thought that was what it was all about. >> james madison and thomas jefferson were very close politicalllies. it is natural when jefferson is elected. i want to say something about jefferson's social program. it is not an accident. he was interested in securing his own political power. he had dinner parties with men of one party or the other. he would rally the supporters. then there would be a dinner party with the opposition. that was all about keeping an eye on the enemy. the idea brought up about the lack of women, which was why her role in the jefferson administration is not the big story of that time, he had seen when and women at social events. he was horrified and shocked, especially about their political power. it fell outside the official power. he cut off all the events and the white house was open only fourth of july and new year's day. that was partly because he wanted to curtail the power of women. there was something else going on. that was dolley madison setting up the connection of networked she would bring to the white house. during the first year, the center of social

thomas jefferson did too. people never saw the president, they never heard the president, let alone the first ladies. so the public perception, there really isn't a public perception. it's a good question but it's sitchpli a different time and it's not there. >> the white house was burned by the british and the madisons had to leave. the mon rose were able to move back in. how important symbolically was this for the country? >> huge. the white house had become in effect america's house. one of the reasons why then and

so there was a famous dinner that was held at monticello, thomas jefferson's house, where thomas jefferson invited james madison and alexander hamilton, and then over dinner at monticello they struck the compromise of 1790 which was that the federal government would assume the debts, the wartime debts from the revolutionary war in exchange for the capital being placed right here on the potomac river. so the compromise of 1790 was, actually, the key deciding factor in creating the district of columbia. they came here to this spot we're standing on now and had a masonic ritual. this is the masons had their aprons and the trowels and corn oil, and they gave some speeches right here on this spot and did the ceremonial laying of the southernmost boundary marker which is what we're standing over now. and that was how the district was created. >> next, bob matteson, author of "walking with washington," takes us on a tour of several alexandria, virginia, locations that were important to george washington. >> i retired about 15 years ago. i was looking for things to do, and the alexandria city arch

she had loved thomas jefferson as a friend and jefferson turned on her husband. >> the support of her husband and writing to him. >> she was with him all of the time. when he needed her, she was there. >> was their need for her to respond to the press? >> not that i could think of. her avenue of responding to the press was, she was in favor of the sedition law. she likes the idea of curtailing the press. >> let's take our next call. caller: good program. nursing for taking my call. i'm a member of the press -- thank you for taking my call. i'm a member of the press. a few callers insinuated abigail was not a good mother because of the situation with charlie and john quincy. i believe john quincy was a leading abolitionist. can we give abigail a bouquet of roses that maybe she might have influenced john quincy in terms of the color of a man's skin should not determine how he is placed in six id? >-- in society? >> we will stop you right there. let's talk about her influence. >> she did not see him again until he was 17 or 18. he became a man under the tutelage of his father. she was ve

he would pen a letter to thomas jefferson, leading jefferson know that he had lost a dear friend and he would say to his family, if only i could lie down beside her and die, too. >> can you talk about john adams life in the years after abigail died? >> john was surrounded by family. so he was not isolated. he had always is hostess and caretaker a niece who had lived with them for most of her life. grandchildren came and children came. there was always traffic through the house and people came and militia came from boston, as you said. so there was a lot going on during those years. he was quite policy. he couldn't write his own letters. -- he was quite palsy. he couldn't write his own letters. he kept this incredible correspondence with jefferson in those years. >> culminating with the two of them finally coming to peace and dying together on the 50th anniversary of the declaration of independence, july 4, which is really quite an amazing piece of american history. there is a question here about whether or not there is a lead line still living for john and abigail. >> oh, yes. why do

james madison and thomas jefferson were very close political allies. it is natural when jefferson is elected. i want to say something about jefferson's social program. it is not an accident. he was not interested in power sharing. he was interested in securing his own political power. he had dinner parties with men of one party or the other. so he would sit with the republicans, as they were called, and he would rally his supporters. then there would be a dinner party with the opposition, the federalists, and that was all about keeping an eye on the enemy. the idea brought up about the lack of women, which was why her role in the jefferson administration is not the big story of that time, he had seen women, and women at social events. he was horrified and shocked, especially about their political power, because it fell outside the official power. he cut off all the events and the white house was open only fourth of july and new year's day. that was partly because he wanted to curtail the power of women. there was something else going on at the white ho

so there was a famous dinner that was held at monticello, thomas jefferson south, where thomas jefferson invited james madison and alexandria hamilton, and then over dinner at monticello and perhaps a few glasses of beer, they struck the compromise of 1790 which was the federal government would assume the debt, the wartime debt from the revolutionary war, in exchange for the capital being placed right here on the potomac river. so the compromise of 1790 was actually the deciding factor in creating the district of columbia. they came there to the spot we are standing on now, and had a masonic ritual -- this is, the nations have their aprons and trials and corn oil. they gave some speech is right you on the spot, and the ceremonial laying of the southernmost boundary marker, which is what we're standing on now. that's how the district was created. >> next on booktv, learn about the history of the alexandria police department. amy bertsch uses photos to tell the story of the department and the city of alexandria. spent in the name of the book is the alexandria police association. it's a pho

other famous people who died here, including john adams, thomas jefferson, james madison. thomas jefferson had his dinner here. john cassidy had a terrific reputation for hospitality. he was no for the really great dinners he would serve. so use well-known all over the area and that's why the president of the united days to come here because it was probably the best place to eat in this entire area. the last year to establish restaurant in baltimore and washington city. when you think about george washington, you think of them as living the revolutionary war and being this is correct or in your dollar bill. but what is needed that gadsby's tavern is you see and dining and drinking, dancing. he loved to dance, telling stories, meeting friends to your and having conversations. ecm is a real person, not as a statue. we are at right now the ballroom and george washington love to dance. and all the ladies who they wanted to dance with him. the most famous person in the united states is a big thrill. in 1798 in 1799, they came here for birth date falls. the music was a gallery.

. >> parents and family, say thomas jefferson school are concerned and confused about an incident earlier this week involving a second grade boy, something they learned about only last night from a recorded phone message. >> earlier this week there was an incident where a second grade student went to the restroom. upon existing the student was grabbed from behind and hand was placed over his mouth. the child was able to get loose. >> parent found the message on her cellphone this morning. >> there was some detail to it, but it didn't give enough information. so i'm very concerned parent. >> according to the call, it happened near the end of the school day tuesday when the second grader went to the restroom during a computer class. police only learned about the incident this morning and sent a detective to the school to investigate. >> we're not down playing the incident. we'll find out if it was an attempted abduction or if it was another student just playing around with a younger student. >> he says he has lived here for three weeks but has concerns about safety at thomas jefferson. >> i

john adams, thomas jefferson, james madison, james monroe. thomas jefferson. a terrific reputation for hospitality. known for their really great tenors that he was surf. he was well known all over the area. it's like the president of the united states would come here. probably the best place to eat for the entire area. he left here to establish residence in baltimore. when you think about george washington, you think of him as when the revolutionary war in being the president and being a stiff character. but what's neat is you can see him as a human being. piquancy and dining in drinking and everything else. ..

. >> you say it is about thomas jefferson. you say i know it is about a dog in front of thomas jefferson. >> i just avoid the tweets that don't have my name in them. >> it is easier to look at the dimensions. >> jesse, you own a pet snake that you like to show off to the 15-year-old girls in the parking lot of albertsons. is that what pets are for to attract young girls to deflect them from your skeevy persona? >> let it wash over you. >> chloroform is old school. if you get him into the van first it is so much easier. normally i use the tactic where i put a couch in the van. by the way, swree one thing we have -- we have one thing to peek at which is your amazing skills. >> i like how -- i am being criticized by you on improve vaw swraitional skills. mr. writing my insults down on a paper and reading them. >> you just read -- you read the snake thing that did not come off the top of your head. my couch rebuttal is looking in your stupid, beady eyes. >> there saw lot of inside baseball going on. viewers might not understand. >

she hated thomas jefferson.nce he started his newspaper campaign against washington, and the reason he brought washington into it was to defeat hamilton. he said, it is a shame how much the president suffered from the source of attacks but it is necessary. she never forgave him. never. he never realized she was smart enough to see what he was doing. she thought he was horrible. the fact he was elected president was shocking. >> he made the mistake of underestimating martha washington. martha grew closer personally and politically to the atoms -- adams. she was glad it is -- it was tom adams. -- she was glad that it was john adams who won the presidency to succeed him. >> next week, we will delve in for 90 minutes for the life of abigail adams. how many years post presidency did they live at mount vernon? >> he lived two years. she lived 2.5 beyond that. >> what was the time like, their last two years -- their last years together as a couple? >> it was a great time. they were experimenting, dealing with the mill

>> this parent says he lived here just three weeks but already, has concerns about safety at thomas jefferson. >> i came to pick my daughter frup school for the first time. and walked to the playground and no heads turned. i felt it was too lax. >> the original message told parents for more information they can attend a meeting with the principal. and she told me parents will receive another message the meeting has been moved up to monday night. >> more fall out after arrest of this acting teacher. he is expected of molesting two girls last fall. now a handful of employees could face charges after failing to report the suspect add bus to police. investigators have forwarded findings to the d.a.to determine whether charges could be filed against the former co-workers. a bay area youth baseball coach wanted for molesting a young player and recording another one has turned himself n the 52-year-old surrendered at 11:00. he posted fail this afternoon this, is new video of him leaving the jail. investigators say charges date back eight years and there may be more victims. >> the oakland police dep

i do not believe that thomas jefferson and madison were sitting around and he says i have a thousand dollars and you have a hundred. i get some times more free speech than me. but said that cannot imagine that happening. that is what the supreme court said. system united really needs to be revisited in tackled and taking care of. it is corrosive to democracy. have about three minutes left. >> we sat here in the studio last year and you talked about pushing the union to be more politically independent special democratic party. as it turns out, you're pretty much in line with the democratic party and helping them out as you have been in the past. were there ways you did show your independence? >> when i talked about independence i was talking about building our structure. a letter whose structure its is, the day after election day they have the structure we do not. we talked a couple of non million workers. we have the ability to talk to nonunion workers which we could never do before. our central councils are all going to have to get -- campaign people in place year round so they will

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so there was a famous dinner that was held at monticello, thomas jefferson south, where thomas jeffersoninvited james madison and alexander hamilton, and then over dinner at mama jo and perhaps over a few glasses of your they struck the compromise of 1790. in exchange for the capital being placed right here on the potomac river. so the compromise was the key deciding factor in creating the district of columbia. they came there to the spot we are standing on now, and had a masonic ritual. the masons have their aprons and their trials and corn oil. they give some speeches right here on the spot and did the ceremonial lighting of the southernmost boundary marker, which is what we are standing over now. and that was how the district was created. >> for more information on booktv's recent visit to alexandria, virginia, and many other cities visited by our local content vehicles, go to c-span.org/localcontent. >> at the end of the working day, about 2 a.m., the prime minister churchill would say soup, out loud very loudly. staff heard that that was the signal the working day was over. the secr

his famous last words were thomas jefferson survive. y the very day several hours before, but adams spoke the truth. thomas jefferson did survive because the ideas he articulated endured. 200 years ago jonas phillips fought for the realization of principles. this clinic carries on the funding, to make america the home we can truly build together to fulfill the vision. it is my hope that through the success of your efforts at the clinic in stamford we will be able to echo adams and say thomas jefferson survives. monticello's legacy survives, and jonas phillips lives as well. thank you very much. >> our next speaker is hannah smith. >> thank you very much. it is an honored to be with you today. i just want to recognize some of my colleagues. our executive director, are two deputy general counsel, as well as art director of development. -- our director of development. they have been instrumental in helping bring to pass this day, and i want to recognize their great efforts. i would like to commend the efforts for his leadership in creating

some of now that thomas jefferson wrote a letter to the danbury baptists in 1801 in which he uses thee separation of church and state and in case there's anyone who doesn't know it, the sense in which jefferson uses that phrase is actually the opposite of how it's generally thought of today. today we often hear it means that state needs to be protected from religion and that religion should have no place in government or society. but jefferson and founders thought precisely the opposite. they knew that the state, capital s, was always tempted to take over everything, including the religion side of people's lives so they put a protection in something called a constitution, capital c, that the government could not favor any religion over another and could not prohibit the free exercise of religion. [applause] >> yeah, you're cheering for the founders, not for me. they wanted churches and religions to be protected from the government, frand why? because when people lived out the freedom and practiced deeply held beliefs was at the very heart of this radical and fragile experiment that th

thomas jefferson explains, the entire purpose of the constitution is to bind the mischief of governmentand stood there alone, something incredible began to happen. mike lee and i came early on to support him. then another senator and then another senator. we saw onet drew on, after another. we saw 20 house members show up on the floor of the senate.

so there was a famous dinner that was held at monticello, thomas jefferson's house, where thomas jefferson invited james. and over dinner, they struck a compromise of 1790 which was the federal government would assume the debt, the wartime deaths from the revolution war, in exchange for the capital being placed writer on the potomac river. so the compromise was the key deciding factor in creating the district of columbia. they came nea here to this spote are standing on now and had a masonic ritual. this is, the masons had the apron and trial and corn oil. they give some speeches writer on this spot, and the ceremonial laying of the southernmost county marker which is what we are standing over now. that was how the district was created. >> for more information on booktv's recent visit to alexandria, virginia, and many of the cities visited by our local content vehicles, go to c-span.org/localcontent. >> up next, peter dreier, politics professor at occidental college, profiles a collection of americans who championed social and political reform, including w.e.b. dubois, gloria steinem and b

form political parties which is particularly ironic because this is the guy who with his mentor thomas jefferson just five years later formed the democratic republican party which is today the democratic party the oldest functioning political party the history of the of the world so in till we change that first past the post winner take all system in the united states and either go to proportional representation which needs to be done with a majority of states changing their electoral laws or. voting or what's called rank voting which is how new zealand and and. australia got around this problem we're stuck with only two parties unfortunately mark excellent question sherry in port lucie florida a sherry welcome to the program hi tom are you here i am i am well thank you how are you i really enjoy watching you thank you i really do have a question for you and you're probably going to mark me at the races i'd like i have one question why don't we ever have. we just had the gentleman on t.v. he was being asked about his racist remarks by the older man there from what forever so far connie soul come

fact even our founding fathers acknowledged enormous benefits george washington john adams and thomas jefferson all grew them on their private farms and jefferson was even quoted once as saying hemp is one of the greatest important substances of our nation the declaration of independence itself was even drafted on paper derived from ham so what happened how did one of the most versatile and adaptable species of crops in the world also become one of the most politically polarizing agricultural resources on the early twentieth century the plant became labeled a threat to so dangerous that it should be wiped out it wasn't dangerous to anyone or anything except the industries that it could phase out of existence so what did the establishment do to ensure their allegiance to the very industries they serve well they did what they do best they lied and smeared hemp to a propaganda campaign that associated the plant with marijuana and in one thousand thirty seven the marijuana tacks. act redefined hemp as in our katic which required farmers to obtain a special tax stamp to grow the crop by nine hundred

he would pen a letter to thomas jefferson, leading jefferson know that he had lost a dear friend and he would say to his family, if only i could lie down beside her and die, too. >> can you talk about john adams life in the years after abigail died? >> john was surrounded by family. so he was not isolated. he had always is hostess and caretaker a niece who had lived with them for most of her life. grandchildren came and children came. there was always traffic through the house and people came and militia came from boston, as you said. so there was a lot going on during those years. he was quite palsy. he couldn't write his own letters. he kept this incredible correspondence with jefferson in those years. >> culminating with the two of them finally coming to peace and dying together on the 50th anniversary of the declaration of independence, july 4, which is really quite an amazing piece of american history. there is a question here about whether or not there is a lead line still living for john and abigail. >> oh, yes. why don't you respond to that? >> there were several messages. th

love their ignorance their bigotry and most of all their fox news from thomas jefferson to john kennedy we have always as a nation held high the ideal of a quality education for everybody as jefferson wrote in a letter george with his mentor and seven hundred eighty six i think by far the most important bill in our whole code is that for the diffusion of knowledge among the people no other sure foundation committee of eyes for the preservation of freedom and happiness preach my dear sir a crusade against ignorance establish and improve the law for educating the common people j.f.k. championed the importance of education as well. the american people all of us review one hundred. one or two thirds of every new hospital the national government we pay fifty five percent of all the research done we help young men become doctors . we are concerned with the progress of this country this is the only way we can secure action to keep this country moving ahead to have places to educate our children to have decent housing to do something about the millions of young children who leave our schools be

i don't believe that thomas jefferson and madison werecying -- sitting around one day and madison said, you know, tom, i have $1,000 and you have $100, so i get 10 times more free speech than you. i just can't imagine that happening, if that's what the supreme court said. citizens united and the whole influence of money and the political system needs to be revisited and tackled and taken care of because it is corrosive to democracy. >> just a for a minutes left. >> how many? >> about three. >> we sat here in the studio last year in the lead up to the 2012 election and you talked about pushing the unions to be more independent, politically independent especially in the democratic party but as it turns out, i think you guys were pretty much in line with the president and democratic party and helping out the party as you have in the past. were there ways you did show your independence before and are now? >> look, when i talked about independence, i was talking about building our structure or building someone else's structure. when we build somebody else's structure, no matter who it is, d

charlottesville virginia home to thomas jefferson and the university of virginia has a long history of being a voice for freedom now it can add freedom from drones to the list charlus rules anti drone resolution is the first of its kind in the nation we have a very active group of socially conscientiousness activists and they will often bring us issues that they see as emerging across the country and so we that is exactly what happened with the drone methylation the resolution which passed by a three to two vote calls on the virginia general assembly and congress to adopt legislation barring information obtained from drones by being used in court and the city has adopted such a ban locally the measure also endorses a proposed two year moratorium on drones in virginia council member dave norris who voted in favor of the bill sees the issue as urgent we know that these this technology is already being heavily marketed to local law enforcement agencies and other groups and there's even one county in virginia that already purchased two drones for surveillance and so we know it's coming and

hasn't quite worked out that way but you know it did work out that way for a long long time thomas jefferson crew the first free college in the united states university of virginia you thought it was more important i mean president it's on his tombstone being president isn't a design is jim stone isn't it important for us to go back and say this is crazy we had a deal that we would give you enough free education that you could get a job in the workplace it was twelve years since reagan it now takes at least sixteen years why don't we do what every you know all the other developed countries do and make education free. will we both know that education isn't free even k. through twelve education that is provided publicly is paid for by tax dollars and so parents are paying for their kids' education a lot of times through their local land taxes not nothing's free in this country but you are correct that student loan debt is completely out of control and a trillion dollars in student loan debt is incredibly suggest to you that to a student who is going to college and having to decide whether or n

paraphrased jefferson although he didn't he i think had i been writing it i would have said as thomas jefferson said when he was asked you know who should make the final decisions with regard to thinking this is in the marbury vs madison case. he said you know who should make the decision and he said the people themselves isn't this something that should be up to the states or is this something that the supreme court should be but i think we've seen over the years in the live the life of the supreme court is the supreme court has been a place of the great equalizer or the scales of justice where groups go to find justice brown versus the board of education roe v wade we see tons of those cases where the supreme court sort of plays that middle row where legislators that were you sort of take the legislature the politics out of it and the money out of it and you really have a conversation about the philosophical nature and how that relates to our constitution but aren't those both cases within had to have the court never ruled within ten years legislators would have anyway well i mean you i think

his name was godfrey and he approached me in the street and started talking to me about thomas jefferson and jeffersonian democracy. i was stunned. because there were teachers i knew and americans generally who couldn't find tanzania on a map. they know more about you than you know about them. that is sad. exceptionalism has cost us a knowledge of much of the world. one can liken to your years in high school when you knew the kid who finished ahead of you but you can't remember anybody who was in the class behind you. we happen to think because people are poor or less important, it is a sad state to be in. >> guest: gus, facebook page. with all due respect i think your words further and try to many blacks to find excuse instead of getting to work and doing better. we all have our in justices to overcome. you are speaking of 200 years ago. hart senate office building let's objectify this. use human rights language. the criteria were not just raise but raise, color, religion, gender and say we're going to select people by gender or religion. or nationality. we are going to take all the peo

thomas jefferson when he was a boy at two years old had a relationship with a 14-year-old girl, sally hammonds, that he owned and wasn't from the -- we know what it would be called today. that was routine. we lost any idea of who we were. it was our past, our memory was banished and we worked ourselves to an early death. rebuilt the capital, built the white house, and doubt harvard law school which was endowed by isaac royal from the proceeds and the sale of slaves that he owned and antigua in the west indies. these things were retained so any american institution transfers the wealth that they got from the work of people who were not paid to their families and making their line rich and impoverishing those who had been stolen and used in this way. >> host: mr. robinson how far back can you trace your family's history? >> guest: i am very fortunate in that we have pictures. i can go back to my grade, at great-grandparents with pictures and with my great great great grandparents with the story of their lives in the united states. but that is extremely lucky. >> host: it in "the debt" w

thomas jefferson explains, the entire purpose of the constitution is to bind the mischief of governmentwhen rand stood there alone, something incredible began to happen. mike lee and i came early on to support him. then another senator and then another senator. as the night drew on, we saw one after another. we saw 20 house members show up on the floor of the senate. [applause] i did not know they knew where the senate floor was. and something so powerful happened, which is each of you engaged. it captivated the country as the american people looked at suddenly elected leaders doing something we have not seen in a long time, standing for principle. [cheers and applause] that was -- the filibuster was the first time in my life i have ever spoken on the floor of the senate. [applause] to my grave, i will owe rand paul a debt of gratitude. that the first time i spoke on the senate, i had the opportunity to retry this -- read travis' letter from the alamo. the day of the filibuster was the 177th anniversary of the fall of the alamo. i observed to rand, a native- born texan, that if davy cro

ask thomas jefferson. we'll have to read that quote again. all right.ought this was the end of a nightmare but she's also very strong in the sense she's willing to fight again. >> she has to be extradited though. >> no. they can try her in absentia. she doesn't have to go. >> stephanie: they're saying she might never be extradited. we went to a book party for your friend's husband. >> andrew gumbel wrote with raffaele sollecito -- >> stephanie: her ex-boyfriend. >> i can never pronounce his name correctly. he wrote his story with him. and we went to the party for the release of this book. andrew and his cohorts were talking about how the prosecution had really bungled all of this and how this really came down to amanda and rafael sol ito not doing the right thing in the moment and making poor decisions but not that there was any indication they had done anything wrong. there is another man who is in jail convicted for having killed amanda's roommate. >> stephanie: she's back in seattle. >> she's back in seattle. rafael is back at home in italy. the two

that's a separate issue we do not have and we have the actual instance of the thomas jefferson experience with the barbary pirates where the number one problem was the barbary pirates intercepting our own products as they were being shipped internationally and he acted without. unilaterally without the authority of congress and he took the problem out they singled out people by name they put bounties on them and he and i have been killed and it established the actually that was it was during the adams administration it was john weatherly sensors that on the show not oh you know when i say that i didn't say we have an american so i don't know him and i didn't think of what he said the president now have the authority to make a finding this person is an enemy of the state and must be removed that is just not true i'm saying that's in article one it's not an article that's not right and it's congress to do it but that's why but the point the original question was the president well actually let's move beyond that as i think we've all established our positions on this wasn't this really rand