do you know where charles sumner was sitting? mr. puleo: sumner was sitting front left of the chamber. when brooks comes into the chamber, he comes into center doors, sits down and was looking directly at sumner. the problem is, sumner is not looking at him. he is signing copies of his speech for his constituents. he is totally oblivious. the senate is not in session. there are maybe 35 people hovering around the senate. some senators. some staff members, some members of the press. the sergeant at arms was there. brooks and his colleagues come in from the house and sit down with his cane. brooks says at the time -- he could not do what he came to do because there was a lady present in the chamber, and southern code of honor would suggest that he could not enact violence while a lady was present. she was talking to the sergeant at arms for 10 minutes and then she leaves. brian: than what? mr. puleo: preston brooks gets up, walks down the center aisle with his cane, approaches sumner, sumner totally oblivious. head bowed, signing copies

brian: so what physically happened to charles sumner after his beating? mr. puleo: charles summer suffers brain trauma, spinal injuries, back injuries, severe neck injuries and i believe some form of posttraumatic stress syndrome at this point. he is trying to recover and convalesce for three years. he tries going to the mountains, to the seashore to recover. he tries going to europe. while in europe, he undergoes excruciating treatments that a french surgeon claims he has developed to treat spinal injuries, which is using an open flame on the victims back and running up and down with an open flame to ease the pressure and your the back injuries -- c ure the back injuries. he undergoes these burn treatments. terrible boils on his back in the humidity of paris. terrible treatments that he undergoes to try to ease the pain. he is unable to do so. the couple of times he does try to get back to work, the closer he gets to washington dc, the worse it becomes. that is part of that post-traumatic stress. brian: you do say that during those years he comes back to the

brian: in 1860, what was charles sumner's relationship? mr. puleo: at first he does not believe that lincoln is antislavery enough.

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he talks about the assault of charles sumner on the floor of the u.s. senate. mr. puleo: i wanted to figure out what got

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. >> the caning of charles sumner. sunday at 8:00 eastern and pacific. >> now some of the speakers from the friday session of the faith and freedom coalition conference. chris christie, jeb bush, ben carson bobby jindal, and rick santorum. we begin with governor christie. [applause] >> good morning. thank you. good morning, everybody. it's great to be back. i appreciate you all being here and most of all i appreciate this work that you do everyday. in your communities to bring our message out. i'm very distracted by the teleprompter stuff. i am not barack obama. [laughter] so we will do the best we can to ignore the plain glass plates in front of me as a politician a contingent look at and even though there's nothing there. that might be the way it happens happened with the president, too. i'm not sure. [applause] you know, i saw something on one of the news stations last week or so the president speaking. he said something to this effect. the world respects america more because of my administration. and i came to the

. >> the canning of massachusetts senator charles sumner by preston brooks. from the country closer to civil war. sunday night at 8:00 eastern and pacific on c-span's "q&a." >> the author of "reagan remembered" was joined by other reagan administration cabinet members to recall the president's personal side as well as his days in the white house. the national press club hosted this event. it's 40 minutes. >> good afternoon and thank you for joining us today. we're here today to celebrate the publication of "reagan remembered." this is a true presidential first. never before have so many prominent neighbors of an administration come together to offer up their thoughts on a former president. 81 in total including president george h.w. bush, colin powell, george schultz, and many, many others. the man we have to thank for this great volume is here with us today, ambassador gill robinson. he will join us now to share some remembrances. thank you. ambassador robinson: and i did not remember to shut off my phone. thank you all for being here. appreciate it very muc

he is currently working on a book on preston brooks, whose infamous beating of charles sumner on the floor of the senate exacerbated tensions that led to the war. professor quigley has distinguished himself among historians who are bringing new perspectives to the study of the american civil war. his contribution is to highlight the international dimensions of the war and today he will talk about the impact of abraham lincoln, particularly on great britain. paul. [applause] paul: thank you very much. and thank the audience for coming out today for the program. one solution to the missing speakers would have been to ask the remaining speakers to speak for twice as long, but i think we'll all be happier with shorter talk and free afternoon. it is nice to be with you this morning in these splendid surroundings. i cannot help but think about the importance of place in history in this magnificent building. the building has changed a lot since lincoln's days. in fact it is an entirely new building. but even inhabiting the same space, walking the same grounds as lincoln did during the civil

sitting next to the theatrical charles furman had trusted in the statement by the boston born charles sumner, that the lusitania gains steam, the fastest of the atlantic will protect her from threatened attacks on german u-boat indistinct on path. but as well as for passengers the lusitania was carrying perfectly legally i should say many cases of remington rifle ammunition. and it was as the ship began near the wars of an evening of the sixth of may that her captain william turner received a vaguely worded warning from the british admiralty who by the state of the war were breaking the german naval code editor told him that german submarines acted in the area that the ship was about to enter. turner wore his passengers to please not to smoke on deck that night, or to return to their cabins to pull there curtains tight could not chug-a-lug. it was next day on seventh of may, 1915 our ship soliciting was just off the coast of ireland and the smudge of land on the island reassured many passengers. however, back to 10 that afternoon the year 20 had the lusitania in his sights and he ordered his

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charles sumner and preston brooks. brian: what is the time period? mr.uleo: after the kansas-nebraska act. 1856. after the compromise of 1850. some conte

charles sumner says what are you kidding me or thaddeus stevens.but he didn't have no use whatsoever. he referred to all of these theories about the status of the state as a pernicious abstraction after he called them in the last speech. for him, it was very practical. the state have to be re- admitted and he said the practical relation to the union. what is that going to mean for those think the transition from slavery to freedom and that becomes the nexus of the debate and reconstruction. >> one of the things that struck me about the civil war is the irony of the confederate success in the early stages of the war. the greater the confederate success, the greater the ultimate failure in the confederacy is the north had managed to win the war and if they managed to capture richmond in 1862 coming on top of other union victories in the early months of 1862 the war might have well been over and reconstruction would have been in the union. but the success of 1862 pushed lincoln and the north to the conviction that in order to win the war and reconstru

author stephen puleo on the caning of massachusetts senator charles sumner by south carolina congressman preston brooks that drove the country closer to civil war. sunday night at eight eastern and pacific on c-span's q&a. >> on tuesday gary sydni spoke to the national press club in washington dc about his advocacy for u.s. veterans and the work of the gary sinise foundation. this is an hour. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> welcome to the national restaurant. i'm an editor for bloomberg that's our breaking news desk here in washington, and i'm the president of the national press on. our guest today is actor, humanitarian gary sinise. he will discuss challenges facing america's servicemen and women, and what can be done and support their loved ones. but first i want i want to discuss -- it includes press club numbers and guess of our speakers >> publisher of stars & stripes, jim jensen, derek perkins staff writer for marine corps times president of the speakers committee and the wash

caning of charles sumner. >> the.com bubble of the late 1990's. this program is about an hour. >> good evening, and welcome to tonight's meeting. tonight program is being held in association with the california historical society. it is my pleasure to introduce our distinguished guests, richard white, also professor of history at stanford university and codirector for the american west. and the author of the new book "railroaded: transcontinental and the makings of modern america." he has been at stanford since 19 98. he gives he taught at the university of utah and university of washington, where he took his phd. richard white is widely regarded as the leading scholar in three distinct but related fields, the history of the american west environmental history, and native american history. he has been the recipient of the macarthur genius award and author of several notable works including the title it's your misfortune, none of my own. a general sweeping comprehensive history of the american west. a book entitled the middle ground indian empires

charles sumner believe there could be no chance of executing them, but let's send 500 or so out of the country and banish them. how he would come up with a list, i have no idea. what else could you do? how about confiscate the property? yes, starting with slaves, but don't stop there make sure they did not receive reimbursements for their investments in state and confederate bonds or that the currency would be honored. what else could you do? how about deny them political influence. these were the people who were blamed for getting us into this mess in the first place the politicians who educated to get out of the union, do you want back in congress? i don't think so. whatever you can do to prevent them from voting or holding elected office, let's do that. what else could you do? haven't gone down the list yet. this one i think none of us would have gotten to. it's very creative, and you will see why in just a second but you could shame them. how do you do it? a mr. smith from new york city i don't think that was a pseudonym, wrote the president that he should have jefferson davis para

thadias stevens, charles sumner.elt like andrew johnson in the washington birthday speech where he started to name people by names. but those were the key players. >> what was the concept of reconstruction? >> well, president lincoln's concept of it was to be as lenient as possible. and basically said that in his inaugural address when he was re-elected. and johnson believed that too. they knew they were still going to be, you know, just because the war had ended didn't mean that people's feelings had changed. and they were very aware of the fact that there were still individuals who disagreed with that point of view. they weren't going to accept things readily. and he wanted to be as lenient as possible. he thought if you just pledged allegiance to the united states that he would then give you a pardon and accept it. with the radicals in the congress and the senate, didn't believe in that at all. they thought it was treason. they really wanted to punish the southerners, there was a constant battle between them. ms.

. >> on the caning of massachusetts senator charles sumner by south carolina congressman preston brooks that closer to civil war. sun night at 8:00 eastern and pacific on c-span's q and a. >>> monday the brookings institution hosted a discussion on the role of the united nations in responding to transnational challenges. susana malcorra also spoke about the u.n.'s post 2015 development agenda. this is an hour and 15 minutes. >>> ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon. my name is tom pickering and it's my special pleasure to introduce this afternoon's distinguished guest susana malcorra who is the chef de cabinet of the secretary of united nations. a moment ago we were chatting about her job, how interesting it is and how tough it is and i'm sure she brings to those particular challenges her own distinguished and indeed deeply experienced career. as many of you will know she preceded this present job which she undertook in march 2012 by a four-year stint as under secretary-general for field support. an extremely challenging job dealing with between 80 and 120,000 peacekeepers around the wo

. >> on the caning of massachusetts senator charles sumner by south carolina congress and preston brooks, that drove the country closer to civil war. sunday night at 8:00 eastern and pacific on c-span's q&a." >> some gop presidential candidates have been speaking about the shootings wednesday. at a historic black church in charleston, speaking at the faith and freedom conference, we heard from former florida governor jeb bush and then dr. ben carson. jeb bush,: i do not know what was on the heart or the mind of the man who created these crimes, but i do know the head of the victims -- they were praying. they were learning and studying the word of the lord to find greatness and his kingdom to fill his house with love, and in times like these, in times of great national mourning, people of faith, all of us must come together and at least reflect on this and fortify our strength, love of crisis, love of god to be able to continue to go forward. i do not know about you, but this has had an impact on me, and i am sure it has with you. we need to support each other. we must continue to bear wi

the caning of massachusetts charles sumner by preston brooks. that's sunday night at east 80 string. the new directory is a handy guide to the congress. it is full of photos of every member plus bio information. also has district maps, foldout map of capitol hill and a look at congressional committees, the presidents cabinet. order your copy today it's 1395 plus shipping and handling through the c-span online store at cspan.org the wall street journal today hosted their annual meeting of chief financial officers where policymakers discuss the global economy. here is part of the conference beginning with the discussion about legislative agenda. we will hear first from mr. michigan senator. she is followed by house majority leader debbie mccarthy. >> thank you all for being here. >> my pleasure. >> just a little background on the senator, she was elected in 1996. >> right. >> i think you are the ranking member on the argo cultural committee and on the finance budget committee. you spent a lot of time manufacturing health financial budget. >> i thi

. >> the author on the caning of charles sumner by centerline of commerce and brooks -- south carolina congressman brooks tonight on c-span's q&a. monday night on the communicators, cochair of the privacy caucus joe barton on recent fcc regulation rules and the issues with privacy and cyber security. >> you have the basic principle whose information is it? is automatically in the public domain because i choose to use the mobile app and we know that the way these things work they go into the cloud and all that or can i use and still have a reasonable expect tatian -- a reasonable expectation of personal privacy. for a lot of you it is personal. it changes the way you regulate and legislate. if you take the position that i am by act of being a part of and participating by using the app i am forgoing my individual right to privacy that is a different issue in its entirety. >> monday night at 8:00 eastern on the communicators on c-span2. >> this weekend, the c-span cities to her partnered with comcast. to learn about key west florida. ernest hemingway wrote several novels at this home. >>

. >> stephen puleo discusses the caning of charles sumner. >> the.com bubble of the late 1990's. this program is about an hour. >> good evening, and welcome to tonight's meeting. tonight program is being

. >> author stephen puleo on the canning of charles sumner by brooks but drove the country closer theivil war. -- to civil war. >> this is american history tv all weekend every weekend on c-span3. now we take you live to the gettysburg college in gettysburg, pennsylvania for a conference on the end of the civil war. this is the third day of the annual conference. historians will discuss treason and loyalty in the civil war era. the gettysburg how would civil war institute organized the event and this is live coverage on american history tv. >> good morning. i am peter carmichael. i am a professor of history at gettysburg college. director of the civil war institute. it is my pleasure to introduce gregory downs. greg has recently accepted a job at uc davis on the other side of the coast so this summer he will

. >> the canning of massachusetts senator charles sumner by preston brooks. from the country closer to civil war. sunday night at 8:00 eastern and pacific on c-span's "q&a." >> the author of "reagan remembered" was joined by other reagan administration cabinet members to recall the president's personal side as well as his days in the white house. the national press club hosted this event. it's 40 minutes. >> good afternoon and thank you for joining us today. we're here today to celebrate the publication of "reagan remembered." this is a true presidential first. never before have so many prominent neighbors of an administration come together to offer up their thoughts on a former president. 81 in total including president george h.w. bush, colin powell, george schultz, and many, many