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

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

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

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

thomas jefferson to enlighten the people. enlighten the people in tierney and oppression will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day. as we travel the nation coming teaching the constitution, it is exciting to see you, the american people inherently understands the truth but if you stand up to tierney we must learn unders and principles of liberty. we inherently knew that if our nation much freedom, peace and press dirty, we must live, learn and teach the principles of liberty. principals at the heart of the miracle we call america. in 1607 jamestown, they were using a plow the same way mankind had been tied to her about bypassing years. their mode of travel was walking in and low-power the same way they've been traveling for 5000 years. medicines are made more noxious concoctions of dippers nation than any kind of science. the alcohol is a staple food. i'm still think that. by hearing to the bulls in the declaration of independence and the constitution, we went for boxcars to space travel in less than 200 years. in fact