i view your undertaking jefferson would write. as the germ of a great free and independent empire on that side of the continent and at liberty and self-government spreading from that site as well as decide well in sure their complete establishment over the whole so there is a lot of weight writing when he's making his decision. wrestling bear on the island with his thoughts. so another leader in this is a scottish third traitor by the name of duncan mcdougal, and he was one of the first traders that astor had hired from canada where the experts were and there were many different personalities among them in many different degrees of expertise. but duncan mcdougal don't know if a thumbnail sketch of him would be short, feisty, manipulative and looking out for himself. he had made him the second in command in the west coast colony. hunt was supposed to be the first in command but in his abstinence he said mcdougal should be in charge. what happened with wilson price hunt and the overland party by the kentucky ends, they were supposed

thomas jefferson gave it his enthusiastic endorsement. it was astor's idea to try to capture, essentially, all the furs in the western part of the continent, funnel them through a set element at the mouth of the columbia river and sell them to china. and in china these furs would fetch extremely high prices because the chinese mandarins, for instance, used sea otter furs which were extremely luxurious, something like a million hairs per square inch. i think the finest, most densely coat of any mammal in the world. the chinese mandarins would pay incredible prices for these furs. so astor, he was not the first ship here on the west coast, but he was one of the earlier ones, and he came up with this idea of sending trade goods from new york around cape horn by ship to the mouth of the columbia, trading them to the coastal indians here for furs, trading things like knives and beads and and then taking those furs to china, trading them to the chinese for, you know, incredible markups at both places, taking chinese luxury goods such as civiles

i was on for one hour there was a movement called jefferson it has been going on for a few years so we were talking about tax reform and slowly the callers took over the radio program that was all whole program about jefferson. there were so interested to adjust if i seceding to create their own state even the guys and i will not take any more calls about jefferson. [laughter] is very interesting. so we should have a good debate but you should realize to accomplish that you need not only to have votes of the citizens of california but it would take the approval of congress. if the republicans were lucky enough to win both houses then the next door around we cannot guarantee to get something like that for because you have two more years of obama and who knows? realistically it would never have been and we will just have to keep fighting the fight to because the state's is worth it. i wrote the book to say they should not come to california but it should be reformed. but i appreciate the fact there is a guy behind that that has a lot of funding to do that it will help the debate. >> i am

jefferson said something similar when he said no man was born with a saddle on his back, and another man with boots and spurs to ride him by the race of god. all men belong to god. not to other men. idea is codified in our founding document. the 55 most important words in world history. we hold these truths to be self-evident, all men are rated endowed by they are their creator with certain inalienable rights, and among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. no more important words have been written in modern history. those 55 words, all men belong to god. lincoln, standing on the graves of thousands american , four scoreysburg and seven years ago, he talks about that very idea. a nation conceived in liberty, dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. what's he say at the end? these here who have given the last full measure so that a nation of the people, for the people, i'm by the people shall not perish from this earth, th

thomas jefferson is somebody we remember as a glamorous figure. george washington in some ways, and, of course, in recent history, more recent history, president kennedy is somebody

the late great jimmy stewart's character, jefferson smith, ed come to washington full of national pride and wonder and yet in a short time, he has been framed and scandalized by the forces of washington corruption. he is about to be banished from the u.s. senate. it's in a pivotal scene, he stands with his suitcase in hand, literally sobbing in the shadow of the statue of abraham lincoln. he is implored to resist the forces of corruption. she says the following -- your friend, mr. lincoln, had his enemies. so did every other man who try to lift his thoughts up off the ground. odds against them did not stop them. they were fools that way. all the good that ever came into the world came from. faith like that. they're not all tailored in washington. that kind just throw big shadows. you do not have faith in any other living man. you had faith in something other than that. you had decent, everyday, common rightness and the country can use that. you said mr. lincoln was sitting up there waiting for someone to come along. you're right. he was waiting for men to see his job and sailing to and

, president jefferson was for colonization and so was president lincoln. even after the emancipation proclamation for some time he still would cling a little bit to some kind of colonization. so i think it's a misunderstood cause. one thing i do bring out is in the vast literature published by the american colonization society there is very very little that even hints at inferiority on the part of blacks. there is prejudice and black and whites degraded blacks in various ways in america but if they were in africa they could even become missionaries and so on. i think we have to look much more carefully and that is why i devote various chapters to the subject. we need to look carefully at this whole colonization concept which did promote is lacks realized it, promoted prejudice but i devote a lot of space to that. >> you also devoted an extraordinary amount of space to the crucial role of free blacks in emancipation and in fact you have the chapter titled for me both when i read it in manuscript form and in published form, it the title itself i found revolu

thomas jefferson said there is no role for the federal government and education. if we want one, we need to pass an amendment to the constitution to do this. he was for changing the constitution to get a role for education but he said how is that we have all of these teacher training programs costing billions of dollars a year running out of washington to train teachers who are a local and community and state responsibility? how do we get there? and does anybody know if they are improving teacher training? there are two questions one is what is the constitutional role of the federal government. certainly when we passed this to say here's the metrics we are going to use to measure or whether the teacher training programs are effective. >> we are focused on making sure that we can't eliminate the barriers to getting those networks in place, building out these networks is our priority. so sometimes there are local siting issues and sometimes there are federal rules that might affect how we deploy things or what the impact might be on historical site for the environme

there's a movement in northern california called jefferson because they want to start a state that would be -- and it's been going on for a few years. the southern part of oregon and the northern part of california. we were talking about subbot in and talking about how bad the taxes are an slowly the callers took over the radio program and it became a program about jefferson. they were so interested in the book to justify seceding in creating their own states that even the guy running the radio program said i'm not going to take any more calls about jefferson. i think it's very interesting and i think that we should have a good debate but you have to realize that to accomplish that, you need not only to have votes of the california legislature or the citizens of california. they could do it through an initiative but it would also take the approval of congress and the president and if the republicans were lucky enough to win both houses of congress the next go-round we still can't guarantee that we are going to be able to get something like that through. we have two more years of obama. w

thomas jefferson was the preeminent scientist of his day. size andpple with the ask the basic questions. i did -- i think the scientific -- ance is overwhelmingly overwhelming consensus that the climate is changing in ways that negatively impact the planet and humans have a significant defect. not the only effect. there are plenty of others. we'll continue. human effect is significant. when i hear from witnesses or anybody who contacts me about this when not grapple with the signs who denies it or pretense have as -- pretends, i hard time taking deposition. -- taking that position. i think any organization should only yes or no. you can acknowledge some continued debate. i think people should take a position on the science and all willingness to take a position troubles me. i think those of us making decisions about we have to started their and take a position. i think the science is clear. i have lived and i am seeing it. sea levels are rising. there are people i know who live in homes that they cannot sell them now. they were built 100 yea

later when adams loses the bid for the second term of the president of the united states to thomas jefferson. and abigail goes home to her sisters at last. now, the times are my fifth character because they are important to all the sisters. of course abigail who was frequently in the limelight with john. but really no less than the revolution certainly to mary elizabeth. they were equally excited, terrified by the battl battle of boston. and if they were equally astonished and overjoyed when the french navy arrived at yorktown and america had won the revolution at last. so the times are very important to the book. they are the times that they lived through. and also, what was important for me was that they lived through the ideas of the time and because of what happened in america, we are getting this opportunity to start a nation anew. they had opinions on what it was like to live under a monarch. and they had ideas on what the ideal nationstate should be. and i found that there were large impacts on their vision and one was the nytimes meant. they had all read the buck on the nytimes meant

long ago it was thomas jefferson that phrase to the pursuit of happiness. but it was dale carnegie i would suggest who defined the modern mating of that phrase. the end. [applause] >> any questions please come up to the microphone. and i would also remind you the book is for sale. let's start here. >> thanks for the talk. a quick question in view of the fact that dale carnegie had such an impact on multiple generations and also considering that rush limbaugh is in the hall of fame i couldn't help but wonder if dale carnegie is in the hall of fame. >> by a belief he is as a matter of fact and i also just found out they called me a few weeks ago and they are creating a hall of fame at missouri university and they are going to have a ceremony in the fall. so he is getting recognition here. >> you mentioned his full of things i've done. did he mention who they happened with or what was the context of some of those? stomach actually, it was great reading because the private writing was much like his public writings. it was perky and interesting in any sort of wa

koskinen, as i said the declaration of independence, written largely initially the first draft by thomas jefferson but it was subject to an editorial committee. he didn't like that. he thought his words were pretty good. among those words were, americans were entitled to life, liberty, now hear the editorial committee did not act. he said, and the pursuit of happiness. but it sounds like some people would substitute that, unfettered and unquestioned access to 501(c)3 and 501(c)(4) stacks extell status. do you read that in the declaration of independence? >> i don't read that -- >> no it doesn't read that way. so it's not really an explicit entitlement or right. it's a process you have to qualify for, is that correct? >> correct. >> there are many different ways of trying to figure out how somebody qualifies, and whether they qualify, is that correct? >> yes. >> and by and large, historically, irs has had a standard operating procedure for determining those -- that status. either 501(c)3 or 501(c)(4) or other status. is that correct? >> correct. >> in this particular case, what we're all excited ab

35 years later when adams loses his bid for second term as president of the united states to thomas jefferson. and abigail goes home towards history at last. at times are my this character because they are important to all the sisters. of course, abigail who was frequently in the limelight with john, but really no less during the revolution certainly to mary and elizabeth. they were equally excited, terrified, by the battle of boston, and they were equally as tarnished and overjoyed when the french made -- america has one of the revolution at last. so these times are very important to the book. they are the times that they lived through. and also what was important for me was that they lived through the times through the ideas of the times. and because of what was happening, because in america we were getting an opportunity to start a nation a new, they had opinions on what it was like to live under a monarch, and they had ideas on what the ideal nationstate should be. and i still found that there were two very large impacts on their vision, on all of their vision. and one was the enlightenme

and although jefferson challenged him, jefferson lost. but clearly the supreme court assumed powers not granted to him. and the president has done the same thing, congress has done the same thing. president does not have the right to send troops to war, period. yes, sir. yeah. >> oh. my question is about the whiskey rebellion. do you think that george washington was ever on any level intent on commanding troops in battle, or do you think that he sort of went to western pennsylvania and donned his general's uniform just sort of for the spectacle -- >> the answer is, yes, because he called up 13,500 troops to put down a rebellion by about an estimated 5,000 rebels. >> no, i understand that, but my question is whether or not he himself was intent on mounting a horse and commanding -- >> he tried to, but he was too old to, too fat, and he couldn't get into his uniform. he had to have a new uniform made. [laughter] and he and alexander hamilton rode out to carlisle, pennsylvania, in a carriage and decided that he was, washington decided -- wel

i was glad you mentioned martin luther king because it is probably impossible in jefferson school which used to be an all black school during segregation, probably impossible to talk about this topic without referencing earlier this year we celebrated the 50th anniversary of the historic march on washington, martin luther king's iconic i have a dream speech and as we were going over the speech this summer and it was all over the newspapers i went back and actually read it and noticed a portion that hasn't gained as much attention, i want to read a small segment of it tonight, today. in a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check, when the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the constitution and the declaration of independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every american was to fall air. this was the promise that all men, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the inalienable right of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. it is obvious today, he said, that americans have defaulted on this promissory notes in so far

ask yourself, thomas jefferson says there's no role for the federal government in education. if we want one we need to pass an amendment to the constitution to do. now, he was for changing the constitution to get a role for education, but he says there wasn't a how is it with all these teacher training programs run by the federal government costing a billion dollars a year, run out of washington to train teachers who are actually a local and community and state responsibility ask how did we get there? and oh, by the way, does anybody know if they're actually improving teacher training? actually improving the skills of our teachers. so there's really to question. one, what's the constitutional role of the federal government in that? and number two, if there's a legitimate role but even if it isn't come you're spending the money, shouldn't you know, shouldn't, when we pass this, so here's the metrics in which we're going to use to measure what is not a teacher training program is effective? >> you can watch all of the programs featured over the past hour, and numerous other pro

did it signal a shift for jefferson's administration? the divorce had a similar affect. would napoleon's treatment play a part? should the american government take this as an insult to the sovereignty and law? disspite napoleon's anulling the marriage, it was valid in maryland and the english press lost no opportunity to offer the welcomi welcomi welcoming gestures to betsy. if she married either of her english suitor would this lead to closer ties to england? they were obsessed with whether they would have to make a decision based on what happened to betsy bonaparte. when the rumor spread that napoleon had given betsy a pension and was considering given her and her son titles of nobility, people read this as trying to establish a beach head. this fear of a french duke and duchess within the united states boarders led to an amendment that would cancel citizenship to anyone that would accept this. much later in the 1850s, betsy and her son sued in french court for recognition of jerome being legit and his right to recession in the thrown. the french court said you are rig

when thomas jefferson died they were taking him to a collection to pay off his debts that he just could not get out from under. he was a very good writer and not so good at running a plantation. that actually ends of showing up in the national characteristics. the bankruptcy code is so much more generous than anyone else in the world that people don't believe it. people are surprised to hear that harsh, mean america doesn't care about the downtrodden is incredibly lenient if you get into financial trouble. i went to memphis which is the bank of the capital of the world's as a journalist for this book to go look at -- the bank of capital of the world, memphis is the bank of to capital of the middle east--the midwest. memphis has something like 1% of the population declaring bankruptcy. a really high number. if that were normal and all of you would know, everyone you know what declared bankruptcy and some point in your lives. that is not the case. i went to memphis to look at this and you would think i'm expecting screaming mothers hurling themselves at the feet of judges and the was noth

[inaudible conversations] >> looking in the jefferson school african-american heritage center. the location of the book in charlottesville, virginia. we'll be become with more live coverage of the annual event. [inaudible conversations] >> who are the seven men, and who do they have in common? >> it was written by a ghost writer. who are they? i have to tell you these are seven great men. it doesn't mean there aren't others who are great. this is, if anything, a subjective grouping, but not entirely subjective. i said the reason i wrote the book is i said there's a crisis of manhood in the culture in a way we shied away from the idea of saying this is greatness or this is a great man, you know, really since the 60s, we celebrated antiheroes, and i feel like it's not done -- it's not been good for us, so i said, i think that this generation needs heroings, but real heros, and i had the privilege of writing a book about one which i was on c-span, booktv, talking about him, a great hero, a true hero, dpied for what he believes, had the privilege of writing a book about william, an

i was glad that you mentioned martha because i think it's impossible especially here in jefferson school which used to be an all-black school during segregation, it's probably impossible to talk about this happening without referencing earlier this year we celebrated the 50th anniversary of the historic arch on washington and martin luther king's iconic i had a dream speech. "i have a dream" speech. it was all over the newspapers. i went back and read it and i noticed a portion that hasn't gained as much attention so i want to read just a small segment of it for you tonight or today. and he said in a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check. when the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent part of the constitution and declaration of independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every american must follow. this note was a promise that all men, yes black men as well as white men would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. did he continued. it is obvious today he said that americans have defaulted on this