and the one who block it was douglas. he was not going to let the democratic party go in that direction. and at one point they said the election will be thrown to the house and douglas and i will help elect lincoln before let that happen. and when douglas realized he was going to lose, there were a few votes that let republicans way in october, lincoln is the next president i'm going to the south anyone south and he made speeches attacking secession. he was aware of what might come. another way to look at this, the two candidates that got the most electoral votes with the two most radical candidates. the strongly antislavery guy, lincoln, and the strongly proslavery guy, breckinridge. we often hear about a desire for compromise. at one time it was easier to compromise. those of the two ends of the spectrum. not too easy to compromise. well, lincoln wins when he finds out in springfield, in november of 1860 on a tuesday night he is very happy but he isn't jumping around all excited about it. finally he says well, there is

and a douglas man. big douglas supporter, big believer in popular sovereignty. now, remember when california ca came in the union,li the idea w it was a free state, vote with thewo northern free states. in fact, there were southerners who came to california, big surprise, the gold rush is just going to attract people from one part of the world. no. they're coming from everywhere. and there were plenty of southern politicians in the area and one of them was a lawyer named david terry. and terry and brodrick were rivals for power in california democratic politics. and remember there is apoliti b that southern honor code and the code duel and lincoln almost got into a duel and jacks fought a duel every second tuesday of thy month. and they fight a duel at lake merced and terry shoots brodricu and kills him. a lot of the country has no idea.coun it's out in california. there is no tv coverage. nobody texts from the duel. did you see what terry? but it is certainly noticeable s to politicians. and opinion-makers. and it reminds them, just like the beating, the caning

say, we are for dred scott and we nominate douglas and then douglas has to say, well he's for ithe or against it. he has to take a position.siti if he has any principle, iif cannot run on that. if he has no principle, he will defend everybody. lincoln one set of douglas something along the lines of that he does seem to lie more than just about any other man i know. he is notr man a fan of his and douglas is not a fan of lincoln but he's an admirer. douglas wants the nomination, the convention divides and it finallytion breaks up. they try again and this time they tried in baltimore, which is a little easier to get to. no offense to charleston, south carolina. it's a lot easier to get to today. the northern democrats get together there, the southern democrats will have nothing to do with it, for the most part. they nominate douglas and thee n convention ends up choosing, as his running mate, a guy fromom georgia now many, many years ago when i had no life, as opposed to now when i have no life, i memorize memorized the vice presidents. what else did i have to do? did her she'll johnson

anhe'sd taking on douglas. douglas, for his part, winds reelection, thanks to something we have all heard plenty about. jerry. the 1850 legislative district were still in effect in 1858il despite a lot of growth in illinois. lincoln had to win far more seats than he technically should have, to get elected. ed it turns out lincoln one mor legislative seats than douglas and 1858.er ,u.s. senators are elected by legislator. lincoln won 54 to 46. douglas had enough seats there to be able to hold on to his senate seat.be one night after the election, lincoln is walking along and lincoln could be a bit of az class, i guess. one of the things i have to admire about him is a clutz. he slipped. not win this election. he was proud that he had taken ta a stand, he was impressed that he did as well as he did. he he felt he made a contributn to thede debate there is a debe amongorians historians as to hoh lincoln was targeting 1860 and it is not just the question of could he get elected president. could he head off douglas

>> of lincoln and douglas iesco with stephen douglas? my whole life was a parking with a bolder dedicated by teddy roosevelt. a longtime resident and insurance executive said at the coffee shop we can do better. the group assembled. we turned that into an acre of green space and interpretive signs and a life-sized statue of lincoln and douglas in debate. >> in 1994, c-span went to all the towns in illinois that had hosted the lincoln and douglas debates and asked if the towns put on the debates, we will bring the debates -- we will bring the cameras and televise the debates. how many of those debates did you play lincoln? >> two of the seven. >> what preparation did you need to do for a three hour debate? >> the essential question, who are lincoln, who are douglas and why? why was that so pivotal? you have to get right with lincoln according to senator paul simon and i have done my best. >> is betraying lincoln a full-time job for you? >> it is now. >> was it for most of the years you did it? >> it was as things could be scheduled. that

>> it started small with the lincoln/douglas debates. then i had calls will come talk about the war. will you talk about the indiana years? will you talk about the final months? so you find that written work and you consume it. then it comes forward. somebody said once it's a gift. someone else said if you don't share the gift in its pure form, it's not moral. i took that very seriously. >> how did you become lincoln physically? how do you do it today? >> the coat fits. the vest fits. that voice, what is a central illinois nasal twang, i struggled with that. we climbed the hill and made it to the top. >> let's go back and watch a little more of that event and listen to the voice specifically. i would like to have people focus on that and have you talk about how you captured something that wasn't captured by any devices at the time. >> we shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth. other means may succeed. this could not fail. the way is plain, peaceful, generous, just. a way which if followed, the world will forever appl

. >> with stephen douglas. my whole life was a parking lot with a boulder dedicated by teddy roosevelt. long-time residentand insurance exec said we can do better. we turned that over to green space, interpretive science, and a life sized statue of lincoln and douglas in debate. >> to set the stage for people, 1994, c-span went to all the towns in illinois and asked them if the towns put on the debates, we'll bring the cameras and televise the debates in its entirety. how many of those did you play lincoln? >> two of seven. number two and number three. >> what preparation did you need to do for a three-hour debate televised live? that gnawed and still gnaws, who were lincoln, who were douglas and why? why was that so pivotal? and you've got to get right with lincoln, according to senator paul simon, and i've done my very best. >> is portraying lincoln a full full-time job for you? >> is now. >> and was it for most of those years that you did it? >> if things could be scheduled, and that was all word of mouth. m

douglas: yeah. i mean, before the depression, which would destroy his reputation, he was known as the world's greatest humanitarian. through his works in belgium, for example, then his work throughout europe after world war i, and then his work with the ara in russia. his reputation is destroyed as a result of his presidency. and then, also, throughout the period of the cold war, we americans did not want to be reminded about times when we worked alongside the soviets so much. i think there was an element of that. that being said, hoover did some things that were not so good. and i write about those in my book. one of the things that helped launch him into the presidency was a horrible flood in the lower reaches of the mississippi in the late 1920's, and hoover was put in charge of those relief operations, and he basically saw that all the aid went to poor white folk and very little or none went to poor black folk. not only that, poor black folk were put in camps and forced to do rebuilding under ar

well, i want to thank you, douglas, for taking the time to be with us. really appreciate all the work you have done. i highly recommend both of his most recent books, this one i especially like, and for all of you, thank you so much for taking the time to be with us this afternoon, as i said, i hope we can all see each other in person sometime soon, if not, on the screen will have to do. thank you, douglas, thank you, everyone. goodbye. >> guest: thank you, vanessa. goodbye. >> you're watching booktv, on c-span2. here's some programs to watch out for this holiday weekend. best selling author james patterson talks bows his latest book on the kennedy family, and his efforts to assist book stores affected by the coronavirus pandemic. "time" magazine national polly ball discusses the life and career of house speaker nancy pelosi. nick adams and founder and profit the foundation for american greatness offers thoughts the september alert between president trump and winston churchill and tomorrow is an extra day of boost feet e feet -- boost featuring david bal

the third person would be general douglas macarthur himself.not represent the united states. that would be the fourth person to sign. admiral mnimitz. the rest of the allies signed in order. there are two copies of the surrender documents. there are two copies because one was to be kept by the united states and one by japan. so, we do not display the originals, for obvious reasons. we have replicas on board. the originals are in the national archives in washington, d.c. and a war museum in tokyo. we also have a replica of one of macarthur's pens. he used six to sign the document, which sounds a bit strange. he did this for a very simple reason that we still do today if you look at lawmakers with important laws. he wanted to give these pens away as souvenirs. following the last signature, he stepped up to a microphone and said simply, these proceedings are closed. he gave a signal and a thousand allied aircraft flew in formation. from the beginning at the ceremony to the end, 23 minutes. that's all it took to end the bloodiest conflict in human

, i will be looking at that list and pulling your questions for douglas at that time. with that we will jump right in obsolete have to go through a rather serious moment in history will all be doing a lot of evaluation on how the governments of handled this moment we are looking comparatively across nations to see if there's something we can learn to handle them a lot better than we are. it's part for that reason a little check-in with our friends over in england. now douglas i would like to start with the political moment that the uk finds itself. on january 31, i don't need to tell you, but the uk left the european union and started a transition. i think it was only about 11 months of short anyway it was a moment in time of the future relationship between the uk and the you would be determined. my question for you is what is going to happen now? in theory, your political leaders are a little bit distracted to the kind of negotiation that would normally happen. it's got to be complicated in this moment. are we going to have an agreement by the 31st of december? >> gue

i recognize douglas's recent books, this one i especially like. thank you for taking time to be with us this afternoon. i hope we can see each other in person sometime soon. if not this meeting will have to do. thank you, everyone, goodbye. >> tonight on booktv, a look at bestsellers and award-winning books. beginning at 8:00 eastern, author eric larson discusses the splendid in the vial, that looks at primus to winston churchill's leadership during the london blitz. james patterson and his latest book on the politics of the kennedy family. the announcement of the 2020 j anthony lupus prize, the winner announced during his virtual event including terry greenich and black radical, and an american summer. watch booktv tonight and over the weekend on c-span2. >> the presidents from public affairs available in paperback and e-book. presents biographies of every president organized by their ranking by noted historians from best to worst and features perspectives into the lives of the nation's chief executive and leadership style. visit our website, c-s

douglas is a journalist. i am sure many of you, if not all, have read the book in the pages of the wall street journal "national review" where he is an associate editor. douglas is also an author whose book the madness of crowds. he was with us in early 2018 just after the publication of this book, the strange death of europe. he is a formidable critic and an observer of all things uk, not sure he knew the subject of his most recent book and this one would come into play during this moment in time but they have and for that reason and many others it is my pleasure to welcome you to our event this afternoon. >> great pleasure to be with you and your members. >> douglas and i will talk next 20 minutes or so, if you look at the - there's a little widget and triangle with the word question, you can take questions, while douglas and i are speaking and to the q and a portion of the event. looking at that list and pulling questions from douglas. and we are continuing to go through a serious moment, and our governmen

douglas: is a good to programs like this. they are essential because your sports but you're also very flexible so we really appreciate the opportunity to be together tonight. on asking a couple of questions. and the first one and sing a couple of the chat as well. so for those of you interested in asking questions . we will get to them. but abraham lincoln, and written about almost as much in history is jesus christ. tell me about the desire to write about him. douglas: first of all, and who came up with that. so why lincoln. so we had done the washington book. and i think if i'm being honest, will probably play game as all writers do in the second book, and harry taught him. any top george washington. of course with abraham lincoln. but i think for us, i'll never forget the conversation that josh and i were just talking about it recently. and had less to do with lincoln and more to do with the civil war. because for us, i just felt like the ground. look who we are. and we felt like was really fed spot right now in our cultur

there are junior minister, douglas ross. there a re pressures junior minister, douglas ross.vative party and amongst the public on the spot when dominic cummings gave his explanation yesterday he covered a lot of detail and answered a lot of questions and reasonable people can be on both sides of this. as it happens, i think he acted reasonably. we continue to get so many messages from people who are telling me things like this, this is from laurie. my sister is a single pa rent from laurie. my sister is a single parent with three kids, two of them autistic with severe adhd. she had covid early only look down and had to rely on her eldest child to look after them all. we live three hours away and we would have gone to her ina away and we would have gone to her in a heartbeat if we had been allowed to, by the government. we know that this lockdown has been extremely difficult for a lot of people, really for the whole country, and more difficult for some than others. people have lost their lives, loved ones, livelihoods. i have been spent lockdown talking to constituents in rea

stephen douglas, who you wrote about and of course, lincoln -- had to go up against douglas a couple times. what is really interesting is douglas was a hater. he did not hate lincoln. in fact, when douglas learned that he would face lincoln, he said, -- i am paraphrasing -- i like lincoln. he has a good guide. which is extraordinary coming from douglas p he would not say that about anyone else. -- from douglas. he would not say that about anyone else. people who ended up working with lincoln would tell you he is difficult. he would go back on what he said. he was very pragmatic. he had a lot on his plate. presidents have to deal with that. at the end of the day, president xi think have to -- presidents i think have to think about goodness because they have to achieve something that is good because that is what is going to be lasting. brian: in a few minutes, we will go to questions. i do not know where the little cards are. ok. no cards? ok. all right. what are the chances we talk about and think about the presidency too much? >> well, they are high. the framers thought that congress

douglas brinkley. and ron caro, and others who are very well-known contemporary presidential historians. our three panelists, the idea for this was to bring together three of the president biographers who are featured in the book to talk about something other than the pantheon of presidents who are on mount rushmore. jeffrey rosen wrote a biograph on william howard taft. he was interviewed by brian. as you know, in addition to his work here, he's a professor at gw law school, which made him particularly interested in the work of taft who went on to become the chief justice of the supreme court. and we've known him as a journalist, which he is in his heart and soul since his early days in washington, author of six books. michael gerhardt wrote a book called "the forgotten presidents." brian will be talking to him about a number of them. in our book he's the chapter on jimmy carter. robert strauss is a philadelphia area journalist. he worked at the "daily news" and kyw, for you fill dell feeians. and his

junior minister douglas ross says he's stepping down because of the government's defence of dominic cummings and his family trip during lockdown. we'll be getting the latest reaction from westminster. also this lunchtime — weeks before they're back at work, retailers say they're worried about how they'll cope with stringent new restrictions, if shoppers do come back. before this all happened, 70% of retail sales were made in stores, so although it won't return to that in the next sort of three to six months, we're hoping that people will go out and support their high street. heading in the right direction — the trend in deaths from coronavirus continues downward, with the lowest rate for six weeks. back in business — doctors make final checks on the greek islands, as they re—open to domestic tourism. and the final cut. councils get snippy as some hairdressers break the rules to treat customers‘ out—of—control lockdown hair. and in sport, world number one rory mcilroy says he believes the ryder cup, scheduled to take place in september, will be postponed until next year due to the coronavirus

then taft appoints in his place edward douglas white. and overweight southern democrat whose only qualification for the job is taft's hope that white will die in time to be drafted to take his place. so he becomes chief justice, he served for about ten years, taft is a former president. calls moving out against the how he's doing. you want more cheesecake. how you doing. so white refuses to expire. happily and without any warning, white drops dead. all of a sudden. and then taft lobbies hard, mobilizes all of his forces, and persuades hearting to appoint him. and he turned out to become, the second greatest chief since john marshall. >> as you point out in your book, he was appointed one term. six members of the supreme court. and as you pointed out, jimmy carter zero. we talk about all three of you if you would, talk about the importance of, or the lack of significance when you cannot appoint somebody. >> yes making court appointments is something that presidents all want to do. and it becomes part of their legacy. but i should hasten t

this is a tweet from douglas ross, conservative mp.nd he has just resigned from his position. he says, i haven't commented publicly on the situation with dominic cummings as i have waited hear the full details. i welcome the statement to clarifying the matter but there are aspects i have trouble with. as a result i have trouble with. as a result i have examined —— resigned as a government minister. fill us in with the details of mr ross' let it. we are saying only half an hour ago that downing street were hoping they we re that downing street were hoping they were now on top of it and they could start to move on but there clearly isa start to move on but there clearly is a lot of anger within the conservative party about the perception that dominic cummings has followed different rules to everybody else. douglas ross, a junior minister in the scotland office, an mp elected back in 2017. let me take you through a bit of his letter because there is some of it which is pretty painful reading, actually, for number 10. he says, while the in

general douglas macarthur, commander in the southwest pacific, and admiral chester nimitz. dwight diaz and her was coordinating momentous plans with the combined allied staff of the europeans -- dwight d eisenhower. general leslie mcnair, commanding general of all .merican ground forces general omar bradley, commandant of the infantry school, soon to be given a top field command. general henry halleck arnold, commanding army air forces. chief of services of supply with the stupendous task of logistical support for what would finally be an army of many millions deployed throughout the world. the first of our troops began arriving at overseas staging areas. england,ireland, .ustralia on bloody guadalcanal, army troops relieved battle scarred and weary marines to continue the fight. united states was demonstrating not only a will to fight, but the capability of fighting a two-front war against great odds on far-flung battle fronts. on the eighth of november, 19 42, american amphibious forces struck the shores of north africa. [explosions] [gunshots] we were, to use an appropri

general douglas mcarthur commander in the south pacific, commander chester ness.eral dwiegt general dwight d. eisenhower. general leslie mcmayor, commander general of all american ground forces. general omar bradley commandant of the infantry school soon to be given a top field command. general henry hap arnold, commanding air armed forces. the general moved up to the chief of services of supply with for what would finally be an army of many millions deployed throughout the world. the first of our troops began arriving at overseas staging areas. in north ireland, england, australia, and army troops relieved battle scarred and weary marines who continued the fight for the solomon islands. the united states was demonstrating not only a will to fight but a capability of fighting a two-front war against great odds on far-flung battlefronts half a world apart. on the 8th of november, 1942, american amphibious forces struck the shores of north africa. we were to use an appropriate american phrase, in business. the business of an all out fight against powerful aggressors

douglas ross talking there are a short time ago.e at low cloud form across south—west england, the coastal hills perhaps seeing some fog patches and very mild night cross in england and wales were temperature is 13 or 14 in cardiff and london, fresher northern ireland and scotland. tomorrow, most of us will have another fine, dry and bright day come up with sunshine developing, particularly through the afternoon for top they could be a little bit of light, patchy rain, perhaps waking to northern ireland for a time foot up otherwise it is dry. temperatures high again across england and wales, but wherever you are, in the sunshine, you will feel warm. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines... junior minister douglas ross resigns because of the government‘s defence of dominic cummings — and his family trip during lockdown. asa as a government minister, you must be willing to defend the government policy and what the government are saying. i wasn‘t able to do that, so i‘ve felt the only option left to me was to resign from government. w

now it is my great pleasure to introduce douglas smith.oug is an award-winning historian, translator, author and his books have been translated into several wedges. he has written for the new york times into the wall street journal and has appeared in documentaries with national geographic and netflix. before becoming a historian, he worked for the u.s. state department in the soviet union as a russian affairs analyst. he is a frequent guest here although it has been nearly three years since his last lecture. i am delighted to have him back. i want to thank especially international councilmembers and hosting himends for this evening. please join me in welcoming douglas smith. [applause] dr. smith: thank you, kate for that nice introduction. it is wonderful to be back at hillwood. i am trying to remember if this is my fourth or fifth time to give a talk. i think of myself as a repeat offender but only in the best sense. helpingo thank you for to put this together with all the organizational skills. to c-span and richard for wanting to tape

douglas. douglas was always about passion. he was about shaking that huge ma mane of hair, about stomping his feet. but if you listen to them for a half hour, you would be taken by lincoln. because lincoln, even though he spoke in this high, ready, somewhat nasal tone of voice, he always set things out like bait on a hook. and logically speaking, once he got that hook in your mouth, all he needed to do afterwards is reel the thing in and you were his. he would state the case in such a way that it was absolutely logically irresistible. he had had that bent for logic, for lining things up. he was not a man of passion. not a man of motion. herndon once said that his head ruled his heart t. he could be eloquent. but eloquent in an extremely reasonable way. when you look at the second inaugural, yes, it is eloquent. but it's eloquent in very logical ways. if we assume, if we understand, if god is like this, if we see this war as the payment, the drawing of blood through the sword to pay for the bondman's unrequitted 250 years of la

douglas said we are trying to create purity of thought, and that is a bad idea.ways to addound , andming social value courts had no idea what this stuff meant. so they tried to clarify things in 1966. in massachusetts, the plurality says the dominant theme of the mirror appeals to a prurient interest in sex, patently offensive because it affronted contemporary community standards related to the description of sexual matters, and the material is utterly without redeeming social values. be a burdenut to virtually impossible to discharge. court said it became so case-by-case that they wound up watching allegedly obscene movies in the supreme court building to decide if they were obscene or not, then issuing which some justices enjoyed, and some refused to protest paid-in. -- refused to participate in. that was unsatisfactory. we get miller against california. remains new test, which the real test. cases.is unchecked worksow say the test is which depict or describe sexual conduct, specifically defined by the applicable state law as written or construed, the basic gui

douglas said, there's no evidence they did anything but advocate ideas and that should be ok.he court later in the 1950's, started to pivot and reverse on a lot of this. some was because of the implosion of senator joseph mccarthy, though there were communists. a lot of the people he thought were communist were not and he went crazy and discredited the anti-communist cause. also, the u.s. was nervous shortly after world war ii, as many countries in eastern europe were taken over by communists and as the soviets developed an atomic bomb sooner than anyone thought they would. by the late 1950's people felt safer and the court began trimming that back. in yates against the united states, they held you had to have proof that advocated action for the overthrow of the government. in scales, they said if you want to punish someone belonging to an organization that advocated illegal conduct you had to show that defendant intended to accomplish those illegal ends. that was a substantial trimming back. then we get to brandenburg v. ohio. this brings us to modern law of incitement. this

. >> douglas frisby understands his want to get back to work. he also knows a risk he is taking. douglas has been hired to clean facilities after someone tested positive for covid-19. >> we need to understand that we are not just impacting the workers there. they are impacting the community. this is an invisible, silent killer. >> his team released details of the reopening plan that includes extra safety measures. they say the governor gave tesla permission to operate but the county insisted the company stand down and refuse to answer the calls. the other fremont business owners are saying if they can open with safety measures so should they. >> if tesla is open we should open to. >> even with the extra precautions the employee says that is still not safe enough. he has a newborn toink about. >> you are going to be interacting with several different people touching all the same tools. >> tesla is allowed to open up her minimum basic operations. that means construction and infrastructure work. the potential dave for manufacturing is may 18 and the health department hopes tesla wil

in the interim i am so pleased to welcome douglas murray to our events this afternoon. he is a journalist and i'm sure many of you if not all have read his work and of course in the spectator where he's an associate editor and also an author most recently the 2,019th of the mat is of crowds and he was with us in person just after the publication of this book. douglas is a critic and while he is an observer of all things, i'm not sure if he knew the subjects of the most recent book and this one at this particular moment in time but they have and it's for that reason and many others but it's my pleasure to welcome you to our events this afternoon. >> thank you very much. it's a pleasure to be with you and all of your members. >> so, there is a work. we will talk for the next 20 minutes or so at which point we will turn over to q-and-a to you, the audience. you can type in questions any time you like to. when we turned ove turn over toa portion of the event, i will be looking at the list. with that we will jump right in. obviously we've all been through and are continuing

one of his friends said, what you know about douglas. to which barnum replied, is a red nosed, clear eyed, dumpy chap. looking like a regular barroom local. to which is delighted friend responded, that morning's paper has said the douglas was a very image and personal appearance of pt barnum. [laughter]. signing the other reason that i would show the photograph of barnum would to various audiences would be this kind of chuckle, i think people feel like even to this day, that they know barnum on some level. and obviously the name barnum and bailey and the circus, it is a name that we've all known throughout her lifetime. it ended as you know, in 2017 but so there is that name has carried on of our knowledge of barnum descendent extent. i think we also know him because of one thing from his early part of his career as a museum order. the famous sign of this way to the egress. bejeweled and the story in school. he grasping the exit. people thought the egress was some fantastic beasts. and so they would fight follow the sign and find themsel

douglas eakin, former chief economist of president bush's council of economic advisers.to see you. jason, i tend to think that we know see what the divide is on capitol hill right now. you have a chunk of folks, mostly democrats, who believe there's got to be more urgency, more money pumped in here and we can debate how you do it. and there's a growing consensus among some republicans orrin capitol hill. not everybody. we know some believe there needs to be more action too. who are in a bit of a wait and see mode. i think i have an idea of where you are. do you at all have any empathy toward the wait and see mode? >> we've done quite a lot. i think that's really true. i don't think we need to layer trillions and trillions and trillions and trillions on top of this. but what we're done comes to an end on july 31st for unemployed workers. something needs to be continued after that. and what we've done has been woefully insufficient for states and localities. they're going to start cutting their budgets, laying people off, and making our economic problems worse come the fal

but it is there. >> douglas, you know, the u.s. hasn't seen unemployment numbers like this since the great depression. i mean, you see some parallels here, especially when it comes to race, right? >> well, yeah. i mean, the sheer velocity and magnitude really defies the great depression, at least in the stock market crash of 1929, there were real jitters in the economy in 1927 and '28. so when things went southward in '29, people were kind of ready for it. this was just the floor collapsed and people, now, are trying to make sense of it. what's very much the same as the great depression is that people of color, african-americans, latinos, poor people in appalachia, navajos, you know, everybody that was, you know, living in poverty, just suffered the most. they weren't able to really get any kind of relief until while herbert hoover remained president. it was only when fdr came in, after a few years, that we started finding ways to at least start getting food on the table for so many people that were unemploy sq unemployed and suffe

in other words, give men the vote, give men a stake in society, this douglas insisted was the true path to permanent peace and prosperity. the african-american actitivist and poet frances watkins harper agreed, declaring the lesson o the war to be this, quote, simple justice is the right of every race, unquote. there were in short varying degrees of anti-slavery sentiment among unionists in the north and, again, some in the south, but together those who championed emancipation did something quite radical and we shouldn't miss this. in claiming that black freedom would enhance white freedom, defender of emancipation rejected the old zero sum game theory of american race relations that had preiled in american politics up until that time. they rejected an age old pro-slavery argument that black freedom could only come at the expense of white freedom. that any gains or lacks would be losses for whites. the idealistic defense of emancipation that it would have broad benefits for american society was a bold argument and its potential to mobilize loyalists was given a stern test in the reelect

. >>> up next, historians richard norton smith, douglas brinkley and edna greene medford discuss "theank former presidents from best to worst. this forum was held at george washington's mount vernon.

douglas ross, happy to be on the campaign in scotland in the autumn election.0 adviser won't quit after breaking — at the very least — the spirit of the lockdown, well, mr ross won't stay. i have constituents who followed the guidance. and whether there were loopholes or areas that you could get around the guidance, they didn't. when the vast majority of people followed the guidance to the letter of the law, because the uk and scottish governments were very clear at that time to stay at home, to help our front line nhs workers beat this virus. now there are nearly a0 mps, including former tory ministers, even the boss of the party in scotland, calling on him to quit. i think many people will have understood the dilemma that has been faced. but i think we are distracting attention now from the key issue, which is tackling the coronavirus. and that unease goes right to the top. a member of the cabinet told me, if dominic cummings had any self—awareness, he would resign. another said, for as long as he stays, the government will remain stuck in this groove, unable

russia an autopsy is needed to officially confirm the cause of death as kobe had not all families in douglas thought consent so this has led to speculation those figures may in fact be inaccurate to start with so the spotlight now is very much on dr stand by me a person who's ordered the building of what extra military hospital facility to house specifically a co-infection but fact that patients now as well as sending actual sources to the region in terms of soft material and medical resources as well. calling on residents as well not to gather to celebrate the end of the most but rather than festival the end of the fast to stay at home and protect those that are particularly vulnerable so multiple efforts now underway to try and stem this tide in dagestan which is very much but going against the overall trends over the last few days in the country you know sad to hear it isn't it was proven time and time again you can't let your guard down against this invisible focally all right dan thanks very much thank you thing with us 20 minutes past 118 is will coming out will this so we visit one of

resigning over the government's handling of the dominic cummings scandal j junior minister douglas ross explained i have constituents who didn't get to say goodbye to loved ones families he couldn't mourn together people he didn't visit sick relatives because they follow the guidance of the government. i cannot in good faith tell them they were all wrong and one senior adviser to the government was right. many other mps including members of the ruling conservative party have called for cummings the prime minister's closest aide to resign or be fired angered by boris johnson's defense of his actions during a press conference on monday. things argued that his two hundred sixty mile car journey was necessary because of child care issues while both he and his wife was suffering from copd symptoms. quizzed about a further drive they took to a scenic castle he said he had wanted to test his i. sites. a poll cononducted after the press conference found 71% of brits believe he broke lockdown rules and 59% think he should resign it does feel. double standards i think probably. heehould at least

american troops to go into action, and engage the enemy, or those already in the philippines under douglas mcarthur. after more than three long years of combat, the final land battle against the last of the aggressors. >> three days after pearl harbor, japanese -- landed on the coast. the following days, still another japanese landing was on the east coast. on the 21st of december, the main japanese force hit on the gulf. troops came pouring ashore from 80 transports. >> the japanese onslaught gave mcarthur only one choice, delay action, try to regroup the forces. it was a monumental task. the japanese had fought and pressed forward unchecked. two safe manila for more dysfunction, general mcarthur declared an open city. ignoring humanitarian consideration, the japanese bombed manila. on the last day of 1941, mcarthur withdrew to the marvelous terrain of the bhutan peninsula. the objective, was to delay the enemies entrance to the bay. mcarthur and his battling of button, as they call themselves, knew they were fighting a losing battle. but they fought on, gaining precious time for us to re

douglas ross saying if the number 10 advisable not after breaking at least the spirit of the lockdownstituents who followed the guidance, and whether there were areas you could get around the guidance, they didn't, when the vast majority of the people followed the guidance because the government was very clear that we should stay at home to help nhs workers beat their spiders. nearly 40 mps, including former tory ministers, calling on him to quit. —— this virus. former tory ministers, calling on him to quit. -- this virus. we are distracting attention from the key issue which is tackling the coronavirus. a member of the cabinet told me of dominic cummings had any self—awareness he would resign. another said that as long as he steers the government will remain stuck in this groove unable to concentrate on what really matters. and by defending his advisers so strongly this has become a question of the prime minister's judgment. 0ne of the prime minister's judgment. one very worried very senior figure in the party even suggested boris johnson's authority itself is slipping out from under

government resignation following the actions of the prime minister's chief aide — junior minister douglass says he's stepping down because of the government's defence of dominic cummings. nicola sturgeon has said scotland's test, trace and isolate programme to suppress the spread of coronavirus will start on thursday — called ‘test and protect‘, it will operate in all scotland's fourteen health board areas. that's all from the bbc news at one. on bbc one we nowjoin the bbc‘s news teams where you are. good afternoon. it's 1.30pm and here's your latest sports news. world number one rory mcilroy says he believes this year's ryder cup, due to take place in september in wisconsin, will be postponed until next year. competitive golf across the world has been suspended since march because of coronavirus, with the pga tour set to resume next month behind closed doors, but mcilroy doesn't think a ryder cup without spectators would be a viable option. the majority of the players would like to say pushed back to 2021 so they can play in front of the atmosphere that they want to play. they want to pl

douglas brinkley, the president was there and he watched this launch. he went there on wednesday twice to go see this launch. obviously it was very important to him. there was a feeling on wednesday that this was something important to him not just for what it means to the u.s. space. that was wednesday. you add to that the racial pain and anger and frustration we're seeing around the country following the death of george floyd while he was in police custody. just reflect on that juxtaposition. >> well, look, jim bridenstein, the nasa administrator, has done an amazing job of being bipartisan. he hooked up to the idea that we will bring women to the moon soon. he got somebody like nancy pelosi on board and this is, today, i think a triumph of the california people, elon musk and spacex, jet propulsion laboratory, i meanhave believed in musk. of course, jeff bezos is an enemy of donald trump, who has blue origin, who wants to put a moon craft up, so musk and trump have had a kind of on and off relationship, but to me, this, for donald trump, shows that a