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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:01:41,831 --> 00:01:43,959 When a woman has lived in exciting times 2 00:01:44,083 --> 00:01:46,131 and has taken part in great events, 3 00:01:46,252 --> 00:01:50,632 it would seem as though those occasions would be what she remembers most vividly, 4 00:01:50,757 --> 00:01:53,306 but I don't find that true at all. 5 00:01:53,426 --> 00:01:57,226 I of course remember every detail of our first inaugural ball, 6 00:01:57,347 --> 00:02:00,942 how I had worked to make it the brilliant affair that it was. 7 00:02:01,059 --> 00:02:03,312 There were guests there from all over the world, 8 00:02:03,895 --> 00:02:07,320 dignitaries, diplomats and statesmen. 9 00:02:07,440 --> 00:02:10,489 I remember, too, how nervous I was. 10 00:02:11,444 --> 00:02:14,368 Yet there were other times, neither happy nor gay, 11 00:02:14,489 --> 00:02:16,912 when the future of our country was at stake. 12 00:02:17,033 --> 00:02:20,663 We were at war. The city of Washington was under siege. 13 00:02:20,787 --> 00:02:23,836 On the not too distant horizon we could see cannon fire, 14 00:02:23,957 --> 00:02:25,675 and we knew that before very long, 15 00:02:25,792 --> 00:02:28,420 the capital would be in the hands of the enemy. 16 00:02:28,545 --> 00:02:30,263 The President was with his troops, 17 00:02:30,380 --> 00:02:32,758 and we were the last group left in the White House, 18 00:02:32,882 --> 00:02:36,136 gathering up the more important documents of state. 19 00:02:36,261 --> 00:02:38,935 We remember the Declaration of Independence. 20 00:02:39,055 --> 00:02:43,777 It would've been bitter medicine to have lost our declaration as well as our independence. 21 00:02:43,893 --> 00:02:46,487 I was about ready to leave, when I looked up 22 00:02:46,604 --> 00:02:49,949 and saw the portrait of our late president George Washington. 23 00:02:50,066 --> 00:02:52,910 We sorely needed his military leadership at this time, 24 00:02:53,027 --> 00:02:57,533 when we were in such great danger of losing everything for which he had fought. 25 00:02:57,657 --> 00:03:01,127 I couldn't let the general fall into the enemy's hands at this late date, 26 00:03:01,244 --> 00:03:04,794 so I cut him out of his frame, carefully, 27 00:03:04,914 --> 00:03:07,793 for I had faith that in a matter of days or weeks 28 00:03:07,917 --> 00:03:10,340 I would be climbing up this same ladder, 29 00:03:10,461 --> 00:03:13,635 putting the general back into his place of honour, 30 00:03:13,756 --> 00:03:15,349 for this I knew: 31 00:03:15,466 --> 00:03:19,812 Once you've tasted freedom, you cannot live without it. 32 00:03:19,929 --> 00:03:21,897 Those were exciting times, 33 00:03:22,015 --> 00:03:26,862 but the memories I cherish most are the memories that are deep in my heart. 34 00:03:26,978 --> 00:03:30,357 They begin at our family home in Virginia 35 00:03:30,481 --> 00:03:33,280 on the night my father returned from the Revolutionary War. 36 00:03:34,068 --> 00:03:36,696 My father had always liked the life on the plantation, 37 00:03:36,821 --> 00:03:39,119 he liked the gaiety, the parties, the hunt. 38 00:03:39,240 --> 00:03:41,743 He liked our life as it was then. 39 00:03:41,868 --> 00:03:43,916 He had ordered us when he left for the war 40 00:03:44,037 --> 00:03:46,836 to give the biggest party that had ever been given in our house. 41 00:03:47,415 --> 00:03:51,545 He said he wanted every room lighted, so he could see it from miles away. 42 00:03:51,669 --> 00:03:54,047 And this was the night he was coming home. 43 00:03:54,172 --> 00:03:56,766 And we'd invited the whole countryside to welcome him. 44 00:03:57,675 --> 00:04:00,144 These were kind of occasions my father loved, 45 00:04:00,261 --> 00:04:04,482 gay times, good times, the life of the planter in Virginia. 46 00:04:04,599 --> 00:04:07,022 We could hardly wait to see how happy he'd be 47 00:04:07,143 --> 00:04:10,613 to find himself in the midst of all of his old friends. 48 00:04:21,532 --> 00:04:23,751 John, what's the matter? 49 00:04:25,453 --> 00:04:27,205 Nothing, Wife. 50 00:04:29,207 --> 00:04:31,551 I want to thank you all for coming. 51 00:04:32,627 --> 00:04:35,927 And now I have things to say to my family, 52 00:04:36,047 --> 00:04:38,596 if you'll excuse us, please. 53 00:04:38,716 --> 00:04:40,138 Why, John! 54 00:04:41,719 --> 00:04:43,141 Come! 55 00:04:54,357 --> 00:04:56,485 John, are you ill? 56 00:04:56,609 --> 00:04:58,703 No, my dear, I'm not ill. 57 00:04:59,445 --> 00:05:01,322 But father, remember, you... 58 00:05:01,447 --> 00:05:04,496 you wanted us to give you a party when you returned and... 59 00:05:04,617 --> 00:05:07,245 and you weren't very nice to our friends. 60 00:05:07,370 --> 00:05:10,590 Our true friends are not here, daughter. 61 00:05:10,707 --> 00:05:13,460 It was going to be such a lovely party. 62 00:05:13,584 --> 00:05:15,211 And what will they think of us? 63 00:05:15,336 --> 00:05:17,964 Wouldst thou be concerned with what others think of thee 64 00:05:18,089 --> 00:05:20,763 more than what thou thinkest of thyself? 65 00:05:22,343 --> 00:05:25,938 Do you find my speech strange to your ears, daughter? 66 00:05:26,931 --> 00:05:28,649 Yes, father. 67 00:05:30,810 --> 00:05:32,107 John, what happened to you? 68 00:05:33,271 --> 00:05:35,615 Many things, wife. 69 00:05:35,732 --> 00:05:38,952 Hast thou heard of a battle called the Battle of Kings Mountain? 70 00:05:39,068 --> 00:05:41,116 Yes, we have had news of it. 71 00:05:41,237 --> 00:05:43,456 It was in that battle I was wounded. 72 00:05:43,573 --> 00:05:47,328 Wounded? Oh, my dear husband, why didn't you let us know? 73 00:05:47,452 --> 00:05:50,331 I lay there in the fog, waiting for the end, 74 00:05:50,455 --> 00:05:52,833 for death. - Poor John. 75 00:05:52,957 --> 00:05:54,425 There. 76 00:05:54,542 --> 00:05:58,388 In the first light of dawn, I saw a figure coming through the fog. 77 00:05:58,504 --> 00:06:00,256 And he came to me. 78 00:06:00,381 --> 00:06:04,306 A man I had not seen in 25 years, an old friend, 79 00:06:04,427 --> 00:06:07,021 one I had often gone to meetings with when I was a boy 80 00:06:07,138 --> 00:06:08,811 and lived in the Quaker faith. 81 00:06:09,932 --> 00:06:13,106 Have I not told you of my friend John Todd? 82 00:06:13,227 --> 00:06:14,854 Yes, John, you have. 83 00:06:15,772 --> 00:06:18,241 He picked me up in his arms. 84 00:06:18,357 --> 00:06:19,779 He said, 85 00:06:20,443 --> 00:06:22,696 "Friend Payne... 86 00:06:22,820 --> 00:06:27,041 "Friend Payne, that we have met this way is an act of providence." 87 00:06:27,617 --> 00:06:31,042 As he bent over to bind my wounds, 88 00:06:31,162 --> 00:06:35,042 the enemy opened fire again, and he was struck down. 89 00:06:35,166 --> 00:06:38,761 Had he not been shielding me with his body, I... 90 00:06:38,878 --> 00:06:41,472 I would have taken that bullet. 91 00:06:42,381 --> 00:06:45,305 He died for me, Dolly. 92 00:06:45,426 --> 00:06:48,771 But he lived long enough to make a pact with me. 93 00:06:48,888 --> 00:06:52,893 I pledged myself that I would return to the Quaker church. 94 00:06:53,017 --> 00:06:56,191 I said I would free my slaves, 95 00:06:56,312 --> 00:06:58,406 I would sell our land here 96 00:06:59,315 --> 00:07:00,817 and go to Philadelphia. 97 00:07:01,359 --> 00:07:03,987 I told him my pledge just before he died, 98 00:07:04,112 --> 00:07:06,991 that our families would be joined, 99 00:07:07,115 --> 00:07:13,248 that our daughter would marry his son, John. 100 00:07:16,124 --> 00:07:17,671 You... 101 00:07:17,792 --> 00:07:19,965 You promised him, father, that... 102 00:07:20,086 --> 00:07:22,430 that I would be married to his son? 103 00:07:22,547 --> 00:07:25,300 This was my promise to him. 104 00:07:25,883 --> 00:07:27,977 But father... 105 00:07:28,094 --> 00:07:32,520 I can't marry a man I... I have never even seen. 106 00:07:33,891 --> 00:07:37,361 I can't marry a man I don't even know, I don't even love. 107 00:07:38,855 --> 00:07:40,698 No, father, you don't mean that. 108 00:07:41,274 --> 00:07:42,867 You... 109 00:07:46,571 --> 00:07:51,327 All my protests and tears did not change my father's mind. 110 00:07:51,450 --> 00:07:55,705 We moved to Philadelphia and lived in a house on this square. 111 00:07:55,830 --> 00:07:58,379 I was forced by father's given word 112 00:07:58,499 --> 00:08:02,504 to stand up in the meeting house and marry John Todd. 113 00:08:04,130 --> 00:08:08,010 In the presence of this assembly, I take thee, Dorothea Payne, to be my wife, 114 00:08:08,718 --> 00:08:11,312 promising, with divine assistance, 115 00:08:11,429 --> 00:08:14,182 to be unto thee a loving and faithful husband 116 00:08:14,307 --> 00:08:16,184 until death shall separate us. 117 00:08:18,895 --> 00:08:23,275 In the presence of this assembly, I take thee, John Todd, to be my husband, 118 00:08:23,399 --> 00:08:25,743 promising, through divine assistance, 119 00:08:25,860 --> 00:08:29,785 to be unto thee a loving and faithful wife until death shall separate us. 120 00:08:35,494 --> 00:08:38,964 The bride groom and the bride will now sign the marriage certificate. 121 00:08:39,081 --> 00:08:41,834 Friend Todd first. 122 00:08:57,642 --> 00:08:59,619 Each friend of the society will now come 123 00:08:59,644 --> 00:09:01,716 forward and sign the marriage certificate. 124 00:09:01,812 --> 00:09:03,530 Mrs Todd... 125 00:09:04,649 --> 00:09:06,902 Won't you say it now? 126 00:09:07,026 --> 00:09:09,199 Say what? - That you love me. 127 00:09:10,071 --> 00:09:12,290 I'll never say it, sir. 128 00:09:21,207 --> 00:09:24,086 Dolly. - Yes, Mr Todd? 129 00:09:24,210 --> 00:09:27,635 I've planned out a house. We'll start building it in spring. 130 00:09:27,755 --> 00:09:29,132 Tell me how you like it. 131 00:09:30,174 --> 00:09:31,391 It's very nice. 132 00:09:31,509 --> 00:09:33,432 I wish you'd come out and take a look at the grounds. 133 00:09:33,552 --> 00:09:36,271 It's a beautiful place, lots of elm trees. 134 00:09:36,389 --> 00:09:38,812 You've seen it, Mr Todd, that's enough. 135 00:09:38,933 --> 00:09:42,233 Well, Mrs Todd, that isn't enough, I want you to like it. 136 00:09:42,353 --> 00:09:44,822 You see, this part will be built all of stone. 137 00:09:44,939 --> 00:09:46,691 I haven't put the trees on the drawing, 138 00:09:46,816 --> 00:09:50,286 but there's a huge tree right along here which will shade the kitchen. 139 00:09:52,530 --> 00:09:55,409 I think you'll feel differently about things when you get in your own house. 140 00:09:55,533 --> 00:09:58,286 Your father and mother are very nice to us, 141 00:09:58,411 --> 00:10:00,914 very kind and understanding, but... 142 00:10:01,038 --> 00:10:03,507 Well, it just isn't the same as being in your own house. 143 00:10:03,624 --> 00:10:06,594 I know you'll feel differently. - Do you? 144 00:10:06,711 --> 00:10:09,510 Well, you'll feel more like you're married. 145 00:10:10,589 --> 00:10:13,468 I'll never feel as if I'm married to you, Mr Todd, 146 00:10:13,592 --> 00:10:16,345 and I hope you'll never feel as if you're married to me. 147 00:10:17,221 --> 00:10:18,689 Now, Dolly, 148 00:10:18,806 --> 00:10:22,026 we're going to be married for a long, long time, all our lives, 149 00:10:22,143 --> 00:10:23,986 not just these five weeks we've been married, 150 00:10:24,103 --> 00:10:26,197 but for years, until we grow old. 151 00:10:26,314 --> 00:10:27,987 I know that. 152 00:10:28,107 --> 00:10:31,828 Well, someday between now and that time, you'll realise how much I love you. 153 00:10:31,944 --> 00:10:34,697 And you'll love me, too, I'm sure of it. 154 00:10:34,822 --> 00:10:36,790 I'll never love you. 155 00:10:36,907 --> 00:10:40,707 Just pretend you do, say you do. Just once, see how it feels. 156 00:10:40,828 --> 00:10:42,455 I'll never say it. 157 00:10:42,580 --> 00:10:44,958 I'll never say, "I love you." 158 00:10:45,082 --> 00:10:46,629 Yes, you will. 159 00:10:46,751 --> 00:10:48,879 I know you will, you have to. 160 00:10:49,879 --> 00:10:51,881 Dolly, I didn't mean to hurt you. 161 00:10:52,006 --> 00:10:54,259 I'm just clumsy and awkward about things. 162 00:10:55,259 --> 00:10:58,809 I know everything I do and everything I say now is wrong. 163 00:10:59,847 --> 00:11:03,397 Sometimes I think I may go out of my mind, Dolly, you hate me so much. 164 00:11:03,517 --> 00:11:06,236 I never promised you anything but hate. 165 00:11:06,354 --> 00:11:09,233 I know, you are right, we shouldn't have been married. 166 00:11:10,107 --> 00:11:12,326 I don't blame you for the way you feel. 167 00:11:14,070 --> 00:11:15,790 But I don't know what to do about it, Dolly. 168 00:11:16,530 --> 00:11:20,034 If I left you, I think I'd die thinking about you. 169 00:11:20,993 --> 00:11:22,836 Dolly... 170 00:11:23,579 --> 00:11:25,627 Let me put my arms around you. 171 00:11:26,749 --> 00:11:29,298 I just have to. 172 00:11:31,420 --> 00:11:33,718 You don't know how much I love you. 173 00:11:34,715 --> 00:11:36,968 You can't know how I feel. 174 00:11:38,302 --> 00:11:40,896 You've never been in love. 175 00:11:41,013 --> 00:11:46,315 You've never known what it is to see all the goodness in the world in one person, 176 00:11:46,435 --> 00:11:48,028 and to know she's unattainable. 177 00:11:48,562 --> 00:11:50,781 To know that the whole world thinks she belongs to me, 178 00:11:50,898 --> 00:11:53,321 and she doesn't, she never will. 179 00:11:53,442 --> 00:11:55,695 It's pain, Dolly. 180 00:11:55,820 --> 00:11:57,493 It's real pain. 181 00:11:57,613 --> 00:11:59,286 It digs deep into you. 182 00:12:00,074 --> 00:12:02,668 I look at you and I think... 183 00:12:02,785 --> 00:12:07,006 There's not even pity, because you don't know, you don't understand. 184 00:12:08,082 --> 00:12:10,460 And I think 185 00:12:10,584 --> 00:12:14,430 someday I'll take you in my arms and all the pain and ache will go out of me. 186 00:12:17,842 --> 00:12:19,640 I'm ashamed. 187 00:12:21,053 --> 00:12:22,555 I'm so ashamed. 188 00:12:24,390 --> 00:12:27,394 Dolly, I... I've never even kissed you. 189 00:12:36,026 --> 00:12:37,619 Excuse me. - Congratulations. 190 00:12:37,736 --> 00:12:39,079 Thank you. 191 00:12:39,780 --> 00:12:41,828 Oh, grandfather, how are you? - Fine. 192 00:12:41,949 --> 00:12:44,418 There aren't words for the way I feel! 193 00:12:51,542 --> 00:12:53,590 Dolly, are you happy now? 194 00:12:57,798 --> 00:12:59,800 Look. 195 00:12:59,925 --> 00:13:01,973 He's smiling. 196 00:13:03,762 --> 00:13:05,514 Dolly, it's our anniversary. 197 00:13:07,641 --> 00:13:09,314 But John... 198 00:13:09,435 --> 00:13:11,483 Jewellery is against your belief. 199 00:13:11,604 --> 00:13:14,528 Well, it isn't against yours, and I want you to be happy. 200 00:13:14,648 --> 00:13:17,743 For my happiness you'd go against your belief? 201 00:13:17,860 --> 00:13:20,989 Doll, I have another belief. 202 00:13:21,113 --> 00:13:23,457 It's my belief in you and our marriage and our son. 203 00:13:23,574 --> 00:13:25,952 That's a strong belief, too. 204 00:13:26,076 --> 00:13:28,829 That's why I want to give you this present on our first anniversary. 205 00:13:28,954 --> 00:13:31,582 It's been a good year, Dolly. 206 00:13:31,707 --> 00:13:33,550 It's been an eventful one. 207 00:13:34,835 --> 00:13:38,885 I'm embarrassed, John, I didn't remember it was our anniversary, 208 00:13:39,006 --> 00:13:40,758 and I have no present for you. 209 00:13:41,425 --> 00:13:43,177 Oh, yes, you have. 210 00:13:43,302 --> 00:13:46,055 One present I've wanted every day for the past year. 211 00:13:46,597 --> 00:13:49,225 And you're the only one who can give it to me. 212 00:13:50,059 --> 00:13:53,734 A year ago, you told me you'd never say, "I love you, John." 213 00:13:55,272 --> 00:13:58,071 Yes, I remember. - And you never have. 214 00:13:58,192 --> 00:14:00,570 I've been hoping someday it'd slip out, you'd forget. 215 00:14:00,694 --> 00:14:02,867 Please, John, don't. 216 00:14:02,988 --> 00:14:05,491 You've made me like you in spite of myself, 217 00:14:05,616 --> 00:14:07,414 and I'm content with our marriage. 218 00:14:07,535 --> 00:14:09,833 Isn't that enough? 219 00:14:09,954 --> 00:14:11,706 I can't help it if I keep asking myself 220 00:14:11,830 --> 00:14:14,879 how much happier I'd be if I married a man I wanted to marry, 221 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:18,721 if I hadn't been mated as the beasts in the field are mated, 222 00:14:18,837 --> 00:14:21,340 if I hadn't been ordered to be your wife. 223 00:14:23,008 --> 00:14:25,636 But Dolly, you're the mother of our son. 224 00:14:25,761 --> 00:14:27,638 Yes, I know. 225 00:14:27,763 --> 00:14:29,731 I thought you'd learn to love me by now. 226 00:14:30,724 --> 00:14:34,979 Love isn't something a woman learns like reading and writing. 227 00:14:35,104 --> 00:14:37,607 It's something she knows by heart. 228 00:14:38,190 --> 00:14:40,488 Dolly, I know that you love me. 229 00:14:40,609 --> 00:14:44,079 Every instinct I have tells me you love me. Why don't you say it? 230 00:14:45,072 --> 00:14:47,791 Because it's all I have left. 231 00:14:47,908 --> 00:14:51,378 Oh, I'm not complaining about my life with you, John, it's good, and... 232 00:14:51,495 --> 00:14:53,042 and you're good. 233 00:14:53,163 --> 00:14:55,131 I love our son, and I'm glad he's here, 234 00:14:55,249 --> 00:14:59,004 but I miss part of my life, because you and my father took it away from me. 235 00:15:00,170 --> 00:15:04,346 There's an excitement about falling in love that I'll never know. 236 00:15:05,342 --> 00:15:08,767 It's a whirlwind that catches you up and transports you out of yourself 237 00:15:08,887 --> 00:15:12,187 into something that's more divine than mortal. 238 00:15:17,187 --> 00:15:20,361 How do you know all these things? - Every woman knows them. 239 00:15:20,482 --> 00:15:22,576 Though I don't think about them often, but... 240 00:15:22,693 --> 00:15:26,163 sometimes when I see a boy and girl walking down the street together 241 00:15:26,280 --> 00:15:29,454 or when I hear that someone's getting married because she's in love, 242 00:15:30,451 --> 00:15:33,250 then I remember my promise to myself on our wedding day. 243 00:15:34,246 --> 00:15:36,999 Oh, I know you think it's foolish, John, 244 00:15:37,124 --> 00:15:41,220 but somehow it makes up a little bit for what you and my father took away from me. 245 00:15:42,129 --> 00:15:44,507 I'll do anything you say, John, anything. 246 00:15:46,133 --> 00:15:48,227 But I'll never say it. 247 00:15:48,344 --> 00:15:51,314 I'll never say, "I love you", and don't ask me to again. 248 00:15:53,891 --> 00:15:56,064 You're wrong, Dolly. 249 00:15:56,185 --> 00:15:58,779 Someday you'll come running to tell me you love me. 250 00:16:05,986 --> 00:16:09,490 Then a plague, a horrible plague, 251 00:16:09,615 --> 00:16:12,710 yellow fever swept over Philadelphia. 252 00:16:12,826 --> 00:16:14,749 Father was stricken. 253 00:16:14,870 --> 00:16:17,089 He died in mother's arms. 254 00:16:17,206 --> 00:16:21,461 And then my little boy, our son, was taken, too. 255 00:16:22,169 --> 00:16:24,672 Everyone was ordered to leave the city. 256 00:17:15,556 --> 00:17:17,854 Well, Dolly, they expect me back there. 257 00:17:17,975 --> 00:17:20,774 They need every man they can get to help evacuate the city, 258 00:17:22,062 --> 00:17:24,360 Well, why don't you go tomorrow then, 259 00:17:24,481 --> 00:17:27,735 and stay here today and rest? - They need me now. 260 00:17:27,860 --> 00:17:30,283 Say, John, I'd be glad to take the ladies up to the camp. 261 00:17:30,404 --> 00:17:32,077 You can ride back to the city with Luke. 262 00:17:32,197 --> 00:17:34,871 Oh, fine. Thank you, Mr Evans. 263 00:17:36,326 --> 00:17:38,545 Well, goodbye, Doll. 264 00:17:38,662 --> 00:17:40,630 Come back to us as soon as you can, John. 265 00:17:40,748 --> 00:17:43,001 Iwill. 266 00:17:47,796 --> 00:17:49,798 Drive me to town, Luke, hmm? 267 00:18:20,662 --> 00:18:22,664 Mrs Payne, Mr Todd has been stricken with fever. 268 00:18:24,792 --> 00:18:27,796 No! Where is he? - At the bridge. 269 00:18:58,492 --> 00:19:01,496 Have you seen... Have you seen my husband, John Todd? 270 00:19:09,378 --> 00:19:10,846 John... 271 00:19:14,216 --> 00:19:16,184 John... 272 00:19:16,301 --> 00:19:19,896 John, I'm here. 273 00:19:20,013 --> 00:19:23,608 You said, one day I'd come running to tell you I love you. 274 00:19:23,725 --> 00:19:25,648 I love you, John. 275 00:19:25,769 --> 00:19:27,863 I love you with all my heart. 276 00:19:29,147 --> 00:19:31,115 John... 277 00:19:35,362 --> 00:19:37,205 John! 278 00:19:38,657 --> 00:19:40,580 Oh, no! 279 00:19:44,872 --> 00:19:48,672 Now when I can, it's too late. 280 00:19:49,793 --> 00:19:53,889 Oh, forgive me, my beloved, forgive me. 281 00:20:00,262 --> 00:20:04,233 The next two years were bitter and lonely ones for mother and me, 282 00:20:04,349 --> 00:20:08,900 but time somehow spreads a healing tissue over the deepest of wounds. 283 00:20:09,813 --> 00:20:12,111 Philadelphia was the national capital in those days, 284 00:20:12,232 --> 00:20:14,109 and when the congress was in session, 285 00:20:14,234 --> 00:20:17,204 the city was overcrowded with the officials of the government. 286 00:20:17,321 --> 00:20:21,497 The public taverns were noisy and dirty, and the food wretched. 287 00:20:21,617 --> 00:20:26,293 So mother and I decided that we could be useful as well as practical. 288 00:20:28,790 --> 00:20:31,839 Good afternoon, sir. - May I see the widow Payne? 289 00:20:31,960 --> 00:20:34,383 Oh, yes, sir, won't you come in? - Thank you. 290 00:20:38,050 --> 00:20:41,395 I'll tell the Widow Payne you're here, sir. - Thank you. 291 00:20:43,013 --> 00:20:44,560 I hope it's a wise venture. 292 00:20:44,681 --> 00:20:47,525 The thought of strange people living in our house... 293 00:20:47,643 --> 00:20:50,487 There's a gentleman downstairs who wants to see the Widow Payne. 294 00:20:50,604 --> 00:20:53,323 Oh, is he a lodger? - I believe so, Miss Doll. 295 00:20:53,440 --> 00:20:54,942 What's he like? - Now, mother... 296 00:20:55,067 --> 00:20:58,071 Don't forget about the price of the rooms and the rules. 297 00:20:58,195 --> 00:20:59,538 The rules? 298 00:20:59,655 --> 00:21:03,285 Yes, the use of spirits, the use of tobacco, and promptness at meals. 299 00:21:03,408 --> 00:21:05,160 Now, be firm about it. 300 00:21:06,161 --> 00:21:09,665 Doll, I can't. I wouldn't be able to say a word to him. 301 00:21:09,790 --> 00:21:11,337 You go. 302 00:21:11,458 --> 00:21:13,210 Me? 303 00:21:13,335 --> 00:21:16,589 Amy. Amy, you talk to him. You know so much more about those things than we do. 304 00:21:16,713 --> 00:21:18,556 Miss Dolly, that wouldn't be right. 305 00:21:20,968 --> 00:21:23,221 All right, mother. 306 00:21:23,345 --> 00:21:25,018 I'll go. 307 00:21:26,556 --> 00:21:30,436 Remember to say, "This is a respectable home for respectable persons." 308 00:21:30,560 --> 00:21:32,358 All right, mother. 309 00:21:48,495 --> 00:21:49,542 Widow Payne? 310 00:21:51,164 --> 00:21:54,839 No, I'm the widow Todd. 311 00:21:55,502 --> 00:21:57,220 Widow Todd? 312 00:22:00,507 --> 00:22:03,511 I've come for lodgings. - Oh, you have? 313 00:22:03,635 --> 00:22:05,308 Well, er... we plan... 314 00:22:05,429 --> 00:22:08,228 a respectable home for respectable people. 315 00:22:08,348 --> 00:22:09,520 Yes. 316 00:22:09,641 --> 00:22:12,235 And there is a rule about... - not smoking in one's bed. 317 00:22:13,645 --> 00:22:15,522 Yes, that's one of them. 318 00:22:15,647 --> 00:22:18,742 And of course we will not permit our guests to arrive at their lodgings in that state... 319 00:22:18,859 --> 00:22:20,486 to which strong water brings weak men? 320 00:22:22,654 --> 00:22:25,533 Nor will we allow our guests to gather in their quarters... 321 00:22:25,657 --> 00:22:27,500 roistering friends into pass the bottle. 322 00:22:28,118 --> 00:22:29,995 Won't you sit down? 323 00:22:30,120 --> 00:22:31,963 Thank you. 324 00:22:44,092 --> 00:22:46,094 Of course I shall need a rather large room. 325 00:22:48,597 --> 00:22:50,440 Are you blushing, Widow Todd? 326 00:22:50,557 --> 00:22:52,685 Is there any reason why I should, sir? 327 00:22:52,809 --> 00:22:55,358 I don't know. Women's blushes are a great mystery to all men. 328 00:22:55,479 --> 00:22:58,278 After all, we were not expecting applicants quite so soon. 329 00:22:58,398 --> 00:22:59,490 The sign has just gone up. 330 00:22:59,608 --> 00:23:01,656 I just took it down and threw it in the fire. 331 00:23:01,777 --> 00:23:03,575 I saw the boy with it half a mile away and followed him here. 332 00:23:03,695 --> 00:23:05,948 You won't need it anymore. Do you have a good cook? 333 00:23:06,073 --> 00:23:08,417 Yes, we have... - And a place to stay for my horses? 334 00:23:08,533 --> 00:23:10,956 Yes, there's a stable... - Do you like horses? 335 00:23:11,078 --> 00:23:12,751 Yes, I like them very much. 336 00:23:12,871 --> 00:23:14,748 You are blushing, widow Todd. 337 00:23:16,291 --> 00:23:18,134 Do you have references? 338 00:23:18,251 --> 00:23:20,504 Personal, political or financial? 339 00:23:22,380 --> 00:23:24,553 Personal and financial. 340 00:23:24,674 --> 00:23:26,472 Blushing again, widow Todd. 341 00:23:26,593 --> 00:23:28,311 Mother. 342 00:23:31,181 --> 00:23:33,434 This is my mother, the widow Payne. 343 00:23:33,558 --> 00:23:36,152 I am Senator Aaron Burr, madam, your obedient servant. 344 00:23:36,269 --> 00:23:38,488 Senator Aaron Burr of New York? - The same. 345 00:23:38,605 --> 00:23:40,824 You don't mind having a senator in your house, I hope? 346 00:23:40,941 --> 00:23:43,490 I would be honoured, senator. - Then I have one vote. 347 00:23:43,610 --> 00:23:46,238 Widow Todd, if I promised not to try out my speeches on you, 348 00:23:46,363 --> 00:23:48,365 won't you say yes, too? 349 00:23:48,490 --> 00:23:52,040 Well, I'm afraid I have to, senator. After all, you took down our sign. 350 00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:54,913 That's because I hope to have the privilege of finding other suitable lodgers for you. 351 00:23:55,038 --> 00:23:56,631 How many do you plan to take in? 352 00:23:56,748 --> 00:23:58,170 Four. - Four. 353 00:23:58,291 --> 00:24:00,589 That'll be three beside myself. 354 00:24:00,710 --> 00:24:04,590 Shall we say the French charge d'affaires and maybe one cabinet member 355 00:24:04,714 --> 00:24:06,182 and a judge or another senator? 356 00:24:06,299 --> 00:24:08,472 Sounds like a most distinguished company, senator. 357 00:24:08,593 --> 00:24:09,810 I'll do my best. 358 00:24:09,928 --> 00:24:11,896 May I see my quarters now, widow Todd? 359 00:24:12,013 --> 00:24:14,266 Certainly, sir. Right this way. 360 00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:17,193 Oh, Amy... 361 00:24:18,228 --> 00:24:22,108 Amy, would you show senator Burr to the master bedroom, please? 362 00:24:22,232 --> 00:24:24,860 Senator Burr? Well, bless your soul. 363 00:24:24,985 --> 00:24:27,113 Come right this way, senator. 364 00:24:39,958 --> 00:24:41,130 Just think! 365 00:24:41,251 --> 00:24:45,256 Cabinet members, foreign ministers, judges, and senator Burr. 366 00:24:45,380 --> 00:24:47,428 Doll, it is a good beginning, isn't it? 367 00:24:48,341 --> 00:24:50,343 I hope so, mother. 368 00:25:01,146 --> 00:25:03,194 Oh, what a fine horse! 369 00:25:03,315 --> 00:25:04,567 He's yours then. 370 00:25:05,066 --> 00:25:08,866 Oh, thank you, you're very kind, but I couldn't accept such a wonderful gift. 371 00:25:08,987 --> 00:25:11,307 Well, if you won't, I'll have to turn him out or shoot him. 372 00:25:12,407 --> 00:25:13,659 Oh, you wouldn't do that. 373 00:25:14,242 --> 00:25:17,041 You know, I would if you wouldn't accept him. 374 00:25:17,162 --> 00:25:18,630 I believe you might. 375 00:25:18,747 --> 00:25:21,091 Come on, boy, run for your life. Come on. 376 00:25:40,352 --> 00:25:42,229 I like living in your house. 377 00:25:42,771 --> 00:25:45,194 Mother will be very pleased when I tell her that. 378 00:25:45,315 --> 00:25:46,783 Mother? 379 00:25:48,360 --> 00:25:49,577 Aren't you pleased? 380 00:25:49,694 --> 00:25:52,618 Well, it's very flattering to know that the lodger likes his lodgings. 381 00:25:52,739 --> 00:25:54,912 Oh, I'm not talking about the lodgings, I'm talking about you. 382 00:25:55,033 --> 00:25:56,159 Hows the sketch coming? 383 00:25:56,284 --> 00:25:58,878 Oh, you widows are too experienced in fending people off. 384 00:25:58,995 --> 00:26:00,087 That's very good. 385 00:26:00,205 --> 00:26:02,378 You're wrong, widow Todd. There's no softness in the hair, 386 00:26:02,499 --> 00:26:06,424 and the eyes haven't that right kind of blue... they are blue, aren't they? 387 00:26:06,544 --> 00:26:09,343 The lips haven't that full... 388 00:26:09,464 --> 00:26:11,683 I just wanted to seal our bargain. 389 00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:13,723 About the horse, you said you'd take him. 390 00:26:13,843 --> 00:26:17,848 Indeed I did. And I think it best that I start taking him home right now. 391 00:26:19,266 --> 00:26:20,893 Widow Todd? 392 00:26:21,768 --> 00:26:23,816 Shall I bring the sketch? 393 00:26:23,937 --> 00:26:26,218 It's not a very big rock, and I can push it along the road 394 00:26:26,314 --> 00:26:28,737 for losing my bet. - What bet? 395 00:26:29,317 --> 00:26:31,740 When I first saw you walking down the stairs in your house, 396 00:26:31,861 --> 00:26:36,662 I foolishly bet myself that within one week I'd kiss you, and this is my last day. 397 00:26:36,783 --> 00:26:38,251 How very odd. 398 00:26:38,368 --> 00:26:41,588 When I saw you, I bet that our first lodger would be much too much of a gentleman 399 00:26:41,705 --> 00:26:43,582 to try such tavern tricks. 400 00:26:43,707 --> 00:26:46,051 That's sad. Then we both lose our bets. 401 00:26:46,167 --> 00:26:49,137 It's very unlucky to start a long friendship like that. 402 00:26:49,254 --> 00:26:51,382 It is, really. 403 00:27:20,535 --> 00:27:21,912 Thank you. 404 00:27:25,415 --> 00:27:27,543 You're a beautiful creature. 405 00:27:27,667 --> 00:27:29,419 Thank you for a very nice ride. 406 00:27:29,544 --> 00:27:31,797 You at least have made a conquest. 407 00:27:34,132 --> 00:27:37,102 Jack, be sure to cool him off well. - Yes, sir. 408 00:27:47,979 --> 00:27:50,323 Well, James... the horse kick you? 409 00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:53,569 No, Aaron, why? - You look as though you're in pain. 410 00:27:53,693 --> 00:27:56,822 That look might be either deep passion or a bad toothache. 411 00:27:56,946 --> 00:27:59,995 Still, it's always difficult to tell from Madison's face what is going on in Madison's mind. 412 00:28:00,116 --> 00:28:02,835 I was wondering if I know that lady. 413 00:28:04,662 --> 00:28:05,788 I don't think so, James. 414 00:28:05,914 --> 00:28:08,258 Well, I wish I did. 415 00:28:08,375 --> 00:28:10,775 She's the mistress of a lodging house just around the corner. 416 00:28:10,835 --> 00:28:14,089 I promise you, the first chance I get, I'll present you. 417 00:28:14,214 --> 00:28:17,309 Good day, James. - Good day. 418 00:28:20,678 --> 00:28:22,897 I've found a friend. 419 00:28:26,518 --> 00:28:28,737 Great pleasure to have you in our home, gentlemen. 420 00:28:28,853 --> 00:28:31,481 Madam, this seems like a heavenly dream. 421 00:28:31,606 --> 00:28:33,483 Ah, they've come back. 422 00:28:33,608 --> 00:28:34,905 Count! 423 00:28:35,026 --> 00:28:38,075 So you got my message. - And came post-haste. 424 00:28:38,196 --> 00:28:40,995 Well, Ainsworth, is it all I said it was? - All that and more. 425 00:28:41,116 --> 00:28:43,596 Let me present my two friends who've come to live in your home. 426 00:28:43,660 --> 00:28:46,914 First, Count D'Arignon, the French charge d'affaires to the United States. 427 00:28:47,038 --> 00:28:50,212 And my colleague, senator Ainsworth. - It's a great pleasure, gentlemen. 428 00:28:52,419 --> 00:28:54,547 I'd like to see senator Burr, please. 429 00:28:54,671 --> 00:28:56,924 Yes, sir, won't you come in? - Thank you. 430 00:29:01,344 --> 00:29:03,142 Quite a change from the White Horse Tavern. 431 00:29:03,263 --> 00:29:07,063 For the first time since I left France, I feel as if I have a home, madame. 432 00:29:07,183 --> 00:29:09,936 Excuse me, senator Burr. There's a gentleman to see you. 433 00:29:10,061 --> 00:29:12,155 Oh, yes. Show him in, Amy. I'm expecting him. 434 00:29:12,272 --> 00:29:15,321 That's your new lodger. Judge Sears of the Supreme court. 435 00:29:15,442 --> 00:29:16,739 Judge who? - Judge Sears. 436 00:29:16,860 --> 00:29:19,329 You're wrong, Aaron. It's only your humble servant. 437 00:29:20,780 --> 00:29:22,748 Well, James, you really are a man of action. 438 00:29:22,866 --> 00:29:24,834 Yes, I just happened to be passing by, 439 00:29:24,951 --> 00:29:27,955 and I thought maybe this was a good chance to present me to, er... 440 00:29:28,830 --> 00:29:32,880 Yes, erm... Mrs Payne, this is congressman James Madison. 441 00:29:33,001 --> 00:29:34,548 He's asked to be presented. 442 00:29:34,669 --> 00:29:36,171 I'm honoured, Mr Madison. - How do you do? 443 00:29:36,296 --> 00:29:38,219 He's a bachelor, but the father of the constitution. 444 00:29:38,339 --> 00:29:40,387 Mrs Todd, Mr Madison. - How do you do? 445 00:29:40,508 --> 00:29:43,808 Are you the James Madison of Virginia? - Yes, I am. 446 00:29:43,928 --> 00:29:46,977 My husband used to read me your articles on the Federalists. 447 00:29:47,098 --> 00:29:48,600 I thought they were magnificent. 448 00:29:48,725 --> 00:29:49,726 You did? - Yes. 449 00:29:49,851 --> 00:29:51,819 Well, I thought they were pretty good myself. 450 00:29:51,936 --> 00:29:54,815 When James says he thinks that something is pretty good, he means it's almost perfect. 451 00:29:54,939 --> 00:29:58,318 It is nice to see someone from Virginia, Mr Madison. 452 00:29:58,443 --> 00:30:01,287 We lived in Virginia until just a few years ago. 453 00:30:01,404 --> 00:30:04,408 You can feel that the moment you walk into this house. 454 00:30:04,532 --> 00:30:08,378 Mrs Todd, I was wondering, have you room for one more lodger here? 455 00:30:10,163 --> 00:30:11,585 Have we, mother? 456 00:30:11,706 --> 00:30:15,802 Well, I had rather promised senator Burr I'd hold the room for Judge Sears. 457 00:30:19,172 --> 00:30:24,144 Well, er... don't you think that since Mr Madison is here and Judge Sears isn't, 458 00:30:24,260 --> 00:30:26,183 we might forget about the judge? 459 00:30:27,013 --> 00:30:30,438 But after all, a judge of the Supreme court is quite a useful thing to have around. 460 00:30:30,558 --> 00:30:32,811 But a fellow Virginian is a fellow Virginian. 461 00:30:32,936 --> 00:30:36,861 Well, thank you. Now, if you'll forgive me, I'll fetch my luggage. 462 00:30:45,281 --> 00:30:48,000 You never would suspect that that quiet, gentle man 463 00:30:48,117 --> 00:30:49,744 is the great James Madison, would you? 464 00:30:50,328 --> 00:30:51,375 No. 465 00:30:51,496 --> 00:30:55,000 But your cousin Patrick Henry doesn't think he's such a quiet, gentle man. 466 00:30:56,376 --> 00:30:59,175 Well, you Virginians really do stick together, don't you? 467 00:30:59,879 --> 00:31:02,052 When I saw that look of disappointment on his face, 468 00:31:02,173 --> 00:31:03,846 I didn't have the heart to turn him away. 469 00:31:03,967 --> 00:31:05,719 If he'd heard you say that, he would've run a mile. 470 00:31:05,843 --> 00:31:08,266 He's very shy around the ladies. 471 00:31:08,388 --> 00:31:09,765 Here's Judge Sears now. 472 00:31:09,889 --> 00:31:11,983 And you, widow Todd, will have the pleasure of telling him 473 00:31:12,100 --> 00:31:14,819 that you've given away his room to a mere congressman. 474 00:31:17,272 --> 00:31:20,492 I just happened to have my luggage outside. 475 00:31:20,608 --> 00:31:22,952 So we see. 476 00:31:27,448 --> 00:31:30,668 Excuse me, can I get you something, Mr Madison? 477 00:31:30,785 --> 00:31:32,378 Thank you. 478 00:31:38,001 --> 00:31:39,878 Dolly will be down in just a moment, senator. 479 00:31:40,003 --> 00:31:41,095 Than you, Mrs Payne. 480 00:31:41,212 --> 00:31:44,386 I hope you won't be late for the play. - No, we have plenty of time. 481 00:31:44,507 --> 00:31:46,788 Why don't you move your queen? You could put him in check. 482 00:31:47,468 --> 00:31:51,063 You're right, Aaron, but I never like to see my queen in danger. 483 00:31:58,271 --> 00:32:01,241 You look lovely, widow Todd. - Thank you, senator. 484 00:32:03,234 --> 00:32:05,703 Good night, mother. - Have a good time at the play. 485 00:32:05,820 --> 00:32:07,493 We will, dear. 486 00:32:08,114 --> 00:32:09,741 Thank you. 487 00:32:10,575 --> 00:32:12,873 I'm sorry I won't be able to see the end of your game, gentlemen. 488 00:32:12,994 --> 00:32:14,587 Goodnight. - Goodnight. 489 00:32:14,704 --> 00:32:16,331 Goodnight. 490 00:32:23,129 --> 00:32:25,177 C'est a' vous dejouer. - What? 491 00:32:25,298 --> 00:32:27,426 I think it is your move, Monsieur. 492 00:32:27,550 --> 00:32:29,848 Yes, yes, I guess it is at that. 493 00:32:33,306 --> 00:32:34,979 What is the play to be about? 494 00:32:35,099 --> 00:32:37,067 Oh... usual nonsense. 495 00:32:38,102 --> 00:32:41,481 This is the first time I've been to the theatre since we moved to Philadelphia. 496 00:32:41,606 --> 00:32:45,110 You're in one every day of your life. All the world's a stage. 497 00:32:57,121 --> 00:32:59,169 This is not the theatre, Mr Burr. 498 00:32:59,290 --> 00:33:02,464 No, this is a tavern, but you'll find it much more amusing than the theatre. 499 00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:10,468 Evening, colonel Burr. - Evening, Randy. 500 00:33:14,597 --> 00:33:16,440 Just wait, sir. 501 00:33:18,101 --> 00:33:19,523 Aaron Burr. 502 00:33:19,644 --> 00:33:22,864 The man we want as president of the US. - That's right, senator. 503 00:33:22,980 --> 00:33:25,199 Well, the politicians may have something to say about that. 504 00:33:25,316 --> 00:33:27,865 Colonel, when the time comes, we won't worry about politicians, 505 00:33:27,985 --> 00:33:30,033 will we, boys? - No, we'll follow Burr. 506 00:33:30,154 --> 00:33:33,408 Wine has made you eloquent. - Where you lead, Mr Burr, we follow. 507 00:33:33,533 --> 00:33:35,456 A pint for Thomas. I'll remember that, Thomas. 508 00:33:35,576 --> 00:33:38,170 Take good care of the colonel, Tessie. - Yes, sir. 509 00:33:38,287 --> 00:33:40,756 How do you do, senator? - Hello, Jake. 510 00:33:40,873 --> 00:33:43,342 Any French wine tonight? - Yes, colonel. 511 00:33:47,588 --> 00:33:50,182 Why did you bring me to this place? - I thought you'd like it. 512 00:33:50,299 --> 00:33:53,098 These people are much more amusing than those players on the stage. 513 00:33:53,219 --> 00:33:55,062 They're different certainly. 514 00:33:55,179 --> 00:33:57,648 Would you like to leave and go on to the theatre? 515 00:33:59,058 --> 00:34:01,026 No. - Don't tell me, widow Todd, 516 00:34:01,144 --> 00:34:04,523 that you're beginning to find the dark side of the street attractive. 517 00:34:05,314 --> 00:34:08,238 I don't know, Mr Burr. There's a note of excitement about you, 518 00:34:08,359 --> 00:34:11,533 and somehow it seems to be echoed by these people here. 519 00:34:11,654 --> 00:34:14,624 In this room is every kind of evil hunger that the Gods invented. 520 00:34:14,741 --> 00:34:18,120 There's hunger wealth, for power, for danger, for adventure. 521 00:34:18,244 --> 00:34:20,713 What is your evil hunger, Mr Burr? 522 00:34:21,914 --> 00:34:24,417 You think I have one? - You're not an ordinary man. 523 00:34:24,542 --> 00:34:26,010 I'll drink to that. 524 00:34:26,127 --> 00:34:29,222 And to the hidden streams of life and the dark places to which they flow. 525 00:34:30,214 --> 00:34:31,966 To you, widow Todd. 526 00:34:35,887 --> 00:34:38,060 No, Bryan! No! 527 00:34:38,181 --> 00:34:39,182 Move the tables back. 528 00:34:39,307 --> 00:34:41,730 Mandy? Lock the doors. 529 00:34:42,477 --> 00:34:43,603 Sit still. 530 00:35:09,212 --> 00:35:10,555 He's hurt. 531 00:35:11,589 --> 00:35:13,717 Pick it up with your left hand. 532 00:35:14,634 --> 00:35:16,352 Pick it up, or I'll run you through! 533 00:35:22,350 --> 00:35:24,023 You let her alone! 534 00:35:25,228 --> 00:35:26,445 From now on it gets a little rough, 535 00:35:26,562 --> 00:35:28,610 so I'll take you out through that door that leads to the courtyard. 536 00:35:28,731 --> 00:35:30,904 If you see the watch, keep going alone. 537 00:35:36,239 --> 00:35:37,786 Open up and be searched. 538 00:36:09,021 --> 00:36:11,023 Why are we stopping? 539 00:36:11,148 --> 00:36:14,527 I think our borrowed steed is rather short of wind. We ought to give him a breather. 540 00:36:17,446 --> 00:36:20,541 I think I need one, too. 541 00:36:20,658 --> 00:36:22,706 Have you had enough excitement for one evening? 542 00:36:22,827 --> 00:36:23,999 Enough for a good many. 543 00:36:24,120 --> 00:36:27,374 We'll look upon the whole thing as a visit to the theatre. 544 00:36:28,541 --> 00:36:32,262 You have a very odd way of making danger attractive. 545 00:36:33,170 --> 00:36:34,672 Have I? 546 00:37:03,951 --> 00:37:05,498 Goodnight. 547 00:37:54,585 --> 00:37:56,007 Good morning. 548 00:37:56,128 --> 00:37:58,597 Oh, good morning, Mr Madison. 549 00:37:58,714 --> 00:38:00,967 This must be an important day in the congress. 550 00:38:01,092 --> 00:38:02,685 What makes you say that? 551 00:38:02,802 --> 00:38:05,772 You look like a man who's about to pass a law. 552 00:38:05,888 --> 00:38:08,858 What do you think of the... Here, let me. 553 00:38:08,975 --> 00:38:09,976 Oh, thank you. 554 00:38:10,101 --> 00:38:13,230 What do you think of the lawmakers that you've met, Miss Dolly? 555 00:38:14,397 --> 00:38:16,820 They're not as wise as friends claim, 556 00:38:16,941 --> 00:38:19,194 nor as stupid as their enemies report. - Yes. 557 00:38:19,318 --> 00:38:21,537 Somehow I feel they're just about like everybody else. 558 00:38:21,654 --> 00:38:23,873 You're right, no better and no worse. 559 00:38:24,740 --> 00:38:26,788 Dolly... I mean, Miss Todd, 560 00:38:26,909 --> 00:38:29,879 I've been thinking of a little plan that concerns you. 561 00:38:29,996 --> 00:38:31,498 Me? - Yes. 562 00:38:31,622 --> 00:38:34,546 I have a bill before congress which prohibits any American 563 00:38:34,667 --> 00:38:37,716 from engaging in the operation of slaveships. 564 00:38:37,837 --> 00:38:40,386 Well, that sounds like a wonderful bill. Will they pass it? 565 00:38:40,506 --> 00:38:43,726 No, not unless I can convince the opposition 566 00:38:43,843 --> 00:38:46,687 that liberty and slavery can never live hand in hand. 567 00:38:47,972 --> 00:38:51,602 You sound like my father the day he set his slaves free. 568 00:38:51,726 --> 00:38:53,228 He told them, 569 00:38:53,352 --> 00:38:57,357 "I'm not doing this for you, nor for myself," 570 00:38:57,481 --> 00:38:59,654 "nor to serve my own conscience." 571 00:38:59,775 --> 00:39:02,619 "I'm doing this because our nation that has just been born" 572 00:39:02,737 --> 00:39:06,367 "will be stronger when all men are free." 573 00:39:06,949 --> 00:39:10,123 Would you tell them that tomorrow night, just as you said it to me? 574 00:39:10,661 --> 00:39:11,833 Tomorrow night? 575 00:39:11,954 --> 00:39:14,503 Ah, I forgot. I haven't told you about my plan. 576 00:39:14,623 --> 00:39:18,002 Now you said that lawmakers are just like everybody else. 577 00:39:19,503 --> 00:39:22,848 Oh! The flowers look lovely, Doll. - Aren't they pretty? 578 00:39:22,965 --> 00:39:24,592 Now let me see... 579 00:39:24,717 --> 00:39:27,561 The Vermont and Massachusetts men will be here. 580 00:39:27,678 --> 00:39:30,181 The ladies will be South Carolina and Virginia. 581 00:39:30,306 --> 00:39:33,150 Mrs Tillson, Maryland, Mrs Makin, Pennsylvania, 582 00:39:33,267 --> 00:39:35,486 New York, New Jersey and Delaware. 583 00:39:35,603 --> 00:39:36,883 I think they'll mix very nicely. 584 00:39:36,979 --> 00:39:40,529 Oh, Amy. Be sure that everything that comes out of the kitchen is very hot. 585 00:39:40,649 --> 00:39:42,526 Get things on the table as fast as possible. 586 00:39:42,651 --> 00:39:44,745 They can be more leisurely clearing off the table. 587 00:39:44,862 --> 00:39:47,490 How many girls did you get? - Three, Miss Dolly, for the table. And myself. 588 00:39:47,615 --> 00:39:49,037 That's fine, Amy. 589 00:39:49,158 --> 00:39:51,206 As soon as the men get seated, take the flowers off the table. 590 00:39:51,327 --> 00:39:53,125 Men don't like to talk over flowers. 591 00:39:53,245 --> 00:39:55,213 I think they enhance the picture. 592 00:39:55,331 --> 00:39:56,628 They slow down the conversation. 593 00:39:56,749 --> 00:39:59,002 My idea of a good party is where everybody talks at once. 594 00:39:59,126 --> 00:40:01,407 Be sure that the gentlemen have extra-thick cuts of roast. 595 00:40:01,462 --> 00:40:03,430 Oh, yes, maam. 596 00:40:03,547 --> 00:40:06,847 Now, I'll go up and get some rest, and you'd better do the same, mother. 597 00:40:07,802 --> 00:40:09,179 Amy. 598 00:40:10,221 --> 00:40:11,473 Please say a little prayer 599 00:40:11,597 --> 00:40:14,020 that Mr Madison's supper party does all the things he wants it to do. 600 00:40:14,141 --> 00:40:18,112 Miss Dolly, I can't say a prayer over just a supper party! 601 00:40:18,229 --> 00:40:20,323 You can over this one, Amy. 602 00:40:20,439 --> 00:40:22,362 Indeed you can. 603 00:40:39,959 --> 00:40:41,961 Port and cigars for the gentlemen, Amy. 604 00:40:42,086 --> 00:40:44,760 We'll have to talk Madison into this quite frequently. 605 00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:47,679 I didn't think he had it in him. 606 00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:49,677 Mr Madison is from Virginia, gentlemen. 607 00:40:49,802 --> 00:40:52,681 There's nothing he enjoys more than his little suppers with his friends. 608 00:40:52,805 --> 00:40:55,103 What I can't understand, Mr Madison, 609 00:40:55,224 --> 00:40:58,103 is why a charming gentleman like yourself has never married. 610 00:40:58,227 --> 00:40:59,399 Neither can I, sir. 611 00:40:59,520 --> 00:41:01,960 You now that women have a lot more wisdom than most men think. 612 00:41:02,064 --> 00:41:04,192 I've never met one that would have me. 613 00:41:04,316 --> 00:41:06,318 You come to my house on the 25th. 614 00:41:06,443 --> 00:41:08,912 I'll show you six, all of them young and pretty. 615 00:41:09,029 --> 00:41:11,578 Now, six seems a good many wives to start out with. 616 00:41:11,699 --> 00:41:14,794 I think I'd rather start out with just one, like most of the gentlemen I know. 617 00:41:14,910 --> 00:41:16,378 Oh, Mr Madison! 618 00:41:16,495 --> 00:41:17,792 Isn't he droll? 619 00:41:17,913 --> 00:41:20,166 I know the one I'd choose if I were you, sir. 620 00:41:20,291 --> 00:41:22,214 You do, ma'am? 621 00:41:22,334 --> 00:41:25,304 There's one thing I know nothing about. That's politics. 622 00:41:26,005 --> 00:41:28,303 But I never will forget my father saying it. 623 00:41:28,424 --> 00:41:31,519 "I'm not doing this for you, nor to serve my own conscience," 624 00:41:31,635 --> 00:41:35,890 "but because our new-born nation will be stronger when all men are free." 625 00:41:36,015 --> 00:41:39,394 I liked it because it made the United States seem like a little pink and white baby 626 00:41:39,518 --> 00:41:40,895 with a blue bonnet on. 627 00:41:43,147 --> 00:41:46,572 Ladies... ladies, shall we leave the gentlemen to their port and cigars? 628 00:42:05,044 --> 00:42:06,921 Oh... I'm sorry. 629 00:42:08,255 --> 00:42:10,098 Gentlemen. 630 00:42:16,555 --> 00:42:19,855 When this bill comes up, all I'll remember will be this supper. 631 00:42:19,975 --> 00:42:21,272 You know how my vote will go. 632 00:42:21,393 --> 00:42:23,737 I hope it will go the right way, sir. - Goodnight. 633 00:42:23,854 --> 00:42:26,107 Mr Madison. - Goodnight, my dear. Have a lovely evening. 634 00:42:26,232 --> 00:42:29,076 I'll see you later, James. I see things more clearly now. 635 00:42:29,193 --> 00:42:32,322 We need some good, clear thinking on this bill. Goodnight. 636 00:42:32,446 --> 00:42:34,915 Oh, Dolly, it was a lovely party. 637 00:42:35,032 --> 00:42:37,660 Even though I shouldn't say it, I had a wonderful time. 638 00:42:37,785 --> 00:42:39,708 Ladies, I want to thank you. 639 00:42:39,828 --> 00:42:41,876 I'll never be able to say the things I want to say. 640 00:42:41,997 --> 00:42:43,797 I couldn't say them if I stood here all night. 641 00:42:44,375 --> 00:42:46,343 You know, I worked on those men for months. 642 00:42:46,460 --> 00:42:49,839 I buttonholed them in corridors, I plagued them in taverns, 643 00:42:49,964 --> 00:42:51,557 and all I ever got was, "No." 644 00:42:51,674 --> 00:42:52,800 And tonight? 645 00:42:52,925 --> 00:42:56,304 And tonight, Dolly, this little supper party and the things you said 646 00:42:56,428 --> 00:42:57,930 and the things you made them say 647 00:42:58,055 --> 00:43:01,059 may be just the thing we need to pass the bill tomorrow. 648 00:43:01,183 --> 00:43:03,151 That would be nice, Mr Madison. 649 00:43:03,269 --> 00:43:06,068 It may be the first step in the fight against slavery. 650 00:43:06,188 --> 00:43:08,031 Do you really think it has a chance of passing? 651 00:43:08,148 --> 00:43:10,071 It may, it may, it may. 652 00:43:10,192 --> 00:43:13,321 And if it becomes the law, Dolly, it will be your law. 653 00:43:13,904 --> 00:43:17,124 My law? - Yours and nobody else's. 654 00:43:17,241 --> 00:43:18,538 Oh... 655 00:43:18,659 --> 00:43:22,789 Oh, I... I never felt so important in all my life. 656 00:43:27,543 --> 00:43:29,637 I'll be back in a moment. 657 00:43:42,725 --> 00:43:44,443 Oh, you startled me, Aaron. 658 00:43:44,560 --> 00:43:46,779 Is that all? Then I'll do it again. 659 00:43:49,523 --> 00:43:51,366 Did your supper make history? 660 00:43:51,483 --> 00:43:54,327 It went off very well, thank you, sir. 661 00:43:54,445 --> 00:43:55,822 It can only mean that Mr Madison 662 00:43:55,946 --> 00:43:58,870 had another dull and totally unnecessary law ready to be passed. 663 00:43:58,991 --> 00:44:00,288 It's a very good bill, Aaron. 664 00:44:00,409 --> 00:44:02,537 I know the salve trade act is not only impractical, 665 00:44:02,661 --> 00:44:04,083 but is quite impossible to enforce. 666 00:44:04,204 --> 00:44:07,424 But if it is enforced, it may mean the beginning of the end of slavery. 667 00:44:07,541 --> 00:44:10,920 I know every phrase and syllable on it, and it won't work. 668 00:44:11,587 --> 00:44:12,964 Come on, we're going to the Clinton ball. 669 00:44:13,088 --> 00:44:16,683 Oh, I couldn't stand another party tonight. - And see how politics really are played. 670 00:44:17,509 --> 00:44:19,477 All right, I'll get my gloves and shawl. 671 00:44:19,595 --> 00:44:22,769 It'll help you to get the dull taste of congressman out of your mouth, too. 672 00:45:01,720 --> 00:45:03,518 Mrs Todd, may I present my friends. 673 00:45:03,639 --> 00:45:05,391 Senator and Mrs Mason. - How do you do? 674 00:45:05,516 --> 00:45:07,393 Governor and Mrs Trubshaw. - Delighted. 675 00:45:07,518 --> 00:45:09,520 And Mr Justice Drake. - It is indeed an honour. 676 00:45:09,645 --> 00:45:11,647 Good evening, Senator. - Senator? 677 00:45:11,772 --> 00:45:14,241 Sir, you mean the next president of the United States. 678 00:45:14,358 --> 00:45:15,985 Yeah... 679 00:45:16,110 --> 00:45:18,363 You're the first to put in words what everybody knows. 680 00:45:19,071 --> 00:45:20,948 Gentlemen, these good wishes are deeply appreciated, 681 00:45:21,073 --> 00:45:22,916 even though they are a trifle premature. 682 00:45:23,033 --> 00:45:25,582 Now, when one has the good fortune to dance with Mrs Todd, 683 00:45:25,702 --> 00:45:27,921 only a fool would waste time talking politics. 684 00:45:28,038 --> 00:45:30,166 Goodbye. 685 00:45:32,209 --> 00:45:36,680 I can't believe that I know the man who's to be the next President of the United States. 686 00:45:36,797 --> 00:45:39,721 And a very different kind of president he'll be, too. 687 00:45:39,842 --> 00:45:41,344 Oh, I'm sure of that. 688 00:45:42,678 --> 00:45:44,476 No, I'm serious, Dolly. 689 00:45:44,596 --> 00:45:47,440 When I was in Europe last year, I couldn't help wondering what would happen 690 00:45:47,558 --> 00:45:49,151 if a really strong power, 691 00:45:49,268 --> 00:45:51,566 one with great armies and navies, attacked this country. 692 00:45:51,687 --> 00:45:53,564 I think we'd raise greater armies, 693 00:45:53,689 --> 00:45:55,566 the way we did during the Revolutionary War. 694 00:45:55,691 --> 00:45:58,410 Ah, that time we were lucky. Next time we have to be strong. 695 00:45:58,527 --> 00:46:00,495 There's too much talk about democracy these days 696 00:46:00,612 --> 00:46:02,285 and too little purpose in rule. 697 00:46:03,198 --> 00:46:05,451 We need a president who can pull the states together 698 00:46:05,576 --> 00:46:08,420 and make them into a real nation in spite of themselves. 699 00:46:09,913 --> 00:46:12,336 If I were a man, I think I'd love politics. 700 00:46:14,460 --> 00:46:16,212 Instead of politicians? 701 00:46:22,885 --> 00:46:25,388 There's something very special about sunday, 702 00:46:25,512 --> 00:46:27,014 about the sunshine. 703 00:46:27,139 --> 00:46:29,267 The way people look as they stroll along, 704 00:46:29,391 --> 00:46:32,110 families together, young men and young ladies, 705 00:46:32,227 --> 00:46:34,480 seems to be the best day of the week for everybody. 706 00:46:34,605 --> 00:46:37,404 You didn't like Philadelphia when you first came here, did you? 707 00:46:37,524 --> 00:46:38,776 No. 708 00:46:38,901 --> 00:46:41,279 I miss the life in Virginia. 709 00:46:41,403 --> 00:46:43,531 But there's so much of me here now. 710 00:46:45,032 --> 00:46:48,582 I wish I had those first few years here to live over again. 711 00:46:50,245 --> 00:46:53,795 I wasn't very wise about my marriage, Mr Madison. 712 00:46:53,916 --> 00:46:57,261 I didn't realise how much it meant to me until it was all over. 713 00:46:58,378 --> 00:47:00,881 I heard John Todd was a fine man. 714 00:47:01,006 --> 00:47:03,304 He was. He made me very happy. 715 00:47:03,884 --> 00:47:06,558 But I was extremely wilful. 716 00:47:07,596 --> 00:47:09,598 I have many regrets, Mr Madison. 717 00:47:09,723 --> 00:47:13,068 Well, you can't live with regrets. - I know that. 718 00:47:13,185 --> 00:47:16,780 And there's a good deal of happiness still left in the world. 719 00:47:16,897 --> 00:47:21,027 I suppose everybody has said, "lf I had my life to live over again," 720 00:47:21,151 --> 00:47:23,950 "how differently I would live it." - Yes, I'm sure of that. 721 00:47:24,071 --> 00:47:26,165 I've said it often. 722 00:47:26,281 --> 00:47:28,204 And should I marry again, 723 00:47:28,325 --> 00:47:32,671 I'd try to make up for all the things I failed to do for John. 724 00:47:35,958 --> 00:47:38,962 Are you thinking about marrying again? 725 00:47:40,212 --> 00:47:44,718 Every widow thinks about marrying again, Mr Madison. 726 00:47:44,841 --> 00:47:46,639 I had hoped that you would be. 727 00:47:47,803 --> 00:47:50,272 Had you? - Yes. 728 00:47:50,389 --> 00:47:54,110 This time, I must be deeply in love before my marriage. 729 00:47:54,226 --> 00:47:57,025 I know now the part a wife should play in a husband's life. 730 00:47:57,145 --> 00:47:59,819 I think you should marry a man 731 00:47:59,940 --> 00:48:03,160 because he wants you more than anything else in the world, 732 00:48:03,277 --> 00:48:08,704 because he wants you to be a part of his plans, his ambition, and his work. 733 00:48:08,824 --> 00:48:11,498 No matter how difficult a task he sets out to do, 734 00:48:11,618 --> 00:48:14,667 you make it possible for him to do it. 735 00:48:14,788 --> 00:48:17,041 I hope he'll need me. 736 00:48:17,165 --> 00:48:19,293 That's one thing I must be certain, 737 00:48:19,418 --> 00:48:22,046 that my husband needs me. 738 00:48:22,170 --> 00:48:23,672 He needs you, Dolly. 739 00:48:24,965 --> 00:48:28,686 Sometimes I'm positive that he needs no one but himself. 740 00:48:30,637 --> 00:48:33,686 Then other times, he seems so alone, 741 00:48:34,600 --> 00:48:37,069 as though he needed someone very badly. 742 00:48:38,729 --> 00:48:42,279 I hope you'll forgive me for speaking so frankly, 743 00:48:42,399 --> 00:48:44,822 but you are his friend, 744 00:48:46,320 --> 00:48:50,041 and there are times when I feel I know you better than I do Mr Burr. 745 00:48:50,157 --> 00:48:51,784 You seem to understand me. 746 00:48:51,908 --> 00:48:53,956 I suppose it's because we're both from Virginia. 747 00:48:54,786 --> 00:48:58,290 Yes. I suppose that's the reason. 748 00:48:59,249 --> 00:49:02,173 Well, shall we walk a bit? - Yes, James. 749 00:49:22,898 --> 00:49:24,775 Er, tell Mrs Todd the horses are outside, Amy. 750 00:49:24,900 --> 00:49:28,575 Mrs Todd is having tea with Mr Madison and another gentleman. 751 00:49:30,405 --> 00:49:32,749 Oh, senator, won't you come and have a cup of tea? 752 00:49:36,536 --> 00:49:38,834 You know Mr Jefferson. - Yes, indeed. How are you, Thomas? 753 00:49:38,955 --> 00:49:41,754 It's nice to see you, Aaron. - I don't suppose you've heard the news. 754 00:49:41,875 --> 00:49:43,252 News? ls there news? 755 00:49:43,377 --> 00:49:48,053 Mr Jefferson has been named to run against Mr Adams for the presidency. 756 00:49:52,302 --> 00:49:54,396 Well, congratulations, Thomas. 757 00:49:55,597 --> 00:49:58,726 And congratulations to you, too, James, I feel that you must've had a hand in this. 758 00:49:58,850 --> 00:50:01,945 Two hands, Aaron. No man did more to get me the nomination. 759 00:50:02,062 --> 00:50:04,531 I wish I deserved that compliment. 760 00:50:04,648 --> 00:50:06,025 Let's drink to Mr Jefferson. 761 00:50:07,192 --> 00:50:08,614 Yes. 762 00:50:08,735 --> 00:50:10,578 A toast in tea. 763 00:50:10,696 --> 00:50:14,371 Symbolic of that party in Boston that makes it possible for any man 764 00:50:14,491 --> 00:50:17,119 to offer himself as the leader of his people. 765 00:50:17,244 --> 00:50:20,168 To you, Mr Jefferson. - Thank you, Aaron. 766 00:50:22,582 --> 00:50:25,586 I'm glad that Jefferson was nominated instead of me. 767 00:50:25,711 --> 00:50:26,712 Are you? 768 00:50:26,837 --> 00:50:30,307 Now Adams will win the election, Jefferson will be out of the way, 769 00:50:30,424 --> 00:50:32,051 so will your friend Madison. 770 00:50:32,175 --> 00:50:33,392 Don't you like Mr Madison? 771 00:50:33,510 --> 00:50:35,854 No, I'm jealous. - Oh, Aaron... 772 00:50:35,971 --> 00:50:38,394 Well, not really, but those adoring glances, haven't you noticed them? 773 00:50:38,515 --> 00:50:39,687 I know he's fond of me. 774 00:50:39,808 --> 00:50:42,277 Fond of you? He's madly in love with you. So am I. 775 00:50:43,520 --> 00:50:46,194 Why do you keep James dangling around? - I don't. 776 00:50:46,314 --> 00:50:48,282 I like him. I like his ideals. 777 00:50:48,400 --> 00:50:50,823 His ideals! They're the same as Jefferson's. 778 00:50:50,944 --> 00:50:54,198 You don't really think that men like that can run these so-called United States, do you? 779 00:50:54,322 --> 00:50:57,792 Well, of course I do. - They can't. History proves that. 780 00:50:57,909 --> 00:51:00,162 Where the people rule, they're ruined. 781 00:51:00,287 --> 00:51:04,508 This country will never become a nation until the power to rule is in proper hands. 782 00:51:04,624 --> 00:51:08,219 The United States are a long way from being united. 783 00:51:08,336 --> 00:51:10,885 You yourself fought to make this country a free nation. 784 00:51:11,006 --> 00:51:13,646 I'm still fighting to make it a nation, not a collection of tribes. 785 00:51:13,759 --> 00:51:15,636 That's what it is now. 786 00:51:15,761 --> 00:51:19,436 New England and the southern states beat out the tom-toms over the tariff, 787 00:51:19,556 --> 00:51:22,935 New York and Pennsylvania hold war dances and yell against the taxes. 788 00:51:23,059 --> 00:51:25,099 Every so-called citizen wants everything for himself 789 00:51:25,187 --> 00:51:26,707 and to leave nothing for the other man. 790 00:51:27,689 --> 00:51:31,114 A country so divided and a people so selfish 791 00:51:31,234 --> 00:51:33,612 makes a very tempting dish. 792 00:51:35,197 --> 00:51:38,326 Aaron, that's no way to take defeat. - Defeat? 793 00:51:38,450 --> 00:51:40,748 I'm not defeated. 794 00:51:40,869 --> 00:51:44,715 And when this union of states breaks up, I'll pick up the pieces. 795 00:51:45,874 --> 00:51:48,377 Jefferson and Madison can have their day now, 796 00:51:48,502 --> 00:51:49,924 I'll have mine later. 797 00:51:50,045 --> 00:51:52,093 Not that way, Aaron, no. 798 00:51:52,214 --> 00:51:54,808 I'll preach freedom and rebellion in the same breath, 799 00:51:54,925 --> 00:51:58,771 I'll lead and the rebel will follow, and in the end I'll rule. 800 00:51:58,887 --> 00:52:02,312 I'll rule without election, I'll rule without congress. 801 00:52:02,432 --> 00:52:03,684 Aaron, that's treason. 802 00:52:03,809 --> 00:52:07,154 You shouldn't talk like that. Too many men have died for our liberty. 803 00:52:07,270 --> 00:52:10,740 Treason? You may call it treason, but I call it destiny. 804 00:52:10,857 --> 00:52:12,905 Your destiny and mine. 805 00:52:15,070 --> 00:52:17,198 Aaron, you frighten me when you talk like that. 806 00:52:17,322 --> 00:52:19,916 I'm going to rule this country alone. 807 00:52:20,033 --> 00:52:23,162 Only you will be at my side, always. 808 00:52:29,334 --> 00:52:31,086 Have you got the carriage? - Yes. 809 00:52:31,211 --> 00:52:33,054 Might I suggest you redraft the bill? 810 00:52:33,171 --> 00:52:34,639 I'll think about it. 811 00:52:48,436 --> 00:52:51,406 Dolly, this is a surprise! Have you been in the gallery, 812 00:52:51,523 --> 00:52:53,116 listening to the debates? - No, James. 813 00:52:53,233 --> 00:52:55,986 Fisher Ames and Guiles put on quite a show. I thought they'd never finish. 814 00:52:56,111 --> 00:52:58,079 Is there somewhere I may speak to you? 815 00:52:58,196 --> 00:53:00,369 I mean, privately. - Why, of course. 816 00:53:00,490 --> 00:53:02,834 Sit down right here. No one will disturb us. 817 00:53:02,951 --> 00:53:04,453 Hadn't we better go somewhere else? 818 00:53:04,578 --> 00:53:06,672 I know women are not supposed to come in here. 819 00:53:06,788 --> 00:53:09,382 No, no, it's all right. Nobody will mind. 820 00:53:09,499 --> 00:53:12,002 You seem troubled, Dolly. Sit down. 821 00:53:12,127 --> 00:53:13,674 I am troubled. 822 00:53:13,795 --> 00:53:18,551 I'm troubled about something that women are not supposed to be concerned with at all. 823 00:53:18,675 --> 00:53:20,677 I thought a woman's hand was always needed 824 00:53:20,802 --> 00:53:22,429 when there was a problem to be solved. 825 00:53:23,388 --> 00:53:25,356 Even in politics? - Yeah. 826 00:53:25,473 --> 00:53:27,976 Yes, there have been women involved in politics, 827 00:53:28,101 --> 00:53:32,527 Cleopatra, Du Barry, old Queen Elizabeth, you're not alone in history. 828 00:53:32,647 --> 00:53:35,947 Then my coming here to talk politics doesn't seem strange to you? 829 00:53:36,067 --> 00:53:37,694 No, I think it's delightful. 830 00:53:37,819 --> 00:53:40,413 Have you a bill you want me to sponsor? 831 00:53:40,530 --> 00:53:43,283 No, I'm afraid I have a lot of questions. 832 00:53:43,408 --> 00:53:45,001 Well, that's good. 833 00:53:45,118 --> 00:53:48,918 There's no better place for a citizen to ask questions than in the hall of Congress. 834 00:53:50,498 --> 00:53:52,000 James, 835 00:53:52,834 --> 00:53:57,556 isn't it true that man's effort to be free has always failed? 836 00:53:58,340 --> 00:53:59,887 Yes. 837 00:54:00,008 --> 00:54:05,185 Yes, that's been the record for the past 8.000 years, up until now. 838 00:54:06,097 --> 00:54:08,395 Are you afraid we'll fail again? 839 00:54:08,516 --> 00:54:10,439 I don't know. 840 00:54:10,560 --> 00:54:13,359 Is that a bad thing to say? - I don't think so. 841 00:54:13,480 --> 00:54:15,448 I often ask myself that. 842 00:54:15,565 --> 00:54:18,193 I have doubts, too, very often. 843 00:54:18,318 --> 00:54:20,195 But then I tell myself, 844 00:54:20,320 --> 00:54:24,291 "This is the last great hope of man, and we can't let it fail." 845 00:54:24,407 --> 00:54:27,206 But it is in danger, isn't it? - Yes. 846 00:54:28,203 --> 00:54:31,298 I sometimes wonder how we had the courage to fight for it. 847 00:54:31,414 --> 00:54:35,544 Maybe it's something in the American soil, some kind of strength that comes up to men. 848 00:54:35,669 --> 00:54:37,797 Maybe it's something in the air, clear and heady, 849 00:54:37,921 --> 00:54:40,344 that makes us want to be free. 850 00:54:40,465 --> 00:54:43,469 But whatever it is, we have it and we'll keep it, if the people want it. 851 00:54:44,678 --> 00:54:47,773 That's just it. Some people don't want it. 852 00:54:47,889 --> 00:54:51,268 They want a ruler. They want advantages for themselves. 853 00:54:51,393 --> 00:54:54,021 They want to take away from the many and give power to the few. 854 00:54:54,145 --> 00:54:56,739 No, no, some people want that. 855 00:54:56,856 --> 00:54:59,029 But they're not people who understand freedom. 856 00:55:01,152 --> 00:55:04,873 How would you define freedom, James? What do you say it is? 857 00:55:05,657 --> 00:55:08,001 I don't know. 858 00:55:08,118 --> 00:55:10,587 If I were called upon here 859 00:55:10,704 --> 00:55:14,129 by the representatives of the people, my colleagues, 860 00:55:14,249 --> 00:55:16,752 to define freedom, 861 00:55:16,876 --> 00:55:18,799 now what would I say? 862 00:55:20,171 --> 00:55:26,645 I'd say freedom is the right of every man to look upon every other man and say, 863 00:55:26,761 --> 00:55:29,856 "I'm no better than you are, and you're no better than I am. 864 00:55:30,473 --> 00:55:33,147 "I'm not yours, and you're not mine," 865 00:55:33,268 --> 00:55:37,273 "but together we can be the strongest of all men." 866 00:55:38,023 --> 00:55:41,448 "Together we can make laws to settle our disputes." 867 00:55:41,943 --> 00:55:45,117 "Together we can devise and work out a way of life" 868 00:55:45,238 --> 00:55:47,286 "that will be good for all of us." 869 00:55:48,074 --> 00:55:50,998 "This was the reason we fought to be free," 870 00:55:51,119 --> 00:55:53,497 "and this is the way we live in freedom." 871 00:55:55,874 --> 00:55:57,626 ls there some question from the member? 872 00:55:59,169 --> 00:56:01,797 Yes, there is. 873 00:56:01,921 --> 00:56:07,803 What will happen if this idea of freedom were attacked by a strong enemy? 874 00:56:08,762 --> 00:56:11,106 I only know I've had one glimpse of freedom, 875 00:56:11,222 --> 00:56:13,441 and now I can't live without it. 876 00:56:13,558 --> 00:56:17,938 And I and all men like me will die fighting those who try to shut it off. 877 00:56:18,063 --> 00:56:20,691 You have doubts, I have them, too, 878 00:56:20,815 --> 00:56:24,410 but I also have this, and I'll give it to you. 879 00:56:24,527 --> 00:56:29,203 That this blessed dream of free men governed by their own laws 880 00:56:29,324 --> 00:56:31,918 will take shape and grow, Dolly, 881 00:56:32,035 --> 00:56:37,257 until it includes all people, all races, all kinds, all together. 882 00:56:37,373 --> 00:56:40,843 This is all I have, this blessed dream, 883 00:56:40,960 --> 00:56:44,840 it's all I have to offer to still your doubts. 884 00:56:47,342 --> 00:56:49,640 I'm sorry, I didn't mean to make a speech. 885 00:56:50,887 --> 00:56:54,107 Oh, James, it's all so clear to me now. 886 00:56:54,224 --> 00:56:55,897 You're not crying? 887 00:56:56,017 --> 00:56:57,564 No. 888 00:56:57,685 --> 00:56:59,938 No, I'm not crying. 889 00:57:00,063 --> 00:57:03,693 I know something now it seems I've always known. 890 00:57:05,276 --> 00:57:07,153 I know now, James, that... 891 00:57:08,488 --> 00:57:09,990 I love you. 892 00:57:11,825 --> 00:57:15,625 I've been trying to say those same words to you since the first day I saw you. 893 00:57:15,745 --> 00:57:19,295 And now I didn't even have to propose. 894 00:57:19,415 --> 00:57:22,589 No man has ever made a more beautiful proposal. 895 00:57:25,088 --> 00:57:28,888 See here, you two. This table is for making laws, not for making love. 896 00:57:29,008 --> 00:57:30,009 It's all right, Hugo. 897 00:57:30,135 --> 00:57:33,685 Oh, forgive me, Mr Madison, I didn't know. 898 00:57:33,805 --> 00:57:35,853 I never dreamed. 899 00:57:35,974 --> 00:57:37,897 Neither did I. 900 00:57:40,645 --> 00:57:42,693 I want you to have this necklace now, 901 00:57:42,814 --> 00:57:44,942 and you're to wear it for the first time at your wedding. 902 00:57:45,066 --> 00:57:46,306 It was your great-grandmothers. 903 00:57:48,736 --> 00:57:51,114 Oh, I remember this. 904 00:57:51,239 --> 00:57:53,162 You used to wear this in Virginia. 905 00:57:53,283 --> 00:57:55,206 Only on great occasions. 906 00:57:55,326 --> 00:57:57,875 Oh, it's a wonderful present. 907 00:57:57,996 --> 00:57:59,088 Thank you, mother. 908 00:57:59,747 --> 00:58:03,422 I couldn't give it to you the last time, but this time you must have a beautiful wedding. 909 00:58:03,543 --> 00:58:06,046 I think I can brag of you to our friends. 910 00:58:06,171 --> 00:58:08,344 "Dolly", I'll say, "is married to James Madison," 911 00:58:08,464 --> 00:58:10,842 "a truly great man." 912 00:58:10,967 --> 00:58:12,935 Yes, he is, mother. 913 00:58:13,052 --> 00:58:17,432 His love is the kind that will last forever. 914 00:58:17,557 --> 00:58:21,812 And his life and his dreams are the kind that a woman can really share. 915 00:58:24,480 --> 00:58:27,233 Er, what does Aaron Burr think about this, Doll? 916 00:58:32,280 --> 00:58:34,032 I haven't told him yet. 917 00:58:35,700 --> 00:58:37,748 But I will tonight. 918 00:58:49,005 --> 00:58:50,552 I thought we might take supper out tonight. 919 00:58:50,673 --> 00:58:53,301 I'd like to be spared the sight of Madison smugly denying 920 00:58:53,426 --> 00:58:55,599 that he engineered Jefferson's nomination. 921 00:58:55,720 --> 00:58:57,939 We could go someplace where we're not known. 922 00:59:01,309 --> 00:59:02,856 Aaron... 923 00:59:04,145 --> 00:59:06,864 I'd like to tell you something. 924 00:59:06,981 --> 00:59:09,200 Not about politics, I hope? 925 00:59:09,317 --> 00:59:12,036 No, it's about us. 926 00:59:12,153 --> 00:59:13,370 What do you want to tell me? 927 00:59:14,530 --> 00:59:17,500 Well, I hope you'll understand this. 928 00:59:17,617 --> 00:59:20,291 It's not very easy to explain. 929 00:59:20,411 --> 00:59:24,666 I guess when things like this happen, they are always a little... 930 00:59:26,960 --> 00:59:28,837 What are you trying to say? 931 00:59:30,421 --> 00:59:32,640 I'm going to marry James Madison. 932 00:59:35,385 --> 00:59:37,854 I knew it. Yesterday on the hill, I knew it. 933 00:59:37,971 --> 00:59:39,723 No, Aaron, I didn't know until today myself. 934 00:59:39,847 --> 00:59:43,818 Why are you doing this? - Because I love him. I love him very deeply. 935 00:59:43,935 --> 00:59:45,687 I'm sorry, but... - You're sorry! 936 00:59:45,812 --> 00:59:47,132 That's very touching, widow Todd, 937 00:59:47,188 --> 00:59:49,282 but you'll be more sorry as time goes on. - Aaron, you're hurting me. 938 00:59:49,399 --> 00:59:52,619 Think I'll fail? Have you lost faith in me? - No, please, Aaron... 939 00:59:53,361 --> 00:59:54,658 Let me go. 940 00:59:56,864 --> 00:59:59,834 You'll never forget me, Dolly, if you marry a dozen Madisons. 941 01:00:01,995 --> 01:00:03,338 And I'll never forget you. 942 01:00:05,873 --> 01:00:07,546 Never. 943 01:00:13,298 --> 01:00:15,767 James Madison and I were married. 944 01:00:15,883 --> 01:00:20,605 After the election, when our friend Tom Jefferson lost the presidency to John Adams, 945 01:00:20,722 --> 01:00:22,520 my husband and I moved to Virginia, 946 01:00:22,640 --> 01:00:25,484 where James was a member of the Virginia legislature. 947 01:00:25,601 --> 01:00:30,107 We spent four wonderful and happy years on his family estate. 948 01:00:30,231 --> 01:00:31,699 Dolly! - Yes? 949 01:00:31,816 --> 01:00:35,537 Look, we have some visitors. - Look, they can get their eyes open. 950 01:00:35,653 --> 01:00:37,280 You know what his name is? - No. 951 01:00:37,405 --> 01:00:38,782 John Adams. - Why? 952 01:00:38,906 --> 01:00:40,704 Well, look at him. 953 01:00:40,825 --> 01:00:42,793 Mr Madison, sir. - Oh, yes, fella. 954 01:00:42,910 --> 01:00:44,662 This came by courier from Washington, sir. 955 01:00:44,787 --> 01:00:46,789 Oh, good. Thank you. 956 01:00:48,166 --> 01:00:51,090 It's from Tom Jefferson. - Oh, I hope he's coming to visit us. 957 01:00:51,210 --> 01:00:53,087 He's one person I'd love to see. 958 01:00:53,212 --> 01:00:55,089 He wants us to visit him. 959 01:00:55,214 --> 01:00:58,388 He's going to run for president again. - That is good news. 960 01:00:58,509 --> 01:01:00,978 He says, "You must come to Washington and help me campaign." 961 01:01:01,721 --> 01:01:03,401 I could close the house in a very few days. 962 01:01:03,514 --> 01:01:05,892 "going to be an exciting campaign." 963 01:01:06,017 --> 01:01:09,988 He has Aaron Burr running for his vice president. 964 01:01:11,189 --> 01:01:14,534 He says that should ensure New York and Massachusetts. 965 01:01:14,650 --> 01:01:17,449 But Tom and Aaron seem to be such strange running mates. 966 01:01:17,570 --> 01:01:21,370 Yes, old Tom's probably swung Burr around to his way of thinking. 967 01:01:21,491 --> 01:01:23,789 This last paragraph is for you. 968 01:01:23,910 --> 01:01:27,210 "Dolly, I'm counting on you to keep things running smoothly." 969 01:01:29,415 --> 01:01:30,792 Now what are you thinking up? 970 01:01:31,918 --> 01:01:36,014 I was just thinking how happy we've been here in Montpelier these past four years. 971 01:01:36,130 --> 01:01:38,633 Oh, we'll come back here after the election. 972 01:01:38,758 --> 01:01:42,638 Jefferson will make our country a model for every nation on earth. 973 01:01:42,762 --> 01:01:44,981 He has to win this election, Doll. 974 01:01:47,350 --> 01:01:49,444 And you want to help him, don't you, James? 975 01:01:49,560 --> 01:01:52,404 Yes, I do. All I can. 976 01:01:52,522 --> 01:01:55,241 And I want to help you, all I can. 977 01:02:06,577 --> 01:02:08,204 We had moved to Washington, 978 01:02:08,329 --> 01:02:10,002 and now that the campaign was over, 979 01:02:10,123 --> 01:02:12,967 we were spending our fifth wedding anniversary alone, 980 01:02:13,084 --> 01:02:14,757 as we had planned. 981 01:02:14,877 --> 01:02:16,754 James! 982 01:02:16,879 --> 01:02:19,632 That's the most beautiful fan I've ever seen. 983 01:02:19,757 --> 01:02:22,852 Why not? It's for the most beautiful woman I've ever seen. 984 01:02:26,097 --> 01:02:28,020 Yes, very useful things, fans. 985 01:02:28,141 --> 01:02:30,485 Open your present. - Oh, yes. 986 01:02:30,601 --> 01:02:32,603 Yes. Now let me... 987 01:02:34,439 --> 01:02:36,316 A snuff box? 988 01:02:36,441 --> 01:02:40,366 Well, Dolly, you're really trying to make a dandy out of me, aren't you? 989 01:02:40,486 --> 01:02:42,864 Don't you like it? - Oh, I certainly do. 990 01:02:42,989 --> 01:02:45,083 Oh, you'd better. I had to go all the way to New York for it. 991 01:02:45,199 --> 01:02:46,872 Well, it's overwhelming. 992 01:02:46,993 --> 01:02:49,587 I'm going to make a point of offering snuff to everybody in the capital, 993 01:02:49,704 --> 01:02:51,047 so they can... admire it. 994 01:02:51,164 --> 01:02:54,509 And I shall blush modestly behind my fan at your elegance. 995 01:02:54,625 --> 01:02:58,425 Which reminds me, I must have a new gown and turban made to match my beautiful gift. 996 01:02:58,546 --> 01:03:02,346 Of course now I have to have new Waistcoats to house this beautiful object. 997 01:03:02,467 --> 01:03:04,845 You'll be the centre of attraction, my dear husband. 998 01:03:04,969 --> 01:03:07,188 Mr Madison, please, sir. 999 01:03:07,305 --> 01:03:10,184 Mr Wilson and Mr Quinnan, some other gentlemen, to see you. 1000 01:03:10,308 --> 01:03:13,278 Tell them to come in, please. 1001 01:03:14,479 --> 01:03:17,403 This is the evening we were going to spend alone. 1002 01:03:17,523 --> 01:03:20,447 Public life and private plans seldom walk together. 1003 01:03:20,568 --> 01:03:21,820 They may not stay very long. 1004 01:03:21,944 --> 01:03:24,197 Don't ask them for supper. - I won't. 1005 01:03:24,322 --> 01:03:27,576 They probably came by to tell us about the electoral college vote. Gentlemen? 1006 01:03:27,700 --> 01:03:29,873 Mr Madison, we've been tricked. - Tricked? 1007 01:03:29,994 --> 01:03:31,792 Jefferson and Burr are tied. 1008 01:03:31,913 --> 01:03:34,587 Seventy-three votes for each. Here's the calculation. 1009 01:03:37,084 --> 01:03:40,429 You mean the election will go to the House of Representatives for a decision? 1010 01:03:40,546 --> 01:03:43,925 It will indeed, ma'am. - And there is danger there for us. 1011 01:03:44,050 --> 01:03:47,020 We're about to sit in council with Mr Jefferson on this matter tonight. 1012 01:03:47,136 --> 01:03:49,480 Gentlemen, I'll see you in a few moments. 1013 01:03:53,017 --> 01:03:54,894 I'm sorry, Doll. 1014 01:03:55,019 --> 01:03:58,319 This is a poor end to our little celebration. 1015 01:03:58,439 --> 01:04:00,191 Maybe we should've stayed in Virginia. 1016 01:04:00,316 --> 01:04:04,241 James, you must not let Aaron Burr be named president. 1017 01:04:04,362 --> 01:04:07,081 I feel this is my fault in a way. 1018 01:04:07,198 --> 01:04:09,166 I wrote the election law. 1019 01:04:09,283 --> 01:04:11,377 Burr found a loophole. 1020 01:04:11,494 --> 01:04:14,168 I didn't write a very good law, Doll. 1021 01:04:31,055 --> 01:04:33,274 I tell you, I have a feeling about it. 1022 01:04:33,391 --> 01:04:35,860 When the House votes, we'll defeat Jefferson two to one. 1023 01:04:35,977 --> 01:04:39,026 Two to one, gentlemen! I swear it won't be less than that, Aaron. 1024 01:04:39,146 --> 01:04:41,194 Or should I say Mr president? 1025 01:04:41,315 --> 01:04:42,908 All we need is nine more votes. 1026 01:04:43,025 --> 01:04:46,825 Nine votes, and Jefferson buried in the vice presidency once again. 1027 01:04:46,946 --> 01:04:48,368 A fate he richly deserves. 1028 01:04:48,489 --> 01:04:50,241 Mr Alexander Hamilton, sir. 1029 01:04:52,201 --> 01:04:53,248 Tell him I'm not here. 1030 01:04:53,369 --> 01:04:55,121 Mr Burr? 1031 01:04:55,246 --> 01:04:58,500 I hope you'll pardon my presence, but my business is urgent. 1032 01:04:58,624 --> 01:05:00,046 And private. 1033 01:05:00,167 --> 01:05:02,090 No, please stay, gentlemen. 1034 01:05:02,211 --> 01:05:04,305 Yes, Mr Hamilton? 1035 01:05:04,422 --> 01:05:08,973 I'm here to ask you again to stop this folly and end this farce 1036 01:05:09,093 --> 01:05:11,095 and to notify the House of Representatives 1037 01:05:11,220 --> 01:05:15,066 that you ran for the vice presidency, not for the presidency. 1038 01:05:15,182 --> 01:05:17,776 And why should they believe me any more than they believe you? 1039 01:05:17,893 --> 01:05:20,396 Your claim to the presidency, Mr Burr, 1040 01:05:20,521 --> 01:05:25,493 is distasteful, dishonest, and personally repugnant to decent men. 1041 01:05:25,610 --> 01:05:27,612 And how do men like yourself feel about it? 1042 01:05:28,487 --> 01:05:29,739 Aaron Burr, 1043 01:05:29,864 --> 01:05:33,869 whatever influence I have, I shall use against you at this time. 1044 01:05:34,994 --> 01:05:39,670 And any time in the future that you are presumptuous enough to run for public office, 1045 01:05:39,790 --> 01:05:41,212 I shall oppose you. 1046 01:05:42,084 --> 01:05:43,802 Have you all heard enough? - Mm-hmm. 1047 01:05:43,919 --> 01:05:48,641 So have I. Jason, show Mr Hamilton to the door and then open the window. 1048 01:05:48,758 --> 01:05:50,101 Won't you all join me? 1049 01:05:57,099 --> 01:05:59,227 You turned him out! 1050 01:05:59,352 --> 01:06:02,401 And you did it beautifully, Mr president, beautifully. 1051 01:06:02,521 --> 01:06:05,445 I don't think he'd never swing the federalist vote for Jefferson. 1052 01:06:05,566 --> 01:06:08,240 I don't know. He may be meddlesome, but he's clever. 1053 01:06:08,361 --> 01:06:10,159 We must find a way to offset him. 1054 01:06:10,821 --> 01:06:12,243 Let me think now. 1055 01:06:12,365 --> 01:06:15,835 Aaron, if I were you, I would go to the city of Washington as soon as possible. 1056 01:06:15,951 --> 01:06:18,500 I'd talk to every congressman down there. 1057 01:06:18,621 --> 01:06:21,090 This thing needs just a little horse-trading, 1058 01:06:21,207 --> 01:06:23,801 and I think you can trade horses better than Hamilton. 1059 01:06:23,918 --> 01:06:26,762 My, oh my, oh my, why didn't I think of that? 1060 01:06:26,879 --> 01:06:30,133 I'll sleep on it and let you know in the morning. 1061 01:06:30,257 --> 01:06:32,976 A trip to Washington this time of year might be very pleasant. 1062 01:06:33,094 --> 01:06:36,268 Hamilton will try to swing New York and may pick up a few votes. 1063 01:06:36,389 --> 01:06:39,017 The Federals will hold the line, they hate Jefferson. 1064 01:06:39,141 --> 01:06:40,484 Everyone hates him. 1065 01:06:40,601 --> 01:06:42,820 They hate Madison, too. 1066 01:06:42,937 --> 01:06:44,063 What about John Marshall? 1067 01:06:44,188 --> 01:06:46,361 Do you mind if we discuss this in the morning instead of tonight? 1068 01:06:46,482 --> 01:06:48,860 Oh, certainly. - Certainly, Mr president. 1069 01:06:48,984 --> 01:06:51,612 Jason will show you to the door. - Yeah, we were just leaving. 1070 01:07:24,937 --> 01:07:27,531 Aaron, I don't know what you'll think of me for coming here like this, 1071 01:07:27,648 --> 01:07:30,572 but I had to see you for a few minutes. - I dreamt of you in every room in this house. 1072 01:07:30,693 --> 01:07:32,813 I know what you think of a woman meddling in politics. 1073 01:07:32,903 --> 01:07:35,076 But I can't let you go on doing what you're doing 1074 01:07:35,197 --> 01:07:37,120 without pleading with you to change your course. 1075 01:07:37,241 --> 01:07:39,118 You look exactly the same. 1076 01:07:40,911 --> 01:07:41,912 What course? 1077 01:07:42,037 --> 01:07:44,711 This pretention to the presidency. 1078 01:07:45,541 --> 01:07:47,214 Pretention? 1079 01:07:48,711 --> 01:07:50,713 Madison send you here? - No, Aaron. 1080 01:07:51,297 --> 01:07:53,417 Don't tell me you're running errands for Mr Jefferson. 1081 01:07:53,507 --> 01:07:56,101 No one knows I'm here. - Why did you come then? 1082 01:07:59,597 --> 01:08:01,190 Aaron, 1083 01:08:01,307 --> 01:08:03,856 once you told me that you loved me. 1084 01:08:04,685 --> 01:08:06,187 Once? 1085 01:08:06,312 --> 01:08:09,156 I thought I told you more often than that. 1086 01:08:09,273 --> 01:08:11,901 I also told you I was gonna become the President of the United States, 1087 01:08:12,026 --> 01:08:16,122 and as I recall, you were very happy to know the man who might gain that high office. 1088 01:08:17,031 --> 01:08:20,126 Now you're here to gain political advantage for your husband. 1089 01:08:20,993 --> 01:08:25,499 I'm here because this is more important than my husband or Mr Jefferson or you or me. 1090 01:08:25,623 --> 01:08:28,046 Speak for your own side, madam. It's very important for me. 1091 01:08:28,167 --> 01:08:31,447 So important, in fact, that I'm going to Washington tomorrow to ensure its success. 1092 01:08:32,171 --> 01:08:35,926 To influence the House vote by trading and truckling with men you despise. 1093 01:08:36,050 --> 01:08:38,803 Aaron, that's sneaking into the presidency by the back door. 1094 01:08:38,928 --> 01:08:41,226 Serve your four years as vice president. 1095 01:08:41,347 --> 01:08:43,520 Mr Jefferson did it. Mr Adams did it. 1096 01:08:43,641 --> 01:08:46,235 You can only add to your political strength by doing the same. 1097 01:08:46,352 --> 01:08:48,901 At this moment, I'm stronger than Mr Jefferson. 1098 01:08:49,021 --> 01:08:50,864 I'm stronger than Madison and Hamilton, too. 1099 01:08:50,981 --> 01:08:54,281 Then why do you cheapen yourself by going to Washington to buy and beg votes? 1100 01:08:55,027 --> 01:08:56,870 Cheapen myself? 1101 01:09:04,954 --> 01:09:06,376 Dolly, 1102 01:09:07,164 --> 01:09:10,168 to prove to you that this is my destiny, I won't go to Washington. 1103 01:09:10,292 --> 01:09:12,636 I won't lift a finger to further my own cause. 1104 01:09:14,505 --> 01:09:15,973 Does that make you happier? 1105 01:09:19,093 --> 01:09:20,561 Thank you, Aaron. 1106 01:09:23,722 --> 01:09:25,520 I know why you're here. 1107 01:09:25,641 --> 01:09:28,269 You won't admit it to yourself right now. 1108 01:09:28,394 --> 01:09:30,897 You keep saying, "That's all over, that's done with." 1109 01:09:32,189 --> 01:09:35,443 But it will never be over between us, Dolly, never done with. 1110 01:09:37,820 --> 01:09:41,370 Aaron, I don't want you to say these things. 1111 01:09:41,490 --> 01:09:43,709 I'll always say them. 1112 01:09:45,744 --> 01:09:48,042 And when my day comes, 1113 01:09:48,163 --> 01:09:51,007 I'll find some way to have you at my side. 1114 01:09:55,421 --> 01:09:57,048 Goodbye, Aaron. 1115 01:10:06,640 --> 01:10:08,233 Aaron Burr did yield, 1116 01:10:08,350 --> 01:10:12,105 and Thomas Jefferson was inaugurated President of the United States. 1117 01:10:12,229 --> 01:10:14,948 He appointed my husband Secretary of State. 1118 01:10:15,065 --> 01:10:17,363 Mr Jefferson asked James and me to go with him 1119 01:10:17,484 --> 01:10:20,363 on his first official inspection of the president's house. 1120 01:10:20,487 --> 01:10:23,286 To my astonishment, he said he had a job for me, too. 1121 01:10:23,407 --> 01:10:25,250 He was a widower and wanted me to become 1122 01:10:25,367 --> 01:10:29,372 the official hostess of Washington City and the president's house. 1123 01:10:29,496 --> 01:10:33,126 I was delighted, of course, but in no way prepared for what I was to find 1124 01:10:33,250 --> 01:10:35,878 when Mrs John Adams opened the front door for us. 1125 01:10:36,003 --> 01:10:39,724 The contractor had promised to finish the president's house many months before, 1126 01:10:39,840 --> 01:10:42,719 but materials were scarce, good workmen hard to find, 1127 01:10:42,843 --> 01:10:44,470 and through somebody's bad judgement, 1128 01:10:44,595 --> 01:10:47,098 the house had been built in the midst of a swamp. 1129 01:10:47,222 --> 01:10:48,940 Mrs Adams led us to the kitchen 1130 01:10:49,058 --> 01:10:52,232 to show us the three feet of water covering the floor. 1131 01:10:52,353 --> 01:10:57,154 The East Room, the great and magnificent ballroom for entertaining European royalty, 1132 01:10:57,274 --> 01:10:59,072 was unfinished, unpainted, 1133 01:10:59,193 --> 01:11:02,948 with an enormous line of wash hanging from one end to the other. 1134 01:11:03,072 --> 01:11:07,669 Standing in the midst of all this confusion, Mr Jefferson gave me my assignment. 1135 01:11:07,785 --> 01:11:11,460 I was to make the president's house warm, beautiful and friendly, 1136 01:11:11,580 --> 01:11:15,380 so that every American would feel it was his unofficial home. 1137 01:11:15,501 --> 01:11:18,050 It was the most difficult assignment I had ever had, 1138 01:11:18,170 --> 01:11:20,844 but Mr Jefferson was not a man you failed. 1139 01:11:20,965 --> 01:11:23,093 It was not too long before the work was done, 1140 01:11:23,217 --> 01:11:25,595 and we were giving lovely parties. 1141 01:11:31,225 --> 01:11:32,568 Oh, Dolly. 1142 01:11:32,685 --> 01:11:34,312 I was just telling Jonathan, 1143 01:11:34,436 --> 01:11:38,361 the four of us ought to try and arrange a little trip Virginia right after the session. 1144 01:11:38,482 --> 01:11:40,075 I'd love it. Wouldn't you, James? 1145 01:11:40,192 --> 01:11:41,865 James can't take any trips to Virginia. 1146 01:11:41,986 --> 01:11:43,954 Jefferson won't let him get out of Washington. 1147 01:11:44,071 --> 01:11:46,244 There's plenty of reason to stay here right now, 1148 01:11:46,365 --> 01:11:49,164 especially for the man Jefferson's picked to succeed him. 1149 01:11:49,284 --> 01:11:50,877 Jonathan, don't say things like that. 1150 01:11:50,995 --> 01:11:53,464 James has no ambition to succeed Mr Jefferson. 1151 01:11:53,580 --> 01:11:54,957 That is the truth. 1152 01:11:55,082 --> 01:11:57,130 Now, don't try to pull the wool over my eyes, James. 1153 01:11:57,251 --> 01:11:59,879 Any man in the United States would like to be president. 1154 01:12:00,004 --> 01:12:01,551 Mr Aaron Burr! 1155 01:12:01,672 --> 01:12:04,721 The Vice president of the United States. 1156 01:12:13,684 --> 01:12:16,153 Excuse me. Excuse me. 1157 01:12:26,488 --> 01:12:27,831 Mr President. 1158 01:12:27,948 --> 01:12:29,450 Mr Burr. - Mr Vice President. 1159 01:12:30,159 --> 01:12:32,036 Mr Secretary. 1160 01:12:42,713 --> 01:12:46,013 Now, if you'll excuse me, Mr President, I'd like to look around a little. 1161 01:12:46,133 --> 01:12:47,851 Certainly, Mr Burr. 1162 01:12:47,968 --> 01:12:50,517 I might even find a friend here. 1163 01:12:54,892 --> 01:12:58,317 Aaron Burr. At last you come to one of my parties. 1164 01:12:58,437 --> 01:13:00,030 Hostess to the president. 1165 01:13:00,147 --> 01:13:02,525 What a magnificent title for you, widow Todd. 1166 01:13:03,734 --> 01:13:07,864 Well, it is a rather difficult task at times, but I manage to... 1167 01:13:07,988 --> 01:13:09,956 But an easy one to get, I'm sure. 1168 01:13:10,949 --> 01:13:13,452 All you had to do is to persuade me to step aside for Jefferson 1169 01:13:13,577 --> 01:13:16,000 and tell him and be rewarded. 1170 01:13:16,121 --> 01:13:18,374 I stepped down and you stepped up. 1171 01:13:19,833 --> 01:13:21,756 Aaron, 1172 01:13:21,877 --> 01:13:24,926 no one, not even my husband, knows I went to New York to see you. 1173 01:13:25,047 --> 01:13:26,469 I'll never tell him, madam. 1174 01:13:26,590 --> 01:13:29,139 I wouldn't want him to know how big a fool I've been. 1175 01:13:30,302 --> 01:13:33,021 Did you come here tonight just to humiliate me, 1176 01:13:33,138 --> 01:13:35,061 to say things you know are not true? 1177 01:13:35,182 --> 01:13:37,981 I came here to tell you that what you and Jefferson and Madison robbed me of, 1178 01:13:38,102 --> 01:13:39,103 I'll get myself. 1179 01:13:39,895 --> 01:13:41,943 You may plan, and Madison may dream, 1180 01:13:42,064 --> 01:13:44,158 it will do you no good. 1181 01:13:44,274 --> 01:13:47,073 Thomas Jefferson will be the last President of the United States. 1182 01:13:49,029 --> 01:13:51,373 That's irresponsible, Aaron. 1183 01:13:51,490 --> 01:13:53,993 You must end this suspicion, this madness. 1184 01:13:54,118 --> 01:13:55,210 This madness? 1185 01:13:55,327 --> 01:13:57,580 You know me better than that, Dolly. 1186 01:13:57,704 --> 01:14:00,048 What I start out to do, I do. 1187 01:14:00,165 --> 01:14:03,089 When it's done, you'll be the first to know. 1188 01:14:04,670 --> 01:14:06,764 Till then, Mrs Madison. 1189 01:14:13,345 --> 01:14:15,643 This is a tragic circumstance, James. 1190 01:14:19,810 --> 01:14:22,529 With your permission, sir. - Certainly. 1191 01:14:26,108 --> 01:14:29,738 Did Burr tell you about his duel with Alexander Hamilton? 1192 01:14:29,862 --> 01:14:32,081 Duel? No, what happened? 1193 01:14:32,197 --> 01:14:34,871 Courier just brought word they fought with pistols. 1194 01:14:34,992 --> 01:14:37,165 Burr killed him. 1195 01:14:37,286 --> 01:14:39,459 Oh, no! - Yes. 1196 01:14:41,790 --> 01:14:43,292 Well, Ned, have you come along for the fun? 1197 01:14:43,417 --> 01:14:45,636 Well, colonel, I always did want to see Mexico. 1198 01:14:45,752 --> 01:14:48,050 You'll see plenty of it if you follow me, soldier. 1199 01:14:49,006 --> 01:14:52,226 They still think we're going to attack Mexico. - That's all they talk about. 1200 01:14:52,342 --> 01:14:54,470 Blennerhassett's learning Spanish, the fool. 1201 01:14:54,595 --> 01:14:56,347 He won't have much opportunity for that in Washington. 1202 01:14:56,471 --> 01:14:58,894 It'll come in handy at the embassy dinner. 1203 01:14:59,016 --> 01:15:00,768 I thought he'd catch on by now. 1204 01:15:00,893 --> 01:15:04,864 You know, Jedson, you and I are the only ones who know 1205 01:15:04,980 --> 01:15:07,278 that we're going to war with the United States. 1206 01:15:25,292 --> 01:15:27,670 Now, our advisors are waiting. 1207 01:15:28,337 --> 01:15:29,589 That's agreed then. 1208 01:15:29,713 --> 01:15:32,808 We move down the river to the great gulf and then west and on to Mexico. 1209 01:15:32,925 --> 01:15:35,144 To Mexico, empire and glory. 1210 01:15:35,260 --> 01:15:38,434 But are you sure the United States army will be at war with Spain before then? 1211 01:15:38,555 --> 01:15:42,310 I'm quite sure. I'm also certain that we shall pick up followers by the tens of thousands. 1212 01:15:55,781 --> 01:15:57,454 It's government troops. They're on their way here. 1213 01:15:57,574 --> 01:16:00,077 Hear that? It's government troops. - Wait till the old man hears this! 1214 01:16:00,202 --> 01:16:01,954 Sounds like bad news. Might be trouble. 1215 01:16:11,880 --> 01:16:14,178 Colonel, government troops are headed this way under a forced march. 1216 01:16:14,299 --> 01:16:15,346 Government troops? 1217 01:16:15,467 --> 01:16:17,720 Who wants the honour of firing the first shot at them? 1218 01:16:17,844 --> 01:16:19,687 But Colonel Burr, he said they're government troops. 1219 01:16:19,805 --> 01:16:23,275 Politicians troops. Politicians who are trying to spoil our plans. 1220 01:16:24,017 --> 01:16:25,769 The hour has come. 1221 01:16:25,894 --> 01:16:28,254 We'll give them more than they bargained for, won't we, men? 1222 01:16:29,189 --> 01:16:30,611 We'll meet them on road tonight. 1223 01:16:30,732 --> 01:16:33,952 One good ambush, and they'll scatter like leaves in the storm. 1224 01:16:34,069 --> 01:16:35,696 Company commander, sound assembly. 1225 01:16:36,488 --> 01:16:37,489 Colonel Burr. 1226 01:16:37,614 --> 01:16:39,374 Yes, captain, didn't you understand my order? 1227 01:16:39,491 --> 01:16:42,210 Yes, colonel. But I joined you for foreign conquest, 1228 01:16:42,327 --> 01:16:45,126 not to fight the United States. Nor did my men. 1229 01:16:45,247 --> 01:16:48,592 And I'll not order them to ambush any soldier under the flag of my own country. 1230 01:16:48,709 --> 01:16:51,178 Captain, we pick no fight with them, they've come here to fight us. 1231 01:16:51,295 --> 01:16:53,923 But colonel, couldn't we parley with them, 1232 01:16:54,047 --> 01:16:56,300 get an explanation or give one? 1233 01:16:56,425 --> 01:16:58,678 The only explanation they understand is hot lead and plenty of it, 1234 01:16:58,802 --> 01:17:00,349 and we're the ones to give it to them, aren't we, men? 1235 01:17:00,470 --> 01:17:01,938 That's treason you're talking. 1236 01:17:02,973 --> 01:17:05,647 Treason, is it? - Yes, sir. Treason and rebellion. 1237 01:17:09,438 --> 01:17:12,118 Soldier, I'll tell you one thing, and the rest of you, listen to me. 1238 01:17:12,399 --> 01:17:14,868 You here with the thousands who have flocked to our banners 1239 01:17:14,985 --> 01:17:17,033 can beat these troops of the government 1240 01:17:17,154 --> 01:17:18,997 if you have the courage to do so. 1241 01:17:20,449 --> 01:17:22,793 Follow where I lead, and in one month, 1242 01:17:22,909 --> 01:17:25,082 you and I, all of us here, 1243 01:17:25,203 --> 01:17:27,171 will be the rulers of the United States. 1244 01:17:28,373 --> 01:17:30,421 If we win this first battle, we can win them all. 1245 01:17:31,918 --> 01:17:33,465 Listen to me. 1246 01:17:33,587 --> 01:17:35,965 Hold these men. They must listen. 1247 01:17:36,089 --> 01:17:37,341 We can win. 1248 01:17:38,091 --> 01:17:39,843 Come back, you must hear me. 1249 01:17:40,635 --> 01:17:43,514 I have a plan. A plan to take all the southern states. 1250 01:17:44,222 --> 01:17:48,318 And I have friends, powerful friends. Friends who are waiting for us to march in. 1251 01:17:48,435 --> 01:17:49,903 Listen to me! 1252 01:17:50,020 --> 01:17:52,443 Come back and listen, you cowards! 1253 01:17:56,818 --> 01:17:59,196 You're throwing away an empire. 1254 01:18:09,414 --> 01:18:11,087 You're a good barber, Jenks. 1255 01:18:11,208 --> 01:18:13,176 Thank you, Mr Burr. Thank you. 1256 01:18:13,293 --> 01:18:15,341 They don't really think I'm going to commit suicide, do they? 1257 01:18:15,462 --> 01:18:16,805 Well, some do, you know? 1258 01:18:16,922 --> 01:18:20,267 A fellow about three years ago did on the day they were going to hang him. 1259 01:18:20,384 --> 01:18:22,102 I done his hair the night before. 1260 01:18:22,219 --> 01:18:25,769 Done it real pretty, too. - They're a long way from hanging me. 1261 01:18:25,889 --> 01:18:27,929 Mr Burr, you're gonna have a new barber from now on. 1262 01:18:28,016 --> 01:18:30,018 Why? Are they gonna hang you? 1263 01:18:30,143 --> 01:18:33,818 No, I'm getting out. Out of jail, and out of Richmond, too. 1264 01:18:33,939 --> 01:18:36,317 Going back up to New Jersey, where I belong. 1265 01:18:37,859 --> 01:18:39,452 Jenks. 1266 01:18:40,821 --> 01:18:43,700 Do you go through Washington on your way home? 1267 01:18:43,824 --> 01:18:47,044 I suppose so. It's just as close that way as any other. 1268 01:18:47,160 --> 01:18:50,084 I have a letter I want you to deliver for me. 1269 01:18:50,205 --> 01:18:52,799 I'll give you $100 in gold. 1270 01:18:52,916 --> 01:18:55,339 $100? 1271 01:18:55,460 --> 01:18:57,679 And enough for your stage fare besides. 1272 01:18:58,547 --> 01:19:00,970 Mr Burr, I'm your man. - Good. 1273 01:19:01,091 --> 01:19:04,595 Deliver it to no one but the lady herself. - Yes, sir. 1274 01:19:16,189 --> 01:19:18,988 I told the gentleman you got scores of letters every day, 1275 01:19:19,109 --> 01:19:21,407 and they was delivered right in my hands. 1276 01:19:21,528 --> 01:19:23,826 But he said this is something different. 1277 01:19:31,580 --> 01:19:35,301 I'm Mrs Madison. - A gentleman in jail gave me a letter for you. 1278 01:19:35,417 --> 01:19:38,762 He asked me to give it to you personally, right in your own hand. 1279 01:19:38,879 --> 01:19:40,347 Thank you very much. 1280 01:19:40,464 --> 01:19:42,762 It's been a pleasure, ma'am, a real pleasure. 1281 01:20:14,247 --> 01:20:15,874 Oh, Doll. 1282 01:20:15,999 --> 01:20:18,798 I have a meeting with Tom. I won't be late. 1283 01:20:18,919 --> 01:20:20,136 James. 1284 01:20:21,129 --> 01:20:23,006 May I have a word with you? 1285 01:20:23,131 --> 01:20:24,678 Of course, darling. 1286 01:20:25,383 --> 01:20:27,602 That man just brought me this note. 1287 01:20:27,719 --> 01:20:29,266 From Aaron Burr. 1288 01:20:30,222 --> 01:20:31,690 Want me to read it? 1289 01:20:31,806 --> 01:20:33,604 I wish you would. 1290 01:20:37,354 --> 01:20:40,403 "Dear Dolly, I need a friend in this hour." 1291 01:20:41,107 --> 01:20:43,360 "You're the only one I can turn to." 1292 01:20:43,485 --> 01:20:46,659 "Will you... will you come to Richmond" 1293 01:20:48,490 --> 01:20:52,245 "if I ask you in the name of what we once meant to each other?" 1294 01:20:53,537 --> 01:20:55,665 "Hopefully, Aaron Burr." 1295 01:20:56,540 --> 01:20:57,792 Yes. 1296 01:20:58,792 --> 01:21:00,510 Do you think I should go? 1297 01:21:01,795 --> 01:21:03,263 I don't know, Doll. 1298 01:21:04,714 --> 01:21:08,389 Would it hurt you, politically I mean, if I did? 1299 01:21:08,510 --> 01:21:11,104 That wouldn't stop me if I wanted to do something. 1300 01:21:11,221 --> 01:21:13,849 I don't see why it should stop you. 1301 01:21:13,974 --> 01:21:15,396 People may talk. 1302 01:21:16,226 --> 01:21:18,604 That wouldn't bother either of us, would it? 1303 01:21:18,728 --> 01:21:21,231 It never has, James. - No. 1304 01:21:21,356 --> 01:21:23,233 I don't know what to do. 1305 01:21:24,150 --> 01:21:26,278 His letter is so full of humility. 1306 01:21:27,195 --> 01:21:29,038 It's so unlike him. 1307 01:21:29,990 --> 01:21:32,038 This is a bitter hour for him, James. 1308 01:21:32,158 --> 01:21:33,751 I don't doubt it. 1309 01:21:33,868 --> 01:21:37,463 If they find him guilty of treason, the penalty is death. 1310 01:21:40,375 --> 01:21:43,094 He could've been a great man. 1311 01:21:43,211 --> 01:21:45,384 He had such a brilliant mind. 1312 01:21:45,505 --> 01:21:47,758 I wonder what led him to this folly. 1313 01:21:47,882 --> 01:21:49,304 Please tell me what to do. 1314 01:21:49,426 --> 01:21:52,305 I wish I could, but I... I can't, Doll. 1315 01:21:53,847 --> 01:21:57,727 This is one of those times when no one can tell you what to do but yourself. 1316 01:21:59,853 --> 01:22:02,106 You'll find the answer. 1317 01:22:02,230 --> 01:22:05,575 Your decision be my decision, no matter what happens. 1318 01:22:09,863 --> 01:22:11,490 Forgive me. 1319 01:22:12,657 --> 01:22:14,580 I'll go on to the meeting. 1320 01:22:26,963 --> 01:22:31,093 Miss Dolly, you still in here, sitting in the dark? 1321 01:22:31,217 --> 01:22:33,515 I was just gonna put this night light here. 1322 01:22:33,637 --> 01:22:35,685 I didn't realise it was so late, Amy. 1323 01:22:35,805 --> 01:22:38,558 Is there something I can do for you before you go to sleep? 1324 01:22:39,768 --> 01:22:44,148 Yes, pack a box for me to take in the carriage. 1325 01:22:44,272 --> 01:22:46,491 We're leaving for Richmond tonight. 1326 01:22:56,326 --> 01:22:59,330 I don't hold with us traipsing down here all alone. 1327 01:22:59,454 --> 01:23:02,082 You going to the jailhouse to see Mr Burr. 1328 01:23:03,124 --> 01:23:06,845 Never thought I'd live to see my Miss Dolly doing a thing like this. 1329 01:23:06,961 --> 01:23:09,055 Mr Burr once did a great favour for me. 1330 01:23:09,172 --> 01:23:10,799 Now it's my turn to repay him. 1331 01:23:10,924 --> 01:23:13,643 Anytime he crooked his little finger, you'd go along. 1332 01:23:13,760 --> 01:23:16,013 You was that way the day you met him. 1333 01:23:16,137 --> 01:23:20,108 Is it so strange that I should pity a man who's facing death? 1334 01:23:21,893 --> 01:23:25,864 I have to do it. If I didn't, I'd regret it all the days in my life. 1335 01:23:25,980 --> 01:23:28,950 Well, I just hope it turns out all right. 1336 01:23:30,527 --> 01:23:32,825 You pray for me, Amy, and it will. 1337 01:23:33,863 --> 01:23:35,786 It's taking 'em a long time to reach a verdict. 1338 01:23:35,907 --> 01:23:38,410 Well, Burr's lawyers managed to throw dust in the judges eyes. 1339 01:23:38,535 --> 01:23:40,537 Mr Williams, you're a lawyer. 1340 01:23:40,662 --> 01:23:44,758 What did they mean when they said the traitor had committed no overt act? 1341 01:23:44,874 --> 01:23:47,627 Well, that's his defence. Under the law, that's pretty strong. 1342 01:23:47,752 --> 01:23:49,220 Didn't seem very strong to me. 1343 01:23:49,337 --> 01:23:52,261 His counsel claims that Burr committed no act of treason 1344 01:23:52,382 --> 01:23:55,602 and that his troops didn't fire on government troops at any time 1345 01:23:55,719 --> 01:23:59,098 and that his campaign was against Mexico and not against the government. 1346 01:23:59,222 --> 01:24:01,600 Well, everyone knows he planned to overthrow the government. 1347 01:24:01,725 --> 01:24:04,274 But what you know and what you can prove in a court of law... 1348 01:24:04,394 --> 01:24:05,771 ls the trial over, sir? - Huh? 1349 01:24:05,895 --> 01:24:07,989 Is the trial over? - Oh, yes, the trial is over, 1350 01:24:08,106 --> 01:24:09,858 but we're still waiting for the verdict of the court. 1351 01:24:09,983 --> 01:24:11,610 Where would I find the jailor's office, please, sir? 1352 01:24:11,735 --> 01:24:14,079 Right around the corner of the building. - Thank you, sir. 1353 01:24:28,626 --> 01:24:31,049 Now, Miss Dolly, please be careful. 1354 01:24:31,171 --> 01:24:32,923 Yes, Amy, I will. 1355 01:24:36,468 --> 01:24:39,096 I saw him when he was a senator. I heard him make a speech. 1356 01:24:39,220 --> 01:24:42,770 I don't care if you saw him every day in your life. I say he's guilty. 1357 01:24:42,891 --> 01:24:45,394 He's innocent. - I'll bet you another dollar. 1358 01:24:45,518 --> 01:24:47,566 The verdict is to hang him. 1359 01:24:47,687 --> 01:24:48,688 It's a bet. 1360 01:24:48,813 --> 01:24:51,737 That's the easiest $3 I ever made. 1361 01:24:51,858 --> 01:24:54,611 Yes, ma'am? Something I can do for you? 1362 01:24:54,736 --> 01:24:58,582 I'd like permission to see Mr Aaron Burr. - Well, a lot of people would. 1363 01:24:58,698 --> 01:25:01,747 What's your name? - Mrs James Madison. 1364 01:25:01,868 --> 01:25:05,122 Uh, Mrs Madison, unless I can get a pass from the court, I... 1365 01:25:06,581 --> 01:25:08,709 Mrs James Madison? - Yes. 1366 01:25:08,833 --> 01:25:10,005 Mrs James Madison, 1367 01:25:10,126 --> 01:25:12,128 wife of the Secretary of State? - Yes. 1368 01:25:12,253 --> 01:25:15,223 Well, in that case, I think it'll be all right. 1369 01:25:15,340 --> 01:25:17,263 Come right this way. 1370 01:25:45,912 --> 01:25:47,209 Aaron. 1371 01:25:47,330 --> 01:25:50,504 Dolly, you're here. I knew you'd come. - Oh, I wish there was something I could do. 1372 01:25:50,625 --> 01:25:52,218 You're here, that's all that matters. 1373 01:25:52,335 --> 01:25:54,212 I've thought of every moment we spent together, 1374 01:25:54,337 --> 01:25:56,681 the rides we used to take, the times we danced, 1375 01:25:56,798 --> 01:25:59,301 and those wretched little inns you went to. - I've thought of those times, too. 1376 01:25:59,425 --> 01:26:01,553 And that time you came to my house in New York. 1377 01:26:01,678 --> 01:26:04,431 I should never have let you leave. 1378 01:26:04,556 --> 01:26:06,809 You did a fine thing for your country that day, Aaron. 1379 01:26:06,933 --> 01:26:10,533 I did that for you, Dolly. It's the only thing you ever asked of me, and I couldn't refuse. 1380 01:26:10,562 --> 01:26:12,985 Now you're here because you can't deny me anything. 1381 01:26:13,106 --> 01:26:15,404 Please understand, I came here to give you my sympathy. 1382 01:26:15,525 --> 01:26:16,993 Sympathy? 1383 01:26:17,110 --> 01:26:19,670 That's very touching, dear Dolly, but I don't need your sympathy, 1384 01:26:19,696 --> 01:26:21,369 yours or anybody else's. 1385 01:26:22,323 --> 01:26:25,247 The penalty for treason is... - ...death! 1386 01:26:25,368 --> 01:26:29,089 I met that bony old beggar once before, and now he's missed me once again. 1387 01:26:29,205 --> 01:26:31,754 The verdict of the court. "Not guilty." 1388 01:26:32,709 --> 01:26:34,882 I bribed the bailiff to listen to the vote. 1389 01:26:36,963 --> 01:26:39,182 Well, aren't you going to tell me you're happy? 1390 01:26:39,299 --> 01:26:41,347 Lam. 1391 01:26:41,467 --> 01:26:45,142 I hope all of this has made you think, Aaron. - It has. 1392 01:26:45,263 --> 01:26:47,982 I'll never make the same mistakes again. 1393 01:26:48,099 --> 01:26:49,692 Then I am glad. 1394 01:26:49,809 --> 01:26:52,187 That's why I sent for you. Because we love each other. 1395 01:26:52,854 --> 01:26:55,733 And I wanted you here to see me triumphant. 1396 01:26:55,857 --> 01:26:59,987 Do you realise that this verdict of "not guilty" may not be popular with the people? 1397 01:27:00,111 --> 01:27:02,614 Popular? I should hope not. 1398 01:27:02,739 --> 01:27:04,787 I want them to hate me. 1399 01:27:04,908 --> 01:27:08,082 I want them to hate the laws that let me loose, the court that set me free. 1400 01:27:08,202 --> 01:27:11,422 I want to sow hate and reap a harvest of power. 1401 01:27:11,539 --> 01:27:13,883 But you just said that all of this had made you think. 1402 01:27:14,000 --> 01:27:14,842 It has. 1403 01:27:14,959 --> 01:27:17,337 It made me think of the power, fear and hate. 1404 01:27:17,462 --> 01:27:19,760 Don't you realise, Dolly, what this verdict will mean? 1405 01:27:19,881 --> 01:27:22,054 When they hear the news, when they hear I am free, 1406 01:27:22,175 --> 01:27:25,554 I'll walk out of this jail bigger than the whole government. Then you'll see their fear. 1407 01:27:25,678 --> 01:27:29,023 Oh, they'll try to attack me. They'll forget their famous laws and turn into a mob 1408 01:27:29,140 --> 01:27:31,984 and be shot down by their own soldiers. And then... 1409 01:27:32,101 --> 01:27:34,980 Then the weak, the greedy, the suspicious, 1410 01:27:35,104 --> 01:27:38,358 the evil men from all over the country will flock to my banner. 1411 01:27:39,400 --> 01:27:42,529 This time, I'll offer you the crown. 1412 01:27:43,196 --> 01:27:45,073 Mr Burr, better get your coat on. 1413 01:27:45,198 --> 01:27:47,496 The court's reconvening, and they're about ready to read the verdict. 1414 01:27:47,617 --> 01:27:49,915 If you please, Mrs Madison. 1415 01:27:56,417 --> 01:27:59,091 And this time, Mrs Madison, I won't fail. 1416 01:28:07,887 --> 01:28:09,730 He very nearly was president. 1417 01:28:09,847 --> 01:28:12,771 He's a brand new man, but you can't skin a fox before he's caught. 1418 01:28:12,892 --> 01:28:14,894 They'll skin him all right at the end of a rope! 1419 01:28:15,019 --> 01:28:17,939 Why are they wasting time? They should a shot him the day they caught him. 1420 01:28:17,981 --> 01:28:19,449 This is one hanging I'm not going to miss! 1421 01:28:19,565 --> 01:28:22,694 Arthur, I want you to wait here, please. - You don't want to stay around here. 1422 01:28:22,819 --> 01:28:24,821 I've got to hear what happens. 1423 01:28:29,867 --> 01:28:31,414 Court's dismissed. Ring the bell. 1424 01:28:31,536 --> 01:28:33,630 What's the verdict? - Not guilty. 1425 01:28:33,746 --> 01:28:36,169 Not guilty? Did you hear that? 1426 01:28:38,001 --> 01:28:41,255 Stop that bell! Stop that bell! Stop it! 1427 01:28:41,379 --> 01:28:43,347 Listen to me, everybody. 1428 01:28:43,464 --> 01:28:45,967 In there, they just pronounced Aaron Burr innocent. 1429 01:28:46,092 --> 01:28:48,060 I say he's guilty! - Yeah! 1430 01:28:48,970 --> 01:28:52,019 And I say Aaron Burr is a traitor! - Yeah! 1431 01:28:52,140 --> 01:28:54,734 The law states plain what happens to traitors. 1432 01:28:54,851 --> 01:28:57,479 Those judges know he's guilty. 1433 01:28:57,603 --> 01:29:00,698 Honest men stood up before them and told the truth about him. 1434 01:29:00,815 --> 01:29:04,615 I say, where's justice when such a man can get off scot-free? 1435 01:29:05,445 --> 01:29:09,951 If those judges are too lily-livered to hang a traitor, we can do it ourselves. 1436 01:29:10,074 --> 01:29:11,917 Yeah! 1437 01:29:12,035 --> 01:29:15,710 We can show 'em that a good hemp rope in a high oak tree 1438 01:29:15,830 --> 01:29:18,208 is better than all them law books. 1439 01:29:18,332 --> 01:29:20,050 Yeah! 1440 01:29:20,168 --> 01:29:24,639 We'll show 'em here today what a free man thinks of traitors. 1441 01:29:24,756 --> 01:29:28,260 Clem, go get that rope out of my wagon. - Yes! 1442 01:29:28,384 --> 01:29:31,934 And if he won't come out, we'll go in and drag him out. 1443 01:29:32,055 --> 01:29:33,648 Yeah! 1444 01:29:33,765 --> 01:29:35,688 Stop it! Stop it! 1445 01:29:35,808 --> 01:29:38,561 What is that, ma'am? - You must not do this, you must not. 1446 01:29:38,686 --> 01:29:40,438 Maam, don't you believe in justice? 1447 01:29:40,563 --> 01:29:43,112 Justice? Justice was never done by a mob. 1448 01:29:43,232 --> 01:29:46,111 Was that justice what those judges did in that court today? 1449 01:29:46,235 --> 01:29:48,488 Ma'am, you got a queer sense of justice. 1450 01:29:50,573 --> 01:29:53,417 She can tell about the traitor. Can't you, ma'am? 1451 01:29:53,534 --> 01:29:56,708 Tell him who you are, ma'am. Go ahead. 1452 01:29:56,829 --> 01:29:58,752 I'll tell him then. 1453 01:30:00,208 --> 01:30:03,132 This lady is Dolly Madison. - What? 1454 01:30:03,252 --> 01:30:06,222 The wife of the bigwig in Washington, James Madison. 1455 01:30:06,339 --> 01:30:09,593 And I charge her with bringing orders from the politicians in Washington, 1456 01:30:09,717 --> 01:30:12,846 orders for the judges to set Aaron Burr free. 1457 01:30:12,970 --> 01:30:14,438 That is not true. 1458 01:30:14,555 --> 01:30:16,978 Well, you might have saved his life in there, ma'am, 1459 01:30:17,100 --> 01:30:20,229 but you ain't gonna do it out here. - No! 1460 01:30:20,353 --> 01:30:22,196 I did not save his life. 1461 01:30:22,313 --> 01:30:25,157 I came to see Aaron Burr, but I brought no messages from Washington, 1462 01:30:25,274 --> 01:30:26,651 and I have not seen the judges. 1463 01:30:26,776 --> 01:30:29,404 So you've just come to see Aaron Burr? 1464 01:30:29,529 --> 01:30:32,408 All the way from Washington! 1465 01:30:33,116 --> 01:30:37,212 I came to give what comfort I could to a man I thought would be condemned to death. 1466 01:30:37,328 --> 01:30:40,423 Well, you haven't come in vain, Mrs Madison. 1467 01:30:40,540 --> 01:30:43,965 Here's the kind of justice a free man has for a traitor. 1468 01:30:44,085 --> 01:30:48,056 We'll show those judges what we think of their laws and courts. 1469 01:30:52,969 --> 01:30:54,016 Stop it! Stop it! 1470 01:30:54,137 --> 01:30:56,356 Please listen to me. - Go back to your husband! 1471 01:30:56,472 --> 01:30:58,440 If you follow that man and hang Aaron Burr, 1472 01:30:58,558 --> 01:31:00,198 you will put an end to freedom here today. 1473 01:31:00,268 --> 01:31:03,989 That's where you're wrong, ma'am. We're gonna put an end to Aaron Burr. 1474 01:31:04,105 --> 01:31:05,527 Yeah! 1475 01:31:05,648 --> 01:31:08,242 If you hang Aaron Burr in defiance of your laws, 1476 01:31:08,359 --> 01:31:10,987 you will right here prove those laws worthless, meaningless, 1477 01:31:11,112 --> 01:31:13,535 and you fought for blessed freedom to make those laws. 1478 01:31:13,656 --> 01:31:15,579 We made 'em, and we can break 'em. 1479 01:31:17,076 --> 01:31:18,419 You must not break them! 1480 01:31:18,536 --> 01:31:21,289 When you made those laws, you agreed to live by them and obey them. 1481 01:31:21,414 --> 01:31:23,542 If they're not strong enough to protect you, 1482 01:31:23,666 --> 01:31:25,839 strengthen them in orderly processes, 1483 01:31:25,960 --> 01:31:28,554 but never take them into your own hands in mobs like this. 1484 01:31:28,671 --> 01:31:30,173 This is not freedom. 1485 01:31:30,298 --> 01:31:32,392 But we're free men! We do as we like. 1486 01:31:32,508 --> 01:31:35,102 Freedom is something you live under law. 1487 01:31:35,219 --> 01:31:38,894 Your law says a man may be tried and judged by other men like himself, 1488 01:31:39,015 --> 01:31:40,983 according to the laws they've made together. 1489 01:31:41,100 --> 01:31:43,603 And if that man is found innocent by the law, 1490 01:31:43,728 --> 01:31:46,151 he shall be held innocent by the people. 1491 01:31:46,272 --> 01:31:48,274 What about Burr? Is he innocent? - Yeah! 1492 01:31:49,525 --> 01:31:51,903 Aaron Burr has already been tried, sir. 1493 01:31:52,028 --> 01:31:54,656 This is your trial, your testing time, 1494 01:31:54,780 --> 01:31:56,953 and the whole world is watching you here today. 1495 01:31:57,074 --> 01:31:58,826 Are you going to tell the watching world 1496 01:31:58,951 --> 01:32:01,625 by an act of violence and disobedience to your laws 1497 01:32:01,746 --> 01:32:04,499 that you're a people to weak to rule yourselves under law, 1498 01:32:04,624 --> 01:32:07,377 that you need the despotic hand of a tyrant, an emperor, 1499 01:32:07,501 --> 01:32:09,174 to rule you by force and fear? 1500 01:32:09,295 --> 01:32:11,218 Had Aaron Burr succeeded in his plan, 1501 01:32:11,339 --> 01:32:13,888 he would have abolished your laws, your courts, and your rights, 1502 01:32:14,008 --> 01:32:15,351 and you want to hang him for that, 1503 01:32:15,468 --> 01:32:17,891 yet here you are abolishing them all yourselves. 1504 01:32:18,012 --> 01:32:20,936 Oh, my countrymen, Aaron Burr is but the first to challenge your freedom, 1505 01:32:21,057 --> 01:32:22,479 he will not be the last. 1506 01:32:22,600 --> 01:32:25,900 Then we'll hang Aaron Burr and discourage all the rest! 1507 01:32:26,020 --> 01:32:28,364 That will not discourage them. 1508 01:32:28,481 --> 01:32:31,485 You and I must live the example of a free people. 1509 01:32:31,609 --> 01:32:33,907 We must prove to any man or set of men 1510 01:32:34,028 --> 01:32:36,747 who believe themselves cunning enough to destroy our freedom 1511 01:32:36,864 --> 01:32:39,367 that with clean hands and united hearts 1512 01:32:39,492 --> 01:32:43,588 we are able to deal with traitors as a people under law and with order. 1513 01:32:44,538 --> 01:32:46,540 Here he comes now, surrounded by your soldiers. 1514 01:32:46,666 --> 01:32:48,794 And remember, he's a free man under your laws, 1515 01:32:48,918 --> 01:32:51,341 and those are your soldiers under oath to protect your laws, 1516 01:32:51,462 --> 01:32:55,467 and if you try to take Aaron Burr from them, your soldiers will be forced to fire on you. 1517 01:32:55,591 --> 01:32:58,686 Mr Burr wants you to do just that. 1518 01:32:58,803 --> 01:33:01,022 He wants you to spill your blood here. 1519 01:33:01,138 --> 01:33:02,685 He wants you to hate him. 1520 01:33:02,807 --> 01:33:06,687 He needs your hate, he needs your fear, your fear and your hate will make him strong, 1521 01:33:06,811 --> 01:33:11,066 so that other traitors like himself will join him and again attack your freedom. 1522 01:33:11,190 --> 01:33:13,318 That is his plan, he told me that tonight. 1523 01:33:13,943 --> 01:33:15,411 Have him deny that if he can. 1524 01:33:15,528 --> 01:33:17,155 Come on! 1525 01:33:19,365 --> 01:33:22,039 If you truly want to destroy Aaron Burr, 1526 01:33:22,159 --> 01:33:24,457 don't try to hang him, don't make a martyr of him, 1527 01:33:24,578 --> 01:33:27,422 turn away from him! Let him pass among you in peace! 1528 01:33:27,540 --> 01:33:30,840 Turn your backs on him and let him pass, 1529 01:33:30,960 --> 01:33:34,214 on into the oblivion he has chosen for himself. 1530 01:34:31,437 --> 01:34:33,280 Mr Madison, 1531 01:34:33,397 --> 01:34:35,399 I love you very much. 1532 01:34:35,423 --> 01:34:36,423 127923

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