for free transscripts or to give us your comments about this program, visit us at qanda.org. "q and a" programs are also available as c-span podcasts. >>> i don't think the president could have gotten away with it. >> pulitzer prize winning reporter and author tim weinert reveals the fbi's 100-year hidden history and j. edgar hoover's war against spies and terrorists. >> he stands alone like a statue encased in grime. as one of the most powerful men who ever served in washington in the tw20th century. 11 presidents, 48 years. from woodrow wilson to richard nixon. there's no one like him. and a great deal of what we k w know, what we think we know is myth and legend. >> a history of the fbi sunday night at 8:00 on c-span's "q and a." >>> ernest hemingway is considered one of the great american writers and his work still influence readers today, but not many people know of his work as a spy during world war ii. >> there were a couple of instances that he was aware of when german submarines approaching fishing boats and saying, hey, we'll take your catch and your fresh food. so,

for free transcripts or to give us your comments about this program, visit us at qanda.org. "q and a" programs are also available as c-span podcasts. >>> i was quite a radical as a young person and i was the one that thought that, you know, the -- sing we shall overcome was really not a very effective way of gaining civil rights and i think that i thought that more confrontation was needed. >> economics professor, columnist and substitute host for rush limbaugh, walter williams, on being a radical. >> i believe that a radical is any person who believes in personal liberty and individual freedom and limited government. that makes you a radical. and i've always been a person who believed that people should not interfere with me. i should be able to do my own thing without -- so long as i don't violate the rights of the people. >> more with walter williams on c-span's "q and a." >>> james madison, the fourth president of the united states, often referred to as the father of the constitution, owned about 100 slaves at montpelier, his 4,600-acre estate in orange county, virginia.

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call 1-877-662-7726, for free transcripts or to give us your comments about this program, visit us at qanda.org. "q and a" programs are also available as c-span podcasts. >>> each week "american history tv's" "american artifacts" takes viewers behind the scenes at archives, museums, and historic sites. in 1215, a group of nobelmen confronted the king of england demadding that their rights be recognized, written down and confirmed by royal seal. king john agreed, binding himself and his heirs to the magna carta or the great charter, granting fundamental legal rights to the noblemen, including trial by jury, habeas corpus and no taxation without representation. the 1297 version is still a law on the books in england and wales and that version was the first to apply these rights to all english free men. the charter was later cited in the writings of some of the founding fathers as they sought the same political writes leading up to the american revolution. in 2007, philanthropist david rubenstein purchased for $21 million one of only four original 1297 magna cartas and the only original copy in th