so, it was a kind of nightmare for abraham lincoln. so, that relationship with joseph howard was not dissolved by that particular incident. he went on to be invited along for various trips that lincoln took to talk to generals and in to events at the white house. we get to may of 1864. now, this is a reelection year. there's a lot at stake. i mean, first of all, lincoln at this point, he's weary from the cares of the war. he says in the early part of the year, "i don't think i'm going to make it to the end of the war. this is ravaging me." so, he is filled with sorrow over how many people have died in the war and is very fearful that the union will not be successful. you also have the fact that there is real challengers to abraham lincoln for the presidency. and the bigger challenger is the democrat, george mcclellan. mcclellan was a darling of the union side early in the war when he he won the first few victories. they were not huge victories, but they were important in terms youetting the tone of, know, where the union was going. but

142 $1000000000.00 to be true to 2019 but we more coronavirus later on he secured this so-called abraham accords with some arab or talk or sees he's secured the moving of the us embassy to jerusalem something you strongly supports sour grapes for you on this look here deception achievement i'm glad that the emirates and before. went out of the closure to no it did to foam allies relationship with us and i hope that others will follow it positive development. of course it's not that we have peace it's not a major breakthrough we know these people for 25 years. and we have a very very. tense even relationship with them on many of enough but still it's good news to go see them away due to meet with us in public after the chief winters way of moving go from buffy buffet goals for television to children is also welcomed here but nothing can cover these major colos. defeat by the corner viable from one hand and the damage to economy which goes now about to well for 17 percent of g.d.p. and our grand gunned children will have to pay for weight in a future that i'm a joe did back in full. and no

let's start with abraham lincoln. actually when we're starting with abraham lincoln, i should also say let's start with understanding that i, like many historians, like abraham lincoln and think he's one of the greatest presidents of the united states. i like, most historians, also particularly don't like andrew johnson and think he's one of the worst presidents. united states, so i should at least state our biasses up front, but i think over the next hour you'll see why many historians revere lincoln and don't take as kindly to andrew johnson. to understand lincoln and his background with the constitution, there's a couple of things that informed his understanding of it. one was nationalism. lincoln from his earliest days was a nationalist, andy with don't have writings from him when he was 6 or 7 years old or a teenager talking about nationalism. we can get some sense of this, of how important nationalism was to him from a speech he gave after being elected president on his trip to washington, d.c. to be inaugurated

let's start with abraham lincoln.actually when we are starting with abraham lincoln, we should also say let's start with understanding that i like many historians, like abraham lincoln, i think he's one of the greatest presidents of the united states. i like most historians, i don't like andrew johnson, i think he is one of the worst presidents. so that should at least state the biases upfront. i think you will see why many historians revere lincoln and don't take as quietly to johnson. lincoln and his background with the constitution, there's a couple things that form the understanding. what was nationalism. lincoln from his earliest ace was a nationalist. and we don't have writings from him, maybe six or seven years old or a teenager talking about nationalism. we can get some sense of this, how important nationalism was to him. from a speech he gave, after being elected president on this trip to washington d.c. to be inaugurated. he told the grout, may i be pardoned if on this occasion that i mentioned way back at m

this is part one of a 2 part special looking into what trump so called abraham accord signed between the leaders of the united states israel the united arab emirates and bahrain mean for the future of the middle east the accords normalize relations between israel and the tube arab autocracies the 3rd and 4th arab countries to open diplomatic relations with israel to egypt and jordan the agreement is seen by u.s. president trump as the dawn of the new middle east and the beginning of a new era of peace but others see it as the building of a stronger front against iran and a potential end to any chance of a future for the palestinian people in wednesday's show i'll be speaking to the palestinian ambassador to the u.k. has a lot and later in this program we'll be hearing from the editor in chief of the jerusalem post jack of caps but 1st joining me now from tel aviv is the 10th prime minister of israel ehud barak who also served as defense minister for 27 to 2013 former presidents effects so much for coming on before we talk about anything i suppose we must talk about the lockdown in is

and having welcomed the pope, building the abrahamic house and calling this the abraham accords is a fitting name. >> abraham is the father of ishmael and isaac, and we're the descendents and it's a fitting name and the last time ishmael and isaac got together was to bury abraham. 4000 years ago. and instead of coming together for a death, it's nice to come for a birth in the region. david: we talked about your background, where did you grow up? >> i grew up in egypt. born and raised in egypt, like i said my mother is egyptian and finished high school there, in 1991, came here and went to school at georgetown. after georgetown finally moved to abu dhabi and started working in the government about 2000. i think the first time we met was probably around 16 years ago. david: right. >> we had the first meeting, and we had lunch was shaikh mohammed and i think what i wanted to say is, the middle east that you saw then is very different from the middle east we are talking about today, and the perfect reflection of that, or evidence of that is the three of us are sitting here doing an inter

let's start with abraham lincoln. actually when we're starting with abraham lincoln, i should d also say, let's start with understanding that i like many historians like abraham lincoln, i think he's one of the greatest presidents of the united states. i like most historians don't particularly like andrew johnson. i think he's one of the worst presidents of the united states. smoothly should states our by seas upfront. in the next few hours i think you will see why many historians revere lincoln. don't take as kindly to andrew johnson. understand lincoln and his background with the constitution. there are a couple of things that formed his understanding of it. one was nationalism. lincoln from his earliest days was a nationalist. we don't have writings from him. from when he was six or seven years old. talking about nationalists. we can get a sense of this. how important nationalism was. from the speech he gave after being elected president after his trip to washington d.c. to be integrated. he told the crowd, may i b

i did not actually know abraham lincoln. unlike you and gordon, i did not actually know abraham lincoln. [laughter] but i always felt he knew me. i felt a spirit with him. i am a lincolnphile because of that, and it is because of that humor that he was portrayed in many of those old black and white movies that went back. even mark, the adage you used was featured in a film about lincoln. i thought was also appropriate. it did show that earthiness but it was also that self-deprecation. about not being able to take on his lankiness and gangrenous. gordon, this goes to your point. after 40, every day he gets the face he deserves. no president was really defined by that face, their nose, the shape of hair on their face, that top that then abraham lincoln, and he used that to his advantage politically. he went along with it. he was portrayed as an angry, ugly baboon. a pt barnum figure. barnum at this museum and it had this museum and it featured oddities and weird people and they called lincoln a pt barnum baboon. he went along

abraham lincoln was my name i wrote my name it was the same. i wrote it here with proven speed which will be here for full street. let me correct the record for one thing. abraham lincoln, the gettysburg address, it was not fully received favorably. a chicago newspaper said it was dull and drab and childish and ash watery compared to another chicago paper, the chicago tribune who said after the 1948 campaign between truman so --ey, dewey winds, , so so much for chicago journalism. everett, the most prominent orator of the day, but he spoke all that time, so lincoln opened kids address by saying, ladies and gentlemen, it seems like four score and seven years ago when everett started that speech. what would lincoln say if he were here today? i think if lincoln were here while, iwould say, cannot believe that i am 211 years old. do not fact-check it. he was born in 1809. i can see the millennials fact checking now. great: it is been chatting with you. it has been a lot of fun. mark: thank you guys. announcer: this week we are looking back to this

they even named their battalion after abraham lincoln as a freedom fighter. that --d i do think that is the civil war my father -- that is his version of the civil war. that is his version of telling a story that recognizes lincoln for being a civil rights champion but it is also for left-wingers, what they are trying to do in the 1930's is to say, we are not like some crazy foreigners. we are not trying to impose a foreign ideology that comes from russia or something like that. we believe in indigenous americans radicalism. maybe it goes too far to say way,ln is radical but in a that is what they are trying to convey. they are interested in reclaiming american figures who were advancing democracy, basically. peters, he says fromse of moral exhaustion the total retreat of woodrow wilson, which woodrow wilson is another livestream. guy, i haveorld war my reservations about woodrow wilson. economicto the exhaustion and the questioning of war itself, the questioning of classism, all that coming together into this stew and as you pointed out, white people saying

abraham lincoln, lincoln put it that way around. he was feeling was that put brown to slavery, but he believed the only sure guarantee of all american freedoms. in his position was if emancipation should come that the constitution should collapse, then american freedom would be worse off than you had before. now of course, lincoln was also a practicing politician, he wanted to get back into politics. so he had to sign onto that agenda in order to be at all possible. >> now we would consider deeply problematic, equality, race mixing, and what's with these enslaved people if they were free. all the emergence in the debates on record. can you give us a little sense of that? >> for sure so first of all, i'll say that one of the appeals of abolition of -ism is one of the appeals of john brown is you don't bother with complexity. you don't ask yourself what's going to happen to the slaves after they are free? how are they gonna live question mark where they going to live? how did he can do that? you just say basically that's not my pop, t

abraham lincoln issued violence. he thought violence was counterproductive, was bad policy but was also going to be ineffective. abraham lincoln chose the path of moderation, the path of politics. he believed the issue of slavery could be effectively addressed only through constitutional means and he was as committed to emancipation as john brown was but he thought that brown was going to make matters worse by going into the realm of violence and armed resistance was the only way, thought lincoln, to bring slavery to a end in a way that preserved the union and gave the former slaves a chance at anything approaching equality was to do it through politics, through political means in the constitution. >> host: john brown take a different tack as you said. he gets radicalized in 1837 one a prominent pro-abolitionist was murdered by a mob, stand up in church and says he's going to change things, devote his life to this and he also comes up with a detailed plan for the league of gilead rights to reverse -- resist the fugit

presidency,he historians harold holzer, edna greene medford and david blight talked about the views of abraham lincoln and frederick douglass on emancipating those held in slavery. they track their evolution on the issue from early in their careers through the civil war. the new-york historical society hosts the event. louise: good morning, everyone and happy new year to everyone. welcome to the new york historical society. i am the president and ceo. as always i am thrilled to see , all of you here in our beautiful auditorium this morning. today's program, "frederick douglass, abraham lincoln and emancipation" clintonresident bill historical lecture. i would like to thank our great trustee and benefactor, bernard schwartz, for his generosity and making this event and many of our programs possible.

lincoln, because he wants to be a president in the model of abraham lincoln. but, at the same time, for roosevelt to kind of adamantly embrace the idea of racial justice is politically problematic. and it is problematic because roosevelt is a democrat. he relies on a whole contingent of southern white democrats in his party in order to pass new deal legislation. and for roosevelt to really kind of push the envelope on racial justice would alienate him from that large contingent of support. you have things like -- roosevelt would say, for example, abraham lincoln was not just the emancipator of slaves but those of heavy heart everywhere. which is, like, such a vague -- you know, i do not even know what that means. who doesn't have a heavy heart? right? [laughter] i think what he is really trying to do is he does not really want to press too heavily on the race issue. he wants to make lincoln somebody -- oh yeah, lincoln. for black people. he's for white people, too. and i think what you get out of that is the idea that white people can be slaves just as much as

shirley temple and abraham lincoln, she is sitting on abraham lincoln's lap. he's all folksy and whatever and he says, well, okay. of course the movie ends it's not lincoln freeing the slaves but it's lincoln freeing her father and the union soldier from prison. >> this lincoln is very lucky that his face did not melt from the lights in the studio. it's got wax kicked all over him. >> it looks pretty awful. >> do you show a film by the littlest rebel or do you show gone with the wind to your students? how do you deal with these kinds of -- some people would be deeply offended to have to watch. what's your take on that? >> i have had my students who watch both of those movies because i teach a class of regularly on the civil war and memory. you see what i do for that classes i will say, you know, there's all kinds of movies, i will give them a list of choices and say, you know, pick any of these movies and then we are going to come in and share our stories about what we watched in what we learned from those movies. i do find that quite a number watch the shirle

so why do i obsessively paint abraham lincoln?m painting the exact location of america's soul. -- that this nation under god, shall have a new birth of freedom, and the government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> thank you. [applause] >> before i begin the second part of my top, does anybody have any questions they would like to ask, or ... yeah? >> how many lincoln portraits have you painted? do you have a favorite? >> they are like my children. i don't put them for sale until i am really happy with them. i did not have a favorite until about two years ago. i painted a very large canvas. it is now in a building, you can see from the square of gettysburg, the corporation there bought the painting. i think that's one of my favorites because it was very fast, it's very free-flowing. i love the colors. i knew when to stop. so i'm very happy with that painting. how many paintings? probably close to 400 now. >> i forgot

abraham lincoln won a senate campaign and one failed term in congress. what do you make of the difference between political skills between the two without the requisite experience behind it? >> you know, i was reflecting on that this morning. i thought abraham lincoln would have a tough time today in the experience around. he did not fare well as a one term congressman, considers himself a failure and goes back to practicing law in springville. that is a tough one because lincoln's estimation grows in hindsight. one thing we fail to appreciate was how much criticism lincoln received during the war throughout the war from different camps obviously hated in many parts of the south but also deeply resented by democrats in the north for provoking a war that was unnecessary if you will, for ignoring overtures to peace. we consider lincoln a masterful politician. he remains the one people not just historians but leadership communication scholars, everyone takes from lincoln what they will but much of that is because we know the outcome of the story. >> setting

so it's called abraham's second chance. >> that was remarkable. and also the fact that clearly those of us watching from elsewhere think so that acute response but to think about what comes after of the survivors and the support that they will need to do well is a whole other aspect that we hadn't thought about. >> sometimes it is described in the book but i can say daniela that survival of a large number of our patients , is a our patients follow the patients that we get our care for through the ministry of health through those public authorities. so many survived ebola because of the ebola survivors. they started this program and as their ranks grew and as help was restored they were a powerhouse which social support her father had led to understand she was brain-dead and would not make it he didn't have the her to leave her and go home he had no money, he was far away just sitting there outside the hospital for days and days. so he was very grateful for abraham as well. >> and even as he lost members of his family other people didn't have the m

abraham lincoln stayed in his home city of springfield, illinois.ow visible was he during this period? susan: he is visible locally, for sure. he takes visitors. a lot of well-wishers as well, but the interesting thing is this is where lincoln is scrutinized. in other words, i would say that for a long time civil war scholars really look at this period and thought why did lincoln not do more? why did he not reach out more, placate the south? he has come to be described as deploying a masterly inactivity. in other words, he is careful about what he says, he does speak, but he does not speak about slavery and what he repeatedly says is, "my record stands for itself." what he means is that on many issues he is open to hearing suggestions. he wants to halt the momentum of secession but there is one issue on which he is inflexible and that is the founding principle of the party that elected him. congress has not just the right but the obligation to forbid slavery from spreading into the territories. host: all eyes were on his cabinet selections during th

a few weeks later south carolina seceded over the election of abraham lincoln. we know how that's going to come out too but we're still going to end up talking about it. so we elected him today, the least we can do is secede next time so we'll see you next time. >>> you're watching american history tv, every weekend on c-span3, explore our nation's past, c-span3, created by america's cable television companies as a public service, and brought to you today by your television provider. >> historian susan schulten, the 1860 transition between james buchanan and abraham lincoln is described by various historians as contentious, rough, dangerous and even the worst in history. what made it so? >> i think on the face of it what you have to recognize is this is by far the most consequential election and transition in american history. the central issue, of course, is that several southern states did not recognize the election of abraham lincoln has legitimate. they considered him a sectional president for the fact that by and large his support came from non-slave states

abraham lincoln stayed in his home city of springfield, illinois. visible was he during this period? >> he's visible locally for sure and he takes visitors. you can imagine the number of requests for patronage or staffing or jobsary favors and things like that and a lot of well wishers, as well and the interesting thing is this is where lincoln is scrutinized. in other words, i would say that for a long time civil war scholars really looked at this period and thought why didn't lincoln do more? why didn't he reach out more? why didn't he placate the deep south more? and he's come to be described as deploying a kind of masterly inactivity. in other words, he's very careful about what he says he does speak and he doesn't speak about slavery and my record stands for itself and what that means on many issues he is open to hearing suggestions. he wants to halt the momentum of secession, but there is one issue on which he is absolutely inflexible and that is the founding principle of the party that elected him. congress has not just the right, but the obl

next, on the presidency, a historian talks about the views of abraham lincoln and frederick douglassn emancipating those held in slavery. they track early in the career through the civil war. >> good morning, everyone. happy new year to everyone. welcome to the neurotic historical society. i am president and ceo. i am thrilled to see all of you here in our beautiful auditorium this morning. is "frederickm douglass, abraham lincoln and emancipation," is the president bill clinton historical lecture. i would like to thank our great trustee and benefactor, bernard schwartz, for his generosity and making this event and many of our public programs possible. [applause] i would also like to recognize and thank one of our trustees who has joined us today, david blight. one of our panelists. i would take this opportunity to say how proud we are to count david among our trustees at new york historical. i want to recognize laura washington and mercedes franklin, who are cochairs of our frederick douglass counsel. of course, welcome all members who have joined up today. dachshund joined us -- jo

lincoln association, the abraham lincoln institute, the ulysses s. grant association and the scholars advisory group of president lincoln's cottage. dr. medford is the author and editor of several books. harold holzer, our moderator this morning is jonathan simpson director of the public policy institute and hunter college. he previously served as chairman of the abraham lincoln bicentennial foundation and cochair at the lincoln bicentennial commission, appointed by president bill clinton. he is the author of numerous books. his most recent, "monument man, the life and art of daniel chester french." he served as chief historian through 2009 and 2010 in new york. his honors include the national humanities medal, presented to him in 2008 by president george w. bush. now as i yield the floor to our speakers, i ask as always that anything that makes noise, like a cell phone is switched off. and now please join me in welcoming our speakers this morning. thank you. [applause] harold: thank you. it is wonderful to be at the historical society, particularly

he's quite critical of this idolizing, almost deifying of abraham lincoln. on the other hand, the lincoln memorial has become a very important location, not just because it is raised up on a podium with a great view of the mall, but also because of its association with lincoln and the emancipation proclamation. and so we first saw marion anderson, a black opera singer who saying on the steps of the memorial in 1939, and now we see martin luther king in 1963 speaking at the march on washington for jobs and freedom. he is assembled before the thousands of people assembled. and now that spot has been marked by an inscription in the step exactly where he stood. now, if you have not seen it, it's a little hard to find because it's simply an inscription in the pavement, and sometimes if you are there at the lincoln, you will see tour guides squirting water on the step. what they are trying to do is put water into the inscription so that you can actually see, i have a dream. i think it should be more prominent, but the park service was very concerned for historic p

course, is issue, of that several southern states did not recognize the election of abraham lincoln asegitimate. it considered him a sectional president for the fact that by and large to support came from non-slave states and no sooner had he been elected that south carolina makes good on its promise to proceed toward seceding from the union on the grounds that the election did not represent its interest. host: let's set the stage for the transition. james buchanan had announced that he would be a one term regulart, but we did a presidential leadership survey and james buchanan always falls at the bottom of the list as the worst leader in american presidential history. how would you characterize his leadership skills and how we conducted his administration and how he left the country as it moved toward the election? susan: it does seem to be the way historians assess him in large part because the next thing we know is the civil war. little bit like a categorical characterization of him. you are right that his administration came under a lot of criticism. he was fairly sympathetic to th

history. 1861, between james buchanan and abraham lincoln. herbert 33, between hoover and franklin roosevelt. >> several southern states did the election of abraham lincoln as legitimate. sectional ered him a president for the fact by and from -- support came on south carolina makes good its promise to proceed toward as union. seeding from the > -- is he seeding from the union. >> he had no choice. lost the ar he election. he never conceded the substance of the argument. he continued to believe that the as roosevelt framed it during the campaign, and began o work towards it after the election, represented a fundamental threat toward the american way of life. himself to d preventing roosevelt from being able to enact it. > contentious presidential transitions, sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span's

in 1861 between james buchanan and abraham lincoln. and in 1933 between herbert hoover and franklin roosevelt. with historians susan shelton and eric. dideveral southern states not recognize the election of abraham lincoln as legitimate. a sectionalred him president because his support came from non-slave states. south carolina makes good on its promise to proceed towards seceding from the union. hoover seceded the election on election day. he had no choice given the resounding nation -- nature of the vote. was clear he lost the election. but he never conceded the substance of the argument. he continued to believe that the new deal, as roosevelt framed it, and began to work towards it after the election, represented fundamental threats was the american way of life. he devoted himself to preventing roosevelt from being able to an active. contentious presidential transition tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span's q&a. c-span's washington journal. every day we take your calls live on the air on the news of the day. and we discuss policy

of the probable magazine marc abrahams joins me now. marc abrahams to founder of the ig nobel prize editor of the angels of improbable research magazine hi great to see you again strange times these are with me today tell me they are quite our love your hat. i've heard you say that the problem with science in general is that it takes itself too seriously and i agree that science shouldn't be all about cancer or atomic research but these things strange times but seriously looking at how things turned out this year don't you think that there is another problem which is we haven't taken science seriously enough. yes i agree with you on both counts the problem with science and everything else is people take it too seriously not seriously enough problem is that every day we hear about things that seem completely foolish and crazy and many of them are foolish and crazy but some of those will turn out to be real and important and it's difficult to tell when you 1st hear about something what it means. you know scientists talented humor is our w

. >> father abraham was in the. a lot of nicknames for him. >> running all the way through the book, being left out, this cultural difference between puritans and you set this up as well as the culture of florence as well as the way people at the time were in terms of the book, can you tell us about that? >> a lot of people back then really thought the civil war was about the age-old difference between new england puritans, new england early on had been settled by a generation of puritans escaping is occasion in england and on one hand and the cavaliers who were the supporters of royalty in england and when they came to power, they were fleeing to america and settled in the south charles sumner to a lot of other people, basically a fight between new england, which included anti- slavery you and the cavalier which believed in hierarchy and institutions including the institution of slavery. lincoln was aware puritans cavalier but someone at the time said the great thing about president lincoln, he combines the puritan

tonight a conversation with h w brands about the emancipator john brown and abraham lincoln the struggle for american freedom there is a link in the chat to purchase the book we can also visit the link provided at the history center website. please submit your questions and the q&a feature at the bottom of the screen. chair the history university of texas at austin authoring 30 books on us history among them the first americans in the biography with this biography when he put up with supplies my pleasure. >> abraham lincoln and john brown and with these famous american martyrs by writing about them together? put them in teaching american history going on 40 years it is questions almost moral questions and there is a moral question i work here and then the question is it is a timeless question of any republic and that is what does the good person do when he or she is convinced the government is involved in something that is wrong or even downright evil? and i grew up in the sixties and in the seventies and then that was the vietnam war do you march? to throw molotov cocktails? would you d

abraham lincoln, lincoln put the other way around. not that he was any less opposed than brown to slavery but he believed the constitution was the only sure guarantee of all american freedoms, indisposition was emancipation should come but the constitution should collapse, then america's freedoms would be generally worse off than they were before. of course lincoln was also a practicing politician or you want to get back into politics so we had to sign onto that edge and an order to be at all plausible. >> difficult to cover some of this complex and we would consider deeply problematic views on race, about equality, race mixing and what to do with all of the enslaved people if they were freed, all of this emerges in the debates on record. can you give us a sense of that? >> sure. so first of all i will say one of the appeals of abolitionism, one of the appeals of john brown is you don't bother with the complexities of the issue. you to ask yourself what's going to happen to these slaves after they are free? how are they going to live?

it talks a lot about what goes on with abraham lincoln and the press. now, it is a little bit of a different version of him than we normally are used to, because i think that everyone came up with the idea that abraham lincoln was this kind of simple illinois lawyer who was, just sort of a man of the people who was carried

to tell abraham lincoln what was what.ell you this now because i don't think there is anybody in history who has come off well in later life or history after having a quarrel with abraham lincoln. it's not a thing anyone has ever done and come off well in the end. president lincoln ultimately fired general fremont, gave him a new assignment, then fired him again. fremont in later years after the war lost his fortune in bad railroad investments, was near poverty. even though he was still very famous. he and his wife had to support themselves through his wife's writing in part. she had to help support him in their later lives. they were scraping by. his reputation had completely cratered by the end of his life. to the point where even though he was very popular, even though he had helped to create the republican party, there were republicans who supported him in 1856 who said, well, he was a good nominee, but thank god he was never president. he turned out to have a terrible character. that's what they would say of him. susa

why not abraham lincoln? >> that's a good question. he didn't like the name abe, he didn't like when people called him abe yet, i wouldn't have been elected without the image of honest abe or uncle abe or old abe. he knew that in 1860, that's really-- he became beloved among the people as abe. so, it kind of feeds into my whole idea, in the book, about the way he identified with average americans and the way they saw him and loved him. and so that-- the people around him knew that he only wanted to be called lincoln. not even mr. president or abraham or anything like that. he signed himself a. lincoln as though he was kind of-- it's a tossup what you call. so he signed his name a. lincoln, but abe was his identification with the common person back then. >> honest abe or father abraham, right? >> father abraham, yeah, that was another one, but there were a lot of nicknames for him. >> right. >> so, yeah. >> all right. so, one of the things that runs all the way through the book, i hadn't thought too much about, is that the cultural diff

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in 1861, between james buchanan and abraham lincoln. and in 1933 between herbert hoover and franklin roosevelt. >> several southern states did not recognize the election of abraham lincoln as legitimate. they considered him a sectional president for the fact that by and large his support came from nonslave states. so it no sooner than he had been elected that south carolina made good on its promise towards seceding from the union. >> hoover, on the election date, had no choice given the resounding nature of the vote and the way it was reported and clear he lost the electionment he never conceded the substance of the argument. he continued to believe that the new deal as roosevelt framed it during the campaign and began to work towards it after the election represented a fundamental threat toward the american way of life so he devoted himself to preventing roosevelt from being able to enact it. >> contentious presidential transition, sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern. on c-span's "q&a." >> the federal agency that watches over the nation'

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maybe abraham lincoln in 1860, but you tell me. >> i think you're right about maybe abraham lincoln in 1860. first of all, the transition period then was from november until march, and during that period of time seven states seceded from the union. nothing was done by buchanan to help them have any kind of sanction. he comes in and said those first 90 days he wasn't even thought he could live through it, there was such anxiety. essentially what happens with abraham lincoln is that the south loses the election. the democrats lose. the republicans win and because they lose they secede. and he said this is when popular government will be an absurdity that's an extreme version and it took a war with 600,000 people to be killed to solve that and it took an abraham lincoln. we've faced a situation before where there was an illegitimacy of an election and it led to a succession of a union. we're not seeing that right now. and i just still have a feeling and maybe it's my optimistic temperament that when the power is gone, and it will still be out there as a potential run for 2024, it's not th

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before, it was a time when abraham lincoln talked in his voice, and teddy roosevelt also had a voice. they weren't speeches that have the dramatic cadence of john f. kennedy or ronald reagan. judge a president, not just one thing, all thing. miriam,ry him -- democrats line. caller: i'm calling about trump's legacy. how much does he owe russia, saudi arabia, and turkey, although strips he took to foreign countries? [laughter] i don't know, i have my own finding. host: you can contrast president reagan's relationship with the press versus president trump's relationship with the press. guest: i just wrote a piece on this with "the washington approach to the press, he knew they were important, and the national press was different in the 1980's than it is today. nbc, and cbs.bc, you only had certain newspapers. there was no internet, no cable-tv. there was cable in philadelphia and new york, that's it. there was no widespread media that we have today to get your message out many other ways besides the traditional media. they failed in fighting with the national media so they were going to