abraham lincoln. so now he has to divide his time since 1846. lincoln slogan is turnabout is fair play. he is not going to try to agree on the issue. the toughest fights, the most aggressive fights are between people of their own party. he said turnabout is fair play. hardin decides not to run again. lincoln in 1846 is the unanimous choice in illinois. he has to go up against a democrat by the name of peter cartwright. he is not like any other creature that you have seen before. he is a guy who has his tent revivals interrupted by people who he later assaulted. it was a story about him getting put up in a swank new york hotel and he got lost. i've used a hatchet to blaze a trail so he would know how to get back. this is who lincoln has to go up against. [laughter] he is actually very successful. he has the biggest majority in the district, bigger than baker's majority and hardin's majority, now he has a gear and half until he is sworn in. so he continues to go to court, he continues to try these cases and handle cases. the last case that he hand

it was abraham maik in character. abraham founded three religions, correct? >> false. >> he did not. >> no. >> what ded. >> obeyed it from awah, and follow them whatever they believed. >> what are you attacking my verb founded. >> the three religions were pounded. >> that's not true. >> no. >> why was that widely public litigationed in connection with the pope's visit. >> you could say it in a common way, we have common roots, that you could say. as jesus said abraham actually looked forward to his day, to the day of jesus. >> do you see abraham as a prophet? >> yes, abraham as a prophet and from him descended jesus, jesus and mohammad. >> i want to go right to the point, though. the pope apparently, notwithstanding your keen insight -- >> yes, he didn't phone me about it. [laughter] >> notwithstanding that, i have the impression that he wanted to show by his visit over there and he also wanted to get into iraq and he wanted to go but for political reasons he could not do so, regrettably, where abraham was born in you can, saddam hussein's iraq, right? >> but

how dare abraham lincoln signed. presidential signatures are not required. this was a body that was unable to function for four months on this issue and they immediately pass a resolution condemning lincoln for signing his name to the 13th amendment. that is how much he wanted to be part of history. >> and he was a politician. some people were amazed that this movie showed him as a politician. >> once he signed that document is the same as when he signed the emancipation. his name is going into history and he wants to be part of it. >> what has emblem of ties to buy the bill with his name on it, i absolutely agree with you that the history, the course of the civil war as that happens is unimaginable without abraham lincoln. he turned the civil war into a revolution and lincoln knew that himself. this horrible holocaust award has a great deal to do in terms with the legislative history, but i think there is a dialectic here, the country is perhaps unimaginable without lincoln and lincoln is unimaginable without the country. had the house of representatives fa

abraham has reached a milestone in his ministry. he has just wrapped a four-day prayer meeting where world evangelists joined nearly a million believers in india to ask god for peace in their country. filling this 150-acre field is quite an accomplishment in a nation where the christian population is only a little more than 2%. and for the popular home-town pastor who didn't want to leave his job as a chemist nearly 40 years ago. >> i could even have a car -- you know, have a car in '74. that was a big deal. it was a pretty high-paying job in those days. and so you feel like your life is secure, and god spoke to me, almost like an audible voice. >> reporter: what did she say? >> god said to me, son, i have called you for a very specific purpose. i want you to resign your job. get out of your home. go and preach the gospel to your people. i said, whoa! >> reporter: though he had no idea how to preach, pastor abraham obeyed the call. just months into his ministry, he was broke, homeless, and hungry. >> having something to eat was the

you get 10 or 12 different abraham lincolns. the basic facts aren't changed. but the way that you interpret those facts, he seems to be an indexhausably interpretable figure. and so you sort of pick which lincoln you want to, you know, draum advertise. and-- drama advertise and lincoln that doris creates in teement of rival, the lincoln she presents and interprets in team of rivals is a fundamentally political guy. he has other kinds of genius. he's a great writer. he's a statesman, moral visionary but more than anything else in doris's book, he's a person who has an absolute con summate mastery of political process. and i found that incredibly appealing and steven found it incredibly appealing. so the bock gave us, you know, the field on which to embark on the journey to figure out how to dramatize this. and i worked with doris every week, sometimes every day i called her, e-mailed her. >> what would you e-mail her. what would you ask her. >> i would ask her if she understood why a certain event had happened. if she could understand why lincoln said this odd

this man, a kentucky slave owner, who was a friend of abraham lincoln, put it this way. slave property is unlike any other. it is the only property in the world that has locomotion with a mind to control it. and went on to say that that is why the owners of such property are so sensitive about any outside interference with it. slave property was valuable, but control over it seemed tenuous, and the masters hear about that fact, let's didn't convinced that their labors could be controlled and work profitably only if they were kept uneducated, uninformed, isolated from dangerous influences, closely watched, intimidated, and convinced that their status as slaves permanent and unchangeable. to accomplish that, southern communities and state legislators made it a crime to teach slaves to read, severely limited slave movement, author on his property, created slave control to enforce those limits to its severely restricted the freedom of the small community of free blacks who lived in the slave states, and they made it ever more difficult, even for whatever masters might choose

to virtual book signing, we're in the abraham book shop in chicago. it's gorgeous day. we have a few people here with us and we're happy to have c-span join us. thank you very much to be here, and illinois channel is here and liz daryl from the tribune, literary book section, is with us, and we appreciate all of them being here, also voice of america is covering us today as well. just before we go on, should tell you all that while we're live -- and this is not for c-span unfortunately but while we're live you can e-mail in questions. we hope you will. give your first name and where you're from and we'll shout out and try to get it on air as quakily as we can. if you're watching the archives you can always ask us if we have signed books or leftovers. don't want to be with the screen play of the lincoln movie after it gets to be an oscar winner and you don't have it signed. so get it now while you can. and if you're on c-span and would like to be part of us i hope you will by getting to virtual book signing.net and leave your e-mail and be part of the

some were sitting by for hours for the time to read the words forever free and to see abraham lincoln's signature. although it didn't end slavery in america it fundamentally changed the character of the war. overnight the union became a war for human liberation. for the nearly 4 million it was a symbol of hope. that hope of freedom was finally realized in the amendment to the constitution which abolished slavery in the u.s. jurisdiction these landmark documents of the freedom reside here at the national archives but they are filled with documents that tell the story of the emancipation of the individual level. the letter from a black soldier to the enslaved wife assures her there's a present national difficulties are great yet i look forward to a brighter day and the one asked president lincoln if she were signing the nitze push proclamation sadly the answer was no because she was in maryland, a border state unaffected by the decree. the first-person accounts of the slaves on sob files provide a window on to the world before and after the war. some talk of choosing a name tabare as a fr

one is the evolution of americans wake up and becomes better and we want everyone to be abraham lincoln. i point out that in 1864, link and got the same percentage of the vote he had gotten in 1860, which means 45% of white further nine, including the united states army voted against abraham lincoln in 1864. which is amazing. after the gettysburg address after gettysburg itself and atlanta and shenandoah valley, lincoln has shown himself to be the great leader he is, nearly half of the population will support abraham lincoln. so i guess it strikes me as necessary to look at the whole universe. if you look at the republican party and its policy of leaders, jim is exactly right. if you pull the camera back and say who i was on board with this, i think this is one thing the movie does a pretty good job of showing the democrats who are just apoplectic that lincoln didn't win. i don't think reconstruction -- at the beginning. you asked before it annette, about what is gained and lost in the prospectus today. i think it's the danger of seeing this as the unfolding, a vision come a plan a poli

no one gets more proof that abraham lincoln is gay than me. the last time i was at this store for the inner circle, someone brought me the holy grail, okay? is that guy here? is the -- i have to ask first. not here? then let's talk about him. here's what happens. i'm not dish promise you this is true. i was standing right of the and he comes top me early and says, brad, you want to see he holy grail? and he ah has crazy eyes and i'm like, you brought the holy grail to the barnes & noble, how i do not say yes? and in that aisle over there he takes out the holy grail if mean the holy grail. goes into this knapsack, pulls out the holy grail and size to me, drew read he be? and i'm like, i do. then he says you'll understand what this says, and he hands it to me and i take the holy grail and i look at it real close and i'm eyeing this old ancient'm pottery, and i'm looking at this thing, and he says, you see now, right? and i'm looking real close and there's not a single hebrew letter on the entire thing. not any letters. just like if you took the

he said to me we have pieces of abraham lincoln's skull. we have the bones of john wilkes-booth and we have the actual wallet that killed abraham lincoln. do you want to come and see it? yes i want to come and see that. so i go down to washington d.c. and when i get there they don't have the artifacts that they have pieces of some of the other ones as well. when i am there and he opens up a drawer and in this drawer are a bunch of bones. almost like you took a skeleton from your biology class and dump them in a drawer. he had femurs and other bones that i can't remember the name of. my uncle who doctor is -- relatives. and so he opens the door and i'm like what is that? then he hands me -- miguel opens up another drawer and hands me a jelly jar full of spongy material. that is the reign of charles guiteau the second man ever to assassinate a president. any man who will give you brain invite into your party. he's awesome. and then his assistant opens up another drawer and takes out a leather kind of like a swatch of leather. when you buy you

so now in lincoln park, abraham lincoln and mary mcleod bethune faced each other and abraham lincoln's back is to the u.s. capitol. since we are pressed for time i'm going to keep going here who. all right. one of the other things i decided to do when researching this book was to expand the focus beyond just washington, d.c. because of course the district of columbia wouldn't be here without virginia and maryland, and there are deep connections between those two states and the district. so i decided to look around the d.c. metro area and see if there were interesting tidbits of african-american history that i could find and one of the most interesting stories that i found about washington, d.c. comes from the civil war era. now, during the civil war, freed slaves from the self often been startup their own cities and their own towns and so they could learn to be self-sufficient. in fact, they're had been several movies, one of the most famous is called rosewood. one of those towns existed here in the metro d.c. area. in fact, it existed exactly where arlington national cemetery sits tod

the loss of abraham lincoln is a catastrophe of its imponderable proportion. i also thought i wanted to make sure somewhere in the movie like i said the greatest political speech ever made and the president of great triumph says we may pay their horrendous price price, not because god is on our side or their site, but we have all benefited -- benefited we may shed blood and lose our wealth to correct the imbalance as a consequence it is stunning to speak that kind of truce and at this point* ready to celebrate victory. that is the way it ended i am happy the inaugural address did. here broadens the horizon into a global scene. >> i would love for this to be a trilogy. will there be a prequel? >> is still day-lewis' ever wanted to do anything more, i would drop everything. having said that, i feel i can imagine in my lifetime there will be another step performance of lincoln comparable to daniel. i cannot imagine why this firework on a dramatic figure and i suspect to daniel did what he came to do in this movie and maybe i'm wrong and maybe he will sign for a s

is every detail when abraham lincoln was shot, almost everything is cataloged and known. they can tell you what john wilkes booth had in his pants pocket, what the contents of his wallet were, what the name of his horse were and the color. they'll tell you next to ford's theater there was a bar, and john wilkes booth before he shot abraham lincoln went into this bar and ordered a drink. they'll tell you exactly what kind of drink he orders. the only detail that is not known has to do with how john wilkes booth got the white house valet. john wilkes booth walks into ford theater, he runs into an employee of the white house. and here's the moment in history, all this guy has to do is stop john wilkes booth, and all of history changes. at that moment rather than stopping him, john wilkes booth hands this valet a card, and to this day the only detail that is not known about the lincoln assassination is what is on this mysterious card. and some people say it's a calling card, and some people say it's a business card. i remembered that, actually, business cards back then used t

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. >> abraham had pretty much nonstop ear aches for the first six months of his life.e felt pretty much helpless after a while. >> it isn't so surprising. >> other than the common cold, ear infections are the number one reason parents see a pediatrician. >> reporter: acute middle ear infections are bacterial infections caused by a build up of fluid behind the ear drum and the main reason children are prescribed antibiotics. but the new guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of this cause of ear aches in kids ages 6 months to 12 years old may help parents and pediatricians avoid unneeded medications. >> the goal is to improve the diagnosis and to make sure that we preserve the healing power of antibiotics by using them judiciously in kids who benefit most and conversely giving kids who don't need them the opportunity to improve on their own. >> reporter: for bronstein, knowing when to take abraham to the doctor has been confusing. >> we were there constantly, sometimes two or three times a week. >> reporter: according to the new guidelines, children with ear aches m

by faith, abraham, when god tested him, offered isaac as a sacrifice.had received the promises was about to sacrifice his one and only son, even though god had said to him, it is through isaac that cured -- that you'rr spring will be reckoned. he did receive isaac back from death. by faith, isaac blessed jacob and esau in regards to their future. by faith, jacob and bless each of gio six sons and worshipped as he leaned upon the top of his staff. by faith, josep, when his aunt was a hint -- was near, spoke about the exodus of israelites from egypt. by faith, moses's parents him for three months after he was born because they saw that he was no ordinary child and they were not afraid of the king's edicts. by faith, moses, when he had grown up, refused being -- to be known as the son of the pharaoh's daughter. pi faith, he left egypt, not fearing the kings entered. he persevered because he saw what was invisible. by faith, the people passed through the red see, as on dry land. by faith, the walls of jericho fell, and for the people that marched around the

declaring slaves and states of the rebellion shall be then it henceforth and forever free to see abraham lincoln's signature. although it did not end slavery in america is a fundamentally changed the character of the war. overnight a war to preserve the union became liberation and nearly 4 million slaves it was a symbol of hope. hope of freedom was realized in the 13th amendment of the constitution that abolished slavery in the u.s. jurisdiction. these landmark documents they are filled the documents that tell the story of the emancipation of the individual level. from a black soldier to the life that shows the difficulties are great yet i look forward to a brighter day. when she as president lincoln issue was free sadly the answer was no the tissue lived on a border state unaffected by the decree. the military pension files provide a window before and after the war. some choosing a name to bear to reunite our families to and slave population going to school on land to become possible for free people and those that contain stories. the stories on the panel and other research institutions

. >>> plus courtesy of david letterman, things you don't want to hear from a man dressed up like abrahamincoln. >> number ten. >> how about you and i form a more perfect union? >> best in a long time on letterman. more in the "sideshow." >>> finally let me finish with how the republicans are doing here in the united states, what they once did with governments overseas they didn't like. this is "hardball," the place for politics. mine was earned in djibouti, africa, 2004. the battle of bataan, 1942. [ all ] fort benning, georgia, in 1999. [ male announcer ] usaa auto insurance is often handed down from generation to generation because it offers a superior level of protection and because usaa's commitment to serve the military, veterans, and their families is without equal. begin your legacy. get an auto-insurance quote. usaa. we know what it means to serve. the people of bp made a commitment to the gulf., and every day since, we've worked hard to keep it. today, the beaches and gulf are open for everyone to enjoy. we've shared what we've learned, so we can all produce energy more safely.

security and stability quote unquote of the proxy rulers that they have stopped list in libya dr abraham aleutian political analyst professor at these at and a university in amman thank you very much indeed for your thoughts thank you you thank. or to some other international news now here in south africa athletics superstar oscar pistorius has been formally charged with the murder of his girlfriend the man known as the blade runner will be held in custody until court hearings begin on tuesday. was shot dead at the paralympians house on thursday and the suburbs of her toria. thousands of anti-government protesters have packed major highway in the bahraini capital of manama today after a sixteen year old protester and a police officer died during demonstrations marking the second anniversary of the country's uprising two years ago protests in the country began to demand more freedoms and rights for the shia majority in a nation run by so many. activists in syria certainly one hundred fifty rebels and government soldiers have been killed in the last two days of heavy fighting in the northe

even with abraham lincoln.what i thought i would do in the main body of my remarks is tell a couple of my favorite stories. more importantly about presidential character. many involve our 24th and important president, grover cleveland. he fathered a child out of wedlock. she might have been a prostitute. cleveland was a bachelor. fathering a child seem like the thing to do at a time. a group of very righteous preachers started a campaign that no woman in the country would not pay attention here. it became a huge story because they wouldn't it would let it go. one of the things that faced him as it turned out that genes likely had more affairs than cleveland and his wife gave birth about six months after they got married. so blame was keeping on this condemnation. one thing we dislike more than politicians is a hypocritical politician. the other thing is the republicans push these issues. there is a song, there's a little jingle, they would say mother, where's my father, pretending that they were little orphans.

the collaborative has chosen for the second place at 12 greater, from abraham lincoln high school. stephanie chung (applause) and then we have a number of first place winners. i'm sure this is all about collaboration, talking about it, what it means absorbing the purpose and working together. the first place poster altogether for all of us to see. i would like to name everybody. community youth center of san francisco, the young asian women against violence youth participant jennifer chang. kimberly how. erica lam. allie lee. adriana wen (sounds like) diana -- and amy ung. congratulations everybody. (applause) (applause) (applause) good job everybody. thank you. and so at this time supervisor -- or do i give it back to -- nancy. thank you again. >> at this time we would like to call supervisor carmen chu. (applause) >> i think that is part of the program they wanted the winners to perhaps say a few words. >> thank you for choosing our picture. we were really surprised when you did. we are really happy. (applause) >> we were very surprised. thank you very much. (applause) >> i'm tif

. >> because it's abraham lincoln. and i thought you know a what we were just talking been.to understand what is going on inside the heads of characters that you create. and i 4 no hope of ever really understanding how abraham lincoln did what he did any more than i have of understanding how shakespeare wrote hamlet or mozart wrote-- or george elliott wrote middle march. i don't know. i can't understand that. these people are geniuss. they have a function on a higher plane than most people. and if i knew how to write hamlet i would write hamlet. but you know, when you read the major lincoln biographies and i feel by now i've read all of them, you get, you know, however many there are 10 or 12 that i think are really significant am you get 10 or 12 different abraham lincolns, the basic facts aren't changed. but the way that you interpret those facts, he schemes to be an indexhausably interpretable figure. and so you sort of pick which lincoln you want to, you know, draum advertise. and-- dramatize and lincoln that doris creates in team of rivals that he is presents, that she

was there evidence to suggest that perhaps the eman's make proclamation was issued by abraham lincoln as props a bold measure to really speed up the war by way of total war versus a head rush tolds total war, and this perhaps could be a real reason for his issue, speaking beyond the stairs of making it more about slavery and freeing the slaves, could it be more about that? >> well, lincoln himself said this is a measure, a military measure to help win the war. you're quite right to suggest that it's -- at it also part of the process of the war becoming what historians now call hard war. the idea that the war would be over in just a few months, that both sides shared back in 1861, long gone now, and clearly this was a measure -- a military necessity was the phrase that was used, widespread phrase used to justify the emancipation proclamation by weakening the cop fed rissi to win the war. it was part of the process. >> in anticipation of greater bloodshed, too, for that party, and some of the skirmishes that followed. >> well, nobody in january 1, 1863, could know whether the war was go

. >> in honor of abraham lincoln's birthday, a letter was on display signed by president lincoln and secretary of state william seward in 1863. appointed william gramm of new jersey as the council of the united states to keep town, south africa. the priceless document was given to the pratt library in 1940 and is part of the special department which includes historical documents. abraham lincoln would be 204 years old today. >> 42 animal lovers, it might be a chance of a lifetime. >> imagine going to work caring for exotic animals. for the right person, the opportunity awaits you. >> if you are looking for a job, you might want to check out the maryland's in baltimore. they are hiring. it was feeding time this morning for the penguins. feeding the penguins is not as simple was you might think. the keepers at this exhibit feet of twice a day and keep close track of what each one eats. ashley loves her job at the zoo. >> people think it's not possible. they say i never do that. but you just get in there and work hard and it's possible. once i started getting into the business, you can

>> abraham lincoln. >> lincoln. what did he do? >> he freed the slaves. >> he did. wow? do you know all that? >> school. >> school's good to you. is there any slaves that you remember? that maybe he freed? >> no. >> not really. >> he stopped slavery. >> yeah. >> and he worked with harriet tubman, who i really like too? >> why do you like henry tubman? >> harriet. >> i liked her she worked with slavery and dippd the undergrou railroad and stuff like that. >> was she president? >> no. >> the worst thing he got killeden the thkilled in the theatetheater, some one play he was watching with his wife. >> are you serious? that's terrible. my god, did that really happen. what movie was he watching? >> i have no idea. >> in the beginning of the movie, or the middle or the end. >> in the beginning. >> he didn't get a chance to watch his movie. my god, i really feel bad for him. i've did not know that lincoln got killed in a movie theater. >> he has pretty famous speeches. >> do you know any of his speech you could tell us? >> the gettysburg address, i think. >> want to recite it?

. ♪ just way you look tonight >> daniel day-lewis portrayal of abraham lincoln earned his third best.> three years ago before we decided to do a straight swap, i actually had been committed to play margaret thatcher. >> best actress jennifer lawrence got her first. >> you are just feeling bad that i fell and that is embarrassing but thank you. >> anne hathaway as the favorite to win best supporting actress won for "les miserables." and "unchained" won best supporting actor. the biggest upset is director for "life of pi" and musical tributes including "chicago." "les miserables." also of course the 50th anniversary of james bond with adele scoring the oscar for best original song for "sky fall." >> that ended up with two oscars, a big deal for james bond. "argo" and "less" got three, and "life of pi" won four awards. >> stay with "good morning america" for continuing coverage with robin, george, josh, sam all in hollywood bringing you much more on winners, the speeches, the fashion, and the after parties. "good morning america" starts at 7:00. >> a new push for universal pre-school in

[laughter] or that abraham lincoln actually died from -- [laughter] join me from standing up againstny actual knowledge about guns. let the cdc know they can take our ignorance whenthey they [c] >> stephen: welcome back. thanks very much. [cheers and applause] nation, as you may know, on thursday pope benedict will be stepping down. and as television's foremost roman catholic i'll have full coverage of this story in pope watch: 2013678 i'll be on the ground live from rome to cover the story up close and papal. this wednesday il papa will give his last public audience and circle st. peter's square in the pope noble salute the enormous crowd. naturally, the jackals in the media are take advantage of pope's exit to strike with new scandal rumors. >> blackmail sex scandal. allegations involving the catholic's church. >> allegations involving sex, prostitution and blackmail. >> a secret network of gay priests. >> alleges that a network that they may have made themselves vulnerable to male prostitutions. >> stephen: that's right. there's even claims of hidden camera footage. [ laughter ] b

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>> abraham lincoln. >> is that the guy from before? why are you touching me? >> jimmy: and the winner is -- >> it's me? >> jimmy: the spoiler. >> see, it was me. >> may each of you get lost at sea. in upstate new york, you know, a woman in upstate new york has been arrested for hiring strippers to perform at her son's 16th birthday party. i have always wondered can you beep arrested for being too good a mother? and apparently, apparently the mom rented a bowling alley. she wanted to make the party a memorable one. she went on the web and found a company topsinbottoms. ordered two strippers. even dina and michael lohan were like "that's a really bad parenting choice." though it was a kids' party they not only stripped. they gave lap dances. someone took this picture which is disgusting. she is not even wearing bowling shoes. those heels will scuff the lane and ruin it for everyone. remind me a lot of my 16th birthday party only minus the strippers and the bowling. for my 16th birthday my mother gave me an izod shirt. this happened in november, apparently, lawn