1 00:01:29,631 --> 00:01:31,759 When a woman has lived in exciting times 2 00:01:31,883 --> 00:01:33,931 and has taken part in great events, 3 00:01:34,052 --> 00:01:38,432 it would seem as though those occasions would be what she remembers most vividly, 4 00:01:38,557 --> 00:01:41,106 but I don't find that true at all. 5 00:01:41,226 --> 00:01:45,026 I of course remember every detail of our first inaugural ball, 6 00:01:45,147 --> 00:01:48,742 how I had worked to make it the brilliant affair that it was. 7 00:01:48,859 --> 00:01:51,112 There were guests there from all over the world, 8 00:01:51,695 --> 00:01:55,120 dignitaries, diplomats and statesmen. 9 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:58,289 I remember, too, how nervous I was. 10 00:01:59,244 --> 00:02:02,168 Yet there were other times, neither happy nor gay, 11 00:02:02,289 --> 00:02:04,712 when the future of our country was at stake. 12 00:02:04,833 --> 00:02:08,463 We were at war. The city of Washington was under siege. 13 00:02:08,587 --> 00:02:11,636 On the not too distant horizon we could see cannon fire, 14 00:02:11,757 --> 00:02:13,475 and we knew that before very long, 15 00:02:13,592 --> 00:02:16,220 the capital would be in the hands of the enemy. 16 00:02:16,345 --> 00:02:18,063 The President was with his troops, 17 00:02:18,180 --> 00:02:20,558 and we were the last group left in the White House, 18 00:02:20,682 --> 00:02:23,936 gathering up the more important documents of state. 19 00:02:24,061 --> 00:02:26,735 We remember the Declaration of Independence. 20 00:02:26,855 --> 00:02:31,577 It would've been bitter medicine to have lost our declaration as well as our independence. 21 00:02:31,693 --> 00:02:34,287 I was about ready to leave, when I looked up 22 00:02:34,404 --> 00:02:37,749 and saw the portrait of our late president George Washington. 23 00:02:37,866 --> 00:02:40,710 We sorely needed his military leadership at this time, 24 00:02:40,827 --> 00:02:45,333 when we were in such great danger of losing everything for which he had fought. 25 00:02:45,457 --> 00:02:48,927 I couldn't let the general fall into the enemy's hands at this late date, 26 00:02:49,044 --> 00:02:52,594 so I cut him out of his frame, carefully, 27 00:02:52,714 --> 00:02:55,593 for I had faith that in a matter of days or weeks 28 00:02:55,717 --> 00:02:58,140 I would be climbing up this same ladder, 29 00:02:58,261 --> 00:03:01,435 putting the general back into his place of honour, 30 00:03:01,556 --> 00:03:03,149 for this I knew: 31 00:03:03,266 --> 00:03:07,612 Once you've tasted freedom, you cannot live without it. 32 00:03:07,729 --> 00:03:09,697 Those were exciting times, 33 00:03:09,815 --> 00:03:14,662 but the memories I cherish most are the memories that are deep in my heart. 34 00:03:14,778 --> 00:03:18,157 They begin at our family home in Virginia 35 00:03:18,281 --> 00:03:21,080 on the night my father returned from the Revolutionary War. 36 00:03:21,868 --> 00:03:24,496 My father had always liked the life on the plantation, 37 00:03:24,621 --> 00:03:26,919 he liked the gaiety, the parties, the hunt. 38 00:03:27,040 --> 00:03:29,543 He liked our life as it was then. 39 00:03:29,668 --> 00:03:31,716 He had ordered us when he left for the war 40 00:03:31,837 --> 00:03:34,636 to give the biggest party that had ever been given in our house. 41 00:03:35,215 --> 00:03:39,345 He said he wanted every room lighted, so he could see it from miles away. 42 00:03:39,469 --> 00:03:41,847 And this was the night he was coming home. 43 00:03:41,972 --> 00:03:44,566 And we'd invited the whole countryside to welcome him. 44 00:03:45,475 --> 00:03:47,944 These were kind of occasions my father loved, 45 00:03:48,061 --> 00:03:52,282 gay times, good times, the life of the planter in Virginia. 46 00:03:52,399 --> 00:03:54,822 We could hardly wait to see how happy he'd be 47 00:03:54,943 --> 00:03:58,413 to find himself in the midst of all of his old friends. 48 00:04:09,332 --> 00:04:11,551 John, what's the matter? 49 00:04:13,253 --> 00:04:15,005 Nothing, Wife. 50 00:04:17,007 --> 00:04:19,351 I want to thank you all for coming. 51 00:04:20,427 --> 00:04:23,727 And now I have things to say to my family, 52 00:04:23,847 --> 00:04:26,396 if you'll excuse us, please. 53 00:04:26,516 --> 00:04:27,938 Why, John! 54 00:04:29,519 --> 00:04:30,941 Come! 55 00:04:42,157 --> 00:04:44,285 John, are you ill? 56 00:04:44,409 --> 00:04:46,503 No, my dear, I'm not ill. 57 00:04:47,245 --> 00:04:49,122 But father, remember, you... 58 00:04:49,247 --> 00:04:52,296 you wanted us to give you a party when you returned and... 59 00:04:52,417 --> 00:04:55,045 and you weren't very nice to our friends. 60 00:04:55,170 --> 00:04:58,390 Our true friends are not here, daughter. 61 00:04:58,507 --> 00:05:01,260 It was going to be such a lovely party. 62 00:05:01,384 --> 00:05:03,011 And what will they think of us? 63 00:05:03,136 --> 00:05:05,764 Wouldst thou be concerned with what others think of thee 64 00:05:05,889 --> 00:05:08,563 more than what thou thinkest of thyself? 65 00:05:10,143 --> 00:05:13,738 Do you find my speech strange to your ears, daughter? 66 00:05:14,731 --> 00:05:16,449 Yes, father. 67 00:05:18,610 --> 00:05:19,907 John, what happened to you? 68 00:05:21,071 --> 00:05:23,415 Many things, wife. 69 00:05:23,532 --> 00:05:26,752 Hast thou heard of a battle called the Battle of Kings Mountain? 70 00:05:26,868 --> 00:05:28,916 Yes, we have had news of it. 71 00:05:29,037 --> 00:05:31,256 It was in that battle I was wounded. 72 00:05:31,373 --> 00:05:35,128 Wounded? Oh, my dear husband, why didn't you let us know? 73 00:05:35,252 --> 00:05:38,131 I lay there in the fog, waiting for the end, 74 00:05:38,255 --> 00:05:40,633 for death. - Poor John. 75 00:05:40,757 --> 00:05:42,225 There. 76 00:05:42,342 --> 00:05:46,188 In the first light of dawn, I saw a figure coming through the fog. 77 00:05:46,304 --> 00:05:48,056 And he came to me. 78 00:05:48,181 --> 00:05:52,106 A man I had not seen in 25 years, an old friend, 79 00:05:52,227 --> 00:05:54,821 one I had often gone to meetings with when I was a boy 80 00:05:54,938 --> 00:05:56,611 and lived in the Quaker faith. 81 00:05:57,732 --> 00:06:00,906 Have I not told you of my friend John Todd? 82 00:06:01,027 --> 00:06:02,654 Yes, John, you have. 83 00:06:03,572 --> 00:06:06,041 He picked me up in his arms. 84 00:06:06,157 --> 00:06:07,579 He said, 85 00:06:08,243 --> 00:06:10,496 "Friend Payne... 86 00:06:10,620 --> 00:06:14,841 "Friend Payne, that we have met this way is an act of providence." 87 00:06:15,417 --> 00:06:18,842 As he bent over to bind my wounds, 88 00:06:18,962 --> 00:06:22,842 the enemy opened fire again, and he was struck down. 89 00:06:22,966 --> 00:06:26,561 Had he not been shielding me with his body, I... 90 00:06:26,678 --> 00:06:29,272 I would have taken that bullet. 91 00:06:30,181 --> 00:06:33,105 He died for me, Dolly. 92 00:06:33,226 --> 00:06:36,571 But he lived long enough to make a pact with me. 93 00:06:36,688 --> 00:06:40,693 I pledged myself that I would return to the Quaker church. 94 00:06:40,817 --> 00:06:43,991 I said I would free my slaves, 95 00:06:44,112 --> 00:06:46,206 I would sell our land here 96 00:06:47,115 --> 00:06:48,617 and go to Philadelphia. 97 00:06:49,159 --> 00:06:51,787 I told him my pledge just before he died, 98 00:06:51,912 --> 00:06:54,791 that our families would be joined, 99 00:06:54,915 --> 00:07:01,048 that our daughter would marry his son, John. 100 00:07:03,924 --> 00:07:05,471 You... 101 00:07:05,592 --> 00:07:07,765 You promised him, father, that... 102 00:07:07,886 --> 00:07:10,230 that I would be married to his son? 103 00:07:10,347 --> 00:07:13,100 This was my promise to him. 104 00:07:13,683 --> 00:07:15,777 But father... 105 00:07:15,894 --> 00:07:20,320 I can't marry a man I... I have never even seen. 106 00:07:21,691 --> 00:07:25,161 I can't marry a man I don't even know, I don't even love. 107 00:07:26,655 --> 00:07:28,498 No, father, you don't mean that. 108 00:07:29,074 --> 00:07:30,667 You... 109 00:07:34,371 --> 00:07:39,127 All my protests and tears did not change my father's mind. 110 00:07:39,250 --> 00:07:43,505 We moved to Philadelphia and lived in a house on this square. 111 00:07:43,630 --> 00:07:46,179 I was forced by father's given word 112 00:07:46,299 --> 00:07:50,304 to stand up in the meeting house and marry John Todd. 113 00:07:51,930 --> 00:07:55,810 In the presence of this assembly, I take thee, Dorothea Payne, to be my wife, 114 00:07:56,518 --> 00:07:59,112 promising, with divine assistance, 115 00:07:59,229 --> 00:08:01,982 to be unto thee a loving and faithful husband 116 00:08:02,107 --> 00:08:03,984 until death shall separate us. 117 00:08:06,695 --> 00:08:11,075 In the presence of this assembly, I take thee, John Todd, to be my husband, 118 00:08:11,199 --> 00:08:13,543 promising, through divine assistance, 119 00:08:13,660 --> 00:08:17,585 to be unto thee a loving and faithful wife until death shall separate us. 120 00:08:23,294 --> 00:08:26,764 The bride groom and the bride will now sign the marriage certificate. 121 00:08:26,881 --> 00:08:29,634 Friend Todd first. 122 00:08:45,442 --> 00:08:49,492 Each friend of the society will now come forward and sign the marriage certificate. 123 00:08:49,612 --> 00:08:51,330 Mrs Todd... 124 00:08:52,449 --> 00:08:54,702 Won't you say it now? 125 00:08:54,826 --> 00:08:56,999 Say what? - That you love me. 126 00:08:57,871 --> 00:09:00,090 I'll never say it, sir. 127 00:09:09,007 --> 00:09:11,886 Dolly. - Yes, Mr Todd? 128 00:09:12,010 --> 00:09:15,435 I've planned out a house. We'll start building it in spring. 129 00:09:15,555 --> 00:09:16,932 Tell me how you like it. 130 00:09:17,974 --> 00:09:19,191 It's very nice. 131 00:09:19,309 --> 00:09:21,232 I wish you'd come out and take a look at the grounds. 132 00:09:21,352 --> 00:09:24,071 It's a beautiful place, lots of elm trees. 133 00:09:24,189 --> 00:09:26,612 You've seen it, Mr Todd, that's enough. 134 00:09:26,733 --> 00:09:30,033 Well, Mrs Todd, that isn't enough, I want you to like it. 135 00:09:30,153 --> 00:09:32,622 You see, this part will be built all of stone. 136 00:09:32,739 --> 00:09:34,491 I haven't put the trees on the drawing, 137 00:09:34,616 --> 00:09:38,086 but there's a huge tree right along here which will shade the kitchen. 138 00:09:40,330 --> 00:09:43,209 I think you'll feel differently about things when you get in your own house. 139 00:09:43,333 --> 00:09:46,086 Your father and mother are very nice to us, 140 00:09:46,211 --> 00:09:48,714 very kind and understanding, but... 141 00:09:48,838 --> 00:09:51,307 Well, it just isn't the same as being in your own house. 142 00:09:51,424 --> 00:09:54,394 I know you'll feel differently. - Do you? 143 00:09:54,511 --> 00:09:57,310 Well, you'll feel more like you're married. 144 00:09:58,389 --> 00:10:01,268 I'll never feel as if I'm married to you, Mr Todd, 145 00:10:01,392 --> 00:10:04,145 and I hope you'll never feel as if you're married to me. 146 00:10:05,021 --> 00:10:06,489 Now, Dolly, 147 00:10:06,606 --> 00:10:09,826 we're going to be married for a long, long time, all our lives, 148 00:10:09,943 --> 00:10:11,786 not just these five weeks we've been married, 149 00:10:11,903 --> 00:10:13,997 but for years, until we grow old. 150 00:10:14,114 --> 00:10:15,787 I know that. 151 00:10:15,907 --> 00:10:19,628 Well, someday between now and that time, you'll realise how much I love you. 152 00:10:19,744 --> 00:10:22,497 And you'll love me, too, I'm sure of it. 153 00:10:22,622 --> 00:10:24,590 I'll never love you. 154 00:10:24,707 --> 00:10:28,507 Just pretend you do, say you do. Just once, see how it feels. 155 00:10:28,628 --> 00:10:30,255 I'll never say it. 156 00:10:30,380 --> 00:10:32,758 I'll never say, "I love you." 157 00:10:32,882 --> 00:10:34,429 Yes, you will. 158 00:10:34,551 --> 00:10:36,679 I know you will, you have to. 159 00:10:37,679 --> 00:10:39,681 Dolly, I didn't mean to hurt you. 160 00:10:39,806 --> 00:10:42,059 I'm just clumsy and awkward about things. 161 00:10:43,059 --> 00:10:46,609 I know everything I do and everything I say now is wrong. 162 00:10:47,647 --> 00:10:51,197 Sometimes I think I may go out of my mind, Dolly, you hate me so much. 163 00:10:51,317 --> 00:10:54,036 I never promised you anything but hate. 164 00:10:54,154 --> 00:10:57,033 I know, you are right, we shouldn't have been married. 165 00:10:57,907 --> 00:11:00,126 I don't blame you for the way you feel. 166 00:11:01,870 --> 00:11:03,588 But I don't know what to do about it, Dolly. 167 00:11:04,330 --> 00:11:07,834 If I left you, I think I'd die thinking about you. 168 00:11:08,793 --> 00:11:10,636 Dolly... 169 00:11:11,379 --> 00:11:13,427 Let me put my arms around you. 170 00:11:14,549 --> 00:11:17,098 I just have to. 171 00:11:19,220 --> 00:11:21,518 You don't know how much I love you. 172 00:11:22,515 --> 00:11:24,768 You can't know how I feel. 173 00:11:26,102 --> 00:11:28,696 You've never been in love. 174 00:11:28,813 --> 00:11:34,115 You've never known what it is to see all the goodness in the world in one person, 175 00:11:34,235 --> 00:11:35,828 and to know she's unattainable. 176 00:11:36,362 --> 00:11:38,581 To know that the whole world thinks she belongs to me, 177 00:11:38,698 --> 00:11:41,121 and she doesn't, she never will. 178 00:11:41,242 --> 00:11:43,495 It's pain, Dolly. 179 00:11:43,620 --> 00:11:45,293 It's real pain. 180 00:11:45,413 --> 00:11:47,086 It digs deep into you. 181 00:11:47,874 --> 00:11:50,468 I look at you and I think... 182 00:11:50,585 --> 00:11:54,806 There's not even pity, because you don't know, you don't understand. 183 00:11:55,882 --> 00:11:58,260 And I think 184 00:11:58,384 --> 00:12:02,230 someday I'll take you in my arms and all the pain and ache will go out of me. 185 00:12:05,642 --> 00:12:07,440 I'm ashamed. 186 00:12:08,853 --> 00:12:10,355 I'm so ashamed. 187 00:12:12,190 --> 00:12:15,194 Dolly, I... I've never even kissed you. 188 00:12:23,826 --> 00:12:25,419 Excuse me. - Congratulations. 189 00:12:25,536 --> 00:12:26,879 Thank you. 190 00:12:27,580 --> 00:12:29,628 Oh, grandfather, how are you? - Fine. 191 00:12:29,749 --> 00:12:32,218 There aren't words for the way I feel! 192 00:12:39,342 --> 00:12:41,390 Dolly, are you happy now? 193 00:12:45,598 --> 00:12:47,600 Look. 194 00:12:47,725 --> 00:12:49,773 He's smiling. 195 00:12:51,562 --> 00:12:53,314 Dolly, it's our anniversary. 196 00:12:55,441 --> 00:12:57,114 But John... 197 00:12:57,235 --> 00:12:59,283 Jewellery is against your belief. 198 00:12:59,404 --> 00:13:02,328 Well, it isn't against yours, and I want you to be happy. 199 00:13:02,448 --> 00:13:05,543 For my happiness you'd go against your belief? 200 00:13:05,660 --> 00:13:08,789 Doll, I have another belief. 201 00:13:08,913 --> 00:13:11,257 It's my belief in you and our marriage and our son. 202 00:13:11,374 --> 00:13:13,752 That's a strong belief, too. 203 00:13:13,876 --> 00:13:16,629 That's why I want to give you this present on our first anniversary. 204 00:13:16,754 --> 00:13:19,382 It's been a good year, Dolly. 205 00:13:19,507 --> 00:13:21,350 It's been an eventful one. 206 00:13:22,635 --> 00:13:26,685 I'm embarrassed, John, I didn't remember it was our anniversary, 207 00:13:26,806 --> 00:13:28,558 and I have no present for you. 208 00:13:29,225 --> 00:13:30,977 Oh, yes, you have. 209 00:13:31,102 --> 00:13:33,855 One present I've wanted every day for the past year. 210 00:13:34,397 --> 00:13:37,025 And you're the only one who can give it to me. 211 00:13:37,859 --> 00:13:41,534 A year ago, you told me you'd never say, "I love you, John." 212 00:13:43,072 --> 00:13:45,871 Yes, I remember. - And you never have. 213 00:13:45,992 --> 00:13:48,370 I've been hoping someday it'd slip out, you'd forget. 214 00:13:48,494 --> 00:13:50,667 Please, John, don't. 215 00:13:50,788 --> 00:13:53,291 You've made me like you in spite of myself, 216 00:13:53,416 --> 00:13:55,214 and I'm content with our marriage. 217 00:13:55,335 --> 00:13:57,633 Isn't that enough? 218 00:13:57,754 --> 00:13:59,506 I can't help it if I keep asking myself 219 00:13:59,630 --> 00:14:02,679 how much happier I'd be if I married a man I wanted to marry, 220 00:14:02,800 --> 00:14:06,521 if I hadn't been mated as the beasts in the field are mated, 221 00:14:06,637 --> 00:14:09,140 if I hadn't been ordered to be your wife. 222 00:14:10,808 --> 00:14:13,436 But Dolly, you're the mother of our son. 223 00:14:13,561 --> 00:14:15,438 Yes, I know. 224 00:14:15,563 --> 00:14:17,531 I thought you'd learn to love me by now. 225 00:14:18,524 --> 00:14:22,779 Love isn't something a woman learns like reading and writing. 226 00:14:22,904 --> 00:14:25,407 It's something she knows by heart. 227 00:14:25,990 --> 00:14:28,288 Dolly, I know that you love me. 228 00:14:28,409 --> 00:14:31,879 Every instinct I have tells me you love me. Why don't you say it? 229 00:14:32,872 --> 00:14:35,591 Because it's all I have left. 230 00:14:35,708 --> 00:14:39,178 Oh, I'm not complaining about my life with you, John, it's good, and... 231 00:14:39,295 --> 00:14:40,842 and you're good. 232 00:14:40,963 --> 00:14:42,931 I love our son, and I'm glad he's here, 233 00:14:43,049 --> 00:14:46,804 but I miss part of my life, because you and my father took it away from me. 234 00:14:47,970 --> 00:14:52,146 There's an excitement about falling in love that I'll never know. 235 00:14:53,142 --> 00:14:56,567 It's a whirlwind that catches you up and transports you out of yourself 236 00:14:56,687 --> 00:14:59,987 into something that's more divine than mortal. 237 00:15:04,987 --> 00:15:08,161 How do you know all these things? - Every woman knows them. 238 00:15:08,282 --> 00:15:10,376 Though I don't think about them often, but... 239 00:15:10,493 --> 00:15:13,963 sometimes when I see a boy and girl walking down the street together 240 00:15:14,080 --> 00:15:17,254 or when I hear that someone's getting married because she's in love, 241 00:15:18,251 --> 00:15:21,050 then I remember my promise to myself on our wedding day. 242 00:15:22,046 --> 00:15:24,799 Oh, I know you think it's foolish, John, 243 00:15:24,924 --> 00:15:29,020 but somehow it makes up a little bit for what you and my father took away from me. 244 00:15:29,929 --> 00:15:32,307 I'll do anything you say, John, anything. 245 00:15:33,933 --> 00:15:36,027 But I'll never say it. 246 00:15:36,144 --> 00:15:39,114 I'll never say, "I love you", and don't ask me to again. 247 00:15:41,691 --> 00:15:43,864 You're wrong, Dolly. 248 00:15:43,985 --> 00:15:46,579 Someday you'll come running to tell me you love me. 249 00:15:53,786 --> 00:15:57,290 Then a plague, a horrible plague, 250 00:15:57,415 --> 00:16:00,510 yellow fever swept over Philadelphia. 251 00:16:00,626 --> 00:16:02,549 Father was stricken. 252 00:16:02,670 --> 00:16:04,889 He died in mother's arms. 253 00:16:05,006 --> 00:16:09,261 And then my little boy, our son, was taken, too. 254 00:16:09,969 --> 00:16:12,472 Everyone was ordered to leave the city. 255 00:17:03,356 --> 00:17:05,654 Well, Dolly, they expect me back there. 256 00:17:05,775 --> 00:17:08,574 They need every man they can get to help evacuate the city, 257 00:17:09,862 --> 00:17:12,160 Well, why don't you go tomorrow then, 258 00:17:12,281 --> 00:17:15,535 and stay here today and rest? - They need me now. 259 00:17:15,660 --> 00:17:18,083 Say, John, I'd be glad to take the ladies up to the camp. 260 00:17:18,204 --> 00:17:19,877 You can ride back to the city with Luke. 261 00:17:19,997 --> 00:17:22,671 Oh, fine. Thank you, Mr Evans. 262 00:17:24,126 --> 00:17:26,345 Well, goodbye, Doll. 263 00:17:26,462 --> 00:17:28,430 Come back to us as soon as you can, John. 264 00:17:28,548 --> 00:17:30,801 Iwill. 265 00:17:35,596 --> 00:17:37,598 Drive me to town, Luke, hmm? 266 00:18:08,462 --> 00:18:10,464 Mrs Payne, Mr Todd has been stricken with fever. 267 00:18:12,592 --> 00:18:15,596 No! Where is he? - At the bridge. 268 00:18:46,292 --> 00:18:49,296 Have you seen... Have you seen my husband, John Todd? 269 00:18:57,178 --> 00:18:58,646 John... 270 00:19:02,016 --> 00:19:03,984 John... 271 00:19:04,101 --> 00:19:07,696 John, I'm here. 272 00:19:07,813 --> 00:19:11,408 You said, one day I'd come running to tell you I love you. 273 00:19:11,525 --> 00:19:13,448 I love you, John. 274 00:19:13,569 --> 00:19:15,663 I love you with all my heart. 275 00:19:16,947 --> 00:19:18,915 John... 276 00:19:23,162 --> 00:19:25,005 John! 277 00:19:26,457 --> 00:19:28,380 Oh, no! 278 00:19:32,672 --> 00:19:36,472 Now when I can, it's too late. 279 00:19:37,593 --> 00:19:41,689 Oh, forgive me, my beloved, forgive me. 280 00:19:48,062 --> 00:19:52,033 The next two years were bitter and lonely ones for mother and me, 281 00:19:52,149 --> 00:19:56,700 but time somehow spreads a healing tissue over the deepest of wounds. 282 00:19:57,613 --> 00:19:59,911 Philadelphia was the national capital in those days, 283 00:20:00,032 --> 00:20:01,909 and when the congress was in session, 284 00:20:02,034 --> 00:20:05,004 the city was overcrowded with the officials of the government. 285 00:20:05,121 --> 00:20:09,297 The public taverns were noisy and dirty, and the food wretched. 286 00:20:09,417 --> 00:20:14,093 So mother and I decided that we could be useful as well as practical. 287 00:20:16,590 --> 00:20:19,639 Good afternoon, sir. - May I see the widow Payne? 288 00:20:19,760 --> 00:20:22,183 Oh, yes, sir, won't you come in? - Thank you. 289 00:20:25,850 --> 00:20:29,195 I'll tell the Widow Payne you're here, sir. - Thank you. 290 00:20:30,813 --> 00:20:32,360 I hope it's a wise venture. 291 00:20:32,481 --> 00:20:35,325 The thought of strange people living in our house... 292 00:20:35,443 --> 00:20:38,287 There's a gentleman downstairs who wants to see the Widow Payne. 293 00:20:38,404 --> 00:20:41,123 Oh, is he a lodger? - I believe so, Miss Doll. 294 00:20:41,240 --> 00:20:42,742 What's he like? - Now, mother... 295 00:20:42,867 --> 00:20:45,871 Don't forget about the price of the rooms and the rules. 296 00:20:45,995 --> 00:20:47,338 The rules? 297 00:20:47,455 --> 00:20:51,085 Yes, the use of spirits, the use of tobacco, and promptness at meals. 298 00:20:51,208 --> 00:20:52,960 Now, be firm about it. 299 00:20:53,961 --> 00:20:57,465 Doll, I can't. I wouldn't be able to say a word to him. 300 00:20:57,590 --> 00:20:59,137 You go. 301 00:20:59,258 --> 00:21:01,010 Me? 302 00:21:01,135 --> 00:21:04,389 Amy. Amy, you talk to him. You know so much more about those things than we do. 303 00:21:04,513 --> 00:21:06,356 Miss Dolly, that wouldn't be right. 304 00:21:08,768 --> 00:21:11,021 All right, mother. 305 00:21:11,145 --> 00:21:12,818 I'll go. 306 00:21:14,356 --> 00:21:18,236 Remember to say, "This is a respectable home for respectable persons." 307 00:21:18,360 --> 00:21:20,158 All right, mother. 308 00:21:36,295 --> 00:21:37,342 Widow Payne? 309 00:21:38,964 --> 00:21:42,639 No, I'm the widow Todd. 310 00:21:43,302 --> 00:21:45,020 Widow Todd? 311 00:21:48,307 --> 00:21:51,311 I've come for lodgings. - Oh, you have? 312 00:21:51,435 --> 00:21:53,108 Well, er... we plan... 313 00:21:53,229 --> 00:21:56,028 a respectable home for respectable people. 314 00:21:56,148 --> 00:21:57,320 Yes. 315 00:21:57,441 --> 00:22:00,035 And there is a rule about... - ...not smoking in one's bed. 316 00:22:01,445 --> 00:22:03,322 Yes, that's one of them. 317 00:22:03,447 --> 00:22:06,542 And of course we will not permit our guests to arrive at their lodgings in that state... 318 00:22:06,659 --> 00:22:08,286 to which strong water brings weak men? 319 00:22:10,454 --> 00:22:13,333 Nor will we allow our guests to gather in their quarters... 320 00:22:13,457 --> 00:22:15,300 roistering friends into pass the bottle. 321 00:22:15,918 --> 00:22:17,795 Won't you sit down? 322 00:22:17,920 --> 00:22:19,763 Thank you. 323 00:22:31,892 --> 00:22:33,894 Of course I shall need a rather large room. 324 00:22:36,397 --> 00:22:38,240 Are you blushing, Widow Todd? 325 00:22:38,357 --> 00:22:40,485 Is there any reason why I should, sir? 326 00:22:40,609 --> 00:22:43,158 I don't know. Women's blushes are a great mystery to all men. 327 00:22:43,279 --> 00:22:46,078 After all, we were not expecting applicants quite so soon. 328 00:22:46,198 --> 00:22:47,290 The sign has just gone up. 329 00:22:47,408 --> 00:22:49,456 I just took it down and threw it in the fire. 330 00:22:49,577 --> 00:22:51,375 I saw the boy with it half a mile away and followed him here. 331 00:22:51,495 --> 00:22:53,748 You won't need it anymore. Do you have a good cook? 332 00:22:53,873 --> 00:22:56,217 Yes, we have... - And a place to stay for my horses? 333 00:22:56,333 --> 00:22:58,756 Yes, there's a stable... - Do you like horses? 334 00:22:58,878 --> 00:23:00,551 Yes, I like them very much. 335 00:23:00,671 --> 00:23:02,548 You are blushing, widow Todd. 336 00:23:04,091 --> 00:23:05,934 Do you have references? 337 00:23:06,051 --> 00:23:08,304 Personal, political or financial? 338 00:23:10,180 --> 00:23:12,353 Personal and financial. 339 00:23:12,474 --> 00:23:14,272 Blushing again, widow Todd. 340 00:23:14,393 --> 00:23:16,111 Mother. 341 00:23:18,981 --> 00:23:21,234 This is my mother, the widow Payne. 342 00:23:21,358 --> 00:23:23,952 I am Senator Aaron Burr, madam, your obedient servant. 343 00:23:24,069 --> 00:23:26,288 Senator Aaron Burr of New York? - The same. 344 00:23:26,405 --> 00:23:28,624 You don't mind having a senator in your house, I hope? 345 00:23:28,741 --> 00:23:31,290 I would be honoured, senator. - Then I have one vote. 346 00:23:31,410 --> 00:23:34,038 Widow Todd, if I promised not to try out my speeches on you, 347 00:23:34,163 --> 00:23:36,165 won't you say yes, too? 348 00:23:36,290 --> 00:23:39,840 Well, I'm afraid I have to, senator. After all, you took down our sign. 349 00:23:39,960 --> 00:23:42,713 That's because I hope to have the privilege of finding other suitable lodgers for you. 350 00:23:42,838 --> 00:23:44,431 How many do you plan to take in? 351 00:23:44,548 --> 00:23:45,970 Four. - Four. 352 00:23:46,091 --> 00:23:48,389 That'll be three beside myself. 353 00:23:48,510 --> 00:23:52,390 Shall we say the French charge d'affaires and maybe one cabinet member 354 00:23:52,514 --> 00:23:53,982 and a judge or another senator? 355 00:23:54,099 --> 00:23:56,272 Sounds like a most distinguished company, senator. 356 00:23:56,393 --> 00:23:57,610 I'll do my best. 357 00:23:57,728 --> 00:23:59,696 May I see my quarters now, widow Todd? 358 00:23:59,813 --> 00:24:02,066 Certainly, sir. Right this way. 359 00:24:03,400 --> 00:24:04,993 Oh, Amy... 360 00:24:06,028 --> 00:24:09,908 Amy, would you show senator Burr to the master bedroom, please? 361 00:24:10,032 --> 00:24:12,660 Senator Burr? Well, bless your soul. 362 00:24:12,785 --> 00:24:14,913 Come right this way, senator. 363 00:24:27,758 --> 00:24:28,930 Just think! 364 00:24:29,051 --> 00:24:33,056 Cabinet members, foreign ministers, judges, and senator Burr. 365 00:24:33,180 --> 00:24:35,228 Doll, it is a good beginning, isn't it? 366 00:24:36,141 --> 00:24:38,143 I hope so, mother. 367 00:24:48,946 --> 00:24:50,994 Oh, what a fine horse! 368 00:24:51,115 --> 00:24:52,367 He's yours then. 369 00:24:52,866 --> 00:24:56,666 Oh, thank you, you're very kind, but I couldn't accept such a wonderful gift. 370 00:24:56,787 --> 00:24:59,040 Well, if you won't, I'll have to turn him out or shoot him. 371 00:25:00,207 --> 00:25:01,459 Oh, you wouldn't do that. 372 00:25:02,042 --> 00:25:04,841 You know, I would if you wouldn't accept him. 373 00:25:04,962 --> 00:25:06,430 I believe you might. 374 00:25:06,547 --> 00:25:08,891 Come on, boy, run for your life. Come on. 375 00:25:28,152 --> 00:25:30,029 I like living in your house. 376 00:25:30,571 --> 00:25:32,994 Mother will be very pleased when I tell her that. 377 00:25:33,115 --> 00:25:34,583 Mother? 378 00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:37,377 Aren't you pleased? 379 00:25:37,494 --> 00:25:40,418 Well, it's very flattering to know that the lodger likes his lodgings. 380 00:25:40,539 --> 00:25:42,712 Oh, I'm not talking about the lodgings, I'm talking about you. 381 00:25:42,833 --> 00:25:43,959 Hows the sketch coming? 382 00:25:44,084 --> 00:25:46,678 Oh, you widows are too experienced in fending people off. 383 00:25:46,795 --> 00:25:47,887 That's very good. 384 00:25:48,005 --> 00:25:50,178 You're wrong, widow Todd. There's no softness in the hair, 385 00:25:50,299 --> 00:25:54,224 and the eyes haven't that right kind of blue... they are blue, aren't they? 386 00:25:54,344 --> 00:25:57,143 The lips haven't that full... 387 00:25:57,264 --> 00:25:59,483 I just wanted to seal our bargain. 388 00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:01,523 About the horse, you said you'd take him. 389 00:26:01,643 --> 00:26:05,648 Indeed I did. And I think it best that I start taking him home right now. 390 00:26:07,066 --> 00:26:08,693 Widow Todd? 391 00:26:09,568 --> 00:26:11,616 Shall I bring the sketch? 392 00:26:11,737 --> 00:26:13,990 It's not a very big rock, and I can push it along the road 393 00:26:14,114 --> 00:26:16,537 for losing my bet. - What bet? 394 00:26:17,117 --> 00:26:19,540 When I first saw you walking down the stairs in your house, 395 00:26:19,661 --> 00:26:24,462 I foolishly bet myself that within one week I'd kiss you, and this is my last day. 396 00:26:24,583 --> 00:26:26,051 How very odd. 397 00:26:26,168 --> 00:26:29,388 When I saw you, I bet that our first lodger would be much too much of a gentleman 398 00:26:29,505 --> 00:26:31,382 to try such tavern tricks. 399 00:26:31,507 --> 00:26:33,851 That's sad. Then we both lose our bets. 400 00:26:33,967 --> 00:26:36,937 It's very unlucky to start a long friendship like that. 401 00:26:37,054 --> 00:26:39,182 It is, really. 402 00:27:08,335 --> 00:27:09,712 Thank you. 403 00:27:13,215 --> 00:27:15,343 You're a beautiful creature. 404 00:27:15,467 --> 00:27:17,219 Thank you for a very nice ride. 405 00:27:17,344 --> 00:27:19,597 You at least have made a conquest. 406 00:27:21,932 --> 00:27:24,902 Jack, be sure to cool him off well. - Yes, sir. 407 00:27:35,779 --> 00:27:38,123 Well, James... the horse kick you? 408 00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:41,369 No, Aaron, why? - You look as though you're in pain. 409 00:27:41,493 --> 00:27:44,622 That look might be either deep passion or a bad toothache. 410 00:27:44,746 --> 00:27:47,795 Still, it's always difficult to tell from Madison's face what is going on in Madison's mind. 411 00:27:47,916 --> 00:27:50,635 I was wondering if I know that lady. 412 00:27:52,462 --> 00:27:53,588 I don't think so, James. 413 00:27:53,714 --> 00:27:56,058 Well, I wish I did. 414 00:27:56,175 --> 00:27:58,519 She's the mistress of a lodging house just around the corner. 415 00:27:58,635 --> 00:28:01,889 I promise you, the first chance I get, I'll present you. 416 00:28:02,014 --> 00:28:05,109 Good day, James. - Good day. 417 00:28:08,478 --> 00:28:10,697 I've found a friend. 418 00:28:14,318 --> 00:28:16,537 Great pleasure to have you in our home, gentlemen. 419 00:28:16,653 --> 00:28:19,281 Madam, this seems like a heavenly dream. 420 00:28:19,406 --> 00:28:21,283 Ah, they've come back. 421 00:28:21,408 --> 00:28:22,705 Count! 422 00:28:22,826 --> 00:28:25,875 So you got my message. - And came post-haste. 423 00:28:25,996 --> 00:28:28,795 Well, Ainsworth, is it all I said it was? - All that and more. 424 00:28:28,916 --> 00:28:31,339 Let me present my two friends who've come to live in your home. 425 00:28:31,460 --> 00:28:34,714 First, Count D'Arignon, the French charge d'affaires to the United States. 426 00:28:34,838 --> 00:28:38,012 And my colleague, senator Ainsworth. - It's a great pleasure, gentlemen. 427 00:28:40,219 --> 00:28:42,347 I'd like to see senator Burr, please. 428 00:28:42,471 --> 00:28:44,724 Yes, sir, won't you come in? - Thank you. 429 00:28:49,144 --> 00:28:50,942 Quite a change from the White Horse Tavern. 430 00:28:51,063 --> 00:28:54,863 For the first time since I left France, I feel as if I have a home, madame. 431 00:28:54,983 --> 00:28:57,736 Excuse me, senator Burr. There's a gentleman to see you. 432 00:28:57,861 --> 00:28:59,955 Oh, yes. Show him in, Amy. I'm expecting him. 433 00:29:00,072 --> 00:29:03,121 That's your new lodger. Judge Sears of the Supreme court. 434 00:29:03,242 --> 00:29:04,539 Judge who? - Judge Sears. 435 00:29:04,660 --> 00:29:07,129 You're wrong, Aaron. It's only your humble servant. 436 00:29:08,580 --> 00:29:10,548 Well, James, you really are a man of action. 437 00:29:10,666 --> 00:29:12,634 Yes, I just happened to be passing by, 438 00:29:12,751 --> 00:29:15,755 and I thought maybe this was a good chance to present me to, er... 439 00:29:16,630 --> 00:29:20,680 Yes, erm... Mrs Payne, this is congressman James Madison. 440 00:29:20,801 --> 00:29:22,348 He's asked to be presented. 441 00:29:22,469 --> 00:29:23,971 I'm honoured, Mr Madison. - How do you do? 442 00:29:24,096 --> 00:29:26,019 He's a bachelor, but the father of the constitution. 443 00:29:26,139 --> 00:29:28,187 Mrs Todd, Mr Madison. - How do you do? 444 00:29:28,308 --> 00:29:31,608 Are you the James Madison of Virginia? - Yes, I am. 445 00:29:31,728 --> 00:29:34,777 My husband used to read me your articles on the Federalists. 446 00:29:34,898 --> 00:29:36,400 I thought they were magnificent. 447 00:29:36,525 --> 00:29:37,526 You did? - Yes. 448 00:29:37,651 --> 00:29:39,619 Well, I thought they were pretty good myself. 449 00:29:39,736 --> 00:29:42,615 When James says he thinks that something is pretty good, he means it's almost perfect. 450 00:29:42,739 --> 00:29:46,118 It is nice to see someone from Virginia, Mr Madison. 451 00:29:46,243 --> 00:29:49,087 We lived in Virginia until just a few years ago. 452 00:29:49,204 --> 00:29:52,208 You can feel that the moment you walk into this house. 453 00:29:52,332 --> 00:29:56,178 Mrs Todd, I was wondering, have you room for one more lodger here? 454 00:29:57,963 --> 00:29:59,385 Have we, mother? 455 00:29:59,506 --> 00:30:03,602 Well, I had rather promised senator Burr I'd hold the room for Judge Sears. 456 00:30:06,972 --> 00:30:11,944 Well, er... don't you think that since Mr Madison is here and Judge Sears isn't, 457 00:30:12,060 --> 00:30:13,983 we might forget about the judge? 458 00:30:14,813 --> 00:30:18,238 But after all, a judge of the Supreme court is quite a useful thing to have around. 459 00:30:18,358 --> 00:30:20,611 But a fellow Virginian is a fellow Virginian. 460 00:30:20,736 --> 00:30:24,661 Well, thank you. Now, if you'll forgive me, I'll fetch my luggage. 461 00:30:33,081 --> 00:30:35,800 You never would suspect that that quiet, gentle man 462 00:30:35,917 --> 00:30:37,544 is the great James Madison, would you? 463 00:30:38,128 --> 00:30:39,175 No. 464 00:30:39,296 --> 00:30:42,800 But your cousin Patrick Henry doesn't think he's such a quiet, gentle man. 465 00:30:44,176 --> 00:30:46,975 Well, you Virginians really do stick together, don't you? 466 00:30:47,679 --> 00:30:49,852 When I saw that look of disappointment on his face, 467 00:30:49,973 --> 00:30:51,646 I didn't have the heart to turn him away. 468 00:30:51,767 --> 00:30:53,519 If he'd heard you say that, he would've run a mile. 469 00:30:53,643 --> 00:30:56,066 He's very shy around the ladies. 470 00:30:56,188 --> 00:30:57,565 Here's Judge Sears now. 471 00:30:57,689 --> 00:30:59,783 And you, widow Todd, will have the pleasure of telling him 472 00:30:59,900 --> 00:31:02,619 that you've given away his room to a mere congressman. 473 00:31:05,072 --> 00:31:08,292 I just happened to have my luggage outside. 474 00:31:08,408 --> 00:31:10,752 So we see. 475 00:31:15,248 --> 00:31:18,468 Excuse me, can I get you something, Mr Madison? 476 00:31:18,585 --> 00:31:20,178 Thank you. 477 00:31:25,801 --> 00:31:27,678 Dolly will be down in just a moment, senator. 478 00:31:27,803 --> 00:31:28,895 Than you, Mrs Payne. 479 00:31:29,012 --> 00:31:32,186 I hope you won't be late for the play. - No, we have plenty of time. 480 00:31:32,307 --> 00:31:34,480 Why don't you move your queen? You could put him in check. 481 00:31:35,268 --> 00:31:38,863 You're right, Aaron, but I never like to see my queen in danger. 482 00:31:46,071 --> 00:31:49,041 You look lovely, widow Todd. - Thank you, senator. 483 00:31:51,034 --> 00:31:53,503 Good night, mother. - Have a good time at the play. 484 00:31:53,620 --> 00:31:55,293 We will, dear. 485 00:31:55,914 --> 00:31:57,541 Thank you. 486 00:31:58,375 --> 00:32:00,673 I'm sorry I won't be able to see the end of your game, gentlemen. 487 00:32:00,794 --> 00:32:02,387 Goodnight. - Goodnight. 488 00:32:02,504 --> 00:32:04,131 Goodnight. 489 00:32:10,929 --> 00:32:12,977 C'est a' vous dejouer. - What? 490 00:32:13,098 --> 00:32:15,226 I think it is your move, Monsieur. 491 00:32:15,350 --> 00:32:17,648 Yes, yes, I guess it is at that. 492 00:32:21,106 --> 00:32:22,779 What is the play to be about? 493 00:32:22,899 --> 00:32:24,867 Oh... usual nonsense. 494 00:32:25,902 --> 00:32:29,281 This is the first time I've been to the theatre since we moved to Philadelphia. 495 00:32:29,406 --> 00:32:32,910 You're in one every day of your life. All the world's a stage. 496 00:32:44,921 --> 00:32:46,969 This is not the theatre, Mr Burr. 497 00:32:47,090 --> 00:32:50,264 No, this is a tavern, but you'll find it much more amusing than the theatre. 498 00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:58,268 Evening, colonel Burr. - Evening, Randy. 499 00:33:02,397 --> 00:33:04,240 Just wait, sir. 500 00:33:05,901 --> 00:33:07,323 Aaron Burr. 501 00:33:07,444 --> 00:33:10,664 The man we want as president of the US. - That's right, senator. 502 00:33:10,780 --> 00:33:12,999 Well, the politicians may have something to say about that. 503 00:33:13,116 --> 00:33:15,665 Colonel, when the time comes, we won't worry about politicians, 504 00:33:15,785 --> 00:33:17,833 will we, boys? - No, we'll follow Burr. 505 00:33:17,954 --> 00:33:21,208 Wine has made you eloquent. - Where you lead, Mr Burr, we follow. 506 00:33:21,333 --> 00:33:23,256 A pint for Thomas. I'll remember that, Thomas. 507 00:33:23,376 --> 00:33:25,970 Take good care of the colonel, Tessie. - Yes, sir. 508 00:33:26,087 --> 00:33:28,556 How do you do, senator? - Hello, Jake. 509 00:33:28,673 --> 00:33:31,142 Any French wine tonight? - Yes, colonel. 510 00:33:35,388 --> 00:33:37,982 Why did you bring me to this place? - I thought you'd like it. 511 00:33:38,099 --> 00:33:40,898 These people are much more amusing than those players on the stage. 512 00:33:41,019 --> 00:33:42,862 They're different certainly. 513 00:33:42,979 --> 00:33:45,448 Would you like to leave and go on to the theatre? 514 00:33:46,858 --> 00:33:48,826 No. - Don't tell me, widow Todd, 515 00:33:48,944 --> 00:33:52,323 that you're beginning to find the dark side of the street attractive. 516 00:33:53,114 --> 00:33:56,038 I don't know, Mr Burr. There's a note of excitement about you, 517 00:33:56,159 --> 00:33:59,333 and somehow it seems to be echoed by these people here. 518 00:33:59,454 --> 00:34:02,424 In this room is every kind of evil hunger that the Gods invented. 519 00:34:02,541 --> 00:34:05,920 There's hunger wealth, for power, for danger, for adventure. 520 00:34:06,044 --> 00:34:08,513 What is your evil hunger, Mr Burr? 521 00:34:09,714 --> 00:34:12,217 You think I have one? - You're not an ordinary man. 522 00:34:12,342 --> 00:34:13,810 I'll drink to that. 523 00:34:13,927 --> 00:34:17,022 And to the hidden streams of life and the dark places to which they flow. 524 00:34:18,014 --> 00:34:19,766 To you, widow Todd. 525 00:34:23,687 --> 00:34:25,860 No, Bryan! No! 526 00:34:25,981 --> 00:34:26,982 Move the tables back. 527 00:34:27,107 --> 00:34:29,530 Mandy? Lock the doors. 528 00:34:30,277 --> 00:34:31,403 Sit still. 529 00:34:57,012 --> 00:34:58,355 He's hurt. 530 00:34:59,389 --> 00:35:01,517 Pick it up with your left hand. 531 00:35:02,434 --> 00:35:04,152 Pick it up, or I'll run you through! 532 00:35:10,150 --> 00:35:11,823 You let her alone! 533 00:35:13,028 --> 00:35:14,245 From now on it gets a little rough, 534 00:35:14,362 --> 00:35:16,410 so I'll take you out through that door that leads to the courtyard. 535 00:35:16,531 --> 00:35:18,704 If you see the watch, keep going alone. 536 00:35:24,039 --> 00:35:25,586 Open up and be searched. 537 00:35:56,821 --> 00:35:58,823 Why are we stopping? 538 00:35:58,948 --> 00:36:02,327 I think our borrowed steed is rather short of wind. We ought to give him a breather. 539 00:36:05,246 --> 00:36:08,341 I think I need one, too. 540 00:36:08,458 --> 00:36:10,506 Have you had enough excitement for one evening? 541 00:36:10,627 --> 00:36:11,799 Enough for a good many. 542 00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:15,174 We'll look upon the whole thing as a visit to the theatre. 543 00:36:16,341 --> 00:36:20,062 You have a very odd way of making danger attractive. 544 00:36:20,970 --> 00:36:22,472 Have I? 545 00:36:51,751 --> 00:36:53,298 Goodnight. 546 00:37:42,385 --> 00:37:43,807 Good morning. 547 00:37:43,928 --> 00:37:46,397 Oh, good morning, Mr Madison. 548 00:37:46,514 --> 00:37:48,767 This must be an important day in the congress. 549 00:37:48,892 --> 00:37:50,485 What makes you say that? 550 00:37:50,602 --> 00:37:53,572 You look like a man who's about to pass a law. 551 00:37:53,688 --> 00:37:56,658 What do you think of the... Here, let me. 552 00:37:56,775 --> 00:37:57,776 Oh, thank you. 553 00:37:57,901 --> 00:38:01,030 What do you think of the lawmakers that you've met, Miss Dolly? 554 00:38:02,197 --> 00:38:04,620 They're not as wise as friends claim, 555 00:38:04,741 --> 00:38:06,994 nor as stupid as their enemies report. - Yes. 556 00:38:07,118 --> 00:38:09,337 Somehow I feel they're just about like everybody else. 557 00:38:09,454 --> 00:38:11,673 You're right, no better and no worse. 558 00:38:12,540 --> 00:38:14,588 Dolly... I mean, Miss Todd, 559 00:38:14,709 --> 00:38:17,679 I've been thinking of a little plan that concerns you. 560 00:38:17,796 --> 00:38:19,298 Me? - Yes. 561 00:38:19,422 --> 00:38:22,346 I have a bill before congress which prohibits any American 562 00:38:22,467 --> 00:38:25,516 from engaging in the operation of slaveships. 563 00:38:25,637 --> 00:38:28,186 Well, that sounds like a wonderful bill. Will they pass it? 564 00:38:28,306 --> 00:38:31,526 No, not unless I can convince the opposition 565 00:38:31,643 --> 00:38:34,487 that liberty and slavery can never live hand in hand. 566 00:38:35,772 --> 00:38:39,402 You sound like my father the day he set his slaves free. 567 00:38:39,526 --> 00:38:41,028 He told them, 568 00:38:41,152 --> 00:38:45,157 "I'm not doing this for you, nor for myself," 569 00:38:45,281 --> 00:38:47,454 "nor to serve my own conscience." 570 00:38:47,575 --> 00:38:50,419 "I'm doing this because our nation that has just been born" 571 00:38:50,537 --> 00:38:54,167 "will be stronger when all men are free." 572 00:38:54,749 --> 00:38:57,923 Would you tell them that tomorrow night, just as you said it to me? 573 00:38:58,461 --> 00:38:59,633 Tomorrow night? 574 00:38:59,754 --> 00:39:02,303 Ah, I forgot. I haven't told you about my plan. 575 00:39:02,423 --> 00:39:05,802 Now you said that lawmakers are just like everybody else. 576 00:39:07,303 --> 00:39:10,648 Oh! The flowers look lovely, Doll. - Aren't they pretty? 577 00:39:10,765 --> 00:39:12,392 Now let me see... 578 00:39:12,517 --> 00:39:15,361 The Vermont and Massachusetts men will be here. 579 00:39:15,478 --> 00:39:17,981 The ladies will be South Carolina and Virginia. 580 00:39:18,106 --> 00:39:20,950 Mrs Tillson, Maryland, Mrs Makin, Pennsylvania, 581 00:39:21,067 --> 00:39:23,286 New York, New Jersey and Delaware. 582 00:39:23,403 --> 00:39:24,655 I think they'll mix very nicely. 583 00:39:24,779 --> 00:39:28,329 Oh, Amy. Be sure that everything that comes out of the kitchen is very hot. 584 00:39:28,449 --> 00:39:30,326 Get things on the table as fast as possible. 585 00:39:30,451 --> 00:39:32,545 They can be more leisurely clearing off the table. 586 00:39:32,662 --> 00:39:35,290 How many girls did you get? - Three, Miss Dolly, for the table. And myself. 587 00:39:35,415 --> 00:39:36,837 That's fine, Amy. 588 00:39:36,958 --> 00:39:39,006 As soon as the men get seated, take the flowers off the table. 589 00:39:39,127 --> 00:39:40,925 Men don't like to talk over flowers. 590 00:39:41,045 --> 00:39:43,013 I think they enhance the picture. 591 00:39:43,131 --> 00:39:44,428 They slow down the conversation. 592 00:39:44,549 --> 00:39:46,802 My idea of a good party is where everybody talks at once. 593 00:39:46,926 --> 00:39:49,145 Be sure that the gentlemen have extra-thick cuts of roast. 594 00:39:49,262 --> 00:39:51,230 Oh, yes, maam. 595 00:39:51,347 --> 00:39:54,647 Now, I'll go up and get some rest, and you'd better do the same, mother. 596 00:39:55,602 --> 00:39:56,979 Amy. 597 00:39:58,021 --> 00:39:59,273 Please say a little prayer 598 00:39:59,397 --> 00:40:01,820 that Mr Madison's supper party does all the things he wants it to do. 599 00:40:01,941 --> 00:40:05,912 Miss Dolly, I can't say a prayer over just a supper party! 600 00:40:06,029 --> 00:40:08,123 You can over this one, Amy. 601 00:40:08,239 --> 00:40:10,162 Indeed you can. 602 00:40:27,759 --> 00:40:29,761 Port and cigars for the gentlemen, Amy. 603 00:40:29,886 --> 00:40:32,560 We'll have to talk Madison into this quite frequently. 604 00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:35,479 I didn't think he had it in him. 605 00:40:35,600 --> 00:40:37,477 Mr Madison is from Virginia, gentlemen. 606 00:40:37,602 --> 00:40:40,481 There's nothing he enjoys more than his little suppers with his friends. 607 00:40:40,605 --> 00:40:42,903 What I can't understand, Mr Madison, 608 00:40:43,024 --> 00:40:45,903 is why a charming gentleman like yourself has never married. 609 00:40:46,027 --> 00:40:47,199 Neither can I, sir. 610 00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:49,743 You now that women have a lot more wisdom than most men think. 611 00:40:49,864 --> 00:40:51,992 I've never met one that would have me. 612 00:40:52,116 --> 00:40:54,118 You come to my house on the 25th. 613 00:40:54,243 --> 00:40:56,712 I'll show you six, all of them young and pretty. 614 00:40:56,829 --> 00:40:59,378 Now, six seems a good many wives to start out with. 615 00:40:59,499 --> 00:41:02,594 I think I'd rather start out with just one, like most of the gentlemen I know. 616 00:41:02,710 --> 00:41:04,178 Oh, Mr Madison! 617 00:41:04,295 --> 00:41:05,592 Isn't he droll? 618 00:41:05,713 --> 00:41:07,966 I know the one I'd choose if I were you, sir. 619 00:41:08,091 --> 00:41:10,014 You do, ma'am? 620 00:41:10,134 --> 00:41:13,104 There's one thing I know nothing about. That's politics. 621 00:41:13,805 --> 00:41:16,103 But I never will forget my father saying it. 622 00:41:16,224 --> 00:41:19,319 "I'm not doing this for you, nor to serve my own conscience," 623 00:41:19,435 --> 00:41:23,690 "but because our new-born nation will be stronger when all men are free." 624 00:41:23,815 --> 00:41:27,194 I liked it because it made the United States seem like a little pink and white baby 625 00:41:27,318 --> 00:41:28,695 with a blue bonnet on. 626 00:41:30,947 --> 00:41:34,372 Ladies... ladies, shall we leave the gentlemen to their port and cigars? 627 00:41:52,844 --> 00:41:54,721 Oh... I'm sorry. 628 00:41:56,055 --> 00:41:57,898 Gentlemen. 629 00:42:04,355 --> 00:42:07,655 When this bill comes up, all I'll remember will be this supper. 630 00:42:07,775 --> 00:42:09,072 You know how my vote will go. 631 00:42:09,193 --> 00:42:11,537 I hope it will go the right way, sir. - Goodnight. 632 00:42:11,654 --> 00:42:13,907 Mr Madison. - Goodnight, my dear. Have a lovely evening. 633 00:42:14,032 --> 00:42:16,876 I'll see you later, James. I see things more clearly now. 634 00:42:16,993 --> 00:42:20,122 We need some good, clear thinking on this bill. Goodnight. 635 00:42:20,246 --> 00:42:22,715 Oh, Dolly, it was a lovely party. 636 00:42:22,832 --> 00:42:25,460 Even though I shouldn't say it, I had a wonderful time. 637 00:42:25,585 --> 00:42:27,508 Ladies, I want to thank you. 638 00:42:27,628 --> 00:42:29,676 I'll never be able to say the things I want to say. 639 00:42:29,797 --> 00:42:31,515 I couldn't say them if I stood here all night. 640 00:42:32,175 --> 00:42:34,143 You know, I worked on those men for months. 641 00:42:34,260 --> 00:42:37,639 I buttonholed them in corridors, I plagued them in taverns, 642 00:42:37,764 --> 00:42:39,357 and all I ever got was, "No." 643 00:42:39,474 --> 00:42:40,600 And tonight? 644 00:42:40,725 --> 00:42:44,104 And tonight, Dolly, this little supper party and the things you said 645 00:42:44,228 --> 00:42:45,730 and the things you made them say 646 00:42:45,855 --> 00:42:48,859 may be just the thing we need to pass the bill tomorrow. 647 00:42:48,983 --> 00:42:50,951 That would be nice, Mr Madison. 648 00:42:51,069 --> 00:42:53,868 It may be the first step in the fight against slavery. 649 00:42:53,988 --> 00:42:55,831 Do you really think it has a chance of passing? 650 00:42:55,948 --> 00:42:57,871 It may, it may, it may. 651 00:42:57,992 --> 00:43:01,121 And if it becomes the law, Dolly, it will be your law. 652 00:43:01,704 --> 00:43:04,924 My law? - Yours and nobody else's. 653 00:43:05,041 --> 00:43:06,338 Oh... 654 00:43:06,459 --> 00:43:10,589 Oh, I... I never felt so important in all my life. 655 00:43:15,343 --> 00:43:17,437 I'll be back in a moment. 656 00:43:30,525 --> 00:43:32,243 Oh, you startled me, Aaron. 657 00:43:32,360 --> 00:43:34,579 Is that all? Then I'll do it again. 658 00:43:37,323 --> 00:43:39,166 Did your supper make history? 659 00:43:39,283 --> 00:43:42,127 It went off very well, thank you, sir. 660 00:43:42,245 --> 00:43:43,622 It can only mean that Mr Madison 661 00:43:43,746 --> 00:43:46,670 had another dull and totally unnecessary law ready to be passed. 662 00:43:46,791 --> 00:43:48,088 It's a very good bill, Aaron. 663 00:43:48,209 --> 00:43:50,337 I know the salve trade act is not only impractical, 664 00:43:50,461 --> 00:43:51,883 but is quite impossible to enforce. 665 00:43:52,004 --> 00:43:55,224 But if it is enforced, it may mean the beginning of the end of slavery. 666 00:43:55,341 --> 00:43:58,720 I know every phrase and syllable on it, and it won't work. 667 00:43:59,387 --> 00:44:00,764 Come on, we're going to the Clinton ball. 668 00:44:00,888 --> 00:44:04,483 Oh, I couldn't stand another party tonight. - And see how politics really are played. 669 00:44:05,309 --> 00:44:07,277 All right, I'll get my gloves and shawl. 670 00:44:07,395 --> 00:44:10,569 It'll help you to get the dull taste of congressman out of your mouth, too. 671 00:44:49,520 --> 00:44:51,318 Mrs Todd, may I present my friends. 672 00:44:51,439 --> 00:44:53,191 Senator and Mrs Mason. - How do you do? 673 00:44:53,316 --> 00:44:55,193 Governor and Mrs Trubshaw. - Delighted. 674 00:44:55,318 --> 00:44:57,320 And Mr Justice Drake. - It is indeed an honour. 675 00:44:57,445 --> 00:44:59,447 Good evening, Senator. - Senator? 676 00:44:59,572 --> 00:45:02,041 Sir, you mean the next president of the United States. 677 00:45:02,158 --> 00:45:03,785 Yeah... 678 00:45:03,910 --> 00:45:06,163 You're the first to put in words what everybody knows. 679 00:45:06,871 --> 00:45:08,748 Gentlemen, these good wishes are deeply appreciated, 680 00:45:08,873 --> 00:45:10,716 even though they are a trifle premature. 681 00:45:10,833 --> 00:45:13,382 Now, when one has the good fortune to dance with Mrs Todd, 682 00:45:13,502 --> 00:45:15,721 only a fool would waste time talking politics. 683 00:45:15,838 --> 00:45:17,966 Goodbye. 684 00:45:20,009 --> 00:45:24,480 I can't believe that I know the man who's to be the next President of the United States. 685 00:45:24,597 --> 00:45:27,521 And a very different kind of president he'll be, too. 686 00:45:27,642 --> 00:45:29,144 Oh, I'm sure of that. 687 00:45:30,478 --> 00:45:32,276 No, I'm serious, Dolly. 688 00:45:32,396 --> 00:45:35,240 When I was in Europe last year, I couldn't help wondering what would happen 689 00:45:35,358 --> 00:45:36,951 if a really strong power, 690 00:45:37,068 --> 00:45:39,366 one with great armies and navies, attacked this country. 691 00:45:39,487 --> 00:45:41,364 I think we'd raise greater armies, 692 00:45:41,489 --> 00:45:43,366 the way we did during the Revolutionary War. 693 00:45:43,491 --> 00:45:46,210 Ah, that time we were lucky. Next time we have to be strong. 694 00:45:46,327 --> 00:45:48,295 There's too much talk about democracy these days 695 00:45:48,412 --> 00:45:50,085 and too little purpose in rule. 696 00:45:50,998 --> 00:45:53,251 We need a president who can pull the states together 697 00:45:53,376 --> 00:45:56,220 and make them into a real nation in spite of themselves. 698 00:45:57,713 --> 00:46:00,136 If I were a man, I think I'd love politics. 699 00:46:02,260 --> 00:46:04,012 Instead of politicians? 700 00:46:10,685 --> 00:46:13,188 There's something very special about sunday, 701 00:46:13,312 --> 00:46:14,814 about the sunshine. 702 00:46:14,939 --> 00:46:17,067 The way people look as they stroll along, 703 00:46:17,191 --> 00:46:19,910 families together, young men and young ladies, 704 00:46:20,027 --> 00:46:22,280 seems to be the best day of the week for everybody. 705 00:46:22,405 --> 00:46:25,204 You didn't like Philadelphia when you first came here, did you? 706 00:46:25,324 --> 00:46:26,576 No. 707 00:46:26,701 --> 00:46:29,079 I miss the life in Virginia. 708 00:46:29,203 --> 00:46:31,331 But there's so much of me here now. 709 00:46:32,832 --> 00:46:36,382 I wish I had those first few years here to live over again. 710 00:46:38,045 --> 00:46:41,595 I wasn't very wise about my marriage, Mr Madison. 711 00:46:41,716 --> 00:46:45,061 I didn't realise how much it meant to me until it was all over. 712 00:46:46,178 --> 00:46:48,681 I heard John Todd was a fine man. 713 00:46:48,806 --> 00:46:51,104 He was. He made me very happy. 714 00:46:51,684 --> 00:46:54,358 But I was extremely wilful. 715 00:46:55,396 --> 00:46:57,398 I have many regrets, Mr Madison. 716 00:46:57,523 --> 00:47:00,868 Well, you can't live with regrets. - I know that. 717 00:47:00,985 --> 00:47:04,580 And there's a good deal of happiness still left in the world. 718 00:47:04,697 --> 00:47:08,827 I suppose everybody has said, "lf I had my life to live over again," 719 00:47:08,951 --> 00:47:11,750 "how differently I would live it." - Yes, I'm sure of that. 720 00:47:11,871 --> 00:47:13,965 I've said it often. 721 00:47:14,081 --> 00:47:16,004 And should I marry again, 722 00:47:16,125 --> 00:47:20,471 I'd try to make up for all the things I failed to do for John. 723 00:47:23,758 --> 00:47:26,762 Are you thinking about marrying again? 724 00:47:28,012 --> 00:47:32,518 Every widow thinks about marrying again, Mr Madison. 725 00:47:32,641 --> 00:47:34,439 I had hoped that you would be. 726 00:47:35,603 --> 00:47:38,072 Had you? - Yes. 727 00:47:38,189 --> 00:47:41,910 This time, I must be deeply in love before my marriage. 728 00:47:42,026 --> 00:47:44,825 I know now the part a wife should play in a husband's life. 729 00:47:44,945 --> 00:47:47,619 I think you should marry a man 730 00:47:47,740 --> 00:47:50,960 because he wants you more than anything else in the world, 731 00:47:51,077 --> 00:47:56,504 because he wants you to be a part of his plans, his ambition, and his work. 732 00:47:56,624 --> 00:47:59,298 No matter how difficult a task he sets out to do, 733 00:47:59,418 --> 00:48:02,467 you make it possible for him to do it. 734 00:48:02,588 --> 00:48:04,841 I hope he'll need me. 735 00:48:04,965 --> 00:48:07,093 That's one thing I must be certain, 736 00:48:07,218 --> 00:48:09,846 that my husband needs me. 737 00:48:09,970 --> 00:48:11,472 He needs you, Dolly. 738 00:48:12,765 --> 00:48:16,486 Sometimes I'm positive that he needs no one but himself. 739 00:48:18,437 --> 00:48:21,486 Then other times, he seems so alone, 740 00:48:22,400 --> 00:48:24,869 as though he needed someone very badly. 741 00:48:26,529 --> 00:48:30,079 I hope you'll forgive me for speaking so frankly, 742 00:48:30,199 --> 00:48:32,622 but you are his friend, 743 00:48:34,120 --> 00:48:37,841 and there are times when I feel I know you better than I do Mr Burr. 744 00:48:37,957 --> 00:48:39,584 You seem to understand me. 745 00:48:39,708 --> 00:48:41,756 I suppose it's because we're both from Virginia. 746 00:48:42,586 --> 00:48:46,090 Yes. I suppose that's the reason. 747 00:48:47,049 --> 00:48:49,973 Well, shall we walk a bit? - Yes, James. 748 00:49:10,698 --> 00:49:12,575 Er, tell Mrs Todd the horses are outside, Amy. 749 00:49:12,700 --> 00:49:16,375 Mrs Todd is having tea with Mr Madison and another gentleman. 750 00:49:18,205 --> 00:49:20,549 Oh, senator, won't you come and have a cup of tea? 751 00:49:24,336 --> 00:49:26,634 You know Mr Jefferson. - Yes, indeed. How are you, Thomas? 752 00:49:26,755 --> 00:49:29,554 It's nice to see you, Aaron. - I don't suppose you've heard the news. 753 00:49:29,675 --> 00:49:31,052 News? ls there news? 754 00:49:31,177 --> 00:49:35,853 Mr Jefferson has been named to run against Mr Adams for the presidency. 755 00:49:40,102 --> 00:49:42,196 Well, congratulations, Thomas. 756 00:49:43,397 --> 00:49:46,526 And congratulations to you, too, James, I feel that you must've had a hand in this. 757 00:49:46,650 --> 00:49:49,745 Two hands, Aaron. No man did more to get me the nomination. 758 00:49:49,862 --> 00:49:52,331 I wish I deserved that compliment. 759 00:49:52,448 --> 00:49:53,825 Let's drink to Mr Jefferson. 760 00:49:54,992 --> 00:49:56,414 Yes. 761 00:49:56,535 --> 00:49:58,378 A toast in tea. 762 00:49:58,496 --> 00:50:02,171 Symbolic of that party in Boston that makes it possible for any man 763 00:50:02,291 --> 00:50:04,919 to offer himself as the leader of his people. 764 00:50:05,044 --> 00:50:07,968 To you, Mr Jefferson. - Thank you, Aaron. 765 00:50:10,382 --> 00:50:13,386 I'm glad that Jefferson was nominated instead of me. 766 00:50:13,511 --> 00:50:14,512 Are you? 767 00:50:14,637 --> 00:50:18,107 Now Adams will win the election, Jefferson will be out of the way, 768 00:50:18,224 --> 00:50:19,851 so will your friend Madison. 769 00:50:19,975 --> 00:50:21,192 Don't you like Mr Madison? 770 00:50:21,310 --> 00:50:23,654 No, I'm jealous. - Oh, Aaron... 771 00:50:23,771 --> 00:50:26,194 Well, not really, but those adoring glances, haven't you noticed them? 772 00:50:26,315 --> 00:50:27,487 I know he's fond of me. 773 00:50:27,608 --> 00:50:30,077 Fond of you? He's madly in love with you. So am I. 774 00:50:31,320 --> 00:50:33,994 Why do you keep James dangling around? - I don't. 775 00:50:34,114 --> 00:50:36,082 I like him. I like his ideals. 776 00:50:36,200 --> 00:50:38,623 His ideals! They're the same as Jefferson's. 777 00:50:38,744 --> 00:50:41,998 You don't really think that men like that can run these so-called United States, do you? 778 00:50:42,122 --> 00:50:45,592 Well, of course I do. - They can't. History proves that. 779 00:50:45,709 --> 00:50:47,962 Where the people rule, they're ruined. 780 00:50:48,087 --> 00:50:52,308 This country will never become a nation until the power to rule is in proper hands. 781 00:50:52,424 --> 00:50:56,019 The United States are a long way from being united. 782 00:50:56,136 --> 00:50:58,685 You yourself fought to make this country a free nation. 783 00:50:58,806 --> 00:51:01,434 I'm still fighting to make it a nation, not a collection of tribes. 784 00:51:01,559 --> 00:51:03,436 That's what it is now. 785 00:51:03,561 --> 00:51:07,236 New England and the southern states beat out the tom-toms over the tariff, 786 00:51:07,356 --> 00:51:10,735 New York and Pennsylvania hold war dances and yell against the taxes. 787 00:51:10,859 --> 00:51:12,861 Every so-called citizen wants everything for himself 788 00:51:12,987 --> 00:51:14,330 and to leave nothing for the other man. 789 00:51:15,489 --> 00:51:18,914 A country so divided and a people so selfish 790 00:51:19,034 --> 00:51:21,412 makes a very tempting dish. 791 00:51:22,997 --> 00:51:26,126 Aaron, that's no way to take defeat. - Defeat? 792 00:51:26,250 --> 00:51:28,548 I'm not defeated. 793 00:51:28,669 --> 00:51:32,515 And when this union of states breaks up, I'll pick up the pieces. 794 00:51:33,674 --> 00:51:36,177 Jefferson and Madison can have their day now, 795 00:51:36,302 --> 00:51:37,724 I'll have mine later. 796 00:51:37,845 --> 00:51:39,893 Not that way, Aaron, no. 797 00:51:40,014 --> 00:51:42,608 I'll preach freedom and rebellion in the same breath, 798 00:51:42,725 --> 00:51:46,571 I'll lead and the rebel will follow, and in the end I'll rule. 799 00:51:46,687 --> 00:51:50,112 I'll rule without election, I'll rule without congress. 800 00:51:50,232 --> 00:51:51,484 Aaron, that's treason. 801 00:51:51,609 --> 00:51:54,954 You shouldn't talk like that. Too many men have died for our liberty. 802 00:51:55,070 --> 00:51:58,540 Treason? You may call it treason, but I call it destiny. 803 00:51:58,657 --> 00:52:00,705 Your destiny and mine. 804 00:52:02,870 --> 00:52:04,998 Aaron, you frighten me when you talk like that. 805 00:52:05,122 --> 00:52:07,716 I'm going to rule this country alone. 806 00:52:07,833 --> 00:52:10,962 Only you will be at my side, always. 807 00:52:17,134 --> 00:52:18,886 Have you got the carriage? - Yes. 808 00:52:19,011 --> 00:52:20,854 Might I suggest you redraft the bill? 809 00:52:20,971 --> 00:52:22,439 I'll think about it. 810 00:52:36,236 --> 00:52:39,206 Dolly, this is a surprise! Have you been in the gallery, 811 00:52:39,323 --> 00:52:40,916 listening to the debates? - No, James. 812 00:52:41,033 --> 00:52:43,786 Fisher Ames and Guiles put on quite a show. I thought they'd never finish. 813 00:52:43,911 --> 00:52:45,879 Is there somewhere I may speak to you? 814 00:52:45,996 --> 00:52:48,169 I mean, privately. - Why, of course. 815 00:52:48,290 --> 00:52:50,634 Sit down right here. No one will disturb us. 816 00:52:50,751 --> 00:52:52,253 Hadn't we better go somewhere else? 817 00:52:52,378 --> 00:52:54,472 I know women are not supposed to come in here. 818 00:52:54,588 --> 00:52:57,182 No, no, it's all right. Nobody will mind. 819 00:52:57,299 --> 00:52:59,802 You seem troubled, Dolly. Sit down. 820 00:52:59,927 --> 00:53:01,474 I am troubled. 821 00:53:01,595 --> 00:53:06,351 I'm troubled about something that women are not supposed to be concerned with at all. 822 00:53:06,475 --> 00:53:08,477 I thought a woman's hand was always needed 823 00:53:08,602 --> 00:53:10,229 when there was a problem to be solved. 824 00:53:11,188 --> 00:53:13,156 Even in politics? - Yeah. 825 00:53:13,273 --> 00:53:15,776 Yes, there have been women involved in politics, 826 00:53:15,901 --> 00:53:20,327 Cleopatra, Du Barry, old Queen Elizabeth, you're not alone in history. 827 00:53:20,447 --> 00:53:23,747 Then my coming here to talk politics doesn't seem strange to you? 828 00:53:23,867 --> 00:53:25,494 No, I think it's delightful. 829 00:53:25,619 --> 00:53:28,213 Have you a bill you want me to sponsor? 830 00:53:28,330 --> 00:53:31,083 No, I'm afraid I have a lot of questions. 831 00:53:31,208 --> 00:53:32,801 Well, that's good. 832 00:53:32,918 --> 00:53:36,718 There's no better place for a citizen to ask questions than in the hall of Congress. 833 00:53:38,298 --> 00:53:39,800 James, 834 00:53:40,634 --> 00:53:45,356 isn't it true that man's effort to be free has always failed? 835 00:53:46,140 --> 00:53:47,687 Yes. 836 00:53:47,808 --> 00:53:52,985 Yes, that's been the record for the past 8.000 years, up until now. 837 00:53:53,897 --> 00:53:56,195 Are you afraid we'll fail again? 838 00:53:56,316 --> 00:53:58,239 I don't know. 839 00:53:58,360 --> 00:54:01,159 Is that a bad thing to say? - I don't think so. 840 00:54:01,280 --> 00:54:03,248 I often ask myself that. 841 00:54:03,365 --> 00:54:05,993 I have doubts, too, very often. 842 00:54:06,118 --> 00:54:07,995 But then I tell myself, 843 00:54:08,120 --> 00:54:12,091 "This is the last great hope of man, and we can't let it fail." 844 00:54:12,207 --> 00:54:15,006 But it is in danger, isn't it? - Yes. 845 00:54:16,003 --> 00:54:19,098 I sometimes wonder how we had the courage to fight for it. 846 00:54:19,214 --> 00:54:23,344 Maybe it's something in the American soil, some kind of strength that comes up to men. 847 00:54:23,469 --> 00:54:25,597 Maybe it's something in the air, clear and heady, 848 00:54:25,721 --> 00:54:28,144 that makes us want to be free. 849 00:54:28,265 --> 00:54:31,269 But whatever it is, we have it and we'll keep it, if the people want it. 850 00:54:32,478 --> 00:54:35,573 That's just it. Some people don't want it. 851 00:54:35,689 --> 00:54:39,068 They want a ruler. They want advantages for themselves. 852 00:54:39,193 --> 00:54:41,821 They want to take away from the many and give power to the few. 853 00:54:41,945 --> 00:54:44,539 No, no, some people want that. 854 00:54:44,656 --> 00:54:46,829 But they're not people who understand freedom. 855 00:54:48,952 --> 00:54:52,673 How would you define freedom, James? What do you say it is? 856 00:54:53,457 --> 00:54:55,801 I don't know. 857 00:54:55,918 --> 00:54:58,387 If I were called upon here 858 00:54:58,504 --> 00:55:01,929 by the representatives of the people, my colleagues, 859 00:55:02,049 --> 00:55:04,552 to define freedom, 860 00:55:04,676 --> 00:55:06,599 now what would I say? 861 00:55:07,971 --> 00:55:14,445 I'd say freedom is the right of every man to look upon every other man and say, 862 00:55:14,561 --> 00:55:17,656 "I'm no better than you are, and you're no better than I am. 863 00:55:18,273 --> 00:55:20,947 "I'm not yours, and you're not mine," 864 00:55:21,068 --> 00:55:25,073 "but together we can be the strongest of all men." 865 00:55:25,823 --> 00:55:29,248 "Together we can make laws to settle our disputes." 866 00:55:29,743 --> 00:55:32,917 "Together we can devise and work out a way of life" 867 00:55:33,038 --> 00:55:35,086 "that will be good for all of us." 868 00:55:35,874 --> 00:55:38,798 "This was the reason we fought to be free," 869 00:55:38,919 --> 00:55:41,297 "and this is the way we live in freedom." 870 00:55:43,674 --> 00:55:45,426 ls there some question from the member? 871 00:55:46,969 --> 00:55:49,597 Yes, there is. 872 00:55:49,721 --> 00:55:55,603 What will happen if this idea of freedom were attacked by a strong enemy? 873 00:55:56,562 --> 00:55:58,906 I only know I've had one glimpse of freedom, 874 00:55:59,022 --> 00:56:01,241 and now I can't live without it. 875 00:56:01,358 --> 00:56:05,738 And I and all men like me will die fighting those who try to shut it off. 876 00:56:05,863 --> 00:56:08,491 You have doubts, I have them, too, 877 00:56:08,615 --> 00:56:12,210 but I also have this, and I'll give it to you. 878 00:56:12,327 --> 00:56:17,003 That this blessed dream of free men governed by their own laws 879 00:56:17,124 --> 00:56:19,718 will take shape and grow, Dolly, 880 00:56:19,835 --> 00:56:25,057 until it includes all people, all races, all kinds, all together. 881 00:56:25,173 --> 00:56:28,643 This is all I have, this blessed dream, 882 00:56:28,760 --> 00:56:32,640 it's all I have to offer to still your doubts. 883 00:56:35,142 --> 00:56:37,440 I'm sorry, I didn't mean to make a speech. 884 00:56:38,687 --> 00:56:41,907 Oh, James, it's all so clear to me now. 885 00:56:42,024 --> 00:56:43,697 You're not crying? 886 00:56:43,817 --> 00:56:45,364 No. 887 00:56:45,485 --> 00:56:47,738 No, I'm not crying. 888 00:56:47,863 --> 00:56:51,493 I know something now it seems I've always known. 889 00:56:53,076 --> 00:56:54,953 I know now, James, that... 890 00:56:56,288 --> 00:56:57,790 I love you. 891 00:56:59,625 --> 00:57:03,425 I've been trying to say those same words to you since the first day I saw you. 892 00:57:03,545 --> 00:57:07,095 And now I didn't even have to propose. 893 00:57:07,215 --> 00:57:10,389 No man has ever made a more beautiful proposal. 894 00:57:12,888 --> 00:57:16,688 See here, you two. This table is for making laws, not for making love. 895 00:57:16,808 --> 00:57:17,809 It's all right, Hugo. 896 00:57:17,935 --> 00:57:21,485 Oh, forgive me, Mr Madison, I didn't know. 897 00:57:21,605 --> 00:57:23,653 I never dreamed. 898 00:57:23,774 --> 00:57:25,697 Neither did I. 899 00:57:28,445 --> 00:57:30,493 I want you to have this necklace now, 900 00:57:30,614 --> 00:57:32,742 and you're to wear it for the first time at your wedding. 901 00:57:32,866 --> 00:57:34,038 It was your great-grandmothers. 902 00:57:36,536 --> 00:57:38,914 Oh, I remember this. 903 00:57:39,039 --> 00:57:40,962 You used to wear this in Virginia. 904 00:57:41,083 --> 00:57:43,006 Only on great occasions. 905 00:57:43,126 --> 00:57:45,675 Oh, it's a wonderful present. 906 00:57:45,796 --> 00:57:46,888 Thank you, mother. 907 00:57:47,547 --> 00:57:51,222 I couldn't give it to you the last time, but this time you must have a beautiful wedding. 908 00:57:51,343 --> 00:57:53,846 I think I can brag of you to our friends. 909 00:57:53,971 --> 00:57:56,144 "Dolly", I'll say, "is married to James Madison," 910 00:57:56,264 --> 00:57:58,642 "a truly great man." 911 00:57:58,767 --> 00:58:00,735 Yes, he is, mother. 912 00:58:00,852 --> 00:58:05,232 His love is the kind that will last forever. 913 00:58:05,357 --> 00:58:09,612 And his life and his dreams are the kind that a woman can really share. 914 00:58:12,280 --> 00:58:15,033 Er, what does Aaron Burr think about this, Doll? 915 00:58:20,080 --> 00:58:21,832 I haven't told him yet. 916 00:58:23,500 --> 00:58:25,548 But I will tonight. 917 00:58:36,805 --> 00:58:38,352 I thought we might take supper out tonight. 918 00:58:38,473 --> 00:58:41,101 I'd like to be spared the sight of Madison smugly denying 919 00:58:41,226 --> 00:58:43,399 that he engineered Jefferson's nomination. 920 00:58:43,520 --> 00:58:45,739 We could go someplace where we're not known. 921 00:58:49,109 --> 00:58:50,656 Aaron... 922 00:58:51,945 --> 00:58:54,664 I'd like to tell you something. 923 00:58:54,781 --> 00:58:57,000 Not about politics, I hope? 924 00:58:57,117 --> 00:58:59,836 No, it's about us. 925 00:58:59,953 --> 00:59:01,170 What do you want to tell me? 926 00:59:02,330 --> 00:59:05,300 Well, I hope you'll understand this. 927 00:59:05,417 --> 00:59:08,091 It's not very easy to explain. 928 00:59:08,211 --> 00:59:12,466 I guess when things like this happen, they are always a little... 929 00:59:14,760 --> 00:59:16,637 What are you trying to say? 930 00:59:18,221 --> 00:59:20,440 I'm going to marry James Madison. 931 00:59:23,185 --> 00:59:25,654 I knew it. Yesterday on the hill, I knew it. 932 00:59:25,771 --> 00:59:27,523 No, Aaron, I didn't know until today myself. 933 00:59:27,647 --> 00:59:31,618 Why are you doing this? - Because I love him. I love him very deeply. 934 00:59:31,735 --> 00:59:33,487 I'm sorry, but... - You're sorry! 935 00:59:33,612 --> 00:59:34,864 That's very touching, widow Todd, 936 00:59:34,988 --> 00:59:37,082 but you'll be more sorry as time goes on. - Aaron, you're hurting me. 937 00:59:37,199 --> 00:59:40,419 Think I'll fail? Have you lost faith in me? - No, please, Aaron... 938 00:59:41,161 --> 00:59:42,458 Let me go. 939 00:59:44,664 --> 00:59:47,634 You'll never forget me, Dolly, if you marry a dozen Madisons. 940 00:59:49,795 --> 00:59:51,138 And I'll never forget you. 941 00:59:53,673 --> 00:59:55,346 Never. 942 01:00:01,098 --> 01:00:03,567 James Madison and I were married. 943 01:00:03,683 --> 01:00:08,405 After the election, when our friend Tom Jefferson lost the presidency to John Adams, 944 01:00:08,522 --> 01:00:10,320 my husband and I moved to Virginia, 945 01:00:10,440 --> 01:00:13,284 where James was a member of the Virginia legislature. 946 01:00:13,401 --> 01:00:17,907 We spent four wonderful and happy years on his family estate. 947 01:00:18,031 --> 01:00:19,499 Dolly! - Yes? 948 01:00:19,616 --> 01:00:23,337 Look, we have some visitors. - Look, they can get their eyes open. 949 01:00:23,453 --> 01:00:25,080 You know what his name is? - No. 950 01:00:25,205 --> 01:00:26,582 John Adams. - Why? 951 01:00:26,706 --> 01:00:28,504 Well, look at him. 952 01:00:28,625 --> 01:00:30,593 Mr Madison, sir. - Oh, yes, fella. 953 01:00:30,710 --> 01:00:32,462 This came by courier from Washington, sir. 954 01:00:32,587 --> 01:00:34,589 Oh, good. Thank you. 955 01:00:35,966 --> 01:00:38,890 It's from Tom Jefferson. - Oh, I hope he's coming to visit us. 956 01:00:39,010 --> 01:00:40,887 He's one person I'd love to see. 957 01:00:41,012 --> 01:00:42,889 He wants us to visit him. 958 01:00:43,014 --> 01:00:46,188 He's going to run for president again. - That is good news. 959 01:00:46,309 --> 01:00:48,778 He says, "You must come to Washington and help me campaign." 960 01:00:49,521 --> 01:00:51,194 I could close the house in a very few days. 961 01:00:51,314 --> 01:00:53,692 "...going to be an exciting campaign." 962 01:00:53,817 --> 01:00:57,788 He has Aaron Burr running for his vice president. 963 01:00:58,989 --> 01:01:02,334 He says that should ensure New York and Massachusetts. 964 01:01:02,450 --> 01:01:05,249 But Tom and Aaron seem to be such strange running mates. 965 01:01:05,370 --> 01:01:09,170 Yes, old Tom's probably swung Burr around to his way of thinking. 966 01:01:09,291 --> 01:01:11,589 This last paragraph is for you. 967 01:01:11,710 --> 01:01:15,010 "Dolly, I'm counting on you to keep things running smoothly." 968 01:01:17,215 --> 01:01:18,592 Now what are you thinking up? 969 01:01:19,718 --> 01:01:23,814 I was just thinking how happy we've been here in Montpelier these past four years. 970 01:01:23,930 --> 01:01:26,433 Oh, we'll come back here after the election. 971 01:01:26,558 --> 01:01:30,438 Jefferson will make our country a model for every nation on earth. 972 01:01:30,562 --> 01:01:32,781 He has to win this election, Doll. 973 01:01:35,150 --> 01:01:37,244 And you want to help him, don't you, James? 974 01:01:37,360 --> 01:01:40,204 Yes, I do. All I can. 975 01:01:40,322 --> 01:01:43,041 And I want to help you, all I can. 976 01:01:54,377 --> 01:01:56,004 We had moved to Washington, 977 01:01:56,129 --> 01:01:57,802 and now that the campaign was over, 978 01:01:57,923 --> 01:02:00,767 we were spending our fifth wedding anniversary alone, 979 01:02:00,884 --> 01:02:02,557 as we had planned. 980 01:02:02,677 --> 01:02:04,554 James! 981 01:02:04,679 --> 01:02:07,432 That's the most beautiful fan I've ever seen. 982 01:02:07,557 --> 01:02:10,652 Why not? It's for the most beautiful woman I've ever seen. 983 01:02:13,897 --> 01:02:15,820 Yes, very useful things, fans. 984 01:02:15,941 --> 01:02:18,285 Open your present. - Oh, yes. 985 01:02:18,401 --> 01:02:20,403 Yes. Now let me... 986 01:02:22,239 --> 01:02:24,116 A snuff box? 987 01:02:24,241 --> 01:02:28,166 Well, Dolly, you're really trying to make a dandy out of me, aren't you? 988 01:02:28,286 --> 01:02:30,664 Don't you like it? - Oh, I certainly do. 989 01:02:30,789 --> 01:02:32,883 Oh, you'd better. I had to go all the way to New York for it. 990 01:02:32,999 --> 01:02:34,672 Well, it's overwhelming. 991 01:02:34,793 --> 01:02:37,387 I'm going to make a point of offering snuff to everybody in the capital, 992 01:02:37,504 --> 01:02:38,847 so they can... admire it. 993 01:02:38,964 --> 01:02:42,309 And I shall blush modestly behind my fan at your elegance. 994 01:02:42,425 --> 01:02:46,225 Which reminds me, I must have a new gown and turban made to match my beautiful gift. 995 01:02:46,346 --> 01:02:50,146 Of course now I have to have new Waistcoats to house this beautiful object. 996 01:02:50,267 --> 01:02:52,645 You'll be the centre of attraction, my dear husband. 997 01:02:52,769 --> 01:02:54,988 Mr Madison, please, sir. 998 01:02:55,105 --> 01:02:57,984 Mr Wilson and Mr Quinnan, some other gentlemen, to see you. 999 01:02:58,108 --> 01:03:01,078 Tell them to come in, please. 1000 01:03:02,279 --> 01:03:05,203 This is the evening we were going to spend alone. 1001 01:03:05,323 --> 01:03:08,247 Public life and private plans seldom walk together. 1002 01:03:08,368 --> 01:03:09,620 They may not stay very long. 1003 01:03:09,744 --> 01:03:11,997 Don't ask them for supper. - I won't. 1004 01:03:12,122 --> 01:03:15,376 They probably came by to tell us about the electoral college vote. Gentlemen? 1005 01:03:15,500 --> 01:03:17,673 Mr Madison, we've been tricked. - Tricked? 1006 01:03:17,794 --> 01:03:19,592 Jefferson and Burr are tied. 1007 01:03:19,713 --> 01:03:22,387 Seventy-three votes for each. Here's the calculation. 1008 01:03:24,884 --> 01:03:28,229 You mean the election will go to the House of Representatives for a decision? 1009 01:03:28,346 --> 01:03:31,725 It will indeed, ma'am. - And there is danger there for us. 1010 01:03:31,850 --> 01:03:34,820 We're about to sit in council with Mr Jefferson on this matter tonight. 1011 01:03:34,936 --> 01:03:37,280 Gentlemen, I'll see you in a few moments. 1012 01:03:40,817 --> 01:03:42,694 I'm sorry, Doll. 1013 01:03:42,819 --> 01:03:46,119 This is a poor end to our little celebration. 1014 01:03:46,239 --> 01:03:47,991 Maybe we should've stayed in Virginia. 1015 01:03:48,116 --> 01:03:52,041 James, you must not let Aaron Burr be named president. 1016 01:03:52,162 --> 01:03:54,881 I feel this is my fault in a way. 1017 01:03:54,998 --> 01:03:56,966 I wrote the election law. 1018 01:03:57,083 --> 01:03:59,177 Burr found a loophole. 1019 01:03:59,294 --> 01:04:01,968 I didn't write a very good law, Doll. 1020 01:04:18,855 --> 01:04:21,074 I tell you, I have a feeling about it. 1021 01:04:21,191 --> 01:04:23,660 When the House votes, we'll defeat Jefferson two to one. 1022 01:04:23,777 --> 01:04:26,826 Two to one, gentlemen! I swear it won't be less than that, Aaron. 1023 01:04:26,946 --> 01:04:28,994 Or should I say Mr president? 1024 01:04:29,115 --> 01:04:30,708 All we need is nine more votes. 1025 01:04:30,825 --> 01:04:34,625 Nine votes, and Jefferson buried in the vice presidency once again. 1026 01:04:34,746 --> 01:04:36,168 A fate he richly deserves. 1027 01:04:36,289 --> 01:04:38,041 Mr Alexander Hamilton, sir. 1028 01:04:40,001 --> 01:04:41,048 Tell him I'm not here. 1029 01:04:41,169 --> 01:04:42,921 Mr Burr? 1030 01:04:43,046 --> 01:04:46,300 I hope you'll pardon my presence, but my business is urgent. 1031 01:04:46,424 --> 01:04:47,846 And private. 1032 01:04:47,967 --> 01:04:49,890 No, please stay, gentlemen. 1033 01:04:50,011 --> 01:04:52,105 Yes, Mr Hamilton? 1034 01:04:52,222 --> 01:04:56,773 I'm here to ask you again to stop this folly and end this farce 1035 01:04:56,893 --> 01:04:58,895 and to notify the House of Representatives 1036 01:04:59,020 --> 01:05:02,866 that you ran for the vice presidency, not for the presidency. 1037 01:05:02,982 --> 01:05:05,576 And why should they believe me any more than they believe you? 1038 01:05:05,693 --> 01:05:08,196 Your claim to the presidency, Mr Burr, 1039 01:05:08,321 --> 01:05:13,293 is distasteful, dishonest, and personally repugnant to decent men. 1040 01:05:13,410 --> 01:05:15,412 And how do men like yourself feel about it? 1041 01:05:16,287 --> 01:05:17,539 Aaron Burr, 1042 01:05:17,664 --> 01:05:21,669 whatever influence I have, I shall use against you at this time. 1043 01:05:22,794 --> 01:05:27,470 And any time in the future that you are presumptuous enough to run for public office, 1044 01:05:27,590 --> 01:05:29,012 I shall oppose you. 1045 01:05:29,884 --> 01:05:31,602 Have you all heard enough? - Mm-hmm. 1046 01:05:31,719 --> 01:05:36,441 So have I. Jason, show Mr Hamilton to the door and then open the window. 1047 01:05:36,558 --> 01:05:37,901 Won't you all join me? 1048 01:05:44,899 --> 01:05:47,027 You turned him out! 1049 01:05:47,152 --> 01:05:50,201 And you did it beautifully, Mr president, beautifully. 1050 01:05:50,321 --> 01:05:53,245 I don't think he'd never swing the federalist vote for Jefferson. 1051 01:05:53,366 --> 01:05:56,040 I don't know. He may be meddlesome, but he's clever. 1052 01:05:56,161 --> 01:05:57,959 We must find a way to offset him. 1053 01:05:58,621 --> 01:06:00,043 Let me think now. 1054 01:06:00,165 --> 01:06:03,635 Aaron, if I were you, I would go to the city of Washington as soon as possible. 1055 01:06:03,751 --> 01:06:06,300 I'd talk to every congressman down there. 1056 01:06:06,421 --> 01:06:08,890 This thing needs just a little horse-trading, 1057 01:06:09,007 --> 01:06:11,601 and I think you can trade horses better than Hamilton. 1058 01:06:11,718 --> 01:06:14,562 My, oh my, oh my, why didn't I think of that? 1059 01:06:14,679 --> 01:06:17,933 I'll sleep on it and let you know in the morning. 1060 01:06:18,057 --> 01:06:20,776 A trip to Washington this time of year might be very pleasant. 1061 01:06:20,894 --> 01:06:24,068 Hamilton will try to swing New York and may pick up a few votes. 1062 01:06:24,189 --> 01:06:26,817 The Federals will hold the line, they hate Jefferson. 1063 01:06:26,941 --> 01:06:28,284 Everyone hates him. 1064 01:06:28,401 --> 01:06:30,620 They hate Madison, too. 1065 01:06:30,737 --> 01:06:31,863 What about John Marshall? 1066 01:06:31,988 --> 01:06:34,161 Do you mind if we discuss this in the morning instead of tonight? 1067 01:06:34,282 --> 01:06:36,660 Oh, certainly. - Certainly, Mr president. 1068 01:06:36,784 --> 01:06:39,412 Jason will show you to the door. - Yeah, we were just leaving. 1069 01:07:12,737 --> 01:07:15,331 Aaron, I don't know what you'll think of me for coming here like this, 1070 01:07:15,448 --> 01:07:18,372 but I had to see you for a few minutes. - I dreamt of you in every room in this house. 1071 01:07:18,493 --> 01:07:20,587 I know what you think of a woman meddling in politics. 1072 01:07:20,703 --> 01:07:22,876 But I can't let you go on doing what you're doing 1073 01:07:22,997 --> 01:07:24,920 without pleading with you to change your course. 1074 01:07:25,041 --> 01:07:26,918 You look exactly the same. 1075 01:07:28,711 --> 01:07:29,712 What course? 1076 01:07:29,837 --> 01:07:32,511 This pretention to the presidency. 1077 01:07:33,341 --> 01:07:35,014 Pretention? 1078 01:07:36,511 --> 01:07:38,513 Madison send you here? - No, Aaron. 1079 01:07:39,097 --> 01:07:41,191 Don't tell me you're running errands for Mr Jefferson. 1080 01:07:41,307 --> 01:07:43,901 No one knows I'm here. - Why did you come then? 1081 01:07:47,397 --> 01:07:48,990 Aaron, 1082 01:07:49,107 --> 01:07:51,656 once you told me that you loved me. 1083 01:07:52,485 --> 01:07:53,987 Once? 1084 01:07:54,112 --> 01:07:56,956 I thought I told you more often than that. 1085 01:07:57,073 --> 01:07:59,701 I also told you I was gonna become the President of the United States, 1086 01:07:59,826 --> 01:08:03,922 and as I recall, you were very happy to know the man who might gain that high office. 1087 01:08:04,831 --> 01:08:07,926 Now you're here to gain political advantage for your husband. 1088 01:08:08,793 --> 01:08:13,299 I'm here because this is more important than my husband or Mr Jefferson or you or me. 1089 01:08:13,423 --> 01:08:15,846 Speak for your own side, madam. It's very important for me. 1090 01:08:15,967 --> 01:08:19,141 So important, in fact, that I'm going to Washington tomorrow to ensure its success. 1091 01:08:19,971 --> 01:08:23,726 To influence the House vote by trading and truckling with men you despise. 1092 01:08:23,850 --> 01:08:26,603 Aaron, that's sneaking into the presidency by the back door. 1093 01:08:26,728 --> 01:08:29,026 Serve your four years as vice president. 1094 01:08:29,147 --> 01:08:31,320 Mr Jefferson did it. Mr Adams did it. 1095 01:08:31,441 --> 01:08:34,035 You can only add to your political strength by doing the same. 1096 01:08:34,152 --> 01:08:36,701 At this moment, I'm stronger than Mr Jefferson. 1097 01:08:36,821 --> 01:08:38,664 I'm stronger than Madison and Hamilton, too. 1098 01:08:38,781 --> 01:08:42,081 Then why do you cheapen yourself by going to Washington to buy and beg votes? 1099 01:08:42,827 --> 01:08:44,670 Cheapen myself? 1100 01:08:52,754 --> 01:08:54,176 Dolly, 1101 01:08:54,964 --> 01:08:57,968 to prove to you that this is my destiny, I won't go to Washington. 1102 01:08:58,092 --> 01:09:00,436 I won't lift a finger to further my own cause. 1103 01:09:02,305 --> 01:09:03,773 Does that make you happier? 1104 01:09:06,893 --> 01:09:08,361 Thank you, Aaron. 1105 01:09:11,522 --> 01:09:13,320 I know why you're here. 1106 01:09:13,441 --> 01:09:16,069 You won't admit it to yourself right now. 1107 01:09:16,194 --> 01:09:18,697 You keep saying, "That's all over, that's done with." 1108 01:09:19,989 --> 01:09:23,243 But it will never be over between us, Dolly, never done with. 1109 01:09:25,620 --> 01:09:29,170 Aaron, I don't want you to say these things. 1110 01:09:29,290 --> 01:09:31,509 I'll always say them. 1111 01:09:33,544 --> 01:09:35,842 And when my day comes, 1112 01:09:35,963 --> 01:09:38,807 I'll find some way to have you at my side. 1113 01:09:43,221 --> 01:09:44,848 Goodbye, Aaron. 1114 01:09:54,440 --> 01:09:56,033 Aaron Burr did yield, 1115 01:09:56,150 --> 01:09:59,905 and Thomas Jefferson was inaugurated President of the United States. 1116 01:10:00,029 --> 01:10:02,748 He appointed my husband Secretary of State. 1117 01:10:02,865 --> 01:10:05,163 Mr Jefferson asked James and me to go with him 1118 01:10:05,284 --> 01:10:08,163 on his first official inspection of the president's house. 1119 01:10:08,287 --> 01:10:11,086 To my astonishment, he said he had a job for me, too. 1120 01:10:11,207 --> 01:10:13,050 He was a widower and wanted me to become 1121 01:10:13,167 --> 01:10:17,172 the official hostess of Washington City and the president's house. 1122 01:10:17,296 --> 01:10:20,926 I was delighted, of course, but in no way prepared for what I was to find 1123 01:10:21,050 --> 01:10:23,678 when Mrs John Adams opened the front door for us. 1124 01:10:23,803 --> 01:10:27,524 The contractor had promised to finish the president's house many months before, 1125 01:10:27,640 --> 01:10:30,519 but materials were scarce, good workmen hard to find, 1126 01:10:30,643 --> 01:10:32,270 and through somebody's bad judgement, 1127 01:10:32,395 --> 01:10:34,898 the house had been built in the midst of a swamp. 1128 01:10:35,022 --> 01:10:36,740 Mrs Adams led us to the kitchen 1129 01:10:36,858 --> 01:10:40,032 to show us the three feet of water covering the floor. 1130 01:10:40,153 --> 01:10:44,954 The East Room, the great and magnificent ballroom for entertaining European royalty, 1131 01:10:45,074 --> 01:10:46,872 was unfinished, unpainted, 1132 01:10:46,993 --> 01:10:50,748 with an enormous line of wash hanging from one end to the other. 1133 01:10:50,872 --> 01:10:55,469 Standing in the midst of all this confusion, Mr Jefferson gave me my assignment. 1134 01:10:55,585 --> 01:10:59,260 I was to make the president's house warm, beautiful and friendly, 1135 01:10:59,380 --> 01:11:03,180 so that every American would feel it was his unofficial home. 1136 01:11:03,301 --> 01:11:05,850 It was the most difficult assignment I had ever had, 1137 01:11:05,970 --> 01:11:08,644 but Mr Jefferson was not a man you failed. 1138 01:11:08,765 --> 01:11:10,893 It was not too long before the work was done, 1139 01:11:11,017 --> 01:11:13,395 and we were giving lovely parties. 1140 01:11:19,025 --> 01:11:20,368 Oh, Dolly. 1141 01:11:20,485 --> 01:11:22,112 I was just telling Jonathan, 1142 01:11:22,236 --> 01:11:26,161 the four of us ought to try and arrange a little trip Virginia right after the session. 1143 01:11:26,282 --> 01:11:27,875 I'd love it. Wouldn't you, James? 1144 01:11:27,992 --> 01:11:29,665 James can't take any trips to Virginia. 1145 01:11:29,786 --> 01:11:31,754 Jefferson won't let him get out of Washington. 1146 01:11:31,871 --> 01:11:34,044 There's plenty of reason to stay here right now, 1147 01:11:34,165 --> 01:11:36,964 especially for the man Jefferson's picked to succeed him. 1148 01:11:37,084 --> 01:11:38,677 Jonathan, don't say things like that. 1149 01:11:38,795 --> 01:11:41,264 James has no ambition to succeed Mr Jefferson. 1150 01:11:41,380 --> 01:11:42,757 That is the truth. 1151 01:11:42,882 --> 01:11:44,930 Now, don't try to pull the wool over my eyes, James. 1152 01:11:45,051 --> 01:11:47,679 Any man in the United States would like to be president. 1153 01:11:47,804 --> 01:11:49,351 Mr Aaron Burr! 1154 01:11:49,472 --> 01:11:52,521 The Vice president of the United States. 1155 01:12:01,484 --> 01:12:03,953 Excuse me. Excuse me. 1156 01:12:14,288 --> 01:12:15,631 Mr President. 1157 01:12:15,748 --> 01:12:17,250 Mr Burr. - Mr Vice President. 1158 01:12:17,959 --> 01:12:19,836 Mr Secretary. 1159 01:12:30,513 --> 01:12:33,813 Now, if you'll excuse me, Mr President, I'd like to look around a little. 1160 01:12:33,933 --> 01:12:35,651 Certainly, Mr Burr. 1161 01:12:35,768 --> 01:12:38,317 I might even find a friend here. 1162 01:12:42,692 --> 01:12:46,117 Aaron Burr. At last you come to one of my parties. 1163 01:12:46,237 --> 01:12:47,830 Hostess to the president. 1164 01:12:47,947 --> 01:12:50,325 What a magnificent title for you, widow Todd. 1165 01:12:51,534 --> 01:12:55,664 Well, it is a rather difficult task at times, but I manage to... 1166 01:12:55,788 --> 01:12:57,756 But an easy one to get, I'm sure. 1167 01:12:58,749 --> 01:13:01,252 All you had to do is to persuade me to step aside for Jefferson 1168 01:13:01,377 --> 01:13:03,800 and tell him and be rewarded. 1169 01:13:03,921 --> 01:13:06,174 I stepped down and you stepped up. 1170 01:13:07,633 --> 01:13:09,556 Aaron, 1171 01:13:09,677 --> 01:13:12,726 no one, not even my husband, knows I went to New York to see you. 1172 01:13:12,847 --> 01:13:14,269 I'll never tell him, madam. 1173 01:13:14,390 --> 01:13:16,939 I wouldn't want him to know how big a fool I've been. 1174 01:13:18,102 --> 01:13:20,821 Did you come here tonight just to humiliate me, 1175 01:13:20,938 --> 01:13:22,861 to say things you know are not true? 1176 01:13:22,982 --> 01:13:25,781 I came here to tell you that what you and Jefferson and Madison robbed me of, 1177 01:13:25,902 --> 01:13:26,903 I'll get myself. 1178 01:13:27,695 --> 01:13:29,743 You may plan, and Madison may dream, 1179 01:13:29,864 --> 01:13:31,958 it will do you no good. 1180 01:13:32,074 --> 01:13:34,873 Thomas Jefferson will be the last President of the United States. 1181 01:13:36,829 --> 01:13:39,173 That's irresponsible, Aaron. 1182 01:13:39,290 --> 01:13:41,793 You must end this suspicion, this madness. 1183 01:13:41,918 --> 01:13:43,010 This madness? 1184 01:13:43,127 --> 01:13:45,380 You know me better than that, Dolly. 1185 01:13:45,504 --> 01:13:47,848 What I start out to do, I do. 1186 01:13:47,965 --> 01:13:50,889 When it's done, you'll be the first to know. 1187 01:13:52,470 --> 01:13:54,564 Till then, Mrs Madison. 1188 01:14:01,145 --> 01:14:03,443 This is a tragic circumstance, James. 1189 01:14:07,610 --> 01:14:10,329 With your permission, sir. - Certainly. 1190 01:14:13,908 --> 01:14:17,538 Did Burr tell you about his duel with Alexander Hamilton? 1191 01:14:17,662 --> 01:14:19,881 Duel? No, what happened? 1192 01:14:19,997 --> 01:14:22,671 Courier just brought word they fought with pistols. 1193 01:14:22,792 --> 01:14:24,965 Burr killed him. 1194 01:14:25,086 --> 01:14:27,259 Oh, no! - Yes. 1195 01:14:29,590 --> 01:14:31,092 Well, Ned, have you come along for the fun? 1196 01:14:31,217 --> 01:14:33,436 Well, colonel, I always did want to see Mexico. 1197 01:14:33,552 --> 01:14:35,850 You'll see plenty of it if you follow me, soldier. 1198 01:14:36,806 --> 01:14:40,026 They still think we're going to attack Mexico. - That's all they talk about. 1199 01:14:40,142 --> 01:14:42,270 Blennerhassett's learning Spanish, the fool. 1200 01:14:42,395 --> 01:14:44,147 He won't have much opportunity for that in Washington. 1201 01:14:44,271 --> 01:14:46,694 It'll come in handy at the embassy dinner. 1202 01:14:46,816 --> 01:14:48,568 I thought he'd catch on by now. 1203 01:14:48,693 --> 01:14:52,664 You know, Jedson, you and I are the only ones who know 1204 01:14:52,780 --> 01:14:55,078 that we're going to war with the United States. 1205 01:15:13,092 --> 01:15:15,470 Now, our advisors are waiting. 1206 01:15:16,137 --> 01:15:17,389 That's agreed then. 1207 01:15:17,513 --> 01:15:20,608 We move down the river to the great gulf and then west and on to Mexico. 1208 01:15:20,725 --> 01:15:22,944 To Mexico, empire and glory. 1209 01:15:23,060 --> 01:15:26,234 But are you sure the United States army will be at war with Spain before then? 1210 01:15:26,355 --> 01:15:30,110 I'm quite sure. I'm also certain that we shall pick up followers by the tens of thousands. 1211 01:15:43,581 --> 01:15:45,254 It's government troops. They're on their way here. 1212 01:15:45,374 --> 01:15:47,877 Hear that? It's government troops. - Wait till the old man hears this! 1213 01:15:48,002 --> 01:15:49,754 Sounds like bad news. Might be trouble. 1214 01:15:59,680 --> 01:16:01,978 Colonel, government troops are headed this way under a forced march. 1215 01:16:02,099 --> 01:16:03,146 Government troops? 1216 01:16:03,267 --> 01:16:05,520 Who wants the honour of firing the first shot at them? 1217 01:16:05,644 --> 01:16:07,487 But Colonel Burr, he said they're government troops. 1218 01:16:07,605 --> 01:16:11,075 Politicians troops. Politicians who are trying to spoil our plans. 1219 01:16:11,817 --> 01:16:13,569 The hour has come. 1220 01:16:13,694 --> 01:16:15,867 We'll give them more than they bargained for, won't we, men? 1221 01:16:16,989 --> 01:16:18,411 We'll meet them on road tonight. 1222 01:16:18,532 --> 01:16:21,752 One good ambush, and they'll scatter like leaves in the storm. 1223 01:16:21,869 --> 01:16:23,496 Company commander, sound assembly. 1224 01:16:24,288 --> 01:16:25,289 Colonel Burr. 1225 01:16:25,414 --> 01:16:27,166 Yes, captain, didn't you understand my order? 1226 01:16:27,291 --> 01:16:30,010 Yes, colonel. But I joined you for foreign conquest, 1227 01:16:30,127 --> 01:16:32,926 not to fight the United States. Nor did my men. 1228 01:16:33,047 --> 01:16:36,392 And I'll not order them to ambush any soldier under the flag of my own country. 1229 01:16:36,509 --> 01:16:38,978 Captain, we pick no fight with them, they've come here to fight us. 1230 01:16:39,095 --> 01:16:41,723 But colonel, couldn't we parley with them, 1231 01:16:41,847 --> 01:16:44,100 get an explanation or give one? 1232 01:16:44,225 --> 01:16:46,478 The only explanation they understand is hot lead and plenty of it, 1233 01:16:46,602 --> 01:16:48,149 and we're the ones to give it to them, aren't we, men? 1234 01:16:48,270 --> 01:16:49,738 That's treason you're talking. 1235 01:16:50,773 --> 01:16:53,447 Treason, is it? - Yes, sir. Treason and rebellion. 1236 01:16:57,238 --> 01:16:59,491 Soldier, I'll tell you one thing, and the rest of you, listen to me. 1237 01:17:00,199 --> 01:17:02,668 You here with the thousands who have flocked to our banners 1238 01:17:02,785 --> 01:17:04,833 can beat these troops of the government 1239 01:17:04,954 --> 01:17:06,797 if you have the courage to do so. 1240 01:17:08,249 --> 01:17:10,593 Follow where I lead, and in one month, 1241 01:17:10,709 --> 01:17:12,882 you and I, all of us here, 1242 01:17:13,003 --> 01:17:14,971 will be the rulers of the United States. 1243 01:17:16,173 --> 01:17:18,221 If we win this first battle, we can win them all. 1244 01:17:19,718 --> 01:17:21,265 Listen to me. 1245 01:17:21,387 --> 01:17:23,765 Hold these men. They must listen. 1246 01:17:23,889 --> 01:17:25,141 We can win. 1247 01:17:25,891 --> 01:17:27,643 Come back, you must hear me. 1248 01:17:28,435 --> 01:17:31,314 I have a plan. A plan to take all the southern states. 1249 01:17:32,022 --> 01:17:36,118 And I have friends, powerful friends. Friends who are waiting for us to march in. 1250 01:17:36,235 --> 01:17:37,703 Listen to me! 1251 01:17:37,820 --> 01:17:40,243 Come back and listen, you cowards! 1252 01:17:44,618 --> 01:17:46,996 You're throwing away an empire. 1253 01:17:57,214 --> 01:17:58,887 You're a good barber, Jenks. 1254 01:17:59,008 --> 01:18:00,976 Thank you, Mr Burr. Thank you. 1255 01:18:01,093 --> 01:18:03,141 They don't really think I'm going to commit suicide, do they? 1256 01:18:03,262 --> 01:18:04,605 Well, some do, you know? 1257 01:18:04,722 --> 01:18:08,067 A fellow about three years ago did on the day they were going to hang him. 1258 01:18:08,184 --> 01:18:09,902 I done his hair the night before. 1259 01:18:10,019 --> 01:18:13,569 Done it real pretty, too. - They're a long way from hanging me. 1260 01:18:13,689 --> 01:18:15,691 Mr Burr, you're gonna have a new barber from now on. 1261 01:18:15,816 --> 01:18:17,818 Why? Are they gonna hang you? 1262 01:18:17,943 --> 01:18:21,618 No, I'm getting out. Out of jail, and out of Richmond, too. 1263 01:18:21,739 --> 01:18:24,117 Going back up to New Jersey, where I belong. 1264 01:18:25,659 --> 01:18:27,252 Jenks. 1265 01:18:28,621 --> 01:18:31,500 Do you go through Washington on your way home? 1266 01:18:31,624 --> 01:18:34,844 I suppose so. It's just as close that way as any other. 1267 01:18:34,960 --> 01:18:37,884 I have a letter I want you to deliver for me. 1268 01:18:38,005 --> 01:18:40,599 I'll give you $100 in gold. 1269 01:18:40,716 --> 01:18:43,139 $100? 1270 01:18:43,260 --> 01:18:45,479 And enough for your stage fare besides. 1271 01:18:46,347 --> 01:18:48,770 Mr Burr, I'm your man. - Good. 1272 01:18:48,891 --> 01:18:52,395 Deliver it to no one but the lady herself. - Yes, sir. 1273 01:19:03,989 --> 01:19:06,788 I told the gentleman you got scores of letters every day, 1274 01:19:06,909 --> 01:19:09,207 and they was delivered right in my hands. 1275 01:19:09,328 --> 01:19:11,626 But he said this is something different. 1276 01:19:19,380 --> 01:19:23,101 I'm Mrs Madison. - A gentleman in jail gave me a letter for you. 1277 01:19:23,217 --> 01:19:26,562 He asked me to give it to you personally, right in your own hand. 1278 01:19:26,679 --> 01:19:28,147 Thank you very much. 1279 01:19:28,264 --> 01:19:30,562 It's been a pleasure, ma'am, a real pleasure. 1280 01:20:02,047 --> 01:20:03,674 Oh, Doll. 1281 01:20:03,799 --> 01:20:06,598 I have a meeting with Tom. I won't be late. 1282 01:20:06,719 --> 01:20:07,936 James. 1283 01:20:08,929 --> 01:20:10,806 May I have a word with you? 1284 01:20:10,931 --> 01:20:12,478 Of course, darling. 1285 01:20:13,183 --> 01:20:15,402 That man just brought me this note. 1286 01:20:15,519 --> 01:20:17,066 From Aaron Burr. 1287 01:20:18,022 --> 01:20:19,490 Want me to read it? 1288 01:20:19,606 --> 01:20:21,404 I wish you would. 1289 01:20:25,154 --> 01:20:28,203 "Dear Dolly, I need a friend in this hour." 1290 01:20:28,907 --> 01:20:31,160 "You're the only one I can turn to." 1291 01:20:31,285 --> 01:20:34,459 "Will you... will you come to Richmond" 1292 01:20:36,290 --> 01:20:40,045 "if I ask you in the name of what we once meant to each other?" 1293 01:20:41,337 --> 01:20:43,465 "Hopefully, Aaron Burr." 1294 01:20:44,340 --> 01:20:45,592 Yes. 1295 01:20:46,592 --> 01:20:48,310 Do you think I should go? 1296 01:20:49,595 --> 01:20:51,063 I don't know, Doll. 1297 01:20:52,514 --> 01:20:56,189 Would it hurt you, politically I mean, if I did? 1298 01:20:56,310 --> 01:20:58,904 That wouldn't stop me if I wanted to do something. 1299 01:20:59,021 --> 01:21:01,649 I don't see why it should stop you. 1300 01:21:01,774 --> 01:21:03,196 People may talk. 1301 01:21:04,026 --> 01:21:06,404 That wouldn't bother either of us, would it? 1302 01:21:06,528 --> 01:21:09,031 It never has, James. - No. 1303 01:21:09,156 --> 01:21:11,033 I don't know what to do. 1304 01:21:11,950 --> 01:21:14,078 His letter is so full of humility. 1305 01:21:14,995 --> 01:21:16,838 It's so unlike him. 1306 01:21:17,790 --> 01:21:19,838 This is a bitter hour for him, James. 1307 01:21:19,958 --> 01:21:21,551 I don't doubt it. 1308 01:21:21,668 --> 01:21:25,263 If they find him guilty of treason, the penalty is death. 1309 01:21:28,175 --> 01:21:30,894 He could've been a great man. 1310 01:21:31,011 --> 01:21:33,184 He had such a brilliant mind. 1311 01:21:33,305 --> 01:21:35,558 I wonder what led him to this folly. 1312 01:21:35,682 --> 01:21:37,104 Please tell me what to do. 1313 01:21:37,226 --> 01:21:40,105 I wish I could, but I... I can't, Doll. 1314 01:21:41,647 --> 01:21:45,527 This is one of those times when no one can tell you what to do but yourself. 1315 01:21:47,653 --> 01:21:49,906 You'll find the answer. 1316 01:21:50,030 --> 01:21:53,375 Your decision be my decision, no matter what happens. 1317 01:21:57,663 --> 01:21:59,290 Forgive me. 1318 01:22:00,457 --> 01:22:02,380 I'll go on to the meeting. 1319 01:22:14,763 --> 01:22:18,893 Miss Dolly, you still in here, sitting in the dark? 1320 01:22:19,017 --> 01:22:21,315 I was just gonna put this night light here. 1321 01:22:21,437 --> 01:22:23,485 I didn't realise it was so late, Amy. 1322 01:22:23,605 --> 01:22:26,358 Is there something I can do for you before you go to sleep? 1323 01:22:27,568 --> 01:22:31,948 Yes, pack a box for me to take in the carriage. 1324 01:22:32,072 --> 01:22:34,291 We're leaving for Richmond tonight. 1325 01:22:44,126 --> 01:22:47,130 I don't hold with us traipsing down here all alone. 1326 01:22:47,254 --> 01:22:49,882 You going to the jailhouse to see Mr Burr. 1327 01:22:50,924 --> 01:22:54,645 Never thought I'd live to see my Miss Dolly doing a thing like this. 1328 01:22:54,761 --> 01:22:56,855 Mr Burr once did a great favour for me. 1329 01:22:56,972 --> 01:22:58,599 Now it's my turn to repay him. 1330 01:22:58,724 --> 01:23:01,443 Anytime he crooked his little finger, you'd go along. 1331 01:23:01,560 --> 01:23:03,813 You was that way the day you met him. 1332 01:23:03,937 --> 01:23:07,908 Is it so strange that I should pity a man who's facing death? 1333 01:23:09,693 --> 01:23:13,664 I have to do it. If I didn't, I'd regret it all the days in my life. 1334 01:23:13,780 --> 01:23:16,750 Well, I just hope it turns out all right. 1335 01:23:18,327 --> 01:23:20,625 You pray for me, Amy, and it will. 1336 01:23:21,663 --> 01:23:23,586 It's taking 'em a long time to reach a verdict. 1337 01:23:23,707 --> 01:23:26,210 Well, Burr's lawyers managed to throw dust in the judges eyes. 1338 01:23:26,335 --> 01:23:28,337 Mr Williams, you're a lawyer. 1339 01:23:28,462 --> 01:23:32,558 What did they mean when they said the traitor had committed no overt act? 1340 01:23:32,674 --> 01:23:35,427 Well, that's his defence. Under the law, that's pretty strong. 1341 01:23:35,552 --> 01:23:37,020 Didn't seem very strong to me. 1342 01:23:37,137 --> 01:23:40,061 His counsel claims that Burr committed no act of treason 1343 01:23:40,182 --> 01:23:43,402 and that his troops didn't fire on government troops at any time 1344 01:23:43,519 --> 01:23:46,898 and that his campaign was against Mexico and not against the government. 1345 01:23:47,022 --> 01:23:49,400 Well, everyone knows he planned to overthrow the government. 1346 01:23:49,525 --> 01:23:52,074 But what you know and what you can prove in a court of law... 1347 01:23:52,194 --> 01:23:53,571 ls the trial over, sir? - Huh? 1348 01:23:53,695 --> 01:23:55,789 Is the trial over? - Oh, yes, the trial is over, 1349 01:23:55,906 --> 01:23:57,658 but we're still waiting for the verdict of the court. 1350 01:23:57,783 --> 01:23:59,410 Where would I find the jailor's office, please, sir? 1351 01:23:59,535 --> 01:24:01,879 Right around the corner of the building. - Thank you, sir. 1352 01:24:16,426 --> 01:24:18,849 Now, Miss Dolly, please be careful. 1353 01:24:18,971 --> 01:24:20,723 Yes, Amy, I will. 1354 01:24:24,268 --> 01:24:26,896 I saw him when he was a senator. I heard him make a speech. 1355 01:24:27,020 --> 01:24:30,570 I don't care if you saw him every day in your life. I say he's guilty. 1356 01:24:30,691 --> 01:24:33,194 He's innocent. - I'll bet you another dollar. 1357 01:24:33,318 --> 01:24:35,366 The verdict is to hang him. 1358 01:24:35,487 --> 01:24:36,488 It's a bet. 1359 01:24:36,613 --> 01:24:39,537 That's the easiest $3 I ever made. 1360 01:24:39,658 --> 01:24:42,411 Yes, ma'am? Something I can do for you? 1361 01:24:42,536 --> 01:24:46,382 I'd like permission to see Mr Aaron Burr. - Well, a lot of people would. 1362 01:24:46,498 --> 01:24:49,547 What's your name? - Mrs James Madison. 1363 01:24:49,668 --> 01:24:52,922 Uh, Mrs Madison, unless I can get a pass from the court, I... 1364 01:24:54,381 --> 01:24:56,509 Mrs James Madison? - Yes. 1365 01:24:56,633 --> 01:24:57,805 Mrs James Madison, 1366 01:24:57,926 --> 01:24:59,928 wife of the Secretary of State? - Yes. 1367 01:25:00,053 --> 01:25:03,023 Well, in that case, I think it'll be all right. 1368 01:25:03,140 --> 01:25:05,063 Come right this way. 1369 01:25:33,712 --> 01:25:35,009 Aaron. 1370 01:25:35,130 --> 01:25:38,304 Dolly, you're here. I knew you'd come. - Oh, I wish there was something I could do. 1371 01:25:38,425 --> 01:25:40,018 You're here, that's all that matters. 1372 01:25:40,135 --> 01:25:42,012 I've thought of every moment we spent together, 1373 01:25:42,137 --> 01:25:44,481 the rides we used to take, the times we danced, 1374 01:25:44,598 --> 01:25:47,101 and those wretched little inns you went to. - I've thought of those times, too. 1375 01:25:47,225 --> 01:25:49,353 And that time you came to my house in New York. 1376 01:25:49,478 --> 01:25:52,231 I should never have let you leave. 1377 01:25:52,356 --> 01:25:54,609 You did a fine thing for your country that day, Aaron. 1378 01:25:54,733 --> 01:25:58,237 I did that for you, Dolly. It's the only thing you ever asked of me, and I couldn't refuse. 1379 01:25:58,362 --> 01:26:00,785 Now you're here because you can't deny me anything. 1380 01:26:00,906 --> 01:26:03,204 Please understand, I came here to give you my sympathy. 1381 01:26:03,325 --> 01:26:04,793 Sympathy? 1382 01:26:04,910 --> 01:26:07,379 That's very touching, dear Dolly, but I don't need your sympathy, 1383 01:26:07,496 --> 01:26:09,169 yours or anybody else's. 1384 01:26:10,123 --> 01:26:13,047 The penalty for treason is... - ...death! 1385 01:26:13,168 --> 01:26:16,889 I met that bony old beggar once before, and now he's missed me once again. 1386 01:26:17,005 --> 01:26:19,554 The verdict of the court. "Not guilty." 1387 01:26:20,509 --> 01:26:22,682 I bribed the bailiff to listen to the vote. 1388 01:26:24,763 --> 01:26:26,982 Well, aren't you going to tell me you're happy? 1389 01:26:27,099 --> 01:26:29,147 lam. 1390 01:26:29,267 --> 01:26:32,942 I hope all of this has made you think, Aaron. - It has. 1391 01:26:33,063 --> 01:26:35,782 I'll never make the same mistakes again. 1392 01:26:35,899 --> 01:26:37,492 Then I am glad. 1393 01:26:37,609 --> 01:26:39,987 That's why I sent for you. Because we love each other. 1394 01:26:40,654 --> 01:26:43,533 And I wanted you here to see me triumphant. 1395 01:26:43,657 --> 01:26:47,787 Do you realise that this verdict of "not guilty" may not be popular with the people? 1396 01:26:47,911 --> 01:26:50,414 Popular? I should hope not. 1397 01:26:50,539 --> 01:26:52,587 I want them to hate me. 1398 01:26:52,708 --> 01:26:55,882 I want them to hate the laws that let me loose, the court that set me free. 1399 01:26:56,002 --> 01:26:59,222 I want to sow hate and reap a harvest of power. 1400 01:26:59,339 --> 01:27:01,683 But you just said that all of this had made you think. 1401 01:27:01,800 --> 01:27:02,642 It has. 1402 01:27:02,759 --> 01:27:05,137 It made me think of the power, fear and hate. 1403 01:27:05,262 --> 01:27:07,560 Don't you realise, Dolly, what this verdict will mean? 1404 01:27:07,681 --> 01:27:09,854 When they hear the news, when they hear I am free, 1405 01:27:09,975 --> 01:27:13,354 I'll walk out of this jail bigger than the whole government. Then you'll see their fear. 1406 01:27:13,478 --> 01:27:16,823 Oh, they'll try to attack me. They'll forget their famous laws and turn into a mob 1407 01:27:16,940 --> 01:27:19,784 and be shot down by their own soldiers. And then... 1408 01:27:19,901 --> 01:27:22,780 Then the weak, the greedy, the suspicious, 1409 01:27:22,904 --> 01:27:26,158 the evil men from all over the country will flock to my banner. 1410 01:27:27,200 --> 01:27:30,329 This time, I'll offer you the crown. 1411 01:27:30,996 --> 01:27:32,873 Mr Burr, better get your coat on. 1412 01:27:32,998 --> 01:27:35,296 The court's reconvening, and they're about ready to read the verdict. 1413 01:27:35,417 --> 01:27:37,715 If you please, Mrs Madison. 1414 01:27:44,217 --> 01:27:46,891 And this time, Mrs Madison, I won't fail. 1415 01:27:55,687 --> 01:27:57,530 He very nearly was president. 1416 01:27:57,647 --> 01:28:00,571 He's a brand new man, but you can't skin a fox before he's caught. 1417 01:28:00,692 --> 01:28:02,694 They'll skin him all right at the end of a rope! 1418 01:28:02,819 --> 01:28:05,663 Why are they wasting time? They should a shot him the day they caught him. 1419 01:28:05,781 --> 01:28:07,249 This is one hanging I'm not going to miss! 1420 01:28:07,365 --> 01:28:10,494 Arthur, I want you to wait here, please. - You don't want to stay around here. 1421 01:28:10,619 --> 01:28:12,621 I've got to hear what happens. 1422 01:28:17,667 --> 01:28:19,214 Court's dismissed. Ring the bell. 1423 01:28:19,336 --> 01:28:21,430 What's the verdict? - Not guilty. 1424 01:28:21,546 --> 01:28:23,969 Not guilty? Did you hear that? 1425 01:28:25,801 --> 01:28:29,055 Stop that bell! Stop that bell! Stop it! 1426 01:28:29,179 --> 01:28:31,147 Listen to me, everybody. 1427 01:28:31,264 --> 01:28:33,767 In there, they just pronounced Aaron Burr innocent. 1428 01:28:33,892 --> 01:28:35,860 I say he's guilty! - Yeah! 1429 01:28:36,770 --> 01:28:39,819 And I say Aaron Burr is a traitor! - Yeah! 1430 01:28:39,940 --> 01:28:42,534 The law states plain what happens to traitors. 1431 01:28:42,651 --> 01:28:45,279 Those judges know he's guilty. 1432 01:28:45,403 --> 01:28:48,498 Honest men stood up before them and told the truth about him. 1433 01:28:48,615 --> 01:28:52,415 I say, where's justice when such a man can get off scot-free? 1434 01:28:53,245 --> 01:28:57,751 If those judges are too lily-livered to hang a traitor, we can do it ourselves. 1435 01:28:57,874 --> 01:28:59,717 Yeah! 1436 01:28:59,835 --> 01:29:03,510 We can show 'em that a good hemp rope in a high oak tree 1437 01:29:03,630 --> 01:29:06,008 is better than all them law books. 1438 01:29:06,132 --> 01:29:07,850 Yeah! 1439 01:29:07,968 --> 01:29:12,439 We'll show 'em here today what a free man thinks of traitors. 1440 01:29:12,556 --> 01:29:16,060 Clem, go get that rope out of my wagon. - Yes! 1441 01:29:16,184 --> 01:29:19,734 And if he won't come out, we'll go in and drag him out. 1442 01:29:19,855 --> 01:29:21,448 Yeah! 1443 01:29:21,565 --> 01:29:23,488 Stop it! Stop it! 1444 01:29:23,608 --> 01:29:26,361 What is that, ma'am? - You must not do this, you must not. 1445 01:29:26,486 --> 01:29:28,238 Maam, don't you believe in justice? 1446 01:29:28,363 --> 01:29:30,912 Justice? Justice was never done by a mob. 1447 01:29:31,032 --> 01:29:33,911 Was that justice what those judges did in that court today? 1448 01:29:34,035 --> 01:29:36,288 Ma'am, you got a queer sense of justice. 1449 01:29:38,373 --> 01:29:41,217 She can tell about the traitor. Can't you, ma'am? 1450 01:29:41,334 --> 01:29:44,508 Tell him who you are, ma'am. Go ahead. 1451 01:29:44,629 --> 01:29:46,552 I'll tell him then. 1452 01:29:48,008 --> 01:29:50,932 This lady is Dolly Madison. - What? 1453 01:29:51,052 --> 01:29:54,022 The wife of the bigwig in Washington, James Madison. 1454 01:29:54,139 --> 01:29:57,393 And I charge her with bringing orders from the politicians in Washington, 1455 01:29:57,517 --> 01:30:00,646 orders for the judges to set Aaron Burr free. 1456 01:30:00,770 --> 01:30:02,238 That is not true. 1457 01:30:02,355 --> 01:30:04,778 Well, you might have saved his life in there, ma'am, 1458 01:30:04,900 --> 01:30:08,029 but you ain't gonna do it out here. - No! 1459 01:30:08,153 --> 01:30:09,996 I did not save his life. 1460 01:30:10,113 --> 01:30:12,957 I came to see Aaron Burr, but I brought no messages from Washington, 1461 01:30:13,074 --> 01:30:14,451 and I have not seen the judges. 1462 01:30:14,576 --> 01:30:17,204 So you've just come to see Aaron Burr? 1463 01:30:17,329 --> 01:30:20,208 All the way from Washington! 1464 01:30:20,916 --> 01:30:25,012 I came to give what comfort I could to a man I thought would be condemned to death. 1465 01:30:25,128 --> 01:30:28,223 Well, you haven't come in vain, Mrs Madison. 1466 01:30:28,340 --> 01:30:31,765 Here's the kind of justice a free man has for a traitor. 1467 01:30:31,885 --> 01:30:35,856 We'll show those judges what we think of their laws and courts. 1468 01:30:40,769 --> 01:30:41,816 Stop it! Stop it! 1469 01:30:41,937 --> 01:30:44,156 Please listen to me. - Go back to your husband! 1470 01:30:44,272 --> 01:30:46,240 If you follow that man and hang Aaron Burr, 1471 01:30:46,358 --> 01:30:47,951 you will put an end to freedom here today. 1472 01:30:48,068 --> 01:30:51,789 That's where you're wrong, ma'am. We're gonna put an end to Aaron Burr. 1473 01:30:51,905 --> 01:30:53,327 Yeah! 1474 01:30:53,448 --> 01:30:56,042 If you hang Aaron Burr in defiance of your laws, 1475 01:30:56,159 --> 01:30:58,787 you will right here prove those laws worthless, meaningless, 1476 01:30:58,912 --> 01:31:01,335 and you fought for blessed freedom to make those laws. 1477 01:31:01,456 --> 01:31:03,379 We made 'em, and we can break 'em. 1478 01:31:04,876 --> 01:31:06,219 You must not break them! 1479 01:31:06,336 --> 01:31:09,089 When you made those laws, you agreed to live by them and obey them. 1480 01:31:09,214 --> 01:31:11,342 If they're not strong enough to protect you, 1481 01:31:11,466 --> 01:31:13,639 strengthen them in orderly processes, 1482 01:31:13,760 --> 01:31:16,354 but never take them into your own hands in mobs like this. 1483 01:31:16,471 --> 01:31:17,973 This is not freedom. 1484 01:31:18,098 --> 01:31:20,192 But we're free men! We do as we like. 1485 01:31:20,308 --> 01:31:22,902 Freedom is something you live under law. 1486 01:31:23,019 --> 01:31:26,694 Your law says a man may be tried and judged by other men like himself, 1487 01:31:26,815 --> 01:31:28,783 according to the laws they've made together. 1488 01:31:28,900 --> 01:31:31,403 And if that man is found innocent by the law, 1489 01:31:31,528 --> 01:31:33,951 he shall be held innocent by the people. 1490 01:31:34,072 --> 01:31:36,074 What about Burr? ls he innocent? - Yeah! 1491 01:31:37,325 --> 01:31:39,703 Aaron Burr has already been tried, sir. 1492 01:31:39,828 --> 01:31:42,456 This is your trial, your testing time, 1493 01:31:42,580 --> 01:31:44,753 and the whole world is watching you here today. 1494 01:31:44,874 --> 01:31:46,626 Are you going to tell the watching world 1495 01:31:46,751 --> 01:31:49,425 by an act of violence and disobedience to your laws 1496 01:31:49,546 --> 01:31:52,299 that you're a people to weak to rule yourselves under law, 1497 01:31:52,424 --> 01:31:55,177 that you need the despotic hand of a tyrant, an emperor, 1498 01:31:55,301 --> 01:31:56,974 to rule you by force and fear? 1499 01:31:57,095 --> 01:31:59,018 Had Aaron Burr succeeded in his plan, 1500 01:31:59,139 --> 01:32:01,688 he would have abolished your laws, your courts, and your rights, 1501 01:32:01,808 --> 01:32:03,151 and you want to hang him for that, 1502 01:32:03,268 --> 01:32:05,691 yet here you are abolishing them all yourselves. 1503 01:32:05,812 --> 01:32:08,736 Oh, my countrymen, Aaron Burr is but the first to challenge your freedom, 1504 01:32:08,857 --> 01:32:10,279 he will not be the last. 1505 01:32:10,400 --> 01:32:13,700 Then we'll hang Aaron Burr and discourage all the rest! 1506 01:32:13,820 --> 01:32:16,164 That will not discourage them. 1507 01:32:16,281 --> 01:32:19,285 You and I must live the example of a free people. 1508 01:32:19,409 --> 01:32:21,707 We must prove to any man or set of men 1509 01:32:21,828 --> 01:32:24,547 who believe themselves cunning enough to destroy our freedom 1510 01:32:24,664 --> 01:32:27,167 that with clean hands and united hearts 1511 01:32:27,292 --> 01:32:31,388 we are able to deal with traitors as a people under law and with order. 1512 01:32:32,338 --> 01:32:34,340 Here he comes now, surrounded by your soldiers. 1513 01:32:34,466 --> 01:32:36,594 And remember, he's a free man under your laws, 1514 01:32:36,718 --> 01:32:39,141 and those are your soldiers under oath to protect your laws, 1515 01:32:39,262 --> 01:32:43,267 and if you try to take Aaron Burr from them, your soldiers will be forced to fire on you. 1516 01:32:43,391 --> 01:32:46,486 Mr Burr wants you to do just that. 1517 01:32:46,603 --> 01:32:48,822 He wants you to spill your blood here. 1518 01:32:48,938 --> 01:32:50,485 He wants you to hate him. 1519 01:32:50,607 --> 01:32:54,487 He needs your hate, he needs your fear, your fear and your hate will make him strong, 1520 01:32:54,611 --> 01:32:58,866 so that other traitors like himself will join him and again attack your freedom. 1521 01:32:58,990 --> 01:33:01,118 That is his plan, he told me that tonight. 1522 01:33:01,743 --> 01:33:03,211 Have him deny that if he can. 1523 01:33:03,328 --> 01:33:04,955 Come on! 1524 01:33:07,165 --> 01:33:09,839 If you truly want to destroy Aaron Burr, 1525 01:33:09,959 --> 01:33:12,257 don't try to hang him, don't make a martyr of him, 1526 01:33:12,378 --> 01:33:15,222 turn away from him! Let him pass among you in peace! 1527 01:33:15,340 --> 01:33:18,640 Turn your backs on him and let him pass, 1528 01:33:18,760 --> 01:33:22,014 on into the oblivion he has chosen for himself. 1529 01:34:19,237 --> 01:34:21,080 Mr Madison, 1530 01:34:21,197 --> 01:34:23,199 I love you very much.