could lincoln make it happen? no, lincoln didn't make it happen by himself if there were lots of people involved. now, instead of compromises not mean that war has become because lincoln becomes president a month before. there's no war for another six weeks. war becomes because of the crisis at fort sumter in charleston harbor which would have nothing to do with the compromise attempts in congress. the failure of compromise in congress ensured that it would be a number of states out of the union. but the whole question of the war itself at fort sumter is another question. i do talk about that in my book but that's another question. yes. >> in november of 60, the people of atlanta loaded plurality pashtun vote plurality to compromise. they didn't vote for the secession. and then in january, when it came time to elect a delegate to the convention, they voted of secession. in that timeframe, [inaudible] there was a fire. i'm wondering if a compromise proposal, it seems to me with the election of lincoln it was over.

lincoln put them altogether. he does not seem to understand being pressed by the southern regulators. but it powerfully position them with a compromise. also his partisanship. his actions made clear he approached the crisis not as the united states leader of the republican party. but the security of his leadership and anxious of party unity. many republicans and then not republicans alike to make a public statement addressing the issues of their rights and their determination of. time again. responding of the cascade of request i could say nothing that is in print. the petition could only harm his political position. with his inflexibility he seems not to fathom the most vigorous rhetoric could terrify the south. additionally every statement had been made not as the next president of the country. for their more none of the declarations were made during the monument look crisis. obviously lincoln never stepped forward publicly in the effort to humiliate southerners. if he had with is unmatched gift of the politica

he was pursuing lincoln's policy. advocate general on november 3rd and extend the has been use corp. us. that same month. it was only two to three weeks after lincoln appointed holt he suspended the writ of has been use corpus and issued emancipation proclamation. he wouldn't have put holt in that position if he didn't expect him to follow through on the policy and support him. holt was doing lincoln's work. >> wasn't it issued during that time as it is now. >> absolutely. there was a big issue. >> the issue of suppression of civil liby. yes there were many comaint lincoln had a famous dispiewt with the chief justice of the supreme court about the suppression of civil liberties. but lincoln's response was should i protect one law in order watch the entire collapse? if you protect the civil liberty of people to rebel to that extend they destroy the nation. what have you done? really? better 0 to save the nation. >> you mentioned he was from coilt and his family owned slaves. >> yes, very tiny town on the ohio river. ho

lincoln hand picked him. people would have recommended him, but people chose him and appointed him to be the judge advocate general so lincoln knew of him beforehand. i know he did and republicked him and knew he was the right -- respected him and knew he was the right man for the job. all i'll add to that is i think you could argue that their dynamic was a good cop, bad cop dynamic, and invariably holt was the bad cop or tough cop. lincoln was much more inclined to parton, if he could, and holtfuls tougher, but lincoln often agreed. they agreed something like 80% of the time, but if there was a choice, it was most likely lincoln saying let's pardon this fellow. >> well, obviously, he supported the president -- >> and he loved him. >> okay. that was my question. what his thoughts were on longes as -- leng as a person. >> i think he thought lincoln was a little soft, you know, on some things related to military law. i think that he probably, like stanton, wished lincoln was more self-protective. he was famous

very devoted to lincoln. when lincoln was assassinated, i cannot even imagine how devastating that would have been for him, especially looking back four years and knowing that he himself had been so instrumental in making sure that lincoln was safe at the start of his presidency. >> do you think that personal relationship in his feelings toward lincoln potentially could have clouded at all the prosecution of mary's a rock and the conspirators? >> i think it factors into why he became so obsessed. certainly. but i think there are signs of his determination to punish the leaders of the confederacy throughout the war, so before the assassination you can find and talking about the way traders should be handled. he never blamed the common people in the south. he never blamed the people who are misled by these terrible leaders who were seeking their own power and so forth. but he was quite angry at all of the people like jefferson davis and so on who he had known when he was in buchanan's administration and davis w

he really looks like lincoln, but the question is why is lincoln so hot right now?oln has always been hot. he's one of those mythical figures in american history, and i think we as a society revisit him from time to time because he's so compelling, and i think the lincoln conspiracy is an effort to recapture the magic of who lincoln was and essentially translate that into the character of tamplle mcfadden who is an avenging angel who wants to understand why the assassination occurred and is determined to bring to justice those who were responsible. >> toure mentioned it, the metrosexual black abe lincoln line which has gotten a lot of attention. the backstory was this was a republican super pac, a guy was willing to put some money forward and a consultant came up with a plan to beat barack obama and one of the centerpieces of it was they would tell the country that obama had deceived americans by painting himself as a metrosexual black abe lincoln. the plan was junked. i have been baffled -- >> because it's a compliment. >> what does it mean? any idea? >> i have no

i drew abraham lincoln. more -- as i said, more books have been written about him than all the other presidents, but not only that, there have been more words printed about abraham lincoln and sayings of abraham lincoln than any other figure in world history except for jesus christ. i think that's remarkable. so why yet another book on this man? how do you find anything new about a man, he's had many books written on him, including doris kearns' book on his cabinet. before answering that question, let me tell you that happily, as of last week, my little lincoln book has become a bestseller. [applause] somehow, unbeknownst to me, this lincoln-mcgovern ticket is selling better than the one i had in 1972. i got into this when arthur schlesinger spotted me in a restaurant in new york city three years ago, and he made a beeline, eleanor was still with me at that time, he made a beeline for me, he said, george, i've got a very important request. i'm the editor in chief of a series of books on all the presidents an

lincoln hand-picked him. there were people who would've recommended him, but lincoln chosen and appointed him to be the judge advocate general. i think that lincoln knew of him beforehand. i know that he did. and she respected him and knew he was the right man for the job. the only thing allowed to that is that i think that if you could argue that they are dynamic was invariably good. but lincoln was much more inclined to pardon if he could end joseph holt was tougher. they agreed. they agreed something like 80% of the time. but if there was a choice, it was most likely lincoln. >> so he supported the president? >> yes, and he loved him. >> okay. well, i think that he probably thought that lincoln was a little bit stingy on some things related to military law. i think that he probably like, stanton, i think you wish he was more into protection. one of the things that joseph holt said at the end of his assignment as buchanan secretary of war was to make sure that lincoln got into washington and was inaugurated

yes, lincoln was a great man, but lincoln was also a good man.aren't good men, but lincoln was an exception there as well. >> lincoln had -- he had a core of decency and he really believed in everything that he, you know, that he put out there. and he just -- you have to understand that he was cut off. he had so many opponents, opposition, outsiders party, opposition within his own party. to get anything done took literally an act of congress. and he had to twist some arms to get that done. >> and if he had had a 24/7 news cycle like we have today, he would have never -- the war would have ended because, again, riots in the north. and he was so patient, but that patience finally did reward. >> that's true. >> when did you decide to do this? how many chapters did it take of doris sending you, you know what? i've got to put this up on the screen. >> i produced a segment of the millennial celebration for the white house for the clinton white house. and during that time i convened a kind of think tank including steven ambrose and ken burns, and i inv

here is the legion, lincoln park golf course of course and the eastern boundary is here. el camino del mar comes in here and the 33rd avenue intersection of el camino del mar is within the park and extends all this way up the hill to the intersection here with legend of honor drive and continues westward until it runs dead end into the boundary right here, so this is the area of the street parking that we're talk about, and then this being the legion this area is the parking lot that is directly in front of it surrounding the large fountain. to give you a different look at this let me show you here. i have this screen shot, so this is a standing at lands end looking up el camino del mar going up the hill. this is the continuation up el camino del mar from the intersection of legion of honor drive and down the hill and this is the parking lot surrounding the fountain in front of the liege legion of honor and these are the sites we're talking about and i will return this now to the overall map. over the last several years it's become difficult or increasingly difficult for

i write it as a fan of lincoln, not a foe. >> stephen carter, "the impeachment of abraham lincoln," buy the book. thank you for joining us here on booktv for a few minu

. >> jon: this is your second book, killing lincoln. >> killing lincoln was a huge success. still on the-- (laughter) >> jon: i see. >> you know. >> jon: hum il sit an important quality in an author. (laughter) >> it's on the best-seller list for 54 weeks, killing lincoln. >> jon: i'm looking forward. >> so i just accurately mention it. >> jon: you did. >> and you --. >> jon: no, no, no i wasn't -- >> you were. >> jon: i was merely giggling. >> mocked something i saw earlier. >> jon: no. >> this is what you have-- have in dmon with its president, mocking success. >> jon: yes, we mock success,. >> you both do it. >> jon: we mock success. you know there should be more americans writing assassination novels. >> conditions killing kennedy, killing lincoln. >> not a novel, by the way. >> jon: no, this is not fiction. >> killing lincoln was fiction this is real. >> no, no, both are nonfiction. >> jon: okay. we'll see. so you got killing lincoln, killing kennedy, i assume killing garfield. >> no. >> jon: the president or the cat, whichever you want to do. what is the next one. >> k

joyce welch's husband lincoln lost his engineering job. with no savings and her son's unpaid medical bills piling up, she is forced to do something she never thought she would have to. ask for help. >> so what ideally would be enough to make you breathe the most easily? >> if we had enough to pay half of the rent. i just remember sitting there going i cannot believe i'm having to do this. this sucks. we can try to find a nice word for it, but at the end of the day it just sucks. >> it's a hard time right now. >> joyce is speaking to sarah nelson the program director at the sister carmen community center. a non-profit organization that has traditionally helped low income families in east boulder county. in 2010 only 4% of sister carmen's clients were from well to do boulder suburbs like superior. but by the end of 2011, that share had exploded to a whopping 22%. so your demand went up from 2010 to 2011. the financial crisis started in 2008, why now? why are we seeing it now? >> i think especially when it comes to middle class families that

. >> i've always wanted to tell a story about lincoln. >> stahl: steven spielberg's new film "lincoln" focuses on our 16th president's almost impossible task of passing the 13th amendment abolishing slavery. the director researched the project for 12 years and cast oscar-winning actor daniel day lewis as abraham lincoln. >> blood's been spilt to afford us this moment. now, now, now! >> i think the film is very relevant for today. it's about leadership. >> stahl: leadership. >> and about telling the truth. >> i'm steve kroft. >> i'm leslie stahl. >> i'm bob simon. >> i'm lara logan. >> i'm anderson cooper. >> i'm scott pelley. those stories tonight on "60 minutes." "ever ask somebody to lend you a foot?" "who thinks about stuff like that?" "vince mahe grew up on two continents... and noticed that wherever you go, people have their hands full, but their feet free." "the result? a liftgate you operate with your foot." "code name?" "open sesame" "the all new twenty thirteen ford escape. it's what happens when you go further." two. three. my credit card rewards are easy to remember. with t

. >> a white lincoln towne car. >> you can see the person from the bank is frazzled. calls 911, describes the vehicle four minutes into the 911 call theiz something. >> it's the white lincoln towne car, isn't than about what they stole? >> break into a home, steal a car and use that car to rob the bank. >> exactly, nick. the same dudes who rob this bank carjacked louis in florida earlier. >> two guys just pulled guns on me, stole my car. a 1995 white lincoln towne car. >> louis says they tied him up way fan cord and tell foephone . >> they ditched the white lincoln towne car and picked up another vehicle which eventually ended up down there. off the freeway, they wrap their cars in the woods there. all three men were picked up. stacy taylor, christopher donaldson and windsor miles. this crime spree crossed county lines and falls into multiple jurisdictions. heads up on dispatcher. a white lincoln towne scar a pretty common car. >> that's the home invasion people. >>> horses are beautiful, big beasts, but when they get spooked you don't want to be near by. >> that's wh

lincoln and daniel day lewis is lincoln. it is going to be quite something. >> all right. that's the best one out of 15,000. get that one. >> now guest of honor. you hear about white house dinners. this is a book about what happened, and it's true, when thomas roosevelt, theodore roosevelt had booker t. washington, the first african-american to have dinner at the white house. and there was a big scandal about it. it was quite something because he had -- he invited booker t. washington to the white house for dinner. >> so this is all the ins and outs? >> and how he did it and why he did it. then our favorite, dolly madison. you know her from the ice cream. >> yep. >> all know that she was the one that saved george washington's portrait from the war of 1812. this is all about her and how she worked things. she was quite a politician on her own. so dolly madison. then if you really are getting a little tired of all the real life things, get the dirt with fiction. so there are two books by political insiders that are just great. the gq candidate. you get a lot of inside scoop

this is the steven spielberg "lincoln" film.hile trying to unite the north and the south and of course we know about the emancipation proclamation to end slavery and how that ends but the presidential candidates right now 2012 should take note on how lincoln got there because it helwhoever becomes the next president. so says the latest issue of "time" magazine. this is actor daniel day lewis on the cover and this is the "time" white house correspondent. michael, welcome. >> hello, brooke. >> your nation's 16th president to quote the man that penned this piece calls it the philosophical politicians up and down the spectrum, both obama and romney referred to him. here's just one example. >> and that is why in the shadow of the old state capitol where lincoln once called on a house divided to stand together where common hopes and common dreams still live i stand before you today to announce my candidacy for president of the united states of america! >> as a young man, lincoln described what he called america's political religion. t

a defeat would harm president lincoln's re-election chances in november. and this was his first major command, so he was moving carefully. in mid-september, sheridan learned from an informant, a quaker school teacher in winchester named rebecca wright, that early sent away men to robert e. lee's apartment share don saw his chance. in september he attacked early's army and defeated it at the third battle of winchester. three days later sheridan's army followed up with a second victory at fisher's hill. after the two victories in september, sheridan did not expect an attack by the rebels, who were outnumbered roughly two-to-one. but at daybreak, october 19, they launched a brilliant surprise attack, literally catching the union soldiers sleeping. they routed sheridan's 34,000 men. sheridan was not there. three days before he had been summoned to meetings in washington and had not yet returned to his army. he had spent the night in win chester 15 miles away. after a quick breakfast, he left win chester with his staff and cavalry escort. news of the debacle th

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i was born here in lincoln. i went to lincoln northeast high school. i left nebraska, went to war and came home. i recovered from my injuries here in lincoln. i started a business that today employs more than 700 people. i have served you as your governor. we balanced the budget and the economy recovered. i served as a senator, and again we balanced the budget and our economy recovered. when i left officer we were paying off our public debt. i am a candidate for congress or the senate because congress needs to change, and i will fate to make that change happen. i never have and i never will be a cookie cutter politician. i never have and i never will be anything other than someone who loves nebraska and will always do what is best for our state and our nation. >> thank you, senator. now that the candidates have made their opening statements, it is time for questions from our panel of journalists. we begin with fred with a question for senator kerrey. >> you are running to be not just a senator from nebraska, but a u.s. senator. if elected, how would yo

[laughter] but if you look at what he says about lincoln, it's quite revealing for for him lincoln stands for self-creation. the ability to restart your life to make yourself to whatever you want to be. to choose your own values and pursue your own dreams. your own principles. i'm not sure that's how ab lam hin con would have seen himself. that's in keeping with the general liberal approach. you're not so much concerned with how someone like washington or lincoln understood himself, you're interested in what use you can make of them in in your own time primarily. well, here is where obama goes far beyond old fashion liberalism. comes close to doubting the inevitable of progress. doubts there are fixed goal posts or standards by which to measure progress. the profit leader as it really the hero of so much liberal political writing wilson, fdr, jfk but didn't work out as they hoped lbj and other the. the profit leader is therefore on his own. forced to tell stories about the future if history in other words has no happy ending in store, if it has no guaranteed values of its own, then the le

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a defeat would harm president lincoln's reelection chances in november. and this was his first major command, said he was moving carefully. in mid-september, sheridan learned from an informant, the quaker schoolteacher in winchester named rebecca wright that have sent to a man to robert army. sheridan saw his chance. on september 19, he attacked early army and defeated it at the third title of winchester. three days later, sheridan survey followed up with the second victory of fishersville. after the tube that teresa in september, sheridan did not expect an attack by the rebels, who are out numbered roughly two to one, but at daybreak, october 19, they launched a bright surprise attack, literally catching the union soldiers sleeping. they routed sheridan's 34,009. sheridan was not there. three days before, he has been summoned to meetings in washington and get not return to his army. he spent the night in winchester, 15 miles away. after a quick breakfast on the left winchester with his staff had escort. news of the debacle that was still unfolding at ced

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lincoln could be in communication every day. >> what's the advice? with governor romney and president obama and say, listen, i've just written this giant bok on lincoln, here's what you should take away? centrist today? >> you can't be more polarized than united states in 1862. they were shooting each other. they were killing oech other in huge numbers. carnage at shiloh, more people killed in two days than had been killed in all american wars put together up till then. you can't be more polarized, yet lincoln was saying no to his base, the abolitionists all year long. it's too soon. we can't do this now. we have to show that we're with the mainstream. that's how he moved the mainstream, by being patient. >> why isn't he remembered as the shape shifter that he was known for in his time? i remember being in springfield, illinois with with obama, actually, when he was running for the senate and he pointed and said that's where abraham lincoln crawled out a window because he didn't want to take a tough vote. i thought it was interesting that obama appre

here's andrew lincoln!y: now, if i'm not mistaken, you have an accent. [ light laughter ] >> yeah, yeah. >> jimmy: you do, yeah. >> yeah. >> jimmy: where are you from? >> scandinavia. >> jimmy: no, you're not. >> no. this is -- i am actually from great britain. >> jimmy: you are? >> yeah. >> jimmy: oh, very good. from good ol' great britain. there, we have one person -- >> there's one. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: but you -- that's not the accent you use in the show. >> it's not. i do -- i play a southern cop. >> jimmy: yeah. >> a georgian cop. >> jimmy: now, how would you get cast as a -- [ with british accent ] -- southern cop? >> well -- [ laughter ] >> jimmy: like maybe -- i was working on it, yeah, yeah. >> i was -- i was -- my son had just been born. he was three days old. i hadn't slept. and this script came through. i put myself on tape. and i don't think it was the accent that got it 'cause it was probably terrible. it was the fact that -- >> jimmy: you looked like a zombie. >> i looked like i'd survived

lincoln preserved the union. frederick douglass you mentioned also has a portrait of him behind my desk. he's been there on the court to decades ago. i am a big fan of frederick douglass. i want you to think of what courage it took for a slave to stand where he stood and cite the declaration of independence, not something that is foreign to this nation, but the founding document of the nation. he cited that as exhibit a. and what was wrong with slavery. exhibit a. you don't need to go to any other shores or ideology. was our founding of ideology. how could you be inherently equal and have sleeves and be featured in other ways? he understood that. so, we fought a great war, you go to gettysburg and what does he say? it is up to less, the living to make it all worthwhile. really living to the we have the opportunity to find that amount of time to make it work. you disagree with someone. that person's motives must be bad. that's not the case. i don't think that the motives were bad. you could probably say you know t

we were not looking for lincoln when we found reagan. looking for a landlorder and we found one the other night. >> so many conservatives feel your father set the high bar in the presidential debates. >> i think they probably did. that is the only person they have been able to quote. they had no other republican to quote . now there is another republican. i bruced mitt romney a couplev years ago in the los angeles california club and i said to the group that is there. let's not make the mistake of looking for the next ronald reagan. we may do that and walk past the next great leader of our movement. when you put machine up against ronald reagan. they will fail because it is ronald reagan. let mitt romney have his moment and applaud him and not try to tie him to the past buto. >> why do people say you need that phrase and sentence in a debate that can be remembered for people going forward for the generation toz come. why do you have to have that pivotal moment. >> they are the game changer. whether the age issue with mondale there you go