. >> gregory peck. >> thank you all very much. i hope you've enjoyed this and learned from it. [ applause ] >> can we get one more big round of applause for all of our participants today? [ applause ] >> in a moment oil invite proi' professor rotunda to give some closing arguments. i want thank whitney stepkoe if you could please step up here. [ applause ] for those of you who don't know, she has been our senior symposium editor for the law review for the last year and for exactly a year minus a day she's been working on this symposium. she's put in a whole lot of work. she's given her life for this event. her parents are in attendance, bone and karen. thanks for giving her up for the last eight months to a year. [ applause ] we're done with her now, you can have her back. i would like to invite professor rotunda to close us out. [ applause ] >> thank you very much, kevin. this is i think -- the reception is at 5:00 down stairs and we never -- i don't want to keep from you that so i'll try to be pithy. 40 years ago strange phrases

, they think of the, depending on their ages, raymond massey or henry fonda or hal holbrook or gregory peck or others who have played lincoln in the movies. >> furthermore, it's well known that the more a man speaks, the less he's understood. ( laughter ) >> lincoln has in fact been used almost from the days of his assassination to sell products. we have lincoln logs. for a younger generation, "ted and bill's excellent adventure" includes lincoln. he is just one of those figures, if you're selling a product, that's synonymous with integrity whether it's an automobile or insurance or a remedy for sleep deprivation. >> honest abe. >> absolutely. honest abe. everyone wants lincoln on their side. almost everyone can devise a rationale to justify that. we go on debating who he is, what he really believed, and how it influences our politics and our culture to this day. >> sreenivasan: and that story is not over. >> that story is far from over. we deliberately wanted an unfinished quality about this museum, about the story that we're telling here. because the one thing we know is the last word abo

. >> ladies and gentlemen, gregory peck. >> never seems as fresh and wonderful, as good and evil as it does when seen through the eyes of a child. trying to capture that is remarkable and perhaps that is why one look and the last few years has been so warmly embraced by tens of millions of people. "to kill a mockingbird," winner of the pulitzer prize and just about every award a book can win and now happily "to kill a mockingbird" becomes a motion picture and its memorable characters become vividly alive. some people call him jane louise finch. but she insists on scout. and that's her brother, gym. just a boy until the day he learns there is evil in the world. and atticus finch, the father, whose devotion of justice places him and his children in jeopardy. and party to the defense, john robinson. >> excuse me. >> what kind of man are you? you got children of your own. >> atticus finch.