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when i think of john quincy adams, of course, i of john adams. and the role he had in his son's life. and of course, people would come up to john and they would say, well, you must be so proud. your son and john adams would say he a mother, too. so i to think of him as actually the son of abigail adams. there is a resemblance to abigail and there is. well, one of the treasures that is in this room is right here. what is this? this is the desk on which the treaty of paris was signed, which ended the american revolution. the american revolution? who signed it. well, if we look, we can see john adams. benjamin franklin and john jay. is that the original of paris that we're looking at? this is a copy. but the desk is real. the desk is the absolute that everyone sat and signed. now this desk was also used in a new miniseries. yes. executive produced by author stacy schiff. that's correct. and we were certainly interested in this series because it explores a life of benjamin franklin in paris right at the time that he became a diplomat and some extraor
when i think of john quincy adams, of course, i of john adams. and the role he had in his son's life. and of course, people would come up to john and they would say, well, you must be so proud. your son and john adams would say he a mother, too. so i to think of him as actually the son of abigail adams. there is a resemblance to abigail and there is. well, one of the treasures that is in this room is right here. what is this? this is the desk on which the treaty of paris was signed, which ended...
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and would you say that john jay and john adams and ben franklin agreed on the goals initially? not at all for different reasons. adams and john jay are very to make a peace without the involvement of the french franklin because of his years at versailles has very very close relationships with especially the french minister whom he has promised that he will never negotiate without the involvement of france in negotiating a kind of without the involvement of france and. ultimately, john jay and john adams will prevail over franklin and the pieces negotiated any conference with the french the task of explaining that afterward will fall to franklin who has to make a somewhat humiliating trip to versailles to explain what he has with the assistance of his colleagues just done so. stacy schiff, as we mentioned, we're here in the ben franklin room at the department of state. there is a table here, the treaty of paris table. what is? that it's this modest desk which if you look at it closely, you realize is the beating heart of american history. because is it it is the desk at which we
and would you say that john jay and john adams and ben franklin agreed on the goals initially? not at all for different reasons. adams and john jay are very to make a peace without the involvement of the french franklin because of his years at versailles has very very close relationships with especially the french minister whom he has promised that he will never negotiate without the involvement of france in negotiating a kind of without the involvement of france and. ultimately, john jay and...
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they ask, what was the name of the enslaved person that abigail adams worked with? his name was james. and that's all we know. that was how she referred to him in the letters. and this was something that we discovered in looking at her letters was this concern that she had, that she was an outspoken abolitionist. and and this is why when john quincy adams hired enslaved workers and when he hired them, those workers did not get the pay any any enslaved workers who were hired to work on the white house at the white house. the money went to their owners. and so for her son to have done that was really kind of a shocking revelation to me when i discovered that. and there's a reason why these families brought their enslaved workers. and that was simply because congress never gave them enough money to run for the president's mansion house in new york and philadelphia. and that was part of why the washington's brought. they also hired individuals, both whites, to work in their executive houses. but they didn't have enough money. and and and sarah polk was another good exam
they ask, what was the name of the enslaved person that abigail adams worked with? his name was james. and that's all we know. that was how she referred to him in the letters. and this was something that we discovered in looking at her letters was this concern that she had, that she was an outspoken abolitionist. and and this is why when john quincy adams hired enslaved workers and when he hired them, those workers did not get the pay any any enslaved workers who were hired to work on the white...
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john adams was a passionate participant in the floor and the challenge writer. he, however, felt overburdened with important committee work. the other two appointments livingston from new york and sherman from canada. kent had no special interest in or talent writers. all five, though, are of the same mind so as congress they wanted another document, this one a conclusive statement for almost every delegate already signed on to a declaration. the colonies were now independence states was to be a document justifying to the world their reasons for this extraordinary assertion was to be a collective statement intended to be signed by every delegate they all had read. jefferson's summary view of british america. his writing talent was recognized. it helped that he was from virginia, one of the two tales that, wag the colonies dog. every member of congress understood he would have a chance some later stage in the process to participate in revising the committee's document at a later date. adams wrote that he and jefferson had had a conversation about which one of the
john adams was a passionate participant in the floor and the challenge writer. he, however, felt overburdened with important committee work. the other two appointments livingston from new york and sherman from canada. kent had no special interest in or talent writers. all five, though, are of the same mind so as congress they wanted another document, this one a conclusive statement for almost every delegate already signed on to a declaration. the colonies were now independence states was to be...
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fortunately, that act expired by its own terms at the end of adams, but jefferson became president in a world where people had been thrown in jail for having conflicting opinions, he knew that this country wasn't going to last long. if we were operating on that basis. and so in his first inaugural address, among his opening words were, look, folks, we are all we are all republicans we are all americans, and we better start acting that way or this isn't going to last. but to your knowing, he wasn't a great, but he was a dazzling in small groups and he knew it. and so his presidency, two and three times a week, every he would have dinner parties where he would have federalists would have republicans, and they be arguing about the hottest political issues the day they'd be building relationships, they'd be talking about literature, history, music, philosophy, and of course, eating wonderful food, drinking strong wine. there were wonderful such that by the end of the evening, if nothing, they actually started liking each other. and so there's two adages about politics. i mentioned politic
fortunately, that act expired by its own terms at the end of adams, but jefferson became president in a world where people had been thrown in jail for having conflicting opinions, he knew that this country wasn't going to last long. if we were operating on that basis. and so in his first inaugural address, among his opening words were, look, folks, we are all we are all republicans we are all americans, and we better start acting that way or this isn't going to last. but to your knowing, he...
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congressman adam kinzinger reince priebus, karl rove with ari melber. thank you. it's good to be back. yes, ma'am. all all. good afternoon. how's everyone doing? good afternoon. welcome. come on and sit down. if you're still getting settled. my name is ari melber. i'm an anchor at msnbc news and we a really special panel. everyone here has been a writer and a thinker. but first and foremost, they're known for really being at the helm of government, the national political parties both and so in that sense, we're going to get a really inside here reince priebus was president trump's chief of staff, and before that, the rnc chairman for many years. adam kinzinger, a military veteran who was member of congress in the party, cast many noteworthy votes which we can discuss and served on the january six committee. and then you all know bush's brain right, karl rove has had a very distinguished career in politics, including serving both in the campaign apparatus at the highest levels of the white house. for president george w bush. please welcome our esteemed panel. hey.
congressman adam kinzinger reince priebus, karl rove with ari melber. thank you. it's good to be back. yes, ma'am. all all. good afternoon. how's everyone doing? good afternoon. welcome. come on and sit down. if you're still getting settled. my name is ari melber. i'm an anchor at msnbc news and we a really special panel. everyone here has been a writer and a thinker. but first and foremost, they're known for really being at the helm of government, the national political parties both and so in...
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john adams, period. there was a brief john quincy adams presidency. otherwise presidents who'd sat in the executive mansion throughout that period had been slaveholders or effectively the supporters of slave holders in one way or another. that was obviously a big majority on the supreme court, which is also hugely consequential in the 1850s and was political the way that political alliances worked as the party system developed in the 1830s and forties, meant that effectively southern slave holders could exercise a veto in almost all circumstances over any attempt by the federal government to interfere with the rights of slave holders. and yet the republican party, the whole raison d'etre of the republican party in the 1850s was to stand up to that of northerners. the majority of them by 1860 had come to embrace that. and the question is a critical question for the coming of the civil war is why that was so, how, when and why did white northerners who had once been content, many of them, to tolerate the existence of enslavement, especially if it was el
john adams, period. there was a brief john quincy adams presidency. otherwise presidents who'd sat in the executive mansion throughout that period had been slaveholders or effectively the supporters of slave holders in one way or another. that was obviously a big majority on the supreme court, which is also hugely consequential in the 1850s and was political the way that political alliances worked as the party system developed in the 1830s and forties, meant that effectively southern slave...
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as adam and eve. or that the genesis accounts were simply convey important inspired theological truths. so for long periods of time and where symbolic stories. and the expert witnesses on science are going to make some smaller technical points, such as the law says you can't teach. instead, that man is descended from a lower order of animals. but the evolutionists are going to make a small point. that man did. and in that band evolution, don't say man evolved from a lower order of animal, but from a different genus. they were all part of the first order of animals. but then we're going to make the bigger point that evolution is so widely accepted, you couldn't ban it without violating the first amendment and the tennessee constitution. all right. now, ross is like, i don't know. this seems like an open and shut case. you teach evolution, you're guilty. i don't know that. we need to hear all these experts, he says, but i'll let one expert testify. let me hear what that expert has to say. and if it's ok
as adam and eve. or that the genesis accounts were simply convey important inspired theological truths. so for long periods of time and where symbolic stories. and the expert witnesses on science are going to make some smaller technical points, such as the law says you can't teach. instead, that man is descended from a lower order of animals. but the evolutionists are going to make a small point. that man did. and in that band evolution, don't say man evolved from a lower order of animal, but...
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adam smith alluded to this not an easy task to undertake. you have to find a way to control this territory and. you have to do it in a way that's fair and we talked about that tension last right. the washington and jefferson run into people who go to the frontier do not want a of intervention in their lives especially from government but the government must be the one that controls the frontier. so this is the kind of territory we're talking about. and for the united states, 1783, when it's only that little bit in green, there's a lot of knowledge this land out here that they don't have access to yet and someone's going to have to go out and get that knowledge. william henry seward, of course, famous and most people remember him right from your ap us history class for being the dude the bottle asker and then got made fun of for the of his life. seward's folly right so he was deeply invested in the idea of expansion, very famous painting right westward the course of empire takes its way painted the american civil war. it stands in the house o
adam smith alluded to this not an easy task to undertake. you have to find a way to control this territory and. you have to do it in a way that's fair and we talked about that tension last right. the washington and jefferson run into people who go to the frontier do not want a of intervention in their lives especially from government but the government must be the one that controls the frontier. so this is the kind of territory we're talking about. and for the united states, 1783, when it's...
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seem to to contradict the story of the creation of, the universe and the earth in the book genesis the adam and eve story and darwin telling a very different tale of the origins of man. and the tennessee don't this down, just get the idea here. it's not going to say that you had to teach the book of genesis in school all it said is this that it shall be unlawful for any teacher in any of the universities, normals, dorms, our to taught teachers how to teach and all other public schools of the state which are supported in whole or part by the school funds of the state to teach any theory that denies the story of divine creation of as taught in the bible and to teach instead that has descended from a lower order of animals so you could teach evolution about other species but just not anything conflicted with the book of genesis. you have to teach the book of genesis. you just had to teach anything that conflicted with it, which would be darwin's theories on the origins of man the butler act. and it's going to pass. there's going to be some opposition when it's the tennessee senate, there's som
seem to to contradict the story of the creation of, the universe and the earth in the book genesis the adam and eve story and darwin telling a very different tale of the origins of man. and the tennessee don't this down, just get the idea here. it's not going to say that you had to teach the book of genesis in school all it said is this that it shall be unlawful for any teacher in any of the universities, normals, dorms, our to taught teachers how to teach and all other public schools of the...
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and so i think that even a free market basis, even on look at adam smith, adam smith a protectionist. but even if you say hey, free trade in general is good, you have a parade of principles and you know ricardo ricardian economics. okay fine agree but you to have some kind of reciprocity and if it's an adversary you need to protect your people first and foremost and so you know i say just get rid of it. why not? you know, you go further and further than what the current the current bill does, why did asset transfer into american ownership? i think that's kind of a joke. look, i've spent a year in china. the idea that they own tiktok. and then if you have if the accountants and the lawyers change, the you know, the domicile of the corporation and the ownership structure that they're not going to have the same access is insane. you have be naive to think that they will have access to that that's baked into it you know and so if if if the argument is the ccp can't have access to a that is in all of our cell phones, you have to just say no more and then maybe say under the conditions that
and so i think that even a free market basis, even on look at adam smith, adam smith a protectionist. but even if you say hey, free trade in general is good, you have a parade of principles and you know ricardo ricardian economics. okay fine agree but you to have some kind of reciprocity and if it's an adversary you need to protect your people first and foremost and so you know i say just get rid of it. why not? you know, you go further and further than what the current the current bill does,...
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student were to recall from their reading of the textbook or from their teachers lessons that john adams actually defended some of the british soldiers in an attempt to point out that the british colonies were capable of approaching the the various laws and oppressions of the british in in a in a fair minded and legalistic way, they would get some credit for bringing in some out side information and it would be outside information brought to mind by this primary source. well, through our c-span in the classroom teachers, we solicited questions from high school students. and here's one professor stacy, i'll address this to you. this is from ma yo at le bosco stem academy. wayne, new jersey. what are some of the key things we should remember from around the time of the ratification of the cons stitution? wow, that's a great question. and i think what's important to remember is that the new constitution came out of conflict itself, as you probably remember, mario, the the article of confederation by 1786 was not doing very well. it proved to be a relatively weak government and that caused a
student were to recall from their reading of the textbook or from their teachers lessons that john adams actually defended some of the british soldiers in an attempt to point out that the british colonies were capable of approaching the the various laws and oppressions of the british in in a in a fair minded and legalistic way, they would get some credit for bringing in some out side information and it would be outside information brought to mind by this primary source. well, through our c-span...
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but again i applaud and i know a lot of educators and adam bessey, one of them teaches a whole course on dystopian, teaches a whole course on graphic novels. and it's an amazing especially for people, it's proven to be such an amazing you know, we talk a lot about people not reading books anymore and the kids don't read and i mean, i'm guilty of it. i teach, you know, i have my moments right. but the reality is is that reading is not the only i mean, i know that i'm not going to get into cognitive psychology and stuff. there's lots of things our brain does and learns from reading. right. i'm not denying that. would never deny that. but the same time i deal with folks i teach at diablo valley college, really, really large community in the san francisco bay area feeds uc berkeley and other schools in the area and what we've discovered over the years. what we've discovered the years is it's not that students don't want to engage in discussions an, ideas. they just don't always engage with them the same way. and if i give so for example, you know, i, i'll assigned the untold history of th
but again i applaud and i know a lot of educators and adam bessey, one of them teaches a whole course on dystopian, teaches a whole course on graphic novels. and it's an amazing especially for people, it's proven to be such an amazing you know, we talk a lot about people not reading books anymore and the kids don't read and i mean, i'm guilty of it. i teach, you know, i have my moments right. but the reality is is that reading is not the only i mean, i know that i'm not going to get into...
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you mentioned the first secretary of the navy appointed by john adams was in 1798. what would he think of our navy today? what advice would? he provide in that context, how do you juggle all of the priorities you have? sec. del toro: i have a loving wife, we have been married 40 years and she is extraordinary. the last question, perhaps, but look, i think the cemetery would be proud of what we have built today. -- secretary would be part of what we have built today. we look at the u.s. constitution, when it was built, it was at the bleeding edge of innovation and technology, old ironside, cannonballs, it was constructed in such a way because it was a naval architecture and the materials we used to construct a ship, the cannonballs were ineffective basically. there lies the beauty of even innovation and technology then. it is all about innovation and technology. asymmetrically, how can we make our fleet that much more capable, that much more modern, we may not be able to just build an endless number of ships but the ones we are building, let us make them so powerful
you mentioned the first secretary of the navy appointed by john adams was in 1798. what would he think of our navy today? what advice would? he provide in that context, how do you juggle all of the priorities you have? sec. del toro: i have a loving wife, we have been married 40 years and she is extraordinary. the last question, perhaps, but look, i think the cemetery would be proud of what we have built today. -- secretary would be part of what we have built today. we look at the u.s....
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i hate to inform him, but adam and eve were not embryos you know, they they're only part of our human tree were created as human beings to begin with. so to suggest that that line from my indicates that human life is equivalent to what adam and eve were as full grown individuals is abhorrent to me. okay. so just any if anyone has a quick thoughts about those really. so the the sort of there's always a problem with judges using the bible the way that the scottish writer andrew landes said drunks use lampposts. which is which to say for support, not for illumination, but if i could try to sort of tie this, tie that thread together, i mean the larger point. so, you know, not that long ago, the supreme court handed down a major ruling where it basically tried to get out of the business of micromanaging religion. and there was an opinion in 1990 by a crazy liberal justice antonin scalia called employment versus smith and the to that in both a of states and at the federal level were statutes to protect religion. the religious freedom restoration act. a direct response to that decision that'
i hate to inform him, but adam and eve were not embryos you know, they they're only part of our human tree were created as human beings to begin with. so to suggest that that line from my indicates that human life is equivalent to what adam and eve were as full grown individuals is abhorrent to me. okay. so just any if anyone has a quick thoughts about those really. so the the sort of there's always a problem with judges using the bible the way that the scottish writer andrew landes said drunks...
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and i've and i've never understood it because they're so adamant it and they're so adamant that this is what would take. and now this is sort of the interesting is, you know, i've struggled with this the current israeli case, the polls show generally their support for israel, but not support for the way israel's doing it right. so what is the middle class case at least? what is the popular case like? it seems like biden is not really he's following the general polls or at least is in agreement with most americans. you support israel, but then doing the, let's say, middle case of not liking what israel's doing so he might be doing that now, but even if that's even if that is his thinking and that's a stretch, but even if that is his thinking, it would again be, the second order thing. so i've been struggling with this and i don't have a good answer yet, but in it for sure, the foreign policy for the middle class stuff sound like an overall talking point and versus one that's like held with deep conviction. okay, well, we're running of time. so i do want to see if anyone in the audienc
and i've and i've never understood it because they're so adamant it and they're so adamant that this is what would take. and now this is sort of the interesting is, you know, i've struggled with this the current israeli case, the polls show generally their support for israel, but not support for the way israel's doing it right. so what is the middle class case at least? what is the popular case like? it seems like biden is not really he's following the general polls or at least is in agreement...