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04:30They're still putting up the walls
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06:56Ladies?
07:03Vice President Jefferson, have you seen the new presidential palace?
07:09It's going to be a beautiful building.
07:12Or a monstrous waste of government money, an eyesore, and a blight on our nation.
07:18Indeed.
07:20Thomas Jefferson is the primary author of the Declaration of Independence.
07:24Then serves as governor of Virginia.
07:27He then becomes the first Secretary of State.
07:31Then the second Vice President.
07:34Thomas Jefferson is running for election in 1800.
07:38He's running against John Adams.
07:41John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were compatriots during the American Revolution.
07:46But Adams as a Federalist believed in a strong central government.
07:51While Jefferson, as a Republican, believed in a small, limited government.
07:56So as soon as it came to governing, they realized how different they were.
08:01Mr. Callender.
08:05Mr. Vice President.
08:10Hmm.
08:12I have a gift.
08:16I already have a copy.
08:19Of course you do.
08:21Mr. Vice President.
08:22He's your handiwork after all.
08:25Not all mine.
08:31President Adams is a hideous, hermaphroditical character with neither the force nor firmness of a man, nor the gentleness or
08:41sensibilities of a woman.
08:44Not a line we discussed, James.
08:49I'd be lying if I said I didn't enjoy it.
08:52In the newspaper wars of the early Republic, no figure was probably more dramatically interesting than James Callender, who was
09:02commissioned by Jefferson to write against Adams.
09:04You, uh, have something for me?
09:08I do, Lord.
09:19The man who would be king?
09:24John Adams wants John Quincy, his own son, to marry the daughter of King George.
09:31He wants...
09:32John Quincy, his own son, to marry the daughter of King George.
09:35He wants to marry the daughter of King George.
09:41Well, I can use this.
09:45Excellent.
09:48Uh, aren't you forgetting something?
10:03Aren't you going to check it's all there, Mr. Jefferson?
10:09If we can't trust politicians, whom can we trust?
10:21Well, look in your eyes, Mr. Jefferson, and I see a shock.
10:27I'm feeling killer.
10:31I hope you never turn on me.
10:39Then don't give me a reason.
10:44Keep the articles coming, Mr. Calender.
10:49And don't stop digging.
10:53I need Adams on his knees.
11:03Abigail Adams was obviously pleased to be back with her husband,
11:08but she was not too pleased with the surroundings.
11:11The White House was essentially unfinished.
11:14There were only a handful of rooms that were really habitable,
11:17and it smells of hog and horse hair and beer,
11:21the ingredients that they used in the plaster on the walls.
11:28For God's sake, man, hide the bucket.
11:34Ah, my own little Susanna.
11:41And an extra special guest.
11:45We shall have to make another bed up.
11:48Wow.
11:59My love, how is she?
12:04Confused.
12:05Hurt.
12:10Quit that infernal racket!
12:13Adams, he had highs and lows.
12:17He was maybe a little bipolar, I don't know.
12:21And she functioned to comfort him and stabilize him.
12:26He really needed her.
12:32Mr. Claxton, my wife, Abigail.
12:37It's a pleasure.
12:39I hear you are the agent for furnishing the president's house.
12:43That is correct.
12:44It seems what we really need is an agent for finishing the president's house.
12:50I'm sure you are doing your best, Mr. Claxton.
12:55And now that I am here, we shall soon turn this house into a home.
13:01We shall leave you to your, um, duties.
13:07Would you like to see your bedroom?
13:11Yeah.
13:12Come on.
13:25All right.
13:27Susanna, it's off to sleep now.
13:29Comfy.
13:30Good.
13:40It's not right.
13:43Don't get me wrong.
13:45I want her here, but she should be with her parents.
13:50And she would be if her father wasn't hell-bent and destroying his family.
13:57You mustn't speak about Charles like that.
14:00Whatever his faults, he is still our son.
14:04Faults?
14:06Abigail, he is an abomination.
14:10And no son of mine.
14:15Charles has been problematic.
14:17He is married and has two children, but he can't really seem to support them.
14:22So at some point, Charles moves out of his home, leaving his wife and children behind.
14:27Abigail was concerned enough to take Susanna, the little girl, with her to Washington.
14:39What are you looking at?
14:43You never had a son.
14:47Any children of your own.
14:51No kindred blood out there, just waiting to shame your family name.
14:58You never had a son.
15:00You never had a son.
15:00You never had a son.
15:10She's a real human.
15:11Go ahead.
15:14Come on!
15:18Hey!
15:18Hey!
15:28Charles?
15:36You rake, you blood, you beast.
15:45I renounce you.
15:54Charles, though he is married and has two children, has formed very close relationships with certain men.
16:01And this was really upsetting to John Adams.
16:08Would you know what to do?
16:12Tell me.
16:14Tell me.
16:18Talking to yourself is the first sign of madness, John.
16:23And choosing to be president is the second.
16:29You must reconcile with Charles.
16:32How can I?
16:35There's an election coming. I'm already behind in the polls.
16:40Anybody finds out what Charles is and what he had done, not only will I lose the presidency, but the
16:47Adams' name will be mired in shit forever.
16:51I know you love him. He is your son, and he is hurting. End your estrangement before it's too late.
17:02I cannot.
17:04You mean, will not.
17:08You mean, will not.
17:31Adam's plot to have his son marry Princess Augusta, second daughter to King George.
17:39And to establish a dynasty to unite Britain and America was only foiled by the intervention of George Washington,
17:50who, dressed in his Revolutionary War uniform, confronted Adams with a sword.
18:13That fall of 1800 was a tough one.
18:17It was a really hard time for the first family.
18:25It was not the Washington, D.C. we think of today.
18:29It was a swamp.
18:31I mean, many people would say it's a swamp today, but it was literally a swamp then.
18:37If you walked, especially women in long gowns, if you walked from one house to another house, you'd be covered
18:46in mud.
18:53There's a famous story of Abigail hanging the laundry in the drawing room,
18:58which sounds funny because it was just like living in a shed.
19:04Where do you want this?
19:06Just leave it in there for now.
19:09John and Abigail had furnishings that they had inherited from the Washington administration.
19:13There were other things that folks around the city could just sort of a scrounge up.
19:19It's not exactly, shall we say, a high decor.
19:24John, the servants will see.
19:29I don't care.
19:31Well, I do care, you old octopus.
19:37What have you done?
19:39I have taken a stand against the lies aimed against me.
19:49There will be consequences for those who write or publish falsified news stories.
20:00Adams went after critics and newspapers that he deemed too critical of him and his government.
20:10Calendar and his ilk caused the Federalists finally to say,
20:15we can't stand this anymore and that's how we got the Sedition Act.
20:18It's going to make it a crime that's punishable by imprisonment to write seditious material
20:26against the government or against the President of the United States.
20:33James Callender.
20:36Who's asking?
20:38Under your authority granted to me, you are hereby detained under the Sedition Act.
20:54Republicans considered the Sedition Act an absolute affront to the First Amendment.
21:00That is not going to win John Adams any popularity contests.
21:06The Robins built their nest and soon had a fine home.
21:10Four eggs were laid.
21:12Mr. Robin said,
21:13we will promise ourselves much delight with our new family.
21:17But in truth, they will occasion us much worry.
21:23Susanna, why don't you go to your room and wait for me there?
21:26Yeah.
21:28Yeah.
21:51Oh, Charles.
21:59I would have died for him if he would have cured his faults and disease.
22:06Charles is 30 years old when he dies.
22:09And he dies of alcoholism.
22:12Alcohol at that time was probably close to poisonous.
22:15So we think it was definitely alcohol related.
22:18But it may be the alcohol that actually poisoned him.
22:22Not this soon.
22:28Good Lord.
22:31Why now?
22:38What does that mean?
22:40What does that mean?
22:41What mean?
22:42Why now?
22:46Nothing.
22:48I mean, there's so much happening.
22:52Now.
22:53You are making this about you?
22:56All you can think about is the election?
22:59Your reputation?
23:04Not now, man.
23:05Can you not see?
23:07Sir.
23:09The vice president.
23:15The vice president.
23:37Mr. Jefferson.
23:40An unexpected pleasure.
23:43Mr. Adams.
23:48So?
23:50Oh, I just thought I'd come to see the place for myself.
23:54I've heard so much.
23:57If you would like to come another time, I could arrange a tour.
24:02I'd say there's enough space here for two emperors, one pope and the Grand Lama.
24:07Well, tell me, which one are you?
24:13I'll tell you which one I'm not.
24:17I'm not the one who feeds lies to parasitic journalists.
24:22I'm not the one who stabs his oldest friends in the back and blackens their good name.
24:28When I come at a man, I come at him from the front.
24:35You never have like confrontation, though, have you, Thomas?
24:43Maybe that's why you ran away and head in the mountains.
24:48The English army advanced in your house during the war.
24:54And life braver meant to die.
24:58Old lies.
25:00Come on, you can do better.
25:01Back then we were friends.
25:04I defended you.
25:13James Callender is behind bars.
25:19You're going to need to find a new creature to write down your lies.
25:45You're going to need to find a new creature to write down your lies.
25:54President Adams must be stopped.
25:57That man is dead to me.
26:01I want to know what's going on with the master and that woman.
26:03Well said, Freeman.
26:05Tell the president James T. Callender is coming for him.
26:08No one will ever believe him.
26:10Let him shoot his mouth off.
26:12Careful what you wish for, Thomas.
26:15And the end of his Either.
26:25Be answers.
26:25Come on, boy.
26:31Our life happens.
26:32Get your love.
26:32Let's do it.
26:33Let's do it.
26:40Bye.
26:40Bye.
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