well, the president who had aim possible position -- it was once said of lincoln and douglas that lincoln was the best lawyer in illinois with a good case and douglas was the best lawyer in illinois with a bad case. i'm beginning to think president obama is in the douglas tradition. the president whose a remarkably wonderful other tore said we are here in a deeply meaningful moment in which we are going to in a meaningful way engage in discussing a problem so complex and difficult that only myself can present it to you in a way that you will fully appreciate the meaningfulness of this moment that we have here together. an average american said "got it. he doesn't understand what's going on." and they're currently losing this debate by about 3-to-1 and it will get worse if they stick to it. because it is none. [cheers and applause] -- because it is nonsense come. >> but we need to build on the lesson of this debate. it's not about guantanemo. it's about the nature of reality. the lesson of terrorism is that we have to control our borders. the lesson of terrorism is that we must have a syst

lincoln.reagan in one of his radio talks in the 1970's, part of which we have in our movie, said the following: "some of our social planners refer to them as the masses, which only proves they don't know them. i've been privileged to meet people all over this land, in a special kind of way you meet them when you are campaigning. they are not the masses or as the elitists would have it, the common man, they are very uncommon. individuals, each with his or her own hopes and dreams, plans and problems, and the kind of quiet courage that makes this whole country run better than just about any other place on earth. and that's why rationing is wrong, and that's why question as are wrong. because in fact they eliminate the very power of the individual -- question as are wrong. this -- quotas are wrong. >> this lead us to some profound commitments. having judges that understand that america that has driven god from the public square will no longer be the america that has extended freedom and prosperit

later, working backwards from lincoln, he came to see that lincoln never said that. lincoln was right in what he said. an abstract truth to all men in all times to be a stumbling block. to the harbingers of reappearing tyranny. lincoln said that and it is a paraphrase of what he said. it is close. we thought, read this stuff. the united states of america had a beautiful beginning, and is being forgotten. so we had the idea that we would start a think tank. what do we know about anything? we did that, and we would teach people and remind people, including in the context of policy disputes, about the meaning and tradition of america. that has been going on for a long time now. who funds it? a lot of people. the bradley foundation, that davis prize last night is a founder of it. the john olin foundation, which is dissolved now, was a big funder of it. henry salvatore, the man who got ronald reagan into politics was a big funder. a lot of people. there are thousands of people who give support. >> i want to run an old recruitment video. it is not great video but it will m

so this morning dot is walking on the top of lincoln's head and i say oh my god, it's lincoln and he has some kind of an orange like a zit on him or something, so at that point i guess i kind of channeled my inner new yorker. i said i am not going to wait another 24 hours to wait another day to get this mt. rushmore shot. not too much tourists were around. so i said, please get off abraham lincoln's head, i'm taking a picture. so at that point, the park ranger heard what i was sailing, he was very upset, he walked up to me and he said, cause me, sir, -- excuse me, sir, that's not going to happen any time soon. that is the superintendent of the national parks, he's in charge of every park west of the mississippi river. what can you do? i waited for mr. orange t-shirt to get off. ultimately he stepped around, he was out of shot, out of sight and in an eighth of a second, i had the shot. i'll always remember that superintendent and i'm sure he'll remember me too. other shots that i take are ordinary, and i would say that's, i specialize in photographing ordinary america on an ordinary d

lincoln suspended habeas corpus.rrested over 13,000 americans simply for speaking out in favor of the confederacy's right to secede. and suspended habeas corpus nationwide, used his powers as commander in chief to do all sorts of things that caused outrage during the war and nobody questioned it. so i'll be reading -- i always have a particular interest in constitutional history and the war between the states so i'll -- i'm finishing up this book. i highly recommend james mcpherson to anyone. i always keep several books going at the same time. a whole second area that i work on continuously are diaries of texans during the war between the states and in particular i found this one. i can't recommend this one highly enough. it's hard to find but it's -- it is a soldiers letter to charming nellie and he's a wonderful writer. he does a great job of writing in technicolor. wonderful personal anecdotes of texans in the war. you can see on the cover the lone star which is a great deal to me. i am a passionate jefferson/libe

very important point about american history, which was dramaized in the civil war where of course lincoln embraces jefferson and the confederacy specifically repudiates him, and so the issue -- this is the vice president of the confederacy. gives a speech where he says the founders were wrong because their cornerstone was human equality but we know men are not equal. they're unequal. some men are fit to be slaves and our cornerstone would be human inequality. and it does not get clearer than that. and bill always loved a good argument well made, and harry certainly did that, and i think that was part of the process of bill changing his views on that issue. yes, sir. >> as one of the 20 people who wrote to you when you were in high school in rochester in 1970, i thought i would ask a youth-oriented question. i could picture a bill buckley graduating from yale this month, writing an updated version of god and yale buttite knock sure if he would have founded the national review. would he have used the other media or founded the national review. >> well, that's an excellent question, and it's

president bush, just as abraham lincoln did, took his role as commander-in-chief very seriously, and use the very broad grant of authority given to the president by the constitution to interrogate these killers and find out what they're up to and save lives particularly in los angeles. there would have in thousands of deaths in downtown los angeles but for the interrogation of those terrorists. lincoln suspended habeas corpus, 13,000 americans simply for speaking out in favor of the confederacy's right to succeed, suspended habeas corpus nationwide, use his powers as commander-in-chief to do all sorts of things that caused outrage during the war and nobody questioned the. i always have a particular interest in constitutional history and the war between the states. i am finishing this book, i highly recommend james mcpherson to anyone. i always keep several books going at the same time. a whole secondary i work on continuously are diaries of texans during the war between the states. in particular i found this one. i can't recommend this one highly enough, it is hard to find, but it is

lincoln pleasant an abolitionist. the aladdin visiones one of satisfied for lincoln. for many years they considered lincoln an enemy and lo and behold, including frederick douglass but years later he says he was a hero and he was a great man and greater demands peter even though he didn't do everything he wanted. his american politics and reality of american politics and he was a great man who brought the nation forward. it's the same thing. truman wasn't a zionist and he reacted viscerally against militant pressure because he was tremendously pressured from the other side. and there was relentless day in and day out. i mean, the reason jacobsen was so important, the only -- if you look at the difference between the way that rabbi silver would talk to truman and address him and the way that weizmann would address truman in the letters he treated him with respect and admiration as a fellow leader who wanted justice for the jewish people in the world where silver would say you're selling a house out, you are a bastard, don't you know what's right? and he would seek weiz

they were not satisfied with lincoln. for many years they considered lincoln an enemy.nd lo and behold including frederick douglass but years later frederick douglass said lincoln was a hero and he was a great man and a great emancipator even though he didn't do everything we wanted, his american politics and his reality of american politics and he was a great man who brought the nation forward. well, it's the same thing here. truman was not a zionist and he reacted zealously and it was relentless day in and day out. the reason why jacobson was so important -- if you look at the difference between the way rabbi silver would talk to truman or address him and the way hiram weitzman, he treated him with respect and admiration as a fellow leader who wanted justice for the jewish people in the world. where silver would say, you're selling us out. you're a bastard. don't you know what's right? and he would see weitzman, he gave a direct order. do not let silver and those people in the white house. >> there was a famous incident where he shook his finger at truman's face and h

host: this is the bicentennial of abraham lincoln's birth. they just rededicated the monument this past weekend. guest: the president of tuskegee university spoke. i have been a member of the board of trustees there for a long time. they spoke with the memorial was first opened. host: how do you think abraham lincoln would you the civil- rights condition in the country today? guest: i would love to talk about what people would do today. i'm often asked to do that about martin luther king, for example. i think abraham lincoln based on everything we know about him, he was a wise man. he was pragmatic. he had a human touch. i think he would look at obama as president. he would look at the great progress we have made with sotomayor nominated for the supreme court. i think he would say that we are on the verge of a new birth of freedom. host: the firefighters of new haven say their civil rights were violated. what is your view of how this played out? guest: one point i would make is that everyone should remember that no one got promoted. that is t

whenever you looked it was lying in watts and what lincoln had to say and what roosevelt had to sea and what you read about the churches in the 19-inch century that produced the most important educational programs for the people through the long miserable years of jim crow but there was lying richly in american tradition a sense of not having to apologize for decent government. and there's no guarantee we're going to get it, but at least the young, my children's generation of poking heir head -- their heads before the public service. my daughter's husband, one of many -- i told the story of a man who gave up corporate law to go into the office of management and budget in the government, which is either the worst job in the world or the best job in the worked but in the case have a sense of doing something again for the country, many, maybe millions of americans felt i think every 9/11 that there was a real opportunity for the president to actually stir and mobilize the altruism which we have seen it install any church bake sale or pta, out there with an extraordinarily tough, impast pas

he was very careful and very considerate even as he was trying to move the country, but abraham lincoln had the overriding mission to save the mission and keep the country from dissolving. >> that is impossible to do without engaging the public opinion. >> host: i am asking the unanswerable question which is polls are nothing more than a tool. like a hammer you can use it to build a house or split somebody's head open. the way their use makes them good or bad. >> guest: absolutely right. if the leader, ehud barak, he begins a process it is essential for israel's security that israel and achieve a peace with palestinians, neighboring countries, lebanon, syria, he was to achieve this in a fairly short period of time because he thinks it can only happen when clinton is there and before arafat would become too ill to do it. he wanted to move he thought it was critical for israel's security. two-thirds of the country were against or opposed to any agreement that divided jerusalem. over a two month period, the educated the public, open and a debates over the final summons that ended the confl

and it reminds me lincoln never belong to the abolitionist party. fdr was not part of the labor movement and johnson was not part of the movement but they did extraordinary things because the something else existed in the room, it is us. here is a president that understands this. why don't we leave immediately and go get busy? [laughter] >> host: bill ayers the co-author of this book "race course" against white supremacy" his most recent book. >> caller: hi. i am regarding martin luther king how can you go with a piece of paper and a pen when all of the money goes to the rich people? we are very highly educated and you were illegally evicted out of your place. i am getting evicted right now. i left my husband and the government took away all of my money and all of my medical. martin luther king. i have the police trying to shoot me then. i am doing everything possible we're good people the reason why the white supremacist are afraid because we do all the work and they take all the money. you could not use those with a black man open-heart surgery an

remember what happened when abraham lincoln was assassinated? we established a military tribunal here in the district of columbia that actually tried those individuals and they were executed. that was a military tribunal. for what? murdering a president of the united states. in time of war. now what we are saying is, those rights were not sufficient. if that were to happen today, suddenly we say we have to do it now within the context of the full pana pli of constitutional rights, and we are directing that voluntaryly saying we are going to close down guantanamo. if anybody has looked at the prisons and jail system across the united states and compared it with guantanamo, it is of the highest standard of any of our incarceration units there is. guantanamo happens to be a place that is not sovereign american territory, that's the important distinction. i thank the gentleman for his time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from california. mr. lewis: it's my intention to yield to mr. frelinghuysen. i'd like to

the other thing you make me think quickly, is that you mentioned lincoln and our great leaders. the ones i think a lot about with the election of a new president and the new administration is the fact that often -- the interesting thing about this new president, and a lot said about the first african-american president, which is unbelievably fantastic, i still find i've surreal every morning and wake up and wonder did it really happen and a generational shift, get the old people out of here, including me, and let some young people, but most important, here's a community organizer, here's a guy -- and you can't think of a president american history who would be comfortable knocking on the doctor of a public housing project on the south side and having a conversation. this person did that for years. more importantly, when he was asked who would martin martin lr king would support, he wouldn't support any of us. he would be building a move for justice and that put as press on us because it's one thing so say what should the obama administration to do. it's another thing to say what

abraham lincoln took what he called, you know, opinion baths.e asked people to come to his people to the white house and he said it was the most valuable time i spent 'cause he wanted to try to hold the union together and to do that he had to -- he had to be apathetic. he had to understand the south and the border states and he had to keep -- you know, the union to understand slave-holding parts of the country. he moved with great care in the emancipation proclamation. he was very careful and contract with public opinion even as he was trying to move the country. the fact is abraham lincoln had an overriding mission. which was to save the union. keep the country from, you know, dissolving. this special exceptional country. >> host: it's impossible to do that without engaging public opinion. >> guest: correct. >> host: i guess i'm asking you an unanswerable question. which is polls are nothing more than a tool. i mean, just like a hammer you can use a hammer to build a house or you can use a hammer to split somebody's head up so the way the polls

and it reminds me that lincoln never belong today an abolitionist party. and, you know, fdr wasn't part of the labor movement, and president johnson wasn't part of the black freedom movement. but they did stroornt things when extraordinary things were demanded because of something else, and the something else exists in this room, exists in this television audience. it's us. and i think here's a president who understands that. so why don't we all leave immediately and go get busy? no, i'm just kidding. [laughter] >> host: bill ayers is the co-author of this book, "race course against white supremacy" along with bear bernardine dohr. >> caller: hi, i'm calling in regards to martin luther king in oakland. i've been back in that class last month, how can you go over this when you just have a piece of paper and a pen? all the money goes to the rich people in oakland. now, we are very highly educated, and you were illegally ripped out of your place. if you go to help people around here like i did, i'm getting evicted right now. i left my husband, government took

you study abraham lincoln, every newspaper in america was partisan. if you were a democrat, you subscribed to your democratic newspaper and if you're a republican, you subscribed to republican newspaper. the best way to capture the lincoln-douglas debates was to take the two sets of newspapers and bring them together as cspan did and you found that each side cover the other in very interesting ways. we are moving back to that. i expect msnbc to be a rapidly left-wing channel. i am sure that james expects fox to be very right wing. >> in most countries, it is a labor paper and a tory paper. it is this or that that may be fine. we also know for a fact that this whole industry is changing by the day. the chicago drop-in, "the los angeles times, "the new york times, is not like it is the same period the speaker made a point that when you were our age, you can go -- right now co. the big change i see -- >> none of them think they will be our age. . i am from nebraska. what do you guys think is the biggest lesson you can take away from the academy? >> chall

lincoln diaz-balart of florida. modification to amendment number 6 printed in house report 111-127 offered by mr. lincoln diaz-balart of florida. the amendment as modified is as follows. in section 237 of the bill insert, a, process, before section 1604-b-2. insert at the end the following, b, reimbursements of airports for eligible cost reimbursement at less than 90%. of the secretary or assistant secretary reimbursed after all 3, 2007, an airport that incurred an amount for eligible cost under section 44923 of title 49, united states code, that was less than 90% of such cost, the secretary or assistant secretary shall reimburse such airport under such section in an amount equal to such eligible cost. the chair: is there objection to modify the amendment? without objection, the amendment is modified. pursuant to house resolution 474, the gentleman from florida, mr. diaz-balart, and a member opposed, each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from florida. mr. diaz-balart: thank you, mr. chai

i've been working with senator blanch lincoln of arkansas, senator snowe of maine, senator klobuchar of minnesota, to come up with a plan so that the small business owners will be able to afford health insurance. and i'm happy to say that at least at this moment in time there's an indication the finance committee is considering our bill as part of their overall work product. just as important as keeping your health plan, if you like it, if you're a small business owner, you find your health premiums have increased 200% because you have one sick employee or one sick baby born to one of the families of your employees, we want to make sure you're no longer subject to those unfair practices of raising premiums for that kind of situation. in today's system at the end of the contract small businesses are really at the mercy of insurance companies who are in it for profit. earlier this week, i talked about a small business man in springfield, my hometown, who in the span of just a few years have seen his insurance premiums increase by 500% though he's never turned in a claim. he's been forc

burris, durbin, murray, tester, udall of colorado, klobuchar, reed of rhode island, baucus, merkley, lincoln, cantwell, dorgan. mr. reid: i ask that the mandatory quorum be waived. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. mr. reid: i ask the senate resume legislative session. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: i ask now that we proceed to a period of monk business, senators allowed to speak -- of morning business, senators allowed to speak therein for up to ten minutes each. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. reid: madam president, let me just say a brief word on the cloture that was not invoked on the travel bill. i hope that everyone understands what obstructionism is. this is obstructionism at its best, and it goes along with what the republicans said they wanted to do and that is stop everything. as indicated in "roll call" newspaper last week. this is a bill that saves the government money, almost a half a billion dollars over ten years. it would create in the first year of the -- after passage of the bill 40,000 jobs. the republicans jus

if you study abraham lincoln, every newspaper in america was partisan. if you were a republican, you subscribe to the republican newspaper, and vice versa. the best way to capture the lincoln-douglas debates was to take the two sets of newspapers and bring them together as c- span did. he founded side cover the other in very interesting ways. we're moving back to that. i am expecting msn b.c. to be a rapidly left-wing channel. i'm sure james expects fox to be a left-wing channel. >> in most countries, it is the -- it is a different paper. that may be fine. this whole industry is changing by the day. the chicago tribune, the loss angeles times, the new york times was marketing its building. i think the speaker makes a point. when you are our age, -- right now, the big change i see -- >> none of them think they're going to be our age. [laughter] >> you can go and never read a conservative thing. you can spend your entire life -- so many people use information the way that a drunk uses the lamppost. the use it for support and not elimination. people want va

but abraham lincoln has the best idea to have a public bank their prints money debt-free. we do not need to issue bonds to private bank and have them give us money. we need to print our own money. guest: there are few. there were taking up. one, the fed is a very difficult institution for people to understand. it was created in 1913. it is a mix of public and private interests. we have the federal reserve board in washington with governors who are appointed by the president and confirmed by the senate. then you have 12 regional federal reserve banks around the country with boards that represent the private sector whose elect their own presidents. the president's then have to be approved by the federal reserve board in washington me know there is an odd mix you do not see in other areas of government between public and private interests. ben bernanke is a scholar of the great depression. he is a former princeton university professor. his guiding du in managing this crisis has been driven -- his guiding view has been driven by reading history. he has thrown some much money a

douglass made a fuss and the congressman saw him and went over and prevailed upon the guards and lincoln, by the way, to let him in. with sojourner and the officer, he said if she can't go in, i can't go in. and so he turned on his heels with her and left. so it was racism because apparently the rule was that no people of color were ever to be allowed at washington receptions. so dougass got in because he was confrontational and there was someone in the inauguration reception and saw him and recognized him and prevailed upon lincoln. >> was her first language dutch? >> yes. >> she had a belief to celebrate a particular day of the week as a holy day was, quite frankly, nonsense. that everyday ought to be a holy day. and that there was no reason to have sunday, a day in which people would set aside. and it's a long story about this. but that's basically how it began. >> please come to the microphone. >> i just wondered as scholars how important the region addition to the chicago public defender papers going over to the chicago public library will be in your research? duknow about that? >>

in the gettysburg statement -- address, lincoln said the following. the government of the people, for the people, by the people shall always prevail. this is what we say. this is what the citizen of the 21st century say. is what the citizens of all countries of the world say, what you have said. [applause] >> delegations are kindly requested to remain seated. [applause] [applause] >> we will show you today's briefing with the general rate or dionne now -- ray odierno. we will have that press conference for you at 8:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span. >> how is c-span funded? >> publicly funded. >> donations? i have no idea. >> government? >> it gets funding through taxes. >> a public funding thing. >> i do not know. >> 30 years ago, america's cable companies greeted c-span as a public service. a private business initiatives. no government mandate. no government money. >> now an event with navy operations chief at role gary roughhead. his remarks last an hour. this is hosted by ogilvy public relations in washington. [applause] >> thanks. it is a pleasure t

read for everybody, doris kearns good win's book, i team of rives, the great story of how abraham lincoln not only bested his rivals but had the intestinal fortitude to bring all of them into his cabinet, each of whom thought he was smarter than lincoln and each of whom thought he should be in that swivel chair and not abraham link son and it is a great story and really illuminates a lot about american history. and another book i read this last year or so, is a book, i read a number of military histories, david halberstam's book, the coldest winter, a wonderful story, published posthumously by a great writer on the korean war. not a lot of single volumes on that period of american history and really well, well done. and rick atkinson is working on a trilogy and published the first two books on the second world war, and specifically, the first volume on the american involvement in north africa and this second on the italian campaign, which was a bloody, bloody affair and doesn't get a lot of attention in at thises and obviously deserves a lot more. and rick atkinson, a journalist with the

relationship with many white women reformers and writing about sojourner's audience with abraham lincoln, who some writers consider racist for autograph graphicing her book to auntie, i accept her word that lincoln treated her kindly and i discuss the complexity of the term "auntie" itself but racism wasn't played when sojourner truth was prevented from attending an open white house inaugural reception while frederick douglass was admitted. my treatment over the troubling guide of the 15th amendment does not place sojourner on the side of elizabeth cady stanton and susan b. anthony as other writers do. while sojourner's greatest personal triumph was probably winning the hearts of her own people, her activism was broader than that. and her sacred ethos had large, secular aims of human progress. religion without humanity, she said, is a poor human stuff. thank you. [applause] >> we are next going to hear from the two authors of "black maverick" the biography of trm howard and his fight for civil rights. and the first of those two authors professor linda beito. [applause] >> one benefit o

abraham lincoln made himself one of them, of course. and of course you know, you say the power, not just the sort of all mental beauty of fine speaking, but the ability to actually speak persuasive as a speaker was something perceived to be absolutely sort of discounted in the world of campaign spin and take them betook character assassination. but obama sort of delivered at. i mean, the greatest speech of all was march 18. that still remains one of the great speeches that has ever been composed in the history of american politics. and i thought that morning we were filming in monticello, actually when he made that speech. when i heard it i thought he's going down in flames, you know. it's hillary's -- hillary will be the nominee because this was an act of most extraordinarily dead on frontal candor explaining to america the roots of black rage in the church forms they took, as well as a duty to white rage. in fact, america took. it was a credit to the sophistication of the electorate really. its willingness to face something fresh, to

whom thought he was smarter and each of whom thought he should be in that swivel chair, not abraham lincoln it's a great story and it really illuminates a lot on american history. another book i read in the last year or so, i've read a number of military histories. the coldest winter, which is a wonderful story published posthumously by a great writer on the korean war. not a lot of single volumes on that period of american history and really well, well done. rick atkinson has published the first of two books on the second world war, and specifically the first log is on the american involvement in north africa and the second is on the italian campaign which was a bloody, bloody affair. and doesn't get a lot of attention in history, and obviously deserves a lot more. just a luminescent writer. a wonderful, wonderful piece of history and a great, great writing. but a book i would recommend for people who want to understand what went wrong in iraq, is a book called the asko. he has since written another one which i haven't read yet. but fiasco is a great book in terms of peeling away what happ

i say with a heavy heart as a student of american history that reparations were paid as lincoln said, in the lives of 600,000 americans who fell on both sides in the civil war. lincoln's stirring words, that if the horrors of war had to continue until every drop of blood drawn by the slave master's lash is matched by one drawn in battle. may well have been precisely true in terms of the justice that was served in the civil war. but, you know, i understand the great sensitivity of many in the african american community about that time. but i also -- i have great confidence that african americans, like all americans, looking no further than the oval office of the united states of america, looking at the opportunities that have been provided to african americans on a widening basis over the last 50 years in this country, would see the wisdom of moving on from dwelling on those moments in the past. and i think that discussions of reparations are apologies that don't acknowledge the extraordinary sacrifice that was made by americans to end slavery is not productive. should the government a

associate with a lincoln republican. the tension continues to shrink, and we need to be more tolerant -- the 1tent continues to shrink, and we need to be more tolerant. we have our reach, but we want to sustain it. if you wanted to categorize me, i am number 1 a ridge republican. that means a lot to me. i like to be associated as jack kemp did. i learned many lessons from jack kemp in terms of reaching out to minorities, doing whatever we need to do in this country to increase the quality of life in the opportunity for employment, education, regardless of race, color, or creed. host: this coming from one viewer who send in this tweet. this person seems to be most logical republican. how does he get along with his party members? guest: very well. i mentioned in the book that my colleagues on both sides of the aisle, i know i testified up there and much of the testimony was very challenging because republicans and democrats have different points of view with regard to some initiatives we undertook in the department of hom

there's one that i've read recently i really liked a lot called lincoln's sword.t's not about his military prowess or fighting the civil war. it's about his use of words, which they called his sword and it's really well done. he was an extraordinary writer and speaker and this is about how he honed those skills. >> to see more summer reading lists and other program information, visit our website at booktv.org. ♪ >> elizabeth brackett correspondent talks about her biography of former illinois governor rod blagojevich. this is part of the printers row litfest. it's about 45 minutes.

i started realizing that between the civil war, the emancipation proclamation of lincoln and world war i with woodrow wilson, roosevelt using the white house to promote conservation and nature and what he called the strenuous life to save birds, his involvement with the audubon society and the eventual creation of u.s. fish and wild life and our national monuments, it's changed machine. in this summer anyone opens up an atlas, there is america and you see that green. you're looking at roosevelt reserves, roosevelt monuments. he put aside almost 240 million acres of wild america. now as people are talking about environmentism and green movements, roosevelt is becoming the key figure to understand because he was the only politician of his day who had absorbed darwin and who had understood biology and understood birds' migratory patterns and understood mating habits of dear and elk and antelope and actually did something. he is the president who in his young days shot a buffalo and he is the president who created wichita mountains in oklahoma reserve for buffalo and one up in montana. >>

this is a longshot, but i am reading about the story of lincoln darwin and modern life. and that's my lead-in. that i carry my books about lincoln and my books about fdr which i take with each trip and i get to be. i will do it this summer. >> to see more summer reading list and other program information, visit our website at booktv.org. >> business week legal affairs editor linda himelstein discusses her book the king of vodka and the life of pyotr smirnov, the creator of smirnov vodka. she talks about spinouts rise amid lower class families to be one of the wealthiest businessmen in russia. kepler's books in menlo park, california, host the event. >> i'm just thrilled to be here. i love this bookstore. it is such a wonderful institution. so, the king of vodka, i get asked more than anything else why i wrote this book. and it's actually a really good question particularly for people who know me will. the research that was required for this book was absolutely immense. and it was mostly in banking, early century russian archives in russia. i live here and i don't speak a

the abraham lincoln museum is a project i thought about 18 years ago understand is today is a reality. this abraham presidential library and human draws over a half million tourists to springfield, many of them families of children who leave with an enjoyable visit. southern illinois draws visitors to its garden of the gods. it is the gateway to the shawnee national forest. summer visits to quincy, illinois, feature historic architecture and a lot of enjoyment along the mighty mississippi river. we have our unusual tourist attractions in illinois. near my old hometown of east st. louis, you can see the world's largest ketchup bottle or the two-story outhouse in gaze, illinois, or the home of superman, including a 15-foot superman statue and a six-foot popeye statue in chester, illinois. a lot of photographs have been taken in front of them. every state has these historic, amazing places to visit and those curiosities that draw people from all over the united states and all over the world. illinois offers the international visitor a truly american experience. in fact, in illinois, tour

then i started thinking the woman who made the clothes, the great-grandmother who sought abraham lincoln at gettysburg, raised turkeys and it was her talk is a cause me to get on my feet in 1940. i got up my hands and knees when i saw these turkeys on and on and made a staggering steps that we all do when we learn to walk going after turkeys and if you have a copy of a photograph of my published map of that moment and i thought of case we have got quilt patterns, we have got quoz, and then reading another book won by john hanson mitchell called abilene walking across vermont, a good book, he talks about the spanish concept panacea. it means several things, i think initially it was used by the old people in texas to describe a place where a longhorn is mormon. the longhorn has a special affinity for that spot where it was born. and then i learned that apparently is used in bullfighting in mexico and spain. analysts correct in my version in portland, the currency of the bowl is a place that imagines in the ring that is its bought and wants to keep the matador and out of that spot and the m

this story pointing out a quote from senator blanche lincoln, a democrat from arkansas, who said tarp was never meant to be permanent but an emergency initiatives it designed to stabilize the financial markets and bring greater confidence to investors and business. senator lincoln saying it is only appropriate that program to be phased out as expeditiously as possible. the first paragraph pointing out the detail that the bipartisan trio of senators say they will introduce legislation to make sure that wall street bailout money repaid to the federal government cannot be recycled to keep the program continue perpetually. next, on the phone from illinois. good morning. democrats line. caller: thank you appeared here in eleanor, unemployment is up to 10.1%, and i disagree with one of the callers that the people who are unemployed are not qualified or not looking for a job. i hold a master's degree in computer science and i have a very hard time finding -- so i simply don't agree with people who are saying that. people who are out of work are not not qualified. and i think barack obama sho

lincoln: thank you. i want to applaud my colleague from pennsylvania, talking about the jump-start bill, but, more importantly, not just our dreams but the things that are actively happening in our states, the great things, whether it is highway projects or for us in arkansas, the new market tax credits have been a -- we look at the s r s.b.a.-7-a loan, which has been tremendous for small businesses, education alone, i met with principals and administrators just last week when i was home talking about the opportunities for education and the infusion of resources coming from the recovery act along with water projects and broadband. the senator from pennsylvania did an excellent job in -- in mention those and, most importantly, focusing on the fact that this is what is going to help us get our country back on track, get our economy back on track and get working americans back to work or keep them in the jobs that they're clinging to. i appreciate him coming to the floor and mentioning some of that. all of

i hope that congressman spillard -- lincoln or mario -- lincoln, will encourage many republicans to join him in his enthusiasm for immigration reform. >> -- to be debated on the floor? >> sorry? >> how committed are you? >> absolutely. this to me is who we are as a country. immigration has been the constant reinvigoration of america. every person who comes here with their aspirations for a better future for their family, that commitment of making the future better for the next generation is a very american idea. so all of them who come with their enthusiasm for the future make america more american. i'm very excited about that. >> how would you compare the effort you and the leadership team have had to go through on this big energy bill and probably the bigger healthcare bill? and the difficulty and the outside mobilization and the opposition you've encountered? >> how would i compare the two? >> yes. >> well, the legislative process is a very dynamic one. and it's what we came here to do. and it's frankly what we enjoy. it is listening to people to hear what their concerns are. everyone

there's one that i've read recently i really liked a lot called lincoln's sword. not about his military prowess or fighting the civil war it's about his use of words which they called his sword and it's really well done. he was an extraordinary writer and speaker and this is about how he honed those skills. >> to see more summer reading lists and other program information visit our website at booktv.org. >> joel rosenberg presents his latest book "inside the revolution." he takes a look at the people and groups who are competing for power in the middle east. this event hosted by the 2009 epicenter conference in san diego lasts about an hour. [applause] >> thank you very much. that is the first excerpt that we've shown in the united states of the film "inside the revolution" that we will be releasing on september 11, 2009 be to try to take people inside the most moral, try to understand the dynamic that is going on because we are at the most dangerous moment in the history of the islamic revolution. and it's been an extraordinary week as well. i mean, in the big gr

president lincoln replaced a general, general immediate and finally ended up -- general meade and finally ended up with a name by the name of grant. one was replaced by bernard montgomery in the great battle came to pass. let's give general mcchrystal the opportunity. further, let me add, mr. clarme, this amendment is intended -- mr. chairman, this amendment is intended to make the administration lay out its strategy. but we already have the administration to lay out their goals, their timelines and conduct regular assessments. that's the way that general mcchrystal should be judged. let's do that. i do oppose this amendment very respectfully. i yield back. the chair: the gentleman's time has expired. the chair will note that the gentleman from massachusetts has 1 3/4 remaining. and the gentleman from california has 3 twaurts minutes remaining. mr. mcgovern: i'll let the gentleman proceed. mr. mckeon: mr. speaker, i'm happy to yield at this time to a young man who joined the marine core the day after 9/11, served two tours in iraq and one in afghanistan, the gentleman from california, who

i hear there is a new biography of lincoln out that i think would make good reading. a couple of summers ago, i thought i needed to learn a little bit about my predecessors and to first learn who they are. of all the efforts to probe for possible witnesses, one of them asked me to name the prior 16 chief justices. i am not sure that i could have. but i like to -- there were not many biographies on my predecessors, but i do try to go through them. a combination of detective novels and historical biographies. >> when we talk about people's favorite books, it is interesting to me because nobody says that they just love judicial biographees. >> as an exception to that, oliver wendell holmes had to be wounded three times in the civil war before people got interested in him. i certainly want to thank you mr. chief justice. >> we have time for one more. if you have gone up or, you might as will get your question. >> the question that i had was really one that the judge touched on in your introduction. >> that was? >> the effort to get more consensus. >> sure. first of all, u

i hope that the republicans remember abraham lincoln and the civil rights [unintelligible] justice marshall was not the first to face adversity. when another was nominated, he had to overcome severe anti- semitism, there were questions about the jewish mind. this sounded like an attack on empathy. i mentioned that the opposite of empathy is an difference, do we really want that, and i think the first catholic nominee -- he would be nominated by the pope. this has nothing to do with the speech, this is what john f. kennedy was facing, they said the pope would run things. they only had enough money for the pope, "unpack." but i was asking sonia sotomayor about her experiences, she went on to say ultimately and completely, as a judge you have to follow along. ultimately and completely, the judge will have to follow the law. this is the kind of impartial judge that we want. this is respect for the rule of law, this is the kind of judge that she has been. she will live up to the description -- and she has said that we must continue to realize as individuals, and not statistics. these are importa