i would be delighted representative kildee's bill pastore mine. he's a wonderful partner, a great friend and believe congress. as we leave a lot of things happening in the house of representatives. in the senate, and i don't pretend to think of for the authoritatively to that. we have chairman akaka and senator barrasso his ranking member but we don't have better advocates, and they worked hard to focus attention in the senate. they worked hard on economic development issues and begin to educate their colleagues on a bipartisan basis and areas of which we can move together. so we have a strong bicameral as well as bipartisan partnership native american affairs. i would be remiss not to mention the administration as well. first the personnel many of whom are here and the director here but also secretary cells are. they've shown continuous and sustained interest and commitment that the movement of important legislation and administrative decisions and in the in countries to the iraq jolie talking about this. the administration has put in place advis

i would be delighted if representative kildee's bill passed her mind.s a wonderful partner and a wonderful friend. we have had a lot of things happen in the house of representatives. in the senate and i don't want to speak authoritatively toward that. we have a senator barrasso as ranking member but we don't have to have to better advocates and they worked hard to focus attention on the senate. they worked hard on economic development issues to begin to educate their colleagues on a bipartisan bases in the areas of which we can move together. so we have a strong bicameral as well as bipartisan partnership in native american affairs. i would be remiss not to have mentioned the administration as well. first the personnel, many of whom are here. secretary bach and director roubideaux here but also secretary salazar. they have shown continuous sustained interest and commitment in the movement of important legislation, important administrative decisions and indian countries. we were actually talking about this. at the administration has put in place advisers

we met at kildee and at manchester vermont the home of the last home of robert todd lincoln, brian nigh to the historian is here with us which is a strange place to me since it was robert todd lincoln who is responsible for for the short term confinement of mary lincoln at bellevue and the story goes on that jason had told harold holzer and by about these long lost letters we encouraged him to write about them we recommended to sylvia frank rodriguez and editor at southern illinois university press as we did his forthcoming book on robert todd lincoln and the southern illinois university press credit they published the madness of mary lincoln which we hope all of you will see. so we are very pleased to welcome you, jason, has a first presenter from first time presenter here we expect so much more from new and we will see it, too. welcome, jason emmerson. [applause] >> thank you, frank and her role as well it is a pleasure to be here. in august of 1875 after having lived at bellevue sanitarium for more than two months by their son robert declared insane by a chicago jury mary lincoln roa

we going to differentiate ourselves on the major issues of the day if we nominate twiddle dumb and kildeedle dum and twee dle dee? [applause] south carolina can speak loudly that we want clear and bold contrast. the last time we were disrespect around the world and the last time we knew we had a president that was over his head. south carolina was told by the pundits and the media, we just need to win. pick someone who is more moderate who can win. south carolina said know. we are going to pick the conviction conservative. we are going to pick someone who represent our values, someone who has the energy and enthusiasm and the vision to do what america needs to put america back on the right track. they took a leap of faith in this ultra-conservative, this man who was old and out of touch he was so conservative and was a throwback named ronald reagan. [applause] i remind you all that when you took that chance in south carolina for ronald reagan, he was not the runaway -- ronald reagan we know and admire. he became that reagan because south carolina believe we needed someone like a reagan. [

we met at kildee and at manchester vermont the home of the last home of robert todd lincoln, brian nighich is a strange place to me since it was robert todd lincoln who is responsible for for the short term confinement of mary lincoln at bellevue and the story goes on that jason had told harold holzer and by about these long lost letters we encouraged him to write about them we recommended to sylvia frank rodriguez and editor at southern illinois university press as we did his forthcoming book on robert todd lincoln and the southern illinois university press credit they published the madness of mary lincoln which we hope all of you will see. so we are very pleased to welcome you, jason, has a first presenter from first time presenter here we expect so much more from new and we will see it, too. welcome, jason emmerson. [applause] >> thank you, frank and her role as well it is a pleasure to be here. in august of 1875 after having lived at bellevue sanitarium for more than two months by their son robert declared insane by a chicago jury mary lincoln road to her friend it does not appear g

we going to differentiate ourselves on the major issues of the day if we nominate twiddle dumb and kildee -- tweedle dum and tweedle dee? [applause] south carolina can speak loudly that we want clear and bold contrast. the last time we were disrespect around the world and the last time we knew we had a president that was over his head. south carolina was told by the pundits and the media, we just need to win. pick someone who is more moderate who can win. south carolina said know. we are going to pick the conviction conservative. we are going to pick someone who represent our values, someone who has the energy and enthusiasm and the vision to do what america needs to put america back on the right track. they took a leap of faith in this ultra-conservative, this man who was old and out of touch he was so conservative and was a throwback named ronald reagan. [applause] i remind you all that when you took that chance in south carolina for ronald reagan, he was not the runaway -- ronald reagan we know and admire. he became that reagan because south carolina believe we needed someone like a re