♪ >> i'll say abraham lincoln. >> abraham lincoln. >> he was easily the most popular, naming the partye old dude with the beard and hat a little more daunting. >> what party did abraham lincoln belong to? >> the wigs? >> i'll say -- i'm not sure. >> back then i believe he was republican. but that was nominally a republican. >> well, she's basically right. sean: namnally? very informationive. joining me is the creator of that video, steven crowd he were. i don't even know what to say. steve, this is supposed to be one of the most prestigious colleges in the country, indicative of all the students there? >> yeah, i mean, that's what we're hearing, that it's the number one public university in the country, and that's why i wanted to go there, just to see exactly what they were learning. sean: i've been doing these man on the street interviews on radio and here on "hannity" for years now, and do you know how many people cannot name who the vice president is? and these are people going to college. what should we glean from that? >> well, the truth is that college isn't so much about learnin

abraham lincoln wasn't eve on the ballot. that is only one of the paradoxes of what became the mostmportant city of the flower south. another came when this man who opposed secession with ected yor. four times during the war. there is another paradox of what became known as a citadel of e confederacy. slavery have only a small place in it. don't get me wrong. if a man got rich in atlanta at, he bought land and he bought slaves. still, atlanta was different from any places in the south of. railroad town was an industrial center. skilled labor was very valuable and in high demand. many slaveholders actually trained their slaves in crafts in order to hire out their time to factories or industrial shops and in some cases they even allowed the bondsmen to rent their labor in return for which they only asked that the bonds men pay a rent, a monthly fee, and was able to ke the rest of whatever he earned. in oer words, you might ba slave, but you could still go to a job like almost anyone else, except as a slave, it was illegal for y

of all dates, abraham lincoln gave this speech on 9/11, 1858. a reminder of the timeless truth and significance of these words, and i consider it a duty to work for the accomplishment of these values and principles in the world of today and tomorrow. therefore, i was pleased to take on the responsibilities as leader of the world's strongest military alliance, an alliance that is not just military but built on shared political values. of course, taking the job was the easy part. making this all happen is slightly more complicated. meeting the security challenges we face today will take all 28 members of this alliance standing together and pulling together in the same direction, and it is my job to help make sure we do. as nato secretary-general, i have to straddle the atlantic with 1 foot in europe and one in north america, and when they come together, i am more comfortable when they drift apart, i am the first to feel the pain. and i must say up front, i am a little concerned about the doubts i hear these days in the united states about nato. so

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abraham lincoln was not even on the ballot. and that is only one of the paradoxes of what becamehe most important city of the lower self. other came when this man who opposed secession was elected mayor. four times during e war. there is another paradox of what became known as the fidel ofhe kemp better see. avery had only a small place in that. don't get me wrong, it's a man got rich in atlanta he bought land and the bought slaves. still,tlanta was different from many places in the self. there railroad town was an industrial center. skilled labor was very valuable in high demand. manylaveholders actually trained their slaves in crafts in order to hire out their time to factories or industrial shops and in some cases, they en allod the bondsman to rent their labor in return for which they only ask that the bondsman pay rent, a monthly fee and was then able to keep the rest of whatever he earned. in otheror, you might be a slave, but you could still go to a job like alst anyonelse, except as a slave, it was illegal for you to ha

abraham lincoln made him one of those. and of course you say that the power, not just the sort of ornamental beauty of fine speaking but the ability to actually be persuasive as a speaker was something which seemed to be absolutely sort of discounted in the world of campaign spin and takedown mutual character assassination, but obama sort of delivered that. i mean, here the gracious speech of all campaign was on march 18, wasn't it, in the midst of jeremiah wright. that still remains one of the great speeches that, you know, has ever been composed in the history of american politics, and i thought that morning, we were filming in monticello and with i heard it, i thought he's going down if flames. hillary will be the nominee, because this was the act of the most extraordinarily dead on frontal candor, explaining to america, the roots of black rage in the church form as at the took, as well as a duty to white rage, but actually america took it, it was a credit to the sophistication of the electorate, really, to -- its willi

we will stand united for, as abraham lincoln put it, a house divided against itself cannot stand. the united states will continue to be the ultimate guarantor of security and peace in europe. america's allies in nato will remain europe's closest friends , your most reliable partners, your brothers in arms. and nato will remain the home but in which now almost 1 billion people are safe and secure. thank you very much. [applause] >> mr. secretary general, thank you for making a truly important statement on nato, afghanistan, and the u.s. relationship with afghanistan, and choosing the atlantic council for the place to do it. i thank you for the praise of the atlantic council after center hagel's opening remarks. -- after senate for hagel's opening remarks. he quoted lincoln. "[unintelligible] the occasion is piled high. we must rise to the occasion. so the cases new and we must act anew. anyway, you have been saying that we must disenthrall ourselves. here's my question. i think we're setting your all languages that things will have to change. do you agree with the general's report?

well, you have two letters of abraham lincoln to general halleck. one is may 1862. the other is october 1862. so, it's wartime. it's to a major general. it's talking about the war. it has great content. the letters are totally in lincoln's hand, which is a benefit. the signature is wonderful. you were talking about reading the letters. and tell me what you got out of that. well, the first thing i was impressed with is that lincoln is talking about promoting some officers in the army, and he's asking general halleck to promote them, but he... he's so almost apologetic. in one of them, he says he's foresworn doing anything about this, but now he's getting pressure from the missouri representatives in congress. and so, like he doesn't want to interfere with general halleck. i don't think this kind of politeness would happen today. (laughs): i would maybe agree with you on that. (laughs) and then, in the second letter, he brings this matter up again, but he's talking about general rousseau and, uh, colonel pope, and saying, "look, we've had tremendous losses." i mean, th

the superintendent of the gettiesburg public system designed a plan from abraham lincoln who will be coming to make an address. look, what is the most tortured thing i can imagine. it sounds like east germany trying to force restrictions on people leaving the eastern sector to go to the western sector. i think it is perfectly appropriate for parents to say, i don't want my child to hear that. i would rather keep them out or put them in a different school that day, but this is completely out of control in my judgment. and it is not -- it is not partisan. i mean when i was a student or when my children were in school if it had been dwight eisenhower or john kennedy or bill clinton or ronald reagan or george bush the idea of hearing a president of the united states saying we should study hard and that's how we advance. we all need to get in on this i think it is an appropriate message. >> mayor giuliani you ran for president. one of the things i covered about president bush is the lack of respect for his presidency. does that trouble you? >> yes, it does. tom is right, but the differenc

where several of the veterans especially their headstones and entire empirical was desecrated and abraham lincoln national cemetery which is in my district we worked out where we could offer them free free burial so that is something that is very wonderful that we were able to do for the veterans. we were able to say rest in peace truly free means delete commands rest in peace. however i am concerned about something that came up with the fact of this outsourcing of jobs. can you explain what is happening with outsourcing of our jobs? are they truly being taken away from veterans and going to other companies and not our veterans? >> what me explain what we've done. as we open new national cemetery is we keep certain jobs and house, the internments, the representative work, and we do the headstone and mowing, we contract that. we have increased our system, up to 1600 so we are doing in housework and some contract. same thing at some of the closed cemeteries where it is more difficult to get employment. it the gentleman spoke about south florida it actually took two years to staff that cemetery with

. >> abraham lincoln. >> abe lincoln. >> abe lincoln was easily the most popular.g the party of the old dude with the bearded hat, a little more daunting. >> which party did abe lincoln belong to? >> the wigs. >> i'll say -- yeah, i'm not sure. >> back then, they were republicans, but nominally a republican. >> well, she's basically right. it was a subjective question, so we decided to ask a a more straightforward one. >> who do you think caused the great depression? >> oh, that's an interesting question. what caused the great depression? wow. um -- >> the great depression? i don't know. i guess, like the stock market crashed. the great depression? >> it was like black friday, right? >> it was a black day. glenn: so nobody answered correctly with the federal reserve, but we thought we would let them take a stab at how it was fixed. >> f.d.r. and his group. they did public works or his administration or something like that. >> f.d.r.? >> i don't think i know. >> gee, you can't even give these folks the right answer. in all fairness, that stuff happened a long time a

well, you have two letters of abraham lincoln to general halleck. one is may 1862. the other is october 1862. so, it's wartime. it's to a major general. it's talking about the war. it has great content. the letters are totally in lincoln's hand, which is a benefit. the signature is wonderful. you were talking about reading the letters. and tell me what you got out of that. well, the first thing i was impressed with is that lincoln is talking about promoting some officers in the army, and he's asking general halleck to promote them, but he... he's so almost apologetic. in one of them, he says he's foresworn doing anything about this, but now he's getting pressure from the missouri representatives in congress. and so, like he doesn't want to interfere with general halleck. i don't think this kind of politeness would happen today. (laughs): i would maybe agree with you on that. (laughs) and then, in the second letter, he brings this matter up again, but he's talking about general rousseau and, uh, colonel pope, and saying, "look, we've had tremendous losses." i mean, th

helen thomas was there when you were there and dana was there 30 months ago and abraham lincoln was there. almost. but not quite. did you ever have a moment in the podium when you thought oh, my gosh is there anyone exit door here? you asked earlier about losing your temper. i think in some ways i didn't have the right temperament to be the press secretary because i don't suffer fools very easily and sometimes you get the feeling that there are fools out there. i worked with helen in the upi . i worked with her when i was white house correspondant and i faced her when i was the press secretary and you know, the clip that you showed illustrates something that has happened. i told you about my great mentor who said no one cares what you think as a reporter. but that was helen. she was not asking a question to get an answer to get facts and write a story. she was expressing an opinion and i disagree with that. i yell back at the screen all of the time . i see reporters doing that. >> dan athere is a perception of how did you pick this person or that one. is there eye protocol that the press

the people -- they are afraid of the abraham lincoln democracy. democracy is the government by the people, of the people, for the people. this is not the government of the elite, and then when the people step out into the streets, they are shot down. that is what happened in honduras, and venezuela. and in the dominican republic. why were the people of latin america at and the caribbean is not allowed to build their own future? they were not. this is our century, and we are going to build our own pathway and nobody -- nobody can stop us. imperialism must be over. it has to stop. i was asking lula, what would happen in latin america, today? what if the governments of latin america, what would this be like, if latin america -- if the americans had not imposed their model, with firepower and blood, if they had not turned out the lights of the dawn. when i was born in 1954, fidel castro was in jail. guatemala was being invaded. president guzman and the bay of pigs. that was a failure. and then, revolutionary cuba. it was dignified, but blockaded. obam

the celebrated abraham lincoln, george washington, groundhog's day, mental-health month, valentine'sy, and this was just one of those skit. the skit was then performed again about one month later in march, when there was a women's history event. the students then reprice the step for a guest, -- we prized -- did the skit for a guest. apparently, someone had seen it prior to its removal and make a copy and posted it on youtube. -- and made a copy. greta: what is the reaction in the community to the lyrics of this song? our people backing up the school because the lyrics were sent home, and nobody objected? or are they objecting? >> we are getting mixed results. the news that the lyrics were sent home is just now breaking. that was posted on the website this afternoon, so this is just now breaking, and the information is just now coming out about what actually transpired. so far, from the story that we reported on the front page of our website and the newspaper, the reaction is mixed. folks are understanding that this happened at a time in february, at a much different time when people

maybe you hear what's people had to say about abraham lincoln or f.d.r.. we can be civil to each other. we can have a civil argument. we can maintain civility. i have the utmost respect for the c.i.a. i have said consistently i want to look forward and not backward. i have absolute respect and have reliance upon a robust c.i.a. and i've said before i want to look forward and not backwards on this issue. all of us are americans who love this country. we're all patriots. we're all americans. everybody is a patriot. each of us are americans. the easiest way to get on television now is to be really rude. the easiest way to get 15 minutes of fame it so be rude to member. the easiest way to get 15 minutes on the news or your 15 minutes of name is to be rude. just say something rude and outrageous. sean: all right. joning us now from washington is the author of the brand-new book "what americans really want, really" pollster frank lutz. he's reading a script, he just memorized the script this time. he didn't need the teleprompter, he memorized it. >> that's incr

gosh, we don't even glorify abraham lincoln and george washington anymore.re is a great book i read years ago called "the gift of fear." the first chapter is how we're all given the gift of fear, and they talk about how it's important not to dismiss that fear, and they talk about dogs and how everybody -- you know, there is an incident and some neighbors rob them or something, and the person always says, you know what, my dog, i should have been listening to my dog, you know. he was yip, yip, yip and barking every time he came over, he just hated him, like the dog has some super extra sense that you don't have. you know what it is? it is not that the dog has some special power of seeing bad guys -- i should have listened to my dog! no, you shouldn't have listened to your dog. you should have listened to your gut. your dog is missing something that you have, and that the second-guess. no, no, he can't be a bad guy. no, that can't be. listen to your gut. it was a gift, the gift of fear. right now, your dog would be watching that video going yip, yip, yip. i'm

reminiscent of an earlier photo made in 1874 in the same location, of all the senators celebrating abraham lincoln'sthday, of his birth anniversary. >> is that the photo that i have right here? >> yes, it is. the senators saw that picture and said that we have to recreate that. we had to do that for the bicentennial of congress. we have to get all the senators on the capitol steps to do what they did in 1874. >> have you ever look at the change in the dress? >> yes. we have photos of almost every person who has ever served in the senate, all 190011 people. it tells you a lot about dress types. >> is available on the website qui? >> yes. >> who is this? >> that is president truman. he said they were the happiest years of his life when he was the united states senator. there he is, at the peak of his days in the senate. >> the next series of photos, it seems like i have seen a lot of it. there were taken by in new york times photographer, george stanthames. >> there are a series of them. lyndon johnson is trying to convince foreign relations coordinator in an indirect way. lbj engineered a move to get

told us -- excuse me, 146 years ago abraham lynn told us what that debt -- lincoln told us whatd it is for us to be dedicated to the great task remaining before us. that from these honored dead and from the honored living we take increased devotion to that course for which they gave the last full measure of devotion. that we here are highly resolved that these dead and our veterans will not have served and died in vain. that this nation under god shall have a new birth of freedom. and that know what president lincoln did not say. he did not say government of the white house by the white house, for the white house. he did not say government of the courts by the courts and for the courts. and he most certainly did not say government of the congress by the congress and for the congress. what did he say? government of the people, by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth. that is our task. god bless us and god bless america. [cheers and applause] >> and now, here's national public policy analyst president and ceo of freedomworks matt kibbe. how are you guys do

abraham lincoln said people are as happy as they chose to be. you must choose to be happy because you ultimately make the choice. life is going to throw you curve ball and give you difficult situations but encouraging you to make a decision to be happy. don't let the problems and the situations keep you from making that decision. you must maintain a mind set and hold on to your joy. maya angelou says if there is something in your life change it but if you can not change it, change your attitude. i'm telling you, folks, you can choose to be happy. i encourage you to try it today. you'll see it has a profound impact on your day. this is willie jolly. visit my website at willie jolly.com for flee motivation and make each and every minute count and make this a great day. >>> montgomery county council is meeting today to decide the future of sligo golf course. >>> and a proposed man on indoor tanning to stop anyone under 18 from using a tanning bed and children from the international burn camp will visit fedex field today to hang out with rookie line

. >> abraham lincoln had it, roosevelt, reagan had it is not the worst thing. i will plead absolutely guilty to the charge in fact, i just think anybody. [laughter] >> we have one more short question. please wait for the microphone. >> my tendency not to say anything but i rise now because strauss has brightened brought into the conversation and improperly he had nothing to do with the buckley conservatism you're talking about. he is connected somewhat with the neo-conservative because he turned out not to be a conservative. he did communique wants with buckley i imagine you have com across. >> actually yes. >> 1952 when his graduate students at that time asked me to take to him the local precinct for our have mentioned this once before i is worth repeating so he could register to vote for the first time. >> that's right. and also in 56. professor burns what i think i said is irving kristol was a great admirer of strauss. you will see that clearly spelled out in the than negative book. yes. but absolutely. that is one reason i did not want to go down that path.

and when abraham lincoln was there 150 years ago. almost. not quite, but almost.er have a moment at the podium in which you just thought, oh, my gosh, what, is there an exit door here? >> well, you asked earlier about losing your temper. i think in some ways i didn't have the right temperament to be the press secretary because i don't suffer fools very easily and sometime you get the feeling that there are some fools out there. i worked with helen at the upi. i worked with her when i was white house correspondent and then i faced her when i was the press secretary and now the clip that you showed illustrates something that's happened. i told you earlier about my drat mentor who said nobody cares what you think as a reporter, but that was helen, she wasn't asking a question to get an answer, to get the facts, to write a story. she was expressing an opinion and i just disagree with that. i sit at home and watch tv and yell at the screen all the time when i see reporters doing that. >> mike: dana, i want to ask you, there's a perception how did you pick this person o

i remind you throughout history, whether it's harry truman or abraham lincoln, leaders have had to make tough choices. and history has judged them very kindly. >> have you spoken to the president directly about your concerns? >> yesterday. >> what do you say to him? >> in iraq, the maliki government was certainly failing. this, this election in afghanistan was corrupt. there's corruption from the cop on the beat to the president's brother, karzai's brother. and that issue has to address if we're going to succeed. but we're not going to have a chance to succeed if we withdraw. we got the status quo. which is not succeed wrg we can implement this whole strategy, which is an old strategy called counterinsurgency. >> you and the president -- >> i half measured this. not do justice. time is important. casualties will go up. >> are you concerned that the president is going to choose a half-measure? or do you see the possibility the meeting of minds on this? >> i'm very hopeful that the president will make the right decision which is to commit the necessary troops and again, as much as i respe

picture of american -- abraham lincoln on his mantl and told everyone what a great and good man our president was. this was in southern mississippi in the heat of wartime. when these crack regiments were dispatched to deal with him and his allies and other neighboring smities, they arrested hawkins, which is how they -- take care this handmade american flag from the body of hawkins's life and hid it under her dress and a report is filed about raiding the hawkins bill. the same is true going to jones nunty next where a fire fight the rockets with his men, the confederates that the worst of it. they melted back into the swamps and a confederate officer wrote a report saying we want them st, they are gone. with a month, newton knight would be launching another raid against the confederacy theyallation, they free local slaves, killed or ran off every ijnfederate officer in jones county. it has been said that jones county formally seceded from the confederacy by the end of the war. there's no evidence that they filed a political notice that they were officially seceding from the confederacy. newto

the one exception was abraham lincoln. ordered during the civil war early on by the cheese -- by the chief justice to release imprisoned under habeas corpus and he refused. that is one example -- to release a prisoner under habeas corpus and he refused. that is one example. host: here is a tweed. çguest: dhs did not do that muh with the patriot act. it was more directed to the department of justice and intelligence agencies. another area where there is a lot of misunderstanding, and i will often ask people, what is the exact part of the patriot that you object to and i find that people have a hard time articulating it because they do not have a particular provision in mind. most of what the pitch redact dealt with was sharing information, making sure we did not have -- with the patriot act dealt with was sharing information, making sure we did not have a repeat of 9/11. the other major element of the page redact was upgrading for technological change. there were certain things you do with telephones you could not do with

member of the republican party and i remember people like, you know, chuck percy in illinois or abraham lincolnd republican. that there are some core values that historically have been important to the republican party but just have not been observed over the last several years. >> that was then candidate barack obama last october, just five days before he was elected president, refusing to take the bait from me, right? overtly declaring his disinterest in talking about ideology in america. the really big picture of political disagreement that exists among american, the philosophical divide that separates the american right from the american left. since then in his acceptance speech the night of the election, in his inaugural, in his not exactly state of the union address, in his press conferences and his town hall meetings, even in his legislative strategy as president, president obama has kept to that same course, calling for bipartisanship time and again, even as it's become clear that the hand he is reaching for across the aisle is actually a closed fist. speaking charitably of individual r

abraham lincoln polarizing period. then we have had a high polarizing period, i think we have bifurcateded where a lot of the country has lost some of the polarizing feel but there are minorities on each side who are watching fox or msnbc who are still in that high polarizing mode and they --. >> lehrer: quickly before we go. what do you make of paul evans speech on thex floor of the senate about afghanistan and let's hold off sending more troops. >> i think it reflects, first of all, not to be cynical, but the political reality that you are not going to have a battle over troop numbers in afghanistan at a time when you are trying to pass health care. i think that's -- i think that's the administration does to the want the request to be made formally. so by general mcchrystal for increased numbers, according to my own reporting. secondly, mr. evan is an enormously respected man. he hasn't given to cheap shots, he is a very serious legislator. when he says reflects not only his own judgement which is respect, but i thi

public system said today they have devised a plan for students to be shielded from president abraham lincoln who will be coming to make an address. look, that is the most tortured thing i can possibly imagine, what we just read there. it sounds like east germany trying to force restrictions on people leaving the eastern sector to go to the western sector. i think it is perfectly appropriate for parents to say, i don't want my child to hear that. i would rather keep them out or put them in a different school that day, but this is completely out of control in my judgment. and it is not -- it is not partisan. i mean, when i was a student or when my children were in school, if it had been dwight eisenhower or john kennedy or bill clinton or ronald reagan or george bush, the idea of hearing a president of the united states saying, we should study hard and that's how we advance. we all need to get in on this, i think it is an appropriate message. >> mayor giuliani, you ran for president. one of the things i covered about president bush is the lack of respect for the institution of the presidency.

sort of like abraham lincoln only less exalted. the myth i can ex is pans interested me and when you're dealing with myth, you don't have to do research, saw don't have to worry about the details. >> charlie: but here is what i don't understand. i don't understand why you're not curious to do that. i know you don't need to do that, but is it counter productive to know too much? >> absolutely. i've known many writers who researched things exhaustively and stopped in their tracks, they couldn't condition. you can't know too much if you use your imagination. you write to find out what you are writing. that is the process in fiction writing. >> charlie: you write to find out what you're writing. >> exactly so. >> charlie: you once said to me, writing is a process of discovery. >> yes. you don't feel possessive real estate but what you'ren.úyou'rer and the reader. you lay down a sentence and you read it and just with the same surprise or interest that the reader will have. >> charlie: the sentence "i'm homer the blind brother" what was

. >> abraham lincoln in the civil war he had bad general after bad general after bad general.them fight and he kept saying ok, wait a minute, what do you mean? ok, help me, fight, fight, fight. they didn't. none of them would fight. he let those general make the decision and lose. then he would pull them out and replace them. replace this guy. if you don't believe him, replace him. but do it now. fight to win or get out. it's wrong. steve: you just said it again. fight to win or bring them home. pull out. are you close to calling for that? >> look, i have been saying the very same thing under george w. bush. i had a real problem with george bush in iraq. we went in. we did great things. and then we got all mired in this muck because we were nation building and everything else. you fight to win. and then you bring them home. enough of this you know, never ending war. enough of it fight with everything you have. gretchen: isn't that the essence of this argument we need to fight to win nation building and some say we need to fighter rad eradicate- >> that is not our job. that is

and 165 years ago, abraham lincoln -- excuse me, 146 years ago, abraham lincoln told us what that thataid it was for us to dedicate to the work that they have not -- so nobly advanced. he said it was for us to be dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead and from the honorable living we take increased devotion to that course for which they gave that last full measure of devotion. that we here highly resolve that these dead and our veterans will not have served and died in vain, that this nation under god shall have a new breath of freedom. [cheers and applause] and president lincoln did not say, he did not say the government of the white house, by the white house, for the white house. he did not say government of the courts, by the courts, and for the courts. and he most certainly did not say government of the congress, by the congress, and for the congress. what did he say? government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth. that is our task. god bless us and god bless america. [cheers and applause] >> and no

[applause] let me close with the words that president abraham lincoln, the founder of the republican who studied abraham, moses, and solomon. "the probability that we may fall in a struggle ought not to deter us from supporting a cause that we believe to be just. it shall not determined. we believe that our cause is just. let us examine ourselves and make the necessary commitment to the struggle. the battle is great and the numbers work against us. but we shall not be deterred, for if we win, we win for the cause of faith, family, and freedom, and the restoration of a nation that we all know and love. thank you all very, very much, and god bless. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] >> up next, first lady michelle obama talks about health care legislation. after that, the president and ceo of the mayo clinic. another chance to see the town hall on health care with representatives. >> tomorrow, star parker talks about values voters and how they are responding to the obama administration. a georgetown

abraham lincoln and thomas jefferson did pretty well there. >> not -- none of students got all ten ofnswers right. the best score we're told is seven out of ten. only six students did that. >> six. >> it appears some kids and kids will be kids sometimes, didn't take this too seriously. 5% said that barack obama was the first president. maybe they didn't hear it right. >> maybe they read the question wrong. >> 7% said that barack obama wrote the declaration of independence. >> no way! that's crazy. >> not taking it seriously. and 2% said it was written by michael jackson. who knows if this is a good way -- if this is a good way to test -- maybe it doesn't mean something. we'll talk about this later with steve perry, you know the name and face and know his voice as well. a big part of our black in america 2 series, take no junk principle, he's going to be here to talk about it a little later. >> we've got a lot coming up, including some of your top stories as well. >> take a look at some of knows. investigators uncovered another bone in phillip garrido's property. they rs released photo

the one exception was abraham lincoln.ordered during the civil war early on by the cheese -- by the chief justice to release imprisoned under habeas corpus and he refused. that is one example -- to release a prisoner under habeas corpus and he refused. that is one example. host: here is a tweed. çguest: dhs did not do that muh with the patriot act. it was more directed to the department of justice and intelligence agencies. another area where there is a lot of misunderstanding, and i will often ask people, what is the exact part of the patriot that you object to and i find that people have a hard time articulating it because they do not have a particular provision in mind. most of what the pitch redact dealt with was sharing information, making sure we did not have -- with the patriot act dealt with was sharing information, making sure we did not have a repeat of 9/11. the other major element of the page redact was upgrading for technological change. there were certain things you do with telephones you could not do with v

not only that but he kept a picturof abraham lincoln on his mant s told everybody what a great and good man our psident was. this is in southern mississippi. in the heart of wartime. when these crack regiments are dispached by the confederate -- confederacy dl with newton knight and his allies in sth county and other neighboring counties they raid the mill and arrest hawkins which is ho we know and theyerht tear this handmade american flag from the body of hawkins wife who had hit hidden it under her dress and a report i fil about raiding the hawkins mill. these same troops go into jones county next where a huge firefight erupts with newton knight and his men in which the confederateset the worst of it for a time. every time the confederacy tried to deal with newton knight and his men they would melt back in the swamps and a confederate office would wri write a report is and say well, we'veiped dhem out they're gone within a month newton knight would be launching another raid against a storehouse and confederate installation. they freed local slaves they killed basically, they killed or

[reading of names] >> 146 years ago in another field and pennsylvania, president abraham lincoln addressed a similar gathering on an overcast fall day, as we have today. they assembled to pay tribute to those who lost their lives in battle. the scale and scope of that loss was far greater than flight 93, but the scale and scope of the coverage of those heroes and the courage of our heroes that we celebrate today were equal. trace: that is colin powell. at the pentagon this morning, president obama and secretary gates paying tribute to those who died. the president laying a wreath at pentagon memorial site and promising the families on it -- of the more than 180 people who died there, we will never let -- never call off the hunt for their killers. >> let us renew our resolve against those who perpetrated this barbaric act and plot against us still. the defense of our nation, we will never wane in pursuit of al qaeda and its extremist allies. trace: president obama spoke about renewing our resolve against those who perpetrated the 9/11 attacks and the plot against the u.s.. they took time to

the definition of democracy from the greek times the one i like the most is the definition by abraham lincoln democracy is the government of the people, for the peoe, and by the peoe. so i is not the gernment for the eletes or the government for the groups that hold power nor a government developed by the day facto groups. on the contrary, it is a government for the people, organized by the people and also organized by the people. a well-knowneneral from china many years ago landed in her paris and a journalist asked ho chi minh what was his opinion about democracy, and the general said the 200 years is too short ss democracy. we need to wait a little longer. my task is not to judge democracy. my task this morning is to make some comments and it is up to you to judge it. we will have to make an sessment not to change the spe system but to perfect it as i said at t beginning of democracy is the number one process, the way of life. it is the concept that lies behind a political power that emerged after the french revolution of the modern world, the greek practiced in their cities a now it has b

abraham lincoln had to say during the debates, he said a house deep bided cannot stand.e cannot continue like this. -- house divided cannot stand. we cannot continue like this. we are still fighting and protesting this. those that are interjecting race right now, i am offended by it. we have had an abortion doctor and a pro-like sun holder last week -- sign colder last week. he holds this sign to let people know about the moral question of abortion in our society, and he was gunned down. for people that keep saying that race is a factor, they are polarizing this. they are pouring gasoline on a discussion that we have to have. we have to have an ideological discussion. host: our next caller. caller: good morning. this is my first time calling. if i appear to be nervous, i apologize. star, you are saying so many things on many levels that are wrong. racism is not only coming from the left. glenn that made a statement that president obama had a deep- seated hatred for white people. that was a sickening to me. there are signs that there are racists that we see. i am a proud