handwritten letter saying after michelle and the kids to go sleep, he goes down to a room where abe lincolnpontiff indicates about abraham lincoln and other things like. that he writes, and i'll quote to you. i ling order these few words that have helped define our american experiment. a new nation conceived in liberty, dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal will we wanted to talk about it. why not go there today? politically would not it have been smart? switch the conversation, put yourself in the shad over abe lincoln. get rid of this whole obama care thing. >>> president has a job and it is to be president of the united states. who are we to question what his choices are in his schedule? he does have a few things distracting him. i will stay webb is something he is worried about. i agree he doesn't write the code. but the day of a president is pretty full and there may have been a great many things. what about the nsa which appears to be out of control? lots and lots of problems. >> it would be great if he talked some of them publicly a little more than he has. >> i

the late nineteenth century early twentieth century they started running the railroads you know abe lincoln put all that money into the railroads they started running the railroads in these regions and they could get coal into those areas in the soon as you get coal and you'll see you'll see in one thousand twenty thirty forty how sizes started increasing and they started growing the forest spec so any other route the result of all that deforestation had been the carbon was being released into the environment instead of being trapped absorbed by plants and trees however since really the one nine hundred thirty s. the f.d.r. you know the civilian conservation corps was all about planning trees well by the one nine hundred fifty s. those trees were big enough that they started really absorbing carbon dioxide taking that carbon out of the atmosphere and humans were using land differently planting more trees more plants in fact plants over took many environments that were previously barren and began absorbing. billions of tons of carbon according to the researchers since the mid twentieth centu

well, abe lincoln would convene his cabinet and put a question, and they'd go around and each person would vote in the cabinet, say nay, nay, nay, nay, nay, and then he would say, the ayes have it. [laughter] so that's what we used to do. but i, 90% -- 95% of the time i followed the suggestions of my people. i will never forget when they, it took them a week, but they persuaded me that needle exchange made sense. [applause] today everybody knows that to be the case. it was not so obvious to me way back then. seeing helen marshall makes me think of queens. which reminds me of the u.s. open played here just recently. [applause] there was the fear that the u.s. open would leave new york city. they might well have gone to the meadowlands, to atlanta. a lot of ore places. -- other places. so it was important that we keep it not only for the jobs, but for the revenue that it helped produce. so we worked hard on that. we were successful again. this was something that required going to albany because if you're going to alienate parkland, you need permission of state. and so we're in flushing

despite the fact he's sitting there with abe lincoln.also stopped being an independent years ago. turns out this guy and the only party that can beat the democratic party in philadelphia right now, it's the whig party. w-h-i-g. yep. the elections judge is a member of the whig party, like it's 1840. somebody dress me up like henry clay and make me a drink. you can catch philadelphia's latest whig party official on up this saturday morning, but if you want to hear the most amazing election result yet from america's cities this year, it is not actually the fact that philadelphia has elected its first whig party official since the 1800s. there's something more amazing that happened this week and that story is coming up. stay with us. [ male announcer ] campbell's homestyle. mmm! this is delicious katie. it's not bad for canned soup, right? pfft! [ laughs ] you nearly had us there. canned soup. [ male announcer ] they just might think it's homemade. try campbell's homestyle soup. see, i knew testosterone could affect sex drive, but not energy

>> let me just say i think your abe lincoln impersonator was better than the george washington guy. cruz has flitted with this all the way through. and the fact he cannot rule out what would be an e greeshs overreach by the united states congress is exactly why his republican colleagues dislike what he's doing so much. it's not thought through. it's just pandering to the fringe elements of the republican party. maybe he thinks that's going to fuel some part of a tea party candidacy for president. but he's not going to get much support in terms of the broader party. if he wants to break out of iowa on his, you know, path to the nomination, then he's going to find it very hard, indeed. i do think he is encouraging and flitting with those elements of the republican party. they are ugly and racist. that's not the majority of the republican party, but it is the fringe. >> now, michelle, you know, in that interview i showed of ted cruz, he wasn't just dancing around the impeachment threats. he said -- let me show you something else he said. >> one of the most troubling aspects of the obam

imagine if we had seen abe lincoln paint himself naked in the bathtub.l stuff. and i loved the kind of oddity of it, the extrinsky, the fact that this guy is trying to paint this very private world. he paints in the weight room, he paints in the shower. it was kind of weird, and i always thought of him as a gremlin on the wing of america, and then i went into shock, because i actually like some of these paintings. >> now we have the ability to compare his growth, the works he did earlier, with the works he's doing now. how do you, when you look at some of the early ones, the shower period, which we'll call it, how do you compare that, for instance, with the portrait he did of jay leno, which really was not bad. what's the values of these paintings, even if just from a historical standpoint? >> well, first, about the value, i would buy one for a few hundred dollars and donate it to the whitney museum of american art. celebrity heart sometimes costs in the realm of tens of thousands of dollars. silver stallone, frank sinatra, a lot of others. i actually th

when abe lincoln declared thanksgiving a national holiday it was thanks to the tireless efforts of magazineitor sarah joseph hail, her other claim to fame? she also wrote the nursery rhyme, mary had a little lamb. we'll be right back. i love watching tv outside. and why can you move the tv out here? the wireless receiver. i got that when i switched to u-verse. but why? because it's so much better than cable. it's got more hd channels, more dvr space. yeah, but i mean, how did you know? i researched. no, i-i told you. no. yeah! no. the important part is that you're happy now. and i got you this visor. you made a visor! yes! that i'll never wear. ohh. [ male announcer ] get u-verse tv for just $19 a month for two years with qualifying bundles. rethink possible. with qualifying bundles. let'dlet'shopay. les sa. t's forhe w. les dohis. moreavin moreoing that'she per o e ho dep. yourhoic the whlpoostaiess eel reigerors,ust $998. >>> 5:27 on the clock. happening right now we've got a lot of folks standing in line anticipating elbow jabbing to get those black friday deals. its become something of

i said, well, abe lincoln would convene his cabinet and put a question. and then he'd go around, and each person would vote in the cabinet, say nay, nay, nay, nay, nay, nay. and then you would say the ayes have it. [laughter] so that's what we used to do. but i, 90%, 95 percent of the time i followed the suggestions of my people. i will never forget when they, it took them a week, but they explained to me that needle exchange made sense. today everybody knows that to be the case. [applause] it was not so obvious to me way back then. seeing helen marshall makes me think of queens which reminds me of the u.s. open played here just recently -- [applause] there was the fear that the u.s. open would leave new york city. they might well have gone to the meadowlands, to atlanta, a lot of other places. so it was important that we keep it not only for the jobs, but for the revenue that it helped produce. so we worked hard on that. we were successful again. this is something that required going to albany, because if you're going to alienate parkland, you need permi

. >> and abe lincoln. >> it was acting. >>> we're going to start with the southwest, by the way.yesterday, the winds kicked up about 60 miles per hour in the mountains. ventura county had gusts up to 55. l.a. county was 47. and look at the temperatures. you're on a warm streak because all of that warm air starts to push inland. meanwhile, the other direction is that warm air pushes towards the east coast. so does this line of rain with that cold front. so be prepared, east coast. today is a fairly mild, and fairly dry day. but tomorrow, it won't be. all that rain is going from chicagoland all the way to st. louis. today, we'll be focused on the east coast tomorrow. the national map tells the whole story. the rain in that shade of blue. that's your rainy day today. >> point out when i make up words -- it would mean a lot. i may have made up a word. operational instead of operable. >> i'm no weather spotter. >>> what's going on? >> thank you for that operational report. here's what's coming up on your "gma morning menu." first up, in "pop news," jennifer aniston's headlinemaking ha

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channel, is why a president, a current president, barak obama, who linked himself so many times to abe lincoln >> it was 43 miles from where he was located. i saw greta last night and talked about how ronald reagan traveled 4,000 miles to commemorate the norman dee invasion. i always thought president obama would relish this moment to change the dialogue and do what he does best, give relevance to an historic event in american history. but he did not show. >> according to tweets by one of his advisors. >> ron foreign yea works at national journal. >> he said what, is on his schedule that is more important than gettysburg an verse was one -- a anniversary was one of the tweets. >> one of the president's spokespersons said, oh, i don't know. there is this whole web site thing that someone suggested might destroy the democratic party. i was watching on twitter, a lot of people were amazed, that's an official white house account. >> right. >> where he's snarking like that. >> he's communications guy. he should be reprimanding somebody within the administration that put that out. by the way, why ar

president abraham lincoln delivered his gettysburg address exactly 150 years ago. but how much do our kids actually know about honest abetell you. >> that he wasn't honest. >> what political party did abraham lincoln belong to? >> you know -- >> oh, man, i don't know. >> maybe it doesn't matter. >> okay, there's more when "the five" returns. so i tried depend last weekend. it made the difference between hearing about my daughter's gym meet, and being there. yeah! nailed it! i got back to doing what i love. that's my daughter. hi sweetie! gotta dial it back a little bit on the rock climbing. one weekend can make all the difference. unlike the bargain brand, depend gives you the confidence of new fit-flex® protection. it's a smooth and comfortable fit with more lycra strands. it's our best protection. take your weekend on with a free sample at depend.com >>> a new nation conceived in liberty. >> and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. >> that was a clip from the project commemorating the 150th anniversary of abraham lincoln's famous gettysburg address which we're remembering here today. all five l

what about abe lincoln? and my comment is, well, he freed the slaves but johnson freed the enslaved. and now with this series it does focus on his efforts, as far as the civil rights. but -- and one other thing i want to say is that i'm always baffled when i see shows and i see posters about civil rights movers and shakers and he's not there. you can't talk about the movement and how great it was and how much we've progressed without talking about the efforts of johnson. but what my question was, i had heard that right after kennedy was assassinated and just when johnson was being sworn in that he insisted mrs. kennedy be at his side. and i was just wondering if that was true and if it was, why at her most vulnerable time did she think it was important to witness his swearing in. thank you. >> he did want her at his side and he didn't want to take off until -- from texas and go back to the white house until she was there on the plane. and i think he thought it was very important because he thought of continu

but also the right wing, honestly abe, that speech was a civil bore. lincoln's end the civil war. of course--kids grow up so fast, don't they? one day they look like this and the next day they look like this. seems like yesterday you were feeding them a bottle. now he's all grown up. these photos are all part of a collection showing children's photos re-created by their adult counterpart. all these folks should be commended for embracing their past, not hiding from them. after all, who wouldn't want to be this relaxed. this guy gets it. that looks comfortable. sorry about that, woibls. we'll be right back. but at least i can help keep their underwear clean. that's why there's charmin ultra strong. i'll take that. go get 'em, buddy! it cleans so well and you can use up to four times less than the leading bargain brand. [ female announcer ] charmin ultra strong has a duraclean texture that's soft and more durable to help your kids get clean while still using less. and it's four times stronger than the leading bargain brand. wow, you cleaned up a lot! you did too,

abe. >> what political party is abraham lincoln part of?m not sure. >> take a guess. >> can i have some options? >> democratic. >> democrat? >> republican. >> take a guess. >> i want to say was he a democrat? >> republican. >> you got right. >> this probably underscores your point about the children who go to colleges to get themselves brainwashed about what have managed to obliterate the urban warfare. they are pro kkk, and they are against rights of blacks and they managed to make the republicansi racist when they infact created it. >> this is lost in translation over the years that the 13th amendment 100% republican support, and the 14 amendment that granted freedom to slaves 100% republican support. i'm telling you those are the facts, bob. >> speaking as a racist myself here, that the -- now that we turned this into a bash democrat segment, what about the fact that kids don't know much about the history? history seems to be the most important thing we can have and more and more people have no track of history at all? >> i think it's pr

but also the right wing, honestly abe, that speech was a civil bore. lincoln's the civil war. of course, hcourse--kids grow u, don't they? one day they look like this and the next day they look like this. seems like yesterday you were feeding them a bottle. now he's all grown up. these photos are all part of a collection showing children's photos re-created by their adult counterpart. all these folks should be commended for embracing their past, not hiding from them. after all, who wouldn't want to be this relaxed. this guy gets it. that looks comfortable. sorry about that, woibls. we'll be right back. americans take care of business. they always have. they always will. that's why you take charge of your future. your retirement. ♪ ameriprise advisors can help you like they've helped millions of others. listening, planning, working one on one. to help you retire your way... with confidence. that's what ameriprise financial does. that's what they can do with you. ameriprise financial. more within reach. but with less energy, moodiness, and a low sex drive,y first.

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lincoln. he established a regular holiday inn 1863 to promote national unity, honest abe did spare a turkey thatung son tad came to love as a pet. that was christmas, not thanksgiving. so it didn't start two lincoln. others think it began with harry truman who did receive ceremonial turkeys in 1947 fully they're wrok wrong, too. he let them know they were dec tend for his family dinner table. so he was going to eat them this photo from 1949, give 'em hell harry, there wasn't much subtlety there. known 55, dwight eisenhower, it was presented to vice president nixon. john f kennedy reportedly locked down at this bird the week before trfg in known 63, just days before he went to dallas. he said, quote, let's keep them going, perhaps the earliest stage of passion. maybe we wanted time for the turkey to grow fatter. linden johnson the man of many appetites. this turkey in known 67 with the wish of good eating, you can see the theme here president ford was presented with a live turkey all wrapped up from the supermarket. it wasn't until ronal reagan, morning in america for america's turkeys. he said t