- 3 hours ago
Category
📺
TVTranscript
00:27Transcription by CastingWords
00:58Transcription by CastingWords
01:02Transcription by CastingWords
01:30Transcription by CastingWords
01:50Transcription by CastingWords
01:59Transcription by CastingWords
02:11Transcription by CastingWords
02:17Transcription by CastingWords
02:45Transcription by CastingWords
03:16Transcription by CastingWords
03:28Transcription by CastingWords
03:42Transcription by CastingWords
03:55Transcription by CastingWords
04:23Transcription by CastingWords
04:26So around him as he's trying to conduct the business of the United States
04:30They're still putting up the walls
04:36Transcription by CastingWords
04:41Transcription by CastingWords
04:46Transcription by CastingWords
05:17Transcription by CastingWords
05:46Transcription by CastingWords
06:10PassingWords
06:24Transcription by CastingWords
06:30Transcription by CastingWords
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.
09:31Yeah, it's not always.
09:33Maybe.
09:37Maybe is good enough.
09:41Well, I can use this.
09:45Excellent.
09:49Uh...
09:50Aren'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 a killer.
10:31I hope you never turn on me.
10:39Then don't give me a reason.
10:44Keep the articles coming, Mr. Calendar.
10:49And don't stop digging.
10:53I need Adam's on his knees.
11:03Abigail Adams was obviously pleased to be back with her husband, but 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, the ingredients that they used in the plaster on the
11:24walls.
11:27For God's sake, man.
11:30Hide the bucket.
11:34Ah, my own little Susanna.
11:38Ha, ha, ha, ha.
11:42And an extra special guest.
11:45We shall have to make another bed up.
11:48Oh, yeah.
11:50Ha, ha, ha, ha.
11:52Ha, ha, ha.
11:59My love.
12:01How is she?
12:04Confused.
12:05Hurt.
12:09Quit 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.
12:32Ah, Mr. Claxton.
12:34My 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?
13:11Yes.
13:12Come on.
13:25All right.
13:27Susanna, it's off to sleep now.
13:30Comfy.
13:30Good.
13:41That's not right.
13:43Don't get me wrong, I want her here, but...
13:46She should be with her parents.
13:50And she would be.
13:52If her father wasn't hell-bent 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.
14:28Abigail 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.
15:11They have one, who has been living in sync.
15:11All the people, I've always had this, you never had a son.
15:15I've always had a son.
15:16And in the work of this.
15:17The leader is a son that I have.
15:17You both have a son.
15:18That is one of the people who are a son.
15:21Here we are.
15:21I won't go.
15:22Are you his people?
15:24No!
15:35Charles, you rake, you blood, you beast, I renounce you, I renounce you.
15:55Charles, though he is married and has two children, has formed very close relationships
16:00with certain men, and this was really upsetting to John Adams.
16:08Would you know what to do?
16:12Tell 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.
16:33How 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,
16:46but the Adam's name will be mired in shit forever.
16:51I know you love him.
16:54He is your son, and he is hurting.
16:58End your estrangement before it's too late.
17:00Wait.
17:02I cannot.
17:05You mean will not.
17:31Adam's plot to have his son marry Princess Augusta.
17:36Second daughter, second daughter to King George, and to establish a dynasty to unite Britain and America was only foiled
17:47by 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, it was a really hard time for the first family.
18:25It was not the Washington DC 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, which sounds funny because it was just
19:01like 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.
19:14There were other things that folks around the city could just sort of scrounge up.
19:19It's not exactly, shall we say, a high decor.
19:24John, the servants will see.
19:29I don't care.
19:30Well, I do care, you old octopus.
19:37What have you done?
19:40I 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, we can't stand this anymore and that's how we got
20:17the Sedition Act.
20:18It's going to make it a crime that's punishable by imprisonment to write seditious material against the government or against
20:28the President of the United States.
20:33James Callender.
20:34James Callender.
20:36Who's asking?
20:37Under your authority granted to me, you are hereby detained under the Sedition Act.
20:44What?
20:45You are making a huge mistake.
20:48I am powerful friend.
20:51President Adams will regret this.
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, we 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?
21:51Oh, 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 mean?
22:42Why now?
22:45Nothing.
22:47I mean, there's so much happening.
22:51Now.
22:53You are making this about you?
22:56All you can think about is the election?
22:59Your reputation?
23:03Not now, man.
23:05Can you not see?
23:07Sir.
23:09The vice president.
23:37Mr. Jefferson.
23:38Mr. 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.
24:08Tell me.
24:10Which 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 liked confrontation, though, have you, Thomas?
24:42Maybe that's why you ran away and hit in the mountains.
24:48The English army advanced in your house during the war.
24:54And left braver men to die.
24:57Old lies.
25:00Come on.
25:00You can do better.
25:01Back then, we were friends.
25:04I defended you.
25:13James' calendar is behind bars.
25:19You're going to need to find a new creature to write down your lies.
25:27Go back, come on.
25:34Fire's from the Charleston, the British council are from the Northern Sevens,
25:35as our town stories are all� »
25:39Kane and Xi merry and gla skirt are the Maurice »
25:40Who would have liked this?
25:43It was more of a bazook when the странates came is by saying,
25:43It's akee from the North out of a dead man.
25:46We were all murdered.
25:46Or you were allowed to pray.
25:51You would have liked it before,
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. Gallander is coming for him.
26:08No one will ever believe him. Let him shoot his mouth off.
26:12Careful what you wish for, Thomas.
26:47You see, what was the most painful thing?
26:54You
Comments