so without further adieu, harold? >> i should say that we are -- have the privilege of being recorded by c-span, which is why i wore probably the wrong colored tie, but anyway, we are going to be on c-span. >> friends and colleagues, the texas today is from robert frost's poem "the mending wall." i'm going to quote from it. before i build a wall, i would ask to know what i was walling in or walling out and to whom i would like to give offense. in the poem frost was already too late, the wall had been built. it was simply being repaired. and we are too late today to ask these questions about today's wall, namely ballistic missile defense. it already exists, the united states has unilaterally withdrawn from the abm treaty, interceptors have been placed in alaska to defend against north korea, the obama administration is negotiating in a european missile defense to defend against iran, which indeed is, quote, like to give offense, end quote, to russia and it already has. something there is that doesn't love a wall, but t

harold's club made we think of harold and the purple crayon. harold's club. who would figure let loose the boy with the purple crayon. let him conkokt the loses slots in women. let loose his imagination. ended as high as sea gulls or the reverse w's topped with bold topped centers the rudeaments of the buzzum and life itself. >> pen and ink. in the way we demonstrate speech by quotation marks the ill administrator kapt urs speed by 2 lines of the pen much the trotting horse quoted at the knees all 4 and the lady side saddled atop him frozen in place by crossed hatched marks. courseut to indicate the petticoat aroused into activity by the muscular steed. unintended garden. whether o(inaudible) the propery line, i promise not to water the spring flower and plants that remain as brown stubbel on the chins of my train. take care of dry foilage. i let the japanese maybel swat the afi ds on it's own. purple spotted brush. 2 calla lillies take root. birds return listening to lost meats all day until dusk beckons them to come to the nest and try again in the morning.

harold, you and i may disagree about that a bit. you know, lincoln himself said that the most vexacious facing him was determining the postmastership of bloomington, indiana, which was -- it was kind of odd. i think he didn't come into his own until the sumpter crisis. another place, forgive me harold, i don't mean to turn on the moderator where i want to disagree with a little bit with-b what you said in your introduction to the panel suggesting the north was the sort of overwhelming favorite going in and the south was scrappy little underdog. first of all, let's not forget that, of course, the north needed to win the civil war, whereas the south simply needed to not lose. i think the south in some respects was militarily better prepared in early 1861 than the north was. they had been organizing troops very actively in many places actually since mid-1860. and the north was much slower to do that. one of the few places in those first weeks of the war where union force hs notable success was in st. louis, missouri, where actually the

to the credit of the board, it is an honor to harold and -- to what harold and then have been doing for so many years. the best way to honor your work is to get you more partners. we went on a road show already and we started. supervisor wiener h and i can hear.s.a. representatives and we made our first and pitched to the san francisco parks association to gain more membership into the good samaritan ordinance to create a longer list and help them come in and with more resources in case we have more displaced persons. this is where we are going to go with pitches for persons with disabilities, getting more harm is listed up and the access for all the property owners in the city, we have treasure island also as a landlord. we have merced park has been a great resource. his their managers have been on the ball. we wanted to make a pitch on the good samaritan ordinance, taking what we have been doing on a responsive note and building longevity and an ongoing response with a larger host of people. that is how we honor the great irresponsibility is we have. get more partners in there. i want

so you're going to have two jins little round table with harold holzer. they're going to be seated there in just a moment. just to chat about what we've heard over the last couple of minutes. it's a wonderful talk, and it will be carried on a little further in an informal setting. so along with harold holzer and judge judith kaye, we'll have john walker who is now a senior circuit judge, formally the chief judge of the 2nd circuit of the court of appeals. as some of you now know, he does serve as a member of the judicial conference of the united states. he is currently a member of the conference's committee on international judicial relations, and is chair of its committee on judicial conduct and disability. and in new haven, at yale law school, he teaches constitutional litigation and legal writing, and is a director of the united states association of constitutional law. he's also, some may be reassured to know, is promoting the rule of law in china, the middle east and central and eastern europe. he's very much dedicated to this. we're glad that he's t

so along with harold holzer and judge judith kay, we'll have john walker who is now a senior circuit judge, formally the chief judge of the second circuit, the united states court of appeals. and as some of you may know, he served as a member of the -- does serve as a member of the judicial conference of the united states. he's currently a member of the conference's committee on international judicial relations, and is chair of its committee on judicial conduct and disability. and in new haven, yale law school, he teaches constitutional litigation and legal writing and is a director of the united states association of constitutional law. he's also some of you may be reassured to know is promoting the rule of law in china, the middle east, and central and eastern europe and he's very much dedicated to this and we're glad he's there as our ambassador, so to speak. and before going on the bench as some of you may know but i didn't realize, he'd been state council of the republican of -- so why don't you all come up here and take your places at the table. judge walker, judge kay, harold

mark haleprin and harold ford jr.h michael steele in washington and tom brokaw joins the table. thank you so much for being onboard this morning. >> tom, you don't want to overstay the result of an election. but it seems to me last night, right now with you onset, i'm going back through the years. and this michigan win from mitt romney i would suggest is every bit as important as george w. bush's win in south carolina back in 2000. remember george w. bush's win in new hampshire after coming in third in iowa back in '88. this is a race mitt romney couldn't afford to lose. >> ronald reagan's win in new hampshire. >> exactly. >> beat in iowa by george bush. this is an important race for him, but it's clear this is going to the convention in one form of the other. i think romney should have the delegates by the time he gets there. the comparison in my mind is 1996, there are still a lot of peasants with pitch forks out there. and they're going to show up in tampa bay. and that could become an issue for the republican part

if he's the nominee. >> there's two things to harold's points, though.ng to unfold like -- be more like the 2008 race between hillary and obama where in some ways the competition elevated both of their games. they were much better candidates by the end than when they started or whether it's going to look more like ted kennedy and jimmy carter where if newt gingrich tries to destroy romney and tear the party apart, that could be a much worse scenario for republicans. and i think that the other question that i think, you know, a lot of republicans are looking at this and wondering whether romney can -- whether romney can rise to this challenge and that's a -- that i think you didn't have that in 2008. i think most democrats were very personally invested -- and there was a lot of bitterness. but in the end, those were two figures of great stature -- at the end of the day, going into a general election, they were confident behind either one of them. >> the clinton/obama -- gingrich and romney very, very different candidates, but the dynamics is the only poin

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so without further ado, harold. [applause] >> i should say that we had the privilege of being courted by c-span. so i probably wore the wrong color type it anyway, we're going to be on c-span. >> friends and colleagues, the text today is from robert frost poem, then mending wall. i'm going to quote from it. before i build a wall, i would ask in a what i was bawling in or wall in out, and to whom i would like to give offense. in the poem, frost was already too late. the wall had been built. it would simply being repaired. and we are too late today to ask these questions about today's role, namely, ballistic missile defense. it already exists. the united states has unilaterally withdrawn from the tree. interceptors have been placed in alaska to defend against north korea. the obama administration is negotiating a european missile defense to defend against iran. which indeed is quote, like to give offense, and the quote, to russia. and it already has. something there is that doesn't love a wall, but that is not the sub

i was talking earlier with harold about the issue of russia. i want to at least touch on a little of why the russians are concerned. phase 4 of the european phase adaptive approach is really designed it defend the united states, not europe. up three phase iii that's europe, phase iv tcontinental united states. i assume engage on remote, a standard missile 3 block 2b of different speeds. this shows the defended footprint going against an iranian icbm. let's assume we have icbm. this is the maximum range i've assumed here slicing through the united states. 4.5 kilometers a second, which is very fast for defending europe. this the defended area in here. you really cannot protect the united states. if i increase that speed to 5 kilometers a second, now i can do a good job defending eastern part of the united states but the west coast is a little bit out of the footprint. i haven't shown you capability of fort greeley, which can defend this whole area. five kilometers a second, forward site could defend east coast, fort greeley, west coast. if you w

harold will think. i need to get closer and closer to the herring and call to him in this way. hello mr. herring. the herring will think. that is strange, if you want to catch me, why is he getting further away. i don't understand. do you under stand? actually i'm going to be getting closer and closer to the herring and i make my voice smaller and smaller, so the herring will think i'm going away. it's very interesting and what will happen next. i sneak up just behind the herring and i say, what. what will you say? i can't hear anything. >> that's idea i make my voice smaller until i make no sound at alright. so the herring will think, he's gone. well, no fun today i guess but any way i am safe. and at that moment i capture him. what do you think of my wonderful idea. great. very good. very interesting. i'd like to see you try it. thank you and can you suggest a good place to catch and find many snow herrings. sure. into the temple. why don't you go there. thank you. i go now. going into the temple, the temple gate is closed for the night and the temple wall is too high for me

it is still unclear what role he played in the murder, but tonight harris' brother harold says he is thankful that police are starting to find the people who allegedly killed his brother. harold harris is relieved to have answers, thankful for the good detective work, but there is little comfort in the developments of the past week. >> i'm a little numb about what's going on. there's closure, but, you know, the way my brother died haunts me. reporter: lenny heifers shot to death police say during a robbery -- harris was shot to death police say during a robbery back in late december. his family had suffered since then not knowing where lenny was. lenny was passionate about his count of alexandria fighting in particular for kids and for -- county of alexandria fighting in particular for kids and for housing. >> he would come for the residents to fight for their housing and he was so disappointed that a lot of people didn't show up, you know, and -- but he kept going. my brother was loved and he's going to be missed. not only the family is going to miss him, but the community is going

i'm harold hoelzer, vice chairman of the lincoln forum.to welcome you to this year's historians panel and the topic why didn't the civil war end in 1861. in a sense, that may seem like a strange question to anchor our discussion today. but think about it -- in the spring of 1861 the north held tremendous advantages over the south. its manufacturing base was infinitely greater and far more sophisticated. its financial institutions were sounder. its population was larger. its economic system based on free labor and growth through opportunity was more modern and more progressive. and its political system anchored on the subject of freedom and forescore years of tradition had just produced a president born in heart scrabble poverty whose assent to the white house did nothing less than confirm the viability of the american dream. moreover, union represented the established order. a fully mature nation recognized by the international community while the newly formed confederate states of america represented nothing more than a rebellious insurge

and he's sitting and going through the exercise and the young lady turns to him, harold, what's the rob, what's the big deal? you finished second but you won all the other races. why the long face? there's a pause and he turned back to her and he said i don't run to lose, i run to win, and if i can't win, i won't run. he was going to quit. he was going to say the pain of losing was too much. i'm not going to risk it, i'm not going to do it. there was another pause and she turned to him and said the best line of the whole show and she turned back to him and said, harold, if you don't run, you can't win, and that is so true and that mindset has always characterized the people of this great nation. a willingness to get all of the -- get out of the shadows, to get out of the twilights, to get in the game and step into the arena and put it on the line. and we're at one of those moments in american history we have to do just that. so, thank you for being willing to do that, to take the risk associated with that and to make a difference in this critical election year. the second thing i want t

forward we come to a map that traces that escape from washington that john wilkes booth and david harold made. and by pushing this little li t light-up button we get to follow the path way that booth took, his stops at the tavern to pick up weapons, the stop at the d k doctor's house where his leg was set. their first attempt to cross the potomac river and the second one and the journey across and eventually ending up at the garrett farm where, of course, john wilkes booth and david harold were caught and captured and he was ultimately killed there? this side lets exhibiters take a look at the final moments and take a look at john wilkes booth's capture. we have recreated garrett's tavern. visitors will be able to look in the barn and hear the sound track where they come to capture him and booth refuses to surrender. you'll get to see the barn lit on fire and then boston corbett shooting and john wilkes booth's final words to his mother. >> let me have a moment. if you'll take your men 50 yards from the door, i'll come out and fight you. give me a chance for my life. well, my brave boys,

. >> if you are in the middle of the lincoln forum, the harold hol s holser group, is everybody a lincoln lover? >> i think everyone in the group is interested in knowing about lincoln fully, not just lincoln the great, but lincoln as he dealt with the issues at the time in a very trying situation, in the midst of war. and so i have found the people there to be very receptive to what i've had to say. i've taken my graduate students with me, and they have been pleased with what they've heard there in terms of the learning process for them. because many of them may not have been introduced to lincoln, at least not to the extent that a lot of people in attendance have. so, they're hearing lectures from scholars who talk about lincoln from a variety of perspectives. so, no, i haven't felt that kind of attitude at the lincoln forum. but i know it does exist, because i am still getting e-mails and letters. >> do you ever worry that you're affirmativaction? >> yeah. always. always. and i think that there's always that possibility, and when i feel that, i have to determine what am i bringing to t

judge walker, judge kay, harold holzer. >> still in the hot seat. >> fantastic. really, really fantastic. so this will be the 42nd book? >> no, there'll be one between the 41st and -- >> and what will that be? >> it's a book called "emancipating lincoln," it's a published version of some lectures i did at the department of african-american studies. at harvard last year. >> and how long before we have this one? >> two years if i stop giving talks about it. >> and what's the adjective that goes before the word lincoln? it's the one that precedes it is emancipating and this next one will not be convicting lincoln, what will it -- >> no, it's actually called uncivil wars: the press in the age of lincoln. >> so i have a question. what was the -- can you be a little more precise on what the standards were lincoln used in judging between political dissent, sedition, and treason. and how did he actually -- did he expound on this publicly? and if so, can you tell us what he said about it? >> and i'll piggy back and add personal criticism too. >> okay. >> we're getting a l

forward we come to a map that traces that escape from washington that john wilkes booth and david harold made. by pushing the light up button we get to follow the pathway that booth took and his stops at the tavern to pick up weapons. his stop at dr. mudd's house where his leg was set, and the first attempted cross of the potomac river, where they were lost. the second attempt and their journey through virginia, and eventually ending up at the garrett farm where of course john wilkes booth and david harold were caught and capture and john wilkes booth was ultimately killed there. because he was captured in a tobacco barn, our last exhibit lets the visitors take a look at the final moments and take a part of john wilkes booth's capture. we have recreated the tobacco barn, and visitors will be able to look into the barn and hear a soundtrack that -- where union soldiers come to capture booth and booth refuses to srurrender. they'll get to see the barn lit on fire and then boston corbett shooting john wilkes booth and john wilkes booth's final words to his mother. >> let me have a moment. i

strategist, steve schmidt, and columnist for the washington post, kathleen parker, and congressman, harold ford, jr. and gas prices, immigration, and jobs and the economy. with us, arizona's republican governor, jan brewer, and california's democratic governor, jerry brown. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good morning. we will begin with overseas this morning. two american military officers were shot dead in kabul. the suspect, an afghan police intelligence officer. now they have recalled nato personnel working in the afghan ministries in that area, all of this after personnel burned a pile of korans setting off days of protest across the country and creating a sense of urgency and the new questions about the terms and timetable for american withdrawal. joining me american presidential candidate, and a two-term senator from pennsylvania, senator santorum. welcome back to the program. >> thank you, and good to be with you. >> president obama personally apologized to president karzai for this apparently inadd vur opportunity act of burning the korans. what is your reaction

harold stassen, the great liberal, in the affirmative. in the affirmative. tom dewey, tom dewey in the negative. now, we haven't talked much about thomas dewey. dewey was the governor of new york, pretty popular guy. he had been the nominee of the republican party in 1944, he had led on the first three ballots in 1940 before losing to wendell willkie. quite remarkable because this year, 1948, he's only 46 years old. now, that's about the age obama was. that's only three years older than jack kennedy was. he's a young man. and he's been on the verge l of power and national notoriety even before that 190. what is he in 1940? he's an ex-district attorney. he's not even governor. he was the district attorney of manhattan. he was mr. district attorney, crime buster, the guy who went after the mob, put 'em in jail, went after the wall street guys, put 'em in jail. he did it all. he was spectacular. as a district attorney. but as governor, he begins to trim his sails. he's looking at the polls and as a candidate it's the same way. so people even though he's the pur

harold e. stassen, former governor of minnesota, now i punchline in american political history because he ran and lost so many times and ran and lost so many times with absolutely no chance of success. robert a. taft, senator from ohio, leader of the congressional republicans, mr. republican, mr. conservative but not charismatic and the fourth is not even in the country. the general of the army, jug -- douglas mccarthy and tokyo running the former, i guess still present empire of japan and a popular guy but can he pull it off from faraway? he doesn't. he has entered into the wisconsin primary. he should when that. he doesn't. he stumbles and is out fairly quickly. there are not a lot of primaries that year. there's the new hampshire primary. there is always the new hampshire primary. there is the wisconsin primary which macarthur should win and doesn't. he loses a tooth harold stassen which elevates stassen. stassen as an outsider. he is a boy wonder. in 1938 he had been elected governor of min

harold varmus: i see at least two major issues in the usage of genetic information. one will be to develop the rules for risk assessment so we can tell individuals, here are the diseases for which you at a highest risk based on your genetic profile. the reason that's important is that that will be an inspiration to behavioral modification whh is currently difficult to achieve. now ha in hand with the challenge of using genetic infoation comes a societal challenge for all of us. and that is to insure that we protect people's privacy, and that we protect them against the discrimination that may, that's likely to occur during their-- their efforts to obtain insurance and to obtain employment. even at a personal level, how many people really want to know what the future has in store? that's devastating news to get. it's a death sentence to get a positive result. i, myself, would not want to go through testing at this time because there's nothing that i would do differently with my life. if you get a positive diagnosis then suddenly it can become a focus. and if you sudde