discusses his book, "the last founding father: james monroe and a nation's call to greatness." he argues that president monroe is one of the least researched presidents. he describes president monroe's life through his two terms as the fifth president of the united states. this program was recorded at inders in new york city 2009. it is about 50 minutes. [applause] mr. unger: thank you very much. i am honored to be here and i want to thank my publisher for making this evening possible. my thanks to c-span television and borders bookstore, a landmark here at 57 and park avenue in new york city. i am particularly honored by the presence of several renowned authors, one of them alice fleming, his latest book is a biography of martin luther king jr., a dream of help. the naval historian paul service down is here. -- silverstone is here tonight. bookhomas fleming, his new is called the intimate lives of the founding fathers. i wonder what that is about. [laughter] honored byi am having you all here because i know that some of you sacrificed the $15,000 a plate fundraiser for president

. the microphone is coming around to you. >> james monroe had an important role from the armstrong for from the secretary of war. i was unclear exactly what his role is. >> that's a great question. james monroe was present on the battlefield amid a pretty significant role in the battle without consulting general winder, monroe maneuvered whole units of militia place in the 500-yard behind for a fact they were supposed to be. he did this based on the fact he'd been an armory officer during the american revolution and he believed he was capable general is anybody on the battlefield. as a result of the debacle, a lot of the american public rested upon secretary of war john armstrong. john armstrong was a rather -- at a rather unfortunate habit of saying what he thought at the time and he wrote a very condemnatory letter against the president of the united states or the problems they had and rather than take a hit himself, he blamed madison. very quickly, not a synonym broke out together and decided armstrong had to go. within two weeks, they are moving out the door and have to return to n

given to andrew green as a gift, penned by thomas jefferson, james madison, and james monroe. >> they were... >> originals? >> yes. >> what were the letters about? >> my favorite letter, james monroe and james madison were talking about this gentleman who happened to be andrew jackson. they were afraid that he might be the ruination of their careful plans to carry on their ideology with the american public. >> the next big find? this rare copy of george washington's last will and testament, printed in 1800, right after washington's death. >> at the time, we knew there were only 13 existing copies. >> make that 14. >> it was in a plastic bag filled with other things, and it very well could've been thrown out without anybody ever knowing about it. >> by july 2010, john and lisa's strange inheritance is cataloged and ready for sale. they've invested a year and a lot of money in it. how much had john spent getting ready for this big auction? >> it was around $225,000. >> whoa! >> i hope we get enough out of this to pay for what we've discovered. >> will they? >> sold at $1,000. >> that's

the issue in the cabinet. the cabinet consisted of slaveholders, the cabinet of james monroe. adams was slapped down. afterwards he walked down pennsylvania avenue a few blocks from where we are today with john calhoun, secretary of war who would become the intellectual justifier of slavery but adams had a lot of regard for calhoun. adams at that time considered calhoun a person of tremendous intellectual integrity and adams continue to talk and calhoun listen to him and said those are very noble principles but where i come from we think this principles only apply to white people, not black people. adams went home that night, he kept a diary every day of his life, quite extraordinary, great resource for someone in my position and he would write down almost verbatim the conversations that happened that day if he thought they were important. so he went back home at some point began to write and he was thinking about the fact the man is gifted as calhoun who he admired so much could sincerely hold views adams found repellent and evidently falls. there was a larger truth in this that ha

to it. a few anti-federalist to turns disparaging it. convention, one future president, james monroe declared "the vice president is an unnecessary officer. i can see no reason for such an officer." speaking at the same convention, george mason added, "the vice president appears to be not only as unnecessary, the dangerous that legislator -- legislature and executive -- i cannot perceive the consequences. i think that, in the course of human affairs, he will be made a tool in order to bring about his own interest in aid in overturning the liberties of this country." he didn't know how, but he was sure somehow -- some members attending other state ratifying conventions also expressed concerns about the vice presidency between the legislative and executive functions. aloneever said this issue was the reason they did not support it. ply carried this along with the constitution to become part of the new government. that is what we have in origin. we get to the first vice president, straggling the executive and legislative branches. the first occupant, john adams, was far from impressed. viewing t

circuit of people that she ran. he was close to james monroe who becomes another president and if there is month pellier a wonderful -- montpelier and there is a wonderful dining room, they loved entertaining people with whom they didn't agree. brian: some of the things you say. he tended to become sick. he was not a collector. brian: i could go on and on. how did he live to be 85. i remember reading how sick he was? mary: he perceived himself to be sick and you can read every story about madison has a different agree of what kind of actual sickness he had. i don't think it matters what kind of sickness he had. he seems to have gotten sick under stress. but he never seemed to be terribly ill. he was the only person in that generation but one of the few people who never went abroad. he never goes to england or france. in some ways, he lived the kind of quiet life. but not surprising he lived a long time. his mother and father lived a long time. she dice eight or nine years before he does. it was in his geens. brian: he was secretary of state for eight years. mary: he was not a big

not free any of the slaves. a president like james monroe held 75 slaves during his life. he followed in the strange contradiction of his counterparts. expressing a disdain for slavery while owning slaves himself. this was common. his most well-known for his support for the american colonization society and the modern capital monrovia bears his name. andrew jackson the seventh president owned many slaves. despised abolitionism. and gave permission for southern postmasters to detain abolitionist materials that dared to spread throughout the south. coupled with his forced removal of native americans and wars of imperial conquest. many have wondered why jackson's face remains on the $20 bill. martin van buren the eighth president owned one slave named tom but would later support the free soil party that opposed the expansion of slavery to the west. that does not necessarily mean he opposed the existence of slavery, just its expansion. william henry harrison owned 12 slaves. he unsuccessfully lobbied to legalize slavery in indiana which was opposed by thomas jefferson. john tyler, a virgi

that she ran. he was close to james monroe who becomes another president and if you go to month pellier there is a wonderful -- montpelier and there is a wonderful dining room, they loved entertaining people with whom they didn't agree. so they had lots of very lively political discussions apparently down there. brian: some of the things you say. he tended to become sick. he was not a collector. more than anything, he left politics. the revolution had ended officially only four years earlier. i could go on and on. how did he live to be 85-years-old? i remember reading about how sick he was. mary: he perceived himself to be sick and you can read every story about madison has a different agree of what kind of actual sickness he had. that is something people debated. i don't think it matters what kind of sickness he had. he seems to have gotten sick under stress. but he never seemed to be terribly, terribly ill. he was one of the only -- not the only -- but one of the only people in that generation but one of the few people who never went abroad. he never goes to england or france.

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. he had then been secretary of state under james monroe. >> as secretary of state adams believes he's set for the top job. the last three men who held the post went on to become the president. his turn next. >> of course john quincy adams has to be the next president. because, well, his father was the president. he's from massachusetts, and he's secretary of state. and the secretary of state has always been the president. who is jackson to come in here and -- he's just from tennessee. >> the votes are counted, and the man from tennessee surprises everyone. >> jackson had more popular votes than anyone else. and more electoral votes during anyone else. >> but not enough to win an absolute majority. instead, congress will choose america's next president. >> andrew jackson was enraged. >> i have been chosen by the will of the people. >> let me rise or fall on the rule that the majority of the people should decide who their president is. >> but jackson is shouting in the dark. in two months' time the presidency will be decided by just 213 men. >> things really went into higher gear i

was one letter from james monroe to him after he goes through another terrible cycle in his life. writing him, offering him a job teaching at west point, and he's -- he starts the letter, my dear charles. this is your last chance. i don't know how it happened. he signed either p charles or he signed officially, he always signed peter charles. every memorial to congress, the map it self, as peter charles. [inaudible] >> 1967. between 1874 and 1967, a major in the corps of engineers and it was a stepping stone for them, they would hold those positions for five or six years and then move up and become a kernel and go on to some health, but this was a plum position that taught them engineering an organization at west point and also how to deal with all the political factions and problems that are -- that exist in every city. the fact that they held meetings , weekly, sometimes daily with the representatives of the neighborhood associations which blew up in the late 19 fate -- centuries as the neighborhoods have their own identity and their own separate problems, those never been asso

was james monroe's home, it's actually a guest house. the foundation has been unearthed of the actual mansion on the same property. the when. it's tonight. first round of the nfl draft. we like to tie sports the politics. quarterbacks are expected to be the top two picks. that's only happened once in an election year. that was 2012. president obama was reelected this same year. democrats can read the tea leaves however they want. the why, it's home state love for bernie sanders. 80% of the vermonters approve of the job he's doing as senator. that's the highest rating in the country. here's why it matters. for the most part americans prove of their individual senators but a gallop poll shows that just 17% of the people approve of congress as a whole. you like your individual senator but you dislike congress itself. political scientists have a term for this. they call it finos paradox. these numbers back it up. great. correct! ma'am. this isn't an automated computer... operator! ma'am. i'm here. i'm live. wait. you're real? yeah. with discover card, you can talk to a real person

, discusseslow unger his book, "the last founding father: james monroe and a nation's call to greatness." he argues that president monroe is one of the least researched presidents. he describes president monroe's life through his two terms as the fifth president of the united states. this program was recorded at inders in new york city 2009. it is about 50 minutes. [applause] mr. unger: thank you very much. i am honored to be here and i want to thank my publisher for making this evening possible. my thanks to c-span television and borders bookstore, a landmark here at 57 and park avenue in new york city. i am particularly honored by the presence of several renowned authors, one of them alice fleming,

, michael jackson -- they were the elvis and beatles, the marilyn monroe, the james dean. they were icons -- bigger, larger than life. fashion, music, every single thing. you couldn't take your eyes off of them. i mean, he had his own color. who has their own color? he owns purple. who -- no one -- you can't just pick a color and go, "that's my thing." the guy was just amazing. when you see these performances, every single one of them, it's just electric. he lived his music and played --

to the president of the united states, james monroe. are the kids doing anything in school? it's all like they have senior- itis. you don't have to be a senior to have senior-itis. 48, it's chilly out the door for you and the kids. 43 in chatham, 32 in liberty. speonk at 32 as well. it's going to turn wet much later today. we've got sun to start, then you're going to see those clouds fill in, afternoon rain rolling in from southwest to northeast. parts of the afternoon commute well to the south and west could see a little bit of wet weather and then some rain in the mix thursday into friday. let's mix things up and save you some time with kyla. mixed up all right. let's start with a live look outside. we have a disabled truck that's blocking one lane on the eastbound cross bronx at the sheridan expressway. not a great place for this to happen. delays now stretching back to the toll plaza at the george washington bridge where we have about a 20-minute delay. same story at the lincoln and holland tunnels. and we take a look in brooklyn where the gowanus is heavy now northbound. delays

and beatles. the marilyn monroe, james dean, icons. bigger, larger than life. fashion, music. everything re every single thing. you couldn't take your eyes off of them. >> the show included past performances by prince on saturday night live. also featured several skits from past shows. the music i couldn't in the prince show. >>> there's a one of a kind show being held in franklin square, the chinese elantra festival kicked off friday night. includes paper making and of course, food. it runs until june 22nd, admission is $17 for adults. >>> sounds steep but i was there it's nice. in manayunk the saints john baptist parish is celebrating 185 years, archdiocese charles chap pew presided. the church raised more than $1 million to save and restore the historic parish. and it was a 100 anniversary celebration in olde city for the irish easter rising. it was a rebellian in ireland that attempted to end british rule in 1916. jim kenney spoke at today's ceremony at the irish memorial. >>> hundreds of thousands of military vehicles destroyed. it's all caught on camera. what the pentag

, the marilyn monroe, james dean, this he were icons. bigger, larger than life, fashion, music, every single thing. you could in the take your eyes off of them. >> true, through 40 years prince was never not cool. >> yes. >> there is maya. >> shoe included past performances by prince on at day night live ape skits from past shows, and, artists, playing during the show. >> we will play some of those later on "good day philadelphia" because they were quite good. >>> speaking of the beatles, i remember billy paul said beatles were a big influence on him, and he died, yesterday, philadelphia's a own, billy paul. billy died at his home after a serious medical condition. born in north philadelphia, billy won a grammy for that huge hit he had, me and mrs. jones. he was 81 years old. i text sheneille jones, this morning, because he and mrs. jones had a thing going on. >> y'all did have a thing going on. >> all right. >> an unusual thing journey comes to an abrupt end. why the man who wanted to walk from florida to bermuda was stopped almost before he started. >> leave the guy alone. pa

was very close to james monroe, who eventually becomes another president. down toou go montpellier, they have a take atl tour you can montpellier, and they show the dining room at montpellier and how they loved entertaining people. they loved entertaining people with whom they didn't necessarily agree. so they had lots of very lively political discussions down there. you sayof the things was that when he was unmarried, he tended to become sit. jefferson, he was not a collector. more than anything, he loved politics. revolution had ended only four years earlier. he loved politics. i can go on and on. >> right. >> how sick was he, and how did he live to be 85? how sick heeading was. >> so he perceived himself to be sick. of people,d lots basically every biography of has a different theory about what actual kind of sickness he had. that's something that people debated. i don't think it mattered that much what kind of sickness he had. got sick easily. he does seem to have gotten sick he never seemed to be terribly, terribly ill. he was the only person in that generation -- not the only