but there were too many people here in this little house as abraham lincoln was dying. so mary lincoln would sometimes come out that front door the parlor and venture to the back. and for female friends escorted her down this hallway. by then the bed had been pulled away from the wall. so the doctors could surround it and treat lincoln and observe him. so several times during the night mary lincoln said in a chair right here next to the bad pulled away from the wall. she really couldn't control herself. at one point when it sounded like lincoln was gasping and about to die. she let out a terrific shriek that so unnerved secretary of war stanton. he said take that woman out of this room, and don't let her back and again, which was a cruel thing to say mary lincoln did not have a lot of fans in washington, but it was not right to treat her that way in the presence of her dying husband, but she was so upset and unnerved. she really couldn't bear to be in this room. and so she only made a few trips back here throughout the night. and she was not present when the president di

this is actually the first photograph of abraham lincoln. now, it doesn't quite look like the fellow that we meet on the five dollar bill. the photograph is a gregarious type, taken in about 1846. and you lose, lincoln really does not look like somebody fresh off his father's farm. that's because by 1846 -- when he goes up to the legislature in 1834, he also carries with him that desire for advancement and the way to advancement for lincoln is to study law. and so he becomes a lawyer, apprenticing himself more or less as a junior partner to a prominent kentucky lawyer in springfield, illinois, named john todd stewart who he had met during the militia service he renter during the black hawk war. of 1832. that was where stewart and lincoln met. lincoln works as a junior partner for john cough stewart. but eventually what he wants to do is to be on his own. and he achieves that in 1844, taking along with him, as a junior partner of his own, william henry harden. who will, over the years to come, become something of the ball as well to lincoln's

his first book, "the inner world of abraham lincoln," appeared in 1994. e then he has written and edited over a dozen other lincoln books including "abraham lincoln: a life," that won the 2010 lincoln prize and was deemed one of the five best books of the year by "the atlantic." this october pegasus books will release his study: the black man's president." he is currently president of the springfield-based abraham lincoln association. now let's hear from michael burlingame. thank you for joining us today. >> before i begin, i would like to thank the archives for inviting me to participate in this series. over the years i've spent many hours at the archives both in downtown washington and out in college park conducting lincoln research. and the research that is most relevant for the book that i'm talking about today was in the records of the interior department. and there's a great deal of information about how spending was done at the white house indicating that it was not always above board. and it was very useful to be able to see official documents rath

well, the answer is abraham lincoln. this is not because lincoln is the famous abraham lincoln.s is because abraham lincoln is a prom then former whig lawyer who has now join the republican party as of 1856. and because no other republican is really interested in breaking their teeth trying to challenge stephen a. douglass. so it's very much a case of, well, we know we're not winning in election. so, all right. well let's nominate lincoln. because nobody else wants to lose in the republican ranks. lincoln understood the odds were long here. but lincoln had had a long career of controversy and opposition with douglass. lincoln was spoiling for a fight. the state republican convention convenes in springfield, illinois, in mid-june of 1858. they endorse lincoln for the united states senate. now, mind you, they can only endorse him because before 1912 senators are selected by the state legislatures. they're not popularly elected. strictly speaking, no one is nominating lincoln for the senate, any more anyone is nominating douglass for the senate. it's the state legislature which is

thank you very much. ♪ ♪ >> in time of unprecedented strife and conflict present abraham lincoln took reins of national leadership and re- united a fractured america. named in honor of the 16th president, the guilder lehrman lincoln prize founded in 1990 and has been awarded annually for their work in english on abraham lincoln. the american civil war soldier of the american civil war era. the inspired leadership theco lincoln prize committee has considered more than 3200 works and awarded more than $1.5 million in prizes over the last threees decades. the award have honored scholars such as eric, barbara, doris, jim, and film makers steven spielberg and kim burns honored with the inaugural prize for his documentary masterpiece the civil war. as well as many others. they guilder lehrman lincoln prize has set a standard for scholarly awards and shines a bright light on the legacy of lincoln and his accomplishments as well as an era of the civil war. although america may change and grow, both the memory and the words of abraham lincoln remain fresh. with the malice towards none, with ch

set out to draw back the curtain on the domestic life of abraham lincoln. lincoln contended with political and military battlegrounds during the civil war. his home life did not provide the relief he sought. drawing upon diaries, correspondence and federal records, burlingame explores the marriage of abraham and mary lincoln. michael burlingame, holder of the distinguished chair in lincoln studies at the university of illinois-springfield, was born in washington, d.c. and raised in nearby arlington. his first book, the inner world of abraham lincoln, was written in 1994. he's written over a dozen books including one of the five best books of the year by the atlantic. this october pegasus books will release his study, "the black man's president: abraham lin on the, frederick douglass and the quest for racial justice." now let's hear from michael burlingame. thank you for joining us today. >> before i begin my remarks, i would like to thank the archives for letting me participate in this series. over the years i've spent many ours in the archives conducting l

the top of that list, abraham lincoln.ollowed by george washington, franklin roosevelt, theodore roosevelt. ronald reagan rounding at the top five when it comes to advancing a vision paid st. paul, minnesota, independent line. caller: good morning. i'm going to toss in a new category. most underappreciated, but best prepared. no president is really prepared, but i look at bush 41 as having the credentials that matched perhaps no one else but george washington to step into that position and i think it's leadership was very good in a number of different categories. i do recall the speeches he did on c-span afterwards or something he wrote later, he was puzzled by so much rhetoric, nonsense rhetoric and he wanted to be judged based on his actions more so than his words because a lot of people didn't think he was a great orator, but in fact his relationship both domestically and internationally really prepared him to perform well in the office. host: i was can ask you, former president bush served in a lot of different roles b

to abraham lincoln because if he did not abolish slavery we would be a sad state of affairs. ame out years ago. lincoln was very close to the jewish community in springfield, illinois and he is connected to a man who many americans do not know. he is connected to julius rosenwald, the cofounder of -- who was born in 1862. in real life, abraham lincoln affected many people. my family in 1921. host: you said he affected many people pretty still continues to rank high on our rankings. aside from what you list it, why do you think he continues to enjoy such popularity? caller: because this country is changing. this country like south africa is changing from majority white rule to minority white rule. host: we will go to joe in new mexico. republican line. your favorite president and why. good morning. caller: franklin roosevelt and lyndon johnson. host: ok, there is two. tell us why a little bit of each prude why do they rank as favorites caller:. franklin -- each. why do they rank as favorites? caller: franklin roosevelt because of social security and lyndon johnson because of me

the four candidates running are from illinois, stephen douglas, with who logan is aligned, and abraham lincoln is the whig who converted to a republican. the republican party started in illinois roughly around 1856. lincoln is the first republican -- second republican candidate for president in 1860. the first very popular and prominent republican in illinois. logan campaigns hard for his reelection in southern illinois, in egypt, for douglas and against abraham lincoln. when the dust settled at the end of that election, logan wins easily. lincoln wins illinois and the presidency, but he does it with only 39% of the popular vote because there are four people running. he wins illinois by almost embarrassingly low-margin. that was because of logan's campaign against him in egypt. of the 28,000 votes cast in 1860 in southern illinois, lincoln only got 5200. 17%, that's it. lincoln won't forgive logan for that and will really drag his feet when it comes to efforts to get logan a command in the civil war. we know that right after lincoln's election, secession and civil war initiates within that nex

this young man was abraham lincoln.ook another trip out of springfield, illinois. 1828 is a really important here though. that is with the erie canal opened. that gave new york city, which became of course with the greatest imports in the world, access to the markets west into the great lakes brit at the time chicago was not even a city it was a swampy trading post a very inaccessible because the only way of getting down to the mississippi river was through an ugly portage called bud lake. even in 1673, two explorers said hey there should be a canal here. if you connect the chicago river to lake michigan, the great lakes, the erie canal, new york city you can get to new orleans because internet to the illinois river, then the mississippi and onto the chosen city. that was on the first impressions that young abraham lincoln had as the nation was growing in the 1830s, it was really a time that we don't really study a whole lot. because we mostly skip from the revolution to the civil war, there is a lot of history in betwe

bjorn: i'm occasionally going to share things that we have in abraham lincoln's bookshop and usually want to do this, try to sell it to you. to me some of the things we will share in this program. tell us the value as the next ordinary valuable historically. knowing pitching this to you but karen, i'm going to give you one chance to talk about one particular unc person and that is the photographer we don't need to go back to dixie daughters but i think people are interested in the confederate monitor and monuments will want to know that there is a project going on and people behind this project and here we see these pamphlets that she is passing out there teaching in a pitching it in teaching it privileged version of the civil war that privileges of the confederate memory of the civil war. it's called the lost cause. a lot of people were listening to the snow about the lost cause. even those monuments have a real project behind them that is to tell our story. karen: exactly. there was like a one-woman pr machine for the unc, she wrote all of the scrapbooks about various aspects of co

the location was the front of the memorial to abraham lincoln. and it was here that american entertainer pat boone opened the proceedings by introducing the star spangled banner america's national and friends this song was written at a crossroads time a time of crisis in our nation's history. for over 150 years. it's helped unite americans. as we stand today at a crossroads and in a crisis time. let's all sing this song with love and conviction. fly the dog early like was a problem. we have and the twilight. follow us on social media at c-span history for more this day in history clips and posts. recently on american history tvs oral history series michael schlitz recounted his time in the us army during the iraq war. here's a portion of that interview. anytime we're looking for the ieds. you're only going about two miles per hour. so it's it's a creed crawling. obviously why you need that that heavy armored vehicles because you're moving so slow. it's an easy target. and we got down to the end of the road. it's very rural area. there's a lot of

he had the distinct privilege to publish abraham lincoln's best-selling book. we should probably back up, because a lot of people do not know that he wrote one. when lincoln ran for the senate and lost to stephen douglas, they had their famous debate. during the debates, there were a couple of people from newspapers transcribing the debates, writing down shorthand and then a couple of days later, they would print it in papers so people who didn't attend could read it in the newspapers. lincoln, after he lost the senate race, for most people, the story stopped there. this is breaking news. let's move on. lincoln, after he lost the senate race, he worked hard to gather those newspaper transcript. he worked hard. there are at least nine surviving letters of him gathering these newspaper transcripts. he cut them out and pasted them in a scrapbook. you can still see it today at the library of congress. it is an amazing document. he is making these tiny little edits in pencil. if one paragraph is not accurate, he is cutting it out and putting a different paragraph in

abraham lincoln. they want to take his name off three schools on the west coast. and i say what are these people thinking? it's almost become, in my opinion, a sickness. there is something wrong. lawrence: you think it's out of control. let's talk about the economy. it's fair to say the stock market is booming. the economy is booming. what i see and talk to businesses on the street. they say that they're competing with government. that there is paychecks being out there. and they cannot keep up. they can't continue to increase their wages. what is your message to the small businesses that are out there? because they feel forgotten right now. >> so the stock market is doing well, but that's also habit a little bit that can change very quickly because, inflation, is going to become terrible. when i left it was 1.87 a gallon for gasoline now it's 3.50 and going to go much, much higher. we were energy independent. another month or so at this rate we will not be energy independent. we are going to need russia, saudi arabia, the middle east, we are going to need all of

what is happening to that party, the party of abraham lincoln? falsely claiming that the election was stolen, republican legislatures are making elections easier to overturn, even under the falsest and biggest of lies. and what happens here? our republican friends here in washington have chosen a path of supine compliance, refusing to stand up to the big lie, bowing down before it, bowing down before donald trump, the biggest liar that we have ever had as an american president, except when the capitol building is literally under siege. and by the way, just parenthetically, i commend to my colleagues and to all measures the -- americans "the new york times" did a video of the siege. they even had some -- they showed the siege, they showed the violence, and they had some republican congressmen saying it was like tourists. it was incredible. i recommend everyone should watch this. and i hope republican colleagues, just watch it. you were there. just watch it. i commend "the new york times." they did a great job on it. anyway, the effort to fight thi

i knew abraham lincoln.oln but you're comparing child abuse, an issue like that to a voting measure that is hardly as sweeping as you proclaim. i guess what i'm asking you, if this ever comes to the federal level representative, do you go back to texas and acknowledge under the full possibility of arrest when you get home that this mission failed? that it was a waste of time? >> it is never a failure to try to save the democracy. that's what we're trying to do, neil. you may not agree with it. that's okay. you don't have any problems. probably don't harass you. they don't make it difficult for you to vote. if you vote and get old enough and heaven for bid if you face a disability in your life and they move to the state of texas, the legislation is being contemplated will affect your ability to vote. we heard from so many people, neil and maybe you would belittle them if you heard their testimony, people disabled. a lady with cerebral palsy talking how this would affect her. if you think that is partisan or i

it was not a campaign book like abraham lincoln's.candidates specifically pulling together a book. the story started a little earlier for jefferson. he worked on that book in the 1780's. it came out more than a decade before he ran for president. it was essential, it was a huge flashpoint during the elections of 1776 and 1800. this is when thomas jefferson and john adams are running against each other. there were other candidates as well. to understand why "notes on the state of virginia" was so important, we have to talk about how campaigning worked in that time. today when someone runs for president, they want their name everywhere. they want to be on tv and twitter and make their case directly to voters. it was the opposite of that. early in our history, it was the complete opposite. if you went out to everyone and said, "i want to be president," that was proved to most voters that you were not the right person to run for president. the idea was that you should be humble. you should be called to serve. it should be other people adv

abraham lincoln lost his life, martin luther king lost his life.onfederacy in the democratic party which insisted on slavery, segregation and separation. yet i hear the same thing over and over. separation, segregation. and the marxist left how they demean lincoln and frederick douglass. and demean martin luther king what you mean a colorblind society? all of the civil rights activist and movements and supreme court decisions. all they did was enshrined the white dominant society. it is now bleeding into our classroom supported by the teachers union in media no link in are ulysses s grant black lives matter are no martin luther king jr. or frederick douglass this is a great country it is a magnificent country. look at the border people pouring over from every corner of the world to escape their countries and culture. it's a nation worth defending that so my book american marxism about that's what the show is about. see you next time on "life, liberty & levin". steve: former president trump on stage at cpac a short time ago. >> we will take back the

overlooking the festive atmosphere, the president quotes abraham lincoln on storm clouds. pres. own country said, i know there is a god, i see a storm coming. if he has a part and a place for me, then i am ready. no one can tell in the future whether there is a storm coming for all of us, but what we can be sure about is, no matter what happens, we believe in god, and we are ready. thank you very much. [applause] ♪ narrator: the president's entourage, which includes his sister-in-law, stands by as a spontaneous kennedy disregards security measures. unquestionably, the most sought after souvenir of the day is a presidential handshake. ♪ from the roman hill to st. paul's church, this neoclassic edifice was opened in 1848. that same year, the first german national assembly met here under the slogan, there shall be one germany. today, statesmen of west germany gathered in the historic auditorium to hear an american president. the overwhelming welcome that has accompanied kennedy this far is interpreted in the address by the president. the german people are more thankful than it may

he's kind of like an ugly abraham lincoln. not that abraham lincoln was a looker, but it's but there but there is and clearly i mean there's something amiss about his face. i think we can easily say but that said when you consider what he looked like with that facial tumor and the fact that he was literally probably months away from death. it is incredible that sign was able to save his life sign features heavily in the book he as i said becomes lister's father-in-law he reinvigorates a passion in surgery for lister after lister has a mental breakdown on lister's brother dies of a brain tumor and he leaves medical school. he doesn't understand or he doesn't know what medicine could do for people and he he learns to love surgery again with time. so he's featured heavily in the butchering art. the last one i want to tell you about is this guy named john eric erickson. he was one of lister's instructors at ucl and he's kind of famous amongst medical historians for saying that surgery in the 1840s had gone as far as it would ever

i'm gonna run him through meaning i'm going to kill and he assassinated abraham lincoln because lincoln underwent a major transformation about the mental capacity of black people their fitness to be citizen and their their right to bear arms and and fight, um for the union and in part to his friendship is my colleague john stauffering as david blight my good friends. yeah, who wrote? yeah, david blake knows more about frederick douglas and frederick douglass. did i i had a conversation with him like this two years ago. oh, he's he's great and we we option the documentary rights to david's book, and i just looked at the rough cut for our documentary, which would be aired on hbo next year. i think fingers crossed. so i got one final question. skip how can we implement the black church the book the black church into a k-12 curriculum? well, i don't jim and i have talked about this. this was a prelude jim basker my dear friend who needs no introduction to this audience. um as asked me to work with him on the reconstruction curriculum and curriculum about the black church, and you know, jim

right now, what we have is a republican party -- my grandfather was a theodore roosevelt and abraham lincoln republican -- that they have been hijacked by an extremist group of people who only want to care about the corporate interest and ruling elite. it is interesting to me that the republicans, the same ones who are extremists, when they come to congress and the senate, they get free health care, $100,000 salaries, but they do not want their constituents to have the same they have. that is concerning. lastly, 30% of the electorate is low wealth, 65 million people. we did study with columbia university and asked why are poor and low wealth people really engaged? the answer was nobody talks about them, whether they are white folks or poor black folks or latinos or whatever, we can go through an entire presidential election, and the candidates will talk about the middle class, the wealthy, and never talk about one third of the electorate and in 40 million people in this country, almost 43% of the nation. that is a problem because if you are not willing to say the word poverty or talk about w

. >> the secret service was founded in the aftermath of the assassination of abraham lincoln.t was not until the death of john f. kennedy that the presidential detection -- presidential protection service began to get attention from the american people. in the prologue of a new book, zero fail, the author writes she started her coverage on a scandal in which agents draw prostitutes to hotel rooms while making arrangements for president obama to visit columbia. -- to visit colombia. >> this episode of book notes plus. listen at c-span.org/podcast or wherever you get your podcasts. >> now, state and federal judges testify on judicial branch diversity before the house judiciary subcommittee on courts. topics include pathways to law school for minorities, access to law clerkships and vetting nomies

abraham lincoln lost his life within, martin luther king lost his life. the union. they demyanmar continue lute i shall king. what do you have mean a color blind society? the civil rights acts passed by congress. all that did was enshrine the white dominant society. this is a poison. this american marxism will destroy this country if it's not spent. it's support by the teachers union, the media, the democrat party and the president of the united states. black lives matter, they are no frederick douglass or martin luther king, jr. this is a magnify sent country. look at border and people pouring over from every corner of the swormd trying to escape their country and their cultures. this is a country worth defending. that's what this book is about. that's what this movement is about, that's what this show is about. see you next time on "life, liberty & levin." [♪♪♪] jesse: welcome to "watters' world." i'm jesse watters. the democrats' lost cause. that's the subject of tonight's "watters words." ronald reagan won texas by 30 points, and 40 years later trump

there are political cartoons of james buchanan as an iceberg melting under the glare of abraham lincoln as the sun, you know icebergs and ice are viewed as part of northern fortitude and the south and the tropics are viewed as emblematic of the south literally in this case on fire and coming apart at the seams the reviews that i cite and the exhibition pick up on this fact one reviewer refers to the ash cloud off the volcano is looking like canon smoke across a battlefield others talk about rivers running with blood coming out of the french revolutionary wars people in this period looked for saw and found connections to the war as it was happening by the time you get to the winter of 1864. there's a sense of despair like this is never going to end and by that time you cannot find an aurora borealis that does not carry resonances of the war again, there are political cartoons of confederates sort of fleeing and horror from the northern lights, which look like the bayonets of the union army. it's not real subtle, but it is there but again they are portents. god is not happy. the world is

. ♪ >> the secret service was founded in the aftermath of the assassination of abraham lincoln, but itas not until the death of john f. kennedy that the presidential protection service began to get closer attention from the american people. she began reporting on the secret service for the washington post in 2012. in the prolong of her new book, "zero failure," she talks about making arrangements for president obama to make dust visit in columbia. we talk about her book in the new book, subtitled the rise and fall of the secret service. >> on this episode of book notes plus, listen on c-span.org, or wherever you get your podcasts. ♪ >> our first guest of the morning is serena -- sarita gupta. thank you for joining us. be here. host: talk about the ford foundation and the futures of worker program, tell us what that is. guest: the ford foundation is a large social justice philanthropy. its mission is to tackle inequality in all of its forms. the future of workers program is aimed at looking at how we can ensure and support advocates on the frontline and business leaders eager to use the

the house was built by abraham lincoln's great grandfather, samuel lincoln in 1650 a few years before been so lucky. and homeowners say they will hire a team of specialist to restore the cottage to its original condition. that is, as long as congress can't include in the infrastructure plan. topic number four, wally found the oldest person to travel too space, thanks too jeff bezos is complaining about her trip. bad news for blue origin considering she's one of the companies only for yelp reviews. her post press conference while i can buy this ship was for her to tumble around and experience a folex of zero gravity. port jeff bezos spirit he makes a 60-foot sculpture of his johnson and women are still saying it is too small. wally also bubbled the 11 minute trip was too short, making her the first person to complain about not spending enough time with jeff bezos'. she also complained about the view, while this is the rocket did not get high enough to see the full earth. most of which she saw was empty darkness for it's like i've always said about space travel, great ice cream, no atmo

it was used by frederick douglass and abraham lincoln to free the. let me just say, abraham lincoln freed the slaves and hundreds of thousands of white americans fought and died to free the! we have to focus on that and all the progress we've made! and what the democrats are doing is not focus on the -- it's the goodness of america. it's meant to change our country. from a constitutional republic into a marxist socialist place that's foreign to the american ideals. >> gillian: it's clear you both love america. we love talking to both of you. >> thank you. more and more states are deploying law enforcement, activist groups are putting pressure on president biden to step in and stop them themselves. saying it's their prerogative to protect their security interest. he joins us next with a take on all of that. plus this. the nation's largest teachers union throwing support behind critical race theory, the backlash and what this means for schoolchildren across the country. >> critical race theory is a fairy tale promoted by many of my democratic colleague

then of course, abraham lincoln, walt whitman, frederick douglass , karl marx, frederick engels, thomas carlyle, charles darwin. in the bottom row, henry david thoreau, margaret fuller, charles dickens. olmsted was involved in the nation, the new york daily times, a publication called gardener forest. he wrote about england and antebellum american south. as well as being a corresponded when fox was working with him prior to downing staff. olmsted was uniquely prepared to tackle social issues and urban improvement through physical design. it is a commonplace remark that his parks are derived from 18th-century parks, designed by capability brown. here, these are characterized by vast swabs of meadow, livestock, sheep, cattle, undulating water, surrounding forest plantations. the occasional eye-catching pavilion in the distance. a very modest architectural feature. these parks have an ancient pedigree. the design was heavily inspired by literary writings dating to classical times in greece and rome. particularly the writings of virgil, appraised agrarian and pastoral scenery. contrasting t

and they wanted to rename abraham lincoln high school.rents really should be mad about all of this becaus their kids are excelling an effort the elite schools here i new york. that is why all these of the parents are so angry. because he is a kid that sits down. you know, i think that asians are, the they've been playing victims. you said parents are bad people. >> they can be jerky and annoying. >> i'm totally against parents. >> they don't have a talkshow. whenever we get mad at people for being outspoken couple afte reminders to remind ourselves that we haven't outside and parents don't. when you see them acting like a talkshow hosts, they should be encouraged. michael, question for you, how did they get empowered in the first place. we're parents not paying attention? >> a winner. one of the few things that came out of the lohan is that parent were home and they solve what was going on and they've realized i can probably teach m kids better myself, which i would encourage every parent to do. i want this to go nationwide. i what every

the secret service was founded in the aftermath of the assassination of abraham lincoln, but it wasn't until the death of john f kennedy at the presidential protection service began to get closer attention from the american people carolynek began reporting on the secret service for the washington post in 2012 in the prologue of her new book zero fail. she writes that she started her coverage on hooker gate the scandal in which agents brought prostitutes to their hotel rooms while making arrangements for president obama to visit cartagena colombia. we talked with ms. lynch about her in-depth look in her new book subtitled the rise and fall of the secret service carol lennig on this episode of book notes plus listen at c-span.org slash podcast or wherever you get your podcast. well, if you follow the wnba or women's basketball in general, you know who jocelyn willoughby is she was a star for uva cavaliers and now she's with the new york liberty, but ms. willoughby has also formed a book club and it's called read what you sow. jocelyn willoughby, where did that come from? hi, thank you so

abraham lincoln, douglas they all congratulate the more of a leader on this charter is a good thing.next five years, once animosity on the mormons increases that charter becomes the target. that charter sees to protect the charter too much for the mormons it necessary. some ways it's undemocratic that they sit necessary as democracy not been working for them. but when things get bad in illinois, as they eventually do, the charter becomes a target of their opponents they want to revoke naboo's charter. let's not dismiss presidential run. it is surprising and some cents outlandish. but not surprisingly outlandish. it shows different people and different expectations of what the government could do. could you explain why smith thought why he made that final step that a presidential run would help the presidential community? and beyond that how did they fashion the platform and shape his public image as a candidate? and finally when things i kept thinking about of town was more of a missionary work like a political campaigning because they relied on that as a way to get the word out. tal

. ♪ >> the secret service was founded in the aftermath of the assassination of abraham lincoln.ut it was not until the death of john f. kennedy that the presidential protection service began to get closer attention from the american people. they began reporting for the washington post in 2012. in the prologue of her new book "zero fail," she writes that she started her coverage on hookergate, the scandal in which agents brought prostitutes to their hotel rooms while making arrangements for president obama to visit in columbia. we discussed her new book subtitled "the rise and fall of the secret service." >> listen at c-span.org/podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts. ♪ >> during the national governors association summer meeting, incoming chair asa hutchinson of arkansas talked about his policy initiatives for the upcoming year. >> thank you all very much. welcome back, everyone. our first order of business is to move the resolution to elect the 2021-2022 nga officers and the executive committee members. our immediate past chair and nominating committee chair, governor larry

shadow cast more over the public and party than ronald reagan, he is the uber leader or even abraham lincolnthe icon of the republican party. >> some argued ronald reagan newt gingrich you also have written about and donald trump are the outside figures of the modern republican party, would you agree with that? >> absolutely agree with that, they certainly are. enrich the revolution of 1984, trump and his populace revolution four years ago, all of them represent different periods and times and philosophies, this ideologies going back to abraham lincoln and down through the ages. >> so when did you first meet ronald reagan? >> i first met ronald reagan in 1970 working on a campaign new hampshire, considered by everyone longshot and ended up winning by 6000 votes and reagan came up to campaign for new hampshire so it was an important primary and reagan one new hampshire he came up to campaign and the gentleman for thompson he came in to new hampshire hotel and film commercials and i was there the lobby he was accompanied by 28 so governor reagan and i sat there and the lobby complete all of th

the conspiracy to assassinate abraham lincoln. the evidence about the october surprise comes down to one question. the campaign manager william casey take a break in the summer of 1980 the office of strategic services as a young man his greatest experience is running covid operations in europe during world war ii. he loved it all. see attended it's true, he did flight to london and late july to attend this academic conference. he had a window of about three days over the weekend. that was enough time for him to take a nether flight into madrid, spain. the allegation is he went to mejia did that weekend and met with a representative of the ayatollah khamenei. he engaged in some private diplomacy specifically telling iranians at his candidate, ronald reagan, would be able to give them a better deal that should not deal jimmy carter. this is prolonging the hostage crisis. there was a congressional investigation, ten years after carter left the white house, three years after casey had died. and congress could not come to a clear -- th

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that's the key. >> jon, how much of this -- are we grappling with the fact that abraham lincoln died and his vision for reconstruction was never really pursued and reconstruction then failed and jim crow was reimposed? in a sense, does it all go back, or a large part of it go back to that fact that while there was the emancipation proclamation, while there was the freeing of slaves in the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments, it didn't mean a lot for hundreds of years afterwards. >> the civil war changed laws but it didn't change enough hearts. i didn't think there was any doubt about that. it didn't change enough minds. one of the tragedies of american history, if not the central tragedy of american history, is that we are founded on an idea of equality, but we profess it far more often and with greater passion than we practice it. the struggle for justice and equality and a history of which we can be proud is a daily one, i would argue, at the risk of self-parody, in everybody's soul. the soul of a person, i believe, is not all good or all bad but is an arena of contention in which our

founded in the aftermath of the assassination of abraham lincoln, but it wasn't until the death of john f. kennedy, in that the presidential protective service began to get closer attentionthe from the people. attention from the people p. in the prologue of the new book, "zero fail," she writes that she started her coverage on the scandal in which agents brought prostitutes to their hotel rooms while making arrangements for president obama to visit cartagena, colombia. >> carol leonnig on this episode of "book notes plus." listen wherever you get your podcasts. >>> up next, nick if las schmidting on the -- nicholas schmidting. this is hosted by romans bookstore in pasadena if, california. >> hi there, everyone. my name is max, and i'd like to thank you all for tuning in tonight with us. we're luckily to have nicholas schmidting -- schmidle. it does include a q&a portion, so if you'd like to ask a question request at any point, push the ask the question button at the bottom x if you'd like to purchase a book -- [inaudible] i'll go ahead and let them take over. thank you both so much. >>

abraham lincoln is utterly remarkable. the way that he pulled our country together when we were divided after fort sumner. imagine being president of the united states. lincoln wasn't even on the ballot in southern states. now he is in washington. the battle of bull run is where dulles airport is today. it was the utter unraveling of america and in the end, 600 thousand americans died. hundreds of thousands wounded. it was our crucible. lincoln pulled our country together and gave us a foundational text. the gettysburg address and the emancipation proclamation. crisis management, lincoln number one. as number two, franklin d roosevelt. the genius that he was of creating industrial mobilization , recognizing that world war ii was not going to be one --won in europe but it was going to take place in detroit, newark, san diego and seattle. that homefront organizing to win the war to pull the country together, so i put lincoln and fdr in that particular category of crisis management very high and important. host: good discussio

i would not put washington as a political chess master as abraham lincoln or an arm twister like lbj or he clearly wasn't the gifted fdr or jfk but nonetheless washington had a set of political skills and i agree with david instincts on reading people and he also had charisma and he was well aware of his charisma he was always the biggest guy in the room hewi was physically a large man and by today's and athlete, great horseman and a real presence in the raw charisma, he knew that and he knew he was not that well educated and not the articulate. so he kind of wheels himself and plays a role in the cards he was given. there's a story in the book of>> the boat on a key issue and there was four votes shy in the senate and the senate was a lot smaller ten today this a be like 40 votes shy in the senate so there was four votes shy in the senate and washington asked madison and others to call for a revote and people are scratching their head, we need time to work on this they were for votes shy and they call for an immediate revote in washington visits for senators and flipped all for. >>