Good morning, everyone. Arent you a smartlooking set this morning . The topic today is religion and the American Revolution. You recall from our last session together, i laid out what i think are some headwaters of early american constitutionalism. Thats what i was calling them. So we looked at classical republicanism, primarily roman, grecoroman, but primarily roman. We looked at enlightenment liberalism, primarily british, which included the common law tradition and some older things. Then i mentioned protestant christianity as the third of those headwaters that i believe feeds into early american constitutionalism. And we deferred that to today. So thats where we are today. You recall this image of the Missouri River and its headwaters. Great rivers main streams have head waters that flow into them and are at some point indistinguishable from one another and the river. These are the headwaters of the Missouri River, the gallitan, the madison, and the jefferson rivers, discovered by
Obama. Want to get your reaction. Who is your favorite president . Tell us why. 202 7488001, if republicans. 202 7488000, democrats. 202 7488001 independent colors. You could also share your comments on facebook. Good monday morning to you. Thank you for being here with us on this president s day holiday. We talked about this yesterday with three leading historians survey. Ed conduct this this is the third time that cspan has conducted the survey. The first in 2000 and the second in 2009 and now, our third president ial historian survey. Number one, no surprise, Abraham Lincoln. Followed by George Washington. Franklin d. Roosevelt is number three. Teddy roosevelt is number four. Followed by eisenhower, jefferson, kennedy, reagan and johnson. Different point of view. We want to hear your calls and comments. Yesterday, explaining the methodology. Who was involved and why the historians came up with these. Guest we chose the 10 categories that we thought were the most important to use in
[inaudible conversations] good morning. Good morning. I would like to welcome you all to word salad or word solid. My name is josh wheeler, im the director of the Thomas Jefferson protection of the Free Expression and the sponsor of this Mornings Program. Its a source of great pride for us at the Thomas Jefferson center that we have been involved in every one of the 23 virginia festival of books in one way or another. Often, you only think about free speech when you think about speech we dont like that we hate actually, but we forget sometimes that free speech also allows us the great kind of expression that we can find in the arts and science everywhere. Its the height that can only be achieved when we are free to explore any idea seen or subject and thats why we are so proud to be part of the festival, virginia festival book, where else is there a better example or examples of the heights that can be reached by virtue of having free speech where authors can work out any fear of retri
Mrs. Pratt had five of them. The largest collection outside of russia, more than the queen of england owns and she had them here in this house. Later on she donated them to the Virginia State museum. So today you could see them in one of the rooms down there. She predeceased mr. Pratt by a number of years. He lived here by himself up until 1975 when well into his 90s he died and at that point he gave the house to the National Park service. Realizing its historical importance. Thanks to the jens rossty of this man that we are able to show the house to you. I hope you enjoy it. If the you have any questions ask me and of course, we have a lot of interesting things going on on the front grounds today as well. So please take advantage of those as well. The gardens were on the front of the house. Entirely obliterated. If you look at pictures, we have one on the fireplace, of that side of the house during the war, youll see no garden. After the war was over in the 1920s they then moved the g
Delighted to be at the convention. My first convention. Ive been working for hillary for eight years. To get her in the white house. Thats why im here. It is my passion. Im from ohio. Im a delegate for bernie and i 21. Am this is my first convention. I am the state director of College Students for bernie and im really excited to be here. My generation and the millennials, we are about the same size of the baby boomers and it is really important for us to show up. We are having a great time at the convention and looking forward to the rest of it. Voices from the road on cspan. Talk next, historians about the process of writing a president ial biography. This event was part of a Pulitzer Prize centennial the george w. Bush president ial center. It is just over an hour. [applause] thank you. Laura and i want to welcome you. Of the president and ceo bush center and all of us who work here are thrilled you are here. I must confess i have mixed emotions. I am thrilled to be part of this, and