abraham lincoln had been arrested. at think it is fair to say that effusive and politicians were pretty upset about this outcome. a few south carolinian is for more than a grumpy about the outcome. they were enraged by the outcome. and you introduce us to a relatively unknown and unheralded man. just been given command of the federal garrison. also, i wonder if you could give us a little bit about those events. in particular, help us understand what is going on in in this is mind as he is to be given command of what might be a hopeless task. >> one thing i want to thank you for your introduction and also especially the part about being yanked. i've gone this a couple of times. i thought, only in the context of civil war historians that someone who is 40 years old get to because of this kid all the time. anyway, i like it. i am glad you brought up this character because he is one of my favorite. the first hero of the union cause delors the forgotten except for the real civil war gnats, and he is fascinating to me becaus

now i should tell you in full disclosure that abraham lincoln was not a religious ticket. went back to hated religious bigotry that but he swallowed the republican party line, because it was very effective among the republican party base. if you know you have heard politics, get out the base, get out the base. the republican party base were partisan workingmen and the cities and they were prophets in the small towns and farms across the northeast new england and the midwest. this resonated to this constituency and anti-catholicism. linking campaigns lincoln campaigned under that slogan and 1858. >> you can watch this and other programs on line at booktv.org. >> we asked, what are you reading this summer? here is what you had to say.

here you have abraham lincoln don'ting steven douglas in the famous senatorial campaign. the republican party slogan that year was vanquish the twin december -- now, i should tell you in full disclosure that abraham lincoln was not a religious biggot. he swallowed the republican line because it was very effective among the republican party base. you know, you heard in politics get out the bass, get out the bass. the republican party base were protestant working men in the cities. they were congressman's in the small towns and farms across the northeast, new epg land, and the -- england and the midwest, and this resinated to this constituency, and so lincoln campaigned under that slogan in 1858. >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. >> "wild card" is the name of the book. the author is mark joseph. mr. joseph, what have we learned new about sarah palin in your book? >> i spent a chapter and a half on her religious background, the highest one has reached the height of american power. that's one of the untold stories of the rise of sarah palin, not j

when abraham lincoln started a program to train pilots he went to say at -- sign up. there is something new every day. something youe didn't know about flying. he dropped out of college after his junior year and return home to earn money. of friend let him know about taf the military base under construction the institute training pilots for a number of years had just opened a field of primary flight daysry under contract now the war department was building taf from scratch.s the ad of building the air base and trained him. he found a job as a carpenter's apprentice then he learned of a program to train black instructor pilots. use the skills from pilot training to pass the entrance exam and began a training course. when the program was interrupted he found driving the very wayamexfong again who k and forth and later hired as the timekeeper in the control tower tabulating flight times. march 1943 and able to save enough money he quit his job at the field and went back to amended to drive a cab then saved enoughat money to resume studies and back in pennsylvania. then h

she died at the age of 34, leaving behind 9-year-old abraham lincoln. he helped build his mother's casket by carving the woodallen petition douche the wooden petition himself. >> we transformed the gallery to and eerie victorian garden. my name is lowe hodges, and i am the director of operations and exhibitions at the conls tore of -- cons tore of flowers. we decided it needed context. so we needed a house or a building. the story behind the couple in the window, you can see his wife has just served him a glass of wine, and he is slumped over the table as the poison takes affect. a neat little factold dominion about that house is actually built out of three panels from old james bond movie. we wanted people to feel like i am not supposed to be in this room. this is the one that is supposed to be barred off and locked up. >> the ole andersonner -- oleander. this popular shrub is popular in warm climates. it has been implicated in a surprising number of murders and accidental deaths. children are at risk because it takes only a few leaves to kill them. a

now, i should tell you in full disclosure that abraham lincoln was not a religious bigot. in fact, he hated religious bigotry, but he swallowed the republican party line because it was very effective among the republican party base. you know, you've heard in the politics get out the base, get out the base. the republican party base were protestant working men in cities and farms across the northeast, new england and the midwest. and this resonated to this constituency, this anti-catholicism. and so lincoln campaigned under that slogan in 1858. >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. >> and booktv is at books expo america, the annual publishers' convention in new york city looking at some of the fall 2011 books that are coming out, and we're pleased to be joined by george gibson who is the publisher of bloomsbury press. mr. gibson, tell us about some of your books, and let's start here with the book on bill buckley. >> this is the first full biography of bill buckley, um, an icon, of course, of the conservative arena. um, but, and he's really the fath

i am currently a student at abraham lincoln high school, and i was a first sergeant in the jrotc. when i first joined it, i was behind credits and but i was better than everyone else. it took no more than one semester for the colonel to set me in the right path. he gave me the option of independent studies, which allowed me to make up credits. he also did something you never see in any pe class. he taught me the meaning of respect and have to become a leader. one year later, i became a first sergeant, and i am currently in command of 56 students. one thing i would say about the part of independent studies is that you can work on your own time. and most of the individuals that participate in independent studies take part of some form of sport. it helps them to make of their credits and graduate from high school on time. thank you. [applause] >> again, my name is i have been. i would like to start by thanking the board for giving me this opportunity to speak. i have been in jrotc for two years, and i am now considering to be part of the branches of the military. those five credits o

did abraham lincoln cut the budget building the railroads during the civil war? did john f.ennedy cut the budget -- >> thank you very much. >> this is absurd. >> thank you very much. >> it shouldn't happen. you should fight and get your guts together. >> thank you very much. >> we should have a meeting and discuss this resolution. >> thank you. >> i'd like your comments on it. thank you. >> next speakers. next speaker. [speaking foreign language] >> thank you. >> good afternoon. i'm from chinatown. i'm happy through these programs i also get to light rain english, also known the resource for training for the families, and we hope that you can save the resources for families, for children, for all of us here today. thank you. >> hi. my name is mimi. my son's been going to the asian human resource center for a couple of years. the family workshop is very important for all the families, whether it's for the kids, nutritional, or talk about what the discipline. so i want the city to consider to extend the budget for us. thank you. >> good afternoon. my name is gloria. i represen

i am currently a student at abraham lincoln high school, and i was a first sergeant in the jrotc. when i first joined it, i was behind credits and but i was better than everyone else. it took no more than one semester for the colonel to set me in the right path. he gave me the option of independent studies, which allowed me to make up credits. he also did something you never see in any pe class. he taught me the meaning of respect and have to become a leader. one year later, i became a first sergeant, and i am currently in command of 56 students. one thing i would say about the part of independent studies is that you can work on your own time. and most

i am a recent graduate of abraham lincoln high school. i am here on behalf of sf performance is to advocate for the sustained funding of the arts. we explored the realm of poetry in my english class but before we were able to analyze poetry, we had to learn that it takes many layers. it takes time and effort to understand what it meant and how the poet achieved it. but we also learned there is the opposite of poetry, and that, in general terms is television. where poetry takes time to uncover what it is saying, television gives instant gratification. instead of waiting to be rewarded, television gives you everything up front. not only did my teacher apply this to literature and poetry, but he also applied it to music. a lot of the music my generation listens to today is instant gratification and there is no depth to it. all they look for is something with a repetitive and beat which gets stuck in your head. most of these songs simply talk about drugs, sex, and getting lots of money to spend on drugs and sex. but there is the opposite of t

reporter: also troubling, on the test, only 9% of fourth graders could identify a picture of abraham lincolnour nation's 16th president. >> this is a real crime for a country like this, that depends on understanding where we came from and why we are the way we are as a country in order to have a successful future. our kids are just not learning this stuff. >> reporter: back in the history class, jose got the question correct. the british were not on their home turf. on average, students spend only two hours a week in class learning about american history. and students spend ten times that amount on reading and math. >> those abe lincoln numbers are downright painful. we'll revisit this. thanks for your reporting. >>> up next after the break, the u.s. army will soon be sporting a new look. you might say a big change is coming to the very top. >>> the latest apparent overreaction to aviation security is brought to you tonight by the letter f, a new york-based children's author was overheard by another passenger dropping a few f-bombs in excitement over a delayed take-off. the delta jet went ba

i just graduated from abraham lincoln. i am 17. it is hard to find the right job in this neighborhood. it is really hard. i am not 18 and i cannot get a refill job. the garden project, it really helps you. they push you, they encourage you. catherine really helped us and encouraged us. they teach you morals, but at the same time i am going to college this august, and money is tight. [applause] money is tight, so, it is easier on my mother, me, my situation. i know that it teaches you to save money and not just spend it on what ever. i need it for college and it is a really good thing. it is positive and promotes life. you do not have to stay in the hood for your whole life. you can do something. thank you. [applause] >> i would like to thank you, thank everyone that supported funding of the garden project. i would like to express how this job helps all of the young, black men that could be out there on the streets. it gives us a second chance. we could be out there on the streets doing who knows what. i would like to thank everyone

event in washington, people are always careful to stage it in front of the lincoln memorial with abraham lincoln sort of benignly looking down on them and the reflecting pool in the front. well, i grew up in the washington, d.c., and i'm now old enough to remember when i was a little boy there were still elderly women in washington, friends of my mother's, who still were not really very happy that the mall had been gummed up with a memorial to abraham lincoln. so we don't always, we don't always arrive at these consensuses instantly. but what interested me about the roosevelt memorial is that as with many monuments to historical figures, it really tells us almost as much about the times in which the memorial was made as about the subject of the memorial. and i think that's particularly true in fdr's case. my own opinion is that i don't know that -- i mean, i'm, as a great admirer of franklin roosevelt, i'm delighted that there is a memorial to him, and better the one there is than none, but i'm not a huge fan of the fdr memorial, and i don't know that it's really a memorial that he would particu

player and star has died after being shot last month. 21-year-old david hinderson graduated from abraham lincoln. he was even gary radnich's guest in 2007 when he was named mvp of the turkey bowl. police say henderson was shot three times. there are no suspects in the shooting. >>> it was warmer out there today and the warmer weather is going to continue into tomorrow. we're going to start the day with fog along the coast and in our bay shores. and also mild temperatures. that fog will push back to the coastline by noon and into the afternoon, sunny skies and temperatures just a little bit warmer than today,'s into the 70s in a number of locations. as a matter of fact, the warming trend's going to stick with us through the rest of the week. we'll see peak warming on thursday, 67 degrees for san francisco by thursday. in the upper 70s in san jose, and the low 80s in santa rosa by thursday. we're going to look at temperatures tomorrow neighborhood by neighborhood. a little bit warmer than today, 77 in santa rosa, 74 in napa, 77 in concord. upper 60s, low 70s for our bay shores and 70s also down in

abraham lincoln, the greatest republican, said it. i am going to quote abraham lincoln.excess of the debt shrinks a nation." do you feel like being shrunk? president jefferson guysville -- buys the louisiana purchase for pennies on the acre from napoleon who was broke and it needed to -- and needed to finance another war. excess of that debt shrinks a nation. america and doubles and france disappeared from the new world. wow. america is in trouble. we can do better. we must be bold. we spend without discipline. in the last two years, out of budget. to hit the sweet spot for growth and begin to get the dead in control, we must discipline spending and totally reforme the tax code. that is the easy part. we spent $300 billion a month and borrow $120 billion of its from our competitors. nice move, america. we must reduce spending to get spending down to 18.5% of gdp. and enhance job growth. we can do it by reducing spending $140 billion a year for five years, 1% a year of the gdp. i have identified six broad areas of reduction targets, from $50 billion to $150 billion. every

>> you think about the great speeches that daniel webster gave, and these great speeches that abraham lincoln gave come and they lived through the ages but they were never televised. it did happen. >> people say other government institutions have been opened up,ut it would be interesting to see what they thinkhat government institutions function better. we of the most transparent branch of government. everything we do is done in public. you see are worked in public on the urt. the only impact we have is on the arguments. you see the material we look at in the briefs. what is not public is our internal discussion and argument. the long and short of it is that it is being looked at and we ll see how the pilot program does. but does raise concerns, and i have been sharing my views and not just those of my colleagues. >> chief, i'm want to thank you so much for being here. it means a lot for us to have you as our guest and to have this conversation to begin our supreme court review. i hope you will return every time before e circuit has a conference, because you are always our number one guest an

she gradually did from abraham lincoln high school and plans to go to skyline community college before transferring to san francisco state to obtain a degree in criminal justice and be a probation officer. you can tell she has been raising our brothers and sisters. she is going to make a career out of it. let us have a hand for her. [applause] nice to have you here. congratulations. we were also pleased to recognize elise, who graduated from the high school of arts. on her own, she challenged herself and those around her, saying she was never afraid to express her own opinions. she will attend city college and transfer to the university of santa monica to study theater. demonte calvin was motivated by his mother. he graduated from civic center secondary school and will go to city college this fall. romi youngquist emigrated with her mother from the ivory coast, where her family still lives, threatened by civil war. she realized that in san francisco she had opportunities that her family back home did not that inspired her to do well in school. she graduated also from the school of arts

presents abraham lincoln on his neck. that's dedication.. and it's easier than having the emancipation proclamation on your back. good job, steven. i mean -- yes, stevenson. oh, we're out of time. i'm mike tyson. signing off for "tattoos with with tyson." ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: i've only wanted to hear him say emancipation proclamation. i wanna thank mike tyson. i wanna thank don rickles. watch us tonight with a new show after "nightline." jason sudeikis, piers morgan, and we'll have music from lykke li. thanks for watching. stay tuned for game two of the nba finals here on abc. [ cheers and applause ] ♪

less than half the students could identify president abraham lincoln and explain why he was importantmost three-quarters could not identify the fight against hitler and nazi germany as the second world war. >>> in other education news, one thing students are learning these days is how to find money to pay for college. no small matter. public colleges cost about $16,000 a year and private schools average $36,000. seth doane has more. >> reporter: 12 years of studying earned emily gibbons a high school diploma, but her real work is just beginning. >> all together probably about 12 hours. >> reporter: each day? >> each day. >> reporter: five days a week. >> yes. >> her 9:00 to 5:00 job at $9 an hour is at a label company. then she races home to change her clothes for her 6:00 to 10:00 shift at pizza hut, making $7.40 an hour. by the end of the day, how are you feeling? >> i just want to sleep. i just want to go home and go to bed. >> reporter: but her wake-up call is the cost of the public college she's attending come fall. since 2000, annual tuition at public universities has doubled. >

demand an end to slavery and the recognition of fundamental human dignity and that was the work of abraham lincoln. lincoln's great proclamation inaugurated the march not only toward emancipation but also toward realizing the ideal of full equality for all citizens. immediately after the civil war the first civil-rights act in american history declared the quality of citizenship. the civil war amendments promised that equality constitutionally but it took 100 years of struggle to fulfill that promise and more to perfect it and the lives of all americans change. the third revolution, led by franklin roosevelt, ranks i believe with those of washington and lincoln in the profound changes that worked in the lives of so many americans. aimed to fulfil that third ideal of the revolution, fraternity. the roosevelt revolution raised the proletariat into the middle class and we calibrated the material standards by which americans could expect to live. the american experience, the american democratic ideal called for communal, fraternal action to provide for the general welfare. american historical experien

. >> you mentioned the nape skills, make a look at this picture, you know this face, it's abraham lincoln, when asked for two reasons why he's historically important, only 9% of fourth graders got it right. it's part of the national education progress. it's a u.s. history test. 12% of 12th graders are at or above proficiency. i asked a teacher about this, though, pedro, and she told me i can't spend two more minutes having someone memorize a picture of the president in the 1800s. i've got a lot of other things going on in the classrooms. they've got a lot of challenges. >> absolutely. >> what are we supposed to do about it? >> what's on the test in most tests in elementary school is math and literacy. where does social study fit? where does science fit in? where was the foreign language fit in? what gets tested is what goes into the classroom. we can't allow a test to drive instruction. assessment should be used to diagnose needs and not rank kids. policymakers who don't under the issue who continue to focus narrowly on tests even while the evidence shows our kids aren't being well educat

but prosecutors said it was enough to make abraham lincoln roll over in his grave. u.s. attorney patrick fitzgerald. >> corruption in illinois is not tolerable. governor blagojevich did not get that message. >> reporter: and, scott, the f.b.i.'s chief investigator said that with today's conviction, perhaps illinois's long national embarrassment is finally at an end. >> pelley: thanks, dean. federal prosecutors said today in a court filing that former boston mob leader james "whitey" bulger is talking-- a lot. and proudly filling in details of 16 years on the lam. bulger, who was arrested last week in california, said he made several trips to las vegas to play the slots. he also went to tijuana, mexico, to buy prescription drugs and even returned to boston heavily armed to "take care of some unfinished business." there is news in politics tonight, seven months before the iowa caucuses, michele bachmann announced she's a candidate for the republican presidential nomination. bachmann, a tea party favorite, is a 55-year-old former tax attorney serving her third term as a con

thanks so much for the great work you do in charge thanks so much for being with us here tonight abraham lincoln knew how important an informed electorate was to the survival are they of our nation and he famously said let the people know the facts and the country will be safe unfortunately since ronald reagan blew up the fairness doctrine people are no longer getting the facts of what our nation is facing so many challenges today. after the break a daily take on why government bashing isn't anything new for the republican party actually based back to the one nine hundred twenty s. . that's number given that we had an apartheid regime right. i think. either one well. we're never going to says they were safe get ready because your freedoms. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so bleak you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else here sees some other part of it and realized everything you saw you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture. of the very acrimonious lee ugly the good the a.f.l. cia the nation's largest labor organization is putting the pressure on

abraham lincoln is your gift from the conservative think tank the american enterprise institute thomas then went to three separate cases in which the american enterprise institute filed briefs on behalf of one side and in each case not only do justice thomas not recuse himself but he sided with the american enterprise institute every single time so i can carve three more notches in justice thomas' corruption he's official the best supreme court drug money can buy and that's very variable. details on how apple may even be working for you from taking pictures of misbehaving cleats. and getting. into a little mirror military mechanisms to do the work to bring justice or to the world . i have every right to know what my government should do if you want to know why i pay taxes. i would characterize obama as the charismatic. of american exceptionalism. but so much for years here i thought a record concerts and sporting events in order to stop people from posting videos of live events online some key. companies may have exclusive rights to apple says that they're working with commercial broad