also the paolucci were involved with very -- for many decades. we're also happy to have to or three longtime friends of the paolucci's here. two of whom are of the book selection committee onetime york state senator and his wife in the long time secretary of the york state's and executive director with a council of national literature. i encourage you to take a couple of minutes into the program that goes into detail about the accomplishments of the paolucci's and their needs we are honored to have a member of the paolucci family with us tonight. it is also a testament of the turnout of all the hard work of the team of the primary people to organize everything and as i mentioned a testament to the book there will be time for the author, a richard brookhiser design and it is inappropriate book there has been so many books written on lincoln with this focus is on the idea that animated the founders and the founding documents in particular pain and jefferson and sometimes like to refer to the work and sometimes'' the famous lyceums speech that he wr

but to win the paolucci award, richard brookhiser. [applause] >>. >> the things are coming out i am especially honored to with the first president of isi. i enjoy it and others recognized and he would be 90 years old and he was still with us and would be very happy to see one of his colleagues derecognized by isi. to be engaged with the founding fathers is most famous expression is the "gettysburg address". where he said our daughters brought forth to this nation conceived in liberty. but three years before that, february 1860 the cooper union address in new york city a kickoff to his first presidential campaign with a 90 minute speech half were devoted to the man assigned the constitution and what they thought of the federal government's power to regulate slavery and the territories. instead of slavery it is an evil plot to be extended but to think is they think unspoken as they spoke but six years before that in october peoria speech this law against whoever -- she would never give, three hours he said the republican road in a soile