are you on the side of the am i leaders or will dupre and fast and trust the god of abraham, isaac and jacob to use you to confront evil and save the lives of innocent people? this is a question we must ask right now. do we believe and the god of love? do we believe in the god of forgiveness? do we believe in god that will adopt dustin to his family and change knous? perhaps you don't think of yourself as a murderer or terrorist or radical muslim like tax -- but we have all sinned and fall short of god until we came to faith in jesus christ and he changes our lives. now what is interesting is this very week we are commemorating and noting that various anniversary of the islamic revolution and what's interesting is at this moment where annihilation is the language of the day, just as it was in the days of esther and mordecai. when you look out over the epicenter, the middle east, the center where the nation's eyes are riveted on israel and her neighbors, the epicenter of the events that are shaping the world and shaping the future. when you take a survey of the state of the epicenter, y

host: this is the bicentennial of abraham lincoln's birth. they just rededicated the monument this past weekend. guest: the president of tuskegee university spoke. i have been a member of the board of trustees there for a long time. they spoke with the memorial was first opened. host: how do you think abraham lincoln would you the civil- rights condition in the country today? guest: i would love to talk about what people would do today. i'm often asked to do that about martin luther king, for example. i think abraham lincoln based on everything we know about him, he was a wise man. he was pragmatic. he had a human touch. i think he would look at obama as president. he would look at the great progress we have made with sotomayor nominated for the supreme court. i think he would say that we are on the verge of a new birth of freedom. host: the firefighters of new haven say their civil rights were violated. what is your view of how this played out? guest: one point i would make is that everyone should remember that no one got promoted. that is t

he was very careful and very considerate even as he was trying to move the country, but abraham lincoln had the overriding mission to save the mission and keep the country from dissolving. >> that is impossible to do without engaging the public opinion. >> host: i am asking the unanswerable question which is polls are nothing more than a tool. like a hammer you can use it to build a house or split somebody's head open. the way their use makes them good or bad. >> guest: absolutely right. if the leader, ehud barak, he begins a process it is essential for israel's security that israel and achieve a peace with palestinians, neighboring countries, lebanon, syria, he was to achieve this in a fairly short period of time because he thinks it can only happen when clinton is there and before arafat would become too ill to do it. he wanted to move he thought it was critical for israel's security. two-thirds of the country were against or opposed to any agreement that divided jerusalem. over a two month period, the educated the public, open and a debates over the final summons that ended the confl

the abraham lincoln museum is a project i thought about 18 years ago understand is today is a reality. this abraham presidential library and human draws over a half million tourists to springfield, many of them families of children who leave with an enjoyable visit. southern illinois draws visitors to its garden of the gods. it is the gateway to the shawnee national forest. summer visits to quincy, illinois, feature historic architecture and a lot of enjoyment along the mighty mississippi river. we have our unusual tourist attractions in illinois. near my old hometown of east st. louis, you can see the world's largest ketchup bottle or the two-story outhouse in gaze, illinois, or the home of superman, including a 15-foot superman statue and a six-foot popeye statue in chester, illinois. a lot of photographs have been taken in front of them. every state has these historic, amazing places to visit and those curiosities that draw people from all over the united states and all over the world. illinois offers the international visitor a truly american experience. in fact, in illinois, tour

abraham lincoln took what he called, you know, opinion baths.e asked people to come to his people to the white house and he said it was the most valuable time i spent 'cause he wanted to try to hold the union together and to do that he had to -- he had to be apathetic. he had to understand the south and the border states and he had to keep -- you know, the union to understand slave-holding parts of the country. he moved with great care in the emancipation proclamation. he was very careful and contract with public opinion even as he was trying to move the country. the fact is abraham lincoln had an overriding mission. which was to save the union. keep the country from, you know, dissolving. this special exceptional country. >> host: it's impossible to do that without engaging public opinion. >> guest: correct. >> host: i guess i'm asking you an unanswerable question. which is polls are nothing more than a tool. i mean, just like a hammer you can use a hammer to build a house or you can use a hammer to split somebody's head up so the way the polls

chemical peacefully together as in the story of islam -- children of abraham can mainingle peacefully together as in the story of islam. the third source of tension is our shared interest in the rights and responsibilities of nations on nuclear weapons. this issue has been a source of tension between the united states and the islamic republic of iran. for many

chemical peacefully together as in the story of islam -- children of abraham c mainingle peacefully together as in the story of islam. the third source of tension is our shared interest in the rights and responsibilities of nations on nuclear weapons. this issue has been a source of tension between the united states and the islamic republic of iran. for many years, iran has defined itself in part by its opposition to my country. there is it a motorists history between us -- a tumultuous history between us. since the islamic revolution, iran has played a role in acts of hostage-taking and violence against u.s. troops and civilians. this history is well-known. rather than remain trapped in the past, i have made it clear to the leaders of iran that my country is prepared to move forward. the question now is not what iran is against but what future it wants to build. i recognize it will be hard to overcome decades of mistrust, but we will proceed with her rich, rectitude, and resolved. there will be many issues to discuss between our two countries. we want to move forward without precon

once when my son abraham was six weeks old i was standing in line at a local bakery. i had him in a sling, and i was feeding him. the baby had finally taken his bottle, and i was loathe to adjust anything for fear of disturbing our tenuous peace. i rocked a bit on my heels. the baby paused in his sucking, and i held my breath. suddenly, a voice behind me said, you know, breast is best. i turned. the speaker, a woman a few years older than i, smiled pleasantly. now, the correct response to that comment might have been a stern rejoinder to mind her own business. instead, what i did was burst into tears and launch into a long explanation about how the milk in the bottle was my own pumped at 4 in the morning. i told this stranger that i had, in fact, been pumping breast milk for abraham every two hours because he was born with a an abnormality that made it lift for him to suckle from the breast. immediately, however, he began losing weight, and by the time the pediatrician finally made time to see him, he was dangerously thin. no one, not even the nurses in

but abraham lincoln has the best idea to have a public bank their prints money debt-free. we do not need to issue bonds to private bank and have them give us money. we need to print our own money. guest: there are few. there were taking up. one, the fed is a very difficult institution for people to understand. it was created in 1913. it is a mix of public and private interests. we have the federal reserve board in washington with governors who are appointed by the president and confirmed by the senate. then you have 12 regional federal reserve banks around the country with boards that represent the private sector whose elect their own presidents. the president's then have to be approved by the federal reserve board in washington me know there is an odd mix you do not see in other areas of government between public and private interests. ben bernanke is a scholar of the great depression. he is a former princeton university professor. his guiding du in managing this crisis has been driven -- his guiding view has been driven by reading history. he has thrown some much money a

one must read for everybody, doris kearns good win's book, i team of rives, the great story of how abraham lincoln not only bested his rivals but had the intestinal fortitude to bring all of them into his cabinet, each of whom thought he was smarter than lincoln and each of whom thought he should be in that swivel chair and not abraham link son and it is a great story and really illuminates a lot about american history. and another book i read this last year or so, is a book, i read a number of military histories, david halberstam's book, the coldest winter, a wonderful story, published posthumously by a great writer on the korean war. not a lot of single volumes on that period of american history and really well, well done. and rick atkinson is working on a trilogy and published the first two books on the second world war, and specifically, the first volume on the american involvement in north africa and this second on the italian campaign, which was a bloody, bloody affair and doesn't get a lot of attention in at thises and obviously deserves a lot more. and rick atkinson, a journalist w

i think in this time of barack obama, one must read team of rivals which is a great story about abrahamlincoln not only bested his rivals, but then had the intestinal fortitude to bring all those rivals into his cabinet, each of whom thought he was smarter and each of whom thought he should be in that swivel chair, not abraham lincoln. it's a great story and it really illuminates a lot on american history. another book i read in the last year or so, i've read a number of military histories. the coldest winter, which is a wonderful story published posthumously by a great writer on the korean war. not a lot of single volumes on that period of american history and really well, well done. rick atkinson has published the first of two books on the second world war, and specifically the first log is on the american involvement in north africa and the second is on the italian campaign which was a bloody, bloody affair. and doesn't get a lot of attention in history, and obviously deserves a lot more. just a luminescent writer. a wonderful, wonderful piece of history and a great, great writing. b

remember what happened when abraham lincoln was assassinated? we established a military tribunal here in the district of columbia that actually tried those individuals and they were executed. that was a military tribunal. for what? murdering a president of the united states. in time of war. now what we are saying is, those rights were not sufficient. if that were to happen today, suddenly we say we have to do it now within the context of the full pana pli of constitutional rights, and we are directing that voluntaryly saying we are going to close down guantanamo. if anybody has looked at the prisons and jail system across the united states and compared it with guantanamo, it is of the highest standard of any of our incarceration units there is. guantanamo happens to be a place that is not sovereign american territory, that's the important distinction. i thank the gentleman for his time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from california. mr. lewis: it's my intention to yield to mr. frelinghuysen. i'd like to

then i started thinking the woman who made the clothes, the great-grandmother who sought abraham lincoln at gettysburg, raised turkeys and it was her talk is a cause me to get on my feet in 1940. i got up my hands and knees when i saw these turkeys on and on and made a staggering steps that we all do when we learn to walk going after turkeys and if you have a copy of a photograph of my published map of that moment and i thought of case we have got quilt patterns, we have got quoz, and then reading another book won by john hanson mitchell called abilene walking across vermont, a good book, he talks about the spanish concept panacea. it means several things, i think initially it was used by the old people in texas to describe a place where a longhorn is mormon. the longhorn has a special affinity for that spot where it was born. and then i learned that apparently is used in bullfighting in mexico and spain. analysts correct in my version in portland, the currency of the bowl is a place that imagines in the ring that is its bought and wants to keep the matador and out of that spot and the m

abraham clark in his answer replied no. francis lewis was a new york delegate and saw his home plundered completely destroyed by the british. his wife was captured and treated with great brutality because of her husband. john hart of trenton, new jersey returned home to see his dying wife. but soldiers rode after him and escaped into the woods. the soldiers ruined his farm. hart, 65, hid in the woods as he was hunted. when he made it home, he found that his wife had been buried and his 13 children had disappeared. he never saw any of them again. judge richard stockman, another new jersey signer, had rushed back to his estate in an effort to evacuate his wife and children. the family found receive puge with friends. judge stockman was found in the middle of the night and arrested and put in jail. congress arranged for his parole. when he returned home to find his estate looted, he did not see the triumph. john morton was a british sympathizer, but once he came to sign the declaration of independence, he changed his mind and

i hope that the republicans remember abraham lincoln and the civil rights [unintelligible] justice marshall was not the first to face adversity. when another was nominated, he had to overcome severe anti- semitism, there were questions about the jewish mind. this sounded like an attack on empathy. i mentioned that the opposite of empathy is an difference, do we really want that, and i think the first catholic nominee -- he would be nominated by the pope. this has nothing to do with the speech, this is what john f. kennedy was facing, they said the pope would run things. they only had enough money for the pope, "unpack." but i was asking sonia sotomayor about her experiences, she went on to say ultimately and completely, as a judge you have to follow along. ultimately and completely, the judge will have to follow the law. this is the kind of impartial judge that we want. this is respect for the rule of law, this is the kind of judge that she has been. she will live up to the description -- and she has said that we must continue to realize as individuals, and not statistics. these are importa

thomas jefferson and alexander hamilton and abraham lincoln would compulsively identify. founding fathers debated what america was to become. the possibilities of america. america was founded as an act of separation from the misdemeanors and errors of the miserable old world, it would be a new thing in the world, a place in which you could become an american irrespective of fraud or origin port nation or class, simply by virtue of subscribing to the great democratic ideal of freedom, unless you were black, something that is now at last, that disingenuous hypocrisy has been exercised. there's a sense in which history matters in america. out of the crushing tyranny, the social studies curriculum text book. part ii of our campaign, there are subscription envelops, we all just abolished social studies, we are moving on to abolish a textbook, i hope no one from mcgraw-hill is here, you are out of a job. this sense, past and present, i said, rashly, when obama was beginning campaign, and not doing very well, long before the iowa caucus which you had just seen. the person who wo

january of 2011 the most recent impressive exhibit, the library of congress' most recent exhibit on abraham lincoln "with malice toward none," will travel to the museum showcasing some of our revered former president's most transformative speeches and eloquent leaders. so madam president, i urge that this not be considered just a local project. it is associated with a library of congress and as such has a tie that is long-going and long-standing relationship that will benefit both the library of congress and the durham museum. there is a nexus here and it is not isolated incident. so at this important in time i ask my colleagues to support the inclusion of that funding within this budgetary request. i note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: the presiding officer: the senator from alabama. mr. sessions: quorum call i ask unanimous consent the call of the quorum be dispensed. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. ing is session madam president, the nomination of a new justice to the supreme court has somewhat unexpectedly

jerusalem is a secure and lasting home for jews and muslims, and a place for all the children of abraham to mingle peacefully together. as in the story of islam. [applause] as in the story when moses, jesus and mohammed, peace be upon them. joined in prayer. the third source of tension is our shared interest in the rights and responsibilities of nations on nuclear weapons. this issue has been a source of tension between the united states and the islamic republic of iran. for many years iran has defined itself in part by opposition to my country. and there is a tumultous history between us. in the middle of the cold car, -- war, the united states played in a democratically let elected government and this history is well known. rather remained trap in the past, i made it clear to iran's leaders and people, that my country is prepared to move forward. the question now is not what iran is against, but rather what future it wants to build. i recognize it will be hard to overcome decades of mistrust. but we will proceed with courage, reckitude and resolve. there will be many issues to proceed

judea and samaria are the places where abraham, isaac, and jacob, david, and solomon, uzziah -- isaiah, and jeremiah were. this is not an alien land. this is the land of our forefathers. [applause] the right of the jewish people to a state in the land of israel does not derive from the catastrophes that have plagued . true for 2000 years, the jewish people suffered expulsions, pogroms, blood rivals and massacres which culminated in a holocaust, a suffering that has no parallel in human history. there are those who say if holocaust had not occurred, the state of israel would have never been established. but i say that if the state of israel had been established in time, the holocaust would never have occurred. [applause] this tragic history of powerlessness explains why the jewish people need a sovereign power of self-defense. but our right to build our state, our sovereign state here, in the land of israel arises from one simple fact. this is the homeland of the jewish people. this is where our identity was forged. [applause] as israel's first prime minister proclaimed in israel and de

there was the so-called dictatorship of abraham lincoln . then there was what some dubbed "congressional government." is this pendulum swing built into the constitution? is it an invitation to struggle? does the constitutional separation of powers in power and bumbhumble presidents and congress? we found the anti-federalist opponents of the constitution careful of the presidency. the federalists responded that energy in the executive was a leading characteristic of good government. federalists alexander hamilton and james madison found themselves at odds over it shortly after the ratification of the constitution. they did such an effective job of drafting the constitution. they found themselves at odds over executive power across the constitutional divide that is now defined by the length of pennsylvania avenue. he criticized and defended washington's proclamation in the 17 nineties. who is right? prior to the 2008 presidential nomination contest, an article was written about the as have been, unknown next president's likely posture towards

you study abraham lincoln, every newspaper in america was partisan. if you were a democrat, you subscribed to your democratic newspaper and if you're a republican, you subscribed to republican newspaper. the best way to capture the lincoln-douglas debates was to take the two sets of newspapers and bring them together as cspan did and you found that each side cover the other in very interesting ways. we are moving back to that. i expect msnbc to be a rapidly left-wing channel. i am sure that james expects fox to be very right wing. >> in most countries, it is a labor paper and a tory paper. it is this or that that may be fine. we also know for a fact that this whole industry is changing by the day. the chicago drop-in, "the los angeles times, "the new york times, is not like it is the same period the speaker made a point that when you were our age, you can go -- right now co. the big change i see -- >> none of them think they will be our age. . i am from nebraska. what do you guys think is the biggest lesson you can take away from the academy? >> chall

the cadres of people who can write about the new science and most publishers figure unless it is abraham lincoln or the atomic bomb no one is interested. [laughter] >> good afternoon i almost feel as if i know you personally per or have been keeping up with you over the years i first saw umc on college student at the time. you are very welcome. [laughter] you did a great job on that by the way. also said documentary of debbie bd ball which is excellent. i want to ask you, had you feel about ida b. wells being the precursor of the generation of the 1960's that believed in bearing arms cracks there's a tendency to jump from slavery to the 60s and it skipped over which is a terrible injustice as far as i am concerned and lastly, ida b. wells what was the conclusion of marcus garvey? let me begin with marcus garvey. she liked but young black nationalist leader. soleil tim because he was a grass-roots leader that the people actually made him the leader or superimposed by others she did worry about the boat scheme at. [laughter] she knew she would get in trouble with that. and it is very inter

i do not believe that the koran once the death of israel, the other side of abraham's child. i'm from atlanta, in a microcosm of the world. many people here -- we go to a market and seek people from all around the world and get along quite perfectly choosing our produce. what i am hoping and praying is that these protesters are standing up, not embarrassing themselves by bloomberg jewish people for everything which is seems some in america -- but not blaming jewish people -- but it seems some of america do that. some americans think that jewish people have become superhuman and taken over the universe which is insane. i hope that it brings us together as brothers and children where we are all looked at as children of god who believe in a creator. guest: thank you. the interesting thing about these demonstrations is that they are democratic and universal. both secular and religious people from different beliefs, christians, jewish, bahai's, as well as muslims have been oppressed by this region. when religion is an ideological tool for the state it does not represent the variou

as abraham lincoln told me wisconsin agricultural association, in 1859, it had room for any one of energy and ideas whether they lived in a mud shack or behind brass knockered doors. foreign visitors were dazzled by the energy released by a society so revolutionarily egalitarian, and which makes them all learning from one another. the civil war changed everything, in the northern industrial state which emerged in its wake, entrepreneurialism was unwelcome. factories and finance came to rule the roost when that transformation, people with minds of their own, became troublesome, to management,... to follow orders or from a management perspective, best kept childish, childish people at bay. children make the best customers. they have no sales resistance. since plato, a long string of you tone yep thinkers has worked to supply society's managers with algorithms, which lead to childish lives. they all begin with wiping the slate as clean as possible of close emotional ties to family, to religion and so on. all these things interfere with the authority of managers and no law is more dangerous t

what the leaders of persia, the leaders of iran had not calculated into their scheme was the god of abraham, isaac and jacob. [applause] >> the god of the jewish people and the god of israel also had a plan. he had two leaders. queen esther and queen mordecai her guardian. they were horrified when they heard about this plan. but while esther rised in great agony and anguish, mordecai fasted and prayed, god gave him vision of what to do. god made it clear to him that he was this charge. that mordecai did not have to fear but he did have to act. now, as you enter queen esther and mordecai into the equation, both jews with the plan to annihilate the jewish people we see in esther chapter 4 how this plays out. chapter 4 verse 1, when mordecai had learned what had been done he tore his closes and went out to the city and whaled bitterly. he joined with the great warning of the jews who were fasting, weeping and wailingyesterday? >> reporter: nothing that we've heard this morning. basically this morning we saw there was talk yesterday. the report came out in fox sports that manny could be out wit

the other justices might think of abraham lincoln. some of the justices are great gardners, love to dig in the dirt in their spare time. but for me -- gardening is not for me. it is not right for me. i tend to be a city girl. most of us are more apt, when they think about diversity, to think of it in broad cultural terms related to differences in music or art or literature or food or the like. this is because it is often challenging to develop genuine relationships with people who are not like us. people who require us to better appreciate the unique strengths that each person possesses and what real diversity brings. my eyes of been opened to the new and different world by my colleagues as well as by the lawyers who practice before the court. this has indeed made it more fulfilling and livelier than i could have ever anticipated, and i have witnessed and level of courage and commitment and self control and perseverance to which all public servants much -- must aspire. trust is to lubricant that fuels a great democracy. mostly, we bas

the day abraham lincoln was born if teachers were learn themselves how to in still learning our education system would be taken care of >> new york daily news this morning looking for an irs proposal. the irs may dial up >> rules that can cost you more in taxes if the employer gives you a cell phone. proposal taken or taxing 25%. someone in a 28 percent tax bracket and costs they're company a thousand dollars a year would pay more in income tax. between 17 and 20% in cell-phone taxes charges and fees the irs has laws regarding taxation on business phones for two decades. companies rarely complain for the difficulty of keeping such records. oklahoma city - >> good morning. let's talk about the holocaust shooting. way to go right wing and sara palin. this is what she believes in. having gun as and the government were to treat us like anybody, go shoot them. rush limbaugh. sean hannity, this is what you guys wanted. you know you keep starting hate and now it's coming back and this is happening. >> we'll leave it there. patrick kennedy according to the "washington journal" that struggled with

perhaps the only place where people from humble and modest roots like andrew jackson, abraham lincoln, ronald reagan, bill clinton, and president barack obama can rise to become president. america remains the same beacon of hope for the world that was when my grandmother -- ellis island, the place for her story is renewed with each new generation of immigrants. reward for hard work, free enterprise, fairness, self- reliance, community and faith. these are the values that have sustained this for over two hundred years. may we never forget these values as we work together to build a better tomorrow for our children. thank you very much for having me. [applause] >> thank you very much. i has been in elective office for 31 years. that's a long time. among the things i'm proudest of is the relationship i have had with the hispanic community both in philadelphia and the route the commonwealth. the latino coalition was extraordinarily helpful in getting me elected governor. we have made so much political progress. the councilman ran at large in philadelphia which only has 7% registered hispa

host: abraham in detroit, hello. go ahead, shirr. caller: it doesn't matter who wins, the main leader is the one that controls the relation, what iran does, the government and everything else. in the history of iran, the incumbent has never lost against the person he's running against. thank you. guest: that is true. the incumbent has not lost an election since 1979. this was a particularly special election. let me tell you why. in 2005, i covered it closely. i was based tehran. i can tell you, every person that i spoke to that voted for ahmadinejad. they didn't say they wanted him because he denied the holocaust or belligerent to the economy. no, he said he would put dinner on the tables. the economy has one of the highest inflation rates in the world. high unemployment, high underemployment with young college graduates driving taxis and selling pizas. so this was a country that it is one of the few -- i argue probably the only major oil producer in the world whose population claims their economic circumstances got worse, even when

it was abraham lincoln who said insofar as there's any measure that will them lot of the average working man, i am for that measure. and i think that attitude should be at the core of what we're about as conservatives. >> we end on the note that free enterprise is at the center of american culture. it is the essence of opportunity and freedom. entrepreneurship is a question of character and indeed a vehicle on which we will take not the conservative movement bureau america on greater and greater heights and a note on which i'm delighted to leave you today. before we break up i do want to ask you to join me in thanks to the bradly foundation. as many of you know it has been the leading venture phelan throw pist in the cause of philanthropist in the cause of celebrating entrepreneurship, defending free enterprise. this this is something that's been of great benefit to our communities and indeed to the united states so, please join me in thanking the bradly foundation for this conversation and so many others. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyr

also abraham lincoln's view approximate.here's been immense efforts to drive these thoughts out of people's heads to win what the business world calls the everlasting battle for the minds of men. on the surface they may appear to have succeeded but i don't think you have to dig too deeply to find out their lane and they can be revive and there have been some important concrete efforts one of them was undertaken 30 years ago in youngstown, ohio, where u.s. steel was going to shut down a major facility that was at the heart of this steal town and there were substantial protests by the work force and the community and there was an effort to bring to the courts the principle that stakeholders should have the highest priority. well, the effort failed that time. but with enough popular support it could succeed. and right now is a proefficiency time to revive such efforts although too old be necessary that we have to do the this to overcome the effects of this concentrated campaign to drive our own history and culture out of our mi

if you study abraham lincoln, every newspaper in america was partisan. if you were a republican, you subscribe to the republican newspaper, and vice versa. the best way to capture the lincoln-douglas debates was to take the two sets of newspapers and bring them together as c- span did. he founded side cover the other in very interesting ways. we're moving back to that. i am expecting msn b.c. to be a rapidly left-wing channel. i'm sure james expects fox to be a left-wing channel. >> in most countries, it is the -- it is a different paper. that may be fine. this whole industry is changing by the day. the chicago tribune, the loss angeles times, the new york times was marketing its building. i think the speaker makes a point. when you are our age, -- right now, the big change i see -- >> none of them think they're going to be our age. [laughter] >> you can go and never read a conservative thing. you can spend your entire life -- so many people use information the way that a drunk uses the lamppost. the use it for support and not elimination. people want va

secure and lasting home for jews and christians and muslims and a place for all of the children of abraham to mingle peacefully together as in the story of isra. [applause] as in the story of isra when moses, jesus, and mohammed, peace be upon them, joined in prayer. [applause] with the third source of tension is a per-share interest in the rights and responsibilities of nations on nuclear-weapons. this issue has been a source of tension between the united states and the islamic republic of iran. for many years, iran has defined itself, in part, by its opposition to my country. and there is, in fact, a tumultuous history between us. in the middle of the cold war, the united states played a role in the overthrow of a democratically elected iran and government. since the islamic revolution in iran has played a role in act of hostage taking and violence against u.s. troops and civilians. this history is well known. rather than remain trapped in the past, i've made it clear to iran's leaders and people that my country is prepared to move forward. the question now is not what iran is against, b

february marked its 100th birthday, founded on the 100th birthday of president abraham lincoln. for 100 years the naacp has fought for justice for all americans. and i want to thank their president, and through him all the members of the naacp. i want to acknowledge several staff members who made this resolution possible. senator brownback already recognized rochelle young. i want to thank her for getting us to this point. jackie parker, a senior advisor to senator levin and cofounder of the senate black legislative staff caucus, has been instrumental in planning the upcoming ceremony with civil rights leaders and other luminaries to recognize the injustices of slavery and jim crow. finally, i would like to recognize the tireless work that mike house daniel goldberg has dedicated to seeing this resolution become a reality, the countless hours that he has committed to make this occasion happen is almost uncountable, the number of hours he's pullete is a put into this. i had like to add senators leahy, dodd, murray and kerry as cosponsors of the resolution. i yield the floor. the

and abraham lincoln exercised incredible power in his authority as commander-in-chief, which is what frankly george bush has done, president bush took his role as commander in chief very seriously and used the very broad grant of authority given to the president by constitution to interrogate these killers and find out what they're up to and save lives, particularfully los angeles, for example. there would have been thousands of degrees in downtown los angeles but for the interrogation of those toy yosts. lincoln suspended habeas corpus, arrested americans for speaking out in favor of the confederacy's right to succeed and spendded habeas corp pause nationwide to do all sorts of things that caused outrage during the war and nobody questioned it. so i always have a particular interest in constitutional history and the war between the states, i'm finishing up this book, and i recommend james mcpherson to anyone. i always keep several books going. the whole second area i work on continuously are die riz of texans during the war between the states, and in particular i found this one -- i

it was the carrier abraham lincoln that was that poured in hong kong on a routine visit over the christmas holidays on a sunday. by saturday, she was providing 50,000 pounds of food and water a day into this tsunami affected area. in indonesia. that event also led us to adjust our strategy i think in a very significant way. as i said, we have been responding to disasters during our history we said, let's see what we can do proactively. we began a series of humanitarian missions that, to date in four of which we have been conducting them, have touched 409,000 patients from our ships. that is in south america and the pacific and africa. if you consider the 409,000 patients, that is like going to the verizon center, packing the house, and then having doctors treat each one of the people in the verizon center 20 times. that is not an insignificant contribution that our people are making. it is not just the aircraft carriers. it is the cruisers and destroyers that are out and about. the forces of our fleet as i like to call them. and they are flexing from the high end of warfare to the low end.

as abraham lincoln so aptly said during the 1860 presidential election, the slavery question revolves solely around the question whether black skinned human beings were men within the declaration's promise. the century that followed saw a myriad of political discussions and debates that culminate in the civil rights revolution that essentially asked whether one could be said to be created equal if one were the subject of legal and social discrimination, exclusion and ostizism because of the color of their skin and today's debates on affirmative action and debate policy answer this question in the last trilogy namely whether being created equal is really being equal if one sees the distribution of economic, political and social goods in this country being distributed not on the basis of a rough portion of different race groups and ethnic groups of the proportion. dr. abigail thernstrum has worked on these questions. sometimes in conjunction with her husband steven and sometimes on her own. she has written and analyzed the most emotional topics in today's political debate including affi

those are the ones i would like to talk to, and also of course, abraham lincoln and franklin roosevelt who had a remarkable sense of pols.

general relationship with many white women reformers and writing about sojourner's audience with abraham lincoln, who some writers consider racist for autograph graphicing her book to auntie, i accept her word that lincoln treated her kindly and i discuss the complexity of the term "auntie" itself but racism wasn't played when sojourner truth was prevented from attending an open white house inaugural reception while frederick douglass was admitted. my treatment over the troubling guide of the 15th amendment does not place sojourner on the side of elizabeth cady stanton and susan b. anthony as other writers do. while sojourner's greatest personal triumph was probably winning the hearts of her own people, her activism was broader than that. and her sacred ethos had large, secular aims of human progress. religion without humanity, she said, is a poor human stuff. thank you. [applause] >> we are next going to hear from the two authors of "black maverick" the biography of trm howard and his fight for civil rights. and the first of those two authors professor linda beito. [applause] >> one b

abraham lincoln made himself one of them, of course. and of course you know, you say the power, not just the sort of all mental beauty of fine speaking, but the ability to actually speak persuasive as a speaker was something perceived to be absolutely sort of discounted in the world of campaign spin and take them betook character assassination. but obama sort of delivered at. i mean, the greatest speech of all was march 18. that still remains one of the great speeches that has ever been composed in the history of american politics. and i thought that morning we were filming in monticello, actually when he made that speech. when i heard it i thought he's going down in flames, you know. it's hillary's -- hillary will be the nominee because this was an act of most extraordinarily dead on frontal candor explaining to america the roots of black rage in the church forms they took, as well as a duty to white rage. in fact, america took. it was a credit to the sophistication of the electorate really. its willingness to face something fresh, to

i have to hear, one is abraham -- cutting for stone which is about a physician, it is really hard to describe because it is an epic, very fact epic novel. we have gone on so people coming into the store to say how much they love this book. in -- it is about a position in the united states who emigrated here and chilly autumn ethiopia where his family where protestant missionaries and a lot of cutting for stone takes place in ethiopia and a lot of it takes place in the united states in a hospital in the united states. it is a rush -- lush beautiful writing about medicine and immigration and it is about ethiopia in bad times and it is a wonderful book. the other book, south asian book takes place in calcutta and is called a sacred games and is by -- it is in that tradition of life imitating art. it would have been in mumbai last year was almost as though they were following a script from sacred games. sacred games is dominated by two major characters. an underworld boss who has all kinds of ties to nationalist groups and so although he is interested in money he is also doing the will o