>> i think that abraham lincoln was tinkering. mark their stuff for ownership, to make sure that it wasn't stolen. >> the guys confirm lincoln did initial at least one other tool. in a blacksmith's shop in the 1830s, witnesses recall abe etching his initials into an iron wedge. it's on display at the smithsonian. those initials look very similar to the "a-l" on andrea and keith's wood mallet. that these letters are inlaid is another key to steve and tom's authentication. >> not just anybody could do inlay work. one of the questions you have to ask yourself, did abraham lincoln have the ability to inlay the metal into the mallet? >> if no, that's a problem. if yes, it's another reason to believe the tool was lincoln's. the guys find their answer in an example of abe's carpentry work, a cabinet door usually on display at a nearby museum. >> abraham lincoln inlaid the letters "e-c" because this cabinet was built for elizabeth crawford, a neighbor of the lincoln's. >> steve tells me both sets of initials are consistent with the meticul

douglas, while volk was a nonpartisan artist and after seeing abraham lincoln conduct a trial in 1860 he asked him to pose. he had seen him when he was a douglas rooter and lincoln came to his studio on dearborn street in chicago in march of 1860 to have a life mask made which was a tool that sculptures of the period used if they weren't going to enjoy repeated sitting and lincoln was a trial lawyer on a case so he submitted to this very difficult life mask process, with plaster hardening on his face for 30 minutes while he had straws in his nose for breathing and then when it came time to take it off, he couldn't get it off and lincoln took those massive hands and tugged and volk remembered that it brought tears to lincoln's eyes because they pulled the hairs out of the temple and he did not remember it with amusement. but it did come back and then pose for the bust a bit. he would come from court, he would take off his jacket, he would take off his shirt and he would, volk asked him to pull downize union suit, i guess i was wearing long underwear, so he took off his long underwear t

voc was a non-partisan artist and after seeing abraham lincoln conduct a trial in chicago in 1860, he asked him to pose for it. he had seen him in the lincoln-douglas debates also when he was a douglas rooter. and lincoln came to his studio in chicago in march of 1860 to have a life mask made, which was a tool that sculptors of the period used if they weren't going to enjoy repeated sittings. and lincoln was a trial lawyer at the time on a case. so, he submitted to this very difficult life process of what plaster hardening on his face while he had straws on his nose breathing. and when it came time to take it off, they couldn't get it off. and lincoln took those massive hands and tugged. and volk remembered it brought tears to lincoln's eyes because they pulled the hairs out of the temples. he did not remember it with amusement. he did come back and pose for the bust a bit. he would come from court. he would take off his jacket. he would take off his shirt. and he would -- volk asked him to pull down his union suit. i guess he was wearing long underwear. so rngs he took off his long u

your one of the wonderful vignettes that i got from your book was a letter that abraham lincoln wrote to his friend i'd like to read this vignette because just as you talked about those circumstances then there are eerie similarities to today and lincoln wrote i am not a know nothing that a certain how could i be how can anyone who are poor as the oppression of negroes be in favor of d. creating classes of white people our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid as a nation we begin that by the clearing that all men are created equal we now practically read it all men are created equal except negroes and when the know nothings get control it will read all men are created equal except negroes and foreigners and catholics when it comes to this i should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty to russia for instance where despotism can be taken pure and without the base alloy of hypocrisy i've read this and got goosebumps because i sort of thought wow this could have been written yesterday. well the know-nothing party was a native us

vogue was a nonpartisan artist and after seeing abraham lincoln conduct a trial in chicago in 1860. you've actually seen in the lincoln douglas debates wall when he was a douglas ruder. lincoln came to his studio in chicago in march of 1860 to have a light mask made. this was a tool sculptures of the period made if they weren't going to enjoy repeated seedings. lincoln was a trial lawyer at the time on a case so he submitted to this very difficult life mask process. hardening on his face wall had straws in his nose to breathe. and when it came time to take it off, vogue couldn't get it off and lincoln took those massive hands and tugged and vogue remembered it brought tears to lincoln's eyes because it pulled the hears out of the temples. he did not remember it with amusement. he did come back and then paul came back and posed for the bust a bit. he would come from court, he would take off his jacket, he would take off his shirt and would vote to pull down his union suit. i guess he was wearing a long underwear. so he took off as long underwear topping tighter in front of him and he

capitol obliging abraham lincoln to have a look at it. it was believed that -- lincoln would be disrespecting him not to go look at it. he had photographers, camp artists and he managed to maintain the homespun image very much like, guess who, abraham lincoln. >> these photos served a purpose as far as his supporters were concerned, perhaps to put him in the public eye politically. did images really have that sort of power to do such a thing? >> yeah. think how successful abraham lincoln was as a presidential candidate when images of him as a rail splitter began circulating in 1860. i think they had a huge effect. you couldn't find them on the internet because there was no electricity and you couldn't find them in magazines or newspapers. they were sought after. they were hung on walls, put in family albums. and the grant victories early in the war and lincoln's seemingly inability to maintain control of the civil government in the wake of the emancipation proclamation encouraged a lot of grant's admirers to propose that he replace grant o

and obliging abraham lincoln, to have a look at it because grant had become so popular and so claimed that it was believed that lincoln would be disrespectful not to go look at it. so yeah he had photographers, camp artists, and he managed to maintain the homespun image, very much like guess who, abraham lincoln his commander in chief. >> these depictions also served a purpose, as far as grant supporters were concerned, not only to elevate him in terms of military rank, but to perhaps put him in the public eye politically. did images have that sort of power to do such a thing? >> yes think how successful abraham lincoln was as a presidential candidate went images of him as a rail splitter began circulating in 1860. the images were not as promiscuous as they are now. you can find them on the internet, because there was no electricity. and you could not find them in magazines, our newspapers. they were sought after, they were hung on walls. putting family albums. yes, the grant victory, early in the war, and the lincoln seeming inability to maintain control of the civil government in th

by the way, this perception was the first time abraham lincoln ever met ulysses s. grant and later they retreated to the cabinet room and in a more private seen lincoln conferred his promotion. >> in the painting grant is standing on a pedestal as opposed to a sofa. >> looks like a pedestal for sure. >> more and more images proliferated of grant in the final year of the war, and he, as you said, found time to pose for photographs and in the field and sometimes in the studio, but sometimes we saw him in softer, domestic scenes later on. like this one, with his family. a collection of new york historical. >> and another one too. >> yes. this makes him look a lot softer and more like a home body, i guess. >> yes. >> but more typically, we see portraits of him in uniform, like this one. so after the war every union hospital, lee club, organization, commissioned grant for a portrait painting for its walls. one of the best, as you say, our first object this evening, the james e lambden portrait of grant. so tell me, what's so special about this painting in. >> i hope every

ultimately, abraham lincoln was totally silent on this. the governor was sort of friendly to the riders, because he called that my friends, but ultimately, lincoln authorized the deployment of, and this is going to sound eerily familiar again, the deployment of federal troops, who were dispatched from the gettysburg area north on trains, and they ultimately fired their weapons downtown, and that ended the rights. >> we have other images, one more image, of fires, there were lots of burning buildings under such rights. >> here's the army, facing off against the riders. i think the rioters here are a little better arms, to give you a sense of the chaos. we will never know the fatality rate. they say there were 120 deaths and 8000 injuries. that is a lot in 1863, when you do it as a portion of the population. but i don't believe the 120 figure. i don't think african americans who were pushed off the docks recounted, and people whose bodies were burned weren't counted, so i would say it was ten times as high as we have been led to believe. >> w

the firsttion was time that abraham lincoln had met ulysses s grant. in a private scene, lincoln conferred his promotion on him. in the painting he is sitting on a pedestal not a sofa. found time to pose for photographs in the fields and in the studio. sometimes, we saw him in softer domestic scenes like this one with his family. a rare portrait. it makes him look a lot softer and more like a homebody. typically, we see portraits like this one.rm after the war, every northern veteransclub, commissioned paintings for its walls. the best is our first object this evening which is this portrait of u.s. grant. what is so special about this painting? harold: i hope everyone sees that it bears relationship to the photograph we had up. was a veteran portrait painter. he had done other celebrities. he had done webster and was about to do lincoln. he flourished in the postwar raids to have grant portraits for clones and homes and veterans organizations. this is one of those portraits. i love it because it really reflects his casual -- calmly in command as all of

ultimately, abraham lincoln is almost totally silent on this. the governor was sort of friendly to the riders. he called in my friends. but ultimately, lincoln authorized the deployment of this is gonna sound eerily familiar again, the deployment of federal troops who were dispatched from the gettysburg area north and trains and they ultimately fired their weapons downtown and that ended the riot. >> we have other images actually, one more image of fires. there are lots of burning buildings. >> here's the army facing off against the riders. i think the rioters here are a little better armed than they were in the city. it gives you a sense of the chaos. we will never know the tally. they say they were 120 deaths and 8000 injuries. that's a lot, in 1863 if and we do it is a proportional populations. i don't believe the hundred 20 figure. i don't think african americans who were pushed off the docks were counted people whose bodies were burned were counted. i would say he was ten times as high as the official tally. >> sure. what happened not 300 bo

it is not until the 20th century that kentucky starts to reclaim abraham lincoln. they built a memorial to his birthplace. the lincoln commission was commissioned in the 21st century. kentucky has reclaimed lincoln belatedly, but he was on the wrong side after the war. >> how far from where we are physically is the birth place? >> probably an hour and 15 minute drive on the interstate. >> in that time period, how long would it have taken? >> it took longer to go from lexington to franklin. that was a distance of about 25 miles. it took all day. that is why they wanted to build better roads and canals. with federal aid. >> we had a brief picture of an artifact you have here in the collection, which has an inscription to abraham lincoln. can you tell us what we are looking at? >> this book is actually called "the life and speeches of henry clay." there is an inscription that says "to abraham lincoln with constant regards to friendship, ashland, h. clay." 1847. we believe that this book was given to abraham lincoln from clay as a gift in exchange for what we believe li

it shows a kneeling slave rising through the benefits sense of abraham lincoln. in may look politically incorrect today, but it was funded, paid for exclusively by free african americans. everything is complicated, and that message is complicated as well. >> absolutely. one last your opinion kind of question. what do you think of ground on the history channel right now? >> i think it is a little simplistic. i love seeing my friend. i wish i could see more of him. there are some very good historians on the show. i think in some areas it's a little simplistic. as they speak, the beginning of 1864, mid 1864, or the order number 11 -- grant had issued an order in the western theater of the war. jews -- out of town -- the juice of the day said, when they saw lincoln was oi! >> thank you for being such a significant partner in this program and the series. thank you all of you out there for watching this evening for your attention, your questions and your memberships of course. and your value. we are so happy to present these programs to you. >> weeknights this month we

clay's effect on abraham lincoln was important during the douglas debates. lincoln said his views of the -- views of clay were his views of abraham lincoln as well. >> we're going to take a call and we must spend some time talking about the 1844 election. so let's listen to a question from charles. whittier, california. >> caller: hello. my question is this. i'm a kentuckian, born and raised in the home of rosemary clooney. and i understand from the panel, your two guests, henry clay is considered the favorite son of kentucky. although he and lincoln were members of the whig party, i don't understand how he could be the favorite son and not abraham lincoln. who, when he met harriet beecher stowe,-- harriet beecher said to her, you are that lady that started this great war. she had never mentioned nor is uncle tom who is -- i consider the greatest christian in american literature. neither are mentioned ever as being great in their time. and yet on the times in which they lived and even today, their influence is greatly felt. especially by many african-american

this thing is addressed to his excellency, abraham lincoln and bears a number of signatures. what is it, harold? >> it sure does bear a number of signatures, hundreds and hundreds of signatures. so, it is a petition that was the brain child of someone named j.e. gardner. we don't know much about j.e. gardner except that he organized this effort to call on the president of the united states in july of 1862 to unleash the power of african-americans who until this point have not been permitted to volunteer for the union army and have constituted what some people called a sable arm that could help the union win the war by increasing its manpower exponentially. this -- we've seen this object. it's a scroll. it's a big scroll. >> 25 feet or something. >> 25 feet long. it's never been displayed altogether because you need even the two floors of the historical society to give it justice. and it's signed by an amazing group of supporters of black enlistment for the time. it's signed by -- clearly by irish-americans, by jewish-americans, by german-americans, people from all walks of li

our final object are the frame leads from abraham lincoln's beer. ess than a week after appomattox of president lincoln, he is assassinated, assassinated. and his death as you say elevates him to the stoosz of secular saint. how so? -- status of secular staaint. how so? >> walt whitman had a way of putting it, what a place this man whom his friends had been patronizing for four years as a well-mean, kind-hearted, ignorant old cottager had won for himself in the hearts of his people, what a place he will fill in history. you know, i think it was the sudden change in emotion from elation to grief. a week after the fireworks and the church bell ringing it harted, he suddenly dead -- he died on good friday, which has also sorts of -- sorry, he was shot on good friday, which has all sorts of religious connotations. that sunday, easter services were devoted to what they called the black easter. lilies were painted black in churches as crepe begins to adorn public buildings and religious buildings. it's also the jewish holiday of passover. and in synagogues

braham abraham lincoln's words of 165 years ago still resonate because of who we are and what we are. a country where a boy born into poverty in a log cabin, raised here on the frontier of indiana could educate himself, become a lawyer, become a president of the united states who would preserve the union, abolish slavery, and save the nation. as a fellow hoosier, visiting lincoln's boyhood home has always been a treasured experience for me and my family. it's a place that made lincoln. it shaped lincoln. and defined the man that lincoln would become. america is the land of opportunity. as president donald trump declared at mount rushmore, in america you can do anything. you can be anything. and together we can achieve anything. every day, president donald trump is fighting to protect the promise of american liberty. every day our president has been fighting to expand the reach of the american dream. president ngle day donald trump has been fighting for you. tonight i'd like to introduce you to a few remarkable americans who represent that solemn pledge. who embody our president's unbr

one day john wilkes booth who shot abraham lincoln tracked me down and said this is the family of john wilkes booth and everyone knows the 12 days after abraham lincoln was shot, john wilkes booth was killed. this is his family and said they shot the wrong guy. he escaped and they have the proof and you want to hear the story cracks yes. i want to hear that story. [laughter] i love people tell me the secrets. went to a private lunch in the white house in the private dining room nobody look twice at me because i write thrillers for a living and i hosted tv show about conspiracies and i am the perfect spy. im. maybe he's telling the truth. that's what i want you to think. [laughter] i have the perfect cover. everybody thinks i'm doing fine research for another thriller. had were not use that idea in the next book? also on the other side what happens is when conspiracies become mainstream and candidates talk about them that does develop an industry of conspiracy. that's what we are at. it hasn't been about fear mongering that trying to get the hardest thing of all to the american people t

the projection of the november 1864 election, the terms of surrender and beliefs from abraham lincolns year. long before computerize recordkeeping and political track polling lincoln seemed uncannily able to comprehend, retain and analyze even the most fragmented voting trends. you write a book lincoln had been a serious student ever since his days of being a poll watcher in illinois. so tell me were his predictions political or statistical or were they just instinctive? >> all of the above. he was by all accounts of people who knew him a remarkable and very localized analyst of votes. he used to make the rounds in the illinois legal circuit in the 1850s. and they'd say, wow, the republican part of the vote increased by 2%. if this continues by 1858 we'll be able to elect a senator, and maybe with a bit more presidential electors. he had it in his head from precinct to precinct, and why? because he lived and died by those results. and he knew about turn out and all of the above. >> what exactly does this reflect? >> so don't worry about your focus. this is very faded document. it was n

. >> next on "the presidency," a conversation about portraying abraham lincoln on the stage. ford's theater director paul tetreault talks with richard hellesen, the writer of a play about two meetings between abraham lincoln and frederick douglass. they are joined by actors craig wallace and david selby. ford's theater provided this video. >> today, we are happy to welcome playwright richard hellesen and actors david selby and craig wallace. all of these men have either appeared on the ford stage or created works that appeared on the ford stage too many times to count. so we are thrilled to have them with us today. i'd also like to say we have been watching demonstrations unfold in our neighborhoods and across the nation. as we plan for the future of ford's theater, we know we have work to do. we commit to using our platform to tell stories that speak to the present moment with courage, inspiration, healing, and of course, abraham lincoln. today, we're talking with richard, craig, and david about a specific play in which they all took part, "necessary sacrifices," which ford'

i did more for the black community than anybody, with the possible exception of abraham lincoln. >> i a hostile press, the likes of which no president has ever seen. the closest would be that gentleman right up there. they always said lincoln, nobody got treated worse than lincoln. i believe i am treated worse. >> what do you think that infatuation is with abraham lincoln? >> i think all presidents fall in love with abraham lincoln, because no matter how bad they have it, lincoln had it worse. and yet, he ended up being number one ranked as presidents. remember, barack obama was very interested in the presidency of lincoln, and george w. bush called it his favorite president. what's different here is donald trump is trying to say, i'm as great as lincoln, i'm the equal of abraham lincoln, which is just preposterous. if he is a one-term president, donald trump will be remembered with james buchanan, towards the bottom of american presidents. two-term president, it could become a different story. so, he's trying to elevate himse himself. as his mt. rushmore speech indicated, donald trum

give my kids a lego set of amelia earhart, of real heroes and if we can do that i want to do in abraham lincoln set in albert einstein and every set that we can do and how great would it be if we can inspire our kids with a real amazing toy to play with, please thank you, i appreciate it. >> thank you, legos for amelia earhart, go, other questions. >> yes in the back. >> what about a susan b anthony lego set. >> now everyone wants their own lego set. >> don't worry, i promise. she wants susan b anthony, who did you want. >> eleanor roosevelt, this is what you kid -- martin luther king jr. from the kid who speaks little league. >> george washington, right, this is what i want to do, this is what i want to see america do, tell your dad, if you love me you will register tonight, and if you don't register and vote, you don't love me dad, you say those words and watch what you get. >> the inner circle you have the scavenger hunt that you cited in the book, do you have bigger plans for doing something like that. >> as you know, i love hiding things and all my books, i cannot do a tv show called the c

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a petition to abraham lincoln for the recruitment of black troops. this is addressed to his excellency abraham lincoln. >> it does bear a number of signatures. hundreds and hundreds of signatures. so it is a petition that was a brain child of someone named j.e. gardner, we don't know much about j.e. gardner except that he organized this effort to call on the president of the united states in july of 1862, to unleash the power of african-americans who up until this point had not been permitted to volunteer for the union arms and constituted what some people call a sable arm that could help the union win the war by increasing its man power exponentially. we've seen this object. it is a scroll. it is a big scroll. >> 25 feet or something. >> 25 feet long. it is never been exhibited altogether because you need two floors of the majestic galleries of the historical society to give it the full justice. it is signed by an amazing group of supporters of black enlistment for the time. it was signed by clearly irish americans, by jewish americans, by german am

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the objection of the 1864 election the terms of surrender and three briefs from his abraham lincoln's appomattox final year long before. long before political around computerized record keeping, lincoln seemed uncannily able to to -- like it had been a serious student voting trades ever since day is a poll watcher in illinois. tell me, where his predictions political over they statistical or where they just instinctive? >> all of the above. he was by all accounts, but people who knew him, a remarkable and very localized analyst of votes. he used to make the rounds in the illinois legal circuit in the 18 fifties and would come into a county and look at the elect election results and say wow, the republican part of the vote increase by 2%. if this continues by 1858 will be able to elect a senator and maybe with a little more presidential electorate. he had in his mind from precinct to precinct. why? because he lived and died by those results. he knew about turn out and vote polling, and all of the above. >> so our first object is a projection of the 1860 sure election this. isn't lincol

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but next on the presidency, a conversation about portraying abraham lincoln on the stage. ford's theater director paltrow talks with playwright, richard allison, who wrote necessary sacrifices, if forbes commission play about two meeting 15 leak in an abolitionist fredericton bliss. we are joined by actress david solely and craig wallace, who played lincoln and douglas respectively. ford's theater provided his video. >> today, we are happy to welcome playwright richard hellesen, and actors david salley and craig wallace. all these actors appeared on the ford stage, or great works but appeared on the forwards stage, too many times to count. we are thrilled to have them with us today. i am also, i would like to say that we have been watching demonstrations unfold in our neighborhoods and across the nation. as we prayed to the future of the ford's feet are, we know we have work to do. we commit to using our platform to tell stories that speak to the present moment with courage, inspiration, feeling, and of course, abraham lincoln's legacy. today we are talking with richard he

and release from abraham lincoln. long before computerized lincoln seems, able to comprehend and analyze the most fragmented early voting trends. you write lincoln had been a serious student of voting trends since his day as a poll watcher in illinois. political,redictions statistical? or instinctive? above.zer: all of the he was a remarkable and localized analyst. he used to make the rounds in the illinois legal circuit and and looke into account at the election results and say the republican part of the voting increased by 2%. if this continues, we will be able to elect a senator and he to increases head the precinct. he knew about turnout. all of the above. is aie: the first object projection of the november 1864 election. this is in lincoln's handwriting. what does this reflect? aboutlzer: don't worry the focus. this is a very faded document. it was not meant to be kept. those of us old enough to whenber the 2000 election estimates were written on a big piece of vote tag, this is octoberdoodling in 1864, a month b

claudia: se reunieron en las caminatas de monumento de abraham lincoln.63, 250,000 personas marcharon por el empleo y la libertad. donde martin luther king jr. pronunciÓ su discurso "yo tengo un sueÑo". pide en el fin de la fuerza policial contra la comunidad negra. >> muchos latinos dicen que no es pleito, pero es de todos. en medio de las emociones, familiares de jacob blake , george floyd, briana taylor, y otros hablaron. un policÍa de kenosha, wisconsin baleÓ a blake siete veces por la espalda y lo dejÓ paralÍtico. el sistema es culpable de racismo, grito su padre. despuÉs de esta marcha hace 57 aÑos atrÁs, en el congreso se aprobaron leyes contra la segregaciÓn racial. ahora con un congreso dividido es difÍcil que se apruebe legislaciones contra la brutalidad policial. claudia: los organizadores esperan que la marcha motive a mÁs gente a acudir a las urnas en noviembre. >> no tenemos nada que hacer, vinimos porque las vidas de los negros importan.si no hay legislaciÓn, no hay cambios. claudia: la familia de martin luther king hablÓ luego de una emoti

two, complicit in the assassination of abraham lincoln. and three, the mistreatment of federal soldiers in prison by the confederate states army. in order to answer those charges in federal court, he had to be in a place where his last residency occurred, and that would be in richmond, the white house of the confederacy. it is here he will stay four months to remain incarcerated at fort monroe for almost two years. he would never see his day in court. he would never be acquitted. and he would retire and write his memoirs and live to the age of 80. with the understanding that jefferson davis was charged with three federal indictments, many folks in the united states, men of wealth, men of influence, decided that that was not going to be the best way to heal the nation. to try jefferson davis with the fear that he might be acquitted would cast a shadow over 3.2 million people going to war and over 750,000 of them losing their lives. at the conclusion of the american civil war, the priority of not only our congress and the president, but the

lincoln onng abraham the stage. a ford's commission to play between lincoln meeting two abolitionists. we're joined by the actors. ford's theater provided this video. >> today, we are happy to welcome playwright richard allison and actors david selby and craig wallace. all of these men have either appeared on the ford stage or created works that appeared on the ford stage. too many times to count. so we are thrilled to have them with us today. say wei'd also like to have been watching demonstrations unfold in our neighborhood and across the nation as we planned for the future of ford's theater. we know we have work to do. we commit to using our platform to tell stories that speak to the present moment with courage, inspiration, healing, and of course, abraham lincoln. with, we're talking richard and david about a specific play in which they all took part, necessary sacrifices, which ford's theater premiered in 2012. ford's commissioned richard to write the play to celebrate leadership in 2011. this play explores the

expedition to cross a wild and hard charted continent in the depths of a bloody civil war president abraham lincoln looked out these very windows upon a half completed washington monument and asked god in his providence to save our nation 2 weeks after pearl harbor franklin delano roosevelt welcomed winston churchill and just inside they said our people and of course to victory in the 2nd world war in recent months our nation and the entire planet has been struck by a new and powerful invisible enemy like those brave americans before us we are meeting this challenge us we are delivering lifesaving therapies and will produce a vaccine before the end of the year or maybe even sooner. we will defeat the virus and the pandemic and emerge stronger than ever before thank you and what united generations past was an unshakable confidence in america's destiny and an unbreakable faith in the american people they knew that our country is blessed by god and has a special purpose in this world it is that conviction that inspired the formation of our union our westward expansion the abolition of slavery. the pas

i am proud of what abraham lincoln stood for. i am proud of what this party stood for. believe people can have differences of opinion and not hate. they can debate ideas. when you debate ideas, there is a lot of common ground. we are all americans. i yearn for those days again. that people don't hate one another just because they have different thoughts. think -- >> you do not mean to imply that you became a republican simultaneously the president. >> if i had been alive during that time, oh yeah. note, iat historical will turn over the remainder of the program to you and rrb. remember, was the first time the republicans took down confederate flag. thank you so much, congressman. we have a number of questions. the first one is what do you intend to do to make the republican party more inclusive for people of diverse ethnic backgrounds? >> that's a great question. best we could have is to show everybody that people have the ability to serve. if we are really a big tent, then we should look like what we believe we are. and this is interesting. we're going through primarie

susan: were going to jump to abraham lincoln. have to read this because i've read it several times to prepare for this interview and it is so strong. he had become by 1864 the harshest and indeed the most repressive presidential sensor yet. even the sedition act could not match the ferocity and scope, the undeclared and largely unchallenged war the lincoln administration begin warring against hostile newspapers within months of his inauguration. harold: i was tough. susan: you were tough. harold: well, we can argue about the legality, the rationale, the tensions and anxieties that existed when the southern states seceded and started a rebellion. that was lincoln's argument, that in the case of rebellion, all bets are off. he felt he was not obligated to protect individual constitutional guarantees if that meant the entire constitution would go down the drain with the union. so that was his rationale. but the record is undeniable. adams may have conducted what i call show trials to enforce the sedition act, but at least there were

. >>> next on the presidency, a conversation about portraying abraham lincoln at the stage. ford's theater director paul tret trault talk-oetreault. joined by actors david selby and craig wallace who played lincoln respectively. ford theater provided this video. >> today we are happy to welcome playwright richard herson and david selby and craig wallace. all created work that appeared on the ford stage, too many times to count. so we're thrilled to have them with us today. i'm also, i would like to say we've been watching demonstrations unfold in our neighborhoods and across the nation as we plan for the future of ford's theater, we know we have work to do. we commit to using our platforms that tell stories, that speak to the present moment with courage, inspiration, healing and, of course, abraham lincoln legacy. today we're talking with richard craig and david about a specific play they took part "necessary sacrifice" ford theater premiered in 2012. ford commissioned richard to write the play to celebrate the opening of our center for education and leadership in 2011. this

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abraham lincoln, he did good, even though it's questionable. >> that's crazy. anniversary of the voting rights signed into law by lyndon talking about his rights record. >> i have done more for african-americans than any president with the possible exception of abraham lincoln, and that's true. i passed criminal justice reform. i funded the historically black colleges and colleges and universities. nobody else did it. i did it. i gave them long-term financing. they never had it. half of them were going out of business. they were having a hard time. they came up to see me. i took care of it. obama never did it. i did it. opportunity zones. and the job numbers are the best in the history of this country for african-americans, hispanic americans. >> i know. and that's real civil rights. >> that's real civil rights. that's why i call you a civil rights activist. i do. >> okay. yeah. donald j. trump. earth to civil rights activist, you literally cannot make this stuff up. and that is today's craziest damn thing in the world! last night's sleep, interrupted by pain?

andrew johnson was not exactly the same person as abraham lincoln. reconstruction led to jim crowe laws, the ku klux klan, lynching throughout the south and so forth. and washington, d.c. didn't do that much about federal government. it was largely controlled by some southern members who are not really that favorable to african-americans. not until the civil rights revolution in the 1960s did washington get more interested in actually trying to change these things. is that when it came about, when the civil rights revolution came along, that the federal government officials said, we have to do something to change the laws in this country in the 1950s and 1960s? >> what you have, washington, d.c., again, because of howard university, was really at the forefront of demanding fairness in the 1920s, 30s, '40s. so it really wasn't that they waited until the 1960s, but the pressures on the federal government, the leadership that the civil rights movement did, the visibility that it received utilizing the media and television put pressure on the federal gov

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