lincoln was ready.really revealing his heart of hearts rather than standing up in front of an audience and speaking politically insane when needed to be said. one remarkable letter he wrote in 1865 to his friend to my joshua speed, being in lincoln's friend who was really one of the few people that lincoln became close to in the course of his life. remarkable that someone can likely deal with such a rich, and erica my emotional life. very few people that he could become close to end confided. the know nothing movement, the anti-immigrant movement is really catching fire in america. he says, you know, our country was founded on the principle that all men are created equal. and then that became all men except negros sparker equal. and now this seems to be becoming all men except negros, catholics, and emigrants are created equal. and if this is what our country is going to be i might as all move to russia or i can take my despotism an ulcer is it with the allied effort is hypocrisy. so i think clinton did

the lincoln highway was the road that made us one. >> the people who built the lincoln highway worked to make sure it was done in time for the panama pacific international exposition. it opened in san francisco in 1915. this is film of the dedication in 1915 of the terminus of the lincoln highway. it ended on the corner of san francisco. and it brought people to one of the greatest events in the nation's history. a world's fair of where the newly invented automobile was a innovatety and auto race a source of fascination. craig heath has our report. >> reporter: it covered 635 acres, stretching from van nuys in the east to fort plain on the west. from lombard street to the bay on the north. covering all of what is now the marina district and beyond. and all of the 10 months that it ran, the pacific expo drew 18 million people. everyone though it cost 50- cents a person to go in about half a days wages. civic leaders found it a way to show the world that san francisco has recovered after the recession and was once again open for business. president woodrow wilson pushed a button that se

lincoln's revolutions that the course toward genuine equality. franklin roosevelt's revolution emphasized as never before the importance of fraternity to the health of a democracy. he brought to life the idea that americans working in common efforts would provide for the general welfare with greater justice and security. what constitutes a historic revolution and why does the work of roosevelt qualify? a revolution changes the way people live. not for lifetime or superficially but in significant ways for generations. this roosevelt accomplished. so did the original revolution led by george washington. it introduced a genuine democracy to the world for the first time and created a new nation dedicated to the ideals of liberty, equality and fraternity. skeptical european ruling classes laugh that the americans and they also worried. they laughed because they thought the americans foolish peasants. called them farmers in america. should vote and hold office? that was simply not a reasonable 18th-century european idea. the enlightenment wanted ration

lincoln sort of benignly looking down on them and the reflecting pool in the front. well, i grew up in the washington, d.c., and i'm now old enough to remember when i was a little boy there were still elderly women in washington, friends of my mother's, who still were not really very happy that the mall had been gummed up with a memorial to abraham lincoln. so we don't always, we don't always arrive at these consensuses instantly. but what interested me about the roosevelt memorial is that as with many monuments to historical figures, it really tells us almost as much about the times in which the memorial was made as about the subject of the memorial. and i think that's particularly true in fdr's case. my own opinion is that i don't know that -- i mean, i'm, as a great admirer of franklin roosevelt, i'm delighted that there is a memorial to him, and better the one there is than none, but i'm not a huge fan of the fdr memorial, and i don't know that it's really a memorial that he would particularly like. we have a, we have a notion of what he considered a good preside

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lincoln is a developer. builds buildings. they bought and tired site. the market, as you recall, was roaring around pretty well at the end of 2007. immediately after that, my firm was brought on. we paid the affordable housing fees of $5,153,000 in change and paid the affordable housing fees on pine street, paid back in september right after buying the properties with the intent to get going and build those properties out. we acquired all of the remaining tbr that needed to be required -- acquired, and importantly, from my point of view, although the entitlements were complete, the deal with the recreation and park commission to allow for the expansion of what is st. mary's park, which is part of the complicated way in which these two projects were related, have not been completed and turned out to be an extraordinary effort, but we undertook to engage with rec and park and the board of supervisors that we got a deal done to expand st. mary's park at 500 pine street, all with the idea that soon after that, we would be able to proceed to build those proj

she died at the age of 34, leaving behind 9-year-old abraham lincoln. he helped build his mother's casket by carving the woodallen petition douche the wooden petition himself. >> we transformed the gallery to and eerie victorian garden. my name is lowe hodges, and i am the director of operations and exhibitions at the conls tore of -- cons tore of flowers. we decided it needed context. so we needed a house or a building. the story behind the couple in the window, you can see his wife has just served him a glass of wine, and he is slumped over the table as the poison takes affect. a neat little factold dominion about that house is actually built out of three panels from old james bond movie. we wanted people to feel like i am not supposed to be in this room. this is the one that is supposed to be barred off and locked up. >> the ole andersonner -- oleander. this popular shrub is popular in warm climates. it has been implicated in a surprising number of murders and accidental deaths. children are at risk because it takes only a few leaves to kill them. a

i am a is an education teacher at lincoln high school. i have been there for over 10 years, and i think clinton has one of the best physical education and jrotc programs. i teach physical education because i think it is important. i think exercise is the best way to stay alert and healthy. our kids involved motor skills, learn how to be fit, and learn how to make it part of their daily lives. two years ago, they stopped giving credit fort pierce it bothers me that the district gave. instructors two years to get their teaching credentials, and not one of them did, and now, you want to give them another two years. what kind of standard is that? is this being allowed because this is only the physical education? it makes me worry about what is next. are we going to let anyone who wants to take physical education and do it because it works better for their program? i feel and hope that you will agree with me that after giving pe independent programs, it does not work. this should remain an elective with no physical education credits allowed. t

. >> between lincoln and fulton and the beach. >> you're saying, why did they decide that exact plot? they brought someone from new york to come up with a park plan. they eventually made it a rectangle. they had the panhandle part. the panhandle was the same with as golden gate park, but there was dealmaking going on between park commissioners and they decided they would buy the land and cut off part of the panhandle. >> the development of lincoln park is interesting. you can see the cemetery. >> on the map, it is a cemetery. >> what happened to that and all of the bodies? >> they decided around the turn of the century the land was too valuable to bury people. where uss is now there were four cemeteries. they moved all of the cemetery's out -- cemeteries out. the heir did not want to move one of the places. there are two people -- two places where people are buried in the city. the other ones were moved out. >> the big scandal of lincoln park, someone wanted to build the legion of honor out there. she did and she got it done. they had to prepare the land, the golden gate cemetery, so

i got a hold of the two bars and lincoln and got them to sit down with the community. the chief of police wrote in the front page of the journal star that there will be no citizens of lincoln arrested during this demonstration so we kept all the gay kids on one side and everyone else on the other side and 15 minutes, they were shouted down. in the middle of al

i got a hold of the two bars and lincoln and got them to sit down with the community. the chief of police wrote in the front page of the journal star that there will be no citizens of lincoln arrested during this demonstration so we kept all the gay kids on one side and everyone else on the other side and 15 minutes, they were shouted down. in the middle of all of this was the omaha world herald and the journal star. two people came over and they held that the blackboards. we said, yes, on the blackboard as said, god and homosexuals eat at subway. this isthe youth suicide rate is skyrocketing. i have been involved with programs for boys in nebraska. all the people who wrote letters, that i had people -- that i had people there. when i see an officer on andy street, -- on the street, i stop and see what they are doing. i make it a point to call on certain people. eheather fong, i work with her all the time. constantly i see this. i have retired, so i can spend an awful lot of time reaching out to the public to take care of those things. i think it is important for the p

and lincoln saw that. johnson would do it for different reasons. remember harry truman does it after world war ii and stuff. and in that -- yes, they were in the sense if you want to look at it in the narrow confines of the constitution. but you know, we were a country created by traitors. they were in a line of traitors. and they looked -- and to them they weren't. they were just following in the revolution father's footsteps. and that's why, you know -- to have executed lee and everybody else or leading officers, you know, they finally abandoned of bringing davis to trial after abandoning him for two years or so. but the men who fought guilt or innocence them, if you look at them, that's what they couldn't understand. they couldn't understand how can you southerners risk this country. this is like no place on earth. yeah, they bought into the american exceptionalism. they really did. when a guy from wisconsin say i'm fighting for the best country ever created for the common man, they got it. at that time. so, you know, in the sense i don't -- tec

did we drag them out on lincoln

finally end the exigencies of war that make the emancipation proclamation necessary but shift lincolnrom being a moderate to a more forceful anti-slavery advocate or at least opponent of the expansion of slavery. but after he has made that observation about the opposition to slavery, instead of patting himself on the back and saying, i took from a man of fierce principle when it comes to issues of right and wrong. instead he says, when i see the zealots in my own day, it makes me wonder whether 150 years from now we moderates will be seen as the cowards. what politician subjects his own perspective to that kind of critical scrutiny? it is an extraordinary moment in the book but again, nobody held a gun to his head and nobody forced him to take that step. i think the reason he took it is that is the way he really believe. he always asked, how sure i am i and what basis am i sure? i think he is always willing to interrogate his firmest assumption. that is not to say that every assumption is without foundation. i think he is correct to say the civil rights movement depended upon people w

lincoln did much more. he created the department of agriculture to do more research, distributed free land to farmers, used government agents to promote new farm machinery and agricultural techniques. as a proud graduate of iowa state university, i note that lincoln also dramatically increased higher education by creating the land-grant college system. taken together, these initiatives during lincoln's presidency -- and i remind you, this was -- he was doing all this during the civil war -- it had a transformative effect on the u.s. economy. we created new descrirks expanded opportunity, created millions of new jobs, and he did this despite the fact that the federal government was deeply in debt and running huge deficits. imagine that, abraham lincoln. these republicans always go to their lincoln day dinners. why don't they start talking about what abraham lincoln did to spur economic growth and create jobs in our country at a time when our federal government was in a deficit? it's almost humorous to imagin

did we drag them out on lincoln with horses? were we able to put out some rails. there's a good deal of bodies when you say 50 or 100. >> that's a good question i was really struggling with. well, for one thing, the golden gate park, the roads, the park commissioners were very jealous about. they didn't want anybody to use the golden gate park roads for commerce or transporting things. they wanted to keep it for recreation. so for a long time i thought maybe they used that streetcaroline on lincoln way, used the rail, somehow put the cars on some kind of fladbed rail thing, brought them out to the edge and dragged them across the sand, perhaps on sleds or something. i finally came across what heyman did in an article. he actually somehow talked the commissioners into using the golden gate park roads. so he -- remember, the apparatus, most of the machinery, is taken out of these cars which makes them a lot lighter. they're mostly wood at this point. they're probably brought out, pulled by horses through golden gate park road. then in 1892, the great highway gets im

would lay lincoln logs and build what is called a redwood grillage. fortunately, the termites cannot attack at and it lasts hundreds of years. >> is resistant to decay. >> the second most common foundation, as we move forward, the cement can along. >> all the homes, all the buildings rest on just a typical spread type footing. the spread type flooding takes the load, comes down, and spreads it out over a larger area. that is why it is called spread footing. as the soil types get more and more difficult, we start looking at social foundations that may still be spread. a spread type foundation such as a mac. -- such as a mat. it is a blob of concrete that is the enough so that if it tries to move, it moves as a unit as opposed to individual footings. eventually, as you move closer and closer to the shoreline, where you cannot get economically justified basement, we use piles. those are the most expensive, where we drive -- the old days, again, we used to take trees, turn them upside down and drive them until they stop. with concrete, we went to circular

now, i should tell you in full disclosure that abraham lincoln was not a religious bigot. in fact, he hated religious bigotry, but he swallowed the republican party line because it was very effective among the republican party base. you know, you've heard in the politics get out the base, get out the base. the republican party base were protestant working men in cities and farms across the northeast, new england and the midwest. and this resonated to this constituency, this anti-catholicism. and so lincoln campaigned under that slogan in 1858. >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. >> and booktv is at books expo america, the annual publishers' convention in new york city looking at some of the fall 2011 books that are coming out, and we're pleased to be joined by george gibson who is the publisher of bloomsbury press. mr. gibson, tell us about some of your books, and let's start here with the book on bill buckley. >> this is the first full biography of bill buckley, um, an icon, of course, of the conservative arena. um, but, and he's really the fath

washington high school and went on to study at lincoln pennsylvania university. when lincoln began a program to train civilian pilots buchanan was not far back in the line of students who went to sign up. it was so exciting because there was something new every day. i don't care who you were there was always something you didn't know about flying and the whole world. he dropped out of college before his junior year to earn money. a friend in atlanta and let him know about tuskegee airfield. the military base under construction at day's driveway in tuskegee, alabama. they instituted training civilian pilots, a primary flight training base that operated under contract for the army air corps. now the war department was building from scratch on the outskirts of town. the idea of building an air base in treat him. he found a job at taft and are carpenter's apprentice and as soon as he got to tuskegee he learned about training black instructor pilots. he used the skills he learned in civilian pilot training to pass the entrance exam and began a training course. when th

lincoln saw that. johnson would do it for different reasons.emember, harry truman does it after world war ii if there were in a sense, if you want to look at the conference of the constitution. we were a country created by traders. they were in a line of traders. and to then they warrant. there were just following in the revolutionary father's footsteps. that is why i, you know, to have executed the and everybody else, you know, they finally abandoned the idea of getting davis to trial after imprisoning him for two years are so. but the men who fought against them, if you looked at them, that is what they couldn't understand. they couldn't understand, how can you seveners risk this country? this is like no place on earth. they bought into american exceptional as an. they really did. when a guy from wisconsin says i'm from the best country ever created, they got it. so in a sense technically, i guess, constitutionalism not a lawyer there were. but what lincoln did would have done certainly already planning this. then johnson would. the best thin

at that time, so technically constitutionally since i'm not a lawyer they were, but what lincoln did would have done certainly already planning this and then johnson would. the best thing to do is to heal this terrible wound and go on and let these men go away. that is arguably the almost destroyed the country but we have to go through that and that is the way that i look at it. >> how do you compare the mentality of the confederacy as a revolution very much the same way you see in the middle east for the identity and recognition can you interpret that in the confederacy? >> i don't think so. there is a real argument to be made that this is a top-down revolution in the confederacy if you want to call it a revolution. this is led by the class and politicians, what you are seeing in the middle east is not, i don't think that there is very many wealthy and established arabs in the street there. i think we try to cling on to it because they know the existence of people like gadhafi. i don't know for certain in the week. but no, and in fact, to northerners saw it in those terms at the tim

and students spend ten times that amount on reading and math. >> those abe lincoln numbers are downrightainful. we'll revisit this. thanks for your reporting. >>> up next after the break, the u.s. army will soon be sporting a new look. you might say a big change is coming to the very top. >>> the latest apparent overreaction to aviation security is brought to you tonight by the letter f, a new york-based children's author was overheard by another passenger dropping a few f-bombs in excitement over a delayed take-off. the delta jet went back to the gate and the cops boarded the plane and he was hauled off for being disruptive. in his defense, he says it was rediculous and embarrassing, he was in his seat, used profanity but was far from threatening in any way. he said he lost a cousin and a lot of people on 9/11. the airline apologized and put him on a later flight. >>> after everybody in today's army got used to their new look, you may recall when in 2001 when the army converted to berets for their basic acu, but the army combat uniform with the black berets proved unpopular. they are ho

here you have abraham lincoln don'ting steven douglas in the famous senatorial campaign. the republican party slogan that year was vanquish the twin december -- now, i should tell you in full disclosure that abraham lincoln was not a religious biggot. he swallowed the republican line because it was very effective among the republican party base. you know, you heard in politics get out the bass, get out the bass. the republican party base were protestant working men in the cities. they were congressman's in the small towns and farms across the northeast, new epg land, and the -- england and the midwest, and this resinated to this constituency, and so lincoln campaigned under that slogan in 1858. >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. >> "wild card" is the name of the book. the author is mark joseph. mr. joseph, what have we learned new about sarah palin in your book? >> i spent a chapter and a half on her religious background, the highest one has reached the height of american power. that's one of the untold stories of the rise of sarah palin, not j