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john quincy adams is secretary of state. and we are just about to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the signing of, the declaration of independence. and he recognizes the event by commissioning a copperplate engraving. so he'll hire william stone, who's here in washington, d.c. and william stone will take the next three years, copying declaration backwards into a copper plate. backwards, backwards. now, 200 copies are made and william stone asks for a copy for himself. so there are only 201 copies that exist now. they were given to john adams. they were given to thomas and also with mark lafayette. and the rest stayed here. what's interesting is that the original that declaration that we see today is so faded that you miss much of the detail. and so when you actually think of what is the declaration in our we're actually thinking of this print right here. and this is something john quincy adams as secretary of state said, let's do this. absolutely. now, this is a obviously a very beautiful room. i understand that it was one
john quincy adams is secretary of state. and we are just about to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the signing of, the declaration of independence. and he recognizes the event by commissioning a copperplate engraving. so he'll hire william stone, who's here in washington, d.c. and william stone will take the next three years, copying declaration backwards into a copper plate. backwards, backwards. now, 200 copies are made and william stone asks for a copy for himself. so there are only 201...
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that was jefferson madison, monroe, john quincy adams, which is going to be a surprise when we hear what is mother abigail thought about slavery. andrew jackson, martin van buren, tyler polk and taylor. 12 presidents at some time in their lives, foreign slave workers, washington, jefferson, madison wrote. jackson. van buren. harrison. tyler polk. taylor johnson and grant and grant's probably a surprise that he married into a missouri slave owning family, and he was given some enslaved workers by his father in law that he worked side by side with them, and he did eventually give them their freedom at the white house. these enslaved workers performed a variety of jobs. they were chefs, gardeners, stable hands, maids, butlers, valets, ladies, ladies and. and did all sorts of other cleaning and other work around the white house. so we had this long history up until the lincolns of having a lot of enslaved workers in the white house itself. but things changed with first ladies, beginning with this with abigail adams, who had a very, very different opinion of slavery from her predecessor, mart
that was jefferson madison, monroe, john quincy adams, which is going to be a surprise when we hear what is mother abigail thought about slavery. andrew jackson, martin van buren, tyler polk and taylor. 12 presidents at some time in their lives, foreign slave workers, washington, jefferson, madison wrote. jackson. van buren. harrison. tyler polk. taylor johnson and grant and grant's probably a surprise that he married into a missouri slave owning family, and he was given some enslaved workers...
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you texted john quincy adams is extraordinary. and i felt the same thing as i was reading him, that he just built the virtuous life more inspiringly than any the others. i spent some time on that because. i, i know. and i can, you know, he writes at a pretty high level of enthusiasm, everything and everything that you do you do it at a high level of enthusiasm, which is a virtue, i think an earnest enthusiasm but in your john quincy adams sections, i was feeling your admiration for him. and i'm wondering, you know, how we always talk about even post hbo miniseries. we talk how john adams, the father, is is always thought of a little bit lesser or than thomas jefferson or george washington. and adams understood that in life. i almost feel like john quincy adams like yet another level that there a member of the or a of the founding generation who was really an person who we think about and talk about enough. but why don't you just give like a couple of minutes on how quint john quincy adams for you personified, you know a person rea
you texted john quincy adams is extraordinary. and i felt the same thing as i was reading him, that he just built the virtuous life more inspiringly than any the others. i spent some time on that because. i, i know. and i can, you know, he writes at a pretty high level of enthusiasm, everything and everything that you do you do it at a high level of enthusiasm, which is a virtue, i think an earnest enthusiasm but in your john quincy adams sections, i was feeling your admiration for him. and i'm...
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my name is alexander wilson, on the president of the john quincy adams society here at gw when i am so honored to be starting off our event, facing the next step for u.s. foreign policy in iran. it is a great honor to host this event which has been nine months in the making. thank you all for coming. [indiscernible] >> thank you all for coming out. it is a pleasure to see you all excited about this event being offered today. a special thanks to sam who did a lot of the great work in presenting and creating this event. >> thank you for the kind invitation. it is great to be here. i will start with introducing our speakers. [indiscernible] as we move on the questions will be more difficult. especially the last one. michael singh is a managing director at the washington institute and a former senior director of the national security council. [indiscernible] with a focus on iran and the middle east. michael is on the board of the u.s. institute of peace where i interned. [indiscernible] when i was writing my dissertation he patiently and graciously answered all the questions i sent to him.
my name is alexander wilson, on the president of the john quincy adams society here at gw when i am so honored to be starting off our event, facing the next step for u.s. foreign policy in iran. it is a great honor to host this event which has been nine months in the making. thank you all for coming. [indiscernible] >> thank you all for coming out. it is a pleasure to see you all excited about this event being offered today. a special thanks to sam who did a lot of the great work in...
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i remind myself of what john quincy adams used to do to end slavery. in the young member came up to him and said mr. president, why do you keep bringing the resolution and he said it is simple. duty is ours, results are god's. i'm going to do my duty and the results are not up to me. uncomfortable and we will see what happens. thank you for being here. appreciate it. to remove mike johnson is house speaker. speaker jeffries: for months, america's national security interests have been put on hold and undermined by a group of extreme pro-putin republicans who are determined to stop us from standing with our allies across the world. in particular, the ukrainian people, who have fought bravely and valiantly in defense of principles like democracy, freedom and truth. the time has come for the house of representatives to act decisively in america's national security interest. this is a churchill or chamberlain moment. we can either confront russian aggression in defense of democracy or we can allow the pro-putin extreme maga republicans to appease him. as ev
i remind myself of what john quincy adams used to do to end slavery. in the young member came up to him and said mr. president, why do you keep bringing the resolution and he said it is simple. duty is ours, results are god's. i'm going to do my duty and the results are not up to me. uncomfortable and we will see what happens. thank you for being here. appreciate it. to remove mike johnson is house speaker. speaker jeffries: for months, america's national security interests have been put on...
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i remind myself of what john quincy adams used to do to end slavery. in the young member came up to him and said mr. president, why do you keep bringing the resolution and he said it is simple. duty is ours, results are god's. i'm going to do my duty and the results are not up to me. uncomfortable and we will see what happens. thank you for being here. appreciate it.
i remind myself of what john quincy adams used to do to end slavery. in the young member came up to him and said mr. president, why do you keep bringing the resolution and he said it is simple. duty is ours, results are god's. i'm going to do my duty and the results are not up to me. uncomfortable and we will see what happens. thank you for being here. appreciate it.
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i remind myself of what john quincy adams used to do to end slavery. in the young member came up to him and said mr. president, why do you keep bringing the resolution and he said it is simple. duty is ours, results are god's. i'm going to do my duty and the results are not up to me. uncomfortable and we will see what happens. thank you for being here. appreciate it. >> since 19 79 c-span has provided complete information from the house and senate floors to congressional hearings. c-span gives you a front row seat to how issues are debated and decided. c-span, your unfiltered view of government. >> c-span's washington journal, a live forum involving you to discuss the latest issues from d.c. and across the country. we will talk with nebraska republican don bacon and speaker mike johnson's political future. then jim costa on the congressional news of the day. julian live at 7:00 eastern on c-span, c-span now or online at c-span.org. c-span is your unfiltered view of government funded by these companies and more including comcast. you think this is just
i remind myself of what john quincy adams used to do to end slavery. in the young member came up to him and said mr. president, why do you keep bringing the resolution and he said it is simple. duty is ours, results are god's. i'm going to do my duty and the results are not up to me. uncomfortable and we will see what happens. thank you for being here. appreciate it. >> since 19 79 c-span has provided complete information from the house and senate floors to congressional hearings. c-span...
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he is published biographies of thomas carlyle, mark twain, henry james, charles dickens, john quincy adams, abraham lincoln gore vidal, and now thomas jefferson in his masterly pen. kaplan offers us a biography of thomas jefferson by giving an english professor's kind attention to jefferson's written words. jefferson only published one book in his lifetime notes on the state of virginia. but, of course, jefferson wrote consul treatises like a summary view of the rights of british north america legal briefs, memoranda the declaration of independence, and above all letters, thousands of them, which kaplan calls among his most powerful and revealing writings throughout his masterly pen, kaplan brings a skilled biographers attention to how jefferson reveals himself through his writing, often without without intending to, as kaplan says of notes on the state of virginia. it's a book about jefferson partly because jefferson did not want it to, a book about himself. the jefferson we meet here is not surprisingly learned and forceful. but kaplan also shows this jefferson as a writer who's of
he is published biographies of thomas carlyle, mark twain, henry james, charles dickens, john quincy adams, abraham lincoln gore vidal, and now thomas jefferson in his masterly pen. kaplan offers us a biography of thomas jefferson by giving an english professor's kind attention to jefferson's written words. jefferson only published one book in his lifetime notes on the state of virginia. but, of course, jefferson wrote consul treatises like a summary view of the rights of british north america...
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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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quincy adams. it quoted one lincoln quoted four scriptures. he appealed to prayer about ten times, so he was consumed with his faith by the end of the war and throughout this horrible civil war going on, all these people dying amputations, everything. he's trying to figure out what is our loving god thinking how can allow this to happen and. he finally figured out the answer, and that was he said in his second inaugural address that because we have tolerated slavery for as long as we have, this is god's punishment. we don't know when it will end, but we deserve it. we've got to accept it. and sooner or later we are going to be finished with we are going to put slavery behind us. but but what we've done for long as we've done deserves some serious. and that's what the civil war is. that is the essence of his second inaugural address, somebody who had a harder time being humble was teddy roosevelt, one of the good things that you do in your book, actually, is that with each president to stop and say,
quincy adams. it quoted one lincoln quoted four scriptures. he appealed to prayer about ten times, so he was consumed with his faith by the end of the war and throughout this horrible civil war going on, all these people dying amputations, everything. he's trying to figure out what is our loving god thinking how can allow this to happen and. he finally figured out the answer, and that was he said in his second inaugural address that because we have tolerated slavery for as long as we have, this...
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it was the history of john quincy adams like it is he, he really had a moment where he went for everyone. we've been talking about how he was his journey from backbencher to house speaker is sort of a cheap, easy way. to say it, but he went from a guy who didn't have to deal with the consequences of the decisions he would make to this moment and it certainly seems that he reached that moment of reckoning and thought, well, this is why i lose my jobs. so be it but i think he's still may lose his job he is. if he seems stronger, it's only because there's a coalition of democrats led by the democratic leader hakeem jeffries, who are working now. it appears to be ready to sort of prop them up and keep them into the speakership. he's still going to have a moment of reckoning. it may come after november rather than now, but he just rid of decided that. and look, there's another factor two, there are ever of congressional swing districts where the ukraine funding is actually quite popular and there's a domestic political component to this as well. the hard right flank, maybe strongly against it
it was the history of john quincy adams like it is he, he really had a moment where he went for everyone. we've been talking about how he was his journey from backbencher to house speaker is sort of a cheap, easy way. to say it, but he went from a guy who didn't have to deal with the consequences of the decisions he would make to this moment and it certainly seems that he reached that moment of reckoning and thought, well, this is why i lose my jobs. so be it but i think he's still may lose his...
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john quincy adams who minister in holland, was writing to his father and to others that he was the the most important diplomat we had abroad. and he was telling everyone that the french were going to invade, come up through the south and. napoleon, after all, was invading countries all over europe and turning them into puppet regimes under french control. and there were so many french sympathizers in america, they figured that the french figured that they might just be able to take over the united states and make it another puppet regime, as they had with holland and switzerland and northern europe and northern italy. so the fear was real. and we need to understand and that our knowledge was not shared by them back then. let me let me pick up on that that our time is ending and maybe it's it's nice to end with a a request, some broad guidance as we approach 250th anniversary about how to think about that founding generation. obviously, founding now is controversial for some good reasons and some bad reasons. it's controversial because people question the morality of some of the founder
john quincy adams who minister in holland, was writing to his father and to others that he was the the most important diplomat we had abroad. and he was telling everyone that the french were going to invade, come up through the south and. napoleon, after all, was invading countries all over europe and turning them into puppet regimes under french control. and there were so many french sympathizers in america, they figured that the french figured that they might just be able to take over the...
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john quincy adams, who wrote his diary, he's secretary of state in 1820 at the time in the missouri compromise and he's similar to pierce said look i'm happy we got this then he writes this in his diary he says it might actually be better if we called a convention of the states article in the constitution and actually to separate, because if we're going to separate sometime, it's going to be because of slavery and maybe we should do it again in a nonviolent. and that was the provision that he that he offered as maybe a way to go. and then you've got john tyler. john tyler, the most ardent states rights president that we've ever had. he was from virginia. he's still in virginia here in 1861. he's of the secession movement, actually, with virginia leaving the union, which they after all, lincoln is is. in fact, he's elected to the confederate house of representatives. he never seats as sits the house of representatives because he dies just before he had his chance to but ardently in favor of this notion of secession. if if the right circumstances come to pass. we're completely all over the map a
john quincy adams, who wrote his diary, he's secretary of state in 1820 at the time in the missouri compromise and he's similar to pierce said look i'm happy we got this then he writes this in his diary he says it might actually be better if we called a convention of the states article in the constitution and actually to separate, because if we're going to separate sometime, it's going to be because of slavery and maybe we should do it again in a nonviolent. and that was the provision that he...