other thoughts on douglas's response to lincoln and douglas's view of the war a? you had a number of pieces from douglas. >> i'm just interested in england's motivation in not recognizing the confederacy. if the union is preventing england from getting goods that it needs it seems england would see more in the union than the confederacy. >> that's a great question. from an economic spp the union is more of an enemy than a friend to england. when it emancipated slavery in the west indies and the emancipation more generally is when people made a decision that went against the pocketbook. when england passed its emancipation act they knew it was costing immense amounts of money. they specifically made the decision in which their moral vision outstripped their economic desire. >> they were proud of that. they also felt there would be a level playing field economically. but they were proud of that. and as i mentioned before, by 1860, most of the new world had apolished slavery. slavery, it's the west's first big business. england was sensitive to the fact that the mora

his long-time nemesis steven douglas was at his sides. held his hat which had fallen off because it was so windy. this is how most americans saw the most popular magazine in the country. think of harper's weekly as the forerunner of "time" or "life" magazine. most americans interpreted and understood it as awe then tick representation of reality. here is the portico here. the capital was unfinished. wonderfully symbolizing the unfinished nature of the united states. herman melville and his collection of civil war poetry. battle pieces upon conflict of convictions in which he describes the iron dome. he says and the iron dome stronger for stress or strain thwart the main. the founder's dream shall flee. for melville and many northerners and after the war certainly southerners the power of the federal government threatened to fling a shadow across the main streets of america and impose unprecedented dominion on communities and towns destroying the dream of a loose confederation of states and a decentralized government. so lincoln, when he g

douglas was the first black man to meet with a u.s. president in terms of equality or first black man to advise the president. he met lincoln three times. lincoln recognized him immediately. we now know that frederick douglass was the most photographed american in the united states. more photographs of separate poses of douglass than lincoln than anyone else. for most of his career as i mentioned last week until 1860 douglas was better known. lincoln is very familiar with douglas's criticism. so he was sensitive to abolitionist response. he was also close to charles sumner who was the most abolitionist senator who met with lincoln at the time. there are some that say lincoln managed events. lincoln contradicts saying events controlled me. this is giving a bit away next week, especially. but lincoln came to the conclusion that a union war, his chief aim to pree

frederick douglas says it is little better than our worst fears. you have read some of the response. he refers to lincoln as double-tongued. because he's elected on a platform to confine slavery where it is. where the public mind shall believe in its extinction. in his essay, douglas is quoting lincoln and endorsing the amendment to guarantee slavery. for douglass and other abolitionists, it's courting the favor of rebels. >> douglass agrees that confederates are rebels. that's the determine that was used. in fact, lincoln never dignifies the confederates referring to them as such. he calls them rebels. the closest is saying throughout the war's so-called confederacy. so-called confederates. to use the term confederates or confederacy legitmates the secession of the government. douglass is saying you're courting the favor of these rebels. as close as frederick douglass ever comes to abandoning his faith and national ideals articulated in the declaration of independence is immediately after reading lincoln's inaugural address. he plans a trip to hai

men of color to arms, that's douglas' line. his notion is you put those brass letters on a black man and there is no question not only has he gotten freedom but citizenship so. for douglas and people who think like him army is important blow against slavely but it's a blow on behalf of black equality too. which leads us to the question okay, so if some of them clearly a lot of them, i'll tell you how many, do enlist, and there are a couple of reasons why. some black recruits talk in terms of like white recruits, talk about the revolution and saving the legacy of the founders for free government and representative government. it's not like white soldiers and black soldiers are speaking totally different languages but the war is a crusade against savory, much less of a complicated or problematic issue for black soldiers than for white soldiers. and as douglas in his u.s. black or brass letters of u.s. indicate, black soldiers are far more likely than white soldiers to talk about service as a road to a way to obtain full privilege

douglas had two, the rest mainly had three. and the clerks were privy to -- it was a very candid, confidential relationship. and apparently nobody had really t tried to press this before. so we went and using documents that we got along the way, starting with the published opinions, the supreme court is one of the few places you actually do get the results of their deliberation, but we knew there was a process that was much more political. so we began the reconstruction of it by talking to the clerks and we had the cooperation of three or four justices, depending how you look at it, that would help us along the way, but all behind the scenes. all off the record or what we call deep background interviews. we could use it or we couldn't attribute it to it and we concentrated on getting drafts of opinions so we could watch the evolution of an opinion. in those days, except for very early court records, nobody really realized how this process, this evolution of supreme court decisions looked, and when we looked at the nixon's tapes

and douglas thought initially this is a political question. the supreme court shouldn't be answering this. this is between two branches of government. we can't get involved and insofar as it's an executive, i don't know that it's executive and i don't know -- he evolved quickly i think he wanted to take the case to brennan that was immediately there. marshall was onboard but berger and blackman and rehnquist and powell had been appointed by nixon and it wasn't a given that they were going to go, and it's -- it's better for you are to read the book in detail what the evolution was. >> let me ask you a real quick question. all of those pink tabs are response to a very early -- zekeler, that the president would only respond to a definitive decision by the court. and this seems based on your material that driving force, the aide who early and indeed according to your account been following the senate watergate hearings, that they are determined and hell-bent, in fact, to take that this as dwentive and locked as can write a supreme court ruling? >>

. >> this week on "q & a", douglas brinkley discusses his news biography titled "cronkite." >> douglas brinkley, on your book "cronkite" you say "i am now close with the entire cronkite fan." you say that after you read the book in the acknowledgments. >> if you are always wondering how the family will feel about it. his son lives in new york. i wanted him to read part of it. he liked it. there are mainly positive things about walter cronkite in the book. he was willing to accept a lot of the criticism that came out. i felt good about it. his daughter lives in austin, texas where i live a. she could not have been more generous giving the interviews when you are a biographer, it is a real plus. they took on a full life and times of the father. >> he talked to a lot of people in the media business. was this exclusive to you? >> yes. >> he was always open for business. he never grew bitter or unapproachable. he got up every morning knowing who he was. dan rather will cut try to decide who he would be that day. rather did not have a clue. >> tom brokaw and walter cronkite formed a great re

army colonel douglas macgregor welcome to the show douglas so would you say that there is a. the global rush to for countries to create drones absolutely without question the unmanned aircraft industry is boomed in the united states is going to boom internationally it's a critical countermeasure frankly speaking if you're dealing with us and that's why you see so many nations that have from time to time not had the best relations with us invest heavily in them the good news for the united states is that the principal competitors the chinese and the russians have turned out to have enormous difficulty reverse engineering our work so everyone is a long distance behind the united states in terms of its capabilities as you pointed out so well this one is the first one that first drawn out of venice wella that they just unveiled so can we expect more from them in other countries in the near future is going to take a while for them to catch on i think it's caught on it's question is technology how much of it can they get their hands on and how rapidly can they develop and field the

it's a ticking time bomb. >> douglas burden was once a ticking time bomb himself. almost two years since he exploded in anger and attacked a 64-year-old deputy in his housing unit. today, burden says it wasn't personal, but the result of frustration. >> i thought i was being treated unfairly, because i wasn't going to court very often. i would go to court and i wouldn't get to get my word across to the judge or to anyone, so it felt like i couldn't get my voice out there. so, one day, i just snapped and i decided to choke out a deputy. while he wasn't looking, i just jumped behind the counter and grabbed him in a choke hold and i started choking him. >> could you have killed him? >> easily, but that's what we're taught in the marine corps. >> since then the jail's medical staff has kept burden stable through medication. >> i've been taking my meds. i've been doing a lot better. this is the best i ever felt, ever since i was diagnosed with schizophrenoform. >> are you a threat to these deputies here? >> no. >> why not? >> because me being ex-military, i feel like i'

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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 must spend time talking about the 1844 election. so let's listen to a question from charles. >> caller: my question is this. i was born in kentucky, 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 wig party, i don't understand how he could be the favorite son and not abraham lincoln. who -- when he met harriet beacher stowe, had you that lady that started this great war and -- 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 influences is greatly felt. especially by -- many african-americans who are historically informed. why is not lincoln? >> your response, please? >> abraham lincoln

kirk douglas in the leading role.rs later, he is most proud of the role he secretly played. he invited us to his home to reveal a story he waited decades to tell. >> he is ready to talk. >> i'm 95 years old. >> you survived the helicopter crash? you survived the stroke? >> god doesn't want me. >> he celebrated with the triumphant walk at the oscars last year now being celebrated for something else in the 1950s hollywood consumed by the blacklist. >> are you now or ever been a member of the communist party. >> the actors called before congress amid fear they were communists. the mere mention of a name was enough to end a career. >> there was a time -- >> do you remember being silenced yourself by the fear? >> no. everybody told me i was crazy. >> they told him he was crazy because not only as lead actor, he was producer of the movie and put his own career on the line, own fortune, when he hired one of those writers on the blacklist. he had been hiding in hollywood and writing under an assumed name. curt's wife remember

it comes from douglas rediker. he represented the u.s. on the executive board of the i.m.f. from 2010 to the beginning of this year, he's now a senior fellow at the new america foundation. and jacob kirkegaard, who closely watches european matters for the peterson institute for international economics. jacob kierkegaard, let me start with you. all of this stems from the collapse of the real estate bubble in spain and the banks holding the bag. >> basically. i mean what you have on a national scale in spain is essentially what we've seen in some of the regions of the united states, in nevada, south florida, south california, where essentially you have an enormous increase in housing prices and a subsequent bust. and the bust breaks the back of the banks. that needs to be a bailout. unfortunately, the spanish government has been in denial about the true state of its banks for pretty much since the crisis began. but you could say that finally they have run out of options so what happened over the weekend was really the end of denial. >> woodruff: douglas rediker, what caused th

i would liken it to the lincoln douglas debate. he had a series of debates with john thurston, and those gave him great visibility across the nation among the political class. and so he emerged as a national figure at that time. and the country was desperate for leadership, it was -- all the parties were divided. the republicans were divided, and the populous were on the scene. the republicans had won the presidential contest in nebraska in 1892, but the second place vote getter was the populous, and the democrat, cleveland, was far behind. so the democratic party was in deep trouble in this part of the midwest. >> william jennings bryan, one of 14 presidential candidates who lost the election but changed politics. we're in lincoln, nebraska. here are more of the words from williams jennings bryant from his cross of gold speech. >> they tell us the great cities are in favor of the gold standard. we reply great cities rest on our broad and fertile prairies, burn down your cities and leave our farms and your cities will spring up aga

and as douglas in his u.s. black or brass letters of u.s. indicate, black soldiers are far more likely than white soldiers to talk about service as a road to a way to obtain full privileges and rights of u.s. citizenship. you fight for a country, it owes you something in return. there is another way in which black soldiers talk about union army service we need to think about. it sounds a little odd to us. black soldiers talk about fighting for the manhood of the race. i think they mean a couple of things when they talk about that. i think one is their own masculine identity, recognition of themselves as adult black men. think for a minute back to the very beginning of class when we talked about how 19th century americans think about or define manhood. you remember any of the qualities that define manhood were? now i'm asking you to go back. >> property, control. >> having a family to take care of. >> caring for a family, owning property sometimes, being able to control, people who depended upon you. courage is another one. each of these thin

. >> this is peter vinson douglas. >> the son of michael douglas. why is it some money -- you mention dan rather wanted to be the new ed murrow. >> the romance was he was the voice of north carolina, did not come from much and that he lived up of washington state and got his degree up their in washington state and got in our early on radio. by the time cbs had ed murrow and europe the moral voice started doing live broadcast from europe and it was quite dramatic. just imagine being in a farmhouse in the iowa and suddenly you are hearing and not on the leg of hearing him saying here we are, the fire trucks are going, the bombers are overhead. it was the beginning of mass communications going right into the living room -- living room. edward r. murrow became gigantic with this will war ii coverage. many americans lived the war through edward r. murrow. he was a good talent. if you could become one of his boys you on the top of the heap of radio journalism. so, they all strove for that. he had almost a messianic appeal to reporters, that they were part

douglas struck his head against the glass partition in tte cab. doctors at johns hopkins chilerens center say he suffered a coocussion and noo wasn't wearing his seatbelt.on (doug/father) "he's 7- pears-old you havv to be reminded from time to time to put your seat bblt on.. he's not going to always remember. so, that's what puzzzed me the whole ime, is that the cab driver did not take the time to say do yoo have your seat belt on?" keith daniels, fox45 news fox45 news late edition. a violent 24 hours in baltimmre city..... several shootings acrrss the citt... leave four people dead latest shooting was a double murder in nnrthwest baltimore. it happened early this morning at a home on pall mall road near cold spring lane and greenspring avenue.two men were found ssot to death shortly before 12:30 this morning.no word on uspects or motive. baltimore... police... need your elp... findinn the killer... of michael sullivan... owner... of sully's seafood and ubs... in northeast balttmore. .../ arrived... at the restaurann... &paround... 11 o'clock mond

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frederick douglas was someone -- >> not bad dinner company. >> frederick douglas was a frequent guest. susan b. anthony and o.s.b. wahl and his wife amanda wahl were not just civil rights activists, but they were really suffrage activists for the vote for women. so in 1870 this was a time when susan b. anthony was arrested for trying to vote in the congressional election. amanda wahl also was marching to the registrar of voters and demanded to be registered to vote. so susan b. anthony was there, and i think the wahls were embarrassed by one of the o.s.b. wahl's sisters who was an opponent of suffrage for women because she thought it was unfeminine. but o.s.b. wahl, amanda wahl, john mercer langston's wife, carrie wahl langston, they were suffrage activists. >> i read this. when we see these dinner gatherings and just the luminaries of the people that were there, we see a galaxy of activists and people we all know, we see an interracial environment and don't see segregation inside the home. indeed, at one point wahl invites to his home a young man who is a white cousin on the slave si

>> funding for "to the contrary" provided by: the cornel douglas foundation. committed to encouraging stewardship of the environment, land conservation, watershed protection and eliminating harmful chemicals. additional funding provided by: the colcom foundation, the wallace genetic foundation, and by the charles a. frueauff foundation. >> this week on to the contrary: first, a shift in the immigration wave. then, forty years of title ix. behind the headlines: former vermont governor madeline kunin on why american women are falling behind their european counterparts >> hello, i'm bonnie erbe. welcome to to the contrary, a discussion of news and social trends from diverse perspectives. up first, a sea change in immigration. asians have surpassed hispanics as the largest group of new immigrants to the u.s---that according to a new pew research study. this is due to a slowdown in illegal immigration and increased demand for highly-skilled workers. asians now make up 36 percent of all immigrants versus 31 percent for hispanics. asian and hispanic immigration patte

douglas swrns says, you're courting the favor of the rebels. as close as duglass comes to abandoning his faith in national ideals, articulated in the declaration is immediately after reading lincoln's inaugural address. he plans a trip to haiti. he plans to see if, in fact, it is the black republic he's read about. if it is he's going to move there, settle there and encourage other blacks to do the same. with lincoln as president there is no way the nation can come close to achieving national ideals. now he doesn't go to haiti. doesn't go on this trip. anyone know why? ft. sumter. captured in "harper's weekly," and this is from the perspective of confederates. i think, so lincoln right after he gives his inaugural address goes to the white house. like the first sight of a business is this memo from major robert anderson. he's the commander of ft. sumter, with a dispatch saying that supplies at ft. sumter are going to last only another week or two. my men are going to starve to death. they're going to have to surrender unless you send us supplie

douglas, offers even more color than styles, more drama, quotability and even less reliability. so even before, long before i became conversant with that ample body of evidence and others, it seemed to me that a great many veterans, on both sides, were not dedicated to dishonesty. most of them were trying to tell the truth. there are vivid contrasts with the pendleton, et al syndrome. alexander his evidence, always intelligent, comes close to being unimpeachable. robert allen, worked on this campus, wrote important things down there. he seemed always to me to be reliable. jediah hodgkiss of upstate new york and stanton, virginia, held strong opinions. they weren't always right. i see evidence he was looking for truth. to attribute the near invincible reliability of the alexander version to all confederates would be irresponsible. no one should do that. but to precisely the same level, tarring all con federal primary sources as self-serving, dishonest, unreliable in the pendleton-douglas-styles mode would also be fantastic. judicious justice is wanted as core larry. [ inaudible ]

>> funding for to the contrary provided by the cornel douglas foundation. committed to encouraging stewardship of the environment, land conservation and watershed protection and eliminating harmful chemicals this week on to the contrary: first, u.s. nuns versus the vatican: round two. then, boy scouts and lgbt inclusiveness. behind the headlines: sexual violence in the military. >> hello, i'm bonnie erbe. welcome to to the contrary, a discussion of news and social trends from diverse perspectives. up first, sisters in arms: american nuns chastised by the vatican for going against the catholic church's teachings are now rejecting the vatican's criticism. the leadership conference of women religious, represents most of the 57,000 american nuns. its leaders say the vatican has its facts wrong. they say the condemnation of the sisters is 'unsubstantiated' and has created "greater polarization" in the church. the leaders will travel to rome later this month to meet with members of the vatican's orthodoxy watchdog group congregation for the doctrine of the faith

police say at the same time 57- year-old douglas herring was riding downhill on arlington. they say he did not see smith until he was 100 feet away but then it was too late to stop. they say that intersection is one to avoid. >> i don't really try to cross it too often because i'm using a stroller quite a bit, but the cars generally do come by pretty quickly. i think because they're not expecting pedestrians. >> smith was pronounced dead at the hospital. herring suffered minor injuries, and police say he did not act negligently. smith had taken walks in this neighborhood for the past 62 years. >>> most of the protesters arrested in an occupy the farm district will not be charged. the county has declined to file charges against the protesters. they were arrested for unlawful assembly and trespassing at uc beck lease track in albany. separately eight protesters are being sued by uc regions in an effort to ban them from trespassing at the site. now 4:458. an fbi investigation has led to charges against two bay area men. they're accused of rigging bids at auctions of foreclosed

the bill does pass under stephen douglas. clay thought and was roundly supported on this, that this would bring peace in his lifetime. it did. he dies two years later. within a decade, the civil war begins. >> henry clay dies in 1852. he's buried where? >> in lexington at cemetery. >> right nearby. we have some video of his grave site. his funeral was really quite an event. a thousand-mile train kor taj. tell me more about it. >> this, of course, his trusted servant charles is still at his side to the very end with the funeral. he's viewed -- people come from all over. the trains are coming in. thousands of people in lexington for the funeral. it's national news. >> i think the thing about that monument, you know, there's monuments to clay. i think he's got more images in the nation's capital than any other individual. atlantic magazine in 2006 put him as one of the 100 most influential americans of all time. i think the best monument to clay is not any of those things. i think it's the fact that henry clay kept a divided nat