up next we visit the abraham incoln library and museum. >> abraham lincoln presidential library and museum opened its doors in 2005. but our collection goes back much further. in 1889, they established the illinois state historical library and ever since that time, we have been collecting all the treasures that help illustrate illinois' wonderful past. as you might imagine, the illinois story is not complete without a really close look at abraham lincoln's life. in our lincoln collection we have about 52,000 pieces that cover every aspect of abraham lincoln's life that collection uld include about 18,000 monographs written about abraham lincoln. he's the most written about american ever, which is staggering. on any given day, visitors to the museum is able to see about 100 original pieces from our collection that are on display. and there's always a reason to come back to the abraham lincoln presidential museum. we are rotating those items out, putting new peetses on display all the time. and we always like to say, a visitor that comes to the museum today, come back one year later, you'll

every year, the abraham lincoln institute in partnership with the abraham lincoln -- this award breaks new ground and lincoln scholarship. we look for dissertations that offer fresh approaches to lincoln's life, career and legacy. they examine new evidence or reevaluates old evidence in exciting new ways. four dissertations drew extensive praise from our committee. our deliberations were brief and without contention. one dissertation stood out for its decidedly unique focus. the winner of the 2019 mackeyation award is dr. from western michigan university for his dissertation entitled a .hrine for president lincoln for the person who had the question about when do lincoln museums start? you will know all about it afterward. dr. mackey accepted the award at the abraham lincoln associations awards in springfield. in his speech, he noted the idea for his research came from his own checkered background in public history. he is currently an adjunct professor at indiana university east in richmond, indiana. his dissertation from the vantage point of his experience as a tour guide, intern, arc

get any closer to a place where abraham lincoln sat. >> next, we go to the abraham lincoln library and museum to look at abraham lincoln's personal book collection. >> we are in the abraham lincoln presidential library, down in the stacks. we are in the most secure area in our facility, the vault. this is where we keep more than 1600 documents written by abraham lincoln, as well as many of the pieces he owned, objects he owned and interacted with during his lifetime. today, i want to show you some books we have that were very special to abraham lincoln. first off, abraham lincoln, when he was elected president in 1860, it is not as if he was entirely unknown. of thea four-term member illinois legislature, he had served in congress. he was one of the most prominent politicians from the state of illinois. against stephen douglas, abraham lincoln challenged him in illinois for that senate seat in 1858. , three hour-long public debates on seven different occasions during that campaign season. two years later, the same two individuals square off against each other for the presidency of the

holzer: this is the 210th birthday of abraham lincoln.t is a privilege to talk about him tonight in this great institution which i love, and a particular honor to be delivering the annual bill clinton lecture in american history. president clinton has been very generous and kind to me over the years. as i think i heard louisa say. he gave me the life changing opportunity to allow me to chair the lincoln bicentennial commission in 2000. he give us a great tour once of the lincoln bedroom and the closet, it was then chelsea's closet, from which president lincoln gave his speeches from the white house window. that was an extraordinary opportunity. i am sorry he is not here tonight. hope youlittle rock, i got there. i do not want to begin without thinking of. every president is concerned with his legacy. clinton,e president have the chance to work directly on building and burnishing it over the years in retirement. they built libraries, they embark on speaking tour's, write books, and if they are fortunate like president carter, they are bles

so is abraham lincoln. the power of abraham lincoln was so much that even somebody like douglas freeman had to moment,dge that at this the historical figure who seems most relevant to what we're doing is abraham lincoln. >> fdr being overly cautious, if you look at his results, it was the same in those states. people might vote for segregationist congressman and governors, but they adored fdr. >> i think you are right about that absolutely. one more? yes, i do have one more. >> this was a wonderful talk. i always thought fdr embraced jefferson more than lincoln. connect the two? i always felt that jefferson was more in the forefront than lincoln.

-- abraham lincoln? dr. tackac: yes, because he endorsed the railroad and other scientific developments which had an impact on the department. -- an impact on the environment. the names on the list are teddy roosevelt, five and d roosevelt, -- franklin d. roosevelt, richard nixon, for his creation of the environmental protection agency, lincoln sometimes makes those lists and sometimes does not. that, the conflict between science and technology, environmentalism and technology, would be one that would interest him. >> i am vice president for programming at the lincoln group of d.c. and a docent at smithsonian american history and his science advisor, did you find out much about the relationship between the lincoln and joseph henry? dr. tackac: i did not, you can inform us. the firsthenry was president of the smithsonian and one of the founders. he had a weather station on top of the castle, the first building completed in 1853. when you study him and his biographer, they say he was lincoln's science dr. tack

abraham lincoln change the supreme court during his presidency. remarks, he sits down for a conversation for the history of political influence with henry chambers. the american civil war museum in richmond, virginia hosted this 90 minute event. >> let me introduce our guest speaker for tonight. tim three who is the professor at tennessee. he is the author of multiple books. the civil war era and american constitutionalism. addition, he has published numerous articles and op-ed pieces have appeared in the wall street journal's market website. the weekly standard. and the new york times name a few. the native of orlando, he received his da from the university of miami and an ma and phd in -- at the university of florida. let's give a warm welcome. >> thank you, kelly and angst to the staff, it is a great honor to be here. thank you for the invitation. we are going to spend some time focusing on the supreme court and politics during the civil war period. all of my slides are -- where is my -- there we go. that's ok. >> [indiscernible] >> you have go

for the abraham lincoln symposium. it is scheduled to start in about five minutes. first, some of the programs airing this weekend on the c-span networks. >> sunday on q&a. >> i had no expectation that we would be sitting here in 2019 talking about this war in afghanistan. escalated,has been the way it has escalated every year, countless lives that have been wasted and the continual suffering. >> iraq war veteran and former state department official on his article, time for peace in afghanistan and then into the lives. >> -- into the lies. insame as i saw in iraq 2004, 2005, and when i work at the pentagon and state department in between those times, there was no different in administrations, they were both -- the desire was to win politically, or to win for domestic political reasons, everything else was secondary. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern a. q& ♪ >> the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. >> ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. >> the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon. [cheers

the grand culmination of the work was his two-volume biography, "abraham lincoln: a life." what he affectionately refers to as the green monster received a lincoln prize in 2010. he has published at least a dozen books at last count and earned many awards, including illinois's highest honor, the order of lincoln. after teaching at connecticut college for 30 years and working on his biography, he joined the history department at the university of illinois of illinois, springfield where he served as the chancellor, distinguished chair in lincoln study since 2000 nine. join me in welcoming the godfather of lincoln research to speak about the springfield dispatches between lincoln's election and his inauguration, my good friend, professor michael burlingame. [applause] for that kind you introduction, lucas. lucas is not only a distinguished professor, but he is also my agent. i would also like to thank the professor for his kind remarks about my pinchhitting for him last year. i would like to add a footnote to his talk. as he mentioned, lincoln was fond of off-color stories. al

abraham lincoln was there, and he spoke. he apologized for being an interloper, as he put it, and cast himself as the subject of a story about a man, and i quote, with features the leaders could not call handsome. writing through the woods he met a lady on horseback. he waited for her to pass but instead she stopped and scrutinized him before saying, well, you are the homeless man i ever saw. yes, madam, but i can't help it. no, i suppose not, said the lady, but you might stay at. [laughter] and the editor stopped life -- stopped life in, he said with propriety, he might have stayed at home. i chose it because it is i wasularly apt. scheduled to speak your last year, but when it came to it i stayed at home. be theay possibly ugliest man you have ever seen, though i certainly hope not, but that wasn't why i stayed away. i simply wasn't well enough to travel. to johnecially grateful and the executive community of the institute for extending the invitation a second time. michael, whonk while i was working on my book on lincoln'

the assassination of abraham lincoln. it features artifacts that were collected during those hours that surgeons were treating him after he was shot at ford's theatre and during and after his autopsy the next day. you might remember that abraham lincoln is shot at ford's theatre at about 10:30 on friday, the 14th of april, 1865. eest a few days after l surrendered at appomattox, effectively ending the civil war. lincoln is out of play and a shot in the back of the head by john wilkes booth by a small label it. that bullet is on display here. you can see it in that small glass globe. the bullet was recovered the next day at an autopsy performed at the white house. in the hours shortly after lincoln is shot the surgeon general, joseph lawrence, response to the president's side. this is that the petersen house across the street from ford's theatre. barnes calls for a probe. we have now to that in the back on display. the idea was that it would be threaded into the wild with the idea that, depending on how far into the road t

with henry clay he was the person that abraham lincoln adored. i feel there is a link that goes all the way back to the declaration of independence all the way through abraham lincoln. how do you feel about that? >> it is true, thomas jefferson and henry clay both studied at george with and they both considered henry clay to be a political figure. lincoln was born in kentucky. henry clay made his reputation in kentucky. i think in lincoln there is very much a henry clay believe that we need to compromise. that, we cannot simply impose our own moral views on the country. that the most important thing, henry clay believed it is to hold the union together. if the union can stay together, america will work past whatever

in ford's theatre theatre for the annual abraham lincoln symposium. this is american history tv on c-span3. --ing up is michael is michael burlingame. been at history tv has ford's theatre in washington all day with the american lincoln symposium. after the next speaker there 3:55be a speakers panel at wagering presenters responding to questions from the audience and one another. those speakers will be from earlier. of course, for its theater is significant in relation to president lincoln, as he was in the presidential box with his wife mary on april 14, 1865 for a performance of "our american cousin." after john wilkes booth shot the president as he watched the play. the president died from his wounds the next morning. [indiscernible conversations] >> good afternoon. that is my way of saying good afternoon. am the professor of politics at washington and lee university. teach lincoln.t along with washington and lee. i met michael burlingame in the holy land, sprin springfield, illinoi. michael is the most generous scholar i have ever met. evenho

first she never is able to meet with abraham lincoln face-to-face. house onto the white two occasions. she is unable to meet with the president. too busy as the war is wrapping up and the beginning of reconstruction is looming so she's never able to sit down face-to-face but she has powerful friends in washington. henry them is named wilson. henry wilson is a very powerful senator on capitol hill from home state of massachusetts. barton writes to henry wilson, is able to get communications to president lincoln saying what barton wants ultimately in march of 1865, he does give approval for theon to begin the work of missing soldiers office. essentially, a press release goes out to the northern press, in newspapers, saying that families of missing union please write to clara barton in washington, d.c. with information about your loved one. unitis name, state, what they fought with, any other identifying information. then willnformation be gathered by the missing soldiers office by clara barton thenhen ultimately distributed back out to the families if

. >> next a lecture on abraham lincoln. michael greene teaches a class from the political climate of the antebellum era and gives the background on three other candidates that he defeated with just under 80% of the popular vote. >> so we got lincoln's ancestors over here and we got them married and it is time to elect him president and today we're going to look at the election of 1860 and using the term of everybody's second choice at the national convention a lincoln supporter sent a wire that said i think he's going to win the nomination and he is the second choice of everybody. well he said my name is new in the field and i suppose i'm not the first choice of a great many. our policy is to leave them in a mood to come to us if they are compelled to give up their first love. i know, it kind of gets you right there. giving up your first love. so the themes we will talk about and i'm going to explain why there is certainly a book cover in the upper corner, but, first of all, republicans showed they were not the week party.

. >> we are back now live with coverage from port cedar of the annual abraham link in simple -- abraham lincoln symposium. up, davidkers coming blight on lincoln's relationship with frederick douglass, and michael burlingame on lincoln following his election until his inauguration. the author of lincoln's sense of humor. this is live coverage on american history tv on c-span3. >> good morning. i am the former

for the abraham lincoln symposium. this gathering, hosted by the abraham lincoln institute and ford theater society, brings together lincoln scholars to highlight the president's life, career, and legacy. nina on how lincoln was remembered in new deal america. david blithe on lincoln's relationship with frederick douglass. and michael burlingame on lincoln as president-elect. watch american history tv this weekend on c-span3. >> researchers talked with congressional staff about efforts to counter russian soto mysia -- social media influence and a proposal for a new government organization that would focus on information sharing. this is about 30 minutes. [applause] >> thank you all very much for coming. thank you for taking the time today to come to this briefing. i will spend 15 or so minutes talking about research and hopefully we should have plenty of time for questions and answers and discussion afterward. russian media and affluence. i'm sure you have all seen headlines in the united states over the past four year

for the 22nd annual abraham lincoln symposium. this daylong gathering hosted by the abraham lincoln institute, and the ford's theatre society, brings together lincoln scholars to highlight the 16th president's life, career, and legacy. speakers include james tackett, on lincoln and the natural environment. richard on lincoln's sense of humor, nina silver on how lincoln was remembered in new deal america, david blight, on lincoln's relationship with abolitionist frederick douglass, and michael burlingame on lincoln as president-elect. watch american history tv this weekend, on c-span three. earlier this month, historians gathered at the conference on the civil war, covering its causes and the roles of african- americans and southern unionists. pulitzer prize winning author john meacham and elizabeth baron of the university of virginia took part. the american civil war museum and the university of virginia center for civil war history hosted the event. you can watch it monday night, starting 8 pm eastern, on c- span three. next, a h

today, it is the abraham lincoln supposed him. you.raham lincoln suppose [chatter] >> we are waiting for david blight to take the stage. there will be a speaker's panel on speakers about abraham looking. spoke earlier on how lincoln was remembered in new deal america. between here and there is michael burlingame on lincoln s president-elect from his election in 1860 until his 1861 inauguration. a lot of discussion. >> we are about to get

next on "the presidency," and abraham lincoln scholar gives an illustrated talk at the new york historicalbout the monuments created to the 16th president and what they say about how we remember him. he previously served as chair of the lincoln bicentennial author,on and as the co-author, or editor of over 50 lincoln books. this is an hour. >>

(abraham polonsky) and this is what this picture is about.ow circumstances become more and more unendurable. and yet you must endure. freddy, what have you done? (errol morris) great noir poses the question, why me? why is this happening to me? and the very dark answer that it provides. an almost unacceptable answer: for no reason. for no reason at all. buddy, you look like you're in trouble. (errol morris) noir is concerned with error, with confusions. i think i'm in a frame. don't sound like you. i don't know, all i can see is the frame. i'm going in there now and look at the picture. (errol morris) it's the noir idea. we don't know what's going on, but we do know something bad is out there controlling events. for me the great noir films are films about fall guys. a person who finds himself caught in a net. the more he struggles, the deeper and deeper he becomes entwined in nightmare. (man's thoughts) did you ever want to forget anything? did you ever want to cut away a piece of your memory? (paul arthur) "detour" is the first wave of noir

emily abraham: we receive cancellation notices at least five times a month, usually, for cases that arecheduled to go forward. clients are frustrated. we are frustrated. gautam: we were seeing cases pushed out two years. now we're seeing four years and more. we have cases set out to 2022. stephen: part of a backlog of immigration court cases-- stephen: since we first uncovered the extent of this backlog, the numbers show it's grown worse, not better, even with the courts issuing more deportation orders under president trump. emily: the practical problems with delays is that most of our clients have left family members, usually young children abroad, and they have no way to be reunited until their cases are resolved. stephen: the problem: there remains a shortage of u.s. immigration court judges across the country, meaning that some judges have as many as 5,000 cases on their docket. dana leigh marks: the immigration judges have been the canaries in the coal mine, saying that we were going to be overwhelmed, that we needed more help. for more than a decade-- stephen: judge dana leigh mar

for the 22nd annual abraham lincoln symposium. this day-long gathering hosted by the abraham lincoln institute and the fords theater society brings together lincoln scholars to highlight the 16th president's life, career, and legacy. speakers include a speaker on lincoln and the natural environment, lincoln's sense of humor, how lincoln was remembered in new deal america, lincoln's relationship with olitionist fredrick douglas, and lincoln as president-elect. watch american history tv this weekend on c-span 3. senator bernie sanders held a rally in concord, new hampshire last weekend, his first visit to the state since announcing his bid for the 2020 democratic presidential nomination. ♪ taking it to the streets taking it to the streets oh, yeah taking it to the streets ♪ ♪ taking it to the streets

russian meddling is obvious it is going on for more than one hundred years abraham lincoln surprise was a russian agent why do you think russia sent two fleets of warships to new york and san francisco in a show of support for him and the unionists during the american civil war the coming of the russian fleets was decisive in helping lincoln get through the last and most serious threat of anglo-french intervention you don't hear much about that and for good reason you need to leave evidence lying about say that comrade lincoln rest in peace lennon's blessings be upon him there you have it concrete proof of president after president being russian agents you got it right mr pompei oh about the whole russia meddling. joking apart for the past two years american mainstream media has given in nonstop coverage to the from russia collusion saga but over the t.v. ratings might have spiked off the twenty sixteen election the now experiencing a significant drop off to the long awaited report was released c.n.n. who's critical coverage of trump is often dismissed as fake news by the us president h

abraham lincoln proved that i'm not comparing o'rourke with abraham lincoln, god forbid. i'm just not jumping to conclusions knocking him out of the box because of all the criticism. what do you think? >> he is coming off a big statewide race with a ton of national attention. he built a huge donor list, donor base from that race. that is why you certainly see bernie ahead of the pack as well. in a lot of ways they have got a head start on a lot of, a lot of these other candidates so i'm not really that surprised that we're seeing beto and bernie with this much money. i do think the comment is right. is it the right investment? will it be well-spent? will it translate into, you know, into an outcome that is favorable for the people giving those candidates money? we don't know that yet. neil: right. >> so we'll have to see but in the meantime, you can certainly expect that beto and bernie will have the money to stay in this thing, certainly through iowa and new hampshire. neil: what is interesting, siraj, looking at rollout of primaries and caucuses et cetera, by april, we'

he took the only known photograph of abraham lincoln doing the gettysburg address. he was a young kid, and a photographer named yeager in baltimore hired him. they took the photographs. right away without really thinking about it, he clave -- he gave the negatives to the woodcut artist and they left. that is how unimportant they thought the gettysburg address was at the time. think that ise we an amazing thing. we hold those photographs very dear of lincoln at gettysburg. achrach also took this photograph. this is lincoln at gettysburg. lincolnwn photograph of giving the gettysburg address. bit going to read a little about this because i want to get it exactly right. in a 1963 biopic of david bachrach, life magazine lincoln beings recorded in this wet plate photograph that david bachrach helped take. lincoln is not recognizable. david bachrach's biography captioned the photograph, gettysburg battlefield dedication ceremony, but stepped back and tepidly declared, possibly including abraham lincoln, 1863. this photograph, long believed to have pictured the audience aw

you know abraham has live for us and our ma in the occupied west bank what more what other details can you tell us let's start with the latest video we've heard from israeli media quoting israeli military officials say that the missile that the rockets that have been launched from gaza into israel yesterday have been fired by mistake they believe that low level have asked are to be blamed for launching these rockets this goes with what we've heard from hamas yesterday basically they have denied any involvement in launching these rockets and they have said that they will they will target those who are deemed responsible for launching them also we've seen another sign of a mass wanting to deescalate the situation on its end the weekly massive protests and to go into the gaza's fence with israel have been postponed today due to the situation that happened overnight now given that the mention of this is level hamas operatives launching this attack is there an effort to deescalate it now. definitely there for it's by the u.n. special coordinator to nickel who has been talking with different

iraq and egypt so let's start things off by getting a view from damascus and i'm joined by talib abraham who is an analyst there in damascus knows the thinking of the government there on this found a verse story of the start of the war let me start with a really simple yes or no question do those around us sad now think he's won the war it is very difficult to answer in one word but yes the military part of the war is that that's the military part but what about the other part which is very much important this is another story we cannot talk about it. he has certainly survived he's still in power and yet he only controls seventy percent of the country much of the country is ruined could you not argue he's won the war but destroyed syria not because they're said to destroy syria it is a matter of big game. syria this is an international or better syria or one of the whole middle east that there's not a matter of for democracy or freedom but if a sad hurdle stood down and if there had been then talks in geneva as the un has been proposing there might have been a way forward now you have a

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the reason is that abraham lincoln was a wartime president.ne reason ulysses grant had such trouble with reconstruction after the war was congress reclaimed much of the authority that president lincoln had taken during wartime. so, it's really not until the 20th century, theater roosevelt is the first president and that modern mold in part because he had a different theory of presidential authority the most presidents in the 19th century. he contrasts himself to james buchanan. james buchanan was the butt of the jokes. according to roosevelt buchanan looks at his constitution and asked, is there express authority given to me as president. if it's not there, than i cannot do it. that was pretty much the stand promote most 19th century presidents. as well says by contrast, when i look at the constitution if it says i can camp then i will. >> with some of our legislatures and voting citizens the are unwilling to learn the lessons of the civil war, of slavery, of internment camps in the trailer tears. when are unwilling to hear those as facts, how

she is never able to meet with abraham lincoln face-to-face. she goes to the white house on two occasions but is unable to meet with him. the war is wrapping up and the beginning of reconstruction is looming. she has powerful friends in washington. one of them is named henry wilson, a very powerful senator on capitol hill from massachusetts. barton writes to henry wilson and talks with him and is able to get communications to president lincoln saying what barton wants to do and ultimately in march of 1865, he does give approval for barton to begin work on the missing soldier's office. a press release goes out saying that families of missing union soldiers, please write to clara barton in washington, d.c. with information about your loved one. one . name, state, what unit they fought with, any other identifying information. that information will then be gathered by the missing soldier's office and, ultimately, then distributed back out to the families if there is any news provided. when barton initially tries this, when she starts, she is not co

andrew johnson was really no abraham lincoln. >> i knew abraham lincoln. [laughter] the one state in the union where you can make that joke. >> why initially were republicans optimistic about the chances that johnson would do what they wanted? >> well, they are in the moment. remember, andrew johnson, i'm a tennessean, so you all can thank me later for your independence. [laughter] >> if it weren't for -- y'all could be part of spain, i made that joke to george w. bush the first time i met him, peter, it's a great subject, he was governor then, and at the governor's mansion i said that, he went, that's pretty funny, asshole. [laughter] >> it was the beginning of a beautiful friendship. >> hi, how are you? >> are we proud of our boy? he said maladministration twice and lockian. 12 years of graduate school you get lockian. sorry what was the question? >> andrew johnson was, and i'm just going to jump in here, we've only used his name as a verb, or as an adjective, but voldemort, i think this moment is most like the johnson one, where johnson was a temperamen

ok we get more on this from neda abraham who is live for us in ramallah in the occupied west bank what are the details can you tell us israeli army says that one of the it is it struck in the gaza strip belongs to hamas this complex that is responsible for launching attacks in the west bank and providing logistical support for them that's according to the army which also said that they struck an underground rocket many factoring sides in the gaza strip medical sources tell us the two palestinians were wounded him and his wife and we know that the wives both arms were amputated after she was injured by sharp and rough. that it is one of the largest acts escalations between israel and the palestinian territories we've seen in years is there any attempt to deescalate at the moment. we've heard from sources close to the u.n. says the peace process special coordinator for the un. led no he said that he was leading efforts to try and contain the situation by speaking to all parties including the israeli party we also know that the palestinian factions have told the egyptians that they are no

and respect -- we respect the fact that we have a room right down the hall, the lincoln room where abraham lincoln as a house member spent time and we can sit and talk in the same place that abraham incoln talked where he had discussions to end slavery that he was able to secure. we continue to fight. it was wonderful to see john lewis on the floor, true hero, not just a hero of this congress -- we had the honor to serve with sam johnson who was a great hero. spent seven years in the hanoi hilton. we have a true honor to serve with john lewis. whether we disagree sometimes on politics, to be able to sit and talk with somebody who truly lived some of the toughest history of our nation and has the scars to prove it. and yet, he still has love in his heart and exhibits that love and passion and we are honored to be able to celebrate that diversity and it's the diversity of thought that we should fight to achieve equality and opportunity for all men and women in this debate nation. and if the gentleman has anything else. mr. hoyer: i thank the gentleman for his comments. let me add, we can hon

the state long gathering hosted by the abraham lincoln institute and the ford theater society brings together lincoln scholars to highlight his life, career, and legacy. they will discuss the environment, lincoln's sense of humor, and how he will be remembered in america. his relationship with abolitionist frederick douglass, and lincoln on president-elect. watch american history tv this weekend on c-span3. here on c-span we will show you a recent campaign stop in new hampshire for bernie sanders. that is followed by a look at president trump's 2020 budget request with acting white house director and john sullivan. real -- a resolution supporting the public disclosure of robert mueller's report on russian interference in the u.s. election. senator bernie sanders was in new hampshire this past weekend for his first visit to the state since announcing his 2020 candidacy for president. at this rally in concord, he spoke about universal health care, tax policy, and climate change among other topics. ♪

confederates reasonably hoped a republican incumbent abraham lincoln lost the 1864 presidential electionthe piece wing of the party might advance or any negotiations which could result in confederate independence. a republican loss would have spelled the doom of emancipation in the united states which was a mere military measure in all law in 1864. indeed, in the 1864 presidential --ction, this event proved provides us with an example of how battlefield events profoundly shaped politics. wasoln himself convinced by the stalemates in the summer of 1864 that he would not be reelected and wrote of life memorandum -- a blind memorandum to that effect stating "this morning, as for seven days past, it seems exceedingly probable that this administration will not be reelected. the president then sealed the memo and had his cabinet sign it. yet, just as the summer campaigns brought lincoln despair, so did william sherman's win in atlanta and sheridan victory in october turned the tide of public opinion. lincoln credited his generals' a andliment with reelection, united states secured permanent em

going to school for a lot and he still made time for us to talk to us like really inspiring i mean abraham died alongside her five year old daughter sophia she was traveling to kenya from candidates or visit relatives. and peers at the sami was a professor at carleton university in ottawa the nigerian won an award for his writing on africa he's university called him a towering figure in african post colonial scholarship many of the day to u.n. staff traveling to an environment conference inside they observed a moment of silence for their colleagues thank you very much may god bless all of us thank you but the crash sites the recovery effort is ongoing investigators picking their way through the victims' belongings all that's left of so many lives lost. with me in the studio is my colleague command me from kenya thanks for joining us edith so this tragedy has hit africa but most importantly kenya. did not survive or that were killed in the crash or how a kenya is dealing with this tragedy i mean it's absolute shock and i will tell you yesterday when i received the news it's actually somebod

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abraham lincoln, thomas jefferson if you like him. james polk has his fan club. but for the most part, presidents of the 19th century are unmemorable by design. but things change in the 20th century when and because the united states for the first time has a full-time foreign policy. i've written about 19th century presidents. and when i write about a presidency, i sort of have this idea because i started writing history in the 20th century about dwight eisenhower's presidency. so there's go to be a lot on foreign policy. it's got to be a chapter on foreign policy. but there's not much of foreign policy. it's only in the 20th century when the united states has a full-time foreign policy and then the president has to take charge. the president is commander in chief of the armed forces and he is the de facto diplomatic chief of foreign policies. it's in the 20th century where the president takes center stage where it remains. and so the presidency rewarded people who had these big personalities, these people -- the kind of people who would args your attention. the

abraham lincoln. and abraham lincoln is perhaps the most famous what shall i say, humorist in the white house. and lincoln was known for and this is key and you'll see a connection here between lincoln and ronald reagan. lincoln told stories. he told jokes. but he realized that in politics when you have jokes, jokes often have a target. the person who they're being joked about or teased. and lincoln understood that in democratic politics where you're asking for votes, the only safe target of a joke is you yourself. if you target anybody else, well you're going to alienate them and their friends and people who feel an affinity towards them. if you tell a joke about yourself, the first thing happens is that you avoid that. and the second thing is, you make people think, he doesn't have a big ego. he can tell jokes about himself. it humanizes these presidents for people. and we see the beginning of a trend that would set in really in full in the 20th century whereby the 20th century, certainly by the sec

and for the abrahams and the isaacs and the jacobs and the sarahs and the rebeccas and the rachels and the christophers and peters, and the marys and the katherines and for every jesus, maria, mohamed. we will not be too late because being late is unacceptable for every human life in this dangerous world. now, a word about the palestinian conflict. people tell me this often, don't touch this issue. this is the third rail of israeli diplomacy. i'm told it's the burial ground of all the envoys who have come before me, none of whom regretly have much to show for a life in the field. people say why do you need this aggravation? you have your name carved in stone on the jerusalem embassy, take a victory lap it's not going to get any better than that. with all the trump administration has done for israel, why should we risk that goodwill by pursuing peace, seeking an end to a seemingly endless conflict? how can we? the answer, my friends, is how can we not? how can we kick the can down the road and lead this to our successors, sure it would be easier, but it doesn't make it right. can we lea

and respect -- we respect the fact that we have a room right down the hall, the lincoln room where abraham lincoln as a house member spent time and we can sit and talk in the same place that abraham incoln talked where he had discussions to end slavery that he was able to secure. we continue to fight. it was wonderful to see john lewis on the floor, true hero, not just a hero of this congress -- we had the honor to serve with sam johnson who was a great hero. spent seven years in the hanoi hilton. we have a true honor to serve with john lewis. whether we disagree sometimes on politics, to be able to sit and talk with somebody who truly lived some of the toughest history of our nation and has the scars to prove it. and yet, he still has love in his heart and exhibits that love and passion and we are honored to be able to celebrate that diversity and it's the diversity of thought that we should fight to achieve equality and opportunity for all men and women in this debate nation. and if the gentleman has anything else. mr. hoyer: i thank the gentleman for his comments. let me add, we can hon