and as part of the challenge, essayists could about abraham lincoln gettysburg the gettysburg address or something that some a cause cause related topic that stirred passions. we had no clue kind of response we would receive, but we were hoping to receive enough that we might be able to put some out in a mini display with the gettysburg address, the 150th. but the news of the challenge started to spread we found ourselves doing more than our share of explaining that the point of the project was not to top the gettysburg address or to write as well as president lincoln, but rather to celebrate the man in his words. we first turned to gilder, lehrman, lincoln recipient harold holzer to see if he would help us launch the project by writing his own 272 words. and he wrote back an email and and he said, wow, who could be succinct? and then in parentheses, brilliant as abraham lincoln. and our answer, of course. well, harold, no one on the planet except for possibly who live by the tweet and are used to writing far less. but harold wasn't daunted. and in a few days we received actually it a

that's what the gettysburg. is just anchored in and then the second inaugural and i don't think this is maybe been noted enough, but it is actually anchored in 1619 if you do the math the reference to you know, 250 years of the slaves unrequited toil that takes you to 1615. he's of course rounding the number off. so lincoln is aware of the origin date of slavery on the american continent. so i argue that lincoln really tells the story of america and helps us understand america through these three significant dates those two texts and the relationship between those texts and and slavery in the united states. so i think the second inaugural really deserves to be known as as the original and actually better 1619 project. so but to go to the the lyceum address the speech that he gives as a young man. i think it's a remarkable address. it's diagnosis of the dangers that lincoln sees abroad in the land at the time and more general diagnosis of the problems. that democracy is always prone to so what lincoln's notes is

he did this most famously in his gettysburg address that speech begins. at what lincoln considered the nations beginning right four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth in this continent a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal if you do the math you find that lincoln takes his audience back not to the constitution. but to the declaration in other words not to the body. but to the soul of america lincoln goes on to explain that the civil war was a test. of america's purpose is he put it whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. in the midst of a fight for the various survival of the united states a civil war lincoln thought that the nation would benefit from looking to its past americans needed a reminder of why the nation was founded in the first place and therefore why the union of american states was worth saving. with american shooting not in an enemy outside a foreign enemy, but at each other clearly there was some confusion about the meanin

lincoln says it's on his side, of course, in the gettysburg address. he says he's fighting for its central value of equality. but we've seen that's not its central value. not in 1776. its central then is actually something more like national self-determination. people can decide their government isn't doing what it was supposed to and they can change it. that's what the american revolutionaries did. that's what the secessionists, too. and they said this. they published of causes explaining why secession was justified. and they often invoked the declaration of independence in the name the declaration of independence. they said, we declare our independence pretty straightforward. lincoln, by contrast, was saying more like in the name of the declaration independence, which says that just comes from the consent of the governed, that people can change their government. i not let you change your government. i will use military force to compel you to stay the union. and then i will remake your society against your will without, your consent. so who a better c

he purposely was slow at gettysburg. he also becomes a republican which is going to be a unforgivable sin for a lot of these ex-confederates and they cast him out and he will push back himself and try to counter this but not every single confederate is celebrated. so like i said, there are some there are some exceptions and again they are going to double down though, even with that said even with long street being blamed for the entire defeated gettysburg. they still come back and the pages of the southern historical ciety papers and others to say, well, you know, the north had too many men anyway, and we were never gonna we were never going to win. okay, let's go last phase which is going to this is where it really gets. organized and like i said even more focused as a as a message. these are three groups the united confederate veterans founded in 1889 the united daughters of the confederacy fod in 1894 and the sons of confederate veterans found in 1896. so notice the dates now we've ved into the 1880s and 1890s. so of

gettysburg will be commissioned will open in boston in 1884 followed by philadelphia. york and 85 and 86 respectively but over the decade of the 1880s, they're roughly 40 to 50. we don't even know exactly how many of these cycloramas were created and initially there's initial permanent buildings soon gave way to these these cycloramas traveling all over the country, but the short version of the story is that they quickly saturated the market and there are newspaper accounts that say people just can't they have no interest in these anymore because they've seen so many of them at this point. you can only visit the cyclorama so many times before you you no longer feel the need to go get it but it is to go visit it but it's a money-making venture not just for the artists who create them but for the stock holders that invest in them, but also there are all of these different ways which people are our building off of this you have the in milwaukee the studios that are created to pump out these massive paintings you have street cars that organize that that develop simply to t

instead of retiring to take it easy on his little farm in gettysburg he'll point a picture of this baby, a chip off the old block, and he'd tell you, i want my grandson and yours to up in a free america. he's proud of his grandchildren. there are three of them now. you can tell that eisenhower believes that our real first line of defense is the family and old fashioned, well understood americans and admired and the rest of the world, especially in france. france was the first nation to hail eisenhower for his crusade. europe. the french love liberty. under hitler, they tasted slave reign. the frenchman eisenhower as a liberator. this ally likes ike to and across english channel, which hitler could not cause the people of battle in london who never yield to the blitz surrendered with a cheer to ike to worry londoners whether they could run my soldiers into his home. i say, you'll always have my profound gratitude to everyone has smilingly directed one of my men to the albert hall or the marble arch by your thanks. also churchill's for for all of history to remember. ladies and gentlemen,

sickles got two for smoking a cigar as it was being off the battlefield at gettysburg. but phil carney, i think it was the scandal that tainted him with a lot of people even remained after his death and when they were putting the monuments up, the editors would say, know, should we really put a monument to this guy up? and, you know, his his troops wouldn't hear that the the. this is slightly personal, but the old soldier's home in carney i, i have a great, great grandfather who lived there and was the last living veteran who who was there you know, when that was close, 1932, because i, i think in the 1930 census, my great great was listed as the oldest veteran in the home or in new jersey and was went to a couple of parades. and it was a very hot during campaign season. it was a very popular stop with politicians trying to get votes because. there were 500 votes, you know, at the home. they can only house 500 veterans at a time. but, you know, woodrow wilson lived there and taft and many others would always stop, try to get the soldiers vote. i they brought them out to

maybe it is gettysburg. he even speaks for 21 minutes, like abraham lincoln. president putin speaks for almost two hours, more senator everett. president biden covered the bases for what has been u.s. foreign policy with respect to russia and the symbolism of his trip to kyiv, being in warsaw in front of the enthusiastic audience of polish and moldovan's. it was a great reaffirmation of u.s. policy. president putin's speech was very interesting. he begins and ends with the following. his words, "it is a very difficult time for our country". he concludes with a double "difficult", "it is a difficult path we are on". he then lays out foreign security policy issues all meant to address the situation russia now finds itself in, in the midst of its special military operation. president putin says at the front with the special military operation is about. he says, "a year ago, for the sake of protecting people in our historical land -- historic landscape", he lost a special military operation. ukraine is ours. this is our historic -- my patrimony that i got from the

mike in gettysburg, pennsylvania, republican. caller: i'm a former democrat. i'm a union person, and changed over to the publican. that sounds like the league so far since trump's speech, that it's 3-1 in favor of trump, three american voters, one from california, one i don't know where he was from, but this book well about what they have been listening to -- but they spoke well about whatever listening to. one, c-span, they found that they have convicted trump. i have to sit here and say with a lot of friends who have been in and out of the white house, that the kennedy affairs, the johnson affair was the worst. people don't realize about lyndon johnson, they watches specials, they recognize he was terrible. the clinton and monica lewin's key situation, hillary, the crimes she committed. and then the russian gate attempt. it was ridiculous. the high interest rates. the high food prices. the open borders. war in the country. we are at war, basically. we did not have war under trump. allegations of, cartels, the biden cartels and all of the drugs coming into ou

this is so unusual, this is comparable to the civil war before vicksburg and gettysburg.n crossing delaware on christmas night. these things don't happen to often, district attorney bragg offered up an indictment so dishonest and false, filled with such phony bologna, all of a sudden you could not hide it, this is an effort to destroy donald trump, through, that to destroy frifreedom in america. if they can do this to trump, you see this all of the time, issuing rulings for how scientists should talk, and for how schools behave, they think 7 years should decide their own gender, they are for sex change activities at 10 and 12 years old, therefore a black racism replacing white racism. so they have you know, by the way, crushes asian americans and latinos, this is coming down the road. they are prepared to buy elections, they bought a supreme court seat in wisconsin, democrat had 6 times as much money because the left rallied to buy a supreme court seat. they bought the mayor's race in chicago, they are allstate forward -- straight forward, people have to decide, which ame

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a fire that burned at a cemetery in gettysburg when our nation's first republican president pledged this nation to a new birth of freedom. a fire that burned amongst a band of brothers who stormed the beaches of normandy, to liberate a continent and preserve freedom for the world. it's a fire that burned at the foot of the berlin wall in the 1980's when a resolute president stood before communism and said mr. gorbachev tear down this wall. [applause] it is our responsibility to carry this torch. we don't run from this responsibility, we welcome it. but it won't be easy. leadership does not come free, the left will come -- we will all have to sacrifice whether you are running for governor, a parent going to a school board, you are going to face blowback's. i think about what it will take to turn our country around and the effort that we have to do well significant, pales in comparison to what others have put on the line for us throughout our country's history. when i used to fly up to washington dc, it was one route you could take going into reagan airport that was flushed to the right of

richest guy but you couldn't ford motor he was born at the time henry ford of the civil war at gettysburg were really with gas gas lights and you know and died with the atomic post-world war two in the atomic era but with his death he was so authoritarian of running the company and kept it with his family. did ford survive after that? and i thought i owed the public sense of the legacy of it it didn't just die when henry ford died that if a ford you guys see on cars henry ford took a stencil kit in just one day like all right what's the logo for now it's when was recognizable symbols in the world and it came out of just a child's drawing kit. i guess i came to it a little bit. it was when i was working for the new york times ads. and what i love most was writing profiles of people. and i realized that i wanted to take a much deeper dive. i remember the first time somebody called me a quick note, which is somebody who has an insatiable curiosity and. that's what i have. and i also have chosen people who are very big lives, very big people. the first one was bill paley. he was a person of m

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it burned at a cemetery in gettysburg when the nation's first republican president pledged this nationrth of freedom. it's a fire that burned at the foot of the berlin wall in 1987 when a resident said mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall and helped lead to the destruction of communism in europe. this ise a big responsibility ad it's our responsibility it's not one we should shirk away from but it's one that we should welcome. we need to reject the pessimism that is in the air about the country's future because it is a choice. success is obtainable and freedom is worth fighting for and i can tell you that down in the state of florida we've only begun to fight. thank you. god bless. appreciate you. thank you so much. how are you doing, thank you so much. appreciate it. god bless you all. thank you. good job, governor. >> thank you. we've got a few minutes for a couple of questions. one quick question it's about the future on everyone's mind should everyone wear cowboy boots with suits? >> absolutely. when i was in the navy they would let you have a normal dress with your khaki uniforms. t

the fields of gettysburg. >> we know the fbi was meeting with big tech every week telling them they maybe victims of a misinformation campaign that may be about hunter biden. they have 51 former top intelth officials lyineg to the american people.er isfe that election interference? >> it is election interference. what is interesting is the seate had to be there from the start to be able to put this togetherc i don't know how much convincing they had to do of these peoplepp but i will guess not much. tha that's what we have to realize.n these are noott in the moment oe of f dynamics. this is the result of a cancer that has been coddled and allowed and has been able to move forward without being pushed back on. that's the only reason they were able to do this in front of people and then to have it be o exposed and tone still have no e be taking responsibilityilit oro have any kind of law and order face thesm as a result of this. telling you that the corrupt system that allowed that, the cancer that allowed that, isod still running througy h the bod of this country. it was a coordinated effo

it's a fire that burned at a cemetery in gettysburg when the nation's first republican president pledged this nation to a new birth of freedom. it's a fire that burned when a merry band of brothers stormed the beaches of normandy, defeated the nazis and save the world. and it's a fire that burned when president reagan stood at the berlin wall and said. mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. but understand, this isn't easy. this is a responsibility. it's not a responsibility. we in florida shy away from, though. it's a responsibility that we welcome and we have no other choice but to do it. we owe it to people like president reagan, who fought so hard to keep this country free. i would not be standing at this podium today if it was not for reagan. i also think we owe it to all the people that have sacrificed so much on behalf of our country. one of the things that i would do, i, as was mentioned in the introduction, i did a brief stint as a member of congress. i've recovered from that experience. don't worry and don't hold it against me. but one of the things you would do flying from florida