howard green says one northerners are willing to fight back and southerners stop challenging is that like facing up to a bully? we also have a question about whether any members of congress are trying to reach across the aisle from this time, and a question about in the prewar area, was slavery a unspoken catalyst? do any of those strike you as provocative? >> oh sure. the first question about the northerners and the southerners. i would say the southerners don't stop fighting. they are just sort of thrown off of their feet in a sense because the northerners have been keeping in all along, suddenly there are northerners who are fighting back. now the word bully asking the question is on target because that is the work that people use at the time for the people who were provoking these fights. and billy brooks. he attacks charles. that was his nickname. that is a word apply to people throughout this period so there was a sense that the people before the second half of the 18 fifties that the southerners we're picking up people who could be bullied because they cannot fight back in the

to you, howard green says that when the northerners are willing to step back and stop bullying, and we also have a question about whether any members of congress will try to reach across the aisle at this time and a question about whether in the pre-war era if it was slavery and unspoken catalyst, and respond to any of those that strike you as provocative? >> oh, sure. well, the first question about the northerners and the southerners and i would say that the southerners don't stop fighting, but they are just sort of thrown off of their feet, because the northerners who have been caving in, and certainly northerners who are fighting back, and the word bully that is asked in the question is right on target, because that is the word that people used at the time for the people who were provoking the fights, and bully brooks, and preston brooks who attacks charles sumner, and that is his nickname and a word applied to the people throughout this period, and so there was a sense that these people before the second half of the 1850s that the southerners were picking on people who could not be

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it is professional and that green bedford of howard university. thank you and for joining us this morning. doug brinkley to start with you this morning, the discussion by explaining the criteria that we use here. how do we compare the men, they are all men at this point who held the office of the presidency over 230 years more than two or 30 years. how do you decide to make that comparison? >> c-span is put together a group of all of us on the air today, our advisors to it. how we rank in the presidents. we want to people to realize it's not a scientific ranking. it is to be fun and enlightening to stoke a conversation around the nation about various presidents, and what what briley did or do it's not just one ranking your breaking them up into categories. president will be judged on foreign policymaking or on race relations. or on the environment for public persuasion, on media relations, you get the idea. it's broken up into numerous categories. the newborn one -- ten scale and all those categories. at the end we add them up and there is the lis

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