the germans liked abraham lincoln. they concluded by saying that if you ever need us, we stand ready to risk our lives in the effort to maintain the victory that you now seek over slavery and it was soon prove that when the war came, the germans surely delivered on their promise. lincoln understood immigrants. as a lawyer practicing land law at times a politician representing a rural district, he had to pay attention to the national debate over the future of public lands. to the issues linked to real estate taxes. to the relationship between town and country. to the importance of the foreign-born as their presence increased in the american labor force. lincoln knew firsthand what it meant to be poor and he knew firsthand what america represented as a land of opportunity where somebody could rise to become president of the united states. and so his commitment to the american dream, as lincoln liked to think of it, existed his entire political life. lincoln possessed an enormous amount of sympathy for the many poor, as h

immigration, abraham lincoln, absolutely. lincoln lived in an era when immigration was as much a controversy as it is today. between 1840 and 1860, 4.5 million newcomers arrived. most of them from ireland, the german states and scandinavian countries. many crossed back and forth across the border with mexico, newly drawn in 1848. but from an early age, lincoln developed an awareness and tolerance for different people and different cultures. while no doubt a product of his time, lincoln nevertheless refused to allow his environment to blind him to the strengths of diversity. and throughout his legal and political career, he retained an infinity for immigration, especially the irish, the germans, the jews and the scandinavians. indeed, immigrants and their plight was never far from lincoln's thoughts or his plans. his travel down the mississippi river to the port of new orleans exposed lincoln to the sights, the sounds and the tastes to a world he could only have dreamed about. more importantly, it established a foundation and

immigration, abraham lincoln, absolutely. lincoln lived in an era when immigration was as much a controversy as it is today. between 1840 and 1860, 4.5 million newcomers arrived. most of them from ireland, the german states and scandinavian countries. many crossed back and forth across the border with mexico, newly drawn in 1848. but from an early age, lincoln developed an awareness and tolerance for different people and different cultures. while no doubt a product of his time, lincoln nevertheless refused to allow his environment to blind him to the strengths of diversity and throughout his legal and political career, he retained an infinity for immigration, especially the irish, the germans, the jews and the scandinavians. the indians and their plight was never far from lincoln's thoughts and his plans. his travel down the mississippi river to the port of new orleans exposed lincoln to the sights s s, the sounds and taftstes. more importantly, it established a foundation and sympathy for the rest of his life when it came to

abraham lincoln."tommy right away that the nation might have been referring to has just taught me right away that the nation might have been referring to him as father lincoln, the jews at least in louisville, kentucky, and i suspect elsewhere, were already referring to him as rabbi. my question was why? erin: so you had that question. there are so many volumes written on abraham lincoln. he is by far one of the most written about human beings in human history, and you have found the unicorn. you have found new material to bring to light. what inspired you to write the is book? and what were some of the stories you found and what was maybe the most surprising? gary: well, i'll tell you what brought me to write the book is not quite as noble, but i'll tell you and then i'll get to , some of the good documents i -- that i found. i was involved in helping the nation to celebrate the 350th anniversary of jewish life in this country, and i had just become the director of the american jewish archives, and i

joseph and abraham joanas.eph jonas, he is a very famous and important person in cincinnati, ohio because he's known to be, he argued that he was the first jew in cincinnati, ohio. we know today from documentary evidence he wasn't the first jew in ohio. however, he lived to be very old and wrote his memoirs, so all of us involved in the preservation of documents, this is an important lesson because if you preserve your own record and you outlive everyone else, it allows you to perhaps say whatever you like. you can shape him. [laughter] . he brought his brother over here from plymouth, england. that was probably a stopping point they learned english and learned to be watchmakers. p and for those of you who are erudite in american history, these two boys married the mendacas of gershon cious of new york. and theen these two girls came to cincinnati. i don't want anybody to generalize about this, because it's very unkind, but they all died in cincinnati. but they died very young and joseph and abraham both remarr

well, abraham lincoln is probably our most important president.e every means that was utilized was justified. we love to think that he was above politics but he wasn't. >> lincoln now finds himself in a rematch with his arch rival, the man who beat him in the illinois state senate election two years earlier, stephen a. douglas. >> stephen a. douglas is the little giant. he's a man of physically short stature but titanic ambition, and douglas desperately wishes to be president of the united states. >> but lincoln has the advantage. after an angry convention in charleston, south carolina, douglas' democratic party has split down the middle over slavery. >> the news that the democratic party had split was an enormous boon to the republican party and to lincoln because now they faced a divided opposition, but he still has an uphill battle. >> the republicans know it's futile to put lincoln up for election in the south. no decent upstanding slave owner is going to vote for him, and slaves don't vote. now it's a double race between lincoln and douglas i

this is a time to think about abraham lincoln. this is a period in american history to understand abraham lincoln and recognize what he stood for. often times when he was in the telegraph office pacing or pornlding and driving the awe-struck soldiers serving their crazy with news, at the end of the day with the shawl around him when he stood up he would say, well, boys, i'm down to the raisins. which meant he had completed his task. i think i'm down to the raisins right now. i would like to thank each and every one of you for being a wonderful attentive audience. thank you so much. [ applause ] >> questions for our speaker? >> lincoln approached not-nothing voters during the 1860 campaign. did he announce them or try to win them over to the republican? or how did he fdo that? >> he said how do you want to welcome those people? i will welcome the no-nothings if they will accept in the entirety the republican platform, which does not include exclusion. when lincoln's people went out and campaigned and somebody would say, well, what

this is a time to think about abraham lincoln. this is a period in american history to understand abraham lincoln and recognize what he stood for. oftentimes when he was in the telegraph office, pacing or pondering and driving the awe-struck soldiers serving their crazy with news, the a the end of the day with a shawl around him when he stood up, he would say, "well, boys, i am down to the raisins." which meant he had completed his task. i think i'm down to the raisins right now. and i'd like to thank each and everyone of you for being such a wonderfully attentive audience. it was a great honor to address the lincoln group of d.c. thank you so much. >> anyone have questions for our speaker? >> how did lincoln approach the know nothing voters during the 1860 campaign in did he denounce them? or did he try to win them over to the republican cause or just how did he finesse all that? >> that's a very good question. he was asked on a number of occasions, what's your strategy? how do you want to welcome these people? and he said, i wil

this is a time to think about abraham lincoln. this is a period in american history to understand abraham lincoln and recognize what he stood for. often time when he was in the telegraph office pacing and driving them crazy with news, at the end of the day with the shawl around him, he would say, well, boys, i am down to the raisins which meant he had completed his task. i think i'm down to the raisins right now. and i would like to thank each and everyone of you for being such a wondering attentive audience. thank you so much. >> lincoln approached the no nothing voters. did he denounce them? did he try on run them to the republican calls? how did he finesse all of that? >> that's a good question. he was asked on a number of occasions, what is your strategy? how do you want to welcome them? he said i will accept the no nothings if they will accept the republican platform which does not include exclusion. and so when lincoln's people went out and campaigned and somebody would say, well, what does your boy think about immigration?

a couple of times, called him father abraham. president george bush sr., in some of his comments about lincoln, seemed to understand the duality of lincoln. he said, if you look at some of the paintings of lincoln, you see his "agony and his greatness." and he equates the two. and he then also says, bush senior, lincoln was at once a hard and gentle person, a man of grief and yet of humor. president clinton used lincoln to argue that -- and said lincoln saw that the clear duty was to revive the american dream and then clinton said now the responsibility is to revive the american economy. one thing my assistant found in the research, in january 1998 president clinton was here at the university of illinois talking about the land-grant colleges. and it was not a particularly memorable speech. but at one point, and it's hard to believe this happened, but it did. clinton said, oh, i think lincoln would have liked the pep band. [ laughter ] i did a little checking and someone said he spotted someone he liked in the pep band. [ laughter

abraham peÑa tiene el reporte completo...a que era pÓlvora, no disparos. despuÉs de eso, fue muy seguido. despuÉs de eso, ya escuche gente que gritaba, lloraba. abraham: por lo menos 14 fueron impactadas. era una fiesta donde mÁs de 150 personas, la mayorÍa menores, acudieron con permiso de los daÑos del hogar. de acuerdo con las autoridades, un vehÍculo pasÓ por el lugar en donde se llevÓ a cabo la fiesta. de buenas a primeras, empezaron a disparar en direcciÓn a la multitud. corrÍan despavoridos. algunos tambiÉn cargaban armas de fuego. varios jÓvenes recibieron heridas en los brazos, piernas y pecho. dos personas se encuentran en condiciÓn crÍtica. no se espera que sobrevivan. >> muy sorprendidos. aquÍ en este vecindario nunca han sucedido cosas asÍ. abraham: corrieron el susto provocado por este tiroteo. >> uno no se siente con seguridad. gracias a dios hasta aquÍ no llegÓ ninguna bala. abraham: no cuenta con la descripciÓn del vehÍculo, ni se sabe el motivo del tiroteo. una serie de balaceras en los ultimos once meses, e

proudly proclaim your allegiance to abraham lincoln. it was a little thing that is just amazing to me. this is the beginning of modern media campaign with lincoln and republican party adapting to all of this. i'm throwing this in again because the older world of the car cuture and newspaper didn't disappear. you could not print a newspaper or anything printed with a photograph. photo journalism was in the process of being invented but hadn't come about. this i just like this. this is lincoln. he has gotten elected. it is lincoln with a purported assassination plot. they get him in. they settle lincoln in early in the morning instead of later in the day. he was ridiculed for this. you notice the really nice touch of the scared ecat. the union begins to break up. here we are with compliments. he is in washington work frg brady at the time. this is lincoln arrived in washington. there is this element of the photograph. it bears witness to lincoln's presence and his moving to the job. lege legendarily lincoln is sort of hiding his right han

and we have the mystery of abraham lincoln. all the monument and the portrait, it hides what's an extraordinary career and i think this western movement from kentucky to springfield, the family spends one entire winter in a pine lean to open ended with a fire burning, his family -- sickness takes his mom and you have lincoln and his beginnings. i call the exhibition the mask of lincoln. we all have a public persona. i have one on now as i'm speaking to you as a semiqualified historian and talking to you in a professorial way and private life you have your different ways of doing things but for lincoln and lincoln had that element of a public pose as most politician statesmen do but there's something mysterious where the mask for me blocks lincoln. the accessibility of getting to lincoln becomes more and more difficult and i'm taking a still here of henry fonda, young mr. lincoln, and you can kind of -- it's not a great slide but you see lincoln has become part of the natural landscape and he's lying on his back with his feet in

stanton is talking to president ache h abraham lincoln. stanton tells lincoln these generals may try their skill, they may try their strategy, but i think my hammer is going to be the one that breaks the backbone of the rebellion. his is labeled "draft." is the draft is what's going to bring us over the top for military success. lincoln always with the stereotype of the rail splitter with his ax over his shoulder says to secretary of war stanton, you can try him with that. but i believe that this ax of mine is the only thing that will fetch him. the only thing that will do the trick. the ax is label emancipation proclamation. this symbol here is all about bringing victory. emancipation is justified, it is a military necessity on my authority as commander in chief of the army and navies of the united states. here we see the relationship between success on the battlefield and popular support for emancipation. if we graft support for emancipation in the north it would correlate pretty closely with popular perception of whether the war was bei

abraham lincoln and misuse a great deal of what he said and how he said it. there was a very famous "ne "newsweek" editorial. the title was "getting right with lincoln." basically it was how every president -- during nixon and watergate, how every president, including nixon, tried to get right with lincoln. that's what i think people do today. they try to get right with lincoln, but the republican party of today i don't think lincoln would be able to relate to or identify at all. i also think -- and lincoln knew some dirty politics. i mean, you know, they were not angels back then. the lincoln/douglas debates were pretty brutal. lincoln was a politics. but were he alive and witnessen some of what has happened in this presidential campaign season, i think he would be appalled. i really do. i don't think he would be able to support anything about exclusion of immigrants just because of who they are. >> thank you, professor. >> oh, wow. thank you so much. thank you so much. >> thank for you visiting with us. >> i'll get out of your way. >>> tonight hillary clint

on the front it is abraham lincoln, but it is not on front, put it on the back.i will always speak my mind and speak for others. that is something to aspire to. in september we are doing i am george washington and i am jane goodall. i will tell you this. in "the house of secrets" we do a lot of george washington and benedict arnold. if you do away -- let's set them right, don't give them misinformation but also this is how george washington uses invisible ink and the codename was 711. we really need to put this in? we totally need to put this in their. i read these books with my son and we get to that part, invisible ink is so cool. i know! tell my editor! when you get to i am george washington you will see we did do it. we have to figure someone has to figure that out. maybe one magic copy. how awesome would that be, with my phone number in the book as a prize. not saying it did happen but it could happen. we tell you we also were doing after that 6 more books, doing 18 of these now. they will keep coming. [applause] >> with that said i won't tell you, we are wo

however, the largest influence on my life's work was and still is abraham lincoln. i have come here to explain why, when of the most important events in my life, one that continues to shape my thinking about the most fundamental problems of the nations public life, is an event that happened 87 years ago. 87 years actually before i was born. the event was the work of another man from illinois, senator stephen a douglas. the vin was 1854's enactment of the kansas-nebraska act. it is not too much to say that a great question posed by that act continues to reverberate in the nation's life and certainly in my professional life. it reverberate in the nation's life, not just because the civil war is the hinge of american history and the kansas-nebraska act which repealed the missouri compromise of 1820 was unquestionably the spark that lit the fuse that led to war. if the civil war was not an irrepressible conflict before 1854, it certainly was after that. the missouri compromise had been the work of henry clay. lincoln, in the first of his seven 1858 debates with steven d

we always try to find a solution to abraham lincoln. there's a keep because we're a nation that you know since the world war ii, we've become obsessed with therapy and medical explanations, there are all kinds of medical explanations for lincoln that he had far fan syndrome, and of course, in 19th century terms he was mel lan colic which means today he was depressive. if he was on prozac, we could have ended the war faster. i had not heard the eye injury story. >> just a quick question about the technology of the day. how long would the subject have to remain still in order to create a sharp image and get a good exposure? >> it's really coming down. the cliche is that you had to have your neck -- they did use a brace for portrait studio photographs. gardner would ask people to be still but we're coming down to about five to seven seconds. it's coming way down. and the cart de visit photographs or the cabinet card cameras, you need aid little camera for the little picture and a bigger camera as you move up in size. it's becoming faster.

>> abraham lincoln. >> reporter: abraham lincoln. >> he's not a founding father.the first president? >> i want to get it on a tape recorder because nobody is going to believe me. >> george washington. >> what's a founding father. >> hi, i'm earth. have we met. >> reporter: what is ben franklin famous for? >> 100th president? >> i like franklin better. he's on the 1200. washington is on the single. >> thomas jefferson signed knit. >> reporter: he wrote it. >> oh. >> reporter: what about sam adams. >> good beer. >> reporter: have you had a few of those already? >> no. >> give me some more punch. >> reporter: do you know who patrick henry is? >> i've heard of him. >> reporter: give me liberty or give me. >> freedom. >> freedom? >> am i right? >> justice. >> and the american way. >> reporter: why were we fighting the british? >> taxation without representation? >> reporter: no tackation. >> you can't be taxed if you're not represented as an individual. >> reporter: who is famous for that line? >> john smith? >> reporter: sam adams. you learning something every day. li

but in an interesting way also, reagan understood abraham lincoln. july 17th, 1980 at the republican convention, reagan accepts the nomination. and he quotes lincoln. said, so president lincoln said "no administration by any extreme of wickedness or folly can seriously injure the government in the short space of four years." quoting lincoln. then reagan said, "if mr. lincoln could see what's happened in this country in the last three and a half years, he might hedge on that statement." in other words, the carter years. reagan also said in his inaugural, in 1981, "whoever would understand in his heart the meaning of america will find it in the life of abraham lincoln." true. i think he got it. in 1984 when reagan was running for reelection, he said -- said well i want to quote president lincoln. lincoln said we must disenthrall ourselves from the past and then we will save our country. and reagan went on to say, well, four years ago that's what we did. we saved the country. is reagan had -- he said that he shared many points of philosophy with lincoln

a month ago that abraham lincoln wouldn't have been abraham lincoln without his wife. i can tell you after eight years of research and writing the same is true of the most famous union civil war generals and their wives. they wouldn't have been who they were without jessie fremont, nelly mcclellan, ellen sherman, julia grant. when i was in graduate school and learned that ellen sherman sought help for her husband for president lincoln in january of 1852. 62. from earlier reading i knew that jessie fremont had lobbied the president on her behalf earlier. as a former congressional aide and lobbyist i was intrigued by their lobbying efforts and by the very different results they achieved. i want to know more about how these wives influence their husbands careers. i was confident that they have because i was raised in a military family and learned very early the strength, courage and resilience required of military spouses. i began with jesse and ellen after initial research decided to tell the stories of the wives of two men whose career trajectory in the civil war roughl

i have been interested in abraham lincoln since the fourth grade. we had a parents' night which we were going to do silent vignettes.

i'm scott abraham live at rock creek park for the citi open. not to sound like a broken record but it's warm outside. the fans that brave the heat today in the early session were treated to a great matchup on center court. the men's quarterfinal. fellow american steve johnson. this was an absolute battle, my friends, on the court. isner facing steve johnson. the first set went to a tie-break. we pick it up with set point for johnson. he takes advantage of an isner second serve. johnson deck tating the point. puts -- dictating the point. isner not happy. slamming the racquet to the ground. the second went to a tiebreak. isner had three set point on johnson but couldn't cash in. now we are at 16-15 in the tie-breaker. match point for johnson and isner's forehand goes wide. johnson upsets the number one seed. 7-6, 7-6. earlier in the day, though, i caught up with tennis channel's tracy austin against tonight's huge matchup. >> the marquee matchup tonight. query coming off a wonderful run in with confidence. how do you see the match playing out? >>

a month ago that abraham lincoln wouldn't have been abraham lincoln without his wife. i can tell you after eight years of research and writing the same is true of the union civil war generals and their lives. john charles fremont, william tecumseh sherman and ulysses s. grant wouldn't have been who they were without jesse, ellen ewing and julia dent. from president lincoln in january of 1862 i knew jesse benton fremont lobbied presidene president on her husband's behalf a few months earlier. as a former congressional aide and a lobbyist i was intrigued by their lobbying efforts and by very different results that they achieved. i wanted to know more about how the influenced their husbands careers. i was confident that the that td because i was raised in a military family. and i learned very early the strength, courage and resilience required of military spouses. i began after initial research decided to also tell the stories of the trajectories of the civil war roughly matched those of fremont and sherman. like fremont, george mcclellan was one of the very first appoint

i think i can squeeze in between abraham baldwin from georgia. he was the last guy to sign. he is gesturing toward the constitution itself. now i'm standing between george washington and james madison. and you can see george washington is the tallest man in the room at 6'2", he is towering over everyone else. his physical presence. he is commanding in every respect. and james madison over whom i am absolutely towering, i think he was 5'4", so thin boned and wan. he had epilepsy. he had challenges in ealth. there is a great new biography -- lynne cheney came to the recently n center and talked about how his physical frailty shaped his ideas and created this great man, the father of the constitution if there was a single father who was so devoted to moderation and pragmatism and compromise. and really the great genius of the constitution was the balancing and mixing of interests. the challenge for the men in this room was how the balance, interest that seemed at times irreconcilable. the difference was over the power of large states versus small states. who should prevail? the

abraham lincoln is the one. he's the one for me. he lives up to the hype every time.you always choose kindness and i will always speak up for others. on the front is the most important part of the book. it's not what's on the front it's a lesson. i will always speak my mind and speak for others. that is something to us drive for for our kids. we are doing i am george washington and then we are doing i am james which i'm super excited to do. i will tell you this. in the house of house of secrets we do a lot of george washington. i said i'm putting the cool stuff there. there is no cherry tree. we also tell them this is how he viewed invisible ink. do doing to put this in. we totally need to put this in here. i read them to my son i know tell my editor. we will see the ink. someone has to figure that out. maybe even one copy or one magic copy. i'm not saying it did happen i'm just saying it to say and it could happen. and then we have the book we also had six more books. there to keep coming with that said i'm neck in the tell you who that is. it is the best person that

this is what it's going to be like after abraham lincoln is reelected. at the inaugural ball celebrating his re-election, you will have this gathering and what jumps out at you? can you see it well enough to pick up on the message of the artist? kyle? >> yeah, all of the -- lots of white people dancing with african-americans. >> i think if i haven't missed something, every single couple there is inter racial. the whole idea is this is what we're moving for and if you don't believe in that you have no business supporting anyone other than george mcclellan and the democratic ticket. if you are a republican, in 1864, you're going to do everything you can to deflect the emphasis on race. you cannot win the election defined in terms of racial equality. you must win the election if you're going to win at all, defining the issue in terms of union. so what the republicans are going to stress above all is the disloyalty of the democratic party. they're going to link the democratic party with the south. they're going to emphasize the democratic party's support for

scott abraham, abc 7 sports. don't forget that tomorrow we are your home for the citi open at 3:00 on abc seven with the men's final. at 5:00 on news will be the women's final. before tonight, three of the nationals, nothe california love, dropping their series to the dodgers. bottom of the fifth night against the padres, ben revere comes alive. danny espinosa scores easily. revere hustles into second with a double. tied at 2-2. the hero tonight, stephen drew. bottom nine, pinch-hitting. smacks to right center, off-the-wall. anthony rendon comes all the way around to score. nats win 3-2. soccer, finally it has happened -- d.c. united will be back at rfk next weekend. tonight, they were north of the border against toronto. it was not a good night for the black and red. 39th minute, a free kick. gets the hat trick. they lost 4-1. and o's beat the indians 5-2, mark trumbo with his 30th home run. that's a lot of homers. kimberly: that is huge. coming up next, star power. big political names speaking at the dnc. kn