but for anybody would believe that abraham lincoln was like caesar but that is the reality of john wilkes booth. you can believe that maybe andrew johnson was part of the conspiracy to get to the top. you can believe the conspiracy was part of holland standing people to kill a president. jube say that is not all that crazy? but since the party was founded, who are the presidents of the opposition party? one was harrison and he died in office but they said it was pneumonia and the next was zachary taylor and he got in the way of the selfie and he died in office but how convenient then abraham lincoln and there is the pattern and democrats say but then to the what type of message does that send the there is a broader conspiracy out there and people believed it. there were books but it is all parts of the mindset end if you have another president who believes members of the congress ought to compare themselves to christ that think members plan to kill, kill 8 million americans in the south it is a level of irrationality that is incredible. suppose did the president of the united states said

you wouldn't imagine that anybody as a assassin would believe that abraham lincoln he was a threat to the republic. you could believe that maybe andrew johnson was part of the conspiracy to try to finish off, you can believe the can spears he was part of a long-standing conspiracy by the democratic party to kill any president who wasn't like them. you can say oh that's crazy but since the democratic party was founded under under jackson who is the president of the opposite party? and then zachary taylor, and he got in the way of the south and he died, then it was abraham lincoln and you are following the democrats you should let democrats because you can guarantee they wouldn't run for office. what kind of message did that sent. you're beginning to sense that there might be a broader conspiracy out there, you could believe it, they thought it was fair. if you got a president of the united states who believes that members of congress are out to kill him he compares himself and thinks members of the congress plan to kill, kill 8 million americans let's talk about a level of irrationalit

is a memorial to abraham lincoln of course, the , namesake of nebraska's capitol city. the statue was created on labor day of 1912, labor day of that year to commemorate the 100th , anniversary of lincoln's birth, which had passed a year or so before. in that commemoration, the city of lincoln, along with people across the state, raised the sum of money to build this memorial and in the process, they commissioned an artist by the name of daniel chester french. well, french became rather renowned nationally and internationally for his images of abraham lincoln as memorials, particularly of abraham lincoln at the west end of the national mall in washington dc. however, this particular statue behind me was the first one french had ever done, was considered the high water mark of his career at the time he achieved it, and he was so successful at lincoln memorials, he was commissioned to do the one on the national mall the same year we started building this building, which was 10 years after the memorial was put in place. and the man who designed the column dated white marbl

abraham lincoln is a man of modest preparation, very bright. he had to work very hard to get it at a modest, small, very good liberal arts college at a time when a bachelor's degree meant something. and at a time in fact, when you graduated from the sixth grade and you can spell better than i'm afraid many a ph.d. today. abraham lincoln also had something going for him that no politician has before. there was one book that he was raise odd in almost every american home at the time. and it was a book that besides its beautiful and inspiring message had beautiful and inspiring language. that was the king james bible. and if the gettysburg address had begun with 87 years ago instead of four score and seven years ago, we might not even remember it. we wouldn't remember it with the same intensity. because there was a biblical imagery to it that gave it a a majesty and which was even more powerful in those days. and then he linked it four score and seven years ago, our forefathers. he linked it to his founding fathers. so he wasn't just talking about

abraham lincoln is a man of modest preparation, very bright. he had to work very hard to get it at a modest, small, very good liberal arts college at a time when a bachelor's degree meant something. and at a time in fact, when you graduated from the sixth grade and you can spell better than i'm afraid many a ph.d. today. abraham lincoln also had something going for him that no politician has before. there was one book that he was raise odd in almost every american home at the time. and it was a book that besides its beautiful and inspiring message had beautiful and inspiring language. that was the king james bible. and if the gettysburg address had begun with 87 years ago instead of four score and seven years ago, we might not even remember it. we wouldn't remember it with the same intensity. because there was a biblical imagery to it that gave it a a majesty and which was even more powerful in those days. and then he linked it four score and seven years ago, our forefathers. he linked it to his founding fathers. so he wasn't just talking about

it is commonplace among historians that abraham lincoln was not an abolitionist. and there are good, solid reasons for believing this, not least of which that lincoln himself distanced himself from the movement. in his first public declaration of his antislavery principles, likins said that slavery was based on injustice and bad policy. and that abolitionists did more harm than good. he did not talk like an abolitionist, either. he never called for the immediate abolition of slavery. he never did out the slaveholders as sinners. he never condemned the constitution. he never endorsed slave rebellions. he never advocated repeals of the illinois laws discriminating against blacks. he never wrote for an abolitionist newspaper. he spoke at temperate society meetings. but to my knowledge, he never spoke at an abolitionist meeting and never joined in abolitionist society. he never said that the federal government should help destroy slavery by surrounding the southern states with what abolitionists called a cordon of freedom. he never uttered the common metaphor -- the me

among commonplace historians that abraham lincoln was not enable us this. ere are solid reasons for believing this, not least of which was that lincoln himself distanced himself from the movement in 1837. in his first public declaration, lincoln said slavery was based on injustice and that policy and that abolitionists did more harm than good. he did not talk like an abolitionist, either. the never called for the immediate abolition of slavery. he never denounce the slaveholders as sinners or condemned the constitution as a covenant of hell. he never endorsed slave rebellion or advocated repeal of the illinois laws discriminating against blacks. he published clinical trash -- polemical trush but he never wrote for an abolitionist newspaper. he spoke at colonization society meetings but he never spoke at an abolitionist meeting and never joined an abolitionist society. he never said the federal government should help destroy slavery by surrounding the southern states with what abolitionists called a cordon of freedom. he never uttered the metaphor among repub

so you might remember that abraham lincoln is shot at forth's theater at about 10:30 on friday, april 14, 1865. this is just a few days after lee surrendered to grant at appomattox. effectively ending the civil war. lincoln is at the play and is shot in the back of the head by john wilkes booth by a small lead bullet. that bullet is actually on display here and you can see it in that small glass globe. the bullet was recovered the next day at an autopsy performed at the white house. in the hours, though, just shortly after lincoln is shot, the surgeon general, surgeon general joseph barnes, responds to the president's side. this is at the peterson's house directly across the street from ford's theater. barnes calls for something called a probe and when he founted that in the back here on display. the idea with the probe was that it would be threaded into the wound with the idea that depending on how far into the wound the probe would go might identify where the fragment or bullet was. they weren't able to do so. the bullet they found later ended up being lodged behind lincoln's right

abraham lincoln is a man of modest preparation, very bright. he had to work very hard to get it at a modest, small, very good liberal arts college at a time when a bachelor's degree meant something. and at a time in fact, when you graduated from the sixth grade and you can spell better than i'm afraid many a ph.d. today. abraham lincoln also had something going for him that no politician has before. there was one book that he was raise odd in almost every american home at the time. and it was a book that besides its beautiful and inspiring message had beautiful and inspiring language. that was the king james bible. and if the gettysburg address had begun with 87 years ago instead of four score and seven years ago, we might not even remember it. we wouldn't remember it with the same intensity. because there was a biblical imagery to it that gave it a a majesty and which was even more powerful in those days. and then he linked it four score and seven years ago, our forefathers. he linked it to his founding fathers. so he wasn't just talking about

abraham lincoln's name is not even mentioned. lincoln had been elected president, he was the host discussed man in the united states and -- the most discussed man in the united states and yet, you know, booth had not focused on him. but as time went on, of course, booth began to think more and more about lincoln, began to see the revolutionary changes that lincoln was making to america. it's interesting, booth was 26 when he shot lincoln, 26. abraham lincoln was the first president elected to two terms during booth's whole 26-year lifetime. we were just in a run of one-term presidents. and when lincoln was elected a second time, it was easy for those who hated, hated lincoln, right, to think that lincoln wants more than a second term. remember, there's no term limits, right, in the 19th century. that there's no end to what lincoln could have if he wanted it. and the stuff lincoln did, the draft, emancipation, the income tax, military supervision of boating, trade and travel restrictions, suppression of this, that and the other, su

but it is an important civil war artifact that will link former president abraham lincoln and pope francis physician to philadelphia. >> holy father's use of this lectern is incredibly significant as it is the same lecture used by president lincoln to deliver the gettysburg address on november november 19th, 1863. >> reporter: it was a little over 150 years ago when president lincoln used this lectern to dedicate part of the civil war battlefield at gettysburg as a cemetery giving one of the most famous speeches in american history. >> so to borrow a phrase from the address it is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this, that this lectern be used by pope francis to deliver his address at independence hall. >> reporter: the lectern is on loan to the union league for its civil war artifacts collect. the idea to have pope francis use it came about at a meeting of vatican officials and event organizers at the union league earlier this year. >> to have this man of faith who speaks for peace love and religious freedom around the world, to use president lincoln's gettysburg lectern to

we think it is remarkable that his very first memory was about another president, abraham lincoln, and about another war the civil war, and of course wilson would have to leave the country for world war i. this family is representative of what we often hear about, the house divided. the wilson's were from ohio, the mother's family were also in ohio, although they had immigrated from england and scotland, but the wilsons were the only ones on his side of the family who were in the south and took the southern side of the conflict. all of his brothers and sisters were up north of the time. it created a bit of a division. the civil war affected them like it did most people. we often hear that the south was subject to huge inflationary situation with money because the confederate currency was getting more and more worthless, and we see that demonstrated in the church records. president wilson's salary was given to him quarterly. the first part of a can 65, they paid him his regular installment, and then they started shoving money at him $5000 here, $3000 there, but of course it was practica

and they said abraham lincoln has just been elected president. and there's going to be a war. young tommy ran inside to ask his father what was war, what did that mean, why were they so excited? we think it's remarkable that his very first memory was about another president, abraham lincoln, and about another war the civil war. and of course, wilson would leave the country through world war i. this family is representative of what we often hear about the house divided. because the wilson's were from ohio, the mother's family also lived in ohio, although they had immigrated from england and scotland. but the wilson's lived here in augustine and they were the only ones on his side of the family who were in the south and took the southern side of the conflict. all of his brothers and sisters his mother was of norse of the time -- up north at the time it. they created a bit of a division. the civil war affected the wilson's like it did most people. the modern part of the civil war -- the latter part of the civil war, the south was subject to a huge inflationary situation with mone

a review just ran in the washington times a few days ago, tuesday, about abraham lincoln. but lincoln was a master of the words. in fact, i entitled the review abraham lincoln, a man of his words, with an "s," because, as i'll explain in a minute, i think ronald reagan was one of ever of few others that was a president of his words. a r as i was doing the lincoln book, i started thinking more and more about lincoln. most presidents define about by while they were in office and what others write about them afterwards. in the 20th century, only franklin roosevelt and ronald reagan embedded themselves in history largely through their living words and images, fdr via radio and film and ronald reagan with television, as well. part of the reason is the immense mainly positive impact of their words. fdr told us that we had nothing to fear but fear sxifts we overcame the great depression and liberated the real isis of evil. ronald reagan told mr. gorbechev to tear down that wall and it came down along with the evil empire hiding behind it. great rhetoric matched by great words. onl

we think it is remarkable that his very first memory was about another president, abraham lincoln, andnother war the civil war, and of course wilson would have to leave the country for world war i. this family is representative of what we often hear about, the house divided. the wilson's were from ohio, the mother's family were also in ohio, although they had immigrated from england and scotland but the wilson's were the only ones on his side of the family who were in the south and took the southern side of the conflict. all of his brothers and sisters were up north of the time. it created a bit of a division. the civil war affected them like it did most people. we often hear that the south was subject to huge inflationary situation with money because the confederate currency was getting more and more worthless, and we see that demonstrated in the church records. president elson haas father -- wilson's father was given to him quarterly -- the salary was given to him quarterly. the first part of a can 65, they paid him his regular installment, and then they started shoving money at him

our final stop today is an exhibit on the assassination of abraham lincoln. and features artifacts that were collected during those hours that surgeons were treating him after he was shot at ford's theater and during and after his autopsy the next day. so you might remember that abraham lincoln is shot at forth's theater at about 10:30 on friday, april 14, 1865. this is just a few days after lee surrendered to grant at appomattox. effectively ending the civil war. lincoln is at the play and is shot in the back of the head by john wilkes booth by a small lead bullet. that bullet is actually on display here and you can see it in that small glass globe. the bullet was recovered the next day at an autopsy performed at the white house. in the hours, though, just shortly after lincoln is shot, the surgeon general, surgeon gene

abraham lincoln knows the end is near. grant has been giving him hints. we are making good success here, i want you to come down. when he gets word at city point that richmond has fallen, lincoln said, it seems to me i've been dreaming a horrid dream for four years, and now the nightmare is gone. i want to see richmond. the next day, he goes on a ship up river to richmond. he takes his son with him. his son, tad. it is tad's 12th birthday, but it's a very small contingent that arrive in richmond. lincoln arrives early. weitzel gets word the president is coming but not for several hours. they made better time than expected, and when lincoln arrives, he is greeted by slaves who see lincoln coming up river. word begins to spread, and they gathered to greet the liberator, abraham lincoln. little tad, 12 years old, always wears a miniature union uniform in the pictures you see of him. always dressed like a miniature soldier. lincoln marches through the streets for a two-mile walk. no official greeting. he has 12 bodyguards, 12 sailors admiral porter brought alo

of independent hall he'll use the same podium that abraham lincoln did when he spoke during the get it isberg address. >> four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought form a new nation. >> it is probably the single best piece of american presidential borrowing. >> reporter: 1863 president abraham lincoln delivered the gettysburg address in the midst of the civil war. >> lincoln's approach was one of reconciliation. of remembrance and also i think hope for the future. >> reporter: the lectern used to at the gettysburg address is used by the holiday union league. jim monday director of sequestration and programming is excited for the day when the lectern will appear on a modern stage. >> to bring a piece of physical history out, and to put it in the context of a history making moment, it's phenomenonal. >> that day will be september 26 during the papal visit. >> the pope will speak from the same podium used at another very hispanic motel, the gettysburg address. >> reporter: from behind this civil war lectern and in front of this building independent hall, pope francis will mak

abraham lincoln. little tad, 12 years old, always wears a miniature union uniform in the pictures you see of him. always dressed like a miniature soldier. lincoln marches through the streets for a 12 mile walk. no official greeting. lincoln has 12 bodyguards, 12 sailors admiral porter brought along with him. his 12-year-old son, admiral porter, and one bodyguard. as he walks through the streets, he is greeted again by the slaves. great praise, great emotion shown by lincoln as he enters richmond. this has been depicted by many artists. as he gets to the confederate white house, an orderly runs up to the virginia state house. he rushes in and says, "the president is at the white house. he has arrived early." weitzel finishes what he is doing, gets in a carriage and rushes over to the white house. as he rushes in making apologies to president lincoln, the two of them sit down to business. the story goes that lincoln asks weitzel, "who is here besides us?" weitzel says, "it's just us, mr. president." linc

a great republican president abraham lincoln said a house divided against itself cannot stand. we need to win this election. we need to do it not bipolar bipolarizing but by uniting the american people behind good, intelligent conservative limited government policies. i know i can do it because i did it three times in new york the most blue state in america, with more than three million democrats. we can win this election by bringing the american people together behind us. if i run, i promise you i will do that and take america's government back for the people. thank you. mr. heath: thank you governor. >> while jeb bush was governor of florida. 80,000 businesses were started and 1.3 million jobs created. mr. heath: governor bush. common core curriculum is controversial in new hampshire. should state and local school boards reject national educational standards? mr. bush: they should. states should create standards they should be state driven and locally implemented. the federal government should have no role in the creation of standards, no role in the creation directly or indi

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emperor, abraham lincoln was a threat to the republic and was like brutus killing caesar. that is the reality of john wilkes booth. after that you can believe anything. you can believe may be andrew johnson was part of the conspiracy to get to the top. you can believe the conspiracy was part of a longstanding conspiracy by the democratic party to kill any president who wasn't a democrat. you may say that is not -- that is crazy, you would say but since the democratic party was founded under andrew jackson, who were the presidents of the opposition party? the first was william henry harrison and within a month he died in office. they said it was pneumonia and then the next one was zachary taylor and oh he got in the way of the south and he died in office. how convenient it was and then abraham lincoln, quite a nice pattern and if you have prominent democrat saying to audiences you should like democrats because you know you can't guarantee they won't buy out of office, what kind of message does that send? you are beginning to sense there might be a wider broader conspiracy o

flag that entire time, and that was the policy of abraham lincoln because secession was not recognized. to the right of that u.s. flag is the stars and bars. that is the first national flag of the confederacy. in the middle is a south carolina state flag. now, to the right of that, you have the second national flag of the confederacy, also known as the stainless banner, and that one became the national flag in 1863. the first national flag look too close to a u.s. flag, so this one is not gonna be mistaken for a u.s. flag. february 18, 1865, is when charleston was reclaimed by the u.s. army. that is when the civil war ended in charleston harbor, and when that flag goes up, it signifies the end of the war. flag. actually, two more states were added to the union, or to the flag, during the civil war, which include west virginia, which had seceded from virginia to join the union, and then there was also kansas. >> although the u.s. army made repairs, the fort never saw action again. in 1948, it became a national monument and is managed by the national park service. there's a museum with l

lincoln study center, abraham lincoln institute, she also has served as the scholar is advisory council for president lincoln's year in washington d.c. she received a special award in 2009 from the state of illinois for her lincoln studies and last but not least, she received our own lincoln group award a few years ago. she is a respected historian and valued friend of the lincoln group. today, she is going to be talking a one of the most important legacies of lincoln in the civil war era, the story of the african american. please welcome edna greene medford. [applause] professor medford: thank you for that fine introduction. i was wondering who you were talking about. i was given permission to close this because i am so short. i would like to thank the lincoln group of d.c. for the opportunity to present at this morning and especially to present at this pulpit. it is very special. i had no idea that this was so special. i am delighted to be one of the few to be able to present from this pulpit this morning. in august 1865, nearly four months after the civil war ended, jordan anderson 4

it was founded in 1862 with the pacific railway act, signed into law by abraham lincoln.t combined several railroad companies to make union pacific, and there were charged with building that transcontinental railroad. they started here, moving west, and central pacific started on the west and moved east. they met in omaha. that is what propelled us farther. we became that point of moving west, one of the gateways of the west. to helpility came about rail travel, all of the passengers coming through omaha. the first station reached capacity. they needed a new modern station. it was a brand-new, art deco building, a different style. the first one was neoclassical. art deco was in vogue in 1931, so they decided to build this new one, and show the nation that omaha had arrived as far as architecture. at the height of rail travel, it was 1946, about 10,000 people per day, 64 trains coming and going. what you would have seen -- people coming and going, and when the silence trains departed. they would have these great times of activity, people running back and forth, and then de

abraham lincoln was convinced that god was on his side. so was jackson. completely. without doubt. this was a matter of believe. so yes, destroying enemy armies was part of his belief in god. host: i find it so interesting that the man that you describe was able to command an army the way he was. how was he able to get people to follow him? your question gets to the idea of command and how command can transform people. the civil war was a great transformer of people, and it was all command that did it. i talked about the civil war general who turned out to be a coward. when he gets command, it's up to you now -- command transformed many leaders into cowards and incompetencts. ulysses s. grant had failed at everything he had done. war, he wasor the working in a store for his a broom.aning on command pulled something out of grant, moral courage, the ability to make a decision. if you compare jackson's schoolroom at the military university, where he taught, it was pandemonium. he could not control the class. they would take linchpins out of cannons during artillery class and the canon

we think it is his first memory was about another president, abraham lincoln, and another war, the civil war and wilson would have to lead the country through world war i. >> see all of our programs from augusta throughout the day on c-span two tv and sunday afternoon at 2:00 on american history tv on c-span three.

important to note that 2015 will mark the 150th anniversary of the assassination of president abraham lincoln. we hope you enjoyed this visit to our exhibit on civil war medicine and the artifacts related to the assassination of abraham lincoln here at the natural museum of health and medicine. it's important for us to share these artifacts that convey the lessons and the history of military medicine with 150 years ago, and that's the inspiration for much of the work that the museum does today to carry on that mission and legacy of military medicine today and into the future. we hope you'll consider visiting the museum if you're in the washington, d.c. area sometime soon. >> you can watch this or other american artifacts programs at any time by visiting your website, c-span.org/history. >> here on c-span3 thursday, a look at issues on aging. our programs include a senate hearing in efforts to fight alzheimer alzheimer's, that's thursday, 1:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span3. >> florence harding once said that she had only one hobby and that was warren harding. she was a significant force in her

abraham lincoln, when he visited in 1859, said no other territory has had a history like kansas. at the state historical society can to see these documents in person, that they have survived 150-plus years is pretty remarkable. the constitutions that have survived, the documents that are still here, and the state historical society does a great job of putting these documents online. so you can access these territorial-peroid documents from anywhere in the world. now we visit the home of charles curtis, who served as vice president under president herbert hoover. and member of the kaw, he was the first vice president who was native american. i came to know charles curtis and wasmoved to topeka a rested historian at the cemetery where he is buried. i came to know more of his story, and the more i found out, the more fascinating he became and the more i realized how his story is. he is reduced rate a trivia question, the only vice president of the american and he deserves a lot more than that. i have been doing some curtis research for 20 years. it has gotten more serious in the las

after abraham lincoln was assassinated. he came here to philadelphia, washington's birthday 1861 on his way to be inaugurated. he made a stop at independence fall, washington's birthday and he actually said in this room he would rather be assassinated on the spot than fail the ideals of the founding fathers which is actually the kind of strength that america needed at the time and sadly, four years later he comes back having been assassinated, but having succeeded in saving the united states. they put his casket next to the liberty bell. people coming through to pay their respects. the united states was born and the ghost of the founding fathers, kind of president at that one time. that's the kind of thing that makes this room so great. and the park service comes in, in the 20th century, after world war ii, and unfortunately, the one thing that changed a lot of the walls, they made them fancier. it's a plain room and they wanted their paintings up and our big thing was let's get it back to the way it looked. he kind of stri

. >> alyssa worn as a pr person when you put winston churchill or abraham lincoln to set at least get people to stop? >> absolutely it's also attention grabbing for magazines like american history magazines and for readers who have shelves that are full of presidential biographies and books and politicians that have changed our country forever. were were very proud of our list. we do current events too, we really enjoy doing the history and who does on force.

it was founded in 1862 with the pacific royalway act signed into law by abraham lincoln, so it cowboys several railroad companies to make union pacific and then they were charged with building the trans continental railroad that would connect east and west coasts. they started with moving west and central pacific, started on the west coast and was moving east -- east and they met up at utah and that's well -- really what propels us even farther. we become that point of moving west, one of the gateways to the west of the that is what the railroad did for omaha. this facility came about as the second union station to help the railroad traffing -- travel, owl -- all the passengers coming through omaha. the first railroad station had reached capacity. this was heralded as a step forward for ome open. it was a brand-new, art deco style building. the first was neoclassical. it was in vogue in 1931. so they decided to raze the old one to the ground and build this new one to show the nation that omaha had arrived as far as act itecture. the height of the railroad was 64 trains war ii, coming a

a great republican president abraham lincoln said a house divided against itself cannot stand. we need to win this election. we need to do it not bipolar bipolarizing but by uniting the american people behind good, intelligent conservative limited government policies. i know i can do it because i did it three times in new york the most blue state in america, with more than three million democrats. we can win this election by bringing the american people together behind us. if i run, i promise you i will do that and take america's government back for the people. thank you. mr. heath: thank you governor. >> while jeb bush was governor of florida. 80,000 businesses were started and 1.3 million jobs created. mr. heath: governor bush. common core curriculum is controversial in new hampshire. should state and local school boards reject national educational standards? mr. bush: they should. states should create standards they should be state driven and locally implemented. the federal government should have no role in the creation of standards, no role in the creation directly or indi

abraham lincoln, when he visited in 1859, said no other territory has had a history like kansas. at the state historical society can to see these documents in person, that they have survived 150-plus years is pretty remarkable. the constitutions that have survived, the documents that are still here, and the state historical society does a great job of putting these documents online. so you can access these territorial-peroid documents from anywhere in the world. now we visit the home of ces

then there was abraham lincoln. quite a nice pattern. you've got prominent democrats saying you should elect democrats because you can guarantee they won't die in office. what kind of message does that end? you are beginning to sense there might be a wider, broader conspiracy out there. people believed it. they thought it was there. it is all part of a mindset. if you call the president of the united states who believes members of congress are out to kill him, who compares himself to christ, who thinks members of the congress plan to kill 8 million americans in the south, we are talking about the love of rationality that is incredible supposing the president of the united states said today well, you want me to say who are players of the united states? i say mitch mcconnell. i say speaker boehner. i say the heads of fox news and all of their kind are traitors of the united states. are you aware the plan of the united states congress is to kill at least 8 million americans? but suppose it congress, the body that claims himself to be the co

in "blind conceit" attack about the crossroads in the 1860s when abraham lincoln said we can't do this anymore. we can't be half free and half slave. when you think where we are today, we are half and half. i think what the president has done is he has encouraged all americans to choose which side you are on. only biblical and for your secular status. there are a few things i agree with him on, but i do agree we have to decide which america we want to be. >> can be thought about running for office? >> i was received by the republican party, but i've had a successful institute right here in washington. i think we are so effective now on the outside that i'm going to stay here and make my contribution through three prongs. we work in policy and media but also the clergy center. we are reaching minority pastors, those in communities and help them understand not just what is broken down by looking at new ideas on how to fix these problems and reverse the trend. >> from "blind conceit," the congressional black caucus isn't about ideas. >> it's not one new idea. their communities have not ju

his childhood in maryland to his acting career and, of course, his assassination of president abraham lincoln on april 14, 1865. >> every author needs a proper incentive to travel miles and go somewhere and give a speech, and i'm always reminded of the wonderful definition of incentive given by p.d. east. p.d. east was a crusading journalist down this mississippi in the 1950s, and he was very progressive on civil rights and always getting himself in trouble for his editorials. and he wrote one he knew was going to cause some trouble one day. people told him, you better watch out, that's an unpopular view

we think it is remarkable that his very first memory was about another president, abraham lincoln, andnother war, the civil war. of course, wilson would have to leave the country through world war i. >> see all of our programs from augusta today at 2:00 on c-span 3. twopollo, houston, i have messages for you. houston is good for docking. >> sounds good. ♪ >>