i will like to express my thanks for the initiative to include the median at north of lincoln, which a big first step for us for having a physical impact on the landscape that will help with pedestrian safety and esthetics. next, phil ginsburg, superintendent -- general manager of the department of recreation and parks, and the steward of our amazing collection of open spaces out here. >> thank you. mohammed nuru is a very tough act to follow. i am phil ginsburg, the general manager of the recreation and parks department. we're giving thanks to the mayor and to spur for the leadership and vision to undergo this project. we often have to respond to problems in emergencies of the day. arguably, there are a few out here, but this process has been speaking to the future. the trust for public land, an advocacy organizationñmiÑ?!i, jt named san francisco as the number 1 urban park system in the united states of america. it is not just the city in the county, but our open space system which comprises 70% of all of this city's land, including the national park service in the state park system

connection with a robbery year earlier the night king he was arrested shortly after bailing out of a car on north lincoln drive. the humane society is offering a reward in a animal cruelty case. a pit bull named hershey was found in the middle of an intersection and was underfed. the humane society is offering 25 of dollars for any information leading to an arrest. new efforts to erase memories of the scandal at penn state. heavy equipment was brought in to demolish even more. this morning, crews tore down the wall that sat behind the statue of joe paterno. the statue was removed after it was found that he covered up the sexual abuse of a young boy. on the campaign trail, she fights for virginia. virginia women for metitt hope to kick off today. president obama spoke there yesterday. the president is heading to portland this afternoon for a fundraiser that will include an open event and the private event. you will travel to seattle for yet another fund-raiser. a plan to bring a mega gas station brings mega resistance. and a proposal to bring streetcars. an early-morning explosion obliterates a home in ne

you'll get a lot of sniping of lincoln from the democratic press and sort of quasi independent newspaper like "the new york herald" which had the largest circulation in the north. there was a lot of criticism from lincoln from the imagine okay democratic newspapers and "the new york herald." >> and opposition from the left. >> there were people who thought lincoln was moving slowly on emancipation. >> the opposition to davis, as i indicated earlier, is far less organized and substantial. there is an opposition press headed by the richmond examiner and "the charleston mercury." most of it is based around davis's military actions. it is simply the war. it is a small group of people led by people like robert bardwell. a few others who are malcontented. in the fall of 1864, rhett will say jefferson davis was born of his work as judas was born for his. this is not a reasonable man. rhett and others will hatch a scheme to try to remove davis from office. i don't know if they ever approached lee, if they did, i'm sure he would have nixed it immediately. it never got anywhere because it was so crack brained. it was a small, but vocal opposition. >> i think what we agr

of a far stretch. for example, up north lincoln didn't fire half of his generals simply because of political reasons who were not doing as well. >> he had to wait a while. sometimes he does. mcclellan is a good example of that. lyndon doesn't like mcclelland early on, and eventually he gets rid of him. it takes a while. what's different about american political culture between the confederacy -- now i'm expecting you to remember a little about the american history and the jacksonian period -- what do we call it? democracy. in washington's era, public opinion is not as important. remember, in the early american public, you had to have property to vote. by the time of the civil war, it's well established. only white men vote, but the franchise has extended. all right. you have things like newspapers. you have a lot more -- public opinion -- it's not that public opinion didn't matter in the american revolution, but the reply i think to mr. conners' strong argument there is that confederate public opinion matters more and that perhaps spoiling fights wouldn't be enough, all right? and i'll point out that sh

to try to come up with a way of commemorating the life and achievements of abraham lincoln to celebrate the victory of the north in the civil war and to make a critical comment on their own government because it turned out that in the 1860s french had an authoritarian government run by napoleon iii who was the nephew of napoleon. and it was a government that was not friendly to liberty, and so this group of men tried to put all these things together, abolition, the commemoration of the life of president lincoln and a way of being critical of an authoritarian government and get away with it, and so their idea was to sort of obliquely criticize their own government by talking about how much better the american system of politics was, and so that's the sort of french origin that really comes out of a french political situation with a group of liberal in the 19 century sense, well-educated french men who wanted to make a comment about their own government's politics, and eventually out of this group came the idea of a colossal statue, but it took a while to get there. i don't know if we want to -- want to talk abou

you'll get an awful lot of sniping at lincoln from the democratic press and from sort of quasi-independent newspaper like the new york herald which had the largest circulation in the north. so you get the impression that there was a lot of opposition and criticism of lincoln from the prominence of some major democratic newspapers plus the "new york herald". >> and some opposition from the left, i guess. >> well, there was opposite from the radical wing of the republican party. you thought lincoln was moving too slowly, especially on the question of slavery and emancipation but also on the question of confiscation of southern property. >> the opposition to davis as i indicated earlier was far less organized and far less substantial and generally pretty weak in its effect. there is an opposition press headed by the "richmond examiner" and the "charleston mercury." most of the opposition is based around davis' military decisions because there was no internal or civil policy to speak of. it's a very small group of people let by robert barnwell whet rhett who owns the newspaper. in fact, in the fall of 1864, rhett who will say that jefferson davis was born for his work as ju

of the way. closed in northeast is r street at lincoln road. a pepco crew is working there north capital street. out of bounds suitland parkway in southeast there's been a crash. and one more thing oh, metrorail back on normal service. back to the news. >> thanks so much, lisa. 6:44 right now, 76 degrees outside. >> voters now weighing in on what d.c. mayor vince gray should do in light of the scandal surrounding his campaign. do they think he should resign or stay put? you might be surprised by the results of the survey. >> welcome back to "good morning washington." this is the latest on the campaign scandal surrounding d.c. mayor vincent gray. turns out a majority of d.c. residents want him to resign. a new "washington post" poll finds that 54% of residents surveyed want gray to leave office. only 22% view him as honest and trustworthy. three d.c. councilmembers called for gray to resign after three campaign staffers pleaded guilty to campaign fraud charges. the mayor says he will not quit. >> the head of the penn state board of trustee social security vowing to implement the c

north bay as well, not a big deal. the taillights, good number of southbound to south of the curve heading to lincoln avenue. north bay shows at the limit, novato in toward san francisco. back to you. >> thank you. it's 5:25. opening day of the new batman film was marred by the shootings in colorado early reports show the film was still on track to set a record for sales. box office insiders say it pulled in $160 million in its first weekend. the amount would top the 2008 debut of "the dark knight" and make "the dark knight rises" the third highest domestic opening ever behind "the avengers" and the final harry potter film. both of those were released in 3-d which meant higher ticket prices. >> the time 5:26. a 5-year-old girl shot in the streets of oakland. why a family trip to get ice cream was so violently interrupted. >> suspicious mail. why several bay area police departments are on high alert. >> we'll give you a shot high above san francisco overlooking the palace of fine arts. a little bounce so maybe some wind whipping up. laura said it was windy down in morgan hill. getting the same in san francisco

lincoln memorial, looking great. a few showers, mainly north and west of d.c. 88 degrees the high temperature at reagan and national airport one degree below average. last week at this time, we were sizzling. it is now 78 degrees, the dew point levels are beginning to increase. that is why it is beginning to feel a little bit more uncomfortable outside. wtop radio a quarter of an inch of rain. chesapeake beach, hardly anything at all. timber interests outside across the board 73 in manassas, quantico is 80 degrees. looking at how the temperatures are still very warm. 85 in minneapolis, a great indication of what is on the way. dew point levels, 70's. very uncomfortable. we are not looking at a record- breaking highs warm enough that we could see heat index readings around 105 degrees. these storms moved very slowly. at one point we had one assault over springfield moving 5 miles per hour. -- we had won the cell over springfield, moving 5 miles per hour. no watches, no warnings to speak of. on and off showers for the day tomorrow. highs will approach the lower 90's. another hot and steamy day ahead. the heat and humidity co

dead was senator edward baker of oregon who was a personal friend of lincoln and the only senator ever killed in battle. the outraged the north. it was a skirmish when you compare it to what happened in the following years. added to the military passivity, the army was infiltrated with traitors and high-ranking officers had failed to do their duty at the cost of lives. in wartime, americans and other nations of course hunt for traitors in their own ranks. not to mention the persistent har rasment of muslim americans since 9/11. during the civil war yankees have more reason for that kind of anxiety. copperheads were numerous and democr democrats encouraged the resistance. hundreds of army officers had defected. so when union generals seemed to shy away from battle, it stoked suspicion to the point of pa paranoya. chandler, his statue, this was a statue of him in the hall where two statues are permitted. he was dispatched back to michigan and i'd like to think that he will be recovered and restored to his place of honor. he helped finance the underground railroad. at any rate. radical republicans such as chandler were defined b

of abraham lincoln and only sitting u.s. senator ever killed in battle. this additional humiliation outraged the north. the battle had no significance, it was a skirmish when you compare it to what happened in subsequent years. politically its effect was momentous. added to the military passivity of the months past, these two defeats spread widespread fears that the army was infiltrated with traitors and high ranking officers failed to do their duty at the cost of all of these lives. to put this in a larger context, in war time americans and other nations of course hunt for traitors in their own ranks. you only have to think of the harassment of german americans during world war 1, japanese americans during world war ii. not to mention the harassment of muslim-americans since 9/11. yankees had more kind of reason for that anxiety. southern sympathizers known as copperheads were numerous, politically powerful, in the midwest and democratic newspapers ranted against the union war effort and encouraged read everies to resist if. hundreds of army ifrs defected to the confederacy. a lot of those remained wi

north dakota residents are happy to have some much oil produced. i think the greatest the lustration of winning a cultural war in a very direct way is abraham lincoln. there are a couple of books by a theologian, one only and that the greatest speech, about his second inaugural, -- one on linkedin's greatest speech, and one as president, and one called cooper union. if you want to understand being persuasive and you want to see a cultural fight, studied abraham lincoln. abraham lincoln in 1850's, there is a very unformed argument in 1850's. should slaby allowed to expand, does it matter? -- should slavery be allowed to expand? you have in abraham lincoln's somebody who is very carefully moving public opinion extraordinary -- in an extraordinarily well thought- out way and it all blows up in his face and you end up in a war. and he then has to mobilize and sustain the north, despite huge casualties. we lose more people between the north and south combined in the civil war and then all of the other wars combined. and from a much smaller population base. if you read abraham lincoln's gettysburg address, it is a campaign document. no president has been

thwarted, withheld from abraham lincoln, the railroad lawyer, who had long since been persuaded that the natural route for the transcontinental railroad would run just north of this place. up from omaha right up the platt river valley. if you've ever driven along i-80, you notice it's very flat. in fact as i have driving up here today, i remembered the opening pages of my aunt anilla where her young hero looking across his home and thinking of nebraska, there's a lot of it. when congress adjourned on july 17th, 1862, in their inner most thoughts, i'm sure many of its members must have wondered if all their worked had been in vein. george mcclellan's campaign on the peninsula had fizzled tantalizingly close to richmond and soon confederate troops would invade the north in kentucky and maryland, the european powers were then on the verge of stepping into the dispute to force a mediation that would have recognized southern independence. the republican grip on congress was threatened and with it the fate of this huge and historic agenda. how the union was saved from that low point is another story told in my forthcoming book. it's an astounding chain of

ever settle upon the states of the north, it will be more effective than any fugitive slave law in preventing anyone, black or white, from crossing the borer states. lincoln would have probably liked to use progressive income and property taxes more than he did. when he was in illinois state legislature he had pushed unsuccessfully for graduated property tax on the basis of both equity and political feasibility. he observed that, quote, the wealthy few are not sufficiently numerous to carry the elections, unquote. but the lack of institutional structure, the controversy surroundtion direct taxation and apportionate and the recallous trance of salmon chase, the revenue effect of direct taxes during the civil war was fairly minimal. despite the relative unimportance of tax revenue, though, tax developments in the civil war last at least two lasting contributions to federal taxing powers. it smoothed away for the 16th amendment allowing for the income tax and instituted the office of the commissioner of internal rerevenue. so borrowing was the union's primary means of finance, as this slide makes clear. borrowing or the deficit is what's on this slide. that'

serving a life sentence in a federal penitentiary in north carolina in his role for a strong of bombings across mork. the united nations and lincoln and holland tunnel and prosecutors also allege that he was the spiritual leader of the men that bombed the world trade center in 1993. new york congressman peter king believes the u.s. needs to make it very clear that morsi and his rhetoric is not acceptable and that he should stop. >> this is very much confirms our worst fears, you know, the muslim brotherhood he once was part of. he's part of, says he might have changed and moderated his position and i think that people in the administration want to believe that when he makes a remark like this in his inaugural address, it shows his signals to his people and the to the region and strongly has a challenge to the united states. >> it makes it interesting for the governments over there. >> what does it mean for the the relationship with america? >> it is a difficult spot that we're in and calling for the spiritual leaders freedom was pretty bold politically, aggressive move on the part of the new leadership there in egypt. he's the fir

lincoln's second state of the union message. it's 1861. the war's been going on about here. it's not going well for the north. months away from the emancipation proclamation family can sense his address to congress. i mean, one of the great address as in american history, full of so much create status. the two or three sentences caught my mind -- caught my attention as i was thinking about the book. he says, speaking to the congressmen, senators in the middle of the civil war, we can only succeed by con third working together. it is not in any of us imagined that her, but can all of us to better? and that is a relevant question. when you look out and see the fragility and inequality of the economy, the direction of foreign policy, but her relatives of the national dialogue, that is a legitimate question. can we all do better? we now that we have to be at our best ever going to meet the challenges our country faces. we know each of us has to be at our best. and that of course is the next level of the title. the politicians and people in washington can do better. but the question is, can each of us to better? a

lincoln's second state of the union message. 1861. the war has been going on about a year. it's not play well for the north . it's about 68 months away from the emancipation proclamation. since this address to congress. one of the great addresses in american history full of so much great stuff. two or three sentences, mind, caught my attention. i was thinking about the book. he says, speaking to the congressman and senators in the middle of the civil war, we can only succeed by concert. it is not that any of us can imagine better, but can all of us do better? and that is a relevant question. when you looked out and see the fragility and inequality of the economy, the direction of foreign policy, the paralysis of the national dialogue, that is a legitimate question. can we all do better? we know that we have said the at our best if we're going to meet the challenges our country faces we knew each u.s.s. to be a best that, of course, is the next level of the title. as i simply camera politicians are politicians and people and washington to better. the answer is self-evident given our circumstance. in each of u

north dakota residents are happy to have some much oil produced. i think the greatest the lustration of winning a cultural war in a very direct way is abraham lincoln. there are a couple of books by a theologian, one only and that the greatest speech, about his second inaugural, -- one on linkedin's greatest speech, and one as president, and one called cooper union. if you want to understand being persuasive and you want to see a cultural fight, studied abraham lincoln. abraham lincoln in 1850's, there is a very unformed argument in 1850's. should slaby allowed to expand, does it matter? -- should slavery be allowed to expand? you have in abraham lincoln's somebody who is very carefully moving public opinion extraordinary -- in an extraordinarily well thought-out way and it all blows up in his face and you end up in a war. and he then has to mobilize and sustain the north, despite huge casualties. we lose more people between the north and south combined in the civil war and then all of the other wars combined. and from a much smaller population base. if you read abraham lincoln's gettysburg address, it is a campaign document. no president has been

north carolina line faw for his role in notiplotting a string o bombings targets included the united nations lincoln and holland tunnel and george washington bridge. prosecutors also allege he was the spiritual leader ofthe men that bombed the world trade center in 1993. peter king says they need to make it clear that he and his rhetoric is not acceptable and he shou he should stop. >>> the muslim weathbrotherhood to believe that but when he makes a remark like this in his inaugural address this shows me what his real feelings are. he is sending a signal to the region. he is throwing out a challenge to the united states. >>> what does it mean for the relationship in america? it was pretty bold an aggressive move in egypt. as long as the first freely elected president long time ties to the muslim brotherhood especially playing to his bhiers anti-american sentiments among the people. this could lead to strategic weakening of the position and domino effect if anothother cous follow suit along with their leadership. >> i only read we would have no intention of freeing this man. >> exactly. with you haven't heard a thing about considering this. >> coming up a report from the ground in the middle east. the

sentence in a federal penitentiary in north carolina for plotting a massive string of bombings across new york, the targets included the united nations and the lincolnls and the george washington bridge and expired to hill hosni mubar kill hosni mubarak when he was scheduled here for a visit and he was an active leader of a group and traveled around the country and peter king says the u.s. needs to make it clear to mohamed morsi his rhetoric regarding the release of a terrorist and a murderer must stop. >> it very much confirms our worst fears, the muslim brotherhood, which he's part of, has said somehow they've changed and moderated their position, and, i think people in the administration want to believe that and he makes a remark like this, in his inaugural address, it to me shows his real feelings, and sending a signal to his people and also sending a signal to the region and is throwing out the challenge to the united states. >> reporter: and, he is egypt's first islamist and freely elected president but a power struggle with the nation's generals is underway. the army holds tremendous power and parliament was dissolved following the upheaval a

north dakota residents are happy to have some much oil produced. i think the greatest the lustration of winning a cultural war in a very direct way is abraham lincoln. there are a couple of books by a theologian, one only and that the greatest speech, about his second inaugural, -- one on linkedin's greatest speech, and one as president, and one called cooper union. if you want to understand being persuasive and you want to see a cultural fight, studied abraham lincoln. abraham lincoln in 1850's, there is a very unformed argument in 1850's. should slaby allowed to expand, does it matter? -- should slavery be allowed to expand? you have in abraham lincoln's somebody who is very carefully moving public opinion extraordinary -- in an extraordinarily well thought- out way and it all blows up in his face and you end up in a war. and he then has to mobilize and sustain the north, despite huge casualties. we lose more people between the north and south combined in the civil war and then all of the other wars combined. and from a much smaller population base. if you read abraham lincoln's gettysburg address, it is a campaign document. no president has been

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would not --would never have come out of the civil war as it did had it not been led by lincoln and lee. the battles raged for five years, but for 100 years, both north and south, modeled itself on their own character. they exemplified most perfectly churchill's statement, public men charged with the conduct of the war should live in the continual stress of soul. the continual stress of soul is necessary as well in peacetime because for every good deed in public life there is a counter balance. benefits are given only after taxes are taken. that is part of governance. the statesmen who represents the whole nation sees an equilibrium for which he strives a continual tension between victory and defeat. if he did not understand this, he would have no stress of soul. he would merely be happy about money showered on the orphan, taken from the widow. about children sent to daycare so that they may be long absent from their parents. . about merciful parole of criminals who kill again. whereas a statesman knows continuous stressful soul, a politics is happy for he knows not what he does. it's difficult for individuals or nations to recognize that war and pea