lincoln the melancholic, lincoln the humorous. lincoln the republican, lincoln a communist.lincoln the war criminal. lincoln the redeemer. lincoln begay. tony christian last nice had the best comment yet apsley no doubt that lincoln was bisexual. i said that's cool. lincoln begay. lincoln the romantic lover. lincoln the man who really loved and rutledge. hshe died and he almost had a nervous breakdown. lincoln the atheist that i have a poster wallabies people who are atheist. lincoln is in the middle. lincoln the american christ. the man is assassinated on good friday. just after 10 clock at night. he dies at about 7:20 on easter saturday by easter sunday, all throughout the north he is being compared to christ. you know, the sacrificed christ. and in the end, it's abraham lincoln the unknown. so the most fun that i had was i became the first journalist to fill at the annual convention of the sons of the confederacy. this was last july in winston-salem, north carolina. i called them just to let them know that i was a brother, you know. i don't want any accidents happening do

abraham lincoln, the u.s. navy and the civil war, this book won the lincoln prize this year which brings all sorts of prestige as well as a tidy lot of cash. [laughter] so we will start off with a gene and then move to craggy and at that point we will open up to questions from the audience. >> thanks, joe. i'm delighted to be here. i am a native of maryland but it is my first visit to the key school. and what a very impressive institution is. i am also a thrill to be a part as a neighbor of the road in baltimore county of the annapolis boat festival. and i am here to talk about my biography of the mary todd lincoln. who is as many of you know our most controversial first lady. she has been accused and listen to this, of trapping her husband into marriage, being pregnant -- gasp -- at the altar, having a terrible temper to the extent that in one historical account she tries to kill lincoln by throwing an iron skillet at him, by spending too much money fixing up the white house during wartime, and finally and mo

there's a new book about darwin and lincoln. >> and lincoln. >> so i don't know the answer to your question. but nobody would say he's a standard christian in the sense we understand that today. >> the book is "lincoln on race and slavery." it's available for skip to sign. and there's probably other books out there. thank you very much. [applause] >> henry lewis gates is the w.e.b. dubois professor at harvard university. mr. gates is author of "colored people" coeditor of encarta of africa. he's received many honors including a mcarthur fellow and the national humanities medal. for more information on the author, please go to dubois.fas.harvard.edu. >> george mcgovern, the one-time democratic presidential nominee and former senator from south dakota greets members of congress and signs books at a private home near the u.s. capital building. many of those attending the party got their start in politics during his 1972 campaign. this event is 40 minutes. >> i'm a big fan of lincoln's. you read that book i sent you, lincoln's sword. >> oh, yeah. i quote it in the book. you're responsible for t

had lincoln lived, had lincoln lived -- certainly, lincoln wanted to reconcile -- forgive and bring the south back into the union, but i think that would have been at the expense of black rights. >> uh-huh. >> and i don't think it was an accident that he only advocated those 200,000. i think he was willing to sacrifice -- this is heresy to a friend of mine like harold holzer. if he were here he would jump up on the stage and like beat me with my cane but i don't think he was there -- there were 200,000 black warriors and there were these very intelligent negroes, maybe the 400,000 free negroes, maybe at most, and these other people, i don't think he knew what to do with them -- the idea -- think about, how are you going to absorb into society peacefully 3.9 million slaves overnight? that is a daunting task for barack obama, abraham lincoln, george -- anybody, many people wanted to ship these people back to either panama, or to haiti, or to west africa -- when i say "back," they were all born in the united states. do you know that -- so there was no back to it. they were americans. 75% o

and lincoln was much in his debt. as a grant constant sponsor, washburn supported him through thick and thin and ultimately pushed through the bill that allowed grant to be named lieutenant general of all the union armies. later, when grant was elected president, washburn served briefly as a secretary of war before becoming minister to france. as for sherman, his brother john was a powerful senator and former candidate for speaker of the house. house. his father in law and adopted father was a former senator and had served as the nation's first secretary of the interior under franklin pierce. another brother, charles, was a federal judge. he was so well-connected that despite his relative lack of military experience, at least compared to many others when the war began, his brother john told him that his friends in high places were prepared to make him virtually secretary of war. rance alliance with sherman and sherman's alliance with grant represent a powerful political conjunction that assisted both men in their rise

and here let me say a few words about lincoln and about lincoln's relation to grant, thomas and the politics of the war. lincoln's deep humanity nah wisdom, and determine leadership during our nation's most trying times ensure his graveness against all detractors. when his virtues as the statesman are assessed. essay wore vader however, he remains a figure of fun certain stature and the subject of sharp debate. as with any nationally rick aired and beloved icon, there are always attempts to gloss over his imperfections. yet the best way to honor the history is to tell the whole truth about it. even if we have to acknowledge inconvenient truths. to fully appreciate lincoln's importance we ought to be candid about his mistakes. lincoln was a man of great capacity and showed it in almost every area to which he turned his mind. but he had no personal military experience beyond a few weeks of campaigning in 1832 in the blackhawk war. he had opposed the mexican war as a war of aggression and when someone once asked him if he remembered anything about the war of 1812, which took place when he was a

but the contribution lincoln made to this country can't be measured in dollars and cents. >> lincoln the person who persevered the most. he's the one who was the glue in essence that kept this country from falling apart and separating into two very different countries. >> lincoln saw the nation through its biggest crisis -- the civil war. he decided the only way to survive as the united states was to abolish slavery. his most famous speech, the gettysburg address, is inscribed on the south wall. national park spokesperson bill line says visitors are visibly moved by the power of lincoln's words. >> part of what is written there as to how he realizes that the nation is on the precipice of possibly falling apart, of possibly dividing into two nations and how much that is causing angst and worry and how much he is wrestling with that comes through in the words. that he uses in the -- in the gettysburg address to see that in stone to see that in the area where lincoln is causes great emotional reaction on many people. >> as a great orator, he would be pleased to know, another great speec

[laughter] >> let me remind everyone "mary todd lincoln" and "lincoln and his admirals" it by a craig are for sale in the gymnasium and i dare say both will be delighted to autograph your purchase copy. thank you for coming out in such a large numbers and thank you to the panelist [applause] >> this concludes our coverage of the 2009 annapolis book festival for more information visit annapolis book festival.com. >> "uncle sam wants you", it christopher capozzola who is james montgomery flagg? >> he is the man behind one of the most important images of american politics the "uncle sam wants you" poster a graphic artist working in new york and in that period after the war had started but before the u.s. was involved, a flag wanted americans to be more involved and wanted to come up with the image with the military he gave us this image as a that "uncle sam wants you" with the finger-pointing. >> was the under contract to present that image? >> at that time he was working for a magazine which was popular during the day and was under a tight deadline to finish and did not have a lot of id

do you think lincoln has overshadowed darwin a bit?>> well, sandra herbert just gave a talk on darwin in the shadow of lincoln. and perhaps here in america, at least at this point in time, lincoln may have overshadowed but i think in the long run it will be darwin that we will remember the longest. >> and then finally if people want to learn about what they can about darwin from the library of congress, where should they go? >> they can come to the science reading room. and we have some books on darwin right in the reading room or they can use the online catalog at the library of congress and

presidency h. >> text nolg takes investors back to the 18 huss to remember lincoln's legacy. t.j. winick takes us on tour. >> reporter: ford's theater synonymous with the tragic death of americ abraham lincoln now this historic landmark is trying to capture his life as well. >> we want to put you inside the lincoln presidency. we want to immerse you in the period. >> reporter: presidential historian richard norton smith wrote and helped designed the exhibits at the new ford theater museum. >> space is limited, the story is unlimited, you disstill that to its vy essence. >> reporter: located in building's basement you're greeted by the image of a train that browse lincoln to washington in 1861 and parallel walls revisit april 14th, 1865. >> we've given the hour by hour, what booth is doing, what lincoln's doing, until they converge at 10:15. >> reporter: you then end up in the recently refurbished theater, the most notorious crime scene in american history. >> the only way you can understand wery that murder mattered so much is to understand abraham lincoln's life and presiden

i was deeply influenced by the book on lincoln in cooper union and the way lincoln had written the cooper union speech as a historic document looking back to reality. we started with the idea that is now a dvd which we're proud of, that if i take you to the national archive and i show you a political document called the declaration of independence and that document says we are in doubt by our creator with certain unalienable rights how're you going to explain to amica to a student without talking about the meaning of the word krater and what it means to be the only country in history that says power comes from god to you personay and then you loan power to the state, which is why the declaration, constitution begins,e the people of the united states. no other country the world is like this. more research we did and events haley has been an extraordinary asset as our research director and has helped put together a really wonderful research in this topic, the more we did in the more appalling the modern courts were, the more arrogant, the more radical, the more ant religious bigotry there w

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lincoln himself many times are viewed -- who argued the negro is not equal to the white man lincoln actually secretly took $250,000 from the treasury and gave it to someone to build a chance patient -- to build a plantation on an island in the caribbean. the idea was that african- americans would not ship there. the reason he issued the first part of the emancipation proclamation which purported to free slaves in the south, but did not because it lacked power, was because of his military powers. and they said the confederacy feared that slaves could get guns and rubble, and that would cause them to squash that rebelled at the same time they were fighting the north. lincoln personally had the same way to premises views about african-americans that many whites in the south and north had at that time. to that has been sanitized by the manner in which we have learned about history. that is why i say this is not your grandfather says to me. your grandfather in your children, and uni, were all taught that lincoln was a great man who freed the slaves. he was and and he did not. host: our guest is i

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with rfk, they stopped off at the lincoln memorial where they had a choir was singing. what will it be today? will it be barack obama, a black man, not president, spoke at the kennedy library russian mark will it be staffers clapping for the man who they love so much was not passing into eternity, or will it be something we see in the next 20 minutes? i know that two-tiers heads, historians of sort through this they will say this was the moment that captured it all. >> chris: we can see their the burial site for edward kennedy. they left so much of this open. while we have cameras and we will see if they have closed this part of the ceremony to the press. there are no reporters there. this is. for family and friends. you can see how many of them have gathered there for this short service. i was thinking and i can remember i was gosh, about 12 years old at the time. jackie kennedy's funeral. that procession, that walking down the streets of washington, the case on with the horses being leaving the carrying a casket of jack kennedy, followed by that stony brave stoic jacq

four theaters' new exhibits honoring abraham lincoln.s wednesday, august 12. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now." >> the theater of course known for one thing pretty much, the most notorious crime scene in american history so they're embracing that now. >> it would be cool to see, though. i've never seen it. >> we'll see it this half hour. >> i'm vinita nair. >> i'm jeremy hubbard. democratic lawmakers facing another day of jeers and taunts at health care town halls. one congressman in north carolina hosted his event over the phone rather than face a rowdy crowd. >> but things were much more congenial when president obama used a town hall meeting in new hampshire to press his case for reform. here's jake tapper. >> reporter: portsmouth high school was used as a forum. outside the crowds were raucous, some angry. inside the crowd was friendly with chants of "yes, we can." nothing like those town hall participants members of congress have faced in recent days. >> a board that would ration care and kill off the elderly and

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and don't forget the lincoln program that comes up in about an hour.k you very much for being a part of today. >> good morning. what a great idea to start breakfast early in the morning after saint patrick's day. [laughter] >> so i want to tell you a little bit about irrational behavior, and behavioral is a very applied to feel. my interest in this field started from a very applied perspective. many years ago i was injured in an explosion and i spent a long time in hospital as a consequence of this. and hospitals by the way are a wonderful place to watch all kinds of irrational behaviors. [laughter] >> but the thing that was most difficult for me in this case was the process of removing bandages. i was in the burn department, 70% of my body was burned and taking bandages was a huge part of my torture. now, if you think about it, you almost had taken a band-aid off at some point and you almost have wondered what is the right approach. do you rip it off, short duration, but every second is painful. or do you take it off slowly, many seconds that each sec

this here is the actual case for the abraham lincoln title. here the book blocks are leaving the actual end of the machine before they go to the building and a unit. the building in the unit is where they will be placed on the spine of the book. this is books leaving our building in unit. this is where the joint is actually formed on the case of the book. this is a joint of the book right here. and this is a headband material of the book itself. we saw in an earlier application the headband was applied to both the top and the bottom of the book. the books or quality inspected throughout the course of the run for any problem that may have been encountered throughout the binding process. you can see where you have your in the sheet, front and back and then you turn to your half title page. as the books leave or building in unit, they now travel into the high-speed dustin shack machine. as you can see, books at this point do not have a dust jackets on domestic travel into the machine. the dust jackets will now be applied automatically. this is a

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. >>> plus, finding abe lincoln's signature at a flea market. it's a junk hunters dream come true. you're watching "early today." >>> welcome back to "early today." we're still tracking hurricane bill, the major hurricane, a category 3 storm. high pressure over the north atlantic has been steering off northwest. take a look at the future path here. high pressure will break down. that will allow bill to take a northerly turn toward the weekend. we won't be dealing with a direct hit for our part of the woods. for wednesday, temperatures close to 90 degrees once again in the cities of the northeast. 89 degrees in new york city. if you're watching wjar 10 nbc in providence, wheels at work exhibit at the providence children's museum in providence, rhode island. and that's your eastern event of the day. christina? >> all right. thanks so much. >>> now here's an early look at this morning's headlines are entertainment. there's one movie frank sinatra's old vegas pals will probably bet will never get made. you know the one. leonardodicaprio stagger at blue eyes. the producer is fighting wi

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lincoln put rivals on his cabinet.i'm not sure reaching out and buying their entire cabinet at fire sale prices constitutes reaching out to rivals. i guess it has a nicer ring to it then reaching out to backscatter -- backstabbers. obama is the person most likely to have poison put in his coffee by hillary, but only because bill stopped eating and drinking around hillary along time ago. liberal victim ology toward the nation's enemy has gotten tricky now that obama is the commander in chief. since national security became his problem, obama is not in such a rush to shut down guantanamo and pull the troops out of iraq. wasn't guantanamo going to be shut down and troops on the day after the inauguration, or my thinking of a different black president? democrat's hysteria over guantanamo was a phony fraud just like their hysteria over his middle name. only drama queens on college campuses and msn b.c., the official network of trauma queens are all bent out of shape about guantanamo. you remember that, the all- inclusive tr

three days here we are again the s&p 500 back over at 1000 lincoln ellis of the lynn group would you make of the rally here again in the last three sessions. it's interesting monday was the first time we saw volume picked up and it was really significant value when a relative basis for the month of august. in the selling pressure. the moment we saw this 990 level on tuesday it was as if there was a jack and a box let out the we drifted higher ever since one lower volume. lower volume may be the case but for those who were still making money the dollar is a dollar at this point and it is the holidays after all. it is the holidays and i think a lot of people went home at the end of july in one home short and the day traders who have met and initialed by yes toward combining our play the market and has a tendency to push these numbers higher. your outlook hasn't changed at all with this market activity we know you had you on the with the beginning of the money you're still looking for the malibu, top? it is very toppy from a technical basis on a daily torque and on a weekly charts being

lincoln. >> aye. >> mr. lugar. >> aye. >> mr. martinez. >> aye. >> mr. mccain. >> no. >> mrs. ms. ccaskill. >> aye. >> mr. mcconnell. >> no.

other projects include millions for repairs like the lincoln memorial reflecting pool and millions more for solar power installation and trail improvements. 800 projects in all nationwide. we also had the chance today to talk to the acting director of the national park service. how is money for the national parks helping? >> it's stimulus because we're putting people to work. we're putting people to work for the next two years. it's also stimulus because we are creating a better place, increasing the visitor experience, we're bringing tourism back to these places

lincoln, garfield, mckinley, teddy roosevelt was shot at, fdr was shot at and they shot the mayor of chicago by accident. harry truman was shot at. jack kennedy was killed. jerry ford was shot at twice. ronald reagan was almost killed had it not been for the secret service agent, he would have been dead. we live in a dangerous society when it comes to elected officials. let's not make it more dangerous. it's a free country. are you armed? >> this is d.c. >> are you a birther? >> i was born. >> do you believe the president was born in this country? >> i have no opinion one way or the other. >> you're not part of that crowd, are you? just tell me. >> i'm a second amendment advocate. >> but you're not part of that crowd you're not one of those people that doubts. are you one of those people that doubts he's a legitimate american? >> i'm not taking the bait. i'm just an advocate of the second. >> do you think he's a legitimate american? >> do i think the president.

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he certainly ran against lincoln later as a proslavery democratic.e may have had secret sympathies with the other side. it makes me laugh because on his horse he's still pointing south, the wrong direction. the confederates would have been that way. he's riding away from them. a little reminder about history. a typical writing day for me depends on how atypical the previous day was in that i tend to work late at night and if it's been successful, i may not have gone to bed till 3:00. so the next writing day will probably not start till, say, noon or so but if you absolutely had to average a day, it would be like this. get up, try and inhale some coffee. forcing myself to eat oatmeal for anticholesterol purposes, blah, blah. before lunchtime i wouldn't get much done except answering emails. and fending off whatever had accumulated. the world of telegrams and anger. just coping with that and then having lunch which i usually do reading by myself 'cause i think the essential thing for writing is being a good writing. the main thing is never to keep test

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i don't think he had a lot of experience with black people, as i understand it, abe lincoln. it wasn't part of indiana -- saw a little bit in kentucky when he was a kid, but when he's about 19 he takes a -- the chapter ends with him taking a barge down to new orleans and that is the first time he saw slavery and he didn't grow up in the middle of that and it puts him off and is part of why he's the great liberator and it doesn't make sense to him and also means he's not real comfortable when sojourner truth shows up at the white house. you know? i hope these segues between chapters is not me being a clever author but is also that there is this narrative going on, that the spirit of abe lincoln, his education kind of continues, people think about it, go, is that how you learn, is that what a good education is, and from one to the next. going on. yeah. >> i found your book reinvigorating in many ways, because i think we have become so standardized in how we look at education, the test and so you have to the conventional teaching practices, which is given to us. but it reminds u

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. >> reporter: as the president absorbed the view overlooking the lincoln memorial, pool says he foretoldate. >> first he said, "wouldn't this be a great place for the white house." and the second thing he says is, "so beautiful, i could stay here forever." of course it proved to be, sadly prophetic statement because a few months later he was dead, and this is where he end up forever. >> reporter: the day after john kennedy was shot, as he lay in the capitol rotunda, jackie kennedy slipped away to visit arlington, finding a spot on that very same kill and on the same straight line facing the lincoln memorial, she decided the president would come here, not to massachusetts. >> she said she wanted him here so that he would belong to the country. >> reporter: what the country saw next had never been seen before on live television, not just a presidential burial, but the precise, dignified ceremonies of an arlington military burial. >> it was the first glimpse that most of the american public had at how special arlington is and how we honor our heroes here. >> reporter: during that ceremony,

i could bring up senator carper and senator lincoln and by the way, senator lincoln, considering howhealth care reform how do you feel? every time you actually see senator kennedy? i could bring up all the other democrats doing their masters bidding in the house and senate, all the others who get an extra thousand from somebody if they just postpone the vote another year, another month, another week. right now without the competition of a government funded insurance company in one hour the health care industry can make so much money that they would kill you for that extra hour of profit. i could call them all out by name. but i think you get the point. we do not need to call the democrats holding this up blue dogs. that one word, dogs, is perfectly sufficient. let me speak to them collectively anyway. i warn you all. you were not elected to create a democratic majority. you were elected to restore this country. you were not elected to serve the corporations and the trusts who the government has enabled for these last eight years. you were elected to serve the people. and if you fail

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