in "going home to glory" we are in gettysburg, pennsylvania. grand dad's choice was to associate himself with this sort of that great battle. and so i grew up surrounded by the history of armed conflict in america and a great story of the american civil war. it comes up in correspondence. we reproduce as a correspondence between me and my grandfather, mostly letters he wrote to me. actually quoted from one, actually to go elsewhere in that same letter, i was talking to the hugh hewitt is a wonderful guy and he has been slow involved in the nixon library. talk to him the other day and he mentioned that his day and first that came to mind was an admonition from dwight eisenhower to me on september 26, 1962 eric he says the date above does not mean you, you because you're a young man but this is the date of the opening of the offensive of 1918, exactly 44 years from now. you're too young to appreciate the significance of the state but it is important for you do so, and you will do so in time. i believe that i did so in time. a final note that we w

you can go back to gettysburg and lincoln did that, but it was not always that way.t began i think with reagan after the challenger disaster. i thought this was an important moment for president obama. he was able to deliver what is in essence a political message to the country, which is let us step back, let us cool, let us seek our better angels. but he did it in a way that was basically shorn of partisanship, i thought, and that's one of the reasons he has gotten praise across the political spectrum for what he was able to do. he used the tragedy and the victims, in particular the 9-year-old, christina taylor green, to say let us live up to what she believed this country was and could be, and i think that that was effective. i think the other thing to say about him is, i mean it's been written a lot since the speech that this echoed themes of his 2008 campaign and in a way this was the kind of setting where that message, which is very much part of president obama, not the totality of president obama but part of president obama, is able to come forth. that seemed t

in closing, i want to read that part of the gettysburg address.t is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here thus far so nobly advanced. it is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us if from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion, that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain. thank you, and god bless. [applause] fax bob cabana is director of the kennedy space center and provides leadership to all the personnel at the center. he is also a former astronaut who has flown into space four times, twice as a shuttle pilot and twice as the shuttle commander. he is a retired marine corps colonel and a former test pilot. it is my honor to introduce bob cabana. [applause] >> is really an honor for me to be here today to help honor those behind me on this mirror. those of us who are old enough to remember, we can probably tell you exactly where they were or what they ar

former chinese president jiang zemin surprised mike wallace in 2000 by reciting the gettysburg addressenglish. >> four score and seven years ago. even the french president speaks english, kind of. >> we will be happy to help you make money in france. >> reporter: but americans do not generally share some multilingual talents. >> i don't speak a foreign language. it's embarrassing. >> reporter: instead of struggling with foreign grammar, americans would rather struggle with headphones to hear the translation. but not in city terrace public school in east los angeles. where 90 students have been learning chinese since kindergarten. ( speaking chinese ) >> reporter: like his classmates, nelson enriquez even has his own chinese name? >> five years old, they're like little sponges. >> reporter: nelson's family speaks spanish at home so he is trilingual, which the eight- year-old is already planning to exploit. >> i'm job and test test test >> reporter: these kids have been studying chinese for four year 're pretty good but this is an unusual school. across the country, only 50,000 american

started, the first thing he said to ted sorenson right after the election was, "go and read the gettysburgress and learn its secrets." >> reporter: clark's own exquisite biography of the address argues that its best lines came not from ted sorenson, who was kennedy's speechwriter, but from jfk himself, who made sure to be photographed working on it. a claim loyally corroborated over the years by the late sorenson himself. >> it was kennedy's speech. >> reporter: corroborated, but not always believed, except by those who recognized that his themes, like sacrificing for liberty -- >> pay any price, bear any burden. >> reporter: -- were themes he'd expressed throughout the campaign. and no one doubts that the edits were kennedy's, as when he spoke of human rights. >> those human rights to which this nation has always been committed. >> reporter: a young aide, later a u.s. senator, had urged kennedy to mark the cause of civil rights, so listen for this two-word insert. >> to which we are committed today, at home and around the world. >> the president got to me that day and he revived the can-d

the gettysburg aggress is just ten sentencing long.ivered them in just over two minutes. >> it was so short that the camera men almost didn't get a picture of him doing it. >> reporter: even the great communicators draw on external inspiration. the bible is a common source, but on a january night in '86, ronald reagan quoted a world war ii pilot and poet named john gillespie mcgee. >> we will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved good-bye, and, slipped the surly bonds of earth to touch the face of god. >> reporter: he was scheduled to give a state of the union address that night but those plans changed when the space shuttle "challenger" exploded in front of a horrified nation watching its televised launch. >> he made us feel the heroism of the astronauts and the tragedy and made it into a great patriotic american moment. >> reporter: one of the most poignant sections of this four-minute address, a message, directed to the littlest viewers. >> and i want to say somet

we have 51,000 casualties at gettysburg along. so this final will i guess the will to go get them was the beginning of the end of the comanches. that was couple of course with the slaughter of the buffalo where they took their commerce vary in their food away but 1871 and a the guy that they sent was this guy named randall mackenzie. there are so many storied -- people in the story that nobody has ever heard of including randall mackenzie a great indian fighter but mckinsey was grants favorite officer in the civil war. and so you have again these graham grim kind of warriors unleashing their guide against quantum parker and the fall of 1871 so to me it was one of those great moments where the beginning of the end of indian wars in america, the will to destroy them finally. but it also i guess in retrospect showed you how powerful the plains indians were. >> just that scope of time that they were able to exert that kind of influence for so long and so dominating. >> i think one of the things a lot of people have asked me about this

an 11th casino, on the drawing board, would be close to the main entrance of the gettysburg national battlefield. governor ed rendell, who's about to leave office, championed the casinos. >> governor ed rendell: look, gambling is not anything we should say, "oh, thank the lord, we have gambling." but it is a decent way to raise revenue, where the upsides that's produced is significantly better than any downside that comes from it. >> stahl: you said there was downsides to gaming. what are they? >> rendell: the biggest downside is that some people lose their paychecks. but understand, lesley, they're not losing their paychecks because pennsylvania instituted gaming. those people were losing their paychecks in atlantic city, in delaware at the racetracks, or in west virginia. >> stahl: so why not lose it here? >> rendell: well, if they were going to lose it anyway, let's get the upside. we were getting all the downside and none of the upside. >> stahl: the upside, he says, is the $1 billion the state got in gambling revenue last year, which was used to provide a $200-a-home property ta

tough rules in the south, one written everywhere but everybody understood which is you can blame gettysburg from the fact the british steel, do not connected in any way to the kremlin. in other words, responsibility was cut off at the provincial level. i notice some of the same things now going on in china. if you go to some of the provinces, you will find very tough investigative reporting but it doesn't involve beijing. >> there is a worry that dictators throughout history, and especially in the 20th century have had, which can be summed up by the phrase give an inch and they will take a mile. and that tends to happen and they did happen in the soviet union. gorbachev opened up the political system thinking that no one would criticize him and was astonished at the avalanche of criticism that he received. now the chinese leaders are mindful of the soviet example. they do not want to go down that path. but they seem to be edging toward that half. so they may ultimately need the same thing. >> recently had begun to ease up somewhat on the labour force which is a recognition i think of the fa

presidents as far back as abraham lincoln at gettysburg, have tried to make sense of the senseless, in the wake of national tragedy. 70 years ago, the day after the pearl harbor attack, president roosevelt, addressed congress. >> yesterday, december 7, 1941-- a date which will live in infamy... >> lehrer: and there was lyndon johnson, newly sworn in, just hours after the assassination of president john f. kennedy. >> this is a sad time for all people. >> lehrer: in more recent times, president reagan confronted the loss of space shuttle challenger and its seven member crew-- january 28, 1986. mr. reagan had been scheduled to deliver his state of the union address that night. instead, he remembered the victims in a speech from the oval office. >> the crew of the space shuttle we will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and slipped the surly bonds of earth to touch the face of god. >> lehrer: in april 1995, the country was jolted by the oklahoma city bombing that killed 168 people, 19 of them children. four

home to glory" opens shortly after the speech is given and the eisenhowers are driving back to the gettysburg on the winter chill that john kennedy was inaugurated president of the united states. these are remarkable times. in the year 2000, martin medhurst a professor at texas a & m polled teachers of rhetoric in the united states on the outstanding speeches delivered by americans in the 20th century. what were they? and on that list dwight eisenhower's farewell address stands 18 out of 100. but thousands and thousands and thousands of speeches given. so one of the top 20 speeches. on that list the john kennedy inaugural stands 3. these are two speeches delivered within 65 hours of one another. and the confluence of the greatest inaugural of the 20th century. and perhaps the greatest farewell address ever given by an american president draws attention to the significance of this transition. and what the transition was, of course, the wartime leadership is yielding the reins of power to the junior officers of world war ii. and there's a generational shift that happens in 1961. the other thing

one of the things he told ted sorensen to do before he wrote his draft, he said read the gettysburg address and learn the secrets. he told him to read every single inaugural address. i object know, sorensen claims he did this. he says he did this, and that they were pretty tough going. >> when did sorensen -- why didn't sorensen didn't get the credit? >> he didn't get the credit. sorensen has always said that kennedy, you know, was the author or he's couched it in words that have made it clear that he believes that kennedy was the -- he calls him the architect and everything else. but i think people have heard that, and assumed that because speechwriters have written so many presidential inaugurals, f.d.r.'s famous one was completely written by moley, not written by f.d.r. that kennedy's must have been written by sorensen. also, sorensen wrote many of the great set piece speeches that kennedy did. the american university speech, his senate speeches. these were sorensen. what sorensen didn't do as much, and didn't do as well, write the rousing campaign speeches. sorensen has conceded this in

we have 51,000 casualties at gettysburg alone. the final will, the will to go get them was the beginning of the end of the comanches. that was coupled with the slaughter of the buffalo where the tech the commissary and food away. 1871. and the guy that they sent was this guy named randall mackenzie. so many people that no one has ever heard of. the great indian fighter. mackenzie was grant's favorite officer in the civil war. and so you have these grim kind of warriors unleashing their guy against cornell parker and the fall of 18701. it's one of those great moments where it is almost the beginning of the end of the indian wars, the will to destroy them. it also in retrospect shows you just how powerful the plains indians were. >> the scope of time that they were able to exert that kind of influence for so long and so dominating. >> right. and i think one of the things where a lot of people have asked me about this. you know, did i set about in my book to write a kind of revisionist history of the experience of native americans in

he started -- the first thing he said to ted sorenson after the election is, go and read the gettysburgacrificing for liberty -- >> shall pay any price, bear any burden -- >> reporter: -- were themes he had expressed throughout the campaign. no one doubts the edits were kennedy's, as when he spoke of human rights. >> those human rights to which this nation has always been committed. >> reporter: a young aide, later a u.s. senator, had urged kennedy to mark the clause of civil rights. so listen to this two-word insert. >> to which we are committed today, at home, and around the world. >> the president got to me that day and he revived a can-do american spirit that the world was waiting for. and he was young himself. >> reporter: young and also bold. after years of cautious leadership in the 1950s and a sense of drift. >> it's like the wizard of oz. with you're watching "the wizard of oz," suddenly it goes from black and white to color. >> reporter: so the words of the speech's most famous passage -- >> ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. >> rep

we talk about the gettysburg address a lot because lincoln struck the right tone at the right time.that we are in a time of declining power for the president. guest: it is hard to underestimate the extent to which obama has come out of nowhere and be elected president of the ad states, nor can one underestimate the markey has put on his administration in the first two years in office. he is not a tool of some other powerful force pulling the strings. of course, he operates in a democratic, constitutional system, and he relies on others for advice, but that sounds much to like a conspiracy to me. host: you talked about the tone and the timing of what the president said. how important, for both of you, is it that a president responds quickly? while the president may want to stay clear of politics, there is a political cost to not striking the right tone and timing. guest: i do not know if it is as much a matter of the quickness, but he has to be apropos. we had the national moment of silence, and now appropriately, going to tucson. there will be a lot of the motion there. you are deal

host: charles in gettysburg, pennsylvania. republican line. caller: i have three points. the first, the congresswoman brought up draconian cuts. i would like to make this point. these cuts are not as severe and harsh as they would be if we do not get our fiscal house in order. if we lose the u.s. dollar as the world currency -- right now, it is our one saving grace that is keeping us from from what we are it -- allowing us to keep on doing what we're doing. guest: i agree with you. whatever we do, we need to keep our solvency as a country. the question is really between, do we do thoughtful, comprehensive copps, or draconian short-term cuts that will cost jobs? i think we should look at the budget -- the president and bipartisan budget panel -- to look at how we can make comprehensive choices. we would be looking at both domestic spending, but within domestic spending, we would look at the military budget to see where we are wasting money. we could look at agricultural subsidies to see, can we reduce those? most of those are going to large agribusiness and not too small f

we talk about the gettysburg address a lot because lincoln struck the right tone at the right time. i do not think that we are in a time of declining power for the president. guest: it is hard to underestimate the extent to which obama has come out of nowhere and be elected president of the ad states, nor can one underestimate the markey has put on his administration in the first two years in office. he is not a tool of some other powerful force pulling the strings. of course, he operates in a democratic, constitutional system, and he relies on others for advice, but that sounds much to like a conspiracy to me. host: you talked about the tone and the timing of what the president said. how important, for both of you, is it that a president responds quickly? while the president may want to stay clear of politics, there is a political cost to not striking the right tone and timing. guest: i do not know if it is as much a matter of the quickness, but he has to be apropos. we had the national moment of silence, and now appropriately, going to tucson. there will be a lot of the motion the

their commitment during the harsh winter at valley forge, their courage in the bloody field at gettysburgnd korea, vietnam, and iraq come with us today. and today, i ask that we honor all those who continue to hang tough in afghanistan. please join me in honoring our soldiers. [applause] wars do not make people great, but sometimes they bring out the greatness and people. such was the wisdom of the beloved pennsylvania patriot, major richard "dick" winters. his recent passing as it was not only for pennsylvania, before entire nation. major winters rallied behind enemy lines in france was immortalized by the band of brothers, but i believe what makes us look to him as the leader and is a true hero was his courage, his honest humility and his private determination and the war respect he showed them fostered among his men. over the capitol today, we fly a flag given to major winters by fellow soldiers and honor the legacy he leaves and a reminder to all of us. let us honor major winters and all those who have served by calling upon the best within ourselves. let us dare to do great things by

much that i discovered to my great distress that he put a time capsule in his house in getties bur gettysburg. it's buried in one of the walls and to my distress it's not to be opened until 2056 which means that i'm long gone. doesn't seem fair, does it? this is so eisenhower. to be talking to generations still to come. only in this timeframe it's not 50 years, it will be 100. thank you. >> thank you. now, let many introduce my first panel today. one short programming note which you probably noticed. professor andrew was forced to withdraw from the program late yesterday because of the bad weather in boston. he sends his regrets. andy has one of the feature essays in this month's "atlantic monthly." i recommend it highly. the good news, bad news is depending on your perspective, andy prepared his remarks and i get to read them. i will not do this service. i'm going to try my best to deliver a few passages from andy's remarks then i will introduce our other speakers today. title of his essay is "who's army?" the interaction of civilians and soldiers takes place in two distinct and different do

much that i discovered to my great distress that he put a time capsule in his house in getties bur gettysburg. it's buried in one of the walls and to my distress it's not to be opened until 2056 which means that i'm long gone. doesn't seem fair, does it? this is so eisenhower. to be talking to generations still to come. only in this timeframe it's not 50 years, it will be 100. thank you. >> thank you. now, let many introduce my first panel today. one short programming note which you probably noticed. professor andrew was forced to withdraw from the program late yesterday because of the bad weather in boston. he sends his regrets. andy has one of the feature essays in this month's "atlantic monthly." i recommend it highly. the good news, bad news is depending on your perspective, andy prepared his remarks and i get to read them. i will not do this service. i'm going to try my best to deliver a few passages from andy's remarks then i will introduce our other speakers today. title of his essay is "who's army?" the interaction of civilians and soldiers takes place in two distinct and different do

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much that i discovered to my great distress that he put a time capsule in his house in getties bur gettysburg. it's buried in one of the walls and to my distress it's not to be opened until 2056 which means that i'm long gone. doesn't seem fair, does it? this is so eisenhower. to be talking to generations still to come. only in this timeframe it's not 50 years, it will be 100. thank you. >> thank you. now, let many introduce my first panel today. one short programming note which you probably noticed. professor andrew was forced to withdraw from the program late yesterday because of the bad weather in boston. he sends his regrets. andy has one of the feature essays in this month's "atlantic monthly." i recommend it highly. the good news, bad news is depending on your perspective, andy prepared his remarks and i get to read them. i will not do this service. i'm going to try my best to deliver a few passages from andy's remarks then i will introduce our other speakers today. title of his essay is "who's army?" the interaction of civilians and soldiers takes place in two distinct and different do

much that i discovered to my great distress that he put a time capsule in his house in getties bur gettysburg. it's buried in one of the walls and to my distress it's not to be opened until 2056 which means that i'm long gone. doesn't seem fair, does it? this is so eisenhower. to be talking to generations still to come. only in this timeframe it's not 50 years, it will be 100. thank you. >> thank you. now, let many introduce my first panel today. one short programming note which you probably noticed. professor andrew was forced to withdraw from the program late yesterday because of the bad weather in boston. he sends his regrets. andy has one of the feature essays in this month's "atlantic monthly." i recommend it highly. the good news, bad news is depending on your perspective, andy prepared his remarks and i get to read them. i will not do this service. i'm going to try my best to deliver a few passages from andy's remarks then i will introduce our other speakers today. title of his essay is "who's army?" the interaction of civilians and soldiers takes place in two distinct and different do