we we there's and jefferson and abraham lincoln. never, never met each other either. their paths they were in washington, d.c. very, very briefly when lincoln was in the house. davis in the senate. but he's a senior senator. lincoln's a junior congressman. so there's no record that they ever met and no record, that their wives socialized with each other. i have a feeling they would have in some they're so similar. i don't know that they would have gone on to well because they were both pretty outspoken they they they like to speak their mind. thank you. you a couple of times that mary struggled with her mental health eventually her son had her committed for short period of time. do we have a sense of what a modern diagnosis for mary's condition or troubles would have been. and it's you know, it's it's so hard to go back diagnose people. but i heard, you know, schizophrenia i've heard, you know, she was bipolar or read that and, you know, no one can really tell but just going back and looking, you know, those are those are terms you definitely hear to describe mary. you

i'm not comparing myself to abraham lincoln. you're not-- or the emancipation proclamation.. he's a lot taller than me, and i never did anything as great as that, of course not. -but you're also not talking about the--i mean, the emancipation proclamation-- of course i'm not. governor blagojevich tried to sell the appointment to the senate seat vacated by president-elect obama. the conduct would make lincoln roll over in his grave. you're very critical of pat fitzgerald. yeah, he's an evil guy. he's a wicked guy. he's a scoundrel, and he deserves to get an ass kicking. you know? and he's a big coward. anyway, go ahead. sorry. well, i think he would take issue with everything you just said. you know, he has a reputation for being the choirboy, for being, you know, an upstanding, moral person. he sees himself as, "i am trying to uphold some basic standards for our politicians." that's how he views it. governor blagojevich has been arrested in the middle of what we can only describe as a political corruption crime spree. we had a political and public narrative that we had to ov

trump: i would say george washington, abraham lincoln. i would say i am far superior to george washington and abraham lincoln. you know i am only kidding, right? when i say that, the fake news is going to go wild. they will say he considers himself to be better than washington. but you never know. i don't care myself -- i don't compare myself to anybody. i am here to do a job. we have had a great 35 days or whatever it might be. a little more than a month. we have accomplished tremendous amounts. this will be a very great achievement if we can get this war stopped. and get them back to normalization. i think it's going to happen. we have had very good talks on both sides. i think we have done a very good job generally. if you look at all the things we have done in 30 days, they say there has never been an opening for a president. there has never been a first month like we have had. this is one of the very important things. this to me as one of the most important things because we have tremendous death taking place. as we speak. and i don'

>> i would say george washington, abraham lincoln. i would say i'm far superior to george washington and abraham lincoln. you know i'm only kidding, right? when i say that the fake news is going to go wild. but you never know. i don't compare myself to anybody. i'm here to do a job. we've had a great 35 days or whatever it might be. we have accomplished tremendous amounts. not only this. this would be a great achievement before we could get the war stopped and get them back to normalization. i think that's going to happen. we have had very good talks on both sides. i think we have done a very good job generally. there has never been an opening for president. there has never been the first month like we had and this is one of the most important things. because we have tremendous death taking place as we speak and i don't want to have that. think of the parents whether they are in russia or ukraine. fink of the parents of all these people being killed needlessly. >> they came to our territory. >> should have never started. if i were pre

president trump: i say george washington, abraham lincoln. i would say i'm far superyour to george washington and abraham lincoln. you know i'm only kidding. the fake news is going to say he considers himself to be better than washington. i don't compare myself to anybody. i'm here to do a job. we've had a great 35 days or whatever it might be, a little more than a month. we've established tremendous amounts -- not only this, this would be a great achievement if we can get the war stopped, and get them back to normalization. we've had very good talks on both sides as you know. i think we've deb done a good job just generally. if you look -- we've done a good job just generally. in the first month for a president, there's never been a first months like we've had. and this is one of the very important things. this to me is one to most important things because we have tremendous debt taking place as we speak. and i don't want to have that. think of the parents. think of -- whether they're in russia or ukraine, think of the parents of all these p

trump: i would say george washington, abraham lincoln. i would say i'm far superior to george washington and abraham lincoln. you know i'm only kidding, right? because when i say that the fake news is going to be wild. he considers himself to be greater than george washington. i don't compare myself to anybody. we're here to do a job. we've had a great 35 days, whatever it might be, a little more than a month. we accomplished tremendous amounts, not only this. this would be a very great achievement if we can get the war stopped and get them back to normalization. i think that's going to happen. we've had very good talks on both sides. i think we've done a good job just generally. if you look at all of the things done -- they say there's never been an opening for a president -- a first month like we've had. and this is one of the very important things. this to me, is one of the most important things because we have tremendous debt taking place as we speak. and i don't want to have that. think of the parents -- whether they're in russia or

one of the terms used at the time abraham lincoln for much of his life actually cited against democrats. he course was as he put it, a clay man, a follower of henry clay, who was one of andrew jackson's great nemesis clay, believed in stronger federal government and one that actually provided a number different services. he clay also believed in something the american system, which was aimed sort of improvements that would help the country. so when abraham lincoln becomes president, he's thinking a lot about clay's agenda and trying to figure out ways to unify the country, he's going to eventually authorize the transcontinental railroad railroad. they're going to be things he does that are what clay would have wanted. but lincoln is also quite aware of the debt he owes, jackson and this is something that i think is extremely important to keep in mind that what lincoln is doing in part in some presidents do this he's trying to move from being the partizan to the president, not easy move and. one of the ways he tries to do that is when he writes that first inaugural, he only asked four do

and at the park that has been protected since abraham lincoln was president, demonstrators said thate need to be doing more, not less, to protect things like yosemite. >> this man and his cronies are dismantling our nation. they are trying to burn it down. they're -- they are destroying the institutions that make this country move. the transportation, the education, the parks, commerce, they're shutting it down, and they are going to hurt us all in untold ways for generations to come. >> more than 325 million people visit the national parks and forests each year. >>> and still ahead tonight at 11:00, how the rest of the world is adjusting now that the smoke has settled from that heated exchange between presidents trump and zelenskyy. >>> and then a major trade for the 49ers as they say good bye to a famous name and its $21 million salary. that's coming up. i'm not happy with the way that pg&e handled the wildfires. yeah. yeah. i totally, totally understand. we're adding a ton of sensors. as soon as something comes in contact with the power line, it'll turn off so that there's not a r

maybe andrew johnson, following the assassination of abraham lincoln. maybe he had it worse. yeah, he did have it worse. the country was just ending a civil war and didn't know what to do with reconstruction and all that. but in the case of gerald ford, he was having to deal with, well, first of all, the fallout from watergate and and what it entailed for a fundamental loss of confidence in government. and i think actually a couple of years ago, i was talking about this when sort of in my first of the talks on the ford years and the presidency, but. in american history, from the 1940s through the 1960s and certainly into the 1960s, americans perception of government was very different than what it has been for the last 40 or 50 years. people thought the government actually could do the right thing and it would probably would do the right thing. and in fact, this idea that government can do the right thing is at the basis of, well, what we can sort of generically call the liberal program of if there's a social problem, if there's a problem in society, poverty pollutes in healt

those who fought for liberty, civil rights and freedom, and abraham lincoln certainly understood this when he made it come in thinking about those self-evident. upon which america founded, that all are created equal, certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness happiness. lincoln observed that, there will be some black men who can remember that we're silent. ten with clenched teeth, with a steady eye and well-poised bayonet. they have helped mankind onto this great aspiration. while i fear there will be some white men unable to forget that with malignant heart and deceitful speech, they have strove to hinder it. thank you all again for coming out. i think we've got time for maybe one question. sorry to sneak up here, but thank you so much for excellent talk. is this on? yeah, i'm really interested in this idea of the fight for civil rights. and i have a question that's maybe a little different spin on it. so as we probably all know, and which is also evident in your talk given a lot of northerners racist to arming black soldiers, being i

a very famous couple also had spending issues the lincolns, abraham lincoln's wife steve mary todd. >ian: used to spend like crazy. stress about the white house, the war, she would spend like crazy. she run up huge bills. after he died, we were stuck with the bills. >> lawrence: can we do research on it? why do the women spend so much? it's always the women. >> steve: every relationship generally has a spender and a saver. sometimes it's the man who is the spender. >> lawrence: i think it's mostly always the women. >> brian: can you take that back? >> lawrence: i'm not taking that back. it's true. >> steve: lawrence. >> brian: so much trouble. >> steve: if you were married, you would be the spender. you spend a lot of money on stuff. >> lawrence: i'm making it. >> steve: see, that's it. >> lawrence: it's a little different. >> ainsley: much easier to spend someone else's money. >> brian: do you know how high our ratings have been how many people just saw that? >> lawrence: like i said they cause the majority of the car accidents. >> we're going to break? >> lawrence: they did not but

it was abraham lincoln yet he did not conduct his in a spirit of fear and terror. he did not demagogue. he did not say the south is out to get you. he conducted in a way that tried to minimize fear, keep people focused on the larger. i don't have to tell you how important he was as an egalitarian as seeing everyone in the image of god and rejecting slavery all its vices. and then that last one, forgive each other, as ross just said, the core of the second inaugural is sin has been committed on both sides and it is for god to. he sent us this terrible war. he will be the judge, but we won't. so yes, course we have a great deal to learn from lincoln and of lincoln learned a great deal from christ, as did james madison and the and we i'm sorry that we don't have time for any more questions we all learned a great deal from these wonderful writers and panelists. we could give them a hand. we. and i think there are books where you guys willing to maybe sign few books over there. oh, i'm sure so. there are books available over here. you would like to have a book, so thank

kristen, when abraham lincoln was at gettysburg where so many died anded died defending freedom he talkede people, by the people and for the people. what we have right now in washington, let me be very clear, is a government of the billionaire class, by the billionaire class and for the billionaire class and these guys want to get their greed -- their greed is uncontrollable. more tax breaks to billionaires, cuts to programs for the elderly, the children and the poor. we've got to fight back. that's what these trips to wisconsin and michigan will be about. >> senator, very quickly, we are just 12 days away from the potential government shutdown. house speaker mike johnson says democrats have a significant role to play to keep the government open. some mocrats are saying they're not going to vote for a spending bill that includes elon muck's cuts? will you? will you vote to leave it open if it inclcludesthose cuts? >> we don't have a bill right now, but last i heard the republicans controlled the white house, the house and the senate, and i hope they ent us with a budget that works for the

iraq, a new made for tv spectacle, president bush hitching a ride on a fighter jet to the uss abraham lincolnust off the coast of san diego to make what proved a premature announcement. george w. bush puts on a flight suit. >> yeah. >> a tight one. frankly. >> he's got the look, doesn't he? i'm telling you, that. >> is the fighter pilot strut. if i ever saw it, he's got it going. >> tom cruise, look out! >> and then he gives a speech about the end of combat operations with a huge banner behind him that says, mission accomplished. >> yeah. >> um, the mission was not accomplished. >> no. >> not remotely accomplished. and it will go down as one of the great moments of presidential hubris of all time. >> in the battle of iraq. the united states and our allies have prevailed. >> the united states had not won a war in iraq. the united states had started a war in iraq. >> this moment encapsulated everything that critics of the iraq war were saying, which was that this was too much about marketing and not enough about solid intelligence. and then the other thing that was not particularly covered here

i've already doubled words spoken by abraham lincoln at the gettysburg address. if you're wondering, we have two copies of the originals. so we simply end with this as the custodians of the calvin coolidge collection. and so many of our other national treasures. we're delighted to have all here at the library of congress for today's events. welcome. and now, governor jim douglas. well, thank you. imagine. you all for joining us on a vermont like weather day here in the nation's capital. we're delighted that you could spend it with and i know it's going to be not only entertaining but also informative and a great start to our commemoration of the declaration of independence that will culminate next year coolidge in his honor, remarked that july 4th has a particular meaning for him because it is, of course, his birthday. and i would be remiss if i didn't put in a plug for the activities we sponsor about his birthplace and final resting place in plymouth notch vermont on and around the 4th of july. there's information on the coolidge foundation website and some of y