thomas jefferson of virginia. all of these guys were busy with other committee assignments so it made sense for just one of them to take the lead drafting the document that they had been tasked to prepare. so franklin a gifted stylist and supporter may seem to ask the obvious choice, he was a good writer who believed in the cause but was also plagued by gout and was exhausted. robert livingston was on the committee really just as the token conservative. he was not there to do actual work. he had been urging reconciliation. he had been urging patching things up and was really there to make sure things to get too crazy. roger sherman as well. the guy in the middle was largely windowdressing. he was a good man. john adams once described him as being as honest as an angel but he spoke and wrote like he was in the 17th century and his colleagues found him strange if not weird. that left john adams, the short lawyer who wasn't outspoken advocate for independence, and thomas jefferson the call sandy haired planter who ha

so that when thomas jefferson sends ministers to paris to negotiate the purchase of new orleans, jefferson said whoever controls new orleans is our natural enemy, you think about western expansion. if you are a farmer, you're in the west. if you're in kentucky, or points west, you're not thinking about your produce, to put it across the appellation mountains, you're looking to float it down to new orleans. if spain holds out, you have a problem. so jefferson goes looking to purchase new orleans. they arrive in paris and the french minister says, has we, have we got a deal for you. napoleon has decided to unload. the war with written, the disaster in the caribbean causes napoleon to wash his hands of the french empire. this is not jefferson's vision. well, maybe it is. divinely ordained. maybe that's what explains it all. maybe it is chance. we don't like necessarily saying that. to look at this. my daughter does commit she did this, yep. but you could construct something like this. this is my notion of how indian gifts, the whole question of indian gifts affects american history. the briti

john adams for gave thomas jefferson.they have a beautiful, more than a decade of postpresidential correspondence. madison deeply respected john quincy adams. so there is no simple answer. their ideas, their opinions, their personal hatred changed over time and you see that a lot. >> we don't want to sugarcoat john adams either. he rubbed people the wrong way at times and we include that in our book. one of the things that is important for understanding the founding generation and the generation of john quincy adams is to get the full picture. these are human beings. there are elements to their personality that we today might have trouble with and they are not always perfect and they say the wrong things. the key thing is part of the reason his ideas get distorted is party advantage. you look at politicians today, think about people nominated to the supreme court. the less they have written the more likely they are to get put on the supreme court because tons of paper and documentation can be selectively used against them

thomas jefferson of virginia. now, all of these guys, all of them were busy with other committee assignments. and so it made sense for just one of them to take the lead drafting the little document that they'd been tasked to prepare. now, benjamin franklin, a gifted stylist and zealous supporter of independence by this time, he might seem to us like the obvious choice to be the lead draftsman. he was a good writer who believed in the cost, but he was also plagued by gout at this time, and he was exhausted. robert livingston -- this is robert livingston the fourth person across here. robert livingston was on the committee really just as the token conservative. he was not there to do actual work. he had been urging reconciliation. he'd been urging patching things up, not independence. and he was there to make sure things did want get too crazy and run out of hand. roger sherman, too, the guy in the middle was largely window dressing. now, sherman was a good man. john adams once described him as being as honest as an

-- say hello, thomas jefferson -- >> hello, thomas jefferson. dr. bell: and between -- why don't we move you around? you are right the first time, catherine. the conversation between thomas jefferson and john adams. if i am remembering correctly, the conversation began like this. >> will you write? >> i will not. >> you should write it. >> oh, no. >> well, why not? you ought to do it. >> i will not. >> why? >> reasons enough. >> what can be your reasons? >> reason one, you are a virginian and a virginian ought to appear at the head of this business. reason two, i am obnoxious, suspect, and unpopular. you are very much otherwise. reason three, you can write 10 times better than i can. >> well, if you are decided, i will do as well as i can. >> very well. when you have drawn it up, we will have a meeting. >> thank you. [laughter] [applause] dr. bell: that took 30 minutes of rehearsal before we got started. i want to thank chuck and catherine, who were just fabulous. the rehearsal was for technical reasons. [applause] dr. bell: now, that's the conv

romantic truth was too important to him as a biographer to let it go so in corresponding with thomas jeffersonjefferson came back to the biographer and said you know henry had a long train of abuses. >> i would like to raise that issue of slavery because as you may have seen the musical hamilton that he was someone who purchased and owned slaves part of the problem we have found her worship in each gets recycled and this is something that reflects but it is true it is a striking issue for today that john adams and john quincy adams were not slaveowners but john adams did not come from a wealthy background compared to the virginia dynasty but this is part of the legacy that we have but your enemy can define who you are and put the label on you. the fact he was targeted to attacked by being in a defender of a monarchy in a superficial fashion even historians don't have a contrast between the jeffersonian democracy in the backward looking political position that was tricky because he is vastly different from alexander hamilton so even party labels you are right we should pay more attention to the

alexander hamilton at the time that treasury secretary, and thomas jefferson, secretary of state work pout a bargain with james madison. and they essentially say, look all the southern states will agree to support assumption, actually making sure that the federal government pays all of the state's debts from the revolutionary war if the federal capitol is placed on the potomac river. that deal is struck in 1790. you have sparlt the residents act. and it's agreed that the federal capitol will be somewhere between northern maryland and the confluence cht and i yooft and potomac rivers. and george washington is allowed to choose the sight and he chooses the present location. >> so, again, slavery, why do you feel that it o had an impact on the location of the -- >> the southern interests tahoe owe who are angling for a potomac capitol want to make sure the capitol is in the slave south and that slavery is protected in the national capitol. they are particularly interested in that because the capitol had been at philadelphia for a large period of time during the continental congress. and

thomas jefferson of virginia. all of these guys were busy with other committee assignments, so it made sense for just one of them to take the lead drafting the little document they had been tasked to prepare. benjamin franklin, a gifted stylist and zealous supporter of independence by this time might seem to us to be the obvious choice to be the lead draftsman, he was a good writer who believed in the cause. but he was plagued by gout and he was exhausted. robert livingston, the fourth person, robert livingston was on the committee just as the token conservative. he was not there to do actual work. he had been urging reconciliation, patching things up, not independence. he was really just there to make sure things didn't get too crazy and out of hand. roger sherman, the guy in the middle, was largely windowdressing. sherman was a good man. john adams described him as being as honest as an angel. but roger sherman spoke and wrote like he was still in the 17th century, and his colleagues found him strange, if not we

the champions of the two competing visions of america were thomas jefferson and alexander hamilton. hamilton envisioned in america, cities with busy harbors and smoke stacks. jefferson favored a nation of independent landowners. he did not want america to become like europe. where people worked for wages and became political subjects and not participants. jefferson's ideological descendants, included andrew jackson and james k polk. the president responsible for the mexican war. jackson and polk new for jefferson's so-called yoman farmers to flourish, large amounts of virgin land were needed. they added 2.1 million square miles to the united states. when jefferson took office in 1801, u.s. was 1,891,000 square miles. when polk left office in 1849. it covered 3 million square miles but became the 48th contiguous state. since then, just 700,000 square miles have been added. most of it alaska. i emphasize land because the mexican war was all about taking hand from mexico. and the mexican war was the first but by no means the last american war. it began on a questionable pretext. we have

the champions of the two competing visions are thomas jefferson and alexander hamilton. hamilton envisioned an america with cities with busy harbors and smokestacks. jefferson favored a nation of independent land owners. he did not want america to become like europe where people worked for wages and became political subjects and not participants. jefferson's ideological descendants included andrew jackson and james k. polk, the president responsible for the mexican war. jackson and polk knew that to flourish large amounts of virgin land were needed. so there's no coincidence that jefferson, jackson and polk together added 2.1 million square miles to the united states. although jackson invaded florida before he was president. when jefferson took office, it was 846 skwasquare miles. it became the contiguous 48 states. since then 700,000 square miles have been added and most of it in alaska. i emphasize land because the mexican war was all about taking land from mexico. the mexican war was the first, but by no means the last american war begun on a questionable pretext, and

the conundrum that is embodied by virginia's great leaders, george washington and thomas jefferson, those who gained us our freedom through their leadership, who authored some of our most cherished ideals, such as the notion that all men are created equal. yet these men held hundreds of people in bondage. both of them where wealthy planters with hundreds of enslaved people. they really embody that fundamental contradiction of american history. as we trace the century long period between the revolution and the civil war, we see the nation growing increasingly divided over the issue of slavery. as the northern states abolished that practice, the institution becomes more deeply entrenched in the southern states. including virginia, as well as mississippi and alabama and so forth. visitors will encounter a fascinating cast of characters in this section. one of the key figures we used to tell the story of black history is a woman named jane miner. she has quite an extraordinary story. she was born into slavery and worked as a nurse in petersburg. she gained her freedom in 1824 as a reward for

his other hero was thomas jefferson. so states rights, protection of slavery, another thing he is also known for, and he was also a slave owner himself. he owned over -- nine slaves? prof. slap: 10 to 12. johnson played up the apprenticeship, that he was treated as a slave. there was a difference in actuality. in his mind, he conflated the two. that is one of the reasons why attackeden -- he planters, the wealthy slaveowners who he sees looking down on the poor whites like him even when he becomes wealthy. he still identifies and sees himself as a poor white. that guides a lot of his philosophy. a lot of what he does in his life is that self-image of being the poor hardscrabble white person pulling himself up. i talked about how he did not like planters. he viewed himself even before the war and certainly when secession started ripping the country apart, he was with the honest yeomen fighting the slave-ocracy, the words he was what he called the pampered, bloated, corrupted aristocracy. these are people with huge plantat

john quincy adams was an absolute, as racist as thomas jefferson. his letters, his diaries, he was a racist. but, he understood, not everybody who was antislavery was antiracist. but, he understood that slavery was wrong. he actually worked against it. his racial attitude, this is something that is very tricky as a subject. it is something we do not think about that much. it left the currency of the day as attitudes about gender, men and women. >> let me ask you something about executive power. it strikes me, that, throughout history, and, i understand that congress had its moments, you know, during the 1800s. but, what i sense is, there has been a gradual erosion of power from the congress to the executive. , what strikes me is, four example, the president, obviously, as commander in chief, there have been presidents who do much, on their own, it made the decisions to go to work, whether it was the mexican war, vietnam, iraq, what have you, the presidents have made those decisions. the constitution requires that the congress declare a war. but, pre

obama to honor thomas jefferson's agricultural legacy. plants that were grown at monticello during thomas jefferson's time. this is one of her favorite quotes by thomas jefferson that always graced the garden. this is a sign we kept in the jefferson beds the whole time. how did we decide what to grow? it was easy. what the first family ate. we would work with the white house chefs. we helped out the first lady's office to help make this happen and bishops would harvest throughout the year. -- and the chefs would harvest throughout the year. all kinds of things all through the fall we helped provide. for the first family's private meals, but these were tomatoes and radishes, it was a vegetable kebab at one of the congressional picnics. i think this was 2015. also the things they couldn't use some the white house chefs would process them for later use, and everything else was donated to a local soup kitchen. at the end of the summer, the first lady would have another gathering of schoolkids. they would come out with the white house chefs an

so alexander hamilton, the treasury secretary and thomas jefferson, the secretary of the at work at a bargain with james madison and they essentially say, all these other state will agree to support assumptions, making sure the federal government pays all the state debts from the revolutionary war if the federal capital is placed on the potomac river. that deal is >>> in 1790, and you have as a result of the residence act and its agreed that the federal capital would be somewhere between northern maryland and the confluence of anacostia and the potomac river along the potomac george washington is allowed to choose the site and he chooses the present location . >> so again, slavery, why do you feel that had an impact on the look nation? >> the southern interest that are angling want to make sure they are in the slaves out and that slavery is protected in the national capital. they are particularly interested in that because the capital had been at philadelphia for a large period of time during cottonelle congress and littlefield was becoming increasingly hostile to slavery because ther

the champions of the two competing visions of america were thomas jefferson and alexander hamilton. hamilton invision in american cities with busy harbors and smokestacks. jefferson favored a nation of independent landowners. he did not want america to be like europe where people work for wages and became political subjects and not participants. jeffersons ideological descendents include andrew jackson and james k polk the president responsible for the mexican war. jackson and polk new that for large amounts of urgent land were needed. there is no quit since that jefferson, jackson polk together haddad 2.1 square miles to the united states. jefferson took office in 1801, the u. s. land area was 891,000 square miles. and polk left office in 1849 it covered nearly 3 million square miles, it became the 48 continuous states. since vincent 700,000 square miles have been added most of its alaska. >> i emphasize land because the mexican war was all about taking land from mixico. mixico was the first but by no means the last. it began on a questionable pretense. we have seen it happen since

what happened in haiti motivated al capone to deal with thomas jefferson and silva louisiana territory to the americans because it is being bled dry with the revolution going on in haiti. this book is written in 1930s so it is written while segregation is alive and well in the united states and colonialism is thriving in africa so many of the footnotes are reflecting on the reality of the world racially in the 30s while reflecting on what haiti really meant and it is a fascinating look back at the period. what a heroic character and ultimately tragic for the liberation of the haitian people and black people everywhere. and a fascinating book i finkelstein and silverman, two archaeologists in israel who are looking at modern archaeological finds and comparing it to accounts in the bible and maybe not surprisingly they find the bible takes a lot of liberty and a lot of things didn't happen the way they were described or didn't happen at all. that doesn't mean they are not valid stories but that history, the idea that the bible is historically inerrant is simply not true, not borne out by

i talk about thomas jefferson would borrow money.homas jefferson always bought things with credit. he never had any hard cash on him. he had real money on him. in charleston south carolina, we don't know about any silversmiths in williamsburg. silversmith by the name of alexander petrie. petrie would leave and go on business trips. abraham would run the shop. he would sell things. property.s considered when he was obsessed with all the things considered property and they assessed them at 400 pounds. off the ship cost 40 pounds. at 400 pounds that was a lot of money. -- finallyusinessmen he went for 800 pounds. to-three days wages. you cut that in half, there is a quarter dollar there were two bits per quarter. he would weigh it out and make something for you. everybody had some money. as that good? >> thank you once again. yes. theow we have come close to conclusion of our program this evening. an exitoing to end with from a museum theater piece entitled from freedom to slavery. us to explore the intermingling of three cultures, euro

. >> thomas jefferson questioned the need for a senate. >> the framers believed it. >> let's follow the constitution. >> the framers established the senate to protect people from their rulers and as a check on the house. >> the fate of this country and maybe even the world are in the hands of congress and the united states senate. senate:r: the conflict and compromise." we will look at the history, tradition, and roles of the united states senate. sunday at 9:00 p.m. eastern and

i imagine george washington probably crossed thomas jefferson and talked about how bad things were withferson in charge, and it seems that different with people in political office. my observation growing up in a small mill town in south carolina and seeing the changes that have occurred, i have an appreciation for why we have the trouble we have. you are in a country politically divided roughly 50-50, when you look at elections. generally every election, it is about 50-50, which makes people have starkly different views on our country. when you think about it have been through in the past decade, you understand people's lack of trust in our institutions. you have had the great recession, we have a situation where people over 60 were in jobs that they assumed were permanent and now they are not. we have moved from defined in a fit land to 401 k plans to sometimes no retirement at all. we have had people who haven't had wage increases for periods of time, we have opioid problems, you go through the , theof things going on rural communities in our country suffered a great deal -- i think

i write about thomas jefferson and there've been hundreds of books about thomas jefferson's weight islittle daunting to think about writing about someone else.. but if you haven't done it and it hasn't been done. you'll bring your own personal view and knowledge and expertise and that is what i wanted to do. i had a great interest in understanding the buck history and what was interesting to me was the jim crow era and the gilded age. these two areas came together in one incredibly ostentatious when people were put down for no reason other than skin color and how does collide so i told him a great story. you read about who is the president of the era. it's hard to imagine today, the most powerful groupe, of the tie of the people who build bicycles in the 1890s, they had a lot of confidence. there were groups ofnd tens of thousands of cycliststs went to washington for lobbying for the paving of road of good roots movements before automobiles. long before that. so come ifo you go down a parkwy and it has been paid, the author could start from a bicycle group saying we should feed thi th

and it was not a good outcome for thomas jefferson in 1807.merican economic history, this happening today. if you were a partner or so-called trading partner of the united states, i'd be very worried today. donald trump believes that he can dictate to his own people whether they trade in a foreign country or not. so this is more than noise. i suspect that the president may not understand the consequences for international trade of the game that he is playing with china. but his partners at the g7 are going to try to explain that to him. and he probably won't be happy with what he hears. >> or maybe he does have the realization and it is exerting power, exerting the power that he wields as the world's most powerful leader. >> let me say that is what thomas jefferson thought and the effect on the american economy was dramatic. the countries that he was trying to hurt, france and britain, they didn't get hurt. it was the americans that got hurt. northern new england states strted talkistrt ed started talking about it as a result. >> and it is imp

thomas jefferson wrote what many believe to be the most important document, civil document in human history. and he was a slave holder. we have never lived up to our american ideals. jefferson himself didn't. but what he wrote has pulled us towards justice for more than two centuries, and it still does. it remains this nation's north star. take a look at the klan, the ku klux klan. after the civil war, we saw a rise in the klan. it was beaten down only to rise again in the 1920's. in fact, in august of 1925, 30,000 fully clad klansmen in their robes and pointed hats marched down pennsylvania avenue in the streets of washington. imagine. imagine that today. and then the klan was once again beaten back, as it was after the civil war. how? the courts, the press, and yes, presidents, stood against them. and that is the point. our institutions often imperfectly stood against hate at moments when we were most tested. american presidents have stepped up in the past. george h.w. bush renouncing his membership in the nra. president clinton after oklahoma city. george w. bush going to a mosque after

a freedom loving virginian akin to other freedom loving virginians namely george washington, thomas jefferson, patrick kennedy and other founding -- patrick mchenry, and other founding fathers. story ofashington's revolt is a success story, unfortunately many attempts at , and revolt and the state other forms of resistance were not successful. that is because the entire system at the local state and national level was set up to preserve the institution of slavery. enslaved people and their allies who were trying to resist were fighting against insurmountable odds in many cases, and we see that in the example of dangerfield newbie, one of the small group of men who joined the radical abolitionist, john brown, for his raid on the october, 1859. this rate was part of a planned slavery revolt. john brown and his army were not only going to take weapons at harpers ferry, but they were going to add a new cache of weapons and march to the south distributing these weapons to the enslaved people they encountered who would revolt, and that army would violently overthrow slavery in the united states. jo

. >> it was created in a compromise individual concession thomas jefferson questioned the need for aenate. >> the framers believed -- >> was follow the constitution. >> it was established to protect people from their rulers and as a check on the house. >> the fate of this country and maybe even the world is in the hands of congress and the united states senate the senate, conflict and compromise, using original interviews c-span video archive and unique access to the senate chamber we look at the history, traditions and roles of the u.s. senate. sundays and i'm p.m. eastern and pacific on c-span. >> acting homeland security kevin maclaine and testified recently a president trumps 2020 budget request for his agency. members asked about the administration's immigration enforcement action and efforts to protect migrant children drug interdiction efforts and the response to recent flooding in oklahoma and tornadoes in missouri. this is about two hours. >> good morning this hearing will come to order. this is the hearing of the title resource needed to protect and secure the homeland. i w

thomas jefferson is going to refer to this very specifically. it is unprovoked murder. in open violation of honor in defiance of the sacred obligation of treaties which even savage nations observe. what is jefferson getting up here? >> using what the british did, it was straight up slaughter. we didn't provoke them. they decided to kill us and even savages could comprehend. >> this is no ethics behind it. it is fundamentally immoral. he uses this idea to say that what the british have done is something that is so barbaric, to use a term that this cannot be looked over. this is beyond right now. it is justification for the war. we talked about the idea of a just war principal. what makes a war just in a list every circumstance? it basically comes down to who attack sue. the americans are presented as an aggrieved party. they are fighting a defensive war which means what? >> they are in the right and their war is just. largely based on, a swiss philosopher who was law of nations is going to cast the correctness and the morality or the honor of war based on who starts it.

and also just to bring up the french revolution again, people like thomas jefferson when they are in france they are witnessing the estate's general meeting and the crowds that are coming and, you know, invading the assembly at points and i think that that -- you know, he is writing home about that and i think that that even subconsciously is influencing how they're thinking about where should the capital be, where should the legislature meet that is most safe or kind of insulated, if you will. and to the senate question, i think that that's an absolutely just great question because that is the institution that actually boils down a lot of the things that we've been talking about and i've thought about that so much recently because the senate is being discussed a lot right now in terms of is it still functional, does it work the way we want it to work. and i think that i come back a lot to how madison talked about the senate in the federalist papers as sort of a cooling mechanism. it is supposed to be the place of wisdom and it's not going to be directly elected by the people and it'

. >> thomas jefferson questioned the need for a senate. >> the framers believed -- >> let's follow theause addition. >> the framers established the senate to protect people from their rulers and as a check on the house. >> the fate of this country and maybe even the world lays in the hands of congress and the united states senate. >> the senate: conflict and compromise. using original interviews, c-span's video archives and unique access to the senate chamber, we will look at the history, traditions and roles of the u.s. senate. eastern andp.m. pacific on c-span. >> next, on the civil war, author cory pfarr gives a detailed reassessment of confederate general james longstreet's often-criticized performance during the 1863 battle of gettysburg. argues that longstreet's postwar politics joining with lincoln and advocating for reconciliation put him at odds with the majority of former confederate officers. this made him a target for those picking a scapegoat, to insulate robert e. lee for responsibility for confederate performance during the battle. the get his birth heritage center in pe

and also just to bring up the french revolution again, people like thomas jefferson when they are in france they are witnessing the states general meeting and the crowds that are coming. and invading the assembly at points. and he is riding home about that. i think that that subconsciously is influencing how they are thinking about where should the b. where should the legislature meet that is most safe or insulated if you will. and to the senate question, i think that is a great question because that is the institution that boils down a lot of the things we have been talking about. i thought about that so much recently because the senate is being discussed a lot right now in terms of is it still functional. does it work the way we wanted to work. i come back a lot to how medicine talked about the senate and the federalist papers as the cooling mechanism and it is the place of wisdom and it will not be directly elected to the people. it is supposed to be this check and wise body. i think what is interesting is he writes in that way as a limit on too much democracy as gabe was saying e

. >> thomas jefferson questioned the need for the senate. >> let's follow the constitution. >> to protectas a check on the house. >> the state of this country and maybe even the world lies in the hands of congress and the u.s. senate. and-span's video archives unique access to the senate chamber, we will look at the history, traditions, and roles of the u.s. senate. sunday at 9:00 p.m. eastern and pacific. >> labor day weekend on american history tv. tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on lectures in history, a discussion about abraham lincoln and native americans. sunday at 4:00 p.m. on real tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastername5

we are the constant reminder of really theie at our origins, that while thomas jefferson was writing the declaration of independence, s enslaved brother-in-law was there to serve him and make sure that he's comfortable. so, i think this is-- explains a lot, um, the continued perception that black people are a problem, that black people are, uh, as abraham lincoln said, "a troublesome presence in american democracy," because every time you see us you have to be reminded of our original sin, and no one wants to be reminded of sin. we're ashamed of sin. >> sreenivasan: nicole hannah- jones, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> sreenivasan: singer- csongwriter ben folds fire to prominence in the 1990's as the leader of the band ben folds five, which, in keeping with thr particrand of humor that runs in and out of his work, had only three members. now, folds has added author to his resume, and he recently sat down with newshour weekend's to casciatoscuss his new memoir. ( cheers and applause ) ♪ ♪ ♪ and so annie waits annie waits ♪ annie waits for a call >> reporter: you might have been ab

means we believe in a restoration of the pure truth that jesus taught which is something that thomas jefferson, roger williams and other great defenders of religious freedom championed, the idea of a restoration of religious truth. so my book was written to make an apologetic case for "there's a god by wherein to include more relations traditions and the lds religious tradition is the one it's aimed but religious believers of all stripes for people who doubt the existence of god, they can profit from it because the arguments north exclusive to latter-day saints. >> host: how did you get interested in. >> guest: i teach at byu hood, smaller school,. >> host: bring ham young -- brigham young. >> guest: yes. the football was good once upon a time. it's south of yellowstone national park. one of the most beautiful spot nets country, i shouldn't save that it because i'm trying to keep it small witch like the small town and the small size. so i have had visiting positions stanford university and and nowu and i love it there i'm. i'm an intellectual historyn and during graduate school,ow read eightis

the first big movement after the election of thomas jefferson and emily have a party name yet. they call it jeffersonian's. to decide they would get rid of the rule to introduce slavery into ohio. into people in the legislature were leading the fight leading the charge to stop that. to keep that from turning into a slave state one was general putnam who was the leader of the group that came out to settle here along with ephram. and the other was cutler himsel himself. and he is absolutely devoted to stop this and he gets quite ill. he could hardly get out of bed. there was even some question if he would survive. and the day the vote would take place, rufus putnam came into the boarding house room. he was old enough to have been his father. he came in and said you must get well and be in your place or doom and gloom to your favorite measure. according to one account putnam carried him to the convention on the stretcher. there is no reliable evidence of this but cutler himself went to the convention and moved to strike out to make my objections as forcibly as i was able. it was a

expert authority, thomas jefferson wrote to albert gallatin, "if the american people ever allow centralanks to control, then the inflation and deflation and manipulations will deprive the people of their property, until their children wake-up homeless, on the continent their fathers conquered". my background is american monetary history, and policy, and the constitution of light. i will be happy to help thank you very much for your attention. >> next speaker, please. [singing] single ♪ ♪ america, america, i want my money back. [laughter] people are telling their genealogy today. i say yeah,, warehouse local six. i was in that union for a couple of years. >> next speaker, please. step up, please. >> good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. i am from the medallion holders, not the union, but one of the medallion holders. we do support chinatown, and like the u.s. speaker said, there is a lot of homelessness and by san francisco city, not helping the taxi drivers they are basically trying to create more homeless people. please be kind to all of the taxi medallion buyers, and please buy those m

be nice for us presidents have paid for territory throughout the country's history in $83.00 thomas jefferson bought huge tracts of land in louisiana from france for $15000000.86 jumps and paid $7200000000.00 for alaska from russia and in 1970 the danish west indies cost $25000000.00 before being renamed the u.s. virgin islands john hendren has more for us now from washington. president donald trump's idea of the u.s. buying greenland might sound like a strange idea but there is a logic to it greenland like other arctic countries has vast natural resources oil natural gas fishing and sea lanes that carry goods through to asia other countries have been increasingly claiming arctic territory including russia and trump has been an outspoken admirer of latimer putin the idea according to the wall street journal 1st came up when trump floated it in the spring of 2018 to aids half seriously according to the article but white house economic adviser larry kudlow confirms that there have been conversations in the white house president trump confirmed as much on sunday but greenland says no the premier

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states and torture interrogation incarceration and abuse marjorie cohn is professor emeritus at thomas jefferson school of law former president of the national lawyers guild deputy secretary general of the international association of democratic lawyers a member of the advisory board for veterans for peace hey like any issue immigration involves cause and effect most mainstream media coverage is in fact how the overwhelm system has become dysfunctional but there's little discussion of what causes those whom lady liberty calls the homeless tempest tossed to come to america marjorie when you and i spoke in april the usa was as it still is attempting to displace elected venezuelan president nicolas maduro with a puppet regime led by one goh i don't know is the southern border crisis chickens coming home to roost after decades of u.s. a regime change meddling in central america. well it is indeed holland the united states has a history of. and political interference in central america going back at least to the fifty's when the cia mounted a coup against a democratically elected president in guatema