look at our history and what george washington or thomas jefferson or abraham lincoln which are three rather powerful members of our either founding fathers or president who had a great impact on this country and they all made statements about how could you do this job without having a strong faith and an almighty creator? so the idea that i wouldn't would be counter to hawaii am. if americans want to elect a president who basically says look, i'm not going to -- i'm not going to let my feet intervene in anything that i do and from my perspective it would be a bit scary. i want a president who is faithful and believes that there

and this book that named what thomas jefferson and all his writings and speeches always referred to as the incident in boston harbor into something called the boston tea party he was literally coined the phrase and here's why he dressed up like an indian and showed up for the tea party. the east india company was trying to corner the tea market after all it was the drink of choice of the colonists and there's pretty much a tea shop on every corner in america we imported millions of pounds of tea every year and most of it was brought in by small american entrepreneurs what the british called smuggler's and the east india company wanted to put those smugglers out of business and their strategy undercut their prices they wanted to pull a wal-mart but the colonists were having none of it as hughes wrote trying to get around the east india company quote render the smuggling of tea an object that was frequently practiced and the resolutions against using it the

and i mean republican in the sense of the republic, of thomas jefferson, those kinds of people. the last lawyer who really believes that to enunciate the important principles of america is going to work. this is in a town where their first reaction -- i mean, tom ewell is an incredibly evil, disgusting person. everybody in town knows that. but they believe him. you know, they're willing to take his word even though they know he's lying completely, they're willing to take his word. they're willing to go out and try to lynch tom robinson, right? they have taken one of their upstanding citizens, bo radley, and locked him in the attic. he's been there for god knows how many years. has anybody in town done anything about it? no. lock your kids in the attic. that's the kind of town you're dealing with. as we're seeing this through the idse of scout, a child, we have -- through the eyes of scout, a child, we have to dig into it ourselves to see what's going on and once you do you realize that atticus doesn't have a chance. there's nobody to appeal to. he's going to lose. and the moral

fathers. >> host: tell us more. >> in the case of alexander hamilton legal thomas jefferson, democratic republican opponents discovered hamilton had a unique financial arrangement with a man named james reynolds, who hamilton was paid for the right to sleep with his wife maria reynolds. the democrats and republicans found out about this and proceeded to try to defame hamilton and derail his plans to create the national bank by exposing a sex scandal. opening up the sec's discussion boomerang on jefferson because federalists' dragged up the story of sally having this and jefferson was his own slave children. it for political points as part of the law tradition of american politics. >> that is your thought we go if we were not focused on this we would spend time on more important issues. we have important news throughout our country's history yet people do like to talk about this. >> the interesting thing is in the early nineteenth century the sex lives of president andrew jackson, thomas jefferson was in the press. it was fair game. and the 20th century with the emergence of the national

it was a good idea when thomas jefferson backed it, and it's an even more important idea today. what we're seeing in europe is a collapse of government finance because they have spent too much, taxed too much and borrowed too much. not only do they have a crisis of their government debt, but they have a higher -- have higher taxes and lower economic performance because of that philosophy. we cannot repeat that mistake. and that's why the senate should have adopted a balanced budget amendment. i will speak in bipartisan fashion. any of the balanced budget amendments we considered today would have been better. rather than to subject our country to a rising tide of debt and an economic model which is already, we're seeing, failing in europe. mr. coons: i couldn't agree more, senator, that we need to be responsible. that the united states and this senate need to face our serious and crippling national deficits and debt. it was a good idea when thomas jefferson recognized that a balanced budget amendment was a bad idea. thomas jefferson actually several years later after supporting a

la mejor idea vino de thomas jefferson. todos los seres humanos, no importa el accidente de su nacimiento tienen derecho a disfrutar de ser seres humanos plenos y libres. Ése, es el regalo de estados unidos al mundo. pero allÁ arriba, estÁn los parques nacionales. jefferson, dirja, que si fueras al corazÓn del pajs y vieras, este continente en toda su gloria, te darja el valor de soÑar sobre las posibilidades de la vida. que esta naturaleza garantiza la libertad constitucional de estados unidos. que si no tienes un vjnculo con la naturaleza de forma seria y profunda, no puedes ser estadounidense. como la idea misma de estados unidos, llena de demandas competitivas e impulsos, la idea de los parques nacionales ha sido constantemente debatida, constantemente a prueba y estÁ constantemente evolucionando, hasta abrazar los lugares que tambiÉn preservan los principios de la naciÓn, sus mayores aspiraciones sus mayores sacrificios... y hasta los recordatorios de sus vergonzosos errores. mÁs que todo, la historia de los p

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jefferson in 1802, the college was established, devoted to training professional leaders in warfare. now more than 200 years later, today's cadets are well aware of the impressive legacy placed on their shoulders. >> tradition is everything here. it permeates through everything that we do. i mean, the uniform is the same as 1802 when the school opened. it gives us a background and something to draw from in the lives and experiences as cadets. >> since day one, everyone has their heart set on serving the country. it's not something you ever regret. it's something you get hyped about. you get reinspired and remotivated to serve your country. >> it starts with a mission. our mission to educate, train and inspire the corps of cadets so each graduate is a commissioned leader of character. committed to the values of duty, honor and country. and prepared for a selfless career of service. as an officer in the united states army. ♪ ♪ >> as long as there has been soldiers at west point there has been a band. >> there were musicians who were field musicians. drummers and fiffe arees going b

that was the radical leftist possibly -- thomas jefferson. that was franklin and jefferson because think jefferson was a sort of a gentleman farmer living in virginia putative he didn't need the country to be big and dynamic. she imagined small businesses and farmers and quite a bit isolationist to stay away from the world and that was jefferson the democrats today, they are trying to tax the people and the government should be building jobs and doing things creating alexander hamilton considered the father of conservatism. the first secretary of the treasury, the very first thing he did, he demanded the country establish a deficit and he bought all of the revolutionary war debt of the state. jefferson is screaming i can't do it, unconstitutional, construction of the constitution said the liberals. he said i'm big enough to do it and i have to have a very big powerful central government to do what i have in mind and that is to create this grand global powerhouse that can compete with europe. we will show them we will not be treated like this

that was the radical, leftist, possibly atheist or at least deist thomas jefferson. that was franklin and jefferson. because, think about it, jefferson was this sort of gentleman farmer living in virginia. he didn't need the country to be big and dynamic. he imagined small businesses and farmers and quiet and bucolic and a bit isolationist, wanted to kind of stay away from the world. that was jefferson. all right? then the democrats today, oh, they're the big government and, you know, they're trying to tax the people, and they've got all of these -- the government should be building jobs and doing things and creating -- alexander hamilton is considered the father of conservativism. our first secretary of the treasury. you know what the very first thing he did? he demanded that the country establish a deficit. and he went around, and he bought up all of the revolutionary war debt from the states, brought it up -- took it, brought it in. jefferson is over there screaming, can't do it, unconstitutional, strict construction of the constitution, said the liberal. hamilton

but finally we are here at the thomas jefferson bible exhibit. and take a look around. it is beautiful in here. i also have my guest here, harry rubenstein the curator of the exhibit. thanks for coming out. >> welcome to the museum and thank you for coming. reporter: thank you, harry. harry, this is pretty remarkable stuff. it's been in the smithsonian collection since 1895 but recently underwent a me particular loss conservation, right? >> the bible itself, the pages had become very brittle and the binding is very tight so we could no longer open the book to show people the project that jefferson had worked on. so we literally took the pages out, repaired all of the tears and then put it all back together, and for the first time people can again see this book that jefferson created at the end of his life. reporter: and right here is the title page, but i wanted to show everyone that because it's really rivetting to see that handwriting and the actual photo of it. and over here is the actual display which is what people will see when they come out here, right? >> right.

thomas jefferson once said that all men are created equal, a phrase which the yankees and the side of the executive branch in washington are fond at hurling at us. there is a tendency in this year of grace, 1935, to use this phrase out of context to satisfy all conditions, the most ridiculous example i can think of is when the people who run our public education promote that stupid and idle along with the industryous. because all men are created equal, educators gravely tell us the children left behind suffer terrible feelings of inadequacy. we all know that all men are not created equal. in the sense some people would have us believe. some people are smarter than others. some have more opportunity because they're born with it. some men make more money than others. some ladies bake better cakes than others. some people are born gifted beyond the normal scope of most men. but there is one way in our society that all men are created equal. there is one human institution that makes the pauper the equal of the rockefeller. the stupid man equal of an einstein. the ignoreant man the equal o

he compared himself to thomas jefferson, abraham lincoln, fdr. that was only in the first. (laughter) >> i want to listen to a bite of ron paul talking about iran. >> for you to say that there's some scientific evidence and some people arguing that maybe in a year they might have a weapon, there's a lot more saying they don't have it, there's no u.n. evidence of that happening. you know what i really fear about what's happening here, it's another iraq coming, it's war propaganda going on and arguing to me the greatest danger that we will have a president that will overreact. >> paul: jason, give him credit for consistency, he hits that line every time, is that a winner politicalically. >> no, that's exactly what disqualifies him from becoming nominee, but ron paul gave one of the most interesting responses of the night and it was a nonresponse. when asked he will eventually support. if he'll support the eventual nominee shall the republican nominee, he did not answer that question and i think that scares a lot of the republican establishment because it means he's leaving op

jefferson was pretty religious about a few foods ate an apple every day and had two glasses of wine every night with dinner and he was on to something since both of those things have now scientifically been proven to have an anti-inflammatory benefits and thus extend life. it's the good the bad of the very very bella potently ugly good a halt ohio supreme court justice paul eve pfeiffer the most senior justice on ohio's highest court went before state lawmakers yesterday and pleaded with them to pass legislation banning the death penalty in that state pfeiffer who is a republican told the house criminal justice committee the death penalty in ohio has become what i call a death lottery i believe is no longer well served by our death penalty statute it should be repealed if you are going to consider those who will if not now when if not you who well said and it looks like the rest of the country is beginning to come around to the same opinion as death sentences in our nation hit a thirty five year low this year time to join the rest of the developed world and ditch the death penalty t

this is the correspondence that he sent back to thomas jefferson and james madison and other officials to let them know how it was going to louisiana after the changeover. it wasn't always going so smoothly. the thing to think about is that back then and this covers october of 1804 to may of 1805 and they didn't have word-processing or xerox machines but wanted to keep a copy of something they had sent. they had to have a clerk copy it for them and this is the copy that they kept in louisiana of when they sent forward to washington as well as correspondence that were sent to people in louisiana. it was really an interesting time in louisiana because it was quite uncertain. there was a lot of debate and doubt as to whether louisiana was going to stay part of the united states. the french felt they had a claim to it. spanish felt they still have a claim to it. that made it hard for claiborne to establish the government he needed to because people were wait and see what is going to happen. they didn't want to cooperate with americans that went back to the french or spanish because that wo

benjamin franklin and thomas jefferson and james madison we seem to have forgotten how to win wars consistent with those kinds of values with those and lightman values but george washington understood this at the battle of trenton for example he'd captured a thousand has sions these were german mercenaries base and he ordered his troops to treat them in accordance with the values that this new nation it was not yet even a nation actually was fighting for then the battle of princeton washington sent this order to his troops in regard to how to treat british prisoners of war he said treat them with humanity and let them have no reason to complain of our copy in the brutal example of the british army and their treatment of our unfortunate brother and who have fallen into their hands is the fact the matter is the british army when they took american soldiers as prisoners they would torture them many of them died being tortured they would indefinitely detain them they could they kept them in in stinking cells and fed them virtually nothing or just water and bread indefinite detention and torture a

jefferson even agrees with newt horrified by the judiciary's power grab jefferson wrote in an eight hundred twenty letter to mr jarvis who thought supreme court justices should have the power to strike down laws you seem to consider the judges the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions of very dangerous doctrine indeed and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy the constitution has erected no such single tribunals i know of no a safe depository of the ultimate powers of society but the people themselves so the question is what do we do about a too powerful judiciary. new proposal something radical arresting judges. one of the things you say is that if you don't like what a court has done that congress should subpoena the judge and bring him before congress him and hold a congressional hearing some people say that's unconstitutional but i'll let that go for a minute i just want to ask you promote practical standpoint how would you do in force that would use in the capitol police are down to arrest him if you had to where you are or you'd instruct the.

the john adams administration pick that up did the same thing sort of the thomas jefferson administration for president came along james madison and congress said hey let's give this money to the churches and let the churches administer the poor house instead of madison yet vetoed that saying that it would establish a precedent of government money going to churches that could corrupt churches and this is because madison was a religious guy. he didn't want his church corrupt of them and has no power over the church did the government money is going to corrupt if they take the tax money they start taxing the church then they're going to start on taxes our church was a subsidize who had to go to church and all of a sudden now we're going to be paying to go to church we're going to have to start giving money to go to church we do that now it's called trying. to do what now it's not going to be you know contribution is going to be mandatory because now the churches have to pay fees there are and that's going to be a problem because who has one hundred dollars per week to pay caesar top of his

as thomas jefferson said experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind for i can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor and that liberty is pure which is to go to all and not to the few or the rich alone and i am not among those who fear the people they and not the rich are our dependence for continued freedom and those seeking profits where they given total freedom would not be the ones to trust to keep government pure and our right secure indeed it has always been those seeking wealth who are the source of corruption in government jefferson even warned us that we should never never ever in his words quote be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow sufferers and quote people for some reason think the constitution said that only rich white male landowners could vote but none of those things are anywhere in the constitution while our new country was far from perfect in many of the states in our early years women voted blacks voted and even people who lived in the poor houses the

madison introduces him to thomas jefferson. he gives him essentially a no- show jobs and makes it a court translator. he tells of you will have enough time to do anything else that you wish. what he and madison wish for now to do is to edit a new newspaper in philadelphia that will be called "the national gazette." he sells prescription -- subscriptions and it comes out on halloween. very soon this is hammering out alexander hamilton and even president washington to the point that one cabinet meeting speaks of the rascal ferno. host: we're board to put the numbers on the screen if you like to -- going to put the numbers on the screen if you would like to call in. we're talking to richard brookhiser about james madison. new book out. we covered him on "book tv." on "american history magazine" mr brookhiser has written about james madison. is a political look at james madison. why did you decide to write a book about james madison? guest: he was a little underdone of all the founding fathers. we have had a lot about washington. w

he compared himself to thomas jefferson, abraham lincoln, fdr. that was only in the first. (laughter) >> i want to listen to a bite of ron paul talking about iran. >> for you to say that there's some scientific evidence and some people arguing that maybe in a year they might have a weapon, there's a lot more saying they don't have it, there's no u.n. evidence of that happening. you know what i really fear about what's happening here, it's another iraq coming, it's war propaganda going on and arguing to me the greatest danger that we will have a president that will overreact. >> paul: jason, give him credit for consistency, he hits that line every time, is that a winner politicalically. >> no, that's exactly what disqualifies him from becoming nominee, but ron paul gave one of the most interesting responses of the night and it was a nonresponse. when asked he will eventually support. if he'll support the eventual nominee shall the republican nominee, he did not answer that question and i think that scares a lot of the republican establishment because it means he's leaving op