for the first time in his young life, abraham lincoln was traveling far. what he would see would shape and his thoughts for the remainder of his life. during this trip, lincoln would first come in contact with foreigners in the exotic city of new orleans. although he probably couldn't and did not distinguish italians from spaniards, norwegians, russians, he encountered them all. the great cosmopolitan city. he realized for the first time in his young life that immigrants from many lands formed a significant part of the american population. lincoln's two flatboat voyages to new orleans were exceptionally important in his development. they formed the longest journeys of his life. his first experiences in a major city. his only visits to the deep south, his sole exposure to the region's brand of slavery and slave trading. his only time in the tropics and -- his only time in the subtropics and the closest he ever came to immersing himself in a foreign culture. lincoln never wrote or spoke much of his trips. but anybody who studies lincoln gets frustrated becaus

immigration, abraham lincoln, absolutely. lincoln lived in an era when immigration was as much a controversy as it is today. between 1840 and 1860, 4.5 million newcomers arrived. most of them from ireland, the german states and scandinavian countries. many more crossed back and forth across the border with mexico, newly drawn in 1848. but from an early age, lincoln developed an awareness and tolerance for different people and different cultures. while no doubt a product of his time, lincoln nevertheless refused to allow his environment to blind him to the strengths of diversity and throughout his legal and political career, he retained an infinity for immigration, especially the irish, the germans, the jews and the scandinavians. indeed, immigrants and their plight were never far from lincoln's thoughts or his plans. his travels down the mississippi river to the port of new orleans exposed lincoln to the sights, the sounds, and the tastes of a world hither to he could only have dreamed about. more importantly, however, it esta

immigration, abraham lincoln, absolutely. lincoln lived in an era when immigration was as much a controversy as it is today. between 1840 and 1860, 4.5 million newcomers arrived. most of them from ireland, the german states and scandinavian countries. many crossed back and forth across the border with mexico, newly drawn in 1848. but from an early age, lincoln developed an awareness and tolerance for different people and different cultures. while no doubt a product of his time, lincoln nevertheless refused to allow his environment to blind him to the strengths of diversity and throughout his legal and political career, he retained an infinity for immigration, especially the irish, the germans, the jews and the scandinavians. the indians and their plight was never far from lincoln's thoughts and his plans. his travel down the mississippi river to the port of new orleans exposed lincoln to the sights s s, the sounds and taftstes. more importantly, it established a foundation and sympathy for the rest of his life when it came to

well, abraham lincoln is probably our most important president. every means that was utilized was justified. we love to think that he was above politics but he wasn't. >> lincoln now finds himself in a rematch with his arch rival, the man who beat him in the illinois state senate election two years earlier, stephen a. douglas. >> stephen a. douglas is the little giant. he's a man of physically short stature but titanic ambition, and douglas desperately wishes to be president of the united states. >> but lincoln has the advantage. after an angry convention in charleston, south carolina, douglas' democratic party has split down the middle over slavery. >> the news that the democratic party had split was an enormous boon to the republican party and to lincoln because now they faced a divided opposition, but he still has an uphill battle. >> the republicans know it's futile to put lincoln up for election in the south. no decent upstanding slave owner is going to vote for him, and slaves don't vote. now it's a double race between lincoln and douglas in

in an interesting way also, reagan understood abraham lincoln. july 17, 1980 at the republican convention, reagan accepts the nomination. and he quotes lincoln. so president lincoln said "no administration by any extreme of wickedness or folly can seriously injure the government in the short space of four years." then reagan said, "if mr. lincoln could see what's happened in this country in the last three and a half years, he might hedge on that statement." in other words, the carter years. reagan also said in his inaugural, in 1981, "whoever would understand in his heart the meaning of america will find

san francisco area, made their way eastward and became part of a congressional group to meet abraham lincoln. but that was the extent of it. a short conversation. basically his comments was really based on very little experience and virtually no first hand knowledge. the interesting thing about lincoln, you have to recognize him warts and all. so in his era, he was enlightened and progressive. but he had a few plinld spots and his quotes indicated that. >> it comes to mind when you speak of another president. and today, advertisements are in the language to communicate to the immigrants. i know mary todd spoke french. did lincoln ever speak french? >> no, he didn't. an excellent question. because he knew a number of the germans, they encouraged him to sit in on a class to learn the german language. so he learned a couple of three, four words and a phrase. what he liked to say when he would speak to somebody that he was fluent in german, most of the people, the accounts that i read of people with him said he liked to tell stories more than he liked the listen and learn german. that's the clos

people sometimes ask me why the law school has chosen to focus these lectures on abraham lincoln. that's easy. lincoln is probably america's greatest lawyer. of course, lincoln played many roles. president, legislator, military strategist, newspaper owner, et cetera. but at his core he was a lawyer, a constitutional lawyer, who, to our collective good fortune, was there when the nation most needed someone who understand and preserve the supreme law of the land so that, as he put it, government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from this earth. another easy question -- why focus on lincoln now, a century and a half after his death? many of the themes of lincoln's life and his life's work -- treatment of race and non-citizenship, the relationship between the national government and the states, scope of executive power, among others, dominate discourse today nearly as much as in lincoln's era. what is more, we are literally in the midst of a presidency of another tall, skinny illinoisan whose very political ascent would likely not be possible without lincol

this is abraham lincoln's chiropodist, his podiatrist. but don't mock him. an was not just trimming lincoln's toenails. he was a remarkable human being. came here from england and probably was able to meet lincoln because he was a very capable podiatrist, and he was able to give some of the high military echelon some comfort in their feet, and they kept recommending him higher and higher. in fact, take a look. here he finally gets to treat lincoln's feet, and there you have a real document from the chapelle foundation where you see "dr. zacharie has operated on my feet with great success -- and considerable addition to my comfort." by the way, the important thing is the date on that. you know, that is september 22, and i make mention of that in the book. you know, that's the date, the emancipation proclamation -- the preliminary emancipation proclamation was issued. so you wonder, you know, what was lincoln's day like? amazing. [laughter] gary: but nevertheless now, to , go on, i think laura did mention this, and that is that zacharie was really a person of s

and abraham lincoln did not forget his friend. jonas is dying of cancer in 18 4. oln had appointed -- 1864. lincoln had appointed him postmaster general of quincy, which is a patronage position, in payment of the friend ship and when he is dying, the family appeals to lincoln and asks lincoln if he will ask the son who fought for the con federacy, charles, to go up and visit his father. his son makes it there a day and a half or so right before the father pass as way and 9 family -- the family never, never forgot what lincoln did. and then if that wasn't enough, lincoln appoints the wife, the -- the widow to take over her husband's position. so this is of course, you don't need to see this but this is a letter lincoln writes to him long before this incident i described. and i've underlined the line where lincoln says to him in a letter, "you are one of my most valued friends." and anyone who has studied lincoln knows lincoln weighed his words very wear -- carefully. pardon the latin, he was not a schmoozer. [laughter] in that way. so lincoln really, i think this wa

lincoln. a couple of times, called him father abraham. president george bush sr., in some of his comments about lincoln, seemed to understand the duality of lincoln. he said, if you look at some of the paintings of lincoln, you see his "agony and his greatness." and he equates the two. and he then also says, bush senior, lincoln was at once a hard and gentle person, a man of grief and yet of humor. president clinton used lincoln to argue that -- and said lincoln saw that the clear duty was to revive the american dream and then clinton said now the responsibility is to revive the american economy. one thing my assistant found in the research, in january 1998 president clinton was here at the university of illinois talking about the land-grant colleges. and it was not a particularly memorable speech. but at one point, and it's hard to believe this happened, but it did. clinton said, oh, i think lincoln would have liked the pep band. [ laughter ] i did a little checking and someone said he spotted someone he liked in the pep band. [ laughter

proudly proclaim your allegiance to abraham lincoln. it was a little thing that is just amazing to me. this is the beginning of modern media campaign with lincoln and republican party adapting to all of this. i'm throwing this in again because the older world of the car cuture and newspaper didn't disappear. you could not print a newspaper or anything printed with a photograph. photo journalism was in the process of being invented but hadn't come about. this i just like this. this is lincoln. he has gotten elected. it is lincoln with a purported assassination plot. they get him in. they settle lincoln in early in the morning instead of later in the day. he was ridiculed for this. you notice the really nice touch of the scared ecat. the union begins to break up. here we are with compliments. he is in washington work frg brady at the time. this is lincoln arrived in washington. there is this element of the photograph. it bears witness to lincoln's presence and his moving to the job. lege legendarily lincoln is sort of hiding his right hand

the germans liked abraham lincoln. they concluded by saying, if you ever need us, we stand ready to risk our lives in the effort to maintain the victory that you now seek over slavery. and two soon prove when the war came that the germans surely delivered on their promise. lincoln understood immigrants. as a lawyer practicing land law at times and a politician representing a rural district, he had to pay attention to the national debate over the future of public lands. to the issues linked to real estate taxes, to the relationship between town and country, and to the importance of the foreign born as their presence increased in the american labor force. lincoln knew firsthand what it meant to be poor, and he knew firsthand what america represented as a land of opportunity where somebody could rise to become president of the united states. and so his commitment to the american dream, as lincoln liked to think of it, existed his entire political life. lincoln possessed an enormous amount of shriympathy for "the y poor,"

there's a sense of the apotheosis of abraham lincoln. this incredibly bad horrific lima could be portrait of lincoln, again this early sense of editing of these weird angels is taking lincoln to heaven to be greeted by the an pol theo sis of lincoln combined with that of george washington. the founder and the preserver of the union combined together in heaven this transsubstantiation of lincoln. i chose this one because it is so terrible. there were many others that were more fine art productions with full al gore calorie gailia, rather fine depictions of what was in everybody's mind is that everything had changed with had portrait, that lincoln was present to us but he's disappearing at the same time. that he has in front of him this small smile on his face, this is mona lisa smile you have satisfaction. as he brings the chief of state home. i'm conclude by alluding to the two great walt whitman poems, my captain and when lilacs last in the door yard bloomed where two very different takes on lincoln which is one is lincoln of the present

stanton is talking to president ache h abraham lincoln. stanton tells lincoln these generals may try their skill, they may try their strategy, but i think my hammer is going to be the one that breaks the backbone of the rebellion. his is labeled "draft." is the draft is what's going to bring us over the top for military success. lincoln always with the stereotype of the rail splitter with his ax over his shoulder says to secretary of war stanton, you can try him with that. but i believe that this ax of mine is the only thing that will fetch him. the only thing that will do the trick. the ax is label emancipation proclamation. this symbol here is all about bringing victory. emancipation is justified, it is a military necessity on my authority as commander in chief of the army and navies of the united states. here we see the relationship between success on the battlefield and popular support for emancipation. if we graft support for emancipation in the north it would correlate pretty closely with popular perception of whether the war was bein

on the front it is abraham lincoln, but it is not on front, put it on the back.i will always speak my mind and speak for others. that is something to aspire to. in september we are doing i am george washington and i am jane goodall. i will tell you this. in "the house of secrets" we do a lot of george washington and benedict arnold. if you do away -- let's set them right, don't give them misinformation but also this is how george washington uses invisible ink and the codename was 711. we really need to put this in? we totally need to put this in their. i read these books with my son and we get to that part, invisible ink is so cool. i know! tell my editor! when you get to i am george washington you will see we did do it. we have to figure someone has to figure that out. maybe one magic copy. how awesome would that be, with my phone number in the book as a prize. not saying it did happen but it could happen. we tell you we also were doing after that 6 more books, doing 18 of these now. they will keep coming. [applause] >> with that said i won't tell you, we are wo

inaugural lecture bob woodward in january, the law school has chosen to focus these lectures on abraham lincoln in part because lincoln is undeniably among the greatest lawyers in america's history. the fact that he assumed many other important roles, president, legislator, the lee -- military strategist, newspaper owner, et cetera, merely adds to his legacy and his legend. as we know, many of the themes of lincoln's life and his life's work, the treatment of race and non-citizenship, the relationship between the federal government and the states, the scope of executive power, the interplay between the president and the supreme court, the conduct of a presidential election campaign in a time of bitter partisanship among others dominate discourse today, nearly as much as in lincoln's era. this remains the right time for all americans to reflect on lincoln's meaning to each of us and all of us. this is especially true for those of us here at illinois. in a real sense, the university of illinois, located between springfield and chicago is mr. lincoln's university. as we and champagne prepare to ce

people sometimes ask me why the law school has chosen to focus these lectures on abraham lincoln. that's easy. she no perish from this earth. another easy question -- why focus on lincoln now. >> many of the themes of lincoln's life and his life's work. we are literally in the midst of another tall, skinny illinoisan president obama twice carried essentially the same states that lincoln did, and as was true, there are big questions nowadays about whether that coalition can endure to transfer power to a key aid of the twice elected president. in the 19th century, ulysses s. grand and today the illinois-born hillary clinton. in a real sense, the university of illinois, located between springfield and chicago is mr. lincoln's university. as we are prepared to -- we must never forget we were among the first group of land grand universities created by the act signed into bayly lincoln five years earlier, and the only one founded in lincoln's home state. i drawn on the prospect that the university can become linked with lincoln in the way in a you have university of virginia is linked wi

there's a sense of the apotheosis of abraham lincoln. this incredibly bad horrific lima could be portrait of lincoln, again this early sense of editing of these weird angels is taking lincoln to heaven to be greeted by the an pol theo sis of lincoln combined with that of george washington. the founder and the preserver of the union combined together in heaven this transsubstantive yafgs lincoln. i chose this one because it is so terrible. there were many others that were more fine art productions with full al gore calorie gailia, rather fine depictions of what was in everybody's mind is that everything had changed with had portrait, that lincoln was present to us but he's disappearing at the same time. that he has in front of him this small smile on his face, this is mona lisa smile you have satisfaction. as he brings the chief of state home. i'm conclude by alluding to the two great walt whitman poems, my captain and when lilacs last in the door yard bloomed where two very different takes on lincoln which is one is lincoln of the present

>> abraham lincoln. >> reporter: abraham lincoln. >> he's not a founding father.the first president? >> i want to get it on a tape recorder because nobody is going to believe me. >> george washington. >> what's a founding father. >> hi, i'm earth. have we met. >> reporter: what is ben franklin famous for? >> 100th president? >> i like franklin better. he's on the 1200. washington is on the single. >> thomas jefferson signed knit. >> reporter: he wrote it. >> oh. >> reporter: what about sam adams. >> good beer. >> reporter: have you had a few of those already? >> no. >> give me some more punch. >> reporter: do you know who patrick henry is? >> i've heard of him. >> reporter: give me liberty or give me. >> freedom. >> freedom? >> am i right? >> justice. >> and the american way. >> reporter: why were we fighting the british? >> taxation without representation? >> reporter: no tackation. >> you can't be taxed if you're not represented as an individual. >> reporter: who is famous for that line? >> john smith? >> reporter: sam adams. you learning something every day. li

a month ago that abraham lincoln wouldn't have been abraham lincoln without his wife. i can tell you after eight years of research and writing the same is true of the most famous union civil war generals and their wives. they wouldn't have been who they were without jessie fremont, nelly mcclellan, ellen sherman, julia grant. when i was in graduate school and learned that ellen sherman sought help for her husband for president lincoln in january of 1852. 62. from earlier reading i knew that jessie fremont had lobbied the president on her behalf earlier. as a former congressional aide and lobbyist i was intrigued by their lobbying efforts and by the very different results they achieved. i want to know more about how these wives influence their husbands careers. i was confident that they have because i was raised in a military family and learned very early the strength, courage and resilience required of military spouses. i began with jesse and ellen after initial research decided to tell the stories of the wives of two men whose career trajectory in the civil war roughl

but in an interesting way also, reagan understood abraham lincoln. july 17th, 1980 at the republican convention, reagan accepts the nomination. and he quotes lincoln. said, so president lincoln said "no administration by any extreme of wickedness or folly can seriously injure the government in the short space of four years." quoting lincoln. then reagan said, "if mr. lincoln could see what's happened in this country in the last three and a half years, he might hedge on that statement." in other words, the carter years. reagan also said in his inaugural, in 1981, "whoever would understand in his heart the meaning of america will find it in the life of abraham lincoln." true. i think he got it. in 1984 when reagan was running for reelection, he said -- said well i want to quote president lincoln. lincoln said we must disenthrall ourselves from the past and then we will save our country. and reagan went on to say, well, four years ago that's what we did. we saved the country. is reagan had -- he said that he shared many points of philosophy with lincoln

i have been interested in abraham lincoln since the fourth grade. we had a parents' night which we were going to do silent vignettes.

a month ago that abraham lincoln wouldn't have been abraham lincoln without his wife. i can tell you after eight years of research and writing the same is true of the union civil war generals and their lives. john charles fremont, william tecumseh sherman and ulysses s. grant wouldn't have been who they were without jesse, ellen ewing and julia dent. from president lincoln in january of 1862 i knew jesse benton fremont lobbied presidene president on her husband's behalf a few months earlier. as a former congressional aide and a lobbyist i was intrigued by their lobbying efforts and by very different results that they achieved. i wanted to know more about how the influenced their husbands careers. i was confident that the that td because i was raised in a military family. and i learned very early the strength, courage and resilience required of military spouses. i began after initial research decided to also tell the stories of the trajectories of the civil war roughly matched those of fremont and sherman. like fremont, george mcclellan was one of the very first appoint

abraham lincoln is the one. he's the one for me. he lives up to the hype every time.you always choose kindness and i will always speak up for others. on the front is the most important part of the book. it's not what's on the front it's a lesson. i will always speak my mind and speak for others. that is something to us drive for for our kids. we are doing i am george washington and then we are doing i am james which i'm super excited to do. i will tell you this. in the house of house of secrets we do a lot of george washington. i said i'm putting the cool stuff there. there is no cherry tree. we also tell them this is how he viewed invisible ink. do doing to put this in. we totally need to put this in here. i read them to my son i know tell my editor. we will see the ink. someone has to figure that out. maybe even one copy or one magic copy. i'm not saying it did happen i'm just saying it to say and it could happen. and then we have the book we also had six more books. there to keep coming with that said i'm neck in the tell you who that is. it is the best person that

so very fast, whirl wind overview, next time we're going to zero in on abraham lincoln. we're going to enter into a conversation with him, because what lincoln is trying to do more than anything else is shape how we remember -- i mean us today, remember the meaning of the war. we're going to try to think historically and christianly about what he had to say and i look forward to that. so you guys have a great couple days and we'll look forward to being together again next time, zeroing in on the discussion of those documents. all right? take care. >>> on the civil war, georgia historical society president todd gross talks about union general william sherman's background. his march to the sea campaign and how sherman is remembered. he describes his method as hard war rather than total war. and argue that's the targets for destruction were carefully selected to diminish southern resol to have continue the conflict. the shenandoah battlefield hosted this 50-minute talk. >>> thank you, terry, for that brief introduction. i know everyone appreciates that. well, welcome to geor

it was written in observance of abraham lincoln's birthday for students at his own school in florida where he was teaching to sing in commemoration of lincoln 's birthday. by the time the song came around to me, and it was probably in a printed program where i first saw the title because i had ,earned the lyrics long before but when i saw the title of the song in a program, it had become the name that some time after world war ii took on the negro national anthem. let me if you will repeat the second verse, and i have to read it because now i'm at a point where my memory no longer suffices. how the lyrics, particularly in the second verse, invoke liberation's winding, brutal path. "stony the road we trod bitter the chasing rod felt in the day that hope unborn had died yet, with a steady beat hath not our weary feet come to the place for which our fathers side we have come over a way that with tears has been watered we have come treading our path through the blood of the slaughtered out from the gloomy past till now we stand at last where the white gleam of our bright star is cast" ev

abraham lincoln. you can have a fictional story. but abraham lincoln really made things happen. and so he is included in a fictional story. mr. roosevelt here has written a fictional story but he uses actual people that existed. justice frankfurter, justice douglas, attorney general biddle. these are actual real people. but he's telling a fictional story. and we are telling a fictional story using actual people and actual institution and actual facts. and you know, we're not a dock men tarn. i know that that criticism was made by a dock men tearian. and his job is to tell the photographic truth. we are van goghs of the theater. we capture the emotion and the essential truth of that experience. [ applause ] >> in the middle here, can we pass the microphone to the man in the blue shirt there? >> i want to just thank you also. i belong to a japanese american buddhist temple and one of the offerings in our library is a book called "rice country." and in that book in the early chapters they talk about the jacl. but in doing so they portray it as the japanese american collusion league

that is why he was abraham lincoln, i guess. [applause] mr.: our original constitution did not even have an income tax. instead it had tariffs emphasizing taxation of foreign, not domestic, production. yet today, 240 years him after the revolution, we have turned things completely upside down. we tax, regulate, and restrict our companies to death and allow foreign countries that cheat to export their goods to us, tax-free. how stupid is that? how could it happen? how stupid is this? [applause] mr. trump: as a result, we have become more dependent on foreign countries than ever before. ladies and gentlemen, it is time to declare our economic independence once again. that means -- [applause] mr. trump: that means voting for donald trump. [cheering] mr. trump: i will do it, no doubt about it. not even a little doubt. it also means reversing two of the worst legacies of the clinton years. america has lost 1/3 of its manufacturing jobs since 1997. even as the country has increased the population by 50 million people. at the center of the catastroph

hillary clinton blasted donald trump in springfield, illinois where abraham lincoln delivered his famousch. >> this man is the nominee of the party of lincoln. we are watching it become the party of trump and that's not just a huge loss for our democracy, it is a threat to it. >> reporter: clinton is criticizing trump in the wake of police involved shootings of black men in louisiana and political anayl minnesota. >> his campaign is as divisive as any we have seen in our life times. it is built on stoking mistrust and pitting american against american. it's there in everything he says and everything he promises to do as president. >> reporter: seizing on recent comments about racial tensions. >> there's still some black americans who believe that the system is biased against them, the american system, because they're black, they don't get the same kind of shot, don't get the same kind of fairness that whites do. what do you say to them? >> well, i have been saying even against me, the system is rigged, when i ran for president, i could see what was going on with the system, and the syste

this is what it's going to be like after abraham lincoln is reelected. at the inaugural ball celebrating his re-election, you will have this gathering and what jumps out at you? can you see it well enough to pick up on the message of the artist? kyle? >> yeah, all of the -- lots of white people dancing with african-america african-americans. >> i think if i haven't missed something, every single couple there is inter racial. the whole idea is this is what we're moving for and if you don't believe in that you have no business supporting anyone other than george mclelland and the democratic ticket. if you are a republican, in 1864, you're going to do everything you can to deflect the emphasis on race. you cannot win the election defined in terms of racial equality. you must win the election if you're going to win at all, defining the issue in terms of union. so what the republicans are going to stress above all is the disloyalty of the democratic party. they're going to link the democratic party with the south. they're going to emphasize the democratic par

we started reading books like i am a millionaire hard and i am abraham lincoln. we have done i am lucille ball. what i wanted my daughter to have a hero that wasn't just famous for being thin and. and lucille ball is. expect hacker to be different so i love that moral. i am helen keller when she goes blind the pages of the book go black and this is how i see the world. cover your ears and here's how i hear the world. when she learns to read we wrote braylen to the book. feel these thoughts, my name is helen. what is your name? it's there in the book and i love that helen keller -- it's not about a day when they were born but about a moral lesson. helen keller says i'd know no limitations or lucy being different or albert einstein, it's always always be curious. those are my answers. that's who i admire and president lincoln is the one for me. he's the one who lived up to the hype every time. i will always be kind and i will always speak up for others. this is what is says on the front the most important part of the book is not the front but then most important pa

abraham lincoln lost his life, but he did not fail. next president of the united states will face challenges, which in some ways will be greater than those of washington or lincoln because for the first time in our nation's history, and american president will not only face the problem of , butring peace of abroad of restoring peace at home. without god's help and your help, we will surely fail. with god's help and your help, we shall surely succeed. long,low americans, the dark night for america is about to end. [applause] mr. nixon: the time has come. the time has come for us to leave the valley of despair and climb the mountain so that we may see the glory of the dawn. a new day for america, and a new dawn for peace and freedom in the world. [applause] ♪ >> wrote to the white house rewind continues with hubert humphrey accepting his party's presidential nomination at the 1968 democratic convention in chicago. the primary season was a turbulent one for the democrats with president lyndon johnson dropping out of the race and senator ro

it's been said by recent biographers including sidney blumenthal that abraham lincoln wouldn't have been abraham lincoln without his wife.rs i can tell you after years of research and writing the same is true of the civil war generals and their wives john charles fremont, george mcclellan, william tecumseh sherman and ulysses s. grant wouldn't have been who they were. when i was in graduate school and learned that sherman fought for her husband from president lincoln in january of 1862. from earlier painting i knew jesse freemont lobbied the president on her husband's behalf a few months earlier. as a former congressional aide and lobbyist i was intrigued bya their lobbying efforts and results they achieved.d. i wanted to know more about how they influenc influenced their s kabir. there was confident they had because i was raised a military family and learned early to strengthen the couragthestrengtd resilience required military spouses. i began with jesse and ellen and after research decided to tell the story of points of the men whose trajectories in the civil war roughly matched those

clinton was in springfield illionois -- where abraham lincoln delivered his famous anti-slavery speech. >> gary: lebron james won the award for best male athlete beating out the warriors steph curry as well as carolina panthers quarterback cam newton and waashington nationals outfielder bryce harper occurred career was named the best male athlete last record- breaking performer nominated for all three and the best record performance and a speech was cavalier agree. but now. and more according to paul klee stay confrontation global police. when an he went up early sunday morning and said hey let you apologize green bodyguard friends according to this young athlete and then proceeded to choke edmundston and his girlfriend that's what the police are working with the help. the one thing that makes you wonder what's going on evidence and has pulled out of michigan state. granted unconditional release and he will place final year of college football somewhere else walgreen will move on and represent the united states. it sure has the feel. >> gary: ollie did not sports radio the forty-niners

he actually saved melton wills life once he became head of the abraham lincoln brigade in new york. > and head of the abraham lincoln battalion in spain and one last story, he saw a battle and a captured 10 american abraham lincoln people and the captain of the spaniards who likes my father a lot and knew he was close to franco said you pick five to live. and so my father interviewed them thoroughly and they thought i want to be in the newspaper and the ones he saved for the young ones you haven't seen in a battle. there were two that were pretty bad though. they were thugs and they have done a lot of destruction and he asked what the battles have you been in and when they set i was in this one or that one he knew there were atrocities he made sure they were given up. but one of the people he saved, he was very proud of was a young jewish medical student who had gone over to spain as an adventurer, saved his life. he ended up back in spain repatriated. this young medical student then got on a merchant marine ship that was actually torpedoed off the coast of africa. he was the only sur

he actually saved melton wills life once he became head of the abraham lincoln brigade in new york. > and head of the abraham lincoln battalion in spain and one last story, he saw a battle and a captured 10 american abraham lincoln people and the captain of the spaniards who likes my father a lot and knew he was close to franco said you pick five to live. and so my father interviewed them thoroughly and they thought i want to be in the newspaper and the ones he saved for the young ones you haven't seen in a battle. there were two that were pretty bad though. they were thugs and they have done a lot of destruction and he asked what the battles have you been in and when they set i was in this one or that one he knew there were atrocities he made sure they were given up. but one of the people he saved, he was very proud of was a young jewish medical student who had gone over to spain as an adventurer, saved his life. he ended up back in spain repatriated. this young medical student then got on a merchant marine ship that was actually torpedoed off the coast of africa. he was the only sur

in the number of ways gary johnson reminds me of abraham lincoln. for starters and sheer physical strength and endurance. wiccans prowess as of rail-splitter's was legendary and not everybody knows he is an athlete he is a contest in for "iron man" triathlon world championships in his climb the highest nonpeak on each of the world's seven continents climbing mount everest with a broken leg. when you ask him how, he says i just put 1 foot in front of the other the reminds me of abraham lincoln that asked how long can a man's legs be? he says a long enough to reach the ground. he has his own homespun wisdom as well as is obvious honesty. on a scary i hope that sticks. [laughter] if he becomes our president i can share of -- assure you there is no deception, no flimflam or appeals to the base of our nature it just isn't in him anymore than it was lincoln as justice jackson famously wrote, great nations like great men must keep their word, i wish i did not feel it necessary to say this but i do, period i believe it is important for the united states of

nor is there any reason to believe that abraham lincoln, the states that an opportunist, was morally inferior to we gerson a profit. and must be judged in terms to which they count of limitations of society which the statesman must and the profit need not consider. that is the moral underpinning of this book. i laid out introduction and double read more from there. there are two keys to unlocking secrets of american politics and american political history. for historians and enthusiasm for insight of a new and attractive sort of miss ladies keys and now they are hidden from sight. once recovered and put to use the keys quickly demonstrate their usefulness. the first key is to recognize both permanent reality and the effectiveness of partisanship in party politics. americans have been loath to believe these things that the founding generation distrusts parties. the framers designed the national government they hoped would avoid partisanship's fee-based ambitions in destructive tendencies. more than a hundred years later, reformers of the progressive era similarly distrust the parties

. >> reporter: so much symbolism here, andrea, with the fact that this is where abraham lincoln gave that famous speech. there is where barack obama announced he was running in 2007 and appeared with vice president joe booiden to announce that they would form a ticket together. and this is going to be an expansion of those remarks that she started making on friday to the ame church in the wake of those terrible shootings in dallas. we've seen her approach this from both sides. they've been very careful to talk both about the killings of black men at the hands of police and also about the communities that have been rocked because of the political who were killed in dallas. and she said, in that speech on friday, she acknowledged that she risked angering one side or the other, but she was going to plow ahead anyway. and i think you're going to try to see them draw contrasts here with how trump has sold himself as the law and order candidate over the course of the past couple of days. i think that her approach, their emphasis is going to be more on this idea that the country should try

and he answered he cannot choose one and mentioned the obvious choice is george washington and abraham lincoln. he tells reporter, eisenhower wis a great -- he told the reporter, ike said he will have to slide over -- there is an academic paper that was written during the 1980 campaign that reagan used the term "common sense" to discuss the soviet threat. reagan also used the word "common sense" during the state of the union address directly from eisenhower. there behind reagan's oval office desk he kept a photo of ike. reagan's cabinet room, he arranged to hang a portrait of general eisenhower. he likes to give speeches with index cards. one of his favorite was a quote "peace through strength." while many historians had felt that reagan's role model was roosevelt or franklin. you heard a little about reagan cascading fdr's domestic policies but some historians felt it was him. i did a search through the search engine at the reagan's library trying to find out autopublautll the public speeches and press conference who reagan cite as his predecessors. fdr was not listed here and cited 55 times

opponent, withr abraham lincoln, on behalf of --ir candidate the site aside the fact that the career for non-and malice for all. to campaign against a man who has spoken and voted on either side of the issue. and mr. nixon may feel that it is fair now. and before he deals, someone is going to cut the cards. nota lifting his successor, fit to wear the mantle of his .ncle dwight d. eisenhower. perhaps we could afford this. afford we could following fillmore, but after buchanan, this nation needed lincoln. a wilson,, we need and after hoover, we needed franklin roosevelt. but we are running against mr. nixon. and they do not need us to tell them of their plight. the unemployed miners and textile workers know that the decision is before them. without medical care. families without decent homes, the parents of children without a decent school. they all know that it is time for a change. and we are not here to curse the darkness. we are here to light a candle. as winston churchill said, when taking office, some 20 years ago, if we open a quarrel between the present and the past, we shall b

was born one nation, indivisible, this party, our republican party, was born in the spirit of abraham lincolno keep that nation one and indivisible. now, in 1984, we republicans still see our nation through lincoln's eyes. we see america not as a nation divided by region or race or creed or sex or ethnic group, but as one people. we all take pride in our individual heritage. that which makes us unique, but the price we pass on to future generations is the proud heritage of being americans. that was the vision of our country ronald reagan had when he accepted our party nomination four years ago. we remember his closing words to that convention in detroit. god bless america. what better way to open this convention in dallas, what better way to open this us, oneon that finds party united in one nation united, as we move forward toward an era of peace, prosperity, and opportunity behind the leadership of president ronald reagan. what better way than to say from america., god bless thank you. [applause] >> the republican national convention starts tomorrow in cleveland. american history tv is look

of abraham lincoln to keep that nation one and indivisible. [applause] ms.rtega: now in 1984, we republicans still see our nation through lincoln's eyes. we see america not as a nation divided by region or race or creed or sex or ethnic group but as one people. we all take pride in our individual heritage. , butwhich makes us unique the pride we pass on to future generations is the proud heritage of being american. [applause] ms. ortega: that was the vision of our country ronald reagan had when he accepted our party's nomination for years ago. thatmember his words at convention in detroit "god bless america." [applause] ms. ortega: what better way to open this convention in dallas, what better way to open this us oneion that finds party, united in one nation united. as we move forward to the era of peace, prosperity and opportunity behind the leadership of president ronald reagan. [applause] ms. ortega: what better way than bless from the heart "god america." thank you. [applause] ♪ announcer: the republican national convention starts tomorrow in cleveland.