please welcome james traub to the national archives. [applause] >> thank you very much for that introduction. when i was coming here this morning and taking a taxi to penn station in new york, every bus i passed had a giant sign on the side that said hamilton. and so naturally i thought what if lynn manual moran, producer, writer and star of the show came to me and said i have done the hamilton hip-hop things. what have you got for me with john quincy adams? so i thought i need to have a story to tell. this is the first book, i will tell you a story i would tell him if he ever came to me to ask. saturday, january 21, 1842, john quincy adams who was then 74 years old, former president of the united states, former secretary of state, former senator and diplomat and now a member of the house of representatives of massachusetts decided to provoke a confrontation with the slaveholders who dominated the congress. for the previous seven years adams waged a solitary struggle to protect the rights of citizens to petition congress to end slavery

[laughter] talking about japan talking about a double traub presidency and the fact that he keeps saying on the campaign trail he will rework the trade deals with japan and china to the best of my knowledge delayed trade deal we have is what is coming up with the tpp. >> you are correct they are part of the tpp. >> but what will he say to assure the united states will live up to its commitment and agreement or even to go to capitol hill? >> what we do need to meet or complete this agreement is congressional approval. the good news is we know that there is strong bipartisan support on capitol hill for a trading group -- a trade agreement to cut taxes and others opposed on american goods. 18,000 in fact, for congress to act and implement the partnership agreement. as that continues to be a priority of the administration that there is strong support among democrats and republicans across the country that is why you have seen to indicate support for it this agreement because they'll understand the positive economic impact on the country in the president certainly intends to work in a biparti

but traub is a journalist who really knows his history. you might check it out. >> quincy adams is quite an interesting figure. his post-career. johnson also had a post-career, very short. to the senate from tennessee. >> a few months. >> a few months and that was it. >> i am from rhode island. welcome. i just want to ask each of you, when you started your careers, who is for each of you a lousy president who has been pretty good in your eyes. >> i would go back to reagan. i grew up in a liberal household. i remember in 1980, we had a mock debate in our high school and i played reagan because there was nobody in the school who supported him. i was the only one willing to be devil's advocate. i grew up in a reagan-hating culture. doing this book for me was really eye-opening in a lot of ways. i have not gone to the other side. i think that most of the prejudices i had growing up about reagan were in one way or another wrong. i have come to think that he was a much better president than i ever would have thought, and also a more appealing pe

. >> there is a new biography by james traub, he's like jacob, a journalist who really knows his history. >> quincy adams is quite an interesting figure. his post-career. johnson also had a post-career. very short. >> just a few months. >> a few months. >> i am john from rhode island. welcome here. i just want to ask each of you simply, when you started your careers, was there, for each of you, a lousy president that has since been considered pretty good in your eyes? >> a lousy president? >> i would go back to reagan. i grew up in a liberal household. i remember in 1980, we had a mock debate at my high school, and i played reagan because there was nobody in the whole school who supported him and i was the only one willing to be, like, devil's advocate. so i grew up in a reagan hating culture. and so going back and doing this book for me was really eye-opening in a lot of ways. i haven't gone all the way to the other side, but i do think that most of the prejudices i had growing up about reagan were in one way or another wrong. and i've come to think he was both a much better president i

. >> james traub is contributed carter author for new york times magazine where he has been since 1998 and a regular columnist for foreign-policy.com. his books include the best intentions, kofi annan and the un in the era of american world power. the devil's playground, a century of pleasure and profit in times square. city on a hill, the freedom agenda. in his review of john quincy adams, "john quincy adams: militant spirit," the author of the

or do they control the crowd here during the nasa's trump organization senior vice president, eric traubared thank you so much. congratulations on another big to read. is it a command but also these protests. these are the pictures america's big enough to. >> you see these guys. they are logged on kid. they are probably younger than me. if i acted like that, if i was rude to a police officer, my parents would've killed me. this is what we have to get back. we need to get back morals and manners in family structure. it's really sad that these are clearly burning sands, hillary fans. it is everything wrong with our society right now. maria: who do you blame? bernie sanders supporters at sunset earlier in the show? >> killer was paid people to stand up i had the other day. this is really the worst part of politics. a lot of it is society. they are not -- it was incredible. he was finite, on fire. he really acted out of the park. maria: it certainly feels like a lot of republicans are coalescing around donald trump now have a feeling like you've got be obvious that the nominee and they will