>> the title "bloody crimes," comes from john brown and abraham lincoln.ting execution after the raid at harpers ferry, he was allowed to possess a team of james bible and he underlined his favorite passages. one of them was come from the book of ezekiel, "make a chain for the land is full of bloody crimes." and then on the morning he was hanging, john brown handed a piece of paper to the dealer and is it all right, john brown, am convinced more than ever that the crimes of this bloody land can only be purged by blood. and then when can help me think of the title, too because we think of lincoln's second inaugural was seeking peace and brotherhood and reconciliation. but there is a very dark passage in lincoln's second inaugural it's completely forgotten. and lincoln says he essentially that if all the blood drawn by 250 years of slavery and the slave masters with, it has to be repaid by blood drawn by the sword, let it be so. and so lincoln's discussion of blood and the engines and john brown's prophecy that there is blood to come really gave me the idea

abraham lincoln has spoken to us as well. when he left -- when he was leaving springfield, he said he was an accidental instrument, a temporary instrument called to serve for a limited time. he said he wanted to appeal to us to bear in mind that it is with you that the decisions lie, not with politicians, not with presidents or office seekers, but with you shall the union and the liberties of this country be preserved for the latest generation. 150 years later, i think those words explain everything we need to know about our responsibility in this tiny window of opportunity that we have. we have the next election. if we want to kill obamacare, if we want to end socialized medicine, it must be done in the next election. it must be done in 2012. just like we repealed speaker nancy pelosi in 2010, it will be our charge to repeal president obama in 2012 and a liberal senate in 2012 and put in place a bold, strong, constitutional conservative for president who understands the time and knows what to do and has the courage and forti

abraham lincoln famously called the mexican american war and on and just war of conquest fought to catch boats votes. so there are certainly such motives at work among the leadership, but why do people follow, why do people follow the leadership into war when they do? to fi areas that are frequently banded about an hour to try to answer that question i call in the book the innocent dupe theory and the frontier killer theory. the innocent dupe theory suggests americans go to war because their goal will consumers, because they will buy anything. if it is well enough packaged. and like many half truths, there is half a truth. we do go to war sometimes. we are conned into going into war at least partially sometimes. the mexican-american war i mentioned before is a good example. president polke said american blood has been shed on american soil, war acts as mexico alone, when what we know and in fact what the whig party and abraham lincoln and others knew then is that polke had sent americans into territory which is disputed, which an international court will almost certainly have awarded to

indiscernible ] >>> a famed historian has admitted to altering a document signed by president abraham lincolnin 1998 he found the document, it's a pardon for a civil war union soldier. it has president lincoln's signature but he changed the date from april 1, 1864 to april 1, 1865. the forgery is suggesting the pardon was one of president lincoln's last official acts before he was assassinated. >> he damaged an important document. and not only did he damage an important document and altered an important document, there's an effect on future researchers and their credibility. >> he was a trusted and well- respected author of abraham lincoln and the civil war. he was left alone to look through historical documents. federal officials say he admitted to sneaking in with a special pen and altering that date. >>> well, central heating can apparently make you fat. that's according to a new study by the journal obesity reviews. the city's authors say since so much of our time is spent in heated houses, offices and cars, we no longer burn as many calories to heat our bodies. average indoor temperature

abraham lincoln is elected in 1860, south carolina secedes before lincoln gets ip august rateed -- inaugurated, several southern states follow. lincoln has to decide what to do, he decides to defend the federal fortress, south carolina, fort sumter. the confederate forces fire on fort sumter, and the civil war is on. and that is that. there's more, of course. but a side effect of that which is absolutely critical for the development of the american industrial economy is when the south secedes, the democratic party essentially abdicates its role in national politics. leaving the federal government for the first time in the complete control of a party that is overtly friendly to business development. the whigs had had a program of business development, but they never had such control of the federal government as the republicans had during the years of the civil war and early reconstruction. and so the republicans who, of course, are remembered in history as the party of anti-slavery, were also the party of pro-business. and the republicans because they had no democratic opposition, they very qui

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algunas personas se alejaran pero yo veo este desafío como una oportunidad para reconstruir lo que abraham lincolnepública, creemos en un nuevo compromiso con un gobierno limitado que va a mejorar nuestra economía y va a crear nuevos empleos y oportunidades para las personas de todos los orígenes y tendremos éxito y nos traerá prosperidad. bajo este enfoque. quién logrará éxitos millones de familias se han enfrentado a tiempos difíciles si no como consecuencia de mamás decisiones tomadas en washington y en walt street que provocaron una crisis financiera. mal gastaron nuestros ahorros nos hicieron perder nuestra confianza y paralizaron la economía, hoy en día una irresponsabilidad similar amenaza no sólo nuestra existencia si no también nuestro modo de vida. nuestro sistema americano que consistía en un gobierno limitado bajos impuestos, regulaciones razonables y una economía estable, nos había bendecido con una prosperidad sin procedentes y realizó más para ayudar a menos afortunados que cualquier otro sistema económico que se haya diseñado. si lo concretamos en una sola frase sería esta. el gobi

. >> reporter: for abraham lincoln the moment came at the end of his second inaugural address, an appeal to heal the nation split by four years of civil war. >> with malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness and the right as god gives us to see the right, let us finish the work we're in. to bind up the nation's wound. to care for him who shall born the battle and for his widow and his orphan. to do all that shall achieve, among ourselves and with all nations. >>> when we come back on a second look. we'll go back 50 years for another memorable speech by john kennedy. and tell you about a treasure- trove of kennedy videos and tapes now available online. >>> mike wallace covers the 1950 democratic convention in los angeles. >>> as the nation marks the 50th anniversary of john f. kennedy's inauguration speech. kennedy's acceptance speech at the 1960 democratic convention held at the los angeles coliseum has been released. here's a portion of that speech that you will find online. >> we stand today on the edge of a new frontier. the ontier of the 1960. the frontier of unknown op

been banned for life from the national archives after he confessed to altering a document from abraham lincolnthomas lowery made it appear that he spared an army private from the death president just hours after being assassinated in 1865. >> and now here's an early look at how wall street will kick off the day. the dow opens at 11,980 after climbing 108 points yesterday. the s&p was up 7 points. the nasdaq rose 28. taking a look at overseas trading this morning, in tokyo, the nikkei gained 119 points. but in hong kong, the hang seng put wall street's recent rally back on track and markets into position to break through key levels. a share buyback from intel renewed ininvestors' optimism and drove the dow within striking distance of its psychological 12,000 mark. alcoa offered more fuel for the day's momentum picking up 4% on rising aluminum demand. the s&p could crack its key 1300 level today. investors weigh fresh data on home prices and consumer confidence. before the bell earnings, verizon met the street's expectation while dupont surpassed estimates. nvidia shaurz rose on speculation its

. >>> relatives of a man who assassinated abraham lincoln want to dig up john wilkes booth body to settle he should be. they first want to test the dna of his late brother and up cover the truth once and for all. doug shimmel has more. >> i feel like i've lived with the ghost of the booth family my whole life. sometimes it's stressful, sometimes it's delightful. >> reporter: as a child, joanne knew she was related to famed 1800s actor edwin booth, but her mother revealed that edwin was also the brother of the man who assassinated president abraham lincoln, john wilkes booth, and there was a family secret about whether john was really shot by federal troops while escaping. >> i might as well learn that he never died in the barn. there was a gentleman named james william boyd who died in the barn and that he lived for many years. here are some of the numerous books in my archive. >> reporter: it was when noted historians began interviewing their family that joanne says she realized there was growing evidence that someone else was buried in john wilkes booth's family plot in baltimore. >> ev

presidents as far back as abraham lincoln at gettysburg, have tried to make sense of the senseless, in the wake of national tragedy. 70 years ago, the day after the pearl harbor attack, president roosevelt, addressed congress. >> yesterday, december 7, 1941-- a date which will live in infamy... >> lehrer: and there was lyndon johnson, newly sworn in, just hours after the assassination of president john f. kennedy. >> this is a sad time for all people. >> lehrer: in more recent times, president reagan confronted the loss of space shuttle challenger and its seven member crew-- january 28, 1986. mr. reagan had been scheduled to deliver his state of the union address that night. instead, he remembered the victims in a speech from the oval office. >> the crew of the space shuttle we will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and slipped the surly bonds of earth to touch the face of god. >> lehrer: in april 1995, the country was jolted by the oklahoma city bombing that killed 168 people, 19 of them children. four

abraham lincoln gave this expression when he said the latest generation that they show permit the world to know, we have a task of gratitude to our fathers, just as to ourselves, duty to posterity, and love for mankind in general. that requires us faithfully to perform. for 21 generations of america, we have listened to lincoln's words. we have faithfully performed to the next generation. when our ancestors arrived, they spoke different languages. they had different cultures, different backgrounds, different traditions, but unbelievably, they all found themselves back to this tradition, this covenant that was contained in the mayflower compact. is coveted that we republic in the declaration of independence. how unique in all of the world that one nation that was the root resting point from people, groups all across the world. did not matter the color of their skin. did not matter their language or their economic status. it did not matter whether they descended from the ability or a higher or lower class. it made no difference. once you got here, we were all the same. isn't that remarkab

. >> my name is peter and i graduated from high school, abraham lincoln high school. i am currently at city college in san francisco. when i first met him, we became really good friends and he is really genuine. i was shocked because a guy like steve, for him to be arrested, a guy like him is very kind and helpful. he is studying to be a nurse. not only does he want to help people, but by helping them -- him -- maybe he can help you guys later on because if he becomes a nurse and you guys turn sick, which we don't want to happen, if it ever happens, steve could help you. because he wants to be a nurse. president kim: any comments or questions from the board? i want to thank you for bringing this resolution for us -- to us. i think it is important that we support our students that are here in the u.s. and have worked very hard. we're grateful that you have brought this to us. roll call. >> [roll call vote] six ayes. president kim: thank you. i am actually going back to eisenhower -- item q. i forgot that we give five minutes of public comment for the first reading item

growing up in san francisco, i walked to middle school, wrote three buses to abraham lincoln high school, and rode three buses to sanford stake -- san francisco state university. i have continued to be a lifelong user of muni transportation. additionally, i take taxis and what many places. i have a vested interest in this city. i have a vested interest in knowing that we have timely, accessible, reliable, affordable, and save modes of transportation and services in the city. i offer the rules committee six policy areas of priority i can elaborate on a few wish. the first is accessibility. transit should be accessible in all neighborhoods and people and provide -- provided on a timely basis. affordability -- all modes of transportation and parking garages must be affordable, and not disproportionately impact low income communities. we must serve our communities in this city. reliability -- we must maintain and enhance our current levels of service. safety -- we must provide safe environments for pedestrians, bikes, buses, taxis, and traffic garages. jobs -- we must maximize local hiring w

don't blame him because more luther king has become such a symbol is no longer a person i mean abraham lincoln secretary of war. got assassinated now it belongs to the ages he's become a symbol and a product and so people will use a product any way they can to sell what they need to so i mean and that's our fault as a society because he has become something other than what he is both his greatest moments and his faults but why is that i mean you know the so much attention obviously is given to his fight for civil rights for you know racial justice but what about the fact that he also railed on against the vietnam war he really you know railed on against capitalism he really fought for economic justice in iraq and that's the part of his legacy that kind of trickles often gets really doesn't quite fit in you know when he went to chicago for a poor people's march there and for jobs and things like that and he was roundly attacked by working class white people who probably think of all they think of now is the i have a dream speech and the colorblind thing well even that speech they've shown it wa

in the words of abraham lincoln, it is a way which is plain, peaceful, generous, and just. it is a way which, if followed, the world will forever applaud and god must forever bless. may god bless all the victims, their families, and those suffering from saturday's tragedy. my god bless those whose service in the cause of freedom and injustice. may he bless you and your family and our great state of arizona and may god always bless and protect the united states of america. thank you. (cheers and applause) thank you, governor brewer. confronting the challenges to our nation's security is an enormous undertaking, we are safer as a country because we have the right person leading that effort. please now welcome back to arizona our former governor and the current secretary of homeland security janet napolitano. (cheers and applause) >> thank you. thank you, tucson! (cheers and applause) thank you, arizona. (cheers and applause) we know that the violence that occurred saturday does not represent this community, this state, or this country. (cheers and applause) at these times, wo

we mean no disrespect for abraham lincoln. we're showing the progression of american history as we keep moving forward. dr. king also was a great man of faith. he was grounded and rigid in the baptist tradition -- rooted in the baptist tradition. he believed it was his calling by god. he became the personification of liberation theology and of social justice, which was not popular. young people need to understand that he did not pass to the biggest church in atlanta. it was very modest, in fact. but he had the biggest message. those that had more members, their members were depending on his leadership and his understanding of theology. in that tradition, as generations,, we have a young man who is a giant in that field. he went to school -- he has been a real example of the kind of ministry that continues. you cannot become -- there is a difference between those to pick up the mantle and those who mimic those who have it. do not try to be dr. king. we are in a different era and a different time. we need a new model. dr. king d

in the words of abraham lincoln, "if it is a way which is plain, peaceful, and generous, and jos.ay in which followed, god will forever blas." may god bless all the victims, their families, and those suffering from saturday's tragedy. made the -- may god bless those whose service in the cause of freedom and of justice. may he bless you and your families and our great state of arizona. and may god always bless and protect the united states of america. thank you. [applause] >> thank you, governor romer. confronting the challenges of our nation's security is an enormous security. we are safer as a country because we have the right person leading that effort. please now welcome back to arizona, our former governor and the current secretary of homeland security, janet napolitano. [applause] >> thank you. thank you, tucson. thank you, arizona. [applause] >> we know that of violence that occurred saturday does not represent this community, this state, or this country. [applause] at these times, words can fail us. so let us listen instead to the words of the old testament. and i will prov

no one looks at abraham lincoln and says, my goodness, what a terrible president. they consider the times. now, chairman burton made mistakes. i understand there's some who received subpoenas, and it had to be corrected. at the same time, i will not judge the time when i didn't serve in congress or what he faced. ii know a great many people left the country to avoid subpoenas, went to jail over the crimes they committed. they were real things that happened, perhaps not 1200, but many. in those ensuing years since i watched that as a civilian if you will, and i watched his successors with successor presidents in many cases find other ways to do discovery, other ways to get most of these things done, i think for different times, a different procedure is appropriate. we are in different times today. we are not up vest gaiting the white house. i have no intention at this point. i have no reason to investigate the white house. we are requiring and insisting that government agencies be held accountable and we expect them to come before us voluntarily. i do not expect to

abraham lincoln called us the last best hope of earth. we are that to be sure. we the people don't always appreciate this. we are a blessed people, blessed to be here in north america, protected by two oceans and with neighbors in canada and mexico that we have been a very careful to cultivate these past 200 years. some of us like those in this room are aware we have permanent enemies, enemies that are capable, more capable than ever of seeing us destroyed. indeed the question we should be asking when it comes to our national defense can america and the free world actually destroyed. do we have threats to our very existence, but even in these tough economic times when we are still worried about how to create jobs must we not also worry about our national defense. we are told we are the most powerful military in the world and we will have no serious challenge for some time to come and we are confronted with three reassurance is meant to end a serious discussion of that national security policy. we know the reassurances well their first that islam is a religion of

>> abraham lincoln. >> i will go back to my state. general john ashcroft is my hero. he brought me into the party. he is a man of character and integrity. this is a lightning round, i'm sorry. >> freedomworks. >> margaret thatcher. >> frederick douglass. >> where do you get your news? [laughter] >> the daily caller. [laughter] no, mostly from the internet. the final three pages in the first section of "the wall street journal," with politics, gop. >> i get many of the internet. i read everything from blogs to newspapers. >> i am probably a religious reader of the drug repor -- drudge report, hotline, politico, all the other information online. >> so much for lightning round. >> i get my news online also -- "wall street journal," "national review." >> i am an old-fashioned guy. i start my morning with a hard copy of "the washington post," and then go on line to get the real news. [laughter] >> tube support completely -- do you support completely defunding planned parenthood? >> absolutely. >> yes. >> yes. >> yes. >> starting with mr. anuzis, names of the mr. obama has

[applause] government must as abraham lincoln once said only that which the people cannot do for themselvesnant principal number one. new covenant principle number one. we have too much government, state, county, school, local, and it must be reduced. for too long we favor of the fact our appetite for government exceeds our pocketbook to pay for it. [applause] my 86 year old dad edward is sitting here in the front row and he would tell us our eyes are too big for our walnut. our state auditor tells us that at least 15% must be permanently eliminated from government in order to make our books balanced once and for all and i aim to make sure that we do it and that we do it now. [applause] we will all share in the sacrifice while protecting those that need our help. but we will remove the boots of excess government from our economy and without that burden, we will be able to run like the wind in the race for prosperity. [applause] second, government must serve the people and not vice versa. leadership is about service, not power. i stand here again as your governor with my wonderful wife, kids

even abraham lincoln saw the merits of a voluntary removal plan to whiten america. the point here as throughout our book is that america's early leaders had few long-term solutions. as all people do, they rationalized inaction. our task as historical investigators is not to indulge ourselves in transferring moral judgments to the past whether it is to glam orize the achievements and imagine a golden age that never existed or to use their failures to express self-satisfaction about our own motives as a modern, more progressive culture. our task is to recover the language, the issues and the people that matter to them. their political environment, not our fantasy of sturdy knights whose elegant prose is reflected in their shining armor. madison and jefferson stood out because of their campaigning psyches. they knew the revolution as a contentious time, yet they chose to remember it as a moment of promise. they realized that political success was built on productive alliances, that one man alone could not transform a nation. thank you. >> thank you. [applause] >> we lo

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abraham lincoln. don, yuma, arizona, good evening. >> caller: my question is regarding the ebooks. >> host: please go ahead, sir. >> caller: i have a nook. and i -- i was wondering if they'd ever thought about bundling -- if you bought the ebook, the electronic portion and the -- if i could buy the whole book together as a bundle. >> host: all right. jenn risko, you've kind of addressed that. but if you'd like to repeat it for him? >> guest: sure, don, i agree, i think this is the way it should go. if i buy the book, it should be in both electronic and print formats. you should get a discount for buying, you know, a discount on one of them or both of them for buying them collectively. because i think that, you know, as i mentioned before, it'd be nice to read your book at home, your paper book at home and when you leave to catch the train, it'd be nice to read your book on your phone or on your ipad or whatever it is. i think that -- you know, it was a couple -- a year ago or so that bob miller who wa

or abraham lincoln, but she's a high school student, a witty civil rights activist. she, at a time when in 1951 basically saw a school buss ride by her. her bus was broken done. this was full of the white kids going to the white school. her school had no books or materials, and she organized a walk out. we're going to protest this and say forget about it. she's one of the unknown people and her test case as they walked out was one of the cases used in brown vs. board of education. where did it come from? a teenager. a teenager is one of the people responsible for it. the book is filled -- there's a guy named frank, and he's a police officer. he found out about a boy with leukemia who wanted to be a police officer. he had a motorcycle course and motorbike uniform for the boy. and frank finds out the boy with this disease goes into a coma. the police officer goes to the hospitalroom and says to the boy while he's unconscious and puts motorcycle wings on him. he tells the family and puts the wings on his chest. this is a true story, the boy wakes up out of his coma and

it has someone like martin luther king, jr., or abraham lincoln but i wanted it to have regular person and barbara johns was a high school student and almost an unwitting civil rights activist. and barbara johns at a time in 1951 basically saw a school bus ride by her and her school bus was broken down and they saw another school bus that was full of the white kids that was going to the good school and her school had no books, no materials and it was a horrible school. and she organized a walkout. she said, you know, we're going to protest it. we're going to say forget about it. she's one of the unknown people and her test case as they walked out was one of the cases used in brown v. board of education. where did it come from? a teenager, a teenager is one of the people who is responsible for it. the book is filled -- there's a guy named frank and frank is a police officer. and he found out about a boy with leukemia who also wanted to be a police officer. so he had a little motorcycle course made for the boy and a little uniform made for the boy and frank finds out the boy with leukemi

behind it was louis brandeis who was later a supreme court justice working with a man named abraham lincoln's eileen it was the co-owner of silence departments or which was known for its very progressive policies towards workers. these men believed in something called scientific management. a social science idea that labour and industrial relations could be reasonably managed to what they called collective bargaining, way of bringing labour and management together to work out in advance. there would be no strikes or work stoppages or boycotts are picketing, but rather these matters would be handled calmly and without any kind of confrontation. and so brandeis' came to new york and managed to work through with the various local government factories here and also with the quilt makers. was a very deliberate process that took many months. they could not agree on recognition. they came up with something that they called the preferential shop as opposed to the closed-door union shop which would basically be a shop where the management would hire. they would prefer them to any other workers as long

you know, i would argue that the one case in which you can say that was john wilkes booth with abraham lincoln. that was clearly civil war drama and conspiracy. i would use the analogy between the assassination attempts on gerald ford by sarah moore and lynnette "squeaky" fropl that had no detectable connection to anything, especially politics of that era, and the assassinations of the 1960s where while there were some mad men involved in their... as always is the case of sirhan sirhan. he was both mad and... on the palestinian issue. the general political temper of those times must have had something to do with those assassinations. i think that's aningment one can make here, too. >> i think you look at racism as a motivation for assassinations throughout the civil rights movement and before and you see a very causal relation. again, but then we get into the murky waters of how unbalanced people process the unbalanced rhetoric or the overheated rhett riblg that's out there. and then i think we get into the complicated waters that are best left to psychologists or novelists and maybe not polit

we didn't vote for ronald reagan because liberal looking for abraham lincoln or george washington. we elected ronald reagan because we were elected a leader, someone we trusted. that is what we are looking for today. if we don't find that person we will keep going in a spiral down hill mode we are in and we need to find that person who will stand up and be honest with us. and they have to be honest with themselves. >> host: would your father govern differently today? >> guest: not at all. ronald reagan was who he was. he was comfortable in his own skin. he never forgot who he was or where he came from. if you visit his home in illinois and go out to the ranch in santa barbara and go to the interior of the home you really don't see a difference. you see the humility and humbled us of the man. he wasn't caught up in himself. he was caught up integrate this of the united states of america and what she was to the rest of the world. >> host: your brother ron reagan is coming out with a book, my father at 100. have you have a chance to read that? >> guest: i have not and i am looking for

and generally acknowledged to be the best inaugural address since abraham lincoln's. one of the things he told ted sorensen to do before he wrote his draft, he said read the gettysburg address and learn the secrets. he told him to read every single inaugural address. i object know, sorensen claims he did this. he says he did this, and that they were pretty tough going. >> when did sorensen -- why didn't sorensen didn't get the credit? >> he didn't get the credit. sorensen has always said that kennedy, you know, was the author or he's couched it in words that have made it clear that he believes that kennedy was the -- he calls him the architect and everything else. but i think people have heard that, and assumed that because speechwriters have written so many presidential inaugurals, f.d.r.'s famous one was completely written by moley, not written by f.d.r. that kennedy's must have been written by sorensen. also, sorensen wrote many of the great set piece speeches that kennedy did. the american university speech, his senate speeches. these were sorensen. what sorensen

no one looks at abraham lincoln and says, my goodness, he was a terrible president. they considered the times. now chairman burton probably made mistakes. i understand that there were incorrect people on a couple occasions who received subpoenas and it had to be corrected. at the same time, i will not judge the time when i did not serve in congress or what he faced. i know that a great many people left the country to evade subpoenas. went to jail, over the crimes they'd committed. there were real things that happened. perhaps not 1,200, but many. in those ensuing years since i watched that as a civilian, if you will, and i watched his successors with successor presidents in many cases, find other ways to do discovery, other ways to get most of these things done, i think for different times, a different procedure is appropriate. we are in different times today. we are not investigating the white house. i have no intention at this point. i have no reason to investigate the white house. we are requiring and insisting that government agencies be held accountable. and we

let's remember what abraham lincoln said, let's take a deep breath and agree to disagree agreeably. let's do that for gabby. i yield back the blabsoif -- balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from iowa. >> at this time, i recognize for two minutes the gentleman from iowa, mr. loebsack. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. loebsack: i thank my colleague and friend from iowa who recognized me. i join my colleague, my constituents and all americans in mourning for those who lost their lives in this weekend's heinous event and am praying for those, including our dear friend and colleague, congresswoman giffords, who are fighting to recover. i've had the honor to serve with gabby like many in this body on the armed services committee since we were both elected in 2006 and i've always been struck by her intelligence and by her commitment to her constituents. when she and her constituents were attacked on saturday, she was carrying out the most central of our responsibilities as elected representatives as was already mentioned, and

we didn't vote for ronald reagan because we were looking for abraham lincoln. we didn't vote for ronald reagan because we were looking for george washington. we were electing a leader and somebody that, in fact, we trusted, and that's what we're looking for today. and if we don't find that person, we're going to keep on going in the spiraling downhill mode that we're in and what we need to do is find that person who's going to stand up and be honest with us. but in order to be honest with us, they have to be honest with themselves. >> host: so do you think your father would govern differently today? >> guest: oh, i don't think my father would govern differently at all. i think it was in him. you know, ronald reagan, ronald reagan was who he was. he was very comfortable in his own skin. he never forgot where he came from, who he was. if you go visit his homes and you go out to the ranch in santa barbara and go to the interior of the homes, you really don't see a difference. you see the humility, the humbleness of the man. he wasn't caught up in himself and who h

he forgets that house divided against itself cannot stand abraham lincoln was a sound bite.t's kind of lofty disdain, the soundbites i think i really hurt him because he hasn't been able to break through for the reasons you describe. >> that is all i talk about. >> so what i'm missing here is that obama is not just operating as an individual unto himself, but he's operating in a structural context here which has not been mentioned. and the example that i haven't heard referenced here once on tonight, nancy pelosi has called for prosecution on the foreclosure crisis. 14 million american families in or about to be in foreclosure. so it's not just the house divided against cannot stand, the house itself cannot stand in this particular crisis. [laughter] there's been crime on wall street, there's been financial fraud that's massive. nobody's talking about it. should we be? >> yes. >> yes. >> very nice, short answers. >> saying what we have here is the world's biggest example of accounting control fraud. that the financial crisis is a crime of fraud more than anything. >> and i'l

he admired winston churchill and abraham lincoln, but he admired woodrow wilson because he said that even though wilson was too much of an idealist to be an effective president, that he was a man of thought and of action, and that's what nixon considered himself to be. c-span: here's a quote about ronald reagan, and he has a lot of this in the book, where he talks about his predecessors: "he does look great, though. he told me he exercises out on the ranch every day. of course, he didn't go through what i went through in the watergate period, from april 15th to august 8th and 9th, the resignation, watergate, day in and day out. it was rough. reagan, of course, had the assassination attempt, which was a tremendous physical challenge. mine may have been rougher because it was emotional, but reagan just has such a positive outlook that i think that is half the battle." guest: i think that really cuts to the essence of who richard nixon was. he was such a fighter. he was so determined to come from -- he started his political career from nothing, he worked his way to the top. and i think

abraham lincoln was a soundbite so his kind of lofty disdain for the sound bites i think is really hurtim because he hasn't been able to break through for the reasons we describe. >> i am a little neurotic about time and we are running slightly over. let's do about three more questions. danny. >> danny schechter, high. both of you talk a lot about naÏvetÉ but i hear a lot of naÏvetÉ here today. as of power in america is the presidents and certain members of the congress and that's it. there is no military industrial complex and no corporations. there is no wall street finance. there is no interest. there is only issues. there was only individuals. there is no money being spent, lobbying taking place. >> in fairness to roger --. >> what i'm missing here is that obama is not just operating as an individual unto himself but operating in a structural context here which has not been mentioned and the example that i haven't heard referenced here once tonight, today nancy pelosi is finally calling for prosecution on the foreclosure crisis. 14 million american families in or about to be in fore