and one reason why it doesn t get the emphasis it should get his here as in other areas of his political life, madison self-consciously stood in the shadow of one of his contemporaries, that of tom jefferson. so for example, madison is often seen as lieutenant of jeffersons who claimed credit for drafting the virginia staff for religious freedom atop the virginia general assembly in 1986 and in fact checkers than was wise enough or perhaps we should say machiavellian enough to sketch his own gravestone on which he said that he wanted included statements that he was the author of the declaration of independence and of the virginia religious freedom besides father of university of virginia and this is commonly the way we understand the process that led to the establishment of a secular government in the old dominion. but if you think about it, you realize that jefferson was claiming credit for some team for which madison should get a lot, not he and the reason it most commonly
i understand you went to college and university so he didn t have to have his slaves belying is that the main reason he went to new jersey so he would have to earnestly to fund the slaves that were inherited? and outcome of the reason he went was physically unwell and he believed that the environment to williamsburg was unhealthy. so to be avoided yet this is a common kind of idea among division elite. richard henry elite, president of congress did not participate in the ratification convention in 1788 because he was on while anti-richmond was a sickly environment. he didn t want to go there while he was unwell. so that was not the reason. in fact, not ascend took slaves with him when he would to congress in new york and philadelphia. there s interesting exchanges between him and his father over what to do about the fact that the slaves had become accustomed to more latitude in behavior while they were away from virginia. in one case he freed a man because he s used to
here is author elizabeth dowling taylor talking about her book, a slave in the white house. hertog in the library of congress is just under one hour. good afternoon. welcome to the library of congress. i am john kohl, the director of the center for the book in the library of congress. the center is the reading promotion arm of the library of congress. we were created in 1977 by librarian of congress daniel boorstin to help the library of congress stimulate public interest in books and reading and literacy. we operate primarily through a couple of national networks. there are state centers for the book and in most of the state. they work with us to promote books in their respective states and in particular to promote writers and writing. we also have national reading promotion partners, many nonprofit groups and government organizations that we also work with to promote looks and reading. we are a major component in the national book festival and i hope many of you know ab
we came here because we saw ourselves as an extension of movement. we saw ourselves as taking there the streets to the halls of congress and to put that per spctive out there perspective out there, all right? so that s how we saw ourselves, and that s how i tried to continue to operate. but along the way i also realized very early on that i had a job to govern, that i had to try to figure out what, ultimately, is in the best interests of the american people. can i just say one other little, quick thing on the side? this is just my political perspective. if you look at what s going on now, i think that too many people never sat on the steps and never had that conversation with themselves that their, that they re still carrying the sign, and they never decided to take the responsibility to walk inside the building and assume the burden and the risk and the responsibility to try to govern, to work with sister wilson and lee and others to try to change the nature of the country
this woman is fighting for her life and they are are fighting over glen beck contribute. we all contribute. this country host: next is victor joining us from mississippi. caller: first of all, my prayers go out to this family. we have to bear some responsibility for what happened. we are used so often by politicians, democrats or republicans both. when they want to get elected, they put us against each other. republicans say democrats are giving welfare to the poor people. every time they want to get elected, they say these things and they incite hatred in people. democrats do the same thing. they say the republicans are against the poor. people take these things and they run with them. and they have violence in their intentions with one another. if we stop doing these things, the people would come together. we need to vote them all out, not just the democrats, but the republicans. host: thank you. tomorrow morning we will be talking about this on washington journal. we wil