Author Robert Mcdonald explains why Thomas Jefferson was a polarizing figure and described how his actions and writings led him to be revered by his contemporaries and led him to be portrayed as radical and unamerican. This talk was hosted by the Virginia Historical society and is about one hour and 15 minutes. Fathers, the founding Thomas Jefferson stood out as the most controversial and con town in. Loved and hated, revered and reviled, during his lifetime, he served as a lightning rod for dispute and even today, serves as a lightning rod for dispute. Few major figures in American History provost such a polarization of Public Opinion. While jeffersons supporters organize festivals in his honor, where they praise him in speeches and song, his detractors portray him as a dilettante and demagogue, doublefaced and dangerously radical. And atheist hostile to christianity, characterizing his. Elief as unamerican they tarred him with the extremism of the french revolution, yet his allies ch
Father. Copies of which he will be happy to sign for you after the lecture. He recently accepted an invitation to serve on the Editorial Advisory Board of our own virginia magazine of history and biography. We are happy to have him. He currently lives in caldwell on hudson, new york. With his wife christine and their children, jefferson and grace. Please give a warm welcome to robert mcdonald. [applause] professor mcdonald. Thank you all so much for coming. Blown my cover somewhat. I would like to stand before you as the objective historian without a dog in this fight. I do admit that i have a warm feeling for Thomas Jefferson. As he pointed out, my son is named jefferson. My wife and i actually met at monticello. [applause] where she was employed as a research associate. We started working on a project together and started to date. I decided i wanted to propose marriage on jeffersons lif birthday which is april 13. The only problem is that the year that we got engaged, 2001, april 13
President ial debate. And we all want a vacation. Not the San Francisco giants. They have to keep winning to keep working. I will tell you why tonight history is on the giants side. It is a big day for raiders fans. How the team could be taken a step closer to moving to las vegas. Kron4 news at 7 starts now. Good morning. How is the monday right . The crash near the bay bridge toll plaza. Traffic is still slow. Let the sweater weather begin. Here is a look at what is going on. Lake observatory we can see some sun. Elsewhere across the bay we are dealing with a lot of fog. 54 for oakland. Richland 56. North bay, lots of 40s. 53 concord. For the giants game versus the cubs temperatures 60ish. Mostly clear early but the fog rolls in later. The pictures will maintain close to that. Ready for school forecast, partly cloudy. High noon 74. 80 for the pickup by midafternoon. We will have a look in detail in a bit. Right now checking into traffic. Its packed at the bay bridge toll plaza. And as
Pennsylvania knowing it was a key battleground state in the race for the white house. In the end, trump won pennsylvania. Pennsylvania was supposed to be Hillary Clintons blue firewall. As we zoom in closer on the greater philadelphia region, you can see where burke county tipped in favor of mr. Trump. Berks county has one of the highest hispanic numbers in the state. Reporter the coffee machines are buzzing after a late night election call. Loyal supporters grab a celebratory breakfast. This family voted trump into the white house. To me it wasnt so much of a surprise. Reporter small towns just like this one across the commonwealth, buying into trumps promises of protecting blue collar jobs. I think that theyre finally being heard. A lot of people are out of work looking for fulltime employment. Our miners and our steelworkers. We certainly cannot have our jobs going to mexico and other places. Reporter rural and overwhelmingly white voters turned out in huge numbers, flipping pennsyl
With tom keene and new york. I know you are very focused on burberry and once again it is fed. Tom it is just interesting there is no news but the news there is is most fascinating. I know we are going to talk about japan and the oddity of their stagnation. It is exceptional to look at their data and the struggle they have for economic growth. Francine can Consumer Spending left gdp or is it just temporary because of that government release . Lets get straight to the bloomberg first word news. Call this one a split decision. Bernie sanders one that democratic president ial primary in oregon and Hillary Clinton claims victory in kentucky, although hours after the polls call. It was too close to clinton is inching closer to the number of delegates she needs and sanders is not giving up. Mr. Sanders let me be as clear as i can be. We are in until the last ballot is cast. Democratic primaries in california, new jersey, and four other states on june 7. A group of socalled super forecasters