest citizens and a welcome addition. i'm lynn berry and this is early today, just your first stop of the day, today, on your nbc station. >>> do not adjust your television. one animal does kind of look like an optical illusion. take a look at this very rare donkra. a cross between a donkey and a zebra. a zoo in china has a lot of folks scratching their heads by showing off the crossbreed. with its size and head similar to a donkey and legs striped like a zeep zebra. mom is taking him in as one of her own. >>> next is a sing-along that was a true group effort. 20,000 performers belted out some serious notes at a song festival in astonia. the mass choir brought in over 100,000 people, 8% of the small country's population to watch. everyone was welcomed to join in. the youngest participant was 5 years old. the oldest was 80. >>> here's a man who not only defi

thomas jefferson once said that all men are created equal, a phrase which the yankees and the side of the executive branch in washington are fond at hurling at us. there is a tendency in this year of grace, 1935, to use this phrase out of context to satisfy all conditions, the most ridiculous example i can think of is when the people who run our public education promote that stupid and idle along with the industryous. because all men are created equal, educators gravely tell us the children left behind suffer terrible feelings of inadequacy. we all know that all men are not created equal. in the sense some people would have us believe. some people are smarter than others. some have more opportunity because they're born with it. some men make more money than others. some ladies bake better cakes than others. some people are born gifted beyond the normal scope of most men. but there is one way in our society that all men are created equal. there is one human institution that makes the pauper the equal of the rockefeller. the stupid man equal of an einstein. the ignoreant man the equal o

. >>> when she goes to see thomas jefferson, i want to tag along. that is all i have to say. >> all right, it's just a matter of which way. >> and you summed it up perfectly there. and some thunderstorms in the area and is going to be a thunderstorm on the mall and that is impossible and we are seeing more activity to the north and the west, though, and there is the monument and it's hazy out there. we have been dry all day long. that is the good news and we have not been impressful hot. we haven't had perfectly blue skies or anything like that and it still has been pretty nice out there and the weather so far for jest about everybody has cooperated and what we're watching right now, some north of win chester. this is the thunderstorm and you see the blinking sign there that, well, a plus. that is an indication of the lightning at the ground and an indication of lightning that struck the ground and we know that is a thunderstorm and is drifting across over 81 now and to charlestown. and this is what has me spooked. it's moving in our direction and t

. >> it transferred from the state department their presidential papers, george washington, thomas jeffersonmadison, and james monroe, as well as alexander hamilton and benjamin franklin, that had been collected. they were being preserved by the state department. >> there are the core of the modern manuscript division. >> amazing buildings have been billed for most the 20th-century presidents. but prior to that, the pride -- the library of congress is the largest presidential library, having in its custody 23 presidents. >> the papers range from george washington through calvin coolidge. washington papers include his diary, pocket-sized, but there are other diaries as well. christ when he became president he went on a tour of it -- >> when he became president he went on a tour of countries. he noticed that in the places he traveled the roles were not in good condition and the places to stay were not up to his standards. and he said something like these houses are just, you know, the entertainment is subpar. some 18th-century way of saying that. but the reason he gave is interesting. he said,

john adams, thomas jefferson and james monroe all died on july 4 july 4th. >>> all right. the fourth of july, you will probably want to find some place cool. pool, sprinkler, water balloons. >> water is definitely the big word there. it's going to be really warm, really, really warm. we do have the high pressure ridge that's holding steady and will suppress that air quality. so we will deal with that as well. as we take a look at what to expect outside, we see mostly clear skies. we will see some patchy fog due to an on shore flow, but not much tomorrow morning. we can see the high ridge building over the forecast region. temperatures, we're warm, but they're going to get warmer. napa, 93. santa rosa, 88 was your high. for today we saw clear skies all around. air quality alert, it's going to be hot, all due to this ridge that's going to make it over the forecast region. things will calm down by monday. we have dangerous temperatures tomorrow. up to 106 degrees. sunrise, 5:53 a.m. we have a smog alert. we do advice limited exercise as well as staying hydrated of course. let