it's called "writing the gettysburg address." i've had occasion to read over the years while he's been working on this, and it's been a number of years, his articles he has written on various parts of -- aspects of the address. and i've also had the good fortune to read his book, which is just out with some care, because i was reading it before it came out. and it is a very good book. it is certainly the most ambitious study of the address that we have had in a long, long time, and probably the most ambitious of all of them. and it tells us a lot of interesting things. and clears up some -- some puzzles, and adds some things -- gives us a lot of new, interesting things to think about. and so i just wanted to say a few words about that, because it's a book that you're going to be reading reviews of very soon, and i think it is a worthy effort. let me give an example of a couple of things that he does that i think are really contributions to the study of the gettysburg address. he explains, i think, better than anybody ever has, an

he does have some interesting things to say about what happened at gettysburg, what lincoln did at gettysburg. and some other events. but mostly, he's talking about the text. and minutely going through accounts of what this person and what that person said, and what, if you put these two together, and discount for this, and so forth, what that might mean. that's heavy going. it doesn't mean that it isn't worthwhile, it just means that it isn't very entertaining to read. and it is, you know, it's like some legal problems, the law is so complicated, as john adams said, my head hurts trying to figure this out. and your head can hurt a little bit in some of these arguments. but i think he is definitely contributing a good deal. and anybody who works with this is going to have a much better understanding of the problems, and what the possible solutions are. so i commend the book. and i don't want to emphasize my misgivin misgivings, but i do think he's got the wrong delivery text. he has an interesting -- he makes an interesting point of some well-known testimony by james speed. speed was the atto

it's called "writing the gettysburg address." i've had occasion to read over the years while he's been working on this, and it's been a number of years, his articles he has written on various parts of -- aspects of the address. and i've also had the good fortune to read his book, which is just out with some care, because i was reading it before it came out. and it is a very good book. it is certainly the most ambitious study of the address that we have had in a long, long time, and probably the most ambitious of all of them. and it tells us a lot of interesting things. and clears up some -- some puzzles, and adds some things -- gives us a lot of new, interesting things to think about. and so i just wanted to say a few words about that, because it's a book that you're going to be reading reviews of very soon, and i think it is a worthy effort. let me give an example of a couple of things that he does that i think are really contributions to the study of the gettysburg address. he explains, i think, better than anybody ever has, an

gettysburg was looked upon as a turning point. it wasn't clear yet that they were going to prevail, but this was the center of the hope. i think that increasingly it became more and more important. the new birth of freedom is the signal that this, that the real issue is slavery. certainly in our own time, the fact that the war was about slavery, which lincoln says in his second inaugural has come back very strong. people forgotten that the war was about slavery. it wasn't about these other extraneous things. so i think that's the one that's strongest right now. but i want to close by suggesting that it's real important in the larger picture, the larger controversy might be two things. one is reinterpretation of the declaration of independence and gary wells' book gives voice to this. the words that remade america. gary wells, you looel eel remember wrote a great book about jeffer snon the '70s and one point he made strongly was that it is silly for people to think -- i'm making that too strong, but that people thought they didn't

gettysburg like i said to make a fool out of himself.edding, lincoln wants to be the bride. if it's a funeral, lincoln wants to be the corporation. everett is an old waiter, from what i hear. mark my words, he must have made lincoln look as worthless as a rebel shin plaster. >> hardly fair to expect lincoln to have competed with edward everett. everett was the orator of the day as lincoln, the papers say, was to just give a few dedicatory remarks. everett is a great scholar. a noted boston minister. he's been president of harvard, governor of massachusetts, united states senator. yes, and ambassador to england and secretary of state. lincoln taught himself. >> darn poor teacher, i'd say. >> i never said links con is a great man. maybe he isn't. but he's come a long way by the light of a pine knot with a shingle for a blackboard, charcoal for a pencil and a jack knife for an eraser. he taught himself to read and write and figure. and now he's president. >> but he won't be long. he's dead as a cock in a pit. thad stevens, republican forele

it is the 150th anniversary of the gettysburg address.overnment of the people by the people and for the people that shall not perish from the earth. on this anniversary we want to get your thoughts not only on the speeches that were told that end, but what it means for our country today. here's how you can do so -- >> if you want to give us your thoughts on the gettysburg address via twitter you can do so. as always, you can e-mail us at span.org. >> i hear some of the speech that was delivered back on november 19, 1863. it is by president lincoln. it is rather frustrated dedicated to the great task remaining before us that we take increased devotion to the cause that they gave their last full measure of devotion. perhaps you have thoughts about these lines are presently can delivered back then. social media is available to as well. facebook is it with you can do so. we had a few people posting on this as we started this morning. ourbook.com/c-span is facebook page. you can also tweak your thoughts to that c-span wj. the associated press

gettysburg and john f. kennedy are connected. both presidents sought to use the power of federal government to force change on conservative states. both tried to force america to live up to its founding ideals as they saw them. both made fierce enemies as a result. --what the world was doing the war was doing was preserving this unique system of democracy, republican rule. testing whether this can survive. kennedy, the parallel is, what does he speak of in his inaugural address and focus on during his administration? the struggle for freedom. for liberty. to preserve the democracy that we have here and around the globe. black america -- but black america was excluded from the gettysburg thomas. upheld racial segregation for a century. that century separates lincoln from john f. kennedy. when kennedy began to celebrate towhen kennedy began challenge white supremacy, the white south revolted. that revolved is what brought john kennedy to dallas that fateful day 50 years ago. his challenge to white privilege reawakened the old fault

we have live cameras in gettysburg, pennsylvania. is about 90 miles away from washington, dc, and the eisenhower spot this in the the 1950's andin spent their time there. you will learn about her obsession with pink. you can see she created this retreat away from public life. we will go back in time and learn about her biography, and to do that, let's go back to that special from 1956 where they talk about her biography as well. >> i hope that you, the members of our organization, and our extinguished guest will enjoy this salute to our first lady. ♪ >> how do you do? thank you for inviting me. birthdays almost seems synonymous with memories, like albums, so we brought this special album for you. it's filled with fond remembrances, and here is a picture of the three sisters circa 1906. here is the debutante visiting about 1950, and your wedding dress and the portrait in your inaugural gown when you became our first lady. >> ♪ take one fresh and tender kiss ♪ add one stolen night of bliss ♪ one girl, one boy, some greed, some joy ♪ me

james rosen is live at gettysburg today. for everything written about this address, there is still some mystery surrounding it. what do we need to know? >> reporter: primary among the mysteries is how the address sound. no sound recordings could be made in november 1863. we have only one clear and confirmed photograph of america's 16th president on site 150 years ago today, and it's believed it was snapped before he gave his address. we also don't know why for what is believed to be the earliest of the five cop is of the speech lincoln wrote out in his own hand, why it starts out being written in ink on handsome executive manage stationary and the last third of its is scrawled on paper. >> we know he did some ad-libbing and added a few word. if you look at the first copy there is no phrase under god. and the newspaper reports having him say under god. >> reporter: as for the four copies of the speech he did the all after the fact so the speech could be published in memorial books and used to raise money for soldiers' relief.

obama cuts under god out of gettysburg address.e covered it under the guys of covering the outrage about it. president obama, omits god. yeah, the right just had its hair on fire about this today. how dare president obama, alter the language of the gettysburg address to remove its reference to god. the gettysburg address, one of the speeches where a few different versions exist. nobody taped it if you know what i mean. five versions of the address are in circulation at any given time. which is why you often hear the speech recited differently each time you hear it. when the documentary film maker, ken burns put together his compilation of lots of different people, actors, politicians, news anchors, tv hosts, reading the gettysburg address, he published for this project all five major known drafts of the speech. and he, he, let it be publicly known that he asked president obama, specifically to read a very early draft called the draft which does not include the phrase "under god." which is why president obama did not include the phr

and then they purchased the farm in gettysburg.s their first family home. >> i have a photograph to show the audience of mamie. at what point in his career did they become popularly-known? >> i would say in the 1930's. when they were first married in they quickly became a couple that invited other military couples into their home. they would have saturday or sunday evening potlucks. they would play cards. they were very social. they rented a pn o mamie played and they saying -- apn oh -- a played and mamie they sang. mamie is behind the wheel of the jeep as if she can actually drive it. by her own account, she had not driven an automobile since 1930s that. -- since 1936. the two women with her are friends of hers. long-term military wives who had had the same kind of moving it there in says -- moving experien ces. >> the war comes and dwight eisenhower was leading the allies in europe. where was mimi -- mamie during the war? >> she lived in washington, d the, in an apartment. she was hoping that there will be times when i was allow

. >> we are in gettysburg pennsylvania at the eisenhower farm.ning at the white house, the queen of england. how important was that? entertainedhowers more foreign dignitaries and more state dinners then any previous administration. do with the has to change in transportation. >> and his position of leadership in europe. >> yes. he had met all these people. elizabeth and thought come to the united states, eisenhower says that we have just re -- reacquainted ourselves with old friends. they knew queen elizabeth when she was princess. they felt that so many people had met, they were just re- meeting and entertaining in a different place. eisenhower, who returns large-scale and elegance entertainment to the white house. ofle -- most people think jackie kennedy. it is her entertaining in the white house. the truman renovation of the white house meant that they could not entertain in the white house. it is mamie who brings back entertaining to the white house. >> she is a curator of exhibitions. of a decisiont was it? afraid thathey were it would look

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gettysburg. a brutal three-day battle of incomprehensible carnage. until gettysburg, robert e.ght his army was invincible. when president lincoln spoke here five months later, the war's outcome was anything but certain. "four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal." the gettysburg address is not so much a speech but a prayer, a reaffirmation of faith. now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. lincoln was speaking to all americans, but his remarks had even greater meaning for african-americans. scott hancock is an historian at gettysburg college. >> i think for african-americans, the gettysburg address becomes more important over time. african-americans then and since, they understood equality and freedom to be linked and to not just be legal freedom but that it meant the whole ball of wax. >> the emancipation probable cause -- proclamation had just been signed tha

a 150th anniversary of the gettysburg address. we will commemorate resident lincoln speaking at gettysburg. at 4:00 and 10:00. november 25 marks the 50th anniversary of president kennedy's state funeral. we will now bring you nbc's coverage, including the procession from the u.s. capitol to the white house. the mass at saint matthews cathedral, and the burial service at arlington national cemetery. we are on the steps of the capitol. there's is a huge crowd that has gathered. the watch is almost over. van is about to play hail to the chief. the casket will be brought down. the family is looking into the rotunda.

. >> as actors and reenactors mark 150 years to the day since the gettysburg dress address, we'llk at the misconceptions of the speech and the decisions that live to this day. >> president obama woke up this morning to a front page story in the "washington post" highligh highlighting the evidence that his presidency has reached a new low. the latest "washington post" abc poll shows that president obama's approval rating is at the lowest approval rating the president has had in office. the president's disapproval ra rating is the highest figure. 57% of those surveyed oppose the law that is a record high just 40% support t and that's a record low. here is a breakdown that frightness the white house the most, four in ten americans say they're more likely to oppose a politician who backs the legislation while just over a fifth said they would be likely to support a person. democrats fear the party could take a pounding in next year's midterm elections thanks to obamacare. democrats are joining republicans in demanding changes to the law. last night joe biden tried to soothe the democrats

at least to the people i have talked to in gettysburg. they are disappointed. anybody can upload a speech on youtube and watch it. that's not the same as the president being there. >> do they now question his relationship with president lincoln? >> yes, absolutely. even james mcpherson, the gettysburg historian will be speaking there tomorrow said he was stunned the president wasn't attending. >> wow. we'll see. it doesn't look like it will change. >> no. >> some asked why he couldn't at least send the vice president. thank you for being here. >> thanks for having me. >>> breaking details on the top story that the obama administration's department of justice represented in a court filing just weeks ago an estimate that tens of millions of americans could lose their employer-based work insurance, their group work insurance. a former white house insider reacts next. and why the secretary of education is out quoting white suburban mothers and not in a flattering way. waes his problem with white suburban moms? we'll look into it. i'm beth... and i'm michelle. and w

and chip reid on the search for abraham lincoln 150 years after the gettysburg address. is he in this picture? >> the hair, the high cheek bones and the brow all said to me that was him. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. the federal government's health insurance web site has had so many problems since it was rolled out on october 1, the question has been, why didn't anyone warn the president? well, it turns out someone did. the white house acknowledged today that administration officials, including president obama, were briefed on a consultant's report six months before healthcare.gov went online, a report that said problems were coming. nancy cordes is on capitol hill for us tonight. nancy. >> reporter: scott, administration officials said today they took this report's warnings into account and made changes, but republicans argue that its very existence casts doubts on claims by the president on down that they were caught by surprise. with startling foresight, the consulting firm mckinsey predicted mor

lincoln, and gettysburg address, everyone has a special legacy. president obama has been wrapping himself in the lincoln flag sinces day he decided to run for republican office. so, i regarded it as a offense to those brave men, tens of thousands who gave their lives at gettysburg, 720,000 men in blue and gray, that the emancipation. neil: how long was the speech? >> i would say 271 words,. neil: that is this president's inproductry remarks, i know that was brief. looks back in history, the tapes, the kennedy press conference, average fourth questions -- i think today it like you know 8 to 10 forf we're lucky, what happened. how do we get so verb oars. >> i think obama made himself luchimlectureer in chief. president obama believes he has to go on television to give a speech to get himself out of every ditch which he dug for himself. neil: how would president lincoln survive the crushing three news network media of today? >> president lincoln was probably the physically strongest man to occupy the white house, he was 6-4, 180, a great axe man. in

gettysburg is one that is probably best known. there were four others elected and established that battle sites. this was the acknowledgment of something new was that the death were not simply the responsibility of their families. also, the responsibility of the nation for which they died. and when you think about the measures that i listed of a few minutes ago, no next of kin notification, no burial units and so forth, you can see that there was a death sentence on the part of the nation at the beginning of the war and yet it begins to emerge and establishes itself most visibly during the war in the creation of these cemeteries. and yet, still about half of the civil war were never identified. this created in the words of one resident of gettysburg a dreaded devoid of uncertainty for the kin they left behind. there were errors in information and them that were reported today that walked in the front doors of their houses. there were also wives, mothers and children who wondered for the rest of their lives about a family member wh

until gettysburg, robert e. lee thoht his army was invincible.re fve months later, the war's outcome wasnything but rtain. "four scorend seven years ago, our fathers brough forth on this continent a new nation conceived libey and dedicated to the proposition that all men are creedequal." the gettysburg address is no so much apeech but a prayer, a reaffiation of faith. now we are engaged in a great civil r, testing whether that naon orny nation so conceived a so dedicated can long dure. incoln was speakg to all americans, but his remarks had even greater meaning for africanmericans. scott hancoc is an historian at gettysburg college. >> i thinkor african-americans, the getsburg address becomes more important over time. african-americanshen and since, they understood equality and freedom to be linked and to n just be legal freedom but that it meant the whole ball of wax. >> the emancipation pobable cause -- proclamation had just been signed that january. ncoln had doubled down on the war for independence. th war had comeown on his oul. lincoln said

. >> tuesday marks the 150th anniversary of the gettysburg address. thousands of people honoured the address. president obama said he sometimes walks to lincoln's office to look at the original copy. >> those are the headlines, "consider this" is up next on al jazeera america. ♪ >> after 12 years hundreds of billions of dollars spent and more than 2,000 american soldiers killed, the war in afghanistan was supposed to be wrapping up. but if the war in afghanistan is truly winding down, why are we now reportedly committing to leave thousands of troops there for at least another decade? and also a tragic attack on one of virginia's most prominent politicians once again casts a harsh light on the mental health system. and did you ever ask youst if you could beat your child in a footrace? a new study says yes, you would leave them in the dust. >>> we start with the war in afghanistan. afghans say they have reached an agreement with the u.s. on a framework that includes a long-term substantial military presence. that had lead to concerns that we may have tr

just two are buried at gettysburg.nequalities are felt by many today. >> the mission of the war, the mission of the union, the mission of lincoln and of the black troops was a more extensive equality than what we have seen today. >> it is coming, we are striving forth. those words are the most meaningful out of the whole thing for me >> all men are create equal. >> yes, all men are created equal. >> >> michael eaves is here with sports. i guess he wants his job back. >> we forget with the allegations tt games are played. he wants to get back to playing games. despite an ongoing investigation into hazing and bullying, embattled mohl fin rickie incognito wants to return to the team. the dolphins must grant his grievance hearing scheduled for thursday. the team asked the league office to delay the proceedings because the lead investigator is in miami interviewing players and coaches about the dolphins' culture and whether it fostered an environment accepted and encouraging bullying. conduct detrimental to a team can last

was the gettysburg address? >> i don't know if the people here recognized as something historic and what lincoln said. >> but everett did. >> the day after he wrote a note and said, if i could have come to the central reason of why we were there in two hours minutesu did in seven hours, it would be history. >> the second was rewritten, perhaps, the night before in pencil. >> lincoln sees this as a chance to speak to the people in a brief speech and define this is the heart of what this war is about, and this is also who we are. >> from these honored dead, we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion. now, he says, it's for us, the living to fight for what these men died for. and he defines what that is. it's a new birth of freedom. >> it is a message that endures a century and a half later, a lesson scott hartwig still loves to teach. >> the idea of being able to share the relevance of gettysburg, the relevance of the civil war in people's lives today, it's incre

thank you for joining us. >> thank you, alex. >> i get chills when i read the gettysburg address. >> about kids with dyslexia at a small school and other learning differences, small school in vermont, boarding school, boys school, very young. each year the school has been in existence they have asked them to memorize and publicly do gettysburg address. you'll curse this as you put it up on the mirror. it's a mine field for them, yet they do do it. they have their birth of freedom. as we were editing, we thought, why don't we ask everybody in the country to memorize this. we're getting wonderful responses, extraordinary amount of people adding their own group recitations. we like to do things in unison. too much plueral, not enough unison. we're distinguishing how i'm different and disagree with you. what if we can come together. bill o'reilly, rachel maddow. nancy pelosi, marco rubio. lots of people, steven spielberg, warren buffett, bill gates, extraordinary people that come together to celebrate these words, which is the double down on the declaration. thomas jefferson said four sc

it was president eisenhower was a resident of gettysburg, pennsylvania. his wife bought a farm there and retired there after their time in the white house. congratulations to ben goodman. send your suggestions to msnbc.com. how about all those presidents. that was kind of fun, wasn't it? we'll be right back. and just give them the basics, you know. i got this. [thinking] is it that time? the son picks up the check? [thinking] i'm still working. he's retired. i hope he's saving. i hope he saved enough. who matters most to you says the most about you. at massmutual we're owned by our policyowners, and they matter most to us. whether you're just starting your 401(k) or you are ready for retirement, we'll help you get there. you've got to try this sweet & sour chicken helper. i didn't know they made chicken. crunchy taco or four cheese lasagna? can i get another one of those actually? [ superfan ] hey, america, we're here to help. ♪ >>> president kennedy was assassinated today in downtown dallas. >>> time now for my tuesday takeaway. a new report shows senior

what makes the gettysburg address in your opinion the greatest american speech?but the biggest thing is that it's doubling down on our original promise that all men were created equal. but you have to go oops. he owned more than 100 different human beings and didn't see the hypocrisy and didn't see fit to free any of them in his lifetime. four score and five years later there were 4 million americans owned by other americans. so what lincoln is saying after the worst battle, the worst battle in american soil in the entire history of north america, he's saying, we really do mean all men are created equal, out of this suffering, out of this death we can have a new birth of freedom. he wrote our new cathechism, gave us marching orders we're still operating under today. when the first anniversary of 9/11 happened, one of the few bits of english words spoken besides the terribly sad, desperately sad list of the dead was abraham lincoln's gettysburg address. it had nothing to do with 9/11 but it had toefrg do with the glue that we needed to try to k cohere. >> what bet

i love going to gettysburg. at the end of the term, i think people tend to be a little jaded and a little upset about things. i am more idealistic in this job than i was before i took the job. i want them, after they see a term, i want them to go to gettysburg and think about the price that was paid for this country to exist. thanks to martha ann alito, we saw the wounded warriors today. [applause] it is one of the most heartfelt things that i have ever done, to see young people who have been mortally wounded in the sense of this nation. it is hard to see them and not believe that we are doing -- that we have an obligation to continue to do the right thing. what i am trying to do in taking my clerks to gettysburg is to think about lincoln and that horrible war, the carnage that took place at gettysburg. think of all the animals that were killed, all of the human beings, all of the destruction that had occurred there. and he comes there three or four months later, november 19, to dedicate a 4-minute speech or wha

>> well, there was certainly a lot of air out of the balloon in gettysburg.o, he just -- he was never going to go, i guess. certainly has a lot of other problems. >> he has linked himself to lincoln from the beginning. >> very much so. >> reporter: pretty much since he announced he was going to run for president. >> very much so. there is a very horrible irony here. president kennedy was supposed to give the 100th anniversary speech. he pulled out right before because he had a political rally to go to in dallas. but i was hoping he would go. >> why are we so fascinated with this speech 150 year s later? >> because there is so much mythology attached to it. it set out what lincoln set out for it to achieve which was to create a scripture and make official it was no longer a war to reunite the union, but have a new freedom that embraced color. >> and it also was a creed for democracy. >> absolutely. and an example of absolutely sublime writing. it is so hard to write a compressed prayer-like thing as lincoln did, and it is astonishing that any human being was a

[ applause ] >> american history tv will be at the soldiers national cemetery at gettysburg national military park in pennsylvania this coming tuesday to cover the commemorative ceremony marking the 150th anniversary of lincoln's gettysburg address. speakers include civil war historian and author james mcpherson and interior secretary sally jewel. you can watch the ceremony on thanksgiving day, thursday, november 28th at 4:00 and 10:00 p.m. eastern time. here on american history tv. on c-span3. >> i got into taft, knowing he had been friends, knowing he had broken apart in 1912. and when i figured out what was the difference in their leadership, it was teddy's leadership, taft's leadership. so i started reading about the publications in the press, these guys stood at the center of it. they played a center role. even the best historians will say these guys are the vanguard of the history. he came into my life. >> roosevelt, taft, and the muckrakers, at 8:00, on c-span's question and answer. all weekend long, american history tv is featuring ann arbor, michigan, c-span's local content

history's most revered speeches delivered four score and 70 years ago today, abraham lincoln's gettysburg address. >> the speech is powerful in part, i think, because it is so direct and so poetic, and the words carry so much meaning in such a short space. >> ifill: those are just some of the stories we're covering on tonight's pbs newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: ♪ ♪ moving our economy for 160 years. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> and the william and flora hewlett foundation, working to solve social and environmental problems at home and around the world. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... >> this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: the nation's largest bank admitted today that it misrepresented mortgage- backed securities that collapsed in the 2008 crash. with that, j.p. morgan chase agreed to pay $13 billion, the largest settlement ever between a private company and the government

where there is one of the five original gettysburg address copies that still exist in the world. and he reviewed it and read it and then wrote a letter to the american people with his thoughts. so he did honor the day in a way i think he felt was appropriate. obviously, this president embodies the spirit of president lincoln more than many other presidents. and i think he honors the president in the way he serves his job. >> but why wouldn't he go? >> because i think he did it in his own way. and it is legitimately true that he is a busy guy. he met with the ceo -- >> how busy is he today? >> megyn, megyn. >> go ahead. >> yeah. >> he is not too busy to meet with wall street executives. he is not too busy to golf or vacation. i admit that yes, he has a lot on his plate. he could have been there if he wanted to be. the only way to avoid this pr disaster is to have had a genuine desire to be there and a sincere desire that was unifying around the original themes of the address, he didn't take that opportunity. >> some of his critics say he had time to golf, he had time for leisure a

the president spoke for 2:00. 272 words. >> did people realize that the gettysburg address was the gettysburg address? >> i don't think many people recognized what was said. >> if i could have come as close in two hours as you did in two minutes, i would be satisfied. >> the first page, written in sink on white house stationary. the second, rewritten, perhaps the night before, in pencil. >> he sees it has a chance to speak in it a brief speech saying this is what this war is about and this is who we are. >> from these on norred dead we take increased voegs for that cause for which they gave the last full issue of devotion. >> now he says it's for us, the living, to fight for what these men died for. and he defines what that is. >> it endures a century and a half later. >> being able to share the relevance, it is just incredibly rewarding to be able to do that. it's just a wonderful job. >> government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not parish from the earth. lincoln only had two weeks to write the gettysburg address, but he was developing the themes for the heart of the sp

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