in other wort lincoln just study lincoln.want togannoyoutwhy lincoed t d something as president you look at his law career. fou want to ainsow wte i he he certain views about slavery you study his early readings. the water world has a way of slipping out of view and too arlch literature on lincoed ttl wanted to put lincoln in the historical contemil. this is not a biogry dte i of lincoln. there are many of them. it isolates this question but it is a question about slavery and liainoln's relationship to slavery and changing attitudes and policies regarding slavery across the coueven e of his car. i want to situate lincoln in the history of what charles s muner called the anti slavery enterprise. i like that term because enterprise is not an organization. is not tir sten it. it is a conodyomeration of peope working sometimes disagreeing with each other but working for a general end. involved radical abolitionists who demanded the irepediate freeing of the slaves and bringing them in as equal citi 1ns of american society. includ

lincoln theme. my dad said to me, thank goodness we had you on lincoln's birthday. you've done manhunt, the kids book, bloody crimes the kids' book on bloody crimes, my wife and i have just finished a book on picket's charge at gettysburg. my father said just imagine if i didn't have you on lincoln's birthday. what if you'd been born on grover cleveland's birth day? [laughter] or even worse, what if you'd been born on hitler's birthday? what would you have become? what would you have written about? but that did not happen. i want to talk a little bit about lincoln and davis and who they were and their commonalities. i want to begin by saying i was much more of a lincoln person when i began the book, and i learned a lot about jefferson davis during the book. and i want to say this about him. jefferson davis is truly one of the lost men of american history. we know the name, probably. and i found that no one knows anything about him. no one reads biographies of him. no one reads his two-volume memoirs

i am absolutely convinced lincoln davis which has some 1 billion and to their deaths and been lincoln's case with liberty and union and in the case of davis, a state's rights, and the right to secede and to own slaves that is why ultimately that is a fundamental thing and lincoln has come down as abraham who fought -- sought compromise to say we should negotiate a once lincoln decided a principal was correct, rather than compromise abraham lincoln ordered a death and they felt terrible about it with tremendous guilt and responsibility to fight and die and that is how committed to their principles they were. and in their final journey, i will just touch on that, it is why is the most intense emotional public event in american history. to this day. if you want to get a sense, remember the reaction of the nation to president kennedy and the murder of dr. kane and your reaction to 9/11. and amplify those emotions to get some sense of what it was like to be living in america when the train was taking lincoln home and in the case of jefferson davis his was a different kind. he was on the six

because of his deep devotion to lincoln and his policies and, therefore, he is lincoln's ally, but he is someone whom we simply don't remember in the historical record except in terms of a tiny slice of what role he played over the course of his life as a professional. so he was to me one of the most important members of lincoln's administration and yet he has dropped off the historical map except for certain tiny parts of his life and that's what i find among the most fascinating things about him. >> why do you have holt was so overlooked in history. >> one of the reasons i think he was overlooked is because we like our historical figures to be very simple. and easy to understand. he is an immensely complicated person to understand. so he takes a lot of work to think about and i think that's one reason. he also was involved none of ways at the end of the civil war with complicated issues and took stances that a lot of people feel were vindictive and hateful to the south when really the nation would be peaceably reconciled. he was not forgotten but he was dismissed. another thing he w

when abraham lincoln took over the presidency.came in to town and he was a strapping 6 foot guy and anar nold schwarzenegger build. he three years aged 30 years and 56 when he was assassinated and looked like he was 70. and the burden on this guy was enormous because he alone had to fight the civil war and keep everything together. and subpend the habious corpous and things he didn't want to do. and if americans red the book you will get to know abraham lincoln. it is it like a novel. it is all true. >>> and i wanted people to know lincoln and i think we accomplished that. >> i found it interesting two weeks before his assassination he talked about and dreamed about. >> to me two startling things that i found out. i am a former history teacher and interested in history. two things that startled me. he had a dream. a regular dream when he was asleep and he saw himself lying on a bed. dead. and he told that dream to his wife and a number of guests who were in the white house. some of those guests wrote it down. that's how we got it

which happens, also, to be the birthday of abraham lincoln. and be so you could say in a way that he was destined to write the edgar award-winning and new york times bestseller "manhunt: the 12-day chase for lincoln's killer," the young readers' version -- [inaudible] "manhunt" was listed by entertainment weekly in 2006 as one of the ten best books of the year, and it was cite inside "newsweek" as one of the two best nonfiction crime books ever written. truman capotety's "in cold blood" was the other. his latest book, "bloody crimes," is another civil war era thinker. it weaves together -- thriller. it weaves together in riveting fashion the hunt to round up jefferson davis in the aftermath of lincoln's assassination and the majestic 20-day rolling

troops on both sides were joined for a word and lincoln was to send the key justly ridiculed. he did very bad cold that day, so that may partly explain it. postal baton rouge, louisiana, we are talking about the civil war era. >> caller: yes, my name is susan. >> host: we are listening if you could go ahead and ask your question. >> caller: my question as as did mr. goodhart calm across any reference to fort sumter that lincoln's decision about fort sumter in the civil war? the two men didn't cross paths, but does it support have any paperwork where they said, you know, john would've liked this guy in this type of person. so is there any linkage there? >> guest: you know, i didn't find any evidence. i know john quincy adams had been dead for 12 years. he died -- he was a member of congress at the same time and admire john quincy adams. certainly john quincy adams had become a fervent abolitionist. it was argument relationship with slavery. it is true that lincoln center's president-elect did an impact in his immaculate dress he did not want to interfere with slavery anywhere i

we think of lincoln and the majesty of lincoln. it should be given in english courses as well. and then i teach a course on presidents and foreign policy. up to you a story about that. i start by saying okay, 1945. well, the beginning of the atomic era. what happened in 1865, 1989, the fall of the wall. so what happened in 1763, nothing. nothing. no reaction. 1763, the end of world war, the british get the french out of north america, master of our own destiny. what happens? two years later it all blows up. great care. and as the mall. still waiting for problems to be behind us. yeah. and each of those men in their own right track to do with these issues. >> host: how long have you been teaching? >> guest: on an offer, good lord, of 30 years. i was in and out of government. less government job was the september 11th commission. i worked in georgia roper bush's of ministration, briefly in the second president bush's administration. i worked in the house, the hill for five years. i was assistant secretary state of new jersey. so in between those stretches i have been teaching. i

successful as lincoln. and he had the insurmountable task of trying to win the peace which was more difficult than winning the war as it turned out. so historians have had very mixed feeling about jobson. but -- johnson. but beginning after some complimentary studies of johnson, and then the civil rights movement in the '50s, '60s, '70s and when historians began to write during that period, they began to focus on the whole racial question. and johnson was declaredder redeemable racist and that everything he did was motivated by his racist attitudes. so that became the conventional wisdom of the day. and he hasn't recovered from that yet. of course, almost everybody in the united states was racist, but he was in power of being the president, and he decided to take a stand, a very narrow, strict construction of the constitution. and can this meant that if he couldn't find a piece of legislation passed by congress could be squared by the constitution, then he would veto it. so unfortunately, that's where he go

willie todd lincoln died in. he died of scarlet fever when he was 11. so winston churchill insisted on every afternoon of having a bath. so he would get out of the bathtub, walked into the lincoln bedroom, completely naked, would walk around the room, smoking a cigar, making notes for what he's going to be saying to congress the next day. and there he's confronted with the spirit of abraham lincoln. churchill being churchill, he took a puff off of his cigar, looked right at the spirit of abraham lincoln and said, good afternoon, mr. president, i'm sorry, but you seem to have me at a disadvantage. >> how do you know that happened? >> right after that, churchill not only told his assistant, but he went downstairs -- well, he got dressed first, being very proper british -- went downstairs and said to the roosevelts, i will not spend another night in that acursed bedroom. >> so he told them what had happened? >> he told them what had happened and winston churchill was here a lot and he never again spent another night

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this was the opening of southern california's claremont lincoln university which describes itself as america's first interreligious school of theology that put the pastors, rabbis and muslim imams on one campus. the school's philosophy was captured in the opening remarks of muslim-american scholar. a professor at claremont. >> the diversity of human kind is not a sign. it is a sign of god's creation and the beauty of humanity is in our very differences. >> what do you hope to accomplish here at claremont-lincoln. what is the grand vision? >> you have to get beyond people defining religions by the traditional walls. >> phillip clayton sees the school as offering an alternative to traditional religious education. >> when you train rabbis in one school and pastors in another and imams in another, they create an united states versus them mentality. what if we create something that has not been done. let's let them work out their differences in the day to day education. when they go out into the communities, they won't do the outsources, but the we. what that would do for the face of reli

abraham lincoln. born. into it only. a little. north by government. would kill. her. exceptional. the police and. nobody seems to know. if it will help us make the face but hold the argument that they're being overly dramatic. i five if i told my war and tonight it goes to rick santorum for the g.o.p. presidential candidate has the euro a chance of winning the nomination but refuse to experience even for the republican party and that's saying a lot see it almost every debate and campaign about he launches into an attack on marriage equality rick has actually made gay rights a central issue of his campaign i support a constitutional amendment to ban same sex marriage i think that it marriage should be a consistent thing across the country marriage is the union of one man and one woman it's essential for the family is essential for the stability of our of our culture to to make sure that children are given the best hope which is a mom and a dad and now all rick has a right it's a voice voice his hateful opinion his positions on gay marriage or on obsession over the course of the cam

because of his deep devotion to lincoln and his policies and therefore he is lincoln's ally. we simply don't remember in historical records except in terms of a tiny slice of what role he played over the course of his life. as a professional. so, he was to me one of the most important members of the lincoln administration and yet he had dropped off the historical map, except for certain tiny parts of his life and that is what i liked. >> why do you feel hold was so overlooked in history? >> one of the reasons i think he was overlooked is because we like our historical figures to be very simple, and easy to understand. he is an immensely complicated person to understand, so he takes a lot of work to inc. about. i think that is one reason. he also was involved in waves at the end of the civil war with complicated issues and took stances that a lot of people feel were vindictive, and hateful towards the south when really the nation should be peaceably reconciled. another thing i say is that he was a southern slaveholder who spent the first half of his life in kentucky and becaus

when lincoln's son, robert todd lincoln who was garfield's secretary of war, sat for bliss after the shooting, bliss saw in this national tragedy a once in a lifetime opportunity for fame and power. he immediately took charge of the president's medical care, even though no one had given him the authority. he just took it. he dismissed the other doctors, and he completely isolated garfield in a sick room in the white house. he wouldn't even let him see his secretary of state. and what happened in that room inside the white house is nothing short of horrifying. bliss and the few surgeons he had hand picked to help him inserted unsterilized fingers and instruments in garfield's back again and again, day after day searching for bullets. the last thing bliss wanted was for garfield to die. he had too much at stake. but his own arrogance and ignorance were slowly and excruciatingly killing the president. the only hope for garfield was to find the bullet and end the search, but this was 14 years before the invention of the medical x-ray. what happened next is nothing short of incredible. on

abraham lincoln asked him to come back.he needed him back in congress fighting the fight that lincoln had, and garfield understood that. it was difficult for him. you know, he loved his regiment which was, many of whom are made up from boys from the institute. so it was a difficult decision for him and he felt very passionately about the civil war, not only in keeping the country together but in bringing about abolition. he was a fierce abolitionist and what is our national hero because of his work in the civil war. thank you. >> thank you very much for an excellent presentation. toward the end of your presentation you said this in the last paragraph that dr. bliss was murdering the president. you don't see any malice to him but utter incompetence? and one more question, just a little bit about your background. i'm curious to know how you got interested in the subject. >> i will address the bliss thing. you are absolutely right. the lasting bliss wanted was for garfield to die. in fact he wrote a letter to a friend on white

go to come presidential candidate comparison self abraham lincoln and yes it's an i told time higher than happy hour the muppets are in the corner crying about one am lady gaga their neighbor calling the president activist and. even that only one which seems to be don't work to bring justice or. i have a right to know what my government should do if they want to know why i think taxes . but i would characterize obama as they care was made herschel problem american exceptionalism. get up sometimes you see a story and it seems so. easy to understand it in a glimpse something else here see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew. a child killed in this is to. say. let's not leave the fuck. i think a lot of me to wonder well. who doesn't love the book shows he came from safe if you can get his legal. fees. right at five as i told time award and tonight it goes to rick santorum and the g.o.p. presidential candidate has zero chance of winning the nomination was through extreme even for the republican party and that's saying a lot the almost every debate and c

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

and lincoln turned to healy, mr. healy would you like to paint me with a beard and healy in all commendable honesty said, no, sir, i would not. so it's one of the very few images in color by a painter that we have of abraham lincoln and one of the greatest of all healy's portraits. another healy portrait of abraham lincoln hangs over the mantle piece in the state dining room in the white house. here's this young man who had no advantages, none, never been to college, never been to one art school who decided to take upon himself to do this. my consensus is -- my thesis is not all pioneers went west and that's what this book is largely about. oliver wendell homlmes, sr. wasa poet and essayist. he had already written a poem called old iron side which kept the uss constitution, the famousship from boston from going to the scrap heap. holmes decided he wanted to be a doctor and in order to get the finest education he had to go to paris. even though it was far advanced in our terms but it was far advanced in the terms of h

congresswoman pelosi quoted abraham lincoln earlier. i think what he also said 150 years at the dedication of the national cemetery at gettysburg applies as much today as it did then. lincoln said that the world will little note nor long remember what we said here, but it can never forget what they did. over 2900 people were killed 10 years ago in the attacks on the world trade center. for the 16 of those who perished or our brother and sister firefighters -- 416 of those who perished work our brother and sister firefighters. 25,000 other lives worse. because of them. none of us will ever forget where we were on the morning of september 11, 2001. at police headquarters in san francisco, we watched in horror as the images were replayed on every channel. we learned one of the airplane is believed to be hijacked was heading to san this is good. later, we learned flight 93 went down in pennsylvania. in the days that followed, we heard stories of incredible heroism in which the passengers engaged and saved the lives of others. as we came to

abraham lincoln, in my opinion. he's a gold standard.m, particularly younger americans. they don't get taught history and don't know what he suffered. i will write it as a john gresham novel. you read it. >> did you think i could fall flat here? >> oh, absolutely. i took less money for this. >> as a thriller when there is so many lincoln books out there. >> i took less money for this book to do it, because the publisher said well, you know, you really successful in this but this is a departure and there is a lot of lincoln books. i said, look. we will do it and, number one, i was surprised in a sense it took off so quickly, but people are hungry to know about their heroes and lincoln is hero number one, washington number two. >> you spent a lot of money on research in this book. >> yeah. we hired the best researcher in martin duguard and came up with unbelievable stuff. john wilkes booth is engaged to be married. who is he stepping out with? lincoln's son on the side and we think booth found out about it because his fiancee was double te

you say you wrote "killing lincoln" to show americans what true leadership is and that abraham lincoln best president. why was he better than washington? >> because the union was dissolving and he held it together. president washington was coming off a victory and didn't have a presidential crisis to contend with. >> why has works killingi]ñr lincoln" on the new york best selling list? >> they are a couple weeks ab mind because they want to tabulate the totals: and samuel in pennsylvania, you and miller should appear in scranton where you started your tv career. that would be fun but you live those enough to mohegan sun to catch us there. beautiful ride along the connecticut coast, foliage, all of that. tickets go on sale today for the show. all the dates in richmond, virginia, atlantic city. hope you check it out. and pinheads and state pots check 15-year-old from phoenix, arizona. earlier this wok max has been blind since birth and threw out the first pitch at a playoffs game between the diamonds and brewers. >> tonight's first pitch guest, faction. [applause] >> great job, max! >> p

if you become a premium member you get killing lincoln free of charge.posted some viewer comments about killing lincoln on bill o'reilly .com as well so you get a feel for what is going on. now, the mail. i like a more in tee pendent chief enforcement guy so i would never have hired holder in the first place. i'm not objective in this case but i'm trying to be fair. lynn, monroe, louisiana. bill, you and charles krauthammer don't think cain should be president because he lacks experience. everyone in washington has experience. somehow that working out? >> president obama's main deficit is a lack of experience. this time around we need less ideology and more executive experience in my opinion. >> bill: and how did that work out, stan? fine, whatever. lis will be thrilled. kathleen from new york. i'm reading killing lincoln with my ten-year-old and i bought six other copies to give my older children. the way you delve into lincoln's characteristicker is compelling. >> you are patriot. every american kid should read or listen to killing lincoln. everyone sh

it took me three days to kill lincoln. >> i was at the great moments with mr.oln attraction at disneyland. your bill was a hot topic of discussion there, bill. we posted more of our viewer reviews of killing lincoln on billo'reilly.com. >>> pin heads and patriots as you may know. harry belafonte has a new book out so he's making the media rounds. >> harry belafonte joining me live from new york this morning. good morning. harry, wake up. good morning. harry? >> wake up, wake up. this is your wake up call, harry. >> there's nothing. >> okay. i'll tell you what. we are going -- he's med tating. he's taking a little nap. >> mr. belafonte again 84. i'm not going 0 cal to call hima pinhead. his spokesman said it was take cal glitch and harry couldn't here and harrie harry was med t. wake up, harry. that's it for us tonight. please check out the fox news factor website. also, we'd like you to spout off. e-mail me, name and town, name and town, name and town. word of the day. do not be out harried when writing to the factor. 1895, i found a dictionary from 1985. do no

significance this memorial. >> if someone had told me 48 years ago when i stood on the steps of the lincolnnbelievable that a memorial to martinlp luther kin jr., this man of peashsfpksm -- this man of love, this man oflp nonviolence, he was never elected to any public office, appointed to any public office. it is reallyxdt( historicc.cj6 3 but it says something about the distance we've comee1 and the progress we've made in america as a people. >> remind us just how difficult it was back then. youxd yourselfq of cou"çt were easted, what, some 40jf times? you withok beaten, you suffered so many of you did. it now hmm seems kind of defact to -- de factoé@ thatxdxd welp through the civil rights movemettx and made suchnb pog it was such a tough time. >> we must never forget it was not easy. it was axd struggle. a stuggle just for white peo(l4+ and bhack people in i% to come together, to be able to jt)q) seated ate hunch counter together. to sit down together and net -- neat axd restaurant. to be seated together on a but, on a train, to go to school together. to be able toe1 register toçó v >

this is a message abraham lincoln said mr.he congress in december of 1862. -- sends to the congress in december 1862. the civil war is not going well and things are going much harder. he said -- he writes to the congress, opened with the dogmas of the quiet past are active to this to repressive and we must rise for the occasio as our case is new, so we must think a new and act anew. we must disenthrall ourselves and then we will save our country." i think the reason that washington is a mess is because no one is prepared to disenthrall themselves and take the risk of thinking you. let me walk you through this in great detail -- and if you want a great deal, there is a 23-page version of this at newt.org. this is not the final document. this is -- there are two big differences between this and 1994. i could not possibly show you everything i want to do because the scale is so large. i will treat the beginning of a conversation, which by said kemba 27 of next year,he anniversary of the contract -- september 27 of next year, the

his new book is called "killing lincoln," the shocking assassination that changed america forever.lease welcome back to the program mr. bill o'reilly. sir. [applause] a pleasure. a pleasure. >> thank you. thank you. >> jon: as always, thank you so much for being here. the book is, and again, i don't want to criticize your cover designer, "bill o'reilly killing lincoln." [laughter] [cheering and applause] by the way... >> yes. >> jon: it is an excellent book and a nice read and... >> jon: somebody read it to you. [audience reacts] >> jon: damn you, o'reilly. always quick on the draw. excellent book. you're going to sell millions and millions of copies. we're not going to talk about it. [laughter] here's what i want to ask you, you were on you show the other night, and i watch it frequently. you say if obama raises your taxes to 50%, which you believe is possible, that you may not do your show anymore. >> right. i might take colbert's place. >> jon: yeah. [laughter] >> you know he's taking it. >> jon: somebody has to. what percentage of that threat is empty? >> all of it. [laughter]

lincoln is the gold standard. he was the best president of.rote the book so you can read it. >> thank you. >> he goes to bed at five. he's old. 5:00 in the afternoon, he's in bed. >> who is the pinhead there? you make the call. maybe we are both patriots. and that is it for us tonight. please check out the fox news factor website which is different from billoreilly.com. and keep the letters coming in from unusual places where you are listening like the guy up in alaska fishing for halibut. he's listening to the factor on the radio. we want to know. the word of the day, do not be querulous. we read the best letters. the letters that we are taken by. and to get our attention, make that first line count. make that first line count. if you get to the point in the third line, it's probably not going to get on the air. thanks for watching us tonight. i'm bill o'reilly. please always remember that the spin stops right here. we are definitely looking out for you. >> good morning, everyone. it's wednesday, october 26th. i'm gretchen carlson. thanks so

sales continue to surge for my new book "killing lincoln." we posted viewer reviews on bill o'reilly .com. i like to do that so you can see what other people are talking about. in other mail, brad ginn, virginia beach. bill, your segment with charles krauthammer was small minded. you assume herman cain can't win with no facts to back it up. not assuming anything, brad and i use poll numbers to back up my analysis. they are facts. cain polls poorly with independents because they don't know him yet. i think that is valid point. >> bill: your privilege, rick, but the republican in name only stuff kind of dumb. both parties should have room for a variety of opinions. mar rest roberts, grand marais, michigan. o'reilly, while you and miller made interesting observations about the occupy wall street protesters you missed one big one. most of them are white. i think they might be racist. very nice satire, margaret. signed copy of pin heads and patriots in paperback coming your way. lou from chandler, arizona. bill, how do you get the ankle bracelet o