william seward was much better read than abraham lincoln, much more lightly read. lincoln loved shakespeare. in everett office place, but what lincoln read he read breaches do. gave a pretty deeply. lincoln is an autodidact. he teaches himself. one of his law partners his second law partner, stephen logan, i think his first name is steven, he said lincoln's general knowledge of the law was never very great, but william herndon, his third law partner said he always dug up the roots. if there was any case he would just come he would master all the details. he would master all the precedents for the case but that's the way his mind works. he fastens on something and he bores him. and the most moving testimony to that, his mother died when he was nine and his father married again. the stepmother was a remarkable woman. she knew she had a remarkable stepson. her name was sarah bush lincoln. she was interviewed as an old lady by lincoln's last law partner, william herndon who did what we would now call oral history. you know he knew that this friend of his was a remarkabl

in his totality, abraham lincoln is far from typical. his totality, i would agree, he was a great american. if you can, get that lincoln out of your heads for a minute. we will get back to him. how many of you have been to the lincoln memorial? it's huge. there is like 5,000,000 tons of marble in front of you. try if you can go to shove him out of your head. the lincoln that i want to look at is the lincoln in the 1820's. that lincoln __ there are elements he look in his life and say __ there is an indication that he will be something more than typical. but there are also elements that are typical. he probably looks like a lot of other americans. what i want to get at today is __ the antebellum beliefs and thoughts about race and slavery and about how those things intertwine. it is interesting because that is not easy. it really isn't. even today, it is kind of hard to get at what people really feel about some of these touchy subjects. then you go back to someone who is alive 200 years ago. you are all doing papers for me on various aspe

he is chairman or the abraham lincoln bicentennial organization. honored for his work he has earned second place lincoln prize for "lincoln at keep union" in 2005, and in 2008 was awarded the national humanities medal. he is senior vice president at the metropolitan museum of art. joining him will be frank bond. frank has produced award-winning document riz on topics ranging from the role of the press in the civil rights movement and the berlin wall. on issues like bias in the media, -- there's none of that, is there -- n two buy graph wall sketches of juniorism. frank was a member of the team that created the museum's new museum gallery an interactive look at the role of media in journalism today. so without further adieu i'm delighted to yield the stage and podium to our guests, harold and frank. please join me in welcoming them to the stage. [applause] >> good evening. and welcome because tonight's program is going to prove to you that history can be as enticing and sizzling and dramatic as anything netflix can serve up even holiday house of card

you probably look at that and you go -- abraham lincoln, typical? really, that guy? 't he the great emancipator? isn't he thought of as one of the great americans of all time? this is the next to last photograph taken of lincoln when he was president. you know, that is the image we all have in our heads, right? the iconic american image. the beard, the sad look, the tousled hair. that is not a typical american. that is mr. lincoln. i would not disagree with that. in his personality, and when lincoln is far from typical, ok? and he is so talented. he is the great american, ok? what i want you to do, and this is a hard thing to do, i want you to get abram lincoln out of your heads for a minute. we will go back to him toward the end, all right? but the great lincoln -- wow. he is huge. the lincoln memorial. 5 million tons of marble. that is the great lincoln. try to shove him out of your head. the lincoln i want to look at is the lincoln during 1820 through 1850. and that guy, there are elements you look at his life and say, there is an indication he is going to do somet

so that was the final interchange, interplay between horace greeley and abraham lincoln. after that lincoln completely wrote him off. as he said to members of his cabinet he is like an old shoe they can't be repaired and they said what you mean by back? he said you know when we lived on the frontier we would have shoes that were song to the soul and when they wore out our mothers would move them a little bit and then sell them again and make new holes and then maybe move them forward the third time but when they rotted at the bottom and there was no place to put the threads that bind them to you we finally discarded them. that was what greeley was to me an old shoe they can't be repaired. he never spoke to him again and never handled his pager request again. raymond was a very happy man after that. [laughter] p. got to choose all the new york federal appointments or many of them after lincoln won re-election. >> we have microphones on either side of the rim and if you do have a question i would ask you to go to one of the microphones. in the meantime we are going to keep t

we all know abraham lincoln love d to tell jokes. told tons of them. to be blunt, some of them are jokes that if you told them today, they would be considered racist. i am not going to tell any of them. they are not very funny and they are annoying. i wish he hadn't done it, ok? but the evidence is crystal clear. there are some people who want to say, those are people remembering it after the fact. they don't remember it right. come on, man. the evidence is quite clear that on several occasions he told jokes. in these jokes, he does not demonize black people either. he makes them out to be buffoons. i'm not excusing him. i'm just saying that's what he does. aw, shucks, those funky black people. they're so funny. he uses humor that way. he rarely used the n-word. but he did, three or four occasions. again, it depends on how you look at it. douglas used the n-word three or four times a day, it seems like. and we do also know that he and mary liked to attend blackface minstrel shows. if you guys know what i am talking about. by our standards those are qui

he could at abraham lincoln.i gave this some thought as i was getting into the writing of the last chapter of this book. as i was writing the last chapter around the time that a man named senator barack obama was running for the presidency right about the time he was elected to the presidency, it struck me at the time, it was like, how influential is lerone bennett if the most well-known politician in the history of the world is using lincoln's image to further his cause? you also have conservatives, african-americans or libertarian african-americans such as thomas sowell who wrote vigorous defenses of lincoln upon publishing of other lincoln books. one thing my book does is say i do think there is criticism of lincoln on the left. i think it exists. i asked one left wing political theorist, corey robin, i said, what do you think the status of lincoln's on the left? he said, i think it is ambivalently positive. i think, right now where you see the political influence, it comes from this libertarian movement withi

most conservatives, i would say today, love abraham lincoln. look at the claremont review of books. t is very pro-lincoln. there is also the emphasis within the conservative movement today, of lincoln as the man of work and opportunity. i think that is what lowery's book emphasizes, lincoln is a man who believed in opportunity equal opportunity. lincoln is also a guy who is talking about the declaration of independence as applying to all people at all times everywhere. this idea of timeless truth. there is something to the conservative appropriation and admiration of lincoln. that is one thing that we will always still have. he appeals to both liberals and conservatives, right? in a way. that is interesting to me. i don't know that conservatives would say that lincoln was a man of small government. he is a man that believed in limited or constitutionally prudent government. i think that would be the argument. i think that would be the argument. if you are asking me my opinion that is a different story. we would get into tricky problems. people believe in equal opportunity. most ameri

we are a state because of abraham lincoln. was faced with the question of west virginia statewide. he was not happy, i can tell you . he had a pretty full plate at the time. lincoln had become -- it became a political decision for lincoln to create the new state of west virginia. he had a cabinet of six people. he took the question to his cabinet. he asked them to vote on the issue of west virginia's date -- statehood. his cabinet was evenly split. so, it would be abraham lincoln who would be the deciding vote to create the state of west virginia. now he got the bill for west virginia statehood in the middle of 1862. he decided on december 31, the very last day that he could have signed it, he did sign it, and it is an important note that a few days later he would issue the emancipation proclamation. for abraham lincoln, the issuing of west virginia statehood followed by the emancipation proclamation is a one-to political punch. wheeling is the first capital of the new state of west virginia from 1863 until 1870. then it will

>> abraham lincoln. >> abraham lincoln. >> he's not a founding >> what's a founding father >> hi.anklin famous for? >> 100th president. >> i like ben franklin better. he's on the hundred. washington is on the single. >> thomas jefferson. >> what did doe? designee signed it. >> he actually lily wrote it. >> what about sam adams. >> what about it? it's good beer. >> good beer. >> beer. >> had a few of those already? >> no. >> i can have some more punch. >> you know who patrick henry was? >> i heard of him before. >> give me liberty or give me -- >> freedom. >> freedom. >> truth justice and the american way. >> why were we fighting the british. >> taxation without representation. >> no taxation. >> can't be taxed if you're not represented as an individual. >> who is famous for that line >> john smith. that's not it. >> sam adams. >> life, liberty and -- >> freedom of speech. >> it's good enough for me. >> what's the best part about this country? >> our rights. >> everybody can be a go getter and everybody can do whatever they want. >> you're go get center >> yeah. >> go get 'em. >> d

we are a state because of abraham lincoln. he was faced with the question of west virginia statewide. -- statehood. he was not happy, i can tell you, to have this bill on his desk. he had a pretty full plate at the time. lincoln had become -- it became a political decision for lincoln to create the new state of west virginia. he had a cabinet of six people. he took the question to his cabinet. he asked them to vote on the issue of west virginia's date -- statehood. three for three against. his cabinet was evenly split. so, it would be abraham lincoln who would be the deciding vote to create the state of west virginia. now he got the bill for west virginia statehood in the middle of 1862. he signed it on december 31, the very last day that he could have signed it, he did sign it, and it is an important note that a few days later he would issue the emancipation proclamation. for abraham lincoln, the issuing of west virginia statehood followed by the emancipation is a one-two political punch. wheeling is the first capital of the

i mean his gift of oratory wasn't just that it was soaring oratory, he worked on books on abraham lincoln and was amazed that lincoln could say so much in the gettysburg address or emancipation proclamation and so few words. he became the moral conscience of the democratic party. for example, in the 1980s, nobody wanted to talk about aids. mario cuomo was willing to talk

we'll talk about the 1860 photograph of abraham lincoln and 1864 photographs of abraham lincoln thatot only shaped history but captured it as well. mr. wilson will talk about his story of trying to recapture matthew brady. it's a tough thing to do. brady didn't leave much in the way of writings. a few letters, few diaries. brady. it's a tough thing to do. gnat thou brady didn't leave much in the way of writings. a few letters, few diaries. it's a tough nut to crack to figure out what was going on with brady, what stories he was trying to get across, how intentional he was in the art he was trying to create. hopefully after the first hour we'll know more about that. please join me in welcoming mr. wilson to the stage. >>> thank you for that >>> thank you for that great introduction. thanks, too, to harold holtzer for inviting me here today and for other kindnesses. thanks to all of you have given the warm welcome my wife martha and me the last day we've been here. it occurred to me to write about matthew brady about a decade ago as i was finishing my first book, a biography of a 19th

we'll talk about the 1860 photograph of abraham lincoln and 1864 photographs of abraham lincoln that not only shaped history but captured it as well. mr. wilson will talk about his story of trying to recapture matthew brady. it's a tough thing to do. brady didn't leave much in the way of writings. a few letters, few diaries. it is a tough nut to crack. figuring out what stories he was trying to get across. hopefully after the next hour we will know a little more. join me in welcoming mr. wilson to the stage. [applause] >> thank you for that great introduction. thanks, too, to harold holtzer for inviting me here today and for other kindnesses. thanks to all of you for the warm welcome you have given the warm welcome my wife martha and me the last day we've been here. it occurred to me to write about mathew brady about a decade ago as i was finishing my first book, a biography of a 19th century explorer named clarence king. after the civil war, king had led one of the important scientific missions of the west and was the first person to incorporate photography into that sort of study.

sherman sent a telegram to president abraham lincoln announcing the capture of savannah georgia.one of the confederacy's largest cities, and last remaining ports. with typical wit sherman presented the city to the president as a christmas present along with 150 heavy guns, plenty of sherman decided that the time to widen the kwurden and pain of the war beyond just rebel soldiers to include the civilian supporters of the confederacy, especially the common folk. sherman believed that forcing noncombatants to field what he called the hard hand of war was a military necessity. making the war as harsh as possible but bringing victory more quickly and with a minimum loss of life on both sides. it would undermine confederate morale on the home front. trigger a wave of desertions from the armies destroy the confederacy's ability to wage war and prove to the rebels that their cause was hopeless and their government impotent to protect them and their property. this new hard war doctrine was fully sanctioned by the united states government. the previous year president abraham lincoln had ap

the previous year, president abraham lincoln had approved the creation of the code __ aa set of rules based on accepted practices that authorized army to destroy civilian property, star of noncombatants, shell towns, keep enemy civilians in the seized cities __ if some were necessary. to save the country, francis lieber stated, is paramount to all other considerations. like other wartime chief executives, lincoln was willing to take drastic measures to ensure the survival of the united states. so on november 15, 1864, sherman's army set off from atlanta honest and famous march to the sea. cutting a swath of destruction toward savannah on the coast. sherman swore to make georgia power, and in his special field order number 120, he laid out the rules for destruction and conduct for the march. the army was to forge liberally on the country, with details of men and officer sent out each day together for. soldiers were instructed not to enter private homes, and to discriminate between the rich __ who were usually hostile, sherman observed __ and the poor and industrious, who are usually ne

in the last year, published in the journal of the abraham lincoln association, there has been speculation on mary lincoln's purchasing penny royal in springfield when she was pregnant. penny royal is used to rid dogs of fleas or induce an abortion. i was wondering if you had insights on this scholarship. >> i'm sorry. i can't comment on the scholarship. i have not read it. i recent move has meant moving a household from ireland was difficult. i have not looked at that. i would say from my readings, i would have no evidence from her letters or otherwise there would be any way i could comment or believe she was trying to not have a child. the lincolns were besoughted by their children, proud and devoted, that when she's suffered family tragedies, she became president -- became pregnant within the month. the idea of having two sons, and robert gone to school, was something that was in the minds of the lincolns. i look forward to it. >> i wish they would leave the poor woman alone. >> well, well. applaud for raising these controversial questions and keeping it up. i think it is good. i did ta

to symbolically blue -- prove that he is no different, abraham lincoln hires john staples to take his place. october 1, 1864. john staples, lincoln's representative recruit was arrayed in the uniform of the u.s. army and accompanied by general larner of the third ward. he was taken to the executive mansion and received by president lincoln. general frey introduced him by saying mr. president, this is the man who is to represent you in the army for the next year. mr. lincoln shook hands with with staples, remarked that he was a healthy looking young man and believed he would do his duty. he was present -- there was an official notice of the fact that he had put in a representative recruit. the presidential cans with staples and expressed the hope that he would be one of the fortunate ones, and the visiting party and retired. if you are going to fight in the civil war, you want to be abraham lincoln's substitute soldier. you can guarantee will be nowhere near getting killed or captured. once it became the substitute soldier for abraham lincoln greatest wound he probably faced was maybe

your favorite thing about abraham lincoln? >> oh, gosh. i -- i don't know. e were so many wonderful things about him. my favorite -- my favorite thought about lincoln is he believed in two things -- loving one another and working together to make this world better. i think that's good enough to start a religion with and that's what he did. he started a civic religion and we need it now. >> mario m. cuomo, our guest. mario cuomo that yesterday at the age of 82 -- died yesterday at the age of 82. >> watch live coverage of the house on c-span and send live on c-span2, and track the gop-led congress. have your say as the events unfold. new congress, best access on c-span. >> retired supreme court justice john paul stevens on his life legal career, and the supreme court. he has a new book, how and why we should change the constitution, which outlines ways he believes the constitution should be amended to protect democracy. justice stevens retired in 2010 and is the second longest-serving justice in the history of the supreme court. >> well, good morning, everyone

my political hero would be abraham lincoln. he was a strong enough moral character to know what was right, and he was going to do what he knew to be right in his heart. i feel that is missing a lot in our political leaders today. they say they know what is right, but in washington they are persuaded by the different factions. they go along party lines, regardless of __ i do not agree with it. they do not stand up for what they believe to be right themselves. i believe if we had more leaders politically, in general, more leaders in our society who stood up for what they believe to be right, we would be in a better place. host: you are in company because our first comment on twitter said abraham lincoln. when did you get attracted to abraham lincoln as a leader? caller: live in indiana, our general area __ illinois, kentucky __ it is the area that we live in. i am fascinated by the fact that he lost his mother at an early age, he was still educated, his life is fascinating. host: abraham lincoln is first up. thomas from new jerse

i just think of going to abraham lincoln's home and i can still, you almost walk in and some of the dark wallpaper and designs of the time it just kind of seems to take you back into the time and you can to get a sense of the people from the places they've lived. for more than two decades, hugh howard has been writing about the past. and what is really neat is how he took on architecture. his first book, the preservation progress was a collection of essays and profiles, and then when he went right for right, that was with frank loyd wright taking a look at the architectural biography of frank loyd wright, and he partnered with roger strauss to take the photographs, and what followed is a series of books that are just not only stunning to look at but really faceting to be. we had hugh here before for the house of the founding fathers is one of the things. just an interesting look at the founding fathers and the houses they live in. he's written a number of books but this one is especially timely at the observance of the anniversary of the civil war and as i say, the photographs are specta

we are a state because of abraham lincoln. he was not happy i can tell you, to have the bill on his disk. he had a pretty full plate at the time. it becomes a political decision for lincoln to create the new state of west virginia. he had a cabinet of six people. he asked them to vote on the issue of west virginia statehood, and they did. three for three against. his cabinet was evenly split. to abraham would be the deciding vote for the state of west virginia. he got the bill in the middle of 1862. he signed it on december 31st the last day that e had could have signed it he did tine it and it is important to note that just a few days later he would issue the emancipation proclamation. so the issuing of west virginia staid hood is a one-two political punch. wheeling is the first capital of the new state of west virginia from 1863 until 1870. then it will go to cherylston, wednesday. and there it will be for five years. they will bring it back to wheeling for the second time in 1875 and it will remain there for the next ten yea

but it clearly neither you nor abraham lincoln had a lot of money spent on you for education. somehow you figured it out. >> but i have a mother and father -- lincoln's father apparently was not so prone to encouraging his son. his stepmother was and his stepmother pushed lincoln very hard to read and to learn i had two parents who did nothing but push us on education. i had two parents, my father particularly, he was a very smart man he really was and it's hard to think of him now even at my advanced stage and you get choked up thinking about what it must be like to be as smart as he and my mother were and know what you can't communicate, you can't write, you can't read etc. etc. host: so they were smart? >> they were very smart and he would say to me always the same thing. i'm working for one reason -- so that you people get the education we didn't have so that you can be more than i have been able to be. now, if i can get you educated i will have done my job. you're going to have to do much more because you're going to have an education, and so everything they did he had fou

american history tv", tonight at 8:00 pm eastern, anderson university professor, brian durr, uses abraham lincoln'se to understand the views of what americans on slavery. and sunday __ a discussion on birth control advocacy. find our complete television schedule at c_span.org. let us know what you think about the programs you're watching. call us, email us, or send us a tweet. like us on facebook. follow us on twitter. >> the senate is expected to vote monday on whether to limit debate and advanced a bill that would authorize the construction of the keystone xl pipeline. senators began debating the measure earlier this week, after it was introduced as one of the first items in the agenda. north dakota senator john hoeven is a sponsor of the bill. he spoke on the floor, along with supporters and those who opposed the legislation. this is a little less than two hours. senator joe manchin and actually a total of 60 sponsors, i have filed s. 1, which is the keystone approval bill. it's a very simple, straightforward bill. this is legislation that we've seen before in this body. what it does is under th

personally that vongd for the best estimateer better time for the youth in the community president abraham lincoln ability he's demonstrate thought serving the youth by giving life and breath by resuscitating the community we owe him a round of applause for all your work and efforts in transforming lives the reality is that not only is this district honored thirty to video an elected official but changing the lives the k level but california needs more service people like you an on behalf of the state of california again congratulations on this special day (clapping.) so you will repeat after me you'll right hand. >> (repeated.) >> do seldom swear. >> (repeated.) >> if i will support and >> (repeated.) >> the constitution of the united states. >> (repeated.) >> and the constitution of the state of california. >> (repeated.) >> against all enemies. >> (repeated.) >> foreign and domestic. >> (repeated.) >> that i will bear true faith and alliances. >> (repeated.) >> to the constitution of the united states. >> (repeated.) >> and the constitution of the state of california. >> (repeated.) >> i that t

back to virginia in 1846 which puts the confederacy at the doorstep of the union so subsequently abraham lincoln perhaps for understandable reasons although the historians are still debating it turns washington city into a police state. and a police state that has a lot of spies run by people like lafayette and baker and allen pinkerton. as has prisons including a prison across the street directly from the capital called the old capitol person which obviously used to be the site of the capital itself after the capital was birthed by the british in 1813. the old brick capitol, the old capital prison has a number of spies and provocateurs housed in it. often because of spies, someone informing on someone else and is well what do you find at the time is a huge military traffic coming in so churches are being ferried into the town livestock as well. washington monument which was incomplete at that time becomes grounds for military livestock military cattle and the slaughterhouses nearby. the mall in the center of town becomes home to a lot of rampaging cows and pigs and other animals designed for mi

. >> a lot of armchair psychiatrists have diagnosed abraham lincoln is having depression. >> i never examined him, so if you are going to ask me there is a rule of psychiatry that you do not diagnose people your government. i tried talking to question lincoln but he just would have nothing to do with me. i'm not going to -- what you think? >> does not matter what i think. i believe they have changed at now. i believe they have made it that if you have gone for 12 months without an episode of depression that you can fly. it is not an issue that the medication impairs your ability to fly. you would think that an pain medicine or muscle relaxants as well i think the fear is if someone could be potentially mentally unstable they should not be flying an airplane. >> is addiction and mental illness to back. >> it depends on whether you are an insurance company. if you are the diagnostic statistical manual of mental illnesses, yes. if you are an insurance company somehow treatment of addiction has been pushed out separately so you cannot be admitted to the psychiatric unit with a primary di

beef, and the president's favorite, oysters, greeted guests as well as an elegantly appointed abraham lincoln with his wife mary at his side. a cake in the shape of a fort as well as elegant spun sugar deserts amused the throng. the marine band played mary lincoln's polka and the washington star pronounced it the most superb affair of its kind ever seen. mary had taken nearly a year hoping to banish the memory of her predecessors reign in the white house. hair yet lane had been both a popular socialite and an impeccable style setter. mary clemor, one of the dragon ladies of d.c., gave lane very high marks and remarked her superb physique gave the impression of intense, harmonious vitality. her eyes of deep violet shed a constant steady light as they could flash with rebuke, kindle with humor, or soften with tenderness. her classic head was crowned with masses of golden hair. mary's gold when she took over the executive mansion focused on erasure of memories of when this blond younger model made washington society dance to her tune. clemor suggested that mary had an impossible task to fulfill

i had the same reaction i think abraham lincoln did when i first went in with the general assembly.looked around and said, “what am i doing with all these guys?” two years later, he said, “i wonder what some of these guys are doing here?” anyway, you learn. the first thing i learned you had accept when you got into this business is there is a gap between theory and practice, between what you teach and what exists. you learn to use the philosophy and teachings and writings of the founding fathers and let them lay against the reality of what you have to do to get things done. i think it is a good blueprint to be a legislator. >> do you learn something new every day? >> this job is a college education every day. last year for instance, i was doing health care. you have to know the insurance industry. you have to know the doctors hospitals, pharmaceuticals. all these things have to come together. all those issues out there are tied in with the whole issue of what is health care. then the people who are the consumers and what their concerns and needs are. every day, you're learning somet

tonight at 8:00, anderson university professor uses abraham lincoln's life to understand the use of whiten dish views of white americans on slavery. a discussion on birth control. the impact race, -- find our full schedule on www.c-span.org. let us know what you think about the programs you are watching. call us, e-mail us or send us a tweet. join the c-span conversation. like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. >> join american history tv on sunday for our look at historical roles the house -- of the house speaker. we feature the opening day remarks of newt gingrich and nancy pelosi. we will hear from the former house historian who explains the speakers constitutional role and offers profiles of the congressional leaders. that is sunday at noon on c-span3's american history tv. >> next, look at the book "insurrections of the mind." the book was published four new republic's centenary anniversary. jeffrey rosen of the national constitution center speaks with mr. foer about the book and the magazine's vision. this was filmed two days before franklin foer resigned as editor. he left becau

there's a famous abraham lincoln brigade. a distant relative of mine, a very famous, later a very famous composer went and bought in the abraham lincoln brigade. george orwell was involved but this was the one that brought in a sense or anticipated the kind of conflict that the world would have less than a decade later. the nazis were very involved. the germans were very involved supporting franco. i'm sure everyone has watched the show is my with the taping -- and people who on the left came into support the republic came into support the soviet union as well were on the other side. so this was a kind of proxy where they kept burning and burning an increasingly horrific ways to the descriptions of what happened in barcelona, catalonia but they really match some of the information, images that are coming out at this remote in the outskirts of damascus. cities become proxy wars allowed to burn out of control, and they help set the scene for larger complexes to follow close to what she would be doing in syria? >> guest: now it'

so when adams does take on slavery, he makes to primary arguments which abraham lincoln will take advantage of. the first one is, the founding document of the united states the founding legal document of the united states, is not the constitution. it's the declaration of independence. and he says publicly, for over -- almost two decades, you have to read the constitution with the framework of the declaration of independence guiding and illuminating what it means legally. once you read those two together and in tandem it becomes clear the direction american history will march in. the second argue. he makes possibly again for almost 20 years is only the federal government can do this. and therefore state sovereignty has to be subordinated to federal power in order for this to happen. now, resolving this moral contradiction is not something that happens in his life, but it is the third component of power that adams thinks the united states needs before it can back a power bit of actually influenced the rest of the world. the three different components of national power, physical security natio

you come with me on this bill and two hundred years from now they will know only two names, abraham lincoln and edgar dirkson. and the naacp will be flying your barn. but just to go back to what we were saying before, i think that tension between a social movement, pushing at a president, is the best moment in our american history, the progressive movement pushed it, teddy roosevelt, the backritionists pushed abraham lincoln and the civil rights movement pushed kennedy and johnson. that's where the change takes place, the women's movement the civil rights moviemovement and you need a president open to that. and i think even though jfk had started to be open to it after that march, what you needed was somebody who was going to put it at the top of his agenda and that's what lbj did. he was able to understand that he could say in his first speech to congress no memorial would matter to jfk more than the passage of the civil rights bill. so he used that whole feeling towards jfk and his death to help him but then it became his thing. and when you have a leader the stature of martin luther king

concentrations in the bayview i don't why we can't do that have malcolm x and george drew and abraham lincoln if they're not going to the programs let's bring world language to them and give them an hour of language a day so that you know we just are not sitting on our laurels and saying they're not interested in the program well, they need to learn another language to be bilingual also so i suggest if we're not seeing the equality in those programs then 53 we should as a district be thinking about bringing language to those students so i suggest that thank you very much those are interesting yes, a whole list of stuff and hear it next month but thank you for this. >> mr. haney and i'd like to make comments. >> first of all, i agree a commissioner fewer she said i'm to have the opportunity to explore that our general conversation about the language pathway this was brought up particularly in reference to the vision 2025 i think a lot of the ways we're envisioning where we are going going to be the students won't be in the school room there is a lot more done on line and potentially through wo

composer went and fought in the abraham lincoln brigade. george orwell was involved. but this was a wore -- war that in a sense anticipated the kind of conflict the world would have less than a decade later. the nazis were very involved supporting franco that's, i'm sure, everyone who is watching the shows i familiar with the painting -- and people who are on the left came in to support the republic, came in to support the over jet union as well on the other side. so this was a kind of proxy war that kept burning and burning in increasingly horrific ways. the stringses stringses of what happened in barcelona and cat lone ya today -- cat lone ya today really match the information, the images coming out at this very moment from homes and the -- so these become proxy wars that burn out of control and help set the scene for larger conflicts to follow. >> host: what should be we doing in syria now? >> guest: now it's very difficult. it's very, very difficult. it's almost like asking a doctor well, we had a patient who two years ago had a stage o

. >> guest: there was a famous abraham lincoln brigade. it is a relative of mine a very famous leader composer went and bought an abraham lincoln brigade. george orwell was involved but this was a war that in a sense anticipated the kind of conflict that the world would have less than a decade later. the nazis were very involved. the germans were very involved supporting franco. i'm sure everyone who's watching the show is familiar and people who were on the left came to support the republic came to support the soviet union as well run the other side. this was kind of a proxy war the cap burning and burning and increasingly horrific ways. they there were descriptions of what happened in barcelona and babylonia the day that really match some of the information, the images that are coming out at this very moment from comsat aleppo in the outskirts of damascus so these become proxy wars that are about to burn out of control and they help set the scene for larger complex that follow. >> host: what should we be doing in syria now? >> guest: wel

. >> oo a lat of armchair psychiatrists have diagnosed abraham lincoln as having depression. >> guest: i never examined him. there's a rule in psychiatrist that you don't diagnose people you have never met. i tried talking to mr. lincoln but we ooh have nothing do with me. i'm not going to -- that do you think? >> host: well, doesn't matter what i think. but dinah miller, you write in your book that the faa prohibits pilots from taking certain psychotherapeutic drugs. >> guest: i think the faa prohibits pilots from taking any psychotherapeutic drug. i believe they've changed that now. i believe they've made it that if you have gone for 12 months without an episode of depression, that you can fly. it's not an issue that the medication impairs your ability to fly. certainly some medications impair your ability to fly but you would think that of pain medicines or muscle relaxanted. it's not limited to -- even allergy medicines make people sleepy. but i think the fear is that if somebody could potentially be mentally unstable they should not be flowing flying an airplane. >> host: is addi

is it going to take a nuclear bomb going off at abraham lincoln's feecht at thefeet? i mean what's it going to take? >> we continue to fight it i think we -- no. we continue to fight it, and they continue to fight us. so maybe it's the fight that we're waging that isn't working. what do you think? >> i mean, i go back to what i just said. i mean, i think it's a strategy. we don't have a plan. you know? we're famous for just jumping from war to war. know what i mean? not finishing anything. we've got to look, get the politics out of it. we've got to get the lawyers out of it and we need to let our men and women go and fight this problem. and that's what it is. we've got the best military on the face of the earth. but we need to get our lawyers out of it. if you're going to send them over, let them go fight. let them do it. if we made war ugly enough if we made war so ugly that people didn't want to fight us, well, then we wouldn't have this problem. >> i heard from a military -type yesterday. a sergeant who said the type of battles we wage try to wipe this out whether

he is chairman or the abraham lincoln bicentennial organization. honored for his work he has earned second place lincoln prize for "lincoln at keep union" in 2005, and in 2008 was awarded the national humanities medal. he is senior vice president at the met

abraham lincoln said he wasn't going to abide by that. nobody argues that abraham lincoln should have a bided with the scott decision. i think we recognized he had the courage to realize that he didn't have to for something that was morally wrong. it goes in the same vein if you read the letters from the birmingham jail that martin luther king wrote that there are laws that sometimes man passes that are not just lost. i'm just saying i think people have taken to writing things for me that i never said. reporter: would you be comfortable issuing marriage licenses? would you order your stuff not to do that? >> in arkansas, a judge did in fact rule. on a friday afternoon, he issued a ruling. he issued a ruling that invalidated a constitutional amendment that have been passed by 70% of the voters in 2004 when i was governor. if i had been governor i think i would have done something differently than what happened. the next day, people were issuing marriage licenses in counties that were even open on saturdays. by whose authority did that happ

. >>> also, a collection of abraham lincoln memorabilia that includes lock of the slain president's hair is sold for more than $800,000 at auction. the lock of hair alone sold for $25,000. it was taken by the surgeon general shortly after lincoln was shot by john wilkes boot. clipping of linen take friend lincoln's death bed also sold for $6,000. report of the donald d towel collection. >> one of holly with wood's longest running marriages is coming to an end. patrick dempsey and his wife, make up artist julian, are splitting after 15 years of marriage. "tmz" reports fink filed for divorce siting irreconciliable differences, the couple has three children together. a 12 year old and seven year old twin boys. >> okay, check this out. today's wintery weather was the perfect backdrop for a frozen fundraiser. cbs-3 "eyewitness news" in bensalem this morning as more than 500 people braved the ice cold temperatures, and plunged into the delaware river. seventh annual eastern polar bear plunge benefits special olympics, this year, over $100,000 was raised. great job everyone, i'm sure now they'r