and this is the great alexander gardner photograph as lincoln begins to deal with this crisis. it is march 1861. lincoln is inaugurated. gardner goes to the east front of the cap at all. he takes this great outdoor photograph of the integration. this is lincoln's food -- famous speech. and when he appeals to is the mystic poors of memory that ties us each. the foundation of american democracy in the revolution, the declaration of independence. he is begging this outcome if you will, to remember that shared inheritance and find common ground. of course, it doesn't work. in fact, just the opposite. lincoln's words fall on deaf ears. the south takes is inauguration as a black republican, a high radical republican mr. pink power. -- high radical republican usurpingower. this double whammy, which leads league and him as he would say, that the war came. and the war proceeds. and i bring in this worker -- this is the beginning of battlefield journalism with alexander gardner who is beginning, in the same way that photography widens the sphere of who can have a portrait made of ordinary

alexander gardner photographs. it includes several lincoln photographs. i saw it last week and thoroughly enjoyed it. this exhibit was preceded by the portrait gallery exhibit on grant and lee, the mask of lincoln, walt whitman. this multitalented man is a poet and an editor and a literary critic. a selection of his poetry was published in 2011 called internal difference and a full collection call waiting was also published. please welcome david ward. [applause] david: i am delighted to be here. i want to congratulate the portrait competition winners. -fascinated with lincoln for a long time. the other reason i accepted his invitation is that whenever i've come here i've had a great time. i didn't realize i was going to be in leavenworth. you are taking your chances tonight. happy presidents' day. and to get together celebrate the career of franklin pierce and william henry harrison and john tyler. i understand the point of a three-day weekend. there is a kind of a participatory metal now for the presidents. they all get lumped together. some of this is a

authorities say mark alexander adams and anthony gardner broke out of the hospital in washington state yesterday. they were both deemed mentally incompetent to stand trial. adams, who was suspected of domestic assault, was caught today in a nearby town. but garber is still out there. he's accused of gagging a woman and stabbing her 24 times before slashing her throat. >> it's a pretty serious crime, obviously. the worst that you can imagine. and he's got mental illness. so we don't know what he's thinking. we have no idea. he could just be trying to escape and go some place, but the opportunity to commit a crime is there if he's out and that's what we want to prevent. >> the fbi says garber is an experienced survivalist who threatened to blow up government buildings. >>> politics and terrorism fears are apparently causing a spike in gun sales. year. background checks totaled more than 7 million in the 1st quarter of 2016. analysts say the san bernardino paris terror attacks are spurring many americans to purchase guns, and the push for stronger gun control in the driving sales. >>> a n

alexander: i want to speak to the increase of wind energy program. this is in addition to the $30 million that our subcommittee has recommended at the request of senator gardner of colorado for the national renewable energy laboratory and the $50 million that senator collins of maine has recommended for offshore wind research. within the priorities in the bill, we've already put $80 million, and this would add $15 million more, which may not seem like much, mr. president, but here is my question. i wonder if the american taxpayers wouldn't think that $32 billion is enough to spend on giant wind mills? $32 billion. that's the amount that the congressional research service has said that congress has spent of taxpayers' money to subsidize wealthy people so they can build giant wind turbines across america. of that money has been spent from 1992 through 2016 this year. it was started out as an effort to help wind turbines get started in 1992, and it's been renewed ten times. you would think this is a mature industry. in fact, the previous energy secretary said it was. what do we get for this $23 billion? $23 billion? 4% of our electricity in the united states is