History tv, Texas Christian University history professor jean smith talks about Thomas Jeffersons challenges with the Louisiana Purchase treaty. He discusses jeffersons concerns over whether it was unconstitutional come at the resistance from the federalist party, and the territories inhabitants demands. Hello, everyone. Welcome to the seminar room under the dome on the fourth floor. I am doing this for television, so excuse my formality. I am a professor of history here at the university of missouri and the director of the institute on constitutional democracy. Tonight, we celebrate Constitution Day 2017. Constitution day was on sunday this past year, so we decided to the clear it constitution week with two speakers. We would like to thank the council providing grant that allows us to double and add a second speaker, and force th fon coming tonight. I also wanted to give an explanation, a formal thectation is of what candor institute is. Founded in 2014, the institute is a joint proje
Host lynne chaney, we are showing influences in your life. We talked about margaret scheidler. Another is richard himmelfarb. Who is she . Guest an amazing intellectual who i have been interested in the taurean period. She is much more insightful than i think ive ever been about while we condemn as morality of the victorian period with this underway. How was important and what we gain when they move away and what we lose. Hes been a wonderful writer on the enlightenment in america. She resigned the national and im up for Humanities Council when i was there. You could just count on her to be incredibly perceptive about whatever the subject at hand was. Burchard as i call her miss mary to crystal and her husband as bill kristol of the weekly standard. It is a family that has made the intellectual life seem so energizing and reporting. Host when you were second lady did you maintain an office . Guest yes, but i didnt go down very much. This trouble to get secret Service Agent and a couple
Host lynne chaney, we are showing influences in your life. We talked about margaret scheidler. Another is richard himmelfarb. Who is she . Guest an amazing intellectual who i have been interested in the taurean period. She is much more insightful than i think ive ever been about while we condemn as morality of the victorian period with this underway. How was important and what we gain when they move away and what we lose. Hes been a wonderful writer on the enlightenment in america. She resigned the national and im up for Humanities Council when i was there. You could just count on her to be incredibly perceptive about whatever the subject at hand was. Burchard as i call her miss mary to crystal and her husband as bill kristol of the weekly standard. It is a family that has made the intellectual life seem so energizing and reporting. Host when you were second lady did you maintain an office . Guest yes, but i didnt go down very much. This trouble to get secret Service Agent and a couple
Now were live with author and former active lady, lynne chaney. Nowl be from now until 3 00 eastern. Shes written several books easr yncluding the most recent a biography of James Madison. Lynne cheney, what was your name when you were secretary . Guest they picked a letter of the alphabet and every one who has unrelated to detail has a code name that starts with a letter they choose and ours was [inaudible] also offer seemed like a natural and i has been close angle or because his fishing habits. Host did your writing style change while you were in all their . Guest know that my subject matter did. Id been working on a book for education when suddenly he was chosen to be Vice President and it wasnt as though the book i was working on really contradicted anything that president bush was saying out on the campaign trail. E it just seems to just seemed seems to me inappropriate and o confusing to put out a book sitting setting forth my ideas on education since it was a hotc topic for pre
It just was from a different angle and it just seemed to me inappropriate and confusing to put out a book setting forth my ideas. It was such a hot topic for president bush, so i started writing a Childrens Book and that was an amazing and gratifying thing to do. I love those books till today. Host you are a history buff. Is that fair to say . Guest yes i am. Host you in your book, telling the truth which came out in the late 90s you wrote is sometimes said that a negative slant to what we are teaching now is overreaction to the two positive slant of the past and it is true that in the past we sometimes present a laboratory in our schools. Guest we did theres no question about it but i do think the reaction to that has been extreme. Sometimes i think our young people, our children dont learn about the greatness of this country, dont learn about what makes us exceptional. Host the beginning of telling the truth you are chairman of the National Endowment for the humanities. Guest yes, so