mcclellan." after what we've heard so far in this conference, i think it is even more impossibler. dr. george rable is the professor emeritus at the university of alabama, roll tide. he held the charles sumner so chair of history. he is the author of "fredericksburg, fredericksburg," which won a lincoln prize. his most recent book is "damn yankees." let's welcome dr. orge rle. [applause] dr. rable: thank you very much. it is always a pleasure to be here for many different reasons. i'd like to thank des and the staff of pamplin park, certainly the best civil war venue in the country. there is no question about that. i'm always indebted to my dear friend will green who has invited me back year after year, invited me back year after year, despite perhaps protests from the crowd. [laughter] but will and i give each other a lot of grief but we are dear friends. we are dear friends. but most of all i want to thank you all, who year after year come to this conference. it was good to see some people her

mcclellan did. i think the reason for why grant would have been sympathetic to mcclellan on that account is that grant understood the complexity of what mcclellan faced in maneuvering with the press. there is not just the press. the press was complicated in maybe even more so than it is in 2017. this idea that the american press is objective and nonpartisan is not rooted in a knowledge of the history of the press in the united states of america. these officers, mcclellan actively cultivated connections with press that were favorable to him. up anmber one guy kept incredibly important and illuminating correspondence with the owner and editor of the new york world, which was probably the most prominent conservative organ in america at the time. these men, while they moaned the press didn't like them, they cultivated the press they did. they faced the circumstances in a different medium than today but almost identical in terms of political viewpoints and philosophical complexity as the press is today f

mcclellan, burnside, fremont. these are all older generals that were not able to kind of bring the north victories.in the south , so what? master lincoln has a new toy. fighting will be the new general turn.akes his eventually, hooker is relieved, too. it is not until general grant assumes control that the north very luckyry, victories but victories nonetheless. i will tell you what. why don't we take a little five-minute break at this point and come back? we will look at sculptures and paintings. ok? >> well, we are. thank you for a little breather there. i was thinking about how complex this period is, and it resists easy conclusions. even one of the artists i showed you. leonard volk who did the facemask of lincoln, he was a stephen douglas mann. in fact, he named his son stephen douglas volk. he was related to stephen douglas because his wife was a cousin of stephen douglas. how is it that a stephen douglas man gets supposed to lincoln and is so much responsible to the way we understand his sculptures? this wh

talks aboutbel mcclellan's military successes and failures, his reputation for arrogance as well as his rocky relationships with high-ranking union officials, most notably president abraham lincoln. 'sis talk was part of pamplin historical parks and pony and -- symposium called generals we love to hate. it is about an hour and 15 minutes. >> good morning, everybody. we're ready to get started. welcome back to the last day of our conference. and also welcome to our c-span viewers. we're live. just a couple of announcements before i introduce the speaker. we still have some tickets available on our wonderful plank, that you will be able to take him today if you want.

but this time, the joke is about ex-general mcclellan. referring to his reputation of not fighting, and lincoln now has the upper hand in this cartoon. a smart local cartoon. in the south, they had political cartoons too, and they made vicious fun out of lincoln and they could. but as i told you, the south lacked artists, paper, ink, typesetters. so they did not produce as many political cartoons, and the ones they did, sometimes suffered. can you tell in this one, that this is supposed to be lincoln? master abraham lincoln gets a new toy -- that refers to a new general who would lead them to victory. on the shelf behind, you see all the generals who have not been mcclellan, burnside, fremont, mcdowell, banks, all older generals who had not been able to bring victory to the north. so in the south, so what, master lincoln has a new toy. this will be the new general -- he takes his turn. is relieved ofer his command as well. it would not be until general grant assumed control of all the armies, racking up very, very bloody victories, but th

as far as mcclellan's -- the soldiers' love of mcclellan, little mac, and why they did not stick with him, anyone want to comment? >> to the other part of the question about his reaction, i think he felt relieved, which is maybe unusual. he said the people have voted with their eyes wide open, he wrote that to his wife, and he got out of the country for a while. which was kind of overdue. frank: he disagreed with the peace platform of the democratic party. that did not help either. yes? >> this is for catherine and it has to do with lincoln's emotional intelligence. if it were not for mary lincoln, lincoln never would have been president. he would have ended up as a territorial governor of washington. catherine: he would have accepted that appointment had she be willing to go. >> in all seriousness, we do not underestimate her contribution to his legacy and presidency. this is a pointed question. did life with her prepare him for salmon chase? [laughter] -- for samuel chase and the rest of them? [laughter] catherine: mary always had strong opinions and her opinions were not always bas

and on the shelf behind there, you can see all the generals that haven't been successful, mcclellan, burnside, freemont, banks, these are all older generals that weren't able to kind of bring the north victory. so in the south, so what, master lincoln has a new toy, biting joke -- fighting joe hooker is going to be the new general. and eventually hooker is relead of his command, too, it won't be until general grant assumes control of all the armies that the north racks up very, very bloody victories, but victories nonetheless. ok, i tell you what, why don't we take a little five-minute break at this pointed and come back, and look at some sculptures and paintings. we're back. thank you. thank you for a little breather right there. you know, i was just thinking about how complex this period s, and it resists kind of easy conclusions. even one of the artists i showed you, leonard volk, who did the facemask of lincoln, he was a steven douglas man. in fact, he named his son steven douglas volk, and he was related to steven douglas because his wife was a cousin of steven douglas. so how i

when mcclellan i think we're on the right path but we have to be careful to remember this won't just work out automatically dollars the twenty eight page document is up against heavy criticism from the opposition just as expected. to lead this country into the future and there's no answer to digital change and no flexibility in the pension system on the contrary it does injustice to future generations and it's expensive. chancellor merkel wished success to the leader of her would be coalition partner the s.p.d. now it's up to martine schultz to convince everyone at the party conference and get the party members to vote with the yes if all goes well germany could have a new government by early spring. and both sides are forced to make concessions to freeze the agreement on starting form a coalition talks about some most controversial issues the tax rises and refugees here's a closer look at some of the issues that are visually holding the deal but now appear to have been dissolved phenolics east. now this is what they came up with here at villa a twenty eight page document that outlin

tom mcclellan talking about the selloff.out 311 mcdonald's a big story earnings and sales that did beat the street we'll talk to ed rensi who ran mcdonald's and andy pundzi with us ron kruszewski unh a big piece ofhi ts. "squawk on the street" is back in a minute. we have a question about your brokerage fees. fees? what did you have in mind? i don't know. $4.95 per trade? uhhh and i was wondering if your brokerage offers some sort of guarantee? guarantee? where we can get our fees and commissions back if we're not happy. so can you offer me what schwab is offering? what's with all the questions? ask your broker if they're offering $4.95 online equity trades and a satisfaction guarantee. if you don't like their answer, ask again at schwab. >>> mcdonald's shares are out. the best same store sales growth in six years for more on mcd and to talk about some of the big jest stories of the day, let's bring in ed rensi and andrew puzder. >> good to be here. >> good morning. >> u.s. comps four five, there's a lot to look at here. and

under jim mcclellan's leadership, we are taking a balanced approach, treatment, prevention, and enforcement. our efforts to integrate the technology needed to help physicians access the state prescription drug monitoring system are going even faster than we anticipated. in september, just one hospital was using the new system. now, more than half are on board and will be using the technology this year. so, with your help, we are moving forward to require indiana physicians to use the system before ever issuing an opioid prescription. [applause] gov. holcomb: we will seek to increase the number of opioid treatment locations from 18 up to 27. so nearly everyone in the state will be less than an hour's away from treatment. we will engage and approve our reporting of drug overdose deaths so we know precisely the scale of the problem and can for ourmore treatment citizens. and we will strengthen our enforcement efforts and send a clear signal to anyone who would profit from this scourge. if you deal or manufacture illegal drugs that result in someone's death, you will be charged with our highest

, editor of the mcclellan market report. you back. >> hi, carl. >> you have been slicing and dicing at least the nasdaq you have been looking at various ways to look at faang. you divided it up into a couple different investments, but the main point is that you're looking for what appears to be a bit of a scare in march. can you talk about that? >> well, the scare starts in march, and it should last all the way to august, but between now and then, there's still money to be made nasdaq is still very strong. faang is leading the way you remember back in november that the i.c.e. exchange started out a new futures contract for faang plus they took the original four faang stocks and added tesla, twitter, allah bobba, badu, and apple to make a more diversified index. i wanted to know what the things look like. i created my own unweighted index of the faang classic and the faang plus turns out faang classic does better than the faang plus it teaches us a lesson about you make the most money being concentrated as opposed to diversif

the sputnik news agency have drawn mcclellan's ire in the past our correspondents were denied access to his presidential campaign last year after which he labeled both outlets agents of influence and propaganda. if you go on the internet. you. know. russia today and sputnik have been influential outlets which have several times spoken mistruths about me and my campaign that's why they have not been invited in my headquarters. well here at r t we launched a new channel for the french speaking world over the christmas period mediately ruffle a few feathers several french public figures published an open letter calling for r.t.e. france's license to be revoked they said r.t. has repeatedly faced numerous allegations from the us and several european countries political commentator adrian yellen believes mccrone should be curfewed by taking legal measures against any media i think what he is now trying to do is to change the french civil code in order to prevent what he sees as a threat to democratic life of the nation he clearly sees r.t. in sputnik as part of that but i think that he al

hi, you may know there is a theory that general mcclellan has won the war for the union in 1862, that ms a patient might not have come as early -- emancipation might not have come as early as it did. but what about thanks giving? if it wasn't one in a density to come up with sarah hale get lincoln to call it? >> thanksgiving would have continued because it was expanding wildly around the country. and the individual space would have called it, and i can tell you sarah joseph a hail would never have given up. she was persistent and she lived to be 90. if she were alive today, she would still be campaigning for it. i don't know. they would've had to found a president who was open to the idea. the other president xi wrote to rejectedncoln either her treaty out right on the grounds that it wasn't up to them to do so, that the president did have the authority to do so, or they just ignored her. >> i'm from illinois. i have some questions. is this better? there. how about this? i'm from champagne and i have some -- a couple questions about some statistics you cite in your book about charitab

scott mcclellan wrote the book during the bush administration. i was press secretary at the time and i was super upset. washington loves a story. americans dig into it. one of the things president bush called me into the oval office and set i hear you are upset but i don't want you to worry about it. i said, can i throw you under the bus? he said i want you to believe me. no one is going to think about this in two weeks. one of the things that's positive for republicans and one thing that could be trouble ahead. the severing of ties between president trump and steve bannon is probably good for continued cooperation for the type of accomplishments greg was a little into. if you don't have the constant pushing from bannon, you allow them to work together. you probably don't have to worry about steve bannon trying to primary those incumbent senators. the thing i think that was eye-opening about the excerpt greg is referring to is that in one of the quotes steve bannon talks about, the issue isn't anything that has to do with 2016, it was before 2016

finds that initial funding was provided and construction started on a 12-foot navigation of the mcclellan arkansas water navigation system as directed in section 136 of the energy and water development appropriations act, thereby meeting the new start requirements. according to the institute of water resources from 2010 to 2012, the army core off engineers provided a nationally economic net benefit of $87 billion in stimulated 27 billion in returns to the u.s. treasury. 16-1 return in terms of economic benefits and 5-1 for the treasury. waterways investment is a wise investment. if there's going to be a comprehensive infrastructure plan then my plea is that it not just be for roads and bridges but for waterways too. not just for deep coastal ports and harbors but for inland waterways too. for efficient competitive movement of freight. to the extent waterway projects freight. and to the point they do private, then the water infrastructure act program created in wrda 2014 may be the tool necessary to track such investment. in projects for which the in land water way trust revenues are not s

brown the great confederate cavalry officer gaining fame in 1862 for his daring ride around mcclellan's army just before the seven days battle around richmond and two days later mortally wounded in ashburn, v.a. he's buried here. his monument is an egyptian style monument that represents the sun at noon day. when it's used as a grave marker it means that person lived a very fruitful and successful life. he was only 31 years old when he died. his wife, laura cook is here, the founder of the virginia female institute in stanton named stewart hall, in her honor. some members of the stewart manor continue the 17th tradition of having family reunions here. sometimes we come here and find a tent with family members having a reunion at the grave site of j.e.b. stewart. next to the grave of stewart was ellen glasgow, a richmond writer who won the novel prize. she was student of enlightenment and wrote about the oppression of women in the south. she was very critical of the false sentimentality of southern society. richmond didn't read her books. she was disappointed because she was worried rich

mont mcclellan over, iowa. >> so great to hear from those iowans.u watch trump's first year, reign of chaos. thanks for being with me. i'll be back tomorrow. one year since the inauguration. in the meantime, "the lead" starts now. >>> this is cnn breaking news. >> welcome to the lead. we'll start with breaking news. we are less than eight flowers a federal government shutdown. as of now with even some republicans saying they'll vote against the funding bill, it is not clear that there are even 50 votes in the senate to avoid a shounl let alone the 60 needed. congressional negotiations are going on behind the scenes. hours ago, trump

snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, in abraham lincoln's word about general mcclellan's failure to pursue lee's army after antietem. in the same speech as the british soldiers evacuated from dunkirk were being returned to theire regiments and regrowthed and rearmed,. even though large tracks of europe and l many old and famous states have fallen into the grip of the gestapo, and all of the odious apparatus of nazi rule, we shall not flag or fail. we shall go on to the end. we have shall fight in france. we shall fight in the seas and oceans. we shallce fight with growing confidence and growing strength? the air. we will defend our island, whatever the cost may be. we shall fight on the beaches. we shall fight on the landing ground and we shall fight on the fields and the streets. we shall i fight in the hills. we shall never surrender. even if, which i do not for a moment believe, this island or large part of it was subjugated and starving, the now empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the british fleet would carry on the struggle until in god's good time, the world with

2001 and 2013 caused serious harm to an important infrastructure develop mane project along the mcclellan arkansas river navigation system which in the interests of time i will refer to as mcarns. that is 445-mile multipurpose waterway runs through arkansas and oklahoma completed in 1970 as cost of $1.2 billion. it was the largest federal investment ever made in a civil works project. connecting the two states oklahoma and arkansas with domestic river ports and terminals along the inland waterways of the united states and with ports all over the world via the port of new orleans and gulf of mexico. in 2015 there was a regional impact study for the mcarns conducted being published, documenting the impacts $8.5 billion in sales, 55,000 jobs, 289 million in taxes to the national economy. you will find a copy of that in attachment a to my testimony. in attachment d you find a letter signed by the president of the oklahoma-arkansas, port operators association endorsing its priorities for the mcarns you will find my briefing that we made to the congress and to stakeholders and congressional sta

generals and i think william westmoreland deserves to be remembered in much of the way remember george mcclellan in the civil war being famous as a general for being able to put together a beautiful army but who did not want to fight it. i think general westmoreland is an example of a whole different kind of command stupidity which is such a strong belief in his own theory of what was happening in the field, that it was impervious to facts. that even when young officers who were actually charged with fighting this war would come back and tell him, no, sir, this is not what is happening. this is what is happening. he would not accept it. did not believe it. and he is not the first general who accepts only information that supports what he wants to hear, but he is a very, very glaring example of it. brian: did you talk to any enlisted men that were in the hue battle? because i know in the book you talk about how a lot of enlisted men and young kids over there did not even know where vietnam was. did you talk to any of them? mark: yes. i would say most of them who i interviewed, as veterans, were a

mont mcclellan over, iowa. >> so great to hear from those iowans. make sure you watch trump's first year, reign of chaos. thanks for being with me. i'll be back tomorrow. one year since the inauguration. in the meantime, "the lead" starts now. >>> this is cnn breaking news. >> welcome to the lead. we'll start with breaking news. we are less than eight flowers a federal government shutdown. as of now with even some republicans saying they'll vote against the funding bill, it is not clear that there are even 50 votes in the senate to avoid a shounl let alone the 60 needed. congressional negotiations are going on behind the scenes. hours ago, trump invited schumer to the white house. take a listen. >> okay. i'm going to be brief. i won't answer any questions. okay? we had a long and detailed meeting. we discussed all of the major outstanding issues. we made some progress but we still have a good number of disagreements. the discussions will continue. >> senate majority whip said he spoke with john kelly that the meeting with trump and indeed no agreeme

the examples i use historical or neville chamberlain during world war ii, general george mcclellan duringhe civil war. lord owen referred to george bush and tony blair to where this hubris occurred in power. lincoln said "if you want to test a man's character, give him power." i think this is the kind of idea that he was referring to. >> are we ready for this in a society in 2018, for the findings of your book, in the times of crisis, someone afflicted with mental illness might be better suited to ride out the storm, because i worry about the stigma that unfortunately still applies to this subject matter. >> i totally agree and that's part of the reason i wrote the book. one of the big problems with the goldwater rule prohibition is that it actually enhances the stigma. the idea that mental illness psychiatric disease is so terrible, we can't even talk about it is part of the stigma and discrimination against mental illness in our society. we should be willing to make psychiatric diagnosis in our leaders and thereby not necessarily disqualify them, but maybe even qualifying them in some w

if you think about scott mcclellan, he was my closest, sort of the example that was given to me by a couple of folks inside the trump white house. the difference in my mind is that nothing is sacred for this team. when you read through page after page of michael wolff's retelling, and even the note about how this book came to be. things that were shared off the record, which is usually a tactic people like us, people like all of us deploy to sort of shed light. it was weaponized. and this was a team of people. this is still a team of people very much at war with one another. >> absolutely. whether it's amrosa, whether it's this newest feud in the relate tv show that's the west wing of the whourks we see the utterly sham bollic nature of donald trump's management style, the personalities of people who have positions of power around an office where life and death decisions are made. and today my question would be, who is representing america today? we have a situation where the president is engaged in digital mccarthyism with his implications of the intelligence community as some kind

. >> many people know tom mcclellan, and this is the index, andummation it is advances versus declinersthis peek in the early part of january, notmake a lower high, it is keeping up with the broader market, and all of a sudden it gives you a warning sign. on monday andcked had a 60 point decline in the s&p, and it gave advanced warning that something like that could happen. my thinking is that it is important to keep an eye not but it wentme -- from being flat last friday, without the market was at a -- was update, and then it declined. monday and tuesday was negative on the downside, so it is a big concern and warning bell. abigail: belichick or could be a correction or pullback in our it looks like there could be a correction or pullback. julia: we explain the dangers surrounding funds that have raised more than $350 million so far this year. this is bloomberg. ♪ scarlet: a popular etf now risks closure. hasalternative harvest etf 350 million raised this year and is doing well late performance wise, but what exactly is the problem? it could be the federal law. rachel, tell us what the