that made jefferson furious. in these lines, you see them here up on the screen, jefferson as channeling many patriots' anxieties by the threats posed to their security by runaway slaves and by warring native americans. but to our modern ears, there is something distasteful about the way he's reacting to dunmore's encouragement of slaves to free themselves. how angry it makes jefferson. and there is something willful about jefferson's refusal to acknowledge the decades of colonial incursions on native land, are a true source of tension between patriots and natives. rather than acknowledge that truth, jefferson's declaration portrayed native americans, and i am about to quote robert parkinson, it portrayed native americans as passive, mindless, bloodthirsty barbarians too naive to realize they were being duped by a tyrant. and jefferson leaves no doubt as to who that tyrant is. that tyrant is not the british people, it is not parliament, it is not even the monarchy. it is one specific monarch, and he looks like th

thomas jefferson of virginia. now, all of these guys, all of them were busy with other committee assignments. and so it made sense for just one of them to take the lead drafting the little document that they'd been tasked to prepare. now, benjamin franklin, a gifted stylist and zealous supporter of independence by this time, he might seem to us like the obvious choice to be the lead draftsman. he was a good writer who believed in the cost, but he was also plagued by gout at this time, and he was exhausted. robert livingston -- this is robert livingston the fourth person across here. robert livingston was on the committee really just as the token conservative. he was not there to do actual work. he had been urging reconciliation. he'd been urging patching things up, not independence. and he was there to make sure things did want get too crazy and run out of hand. roger sherman, too, the guy in the middle was largely window dressing. now, sherman was a good man. john adams once described him as being as honest as an

-- say hello, thomas jefferson -- >> hello, thomas jefferson. dr. bell: and between -- why don't we move you around? you are right the first time, catherine. the conversation between thomas jefferson and john adams. if i am remembering correctly, the conversation began like this. >> will you write? >> i will not. >> you should write it. >> oh, no. >> well, why not? you ought to do it. >> i will not. >> why? >> reasons enough. >> what can be your reasons? >> reason one, you are a virginian and a virginian ought to appear at the head of this business. reason two, i am obnoxious, suspect, and unpopular. you are very much otherwise. reason three, you can write 10 times better than i can. >> well, if you are decided, i will do as well as i can. >> very well. when you have drawn it up, we will have a meeting. >> thank you. [laughter] [applause] dr. bell: that took 30 minutes of rehearsal before we got started. i want to thank chuck and catherine, who were just fabulous. the rehearsal was for technical reasons. [applause] dr. bell: now, that's the conv

that made jefferson furious. in these lines, you see them here, jefferson was channeling many anxieties about the threats posed to their security by runaway slaved and native americans in war. but there is still something distasteful here about the way he is react to encouragement to slaves to free themselves and how angry it makes him. there's a horse something woeful about his refusal to it knowledge the decades of colonial incursions on native land, the true source of tension between patriots and natives. rather than a knowledge that truth jefferson's declaration portrays native americans, and i'm about to quote the historian, his declaration portrayed native americans as passive, mindless, bloodthirsty by variance to naove to realize they are being duped by a tyrant. jefferson leads no leaves no doubt as to who that tyrant is. the tyrant is not the british people. is not parliament. it's not even the monarchy. it is one specific monarch and he looks like this. it's king george the third. look at the way that

john adams for gave thomas jefferson. they have a beautiful, more than a decade of postpresidential correspondence. madison deeply respected john quincy adams. so there is no simple answer. their ideas, their opinions, their personal hatred changed over time and you see that a lot. >> we don't want to sugarcoat john adams either. he rubbed people the wrong way at times and we include that in our book. one of the things that is important for understanding the founding generation and the generation of john quincy adams is to get the full picture. these are human beings. there are elements to their personality that we today might have trouble with and they are not always perfect and they say the wrong things. the key thing is part of the reason his ideas get distorted is party advantage. you look at politicians today, think about people nominated to the supreme court. the less they have written the more likely they are to get put on the supreme court because tons of paper and documentation can be selectively used against the

jefferson, jefferson was not involved in the inking of the constitution. as i said, he was in france. he thought it was a good compromise. in the making of the constitution. he thought with the bill of rights it could be done. there were states, south carolina a particular, who would have walked. or they said they would. it would be interesting if their loss was called. they said, okay, you go. you face the richest by yourself. as a colony. face the by yourself. they said, no, we want a union. they compromised with the fugitive slave claws. those kind of things. they recognized slavery , gave southerners what they wanted at a particular time. it was a compromise to bring about the union. it did not work, obviously. in terms of history, the blink of an eye, before they broke up because of that very issue. they passed together something. for jefferson, it really was, this was a person who started out as a young man, seeing himself as a aggressive, being anti-slavery, trying to submit a bill four gradual emancipation in virginia that is rejected. he decides,

as a professor of history how jefferson's life and legacy to support modern day politics on both sides of the aisle to be regular contributors to modern political and cultural affairs for a variety of national news outlets including npr please join me to balk on on - - welcome our gas. [applause] >> thank you catherine without the massachusetts historical society. thank you for coming. is the candidate likable enough? [laughter] and you come across as likable and that's what democracy has come to with the common touch is not the question of knowledge or judgment or a popularity contest this is one problem of democracy so why should that be the adams? presidents two and six. the feelings of inner satisfaction. perhaps they should not always be believed but nevertheless across decades any reader could see that move with self censoring. with a period in their public lives when they were diplomats in europe and as a teenager without parental supervision john quincy tracked across eastern europe and scandinavia to brave the crossings of the english coast on the obscure backwaters and johnny

adams was sort of jealous of jefferson as well. he said jefferson was apollo. he would be vulcan to jefferson's apollo. jefferson was taller than washington. he was a philosopher, all these kinds of things. the point is that they were leaders who became cult -- not cult, but people had their kind of adoration for them because of particular zeitgeist at the time. for washington, washington was the only person that all members of the colonies respected enough to be the leader. so it made sense afterwards he would become president. jefferson leads what he says is the revolution of 1800 because they were actually trying to take the government back, they thought, for the people. because jefferson believed that the people should be sovereign. so the people who felt that looked at him almost not as a god but as a cult. there was a cult of jefferson. jefferson had an age basically from the time of his presidency up through jackson. jackson saw himself as a jeffersonian. we haven't had that kind of political influence of one person ever again since that time period. but

jefferson randolph. when he got to mexico, tryst angered polk by agreeing to an ill advised arames us the that gave santa anna time to fortify the city. polk and buchanan recalled him. by the time the recall reached him. there was a three week lag in communications between mexico city sometimes longer and washington. by the time the recall reached mexico city. it surrendered. peace talks had begun. and tryst received the recall and he packed up to leave. to obey it. but mexican officials, british diplomats and scott urged him to stay and continue the talks. so tryst disobeyed his orders, resumed the negotiations, and he signed the very treaty that polk had wanted but polk never forgave tryst. even though his actions spared the united states of gorilla war, tryst was dismissed from the state department. polk refused to pay his salary or expenses after the date tryst received his recall. for years after words, tryst bare hi avoided bankruptcy -- barely avoided bankruptcy. in 1871, when he was 70 years old.

he married a jefferson granddaughter, virginia jefferson randolph. when he got to mixico tryst angered polk by agreeing to an armistice outside of mixico city trying to fortify the city. polka buchanan recalled it. by the time the recall reached him, there was a three-week lag in communication between mexico city, sometimes longer, and washington. by the time the recall reached mexico city the surrendered peace talks have begun. tryst received their recall and he packed up to leave. mexican officials, diplomats urged him to stay and continue the talks. he disobeyed the orders and resume the negotiations, he signed the very treaty that polk had wanted. polk never forgave tryst. tryst was dismissed from the state department. polk refused to pay his salary and expenses after the day he received his recall. for years afterward tryst reported bankruptcy, it was in 1871 when he was 70 years old during president grants administration that congress voted him back pay with accrued interest and grant named him postmaster of alexandria virginia. any questions a

so that when thomas jefferson sends ministers to paris to negotiate the purchase of new orleans, jefferson said whoever controls new orleans is our natural enemy, you think about western expansion. if you are a farmer, you're in the west. if you're in kentucky, or points west, you're not thinking about your produce, to put it across the appellation mountains, you're looking to float it down to new orleans. if spain holds out, you have a problem. so jefferson goes looking to purchase new orleans. they arrive in paris and the french minister says, has we, have we got a deal for you. napoleon has decided to unload. the war with written, the disaster in the caribbean causes napoleon to wash his hands of the french empire. this is not jefferson's vision. well, maybe it is. divinely ordained. maybe that's what explains it all. maybe it is chance. we don't like necessarily saying that. to look at this. my daughter does commit she did this, yep. but you could construct something like this. this is my notion of how indian gifts, the whole question of indian gifts affects american history. the briti

of william jefferson randolph. when he got to mexico, tryst angered polk by agreeing to an ill-advised armistice outside of mexico city that gave time to santa ana to fortify the city. polk and buchanon recalled him ask by the time the recall reached him there was this three-week lag in communications between mexico city and sometimes longer, in washington. by the time the recall reached mexico city the surrendered peace talks had begun and tryst received the recall and he packed up to leave to obey him, but mexican officials and the british diplomats urged him to stay and continue the talks so tryst disobeyed his orders and resumed the negotiations and he signed the very treaty that polk had wanted. polk never forgave tryst. those actions spared the united states of draining guerilla war. tryst was dismissed from the state department. polk refused to pay a salary or expenses after the date tryst received his recall. for years afterwards, tryst bauerly avoided bankruptcy. it was in 1871 when he was 70 years old dur

he had this great feud with jefferson davis probably jefferson davis most outspoken critic most people have never heard of. he ended up getting elected to the federal congress something believed he did that just so he could stand up on the confederate floor of the confederate congress and talk about jefferson davis. that's all he did demanding investigations of jefferson davis. talking about jefferson davis what a coward he was and how he was growing up the whole war effort. over and over again. he was kind of this maniacal, could be this maniacal guy that led this colorful life to say the least. when he died all the obituaries of people who loved him bought into what he was doing or probably more people hated him because he tended to burn his bridges wherever he went. one other thing he did his a politician if all that wasn't enough he ran for office as a jacksonian democrat as a wig as a mainstream democrat as a union democrat, as a member of the know nothing party, as a confederate congressman, and finally ended up joining the republican party after the work. he did all of that as w

right across from independence hall where jefferson wrote the declaration, and madison and those other great framers wrote the constitution. what was madison thinking when he created the greatest human document of freedom? what was the centrality of the structural guarantee for the preservation of the rule of law? the summer before he came to philadelphia, madison had a reading project that had been sent to him by jefferson. jefferson sent him two trunk full's of books from paris about the failures of ancients democracies, in particular greece and rome. and madison was concerned that america might go the way of greece. thatderalist 55, he wrote "in all large assemblies, passion never fails to rest the scepter of reason. beenif every athenian had socrates, athens was still have been a mob." so, madison deduced from his reading that unchecked mobs beiberating face-to-face can seen with passion and lead to factions, which he defined as groups animated by passion rather than reason. thanlf-interest, rather the public good, would judge asgory so memorably defined poodle,. -- so memorably de

his desk, as everyone knows it, as jefferson davis's desk. and there was a young person, bill thomas's son who was a page, african-american. they always ask senators, do you want a drink of water, i said, sure. i said, by the way, i will give a speech and will finally get the vote to have the first african-american, on the fourth circuit court of appeals and i will give the speech on jefferson davis's desk. young mr. thomas said, that's really cool. [laughter] that is how the senate operates, slowly. they need to set priorities, they need to have the governor not only pass a budget, there needs to be a balanced budget. you set priorities. you can't say yes to everything. i think the states are going to be the way we repel the federal government to finally have a balanced budget. secondly, they need to get back to basics. it is awful. susan and i watch people -- when the government shutdown because the did not pass the budget, government workers, i am thinking, oh my goodness. in the real world, if you don't get your job done, you don't get pa

the declaration of independence, jefferson's declaration, begins on addressing a rod audience. thexpects holding out american example for other people to emulate or not accept or reject. i think we have had a wonderful history in the last two and a half centuries. other places don't imitate to the american example and yet they can't do that, they are not american. but there are. a remarkable number of countries -- think how many few democracies there were before 1945. stress.der we talk about the russian bear and the chinese example, unfortunately, so many people now look at china for example, having created a middle-class that did not exist 30 years ago, and they look at that system is being unattractive one for them -- being attractive one for theman. so we have to take a hard look at the problems here at home, problems of gerrymandering, the right to vote, cleanup our act and make us the kind of example we would like to be, then remember the place we ought to have in the affairs of the world not to retreat for the world that be part of the international sea and influence the

jefferson. it's a mark of a leader in many people's eyes and taking what he wants. >> to watch the rest of the interview, watch the website book tv .org. search the title of the book what do we need men for? using the search box at the top of the page. watch book tv for life coverage for the national book coverage. august 31st saturday starting at 10:00 a.m. eastern. our coverage covers author interviews on her book my own words. david troyer, his book is the heartbeat of wounded knee. sharon robinson talked about her book child of her dreams. rick acting's and author of the british are coming. in thomas alone, founding director of the mit center for collective intelligence. discusses his book super mines. the national book festival. life saturday, august 31st, at 10:00 a.m. eastern on book tv on c-span two. >> on our life author program historian lee edwards shared his thoughts on the conservative

his other hero was thomas jefferson. so states rights, protection of slavery, another thing he is also known for, and he was also a slave owner himself. he owned over -- nine slaves? prof. slap: 10 to 12. johnson played up the apprenticeship, that he was treated as a slave. there was a difference in actuality. in his mind, he conflated the two. that is one of the reasons why attackeden -- he planters, the wealthy slaveowners who he sees looking down on the poor whites like him even when he becomes wealthy. he still identifies and sees himself as a poor white. that guides a lot of his philosophy. a lot of what he does in his life is that self-image of being the poor hardscrabble white person pulling himself up. i talked about how he did not like planters. he viewed himself even before the war and certainly when secession started ripping the country apart, he was with the honest yeomen fighting the slave-ocracy, the words he was what he called the pampered, bloated, corrupted aristocracy. these are people with huge plantat

jefferson himself didn't. but what he wrote has pulled us towards justice for more than two centuries, and it still does. it remains this nation's north star. take a look at the klan, the ku klux klan. after the civil war, we saw a rise in the klan. it was beaten down only to rise again in the 1920's. in fact, in august of 1925, 30,000 fully clad klansmen in their robes and pointed hats marched down pennsylvania avenue in the streets of washington. imagine. imagine that today. and then the klan was once again beaten back, as it was after the civil war. how? the courts, the press, and yes, presidents, stood against them. and that is the point. our institutions often imperfectly stood against hate at moments when we were most tested. american presidents have stepped up in the past. george h.w. bush renouncing his membership in the nra. president clinton after oklahoma city. george w. bush going to a mosque after 9/11. president obama after charleston. presidents who led, who opposed, chose to fight for what the

jefferson selects his private study in a much bigger space. he has it set up much more comfortably so the secretaries actually have proper work space. there's larger tables and more comfortable chairs, has great lighting, it's on a first floor, it's a private space. i think there is a lot to be said that his experience in washington's cabinet absolutely informs what he then creates once he is in the white house. >> i don't have a great answer for the senate question. i think you are right, i think it's super interesting. the debates that i've read in ratification conventions and in madison's notes prompted a lot of the questions i've been asking about the role of education in determining access to power and really how they kind of dealt with this thorny question of having an upper house as opposed to -- in addition to the lower house. on the question of location, i don't deal too much with national politics, but i do think an important thing to talk about is the presence or lack thereof of women in the capital. d.c. in its early years is not e

. >> this is the jefferson award winners this week. >> reporter: at the community center, guests enjoy a special meal. kiara and lila prepare a dish using ingredients sourced from the free food bank. >> this is rice pilaf with vegetables and chicken. >> reporter: they present how it is cooked. >>e gointo taabout a cooking tool called the wonder bag. >> reporter: it's nonelectric slow cooker is relying on heat retention for cooking. the pots are brought to a boil on a stove and moved into a bag where it sits to finish the cooking process. >> wonder bags are tools to save time, save resources like water and fuel. >> reporter: the bags can help reduce the risk of inhaled smoke for those who live where cooking over an open fire is the only option and after seeing the open fire cooking on a school trip to south africa, they wanted to find a way to help their new friends. >> they come with energy and teach us dancing and they drum with us and it has been a positive experience in our lives. >> they've raised $11,000 through bake sales and bought 800 wondra bags to give to south african famili

newspaper treatment dives in, and jefferson davis talks about it as a heroic victory. davis was never one to withhold from a bad cause. his take on emancipation was the blackest crime in all humanity. this is called going all in if you're going to be wrong, be wrong on a biblical scale. so there's not a lot of public remorse. there are certainly soldiers, famous testimony from achilles clark, sergeant in tennessee that writes about fort pillow and writes to his sister saying this is what happened. it is clear he thinks it shouldn't have happened. brains could have been scooped up in any quantity from skulls bashed in with rifle butts inside fort pillow. but no. i haven't seen a great deal of that. what you see is tendency to say they didn't happen in the way the union overdrama advertised this. we were trying to take the fort and it was an accident. but not a clear reckoning with that among that wartime generation, even though there's plenty of evidence from people that talk about it. in private correspondence, i guess i would say, in private correspondence people that

jefferson davis was observing this and drawing more and more concerned. the men who are held and they are held in new york and jefferson davis was to take an equal number of u.s. officers in this case, and he puts them in hard labor in richmond and says if the men captured on these privateers are executed i will do the same to them and i have captured. he issues and affect what is called a retaliatory threat and i will talk about retaliation as it works within the laws of war later. lincoln blinks in this instance. he recognizes an important restraint and the larger question of who can fight exacerbates the problems of the war. lincoln recognizes that he has to effectively agree that the confederacy is an independent state. in terms of how he treats those soldiers that they will be recognized as public enemies. and houston prisons and given medical care if they require it. that is a decision he is forced into by war. one place we see real tension on how lincoln believes the war should be fought, not that he wants an unrestrained war that he does not want

>> he goes with jefferson davis. he is selecting the main route, davisdefend the jefferson highway, let's make sure we can be at manassas, but we have to defend this artery. he is laying out the keyway to defend the railroad. he is acting as the grand strategist and as an engineer to help the confederacy achieve its goals. that is the simplest way i can put it. it is incredible that the southerners could keep a road between charleston and savannah going that whole time, and to gound a way back and forth. he has a military adviser to jefferson davis, but he is also accomplishing all different feats that had an impact on the confederate army. last question, anybody? thank you very much. i will be around here. thanks to the gettysburg heritage center and to c-span. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> thank you also very much for coming out tonight. announcer: le

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nominate your own hero for jefferson award online at kpix.com/hero. >>> we'll be right back. >>> with mixed melons in the market, in the summertime, these are my favorite. they are loaded with sugar and that means they decay much faster so selection of storage is important. look at the beautiful galia melons with a dark yellow color all the way around. check where it was picked and that it is not soft and heavy for its size paid when you bring them home, store these in the refrigerator. you can store them on the counter but they ripen very fast. when they are picked, the sugar content is there so the sweetness is there and if you keep them in the refrigerator, it stalls the ripening process. galia melons, out of this world. i'm tony tantillo, your fresh grocer. eat fresh and stay healthy. >>> protesting against the closing of a mental health facility in the bay area with serious concerns over who may be released onto the streets. that strand much more tonight at 5:00. >>> that will do it for us at kpix5 news at noon and don't forget the bold and the beautiful coming up next. >>> we ha

words was it jefferson or was it the people he owned as property to the extent that the answer is obviously the latter you have to give credit to enslave the persons and their progeny and those who fought for justice as the actual founders and the only ones who ever believed the words that the ones we call founders put down on paper the 2nd point i'd make and it goes back to all that we've been talking about is about how the past affects the present and why i think so many people some have had a hard time with this series those on the right critique it is that they desperately want to act as if inertia is only a property of the physical universe and not the socio economic political cultural or historical what happens in one generation affects the next and the next and the next until that force is stopped it is like the 2nd law of thermodynamics in that regard and so not only do we have the accumulation of wealth for white folks because of that history now a $15.00 to $1.00 gap between white and black $12.00 to $1.00 between white and brown but we also have other things in history that conti

. >>> we continue back-to-school coverage in west contra costa county with a jefferson award winner on a mission to stop violence on the streets of richmond. the reverend created a program and it is a swahili word that means achievement and is designed to get parents engaged sukit home t itat they need to teaches students to focus, pay attention and follow instructions. >> we don't have this for the students in the district, then what? what would be available to them? how could they meet that need? the change is here. >> the bernal heights recreation center program is in 18 other west contra costa county schools and there are plans for three more this school year. >>> our special coverage continues with the high price of back-to-school shopping. >> whatever i have to do, working two jobs or whatever, i will do it. >> bay area parents working overtime for school supplies and how much it will cost, tomorrow morning starting at 4:30 right here on kpix5. >>> we asked for photos of students and kids going back to school and we've got plenty to show you. >> take a look at this sister and bro

jefferson had sired a child by a slave, so jefferson got a comeuppance for having hired the notorious mr. caulder. but we went through this age, and we went through an age of technological change. think about the moment and then 1840's when selling information began to be shared instantaneously across the country. before, it took weeks for something to go from boston to new orleans, but they invention of the telegraph brought an instantaneous national news network. talk about the technological change of 1870's one along comes powered machines and we have a proliferation of every kind of newspaper. there are 13 daily newspapers in in 1896, which was down from their previous high. and again you picked the kind of , information he wanted. imaginative political revolutions of radio in the 1920's and television in the 1950's. so, our entire country's history has been one way or, how we receive information -- has been one way or, how has been one where how we receive information and how we process it, how we can check its sources and authenticity has constantly been challenged the technolog

alexander hamilton at the time that treasury secretary, and thomas jefferson, secretary of state work pout a bargain with james madison. and they essentially say, look all the southern states will agree to support assumption, actually making sure that the federal government pays all of the state's debts from the revolutionary war if the federal capitol is placed on the potomac river. that deal is struck in 1790. you have sparlt the residents act. and it's agreed that the federal capitol will be somewhere between northern maryland and the confluence cht and i yooft and potomac rivers. and george washington is allowed to choose the sight and he chooses the present location. >> so, again, slavery, why do you feel that it o had an impact on the location of the -- >> the southern interests tahoe owe who are angling for a potomac capitol want to make sure the capitol is in the slave south and that slavery is protected in the national capitol. they are particularly interested in that because the capitol had been at philadelphia for a large period of time during the continental congress. and

he had this great feud with jefferson davis probably jefferson davis most outspoken critic most people have never heard of. he ended up getting elected to the federal congress something believed he did that just so he could stand up on the confederate floor of the confederate congress and talk about jefferson davis. that's all he did demanding investigations of jefferson davis. talking about jefferson davis what a coward he was and how he was growing up the whole war effort. over and over again. he was kind of this maniacal, could be this maniacal guy that led this colorful life to say the least. when he died all the obituaries of people who loved him bought into what he was doing or probably more people hated him because he tended to burn his bridges wherever he went. one other thing he did his a politician if all that wasn't enough he ran for office as a jacksonian democrat as a wig as a mainstream democrat as a union democrat, as a member of the know nothing party, as a confederate congressman, and finally ended up joining the republican party after the work. he did all of that as w

jefferson himself didn't. but what he wrote has pulled us towards justice for more than two centuries and still does. remaining this nation's northstar. take a look at the clue clucks clan. after the war, we saw a rise in the plan. to riseeaten down only again in the 20's. fullyust of 1925, 30,000 clad klansman in their robes and pointed hats marched down pennsylvania avenue in the streets of washington. imagine. imagine that today. were once again become back as they were after the civil war. how question mark the courts, the press, and yes, presidents stood against them. and that is the point. our institutions often imperfectly stood against hate at moments when we were most tested. have's aptesidents up in the past. renouncing hish mentor -- membership in the nra. president clinton after oklahoma city. george w. bush going to a mosque after 9/11. charlestonbama after . presidents who led, who opposed, chose to fight for what the best of american character is about. there's deafening silence now. sadly, we d

jefferson award winners show their cooking skills and a great desire to improve the lives of others. >> reporter: >> gas at the community center enjoying a very special meal. they prepare a dish using ingredients sourced from the sensors free food bank. >>> this is a rise pilaf with vegetables and chicken.>> reporter: a present how it is cooked. >>> we are here to talk about an eco-friendly cooking tool the wonder back.>> reporter: wonder bags are nonelectric slow cookers that rely on heat retention for cooking. pots are brought to a boil on a stove and moved into the back where they sit for hours to finish the cooking process.>>> wonder bags are tools to help save time. save resources such as water and fuel.>> reporter: can help reduce the risk of inhaled smoke for those who live cooking over an open fire is the only option. after seeing open fire cooking on a school trip to south africa they wanted to find a way to help their new friends. >>> they come with their energy. they teach us dancing. they drummed with us. it has been such a positive experience in our lives.>> reporter: th

. >>> >>> is weeks jefferson award winner has a special place in his heart for the city of san francisco and its families. >>> volunteer work is being recognized as a full time of life of service.>> reporter: he loves what he does and who he does it for.>>> it is from the heart.>> reporter: deputy director is san francisco's good samaritan family resource center he oversees five different youth services programs for the organization. >>> san francisco youth are being raised in a special and sacred part of this world. their parents are incredible. they have gone through great lengths to be here. to raise their kids here. about as a first-generation america he knows firsthand the struggles bay area families can face. his parents came to this country in the 1960s from iran. his father worked hard to support the family. >>> he did not know english. he had $50 in his pocket. he went from a dishwasher to a restaurant to her. >> reporter: he graduated with the debate degree in science. he soon realized something was missing. >>> i was unhappy where i was but it was actually really simple. i goo

shanken introduces us to this week's jefferson award. >> sonny schwartz came across a disturbing case, a child letter sent to get out of jail in two weeks was promising to reoffend, and he did. after that, sonny set on a new mission to help inmates come out of jail better than when they entered. >> sonny schwartz speaks to inmates in a classroom at the san francisco county jail in san bruno. a far cry from the jail of use past. >> typical incarceration was about dominoes, playing cards and watching bad tv and never in taking the time to look at yourself in the mirror. i said what have i done? >> reporter: as program director in the 1980s, several programs to change lies. >> it's about including everyone, impacted by violence and other crime. >> reporter: one program, result to stop the violence project or rsvp does any radical each week to put inmates face-to-face with violent crime survivors. >> it's an opportunity for the men in our program to stand in the shoes of those who been violated, hearing the horrible impact of their crime. >> reporter: sonny also founded five keys goals an

things are looking up in the bay area thanks to this week's jefferson award winner. >>> diana brown made a life- saving decision to devote her life to helping foster youth saur. >> reporter: diana brown surrounds foster youth with a circle of love and support three nonprofit she started after her parents passed away. >>> this is live. so in permanent. so temporary. i asked myself what is my life about? >> reporter: she left her job and found it sore in 2009. its volunteers provide support in academics leadership and life skills to about 100 bay area foster youth this year h 11 through 19. middle schoolers start with a residential program at uc berkeley for three summers and then stay connected with other activities.>>> they should have someone to protect them and guide them toward success. >> reporter: diana leads the way. while only about half of american foster youth graduate from high school on time at saur 95% get their high school diploma on time. nine in 10 of them go to college. take a mechanical engineering student at uc merced. >>> i was a very scared little kid. they have gaine

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jefferson's virtues? a man that ken burns called the man of the millennium. >> well, you don't separate them. because they're inseparable. if you're looking for -- if either right or left is looking for some perfect -- for a paragon of virtue or a complete villain, you look not in vain you look pretty hard. to go to my friend professor glaude's point i think that if you don't look at history in its whole, you do two things. one is you foreclose the possibility of learning from it. which is pointless. the other is we don't give due credit to those who sacrificed and died and bled to get us to this point. so you have to look back. 1619 is a great example because the last -- july 30th i think was the first day of the first representative assembly of popular government more or less in the new world. followed in several weeks by the arrival of the ship that was called the white lion that dutch man of war that brought the enslaved africans to the new world. so there in a period of two or three weeks you had the

it is on the west side, the west jefferson mount. again, it predates records, but it is a plant native, it is in the same family of witch hazel and it blooms in the middle of the winter. it has these dark, velvety buds that open up to a maroon flower. they are small but beautiful. in january or february, you will take anything you can get. it is a huge tree. it is a beautiful tree. not a presidential, that we know. there are some on the north grounds too, a white oak planted by franklin d roosevelt. that one doesn't have the size you would expect, it is a very slow-growing tree, but very healthy. i don't see any reason why it won't grow to be a beautiful old tree. those on the north groundstop get as much attention as the south grounds. because you see those on the garden tors. -- tours. jim: one is not really a treat, the truman boxwood on the north portico. i remember every four years we would have a fight with the press covering the inauguration who wanted to trim back the boxwood to get better views of the north front of the hous