lincoln upon abraham -- the death of abraham lincoln assess son willie who was 11 years old. part of what makes this letter a really heartfelt letter is that pierce's own son died at the age of 11 shortly before he became president in 1853. he died in a train accident that all three of them were in. while franklin and his wife jane both survived uninjured, they did see the crushed body of their son, which was pretty tragic for them, and it -- they were both -- became pretty depressed as a result of that. i'm pretty sure it affected franklin's presidency. a really interesting letter, how he writes and expressing his sympathy to abraham lincoln. moving on to james buchanan, we have on loan from the lancaster historical association a pipe. another tobacco smoking pipe. it is made in london. by the company named thaden. which is something which james buchanan was known to smoke a little bit. there is not a lot known about james buchanan other than that. so this is one of the harder presidents to try to get things for. here we are at abraham lincoln, the 16th president of the unit

abraham lincoln likes to go to the old soldiers' home. when he would go to the old soldiers home, he would take his papers in this portfolio here which we have on loan to us from the abraham lincoln library and museum in springfield, illinois. and it is thought that he carried some of the documents that he worked on the emancipation proclamation in this portfolio. in addition to the portfolio, we also have a -- the seal that he used, the eel of the united states and it can be dated to about 1864 because of the number of stars that are on it. it's a very tiny, of course, but it has 36 stars which would indicate when nevada had become a state. and actually, also with that we have the storage box that was made. i'm not sure when that was made, that came with the seal but it's kind of interesting, almost like a reliquary box for holding this item of abraham lincoln's. moving on to andrew johnson, andrew johnson was actually apprentice at the age of 10 to a tailor. and he did not like working for the tailor he was apprenticed to. he actually r

and, of course, abraham lincoln. he's received numerous prestigious awards incluing the lincoln -- including the lincoln prize, the abraham lincoln institute book prize, and he authors regularly a number of articles that are published in leading newspapers; "usa today," the "wall street journal," "washington post." and he's featured regularly on television and radio programs such as npr's "weekend edition." he is the -- [inaudible] professor of civil war era at gettysburg college where he serves as director of the civil war era studies program. however, he is on sabbatical from gettysburg college this year, and he serves as the william garwood visiting professor in the james madison program of american ideals and institutions at princeton university. you can learn more about allen's work either by visiting his web site, allenguelzo.com, but perhaps most importantly allen is a regular speaker at the union league of philadelphia and for the abraham lincoln foundation. he is also a member of the union league of philadel

john's to recognize the first attendants of abraham lincoln, -- the first attendance of abraham lincoln, the organist of st. john's found this in the archives and discussed it with church leaders at the time and they thought it would be a good idea to have every president still living sign it and for every president that would follow them to sign it as well, and so what we have inside this historic book are the signatures of herbert hoover, franklin roosevelt, which was signed by his wife, eleanor roosevelt, harry truman, dwight eisenhower, lyndon johnson, ford, carter, ronald reagan, george bush, and so on, and, of course, more recently, george w. bush and barack obama. so the tradition has been maintained. at some point when a new president's elected, st. john's makes an effort to contact them and have them sign this very historic book, which is a very dear item to the church. it clearly does not sit in the president's pew anymore, but it's one of those great pieces of history that has been long associated with this church from 1856 to the present. abraham lincoln has an association w

abraham lincoln had a black valet who work for him. freeman who accompanying the lincolns from springfield, illinois when lincoln was elected president. his name is william johnson. in january 1864, johnson developed smallpox. he died of it. he didn't have much in the weight of money, and lincoln paid for the funeral and burial and grave marker. it had the name, william johnson and underneath, one word. citizen. i know of no title of nobility higher on this planet than that of citizen of the american republic. as we are all citizens, let us learn from each other let us work with each other and let us speak frankly, firmly, and wisely to each other. that i think is the model the founders wanted to hand down to us. [applause] >> my name is ryan number senior and holy ghost prep. i was wondering, have you seen recently those who are trying to crush free speech like the students at uc berkeley and dartmouth. they're mainly millennial's and generation z of those will be the future of america not too long from now. to see these college stude

. >> i was charged with first-degree murder of my friend abraham shakespeare.s a florida lottery winner and they said that i siphoned off his money and killed him, and i didn't do that. i don't like that and i'm not going to be a part of that. they're saying that i shot him twice in the chest and that he died and that i buried him and that i hid his death. >> moore says she's anything but a cold-blooded killer. >> i'm like a big kid. i like disney and mickey mouse and tinkerbell and stuff. i would love a world where i lived at walt disney world all day. >> but for the past eight months, moore has been living in a very different world, the jail's female confinement unit, where she is held in her cell away from other inmates, due in part to the intense media coverage of her case. >> because she's in the news and because of her charges. if you put her back in a pod, you don't know how another inmate is going to react to what she is allegedly accused of. so for her own safety, it's better that she's back here. >> moore has collected some of the many newspaper repor

here he's not elected, but he was brought along with abraham lincoln. this was an amazing and a tough thing to do. he survives. but doesn't really survive as a president very much. he sort of a non-entity after that. makes a return to government after he leaves office as a senator. and then is there for a while and then dies. but his legacy is one that left us with something really terrible. i mean, in the baki case, thurgood marshall, the great case about affirmative action, speculates and wonders what would have happened if things had been different? the reason we're in this position now is because steps were not taken in the past nofrd to bring people forward. now, one of the things we got, one of the -- we got from andrew johnson's recalls trance was the 14th amendment. we might thank him for that. but that is about political rights, and that's something that everybody has benefitted from, not just black people. but what would have happened if he had gone along with the program of the freedmen's bureau, and given the power of the presidency to move

abraham lincoln said if you call a tail a leg, how many legs does a dog have, five? no, four. in the same way you can call a bill bipartisan because there are some republicans on that bill and if the republicans would simply acquiesce to the democrat position it is a democratic bill. calling it bipartisan doesn't make it so. let's walk through a few of the weaknesses of this bill. so, first, the enforcement holiday for illegal immigration. it declares to anyone worldwide if you get to the united states in the next four months before june 30, 2018, the department of

tammy abraham quickly seized the opportunity against notts county.tha n opportunity against notts county. less than a minute and a half later the 20—year—old striker turned provider setting up nathan dyerfor his first goal of the season. and others soon followed the midfielder putting swansea 3—0 ahead in the first half—hour. notts county were down although not giving up yet. notts down although not giving up yet. n otts cou nty down although not giving up yet. notts county pulled one back but that was as good as it would get the league 2 side. abraham got another before the break and norton not long after the interval. when wayne routledge struck the six it equalled swa nsea routledge struck the six it equalled swansea ‘s record margin of victory in an fa cup tie that didn't stop there with tom carroll sending swa nsea there with tom carroll sending swansea into 7/7. and on debut 20 old substitute danjames made it a night few would forget. next up sheffield wednesday who parted company with carlos carvalhal on christmas eve. one thing is important i

in 1860 abraham lincoln was elected and immediately things start to fall apart. those were important because what happens after that i would like to think elections also, ratify or continue something that is already going on. these are elections whose importance we know from the moment we know the outcome of the election. in 1864, abraham lincoln was reelected, that would have signaled the union, the will of the union to continue the civil war had finished and there might very well have been a negotiated peace, the fact that lincoln won made very clear that this war was going to be far to the finish. as soon as the outcome of the election was known it was clear this was important but these elections are almost always elections where a president is up for reelection. these stand in as referenda for the performance of a president. another one that is sometimes overlooked, not reelection but lyndon johnson in 1964 because johnson had just been instrumental in passing the most controversial piece of legislation, civil rights act of 1964. and overwhelmingly elected. i

abraham lincoln of illinois. stanton was 40 years old, early, bearded. he was one of the leading lawyers of pittsburgh and argued a few issues and the united states supreme court. he was not yet a nationally famous lawyer. 46.oln was somewhat older, he was a leading lawyer of illinois. like stanton, not a national lawyer. via -- he had served one term as a whig member of congress. stanton was a democrat in politics. an obstinate democrat. although he had given some local speeches and shared many a less of ae was far political figure in van lincoln. -- then lincoln. stanton was engaged to ellen hutchinson. she saved the letters that stanton wrote to her. we have in stanton's own words, his account of this weeks in cincinnati. and one letter, he wrote that he had been worried about the health of his colleague, harding. kids stayed up all night to prepare the scientific side of the case -- he had stayed up all night to prepare the scientific side of the case. he boasted to his wife that this was the most important patent case that had ever been tried. money

reporter: abraham -- back to you graham -- ibraham. he is able to bring his job back to germany.he child's mother agreed to her son's departure. he is 14 months old now and apart from stories, he did not know his grandpa at all. now, he has received his german passport and is allowed to board the plane. all he knows is more in prison. -- war and prison. >> he will be examined by doctors in germany. with love and compassion you can succeed in anything. the grandfather has brought and friends and family to help his son settle and in two turn a victim into a survivor. sarah: i am joined by a mere. -- amir, the journalists who brought us that story. you are actually contacted by that grandfather. tell us how that came about? >> he just wanted to take his son away from the crossfire round who sold -- crossfire. at the end of the day, they surround themselves in the child. he wants to cite -- save the child but it a long process. his mother decided to give her child away to the grandfather. those the first choice those made -- that was the first choice made. she is going to face punish

on the front page we have the names of the men who gave money, including abraham redwood. it was a bible that was printed in antwerp. it was christopher plantains bible. there is hebrew and greek. the greek is a translation of the hebrew. each of these languages have their own latin translation. at the bottom is an aramaic translation of the bible. on the opposite side is a latin translation of the aramaic. just on one page the variety of different languages that are here. ezra stiles was learning hebrew at the time from the leader of the local synagogue and a friend of his was helping him learn. studying.erested in early libraryw members were interested in forming a community of study and collaboration to bring new books to newport and to work together to study. some of the earliest colonial rhodes of long island -- island were leaving the massachusetts bay colony. it was it -- it was heavily. 10. heavily puritan. they formed to be settlements in rhode island that they hoped would be more open to different religions. the was a large quaker settlement, a large jewish popul

and second, today is abraham lincoln's birthday. what you may not know is that president lincoln once credited a portrait with getting him elected. a photograph by the great matthew brady taken before lincoln's famous speech at the cooper union in february 1860. for many americans in 1860, this was the only lincoln they knew. the brady image appeared on the cover of "harper's weekly," in newspapers across the country, and on buttons and leaflets throughout the campaign. today that photograph is on display here at the national portrait gallery. lincoln may have given brady too much credit. there were probably a few other reasons he won the presidency. for example, i hear he was a pretty good speaker. but his comments reflected something that was true back then and remains true more than a century and a half later, presidential portraits have a particular power to capture the public's imagination, to move people to think about america's leaders and american society itself in new and unexpected ways. this is why the portrait gallery ha

manny's legal team included george harding, peter watson, edwin stanton, and abraham lincoln. stanton was at the time 40 years old, burley, bearded, intense. he was one of the leading lawyers of pittsburgh and had argued a few issues at the united states supreme court. but he was not yet a nationally famous lawyer. lincoln was somewhat older, 46 to be precise, tall, gaunt, clean-shaven. he was the leading lawyers illinois. but like stanton, not yet a national lawyer. he served one term as a whig member of congress. he recently tried and failed to secure the senate seat of illinois. stanton was a democrat and politics, an ardent obstinate democrat. although he had given some multiple speeches and chaired many a meeting, he was far less of a political figure than lincoln. stanton was at this time engaged to ellen hutchison, who became his wife a few months later. ellen saved the letters which stanton wrote to her during their engagement. but we have in stanton's own writing the week in cincinnati. he was worried about his collie harding, so worried that he stayed up all night to

abraham lincoln did not sleep here. or here. what changes now for hodgeinville.ng. >> people aren't turning off the interstate and, and coming here to experience hodgeinville because of a cabin. they're here because of lincoln we he was as a person. not the wood that surrounded him. the story and man that will drive people here. >> coming up. on the road with steve hartman and the stand-up teacher. >>> finally this half-hour if teachers need aid national spokesman. we know just the person. steve hartman found him on the road. >> at a charter school in houston. eddie brown is teaching sixth graders about the different forms of energy. the kids love him in the classroom. but by all accounts, effective in the teachers' lounge. where he demonstrates the power of laughter. and making fun of frustrations finding humor in the tortures of the job. and the audience can clearly relate. >> you feel that way too. already knew my immediate circle of teachers. went through it. i didn't know that this transcended districts and states. countries. >> eddie discovered that reach,

coming off a war and abraham lincoln assassinated in ford theater just down the street. they had a platform constructed to support the casket of lincoln and it was on that platform they have used repeatedly now. we're told through our capitol hill producer that they've used a fabricated version of that platform for the reverend billy graham's casket to lie today. lying in honor as we have mentioned. lying in state is offered for the political individuals who have been treated with this honor. billy graham is a private citizen. >> sandra: after the ceremony members of the public will be able to file through the capitol visitors center to pay their respects to graham. that will be happening in the afternoon and into the early evening. about the ceremony that is about to take place, it will feature a military and uscp honor guard. they'll be on hand and are inside the capitol. how chaplain patrick conroy will be delivering the invocation. and we'll also hear from the speaker of the house, the president, and the majority leader, senate chaplain barry black will deliver the b

abraham, for five minutes. p.m. mr. abraham: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise today to honor one of the hardest working men on capitol hill. joe. joe's 84th birthday was saturday, february 10. he's been cutting hair in the house for 47 years. joe embodies the principles of hard work, dedication, and humility. he's cut the hair of the most powerful people in washington, including president gerald ford, president george bush senior, vice president al gore, and almost every single speaker of the house. he's cut hair in hospital rooms, before inaugurations, and even for foreign presidents and ambassadors. joe grew up in italy and came to the united states in 1952. he served as an italian translator with the american air force during the korean war. along with an honorable discharge, joe received his american citizenship upon leaving the army. came to d.c. and held a number of jobs before cutting hair in the house. even worked construction on the rayburn office building. immigrating from italy, joe is so proud of his american citizenship. growing number italy

- well, as abraham lincoln, i accept your surrender and agree to your conditions. you and all the confederates will have all the s'more schnapps you can drink for a year. all: whoa. - a whole year? - all right! well, i think we got what we wanted. - that's it? i-i don't have to sign this thing? - hey, come on, we should take a tour of the smithsonian before we head back. - no! we still have to fight! - lincoln and davis signed a treaty, general. the war is over. - no! - it's finally over cartman. you lost! - yeah, and now you can take that stupid beard off. [tears] [screaming in pain] [scream echoing] - boys, as president of the united states, i want to commend you for stopping the rebel uprising. - don't touch me. - well, cartman, the south lost. that means you're our slave for a month. - damn it! damn it! i was so close. damn it! - now, the first thing i want you to do for us is-- - wait a minute. i don't have to be your slave. - what? - the north still won the civil war. that means slavery is abolished! - he's right, boys. slavery is illegal and immoral, partial

. >> hi, i'm from abraham lincoln high school, i belong to the drama club and would like to tell you about our amazing club. we put on two shows per year. they're amazing. we have an amazing community that helps support us in terms of family and relationships outside of school. we do all the work ourselves. we are a cast and audition and we rehearse religiously and it means so much to us. last year we put on a show called sweet charity. i did all the costumes for the entire show and we had what, 32 kids that were cast, each with three costumes, so that was a lot of work. >> 30 seconds. >> i did it all because i love drama so much and it means so much to me that we get to put on these performances every year. now, that being said, we sell tickets for these shows and it is used as a way to fund our next performance so we can keep on doing these things, however that is not all we do. we are the ones that run the talent show at our school and that gives people who aren't necessarily a part of drama club a platform to show their talents and all of their friends and family members come to

while they were there abraham lincoln was assassinated. they decided that california was not the place for them. they tried wants to come back after the war to fayetteville. it was too changed. the people were changed and living was hard. it had been almost a cold roll center on the edge of the united states of america, just before indian and wild west territory. it was not that anymore. they did not feel good feelings to stay in fayetteville. they settled in kentucky, and they never lived here. jonas did help some confederates to receive their pardon after the war. he had some communication with the people, but not living here. our staff recently toured to fayetteville arkansas to learn about its rich history. learn about other stops in our tour at c-span.org/cities tour. watching american history tv all weekend every weekend on c-span3. >> next, catherine west general weste of moreland, talks about her life as a military daughter, sister. she recounts her time living in vietnam and serving as the red kosice aid

>>> today marks abraham lincoln's 209th birthday.n is prompting visitors to visit a small log cab been in to ask is true, lincoln slept here. the professor has come to kentucky to solve a mystery, almost as old as abraham lincoln himself. someone pulls off the highway. sees you guys drilling into the cabin. says what are you doing here? what do you say to them? >> what we are trying to do is authenticate when this cabin was made. using tree rings in the logs. >> some say our 16th president born in the hills in 1809 spebt some of his childhood in the cabin at knob creek. did he? >> this one has really nice outer curve surface done here. it will give us outer most tree ring formed. it will give of the cutting date of this particular log. the professor and team from the university of tennessee have used this technique to date all sorts of old things. including, 2004, a cabin down the road. the one he was born in. or, was he? i think at one point. a plot, said this might be the lincoln cabin. we just didn't know. what we do know is that

when abraham arrived in paris last year he thought he'd finally be able to start a new life the twenty year old senegalese had fled his country after his parents were killed by independence fighters in the southern region of cousin and yet he has still not found a safe haven here. the police often come here to take us us there was a time when they showed up almost every day sometimes they tear down our tents just cause mayhem if someone had told me before hand that this was happening in france i would never have believed them and france calls itself the country of human rights i am deeply disappointed i feel sick. abraham has applied for asylum he could stay at a public shelter but he prefers to sleep under this bridge he ironically calls this the hotel of the one thousand nine hundred small here it feels less at the government's mercy than at a public shelter. i'd rather die here than go to a government shelter he migrants need to be respected to and we are not facts leaves or beggars everybody could be in the situation no matter what the color of their skin portugal. aid workers say

abraham lincoln campaign button here. we know that because we have the campaign buttons.hey were deposited for copyright in our collection. it is a tribute to the beauty of these photographs and the fact that so many of them are sharp. i mean, we are blowing this up now to 30, 40 times its original size. i mean, this young girl, the end daughter here, it's incredibly moving. but realize that in the actual photograph she's probably a quarter inch high. now we are blowing it up to this size. >> i believe the photographs are sharper from the 1800s. they had more silver in them. so there is more grains reflecting the light. they had wonderful lenses at times. but it's also the case that mr. liljennquist has a pretty good eye. there are -- he chose pictures that would resonate or have a particular strength of composition, expression on the person's face. these are not just any old civil war photographs. they are the best. >> this young boy, he's a confederate holding a flint lock rifle. i like this one because he's probably not older than me. i'm 14 years old. he's probably ma

but the day is also known as president today and honors all other presidents including president abraham lincoln one whose birthday is just past february twelfth we'll talk some more about president today with presidential historian from boston university professor walter month tunnels and while u.s. markets are closed nationally banks looks like global markets plus we look at the japanese steel industries response to the u.s. commerce department proposal to impose curbs on steel imports into the united states all of that coming up but first let's get to some headlines. as the olympics continue in south korea south korean president moon j.n. said on monday that the general motors company decision to shutter a plant south of seoul in the city of gun sin would be a big bust for the nation and as asked as admit. astray ssion to take measures to increase economic activity in the region the plan is applied as employed two thousand workers g.m. operates three other plants in south korea totaling fourteen thousand workers and a decision on if they will stay open is expected by may of this year.

we're owl familiar with abraham link cons's biblical metaphor of a house divide. he's drawing on the gospels, matthew chapter 12 and mark chapter three. this is a power metaphor in the sense if n which he uses it. it captures the nations precarious predicament on the threshold of a bitter civil war more powerfully than a wordy dissertation. now lincoln is at his prime a couple of generations or more after the period that i'm speaking about. but i think it's interesting to note this is a metaphor that's often used in the political discourse of the american founding and used by a variety of figures in very political contexts. take for example, george washington observed in the midst of this struggle with great britain if the house is divided, the fabric must fall, he says. we see a similar allusion to this particular melt for in the federalist papers and it shows up with some frequency elsewhere in the political settings of the time. secondly, the bible was used to enhance the power and weight of rhetoric through its identification with a venerated, authoritative sa

abraham lincoln was one of my favorites. liked jimmy carter for the same reasons the last caller said. basically, everything this man is not. out? what stands , he wasjimmy carter probably a better human being than he was a president. he was honest and he was compassionate. he had equality for everybody. presidents,e lincoln and carter, have those qualities. this president does not have an ounce of it. it is a shame. our: lincoln shows up in survey of presidential historians when it comes to the category of relations with congress, specifically how a president works with congress to get things done. lyndon johnson on the top. followed by george washington, .oosevelt, lincoln, eisenhower it goes from there, the listing of all of the presidents in these categories at our website. that is where you can find a listing of this survey. it was done last year. from virginia beach, sherry, virginia beach on our democrats line. caller: how are you? host: i am well. like a president -- we have not had one of these, ever. that would inc

we are all familiar with abraham lincoln's implication of a house divided, drawing on the gospels. this is a powerful metaphor in the sense in which lincoln uses it. it captures the nation's precarious political predicament on the threshold of a bitter civil war more powerfully than a wordy dissertation. of course, lincoln is at his prime a couple more best couple of generations or more after the period i'm speaking about, but this is a metaphor often used in the political discourse of the american founding, and used by a variety of figures in very political contexts. take for example george midstgton observed in the of this struggle with great britain, if the house is divided, the fabric must fall, he says. we see a similar allusion to this metaphor in the federalist papers, and it shows up with some frequency elsewhere in the political settings of the time. used to, the bible was enhance the power and weight of rhetoric through its identification with a venerated, authoritative sacred texts. the mere identification of biblical language with political discourse today adds a kind o

but the day is also known as president today and honors all other presidents including president abraham lincoln one whose birthday is just past february twelfth we'll talk some more about president today with presidential historian from boston university professor walter month tunnels and while u.s. markets are closed nationally banks looks like global markets plus we look at the japanese steel industries response to the u.s. commerce department proposal to impose curbs on steel imports into the united states all of that coming up but first let's get to some headlines. as the olympics continue in south korea south korean president moon j.n. said on monday that the general motors company decision to shutter a plant south of seoul in the city of gun sin would be a big bust for the nation and as asked his administration to take measures to increase economic activity in the region the plan is applied as employed two thousand workers g.m. operates three other plants in south korea totaling fourteen thousand workers and a decision on if they will stay open is expected by may of this year. fun

while they were there, abraham lincoln was assassinated, they decided they didn't -- california was not the place for them, they came back, tried once to come back after the war to fayetteville and it was just too changed. the people were changed, living was hard. this had been like a cultural center almost on the edge of the united states of america just before you go into indian and wild west materiality. and it wasn't that anymore. they didn't have good feelings to stay in fayetteville. so they went and settled in kentucky and never lived here. jonas did help some of the onfederates. he had some communication with the people but not living here. >> our cities tour staff recently traveled to fayetteville, arkansas, to learn about its rich history. learn more about fayetteville d other stops in our tour at c-span.org/cities tour. you're watching american history tv. all weekend, every weekend on -span 3. in 1979 c pan was created as a american service by the television countries and brought to you today by your cable and satellite divider. this weekend on american history tv from the n

and second, today is abraham lincoln's birthday. what you may not know is that president lincoln once credited a portrait with getting him elected. a photograph by the great matthew brady taken before lincoln's famous speech at the cooper union in february 1860. in 1860, thiscans was the only lincoln they knew. the brady image appeared on the ," in of "harper's weekly newspapers across the country, and on buttons and leaflets throughout the campaign. today that photograph is on display here at the national portrait gallery. lincoln may have given brady too much credit. there were probably a few other reasons he won the presidency. for example, i hear he was a pretty good speaker. but his comments reflected something that was true back then and remains true more than a century and a half later, presidential portraits have a particular power to capture the public's imagination, to move people to think about america's leaders and american society itself in new and unexpected ways. this is why the portrait gallery has been collecting pr

when the civil war broke out, he offered his services to president abraham lincoln. he is commissioned as an officer, becoming the first ever physician.rican u.s. he became the first professor of medicine country working at howard university right here in .ashington d c he was honored as the first african-american ever to be buried in arlington national cemetery. following in his footsteps, today we have trailblazers like general west. general west, ray shorthand so everyone can see who you are -- -- your handr hand so everybody can see who you are. --ders like general west were followed by leaders like the first african-american also theeneral who was highest ranking woman ever to graduate from west point. girl.n say it, go on she and i are working together with the other uniformed services to improve the health of our service members and the communities they live in. unfortunately, our servicemembers are less fit and less ready to deploy than at any time in modern history. of 18-24 yards are in eligible for military service. , our poor health is a threat to nationa

he offered his services to president abraham lincoln. he was commissioned as an officer, becoming the army's first ever african-american physician. he went on to become the first african-american professor of medicine in the entire country, working at the newly formed howard university, right here in our washington, d.c. dr. augusta was honored as the first african-american ever to be buried in arlington national cemetery. following in the footsteps of leaders like dr. augusta, we have trailblazers like general west. general west, raise your hand so everyone can see who you are. leaders like dr. west will continue the tradition of excellence by black military physicians. she is the first black army surgeon general. [ cheers and applause ] she is also the highest ranking woman ever to graduate from west point. and i'm proud -- you all can say it. go on, girl. you can give her one. she and i are working together with the other uniformed services to improve the health of our service members in the communities they live in. unfortunately, ou

like abraham lincoln -- i think. like abraham lincoln, i think's an important comparison to be made here to lincoln. from franklin's early exposure to skeptical writings undermine his confidence in christianity. but books alone could not vase franklin's childhood immersion in puritan piety. his ongoing relationships with evangelical christians made it difficult for him to jettison vocabulary and precepts of traditional faith all together. although his view of providence vacillated, the weight of the american revolution foster add new renewed belief that history had a divine purpose. franklin and lincoln, both self-educated sons of calvinist parents. both of whom had much of the bible committed to memory. they gravitated toward a vitalized sense of god's role over history as war and constitutional crises wracked america in the 1770s for franklin and the 1860s for lincoln. neither man's beliefs could escape the influence of their daily relationships and stressful experiences. it is difficult to overstate just how deep

abraham lincoln is prominent casting a shadow on his much less popular successor. >> how do you thinkcorner, and lincoln is where the traffic is. >> don't think he would like it. even buchanan gets a better spot over there. >> that's an insult. >> an insult. i would say. >>> we end with a conversation with the director of black panther. the movie opened this weekend to rave reviews and a massive draw at the box office. it is expected to bring in over $200 million this president's day weekend. here is gayle king. >> reporter: he directed and co-wrote black panther. the story of a young african prince who takes on the mantle of king and super hero. >> my son this is your time. >> now must defend his throne and country. it is set in a futuristic african country. >> don't freeze. >> i never freeze. >> the first time there is an all-black cast for a seeper hero movie. that means what do you? >> for me it was -- it was a beautiful opportunity. i remember being young and watching pop culture. whether ninja turtles, power rangers, batman, spiderman. >> you look at these super heroes. >> what

it -- god and abraham. it takes us to the language of joshua in that famous speech, speaking on behalf of the lord. when he says, for me and my house, we will serve the lord. he is bringing two very powerful effect this biblical language. he is not quoting the bible, and that is what i find fascinating, but he is using biblical language to add a gravitas, if you will. to the speech that he is giving. third, the bible was used then as it is sometimes used today, to identify and define normative standards for ordering and judging public life. i am going to give you a number of examples in a second. fourth, the bible was used to marshall biblical authority and support a certain political agenda and policy objectives. it was also used to gain insight into the character and designs god, especially as they pertain to god's providential oversight of the material world. more specifically, his dealings with men and nations. we heard about franklin's famous speech in the constitutional convention, and we see hints of