lincoln's life. it is a good plan and it needs a better plan if it is going to be foiled and pinkerton had one. pinkerton had a strategy that his many years of service as a railroad detective enabled him to divide and put into practice. for more than a week, lincoln had been tendered to a moment by moment timetable speeches and reception and the plans of the conspirators had been laid accordingly. they knew exactly where he would be at any given moment. anybody would. all you had to do was look in the newspaper and you would know where lincoln would be at any given moment and in pinkerton's view the only way of thwarting this plot was to get lincoln to break away from the well-publicized itinerary and proceed directly to washington ahead of schedule under the detective's personal protection. if pinkerton could sneak the president-elect through baltimore ahead of time, the assassins would be caught off guard. by the time they took their places for the scheduled arrival of lincoln's train, of burlingto

by the time lincoln sets off for washington, seven states have seceded from the union and lincoln hopes to use this train journey to give people a chance to hear him and to see him, to listen to his ideas. he wants to pour oil on troubled waters, give people a chance to get to know him a little bit and in the end he winds up giving over 100 speeches. he is trying to extend calming words to the north and offer an olive ranch to the south. but baltimore is looming. three of these independent regional railway lines converge in baltimore and creates a choke point for all passenger and freight traffic moving from north to south. you can't get to washington without passing through baltimore. because the line doesn't go straight through lincoln will have to get out of the train and wade through a heavy crowd just as he has done it every other transfer point, only this time he is in a slaveholding state and there are people in the crowd who have threatened to kill him. here is how alan pinkerton believed it would play out when lincoln arrived at walter moore's albert st. train station and its c

but lincoln knew what he was proposing was foolhardy even dangerous even if lincoln made his move ahead of schedule the route would pass through baltimore in any case. there was no other feasible way to get there. if in the head of a change of plan gets out it would be far more precarious. to be lota relatively exposed. it is tempting to say pinkerton was throwing a the hail very. if that works you will get the first down but if it doesn't this is where she has her glory. if anyone was on the lookout for any unexpected movements they would expect to save the familiar tall figure traveling in the company of a large group of men. they would likely pass so for the young woman often to the side making arrangements for her ailing brother to the train compartment not to be disturbed on the journey. it seems lincoln was charmed in we were told he had something to say he was supposed to have said they believe it is not hitherto one of the perquisites of the presidency to acquire in full bloom so charming and accomplished a female relation. the lovely phrase i don't know if he said in a but it i

so we found all these stories about lincoln. lincoln once said to the hype always. so we found stories. oxalic of the year because they told me the link and books are gone already. we are in virginia so the lincoln books are gone. in kansas, there likes burlington, i want the amelia earhart one. abraham lincoln is a great story and i feel like there's kids here. abraham lincoln is on this horse monday. he spots the horrors and gets them back in a bit back in place. lincoln basically says if i didn't stop, i would really stop thinking about them. and i'm just like, that is abraham lincoln to me. that his greatness. and abraham lincoln first was to all hate. and this old indian comes into camp and has a letter that says he is a sign on a button and it should be trusted. and all the around and say to abraham lincoln, listed. he's going to kill us right now. abraham lincoln said now come his protected by me. anyone who wants to hurt this man, you have to go through me. abraham lincoln was a big man, over six feet tall. they're bigger than all the stuff you want us to go

abraham lincoln's, not mrs. president lincoln's. all she had to do was invite a friendly reporter or two along and they would have been gushing stories that historians could have quoted and all of us would be familiar with and who knows, you know, how it might have affected view. but she was star crossed from childhood until those last years in springfield. a tragic figure. >> let's move on and talk a little bit about mrs. grant. >> mrs. grant on the other hand loved every day she was in the white house. she came from a slave-holding family. in missouri. not to put too fine a point on it, if you've seen pictures of mrs. grant, she's not a ravishing beauty. on the other hand, he wasn't the, you know, the most hand some catch either. especially when he was drunk. [laughter] and by the way, he was drunk mostly when he was apart from julia, which i guess is one way of measuring love. when he was in the army. they seemed to have -- it seems to have been love at first sight. which is interesting. she was slightly cross-eyed. [laughter] an

on lincoln of late has told -- given a little bit wider perspective on mary lincoln.she doesn't rise to the top. she remains near the bottom, about 10 places from the bottom, but her stature increased a little bit with i think a little bit more understanding of the difficulty situation she was place -- difficult situation she was placed in and not thinking of mary lincoln someone who was mentally unstable as she had been portrayed for a long time. the other first ladies near the bottom in many cases are associated with presidencies that were seen as unsuccessful and that they added little to it. one notable first lady, florence harding, i think stands out near the bottom because it's more and more been seen she played some role in some of the perhaps corrupt aspects of the harding administration and the harding times. so florence harding is nailed really by these historians as lacking integrity. she scores right at the bottom there. the other first ladies that tend to be the bottom, in many cases they're associated with little known presidents and some of the presiden

lincoln opened up some of that.rt of what moved lincoln from being not just anti-slavery, but that you hadnizing to eliminate slavery, that abolition was the only path from hisin part, came discussions with black leaders. not only church leaders but people like frederick douglass. alsois in the film, but conversations with elizabeth cech lee. she is the woman who is alstom -- often seen with mary lincoln. the film is a little bit disingenuous in that you can think that maybe she was a servant, but she was an independent business woman who had basically become best friends with mary lincoln, but she also spent a great deal of time at the white house having discussions with abraham lincoln about race, slavery, the future of the country. her story is important to be was part of ahe contingent of african-americans who is thought to have influence the presidency, addressed issues that needed to be dealt with. the movie does not quite take you there to show you that side of the people who influenced lincoln, but it is an

lincoln pocket because it. it doesn't mention black voting rights to the 1866 in response to rising tide of white violence, the radicals in congress passed the civil rights act. and it doesn't mention black voting rights. so what i'm talking about in this book is people from outside pushing even those so-called radical republicans in the halls of congress. to kind of get on board with their agenda. they finally get it in the reconstruction acts of march 67, which contained only to the south. finally, as of that moment, blacks in the south can vote and run for office. i mentioned ago that this was a movement that was radical in the best sense of the word. look how fast this happens. march of 67, the supreme court announces the blacks, even if they are born free, like lewis douglas was born in new bedford, cannot be citizens of the united states because the founding fathers did not intend for them to be. just 10 years down the road. now blacks are voting in virginia. alabama, thanks to the reconstruction act, and

i know he loved working on the lincoln bedroom. the lincoln bedroom when he lived at the white house was actually his office. until teddy roosevelt built the west wing which he just did to get out of the house because yet had the wild kids upstairs, the president's office on the second floor at the far end of the hallway from the president's bedroom. when the lincoln lived there, the room was his office. the room he signed the emancipation proclamation in and after truman restored, he moved all of the furniture associated with lincoln, the big bed. and the other pieces of furniture that mary todd lincoln had ordered. he moved them to that space which been lincoln's bedroom. we redid it. we had a little square about this big of wallpaper that have been in the room when it was his office. we reproduced it. we knew we had the bill of sale of the carpet that had been bought at the time that lincoln lived there. we went to the same place in england which had done in the carpet for him and we do not know for sure which of the patterns th

there is a new book about lincoln. aham."ed "i am abr the author joins us from the nation's capital. there are a lot of books about lincoln, fiction as well as nonfiction. tell us about yours. >> i was having lunch with a very renowned critic and she happened to say that the two greatest american poets were emily dickinson and abraham lincoln. i was startled by that because i never considered lincoln a poet. i began to do my research and what impressed me the most was that he was a lifelong depressive. his depression came almost like musical fits. i was also a lifelong depressive so i found an entry point into writing about him. once i discovered that, i could write the novel. >> having discovered that, what did you discover about his life that was also similar of your own upbringing? >> the lack of education. learning language word by word. the first words he wrote were " i am abraham." language was learn very powerful and it moved me, it touched me. it made me want to talk about his life. >> describe a little bit about i hi

[laughter] what of lincoln.is one network's tribute to him. >> i'm on a contrairan on abraham lincoln and bemoan the fact that he has been -- >> jon: i believe he is referringing to the fact that he killed vam pires. why bemoan a president most of us be-like? >> i prefer to look at him this way. at the time he was president of the united states slavery was dying a natural death all over the western world. instead of allowing it to die or helping it to die or even purchasing the slaves and then freeing them which would have cost a lot less money than the civil war cost, lincoln set about on the most murder russ war in american history. >> oh, right. [ laughter ] >> compensated emancipation. why didn't lincoln think of that? what is that? did he think after this. he spent most of 1862 to convince states to free their slaves in exchange for money and everybody said (bleep) off. okay. because i wasn't economically feasible and the slave states had a deeply invested interest in maintaining a two tiered culture using

and activists admired lincoln.they were so sure about his party. in most books on reconstruction, sort of the big story, the big narrative is a snap between moderate lincoln and the more radical progressives like that. stevens 1863, radicals and congress passed a bill called the latest build that it's that kind of progressive reconstruction response to lincoln. the way davis doesn't mention black voting rights. so 1866 in response to rising tide of white violence in the south, radicals and congress passed the civil rights act. it doesn't mention black voting rights. what i talk about in this book is from the outside, pushing me that the most so-called radical republicans in the halls of congress. to kind of get on board with their agenda. and of course they finally get it in the reconstruction act of march 67, which is of course only to the south. finally at that moment? in the south can go and run for office. i mentioned that this was a movement that was radical in the best sense of the word. look how fast this ha

president lincoln did make some bold assertions insult the congressional approval retrospectively. >> i was living in new york on september 11 i was scared about what happened and i wanted to make sure things would be protected in the united states but i also realize realized its importance are we going to maintain a constitutional government and i heard arguments being made for actions like surveillance, torture, complete presidential force which isn't what the constitution provides for and the presiden president d with these actions and people defended would say when kim took unilateral action himself. that is true in recognizing the limits on its power he recognized the rule of law when he took unilateral actions including suspending habeas corpus between philadelphia and washington, ordering a blockade of the south. i'm asking the congress to take action to decide what you want. you recognize that some people argue that lincoln was acting based on prerogative to set aside the law or there is a book called constitutional dictatorship where the president can just do what he or she w

holzer is a lincoln scholar and author or editor of 35 books and a consultant on "lincoln," the academyrd winning film of 2012. >> same discord that greeted much of reconstruction. even though dead at the time he was considered the northern interloper who would impose federal control on the sunny south. while there was a washington's birthday that was a federal holiday, lincoln never made it. he was only a state by state holiday. >> and today only four states designate lincoln's birthday, february 12th, as an official holiday. although president lincoln has been passed over for a federal day off he is on mt. rushmore, the $5 billion and the penny. but there is talk of ditching the penny, because of the cost to produce. >> dr. king and others have, it's a little bit of a national embarrassment. >> we can all enjoy the day off, save some pennies on those sales but call it what it is, washington's birthday. >>> join us on air and online tomorrow on "the news hour." that's it for this edition of "pbs news hour this weekend." i'm hari sreenivasan. thanks for watching. >>> good morning and we

together was lincoln. it wasn't the chief justice. in fact, dread scott helped bring on the law. and his attorney general, bates, on suspending the right of habeas corpus didn't say lincoln could do it. he said whatever lincoln had was of a temporary/restricted nature and the only branch that could do it permanent was congress. so i think they took the constitution seriously. >> host: so lincoln is the model of the constitutionalist as president. he doesn't say he can do whatever he likes. he acknowledges the gaps in his authority. does what he thinks is necessary but careful to justify the position and then congressional approval. let's talk about harry truman now and his decision to issue executive orders and we know they are very much in the news now that president obama says he is going to use them. truman was going to seize the steel mills and keep them open. in a famous opinion by jackson, he identified three categories of executive power. tell us about those and how they are relevant. >> this goes t

i know he loved working on the lincoln bedroom. the lincoln bedroom when he lived at the white house was actually his office. until teddy roosevelt built the west wing which he just a dead to get out of the house -- which he just did to get out of the house because yet the wild kids upstairs, the president's office on the second floor at the far end of the hallway from the president's bedroom. when the lincoln a lifted their, the room -- lived there, the room was his office. the room he signed the emancipation proclamation and after truman restored, he moved all of the furniture associated with lincoln, the big bed. and the other pieces of furniture that mary todd lincoln had ordered. he moved them to that space which been lincoln's bedroom. we redid it. we had a little square about this big of wallpaper that have been in the room when it was his office. we reproduce it. we knew we had the bill of sale of the carpet that had been bought at the time that lincoln lived there. we went to the same place in england which done in the car

i want to start with something that you say this about lincoln.n felt the pressures of the world so acutely that he could sometimes knock -- not get out of bed. >> that's true. out of the crisis in fort sumter, he literally couldn't get out of bed and foreign affairs wasn't part of this. we think of the civil war as north versus south but he had to deal with a series of crisis right at the beginning of the war with britain, france and spain eventually, with russia even was a rising power during this period and we don't think of lincoln in that context. jenna: we don't. why not? >> there's two reasons. one, the civil war, you know, is a massive war raging on american soil and that's something he had to deal with. also lincoln had a very powerful and strong secretary of state in william henry so he delegated a lot of stuff to seward to deal with. jenna: is that one of the take aways from your look at lincoln's presidency, his power to delegate? >> that's part of it. he delegated a lot to seward but what was important to me is the things that lincoln

think about lincoln.came such an extraordinary president, and yet the internal qualities, the willingness to forget hurt, the willingness to talk to people, those had always been part of his temperament, but we had never seen it because he was only in the state legislature for one term in congress, so i am not sure a person changes. it is just that they have been giving -- given a platform. as you say, truman was a good man before this, and he got the chance, and he beckoned and answered the call. >> he had the power to answer decisions. he was not afraid of decisions. >> i remember once lbj told me that he envied truman's ability to make decisions and then go to sleep that night knowing he had made a decision that could be wrong, but he had known as much as he could about it when you made it, whereas he over and over again, as bob so well knows, would think about the decisions that he made and would not be able to sleep at night. >> and then when he had to face down that carter. -- macarthur. he understo

she was borned and raised in san francisco and attended sacred heart but graduated from abraham lincoln high school which is where my older daughter graduated. there seem to be a theme as abraham lincoln high school [inaudible] she had the opportunity to work with a master stylist. she pursued a license in cause motology and continued her training at the pris teejs paul mitchell academy for styling. in 1992, she went into partnership andopebed her first salon in san francisco. can you believe when i heard she opened up [inaudible] what was she, 5 years old. not only is she living her dream of running her own business [inaudible] about a year and a half agoy a 4 alarm fire shut down many of the businesses on ocean avenue including bridge lts. it was a difficult decision for any of the business owners to continue operation, but bridget was determined. she managed to

mary lincoln portray by sally field in the film about lincoln and some of the literature on lincoln of late has told, given a wider perspective on mary lincoln. she does not rise to the top. she remains near the bottom, about 10 places from the bottom, but her stature increased a little bit with more understanding of the difficult situation she was placed in. and no longer just thinking of mary lincoln as someone who was mentally unstable, as she had been portrayed for a long time. the other first ladies near the bottom, in many cases, are associated with presidencies that were seen as unsuccessful and that they added little to it. one notable first lady, florence harding, i think stands out near the bottom because it is more and more been saying that she played some role in some of the perhaps corrupt aspects of the harding administration. so florence harding is nailed as lacking integrity, she scores right at the bottom. the other first ladies that tend to be at the bottom in many cases are associated with little-known presidents, and some of the presidents, both johnson and pierce,

it was last done by truman when he set it up to be the lincoln bedroom, to have the lincoln furniturein it. when lincoln lived here, the room was his office. when truman redid the house in the late 1940's and early 1950's, he set up that room, the room we now call the lincoln bedroom, to commemorate the fact that it was lincoln's office, and it was the room he signed the emancipation proclamation in. so the room itself is really a shrine, i think, to american history. truman re-did the room then and it had never been refurbished, so it really needed it. the carpet was over 50 years old. i had worked with the white house historical association, the preservation board who are furniture curators, they are the real scholars, and the white house curator, of course. we looked back at the wallpaper lincoln had in his office, at the carpet he had in his office, and we did reproductions of those. then we had old photographs of the way mary todd lincoln dressed the lincoln bedroom the purple and gold and fringe and lace, high victorian decorations. we did have later photographs with the bed sti

trader lincoln ellis of green square capital joins us on this tuesday morning. happy tuesday to you lincoln. > >happy tuesday to you angie. > >is this a stock pickers market or an index situation where people want to buy the entire index? > >that's a great question. the indexes have had extraordinary runs over the past couple of years really since the bottom of 2009 the s &p up over some 172%. a theme for 2014 is gonna be names over indexes and particular sectors over others. so being very careful and very cautious about which names and which sectors you choose versus the broad indexes will bring you some outperformance this year. > >what about european stocks? those are surging. > >that's a great question. that's really another leg to this stool here. european stocks having had significant discount to the u.s.--not experiencing that multiple expansion we saw in 2013. some of those stocks really trading anywhere between a 15 and 5% discount so german gdp is up. spanish gdp up. that's the cause ofr that surge and those stocks are still undervalued relative to the

president lincoln and so-called radicals in congress and to get the most progressive in washington who by their standards were not all that progressive behind their agenda. so in october of 1864 to begin audible enough living in syracuse new york. in that month 150 delegates representing 17 states and washington dc met in a convention in the methodist church by the way if you go to syracuse today it's a mexican restaurant called the mission. it's okay. the decor is better than anything else, it's still there. there had been black activists in the convention movement before the war of course they would push very hard for anti-slavery that in the dred scott decision of 1857, it simply died. black americans became the cheapest and they have no future in the country even frederick douglass began to toy with the idea of relocating to haiti so to kind of jump start this movement they met in october of 64 in syracuse and douglas as they are and of course is the alpha male in the movement and logan, logan was a runaway slave who moved to tennessee and they become in-laws. his daughter mar mary

the lincoln bedroom was last done by truman when he set it up to be the lincoln bedroom to have the lincolnfurniture in it. when lincoln lived in at the room was his office but when sherman redid the house in the late 40s and early 50s, he set up that room, the room we now call the lincoln bedroom to commemorate the fact that it was lincoln's office and it was the room that he signed the emancipation proclamation in. the room itself is really a shrine i think to american history. truman redid the room and that renovation and it had never been refurbished sense and really needed it. the carpet was over 50 years old so i worked with the white house historical association, the preservation board and the furniture curators art historians, wallpaper specialists. they are the real scholars in the white house curator of course and we looked back at the wallpaper lincoln had in his office and the carpet he had in his office and we did reproductions of those. and then we had old photographs of the way mary todd lincoln had draped the lincoln bed with the purple and gold and the french in place, real

mary lincoln portray by sally field in the phil about lincoln and some of the literature on givenn of late has told, a wider perspective on mary lincoln. she does not rise to the top. she remains to the bottom, about 10 places from the bottom, but her stature increased a little bit with more understanding of the difficult situation she was placed in. and no longer just thinking of mary lincoln as someone who was mentally unstable, as she had been per trade for a long time. the other first ladies near the bottom, in many cases, are associated with presidencies that were seen as unsuccessful and that they added little to it. florencele first lady, harding, i think stands out near the bottom because it is more and more been saying that she played some role in some of the perhaps corrupt aspects of the harding and ministration. -- administration. so florence harding is nailed as lacking integrity peerages course right at the bottom. the other first ladies that tend to be at the bottom in many cases are associated with little-known presidents, and some of the president am a both bookon and

lincoln how was the play? i do think that he was the architect of a kind of american popism that ultimately, popism that expanded the definition of what it means to be an american. >> when you look at the great presidents, lincoln, washington, fdr, you almost say they all had a war. eisenhower i think -- >> >> rose: may loom even larger. >> this is what historians should do and we don't do it enough which is give credit to presidents who prevent crises as much as we do to those who meet them and deal with them well, because in retrospect, we now know something we couldn't have known at the time, we didn't have the hindsight, we didn't have the sources at the time, which is that about three occasions eisenhower prevented wars in vietnam, escalations in korea, even a nuclear confrontation a few times but that is something people couldn't know at the time and give him credit. >> rose: what about truman? >> truman in that sense? >> yes. >> truman was the author of the korean war which we do not look well at histor

was mary todd lincoln on the train? among the many reasons lincoln was criticized for falling in with pinkertons plan on that night, his family was on the train with him and the thinking was quite reasonably, if you are in so much danger why did you leave your wife and children on the train to face these dangers that you would not? .. >> have them to lunch at the home a prominent citizen of baltimore and then take them to the the train, to the second train that would carry them the rest of the way to washington which would have, might have sidestepped the issue as effectively as pinkerton's plan did. so it is quite possible that she wasn't on the train any more than he was. but the perception that lincoln had left his family to face the perils that he himself would not also clung to him like glue. anyone else? ma'am? >> yes, a couple quick things, and i apologize if you already addressed this. but, first, what specific thing kicked off for you about this event that made you say i want to spend the time researching exact

then also closed, t street between 1st street and lincoln road. so we're going to head to the top of the beltway now. traveling the outer loop of the beltway as you make your way toward new hampshire avenue, there's a pothole in the second to right lane. a large pothole. so authorities have been and a halved. hopefully they'll get somebody out. heads up to avoid that. also checking for folks traveling westbound university boulevard. this is another work zone that's been going on for some time. it is blocking the right lane. this is just west of veirs mill road. i'm back in ten minutes. back to you. >> thank you. 4:32. >>> we're staying on top of a developing story. the secretary of is on for a man who shot and killed this woman and left another -- the search is on for the man who shot and killed this woman and left another wounded. when the woman answered a knock at the door, she was shot. megan mcgrath with more on the search for the man when pulled the trigger. >> reporter: aaron, there's quite a police presence here in the neighborhood. if you

you hear about the president being influenced by lincoln or reagan. which first lady have the first ladies learned from? >> diane was interested in the young people who have called. we have put together a bit of a montage of some of the calls over the course of the series. >> thank you so much for this program. i was wondering, how did jacqueline kennedy influence art and fashion in the united states? >> rachel, may i ask how old you are, watching our program tonight? >> i'm 12. >> i have a question about mrs. kennedy. what were her favorite hobbies and what did she like to do in her spare time? >> it sounds like we have another student watching tonight. >> i'm 12 years old. >> we're doing wonderful with 12-year-olds tonight. thank you for calling. >> i love history and i love watching channels like this, learning new things every time i turn on the tv. >> what is your question for us? >> i have to. the first is, what were lady ird johnson's hobbies? what was her relationship with the kids? >> how old are you? >> i'm nine years old. >> i just want to

. >> then detective judy stanley got a call from her counterpart in lincoln, nebraska, 200 miles away. lincoln police had just arrested a man named mars davis on a drug possession charge, and davis offered them a deal. he said he was willing to provide information about an unsolved murder in des moines in return for leniency on his drug charge. >> i felt tremendously guilty for a long time. i didn't want to think about it anymore. it bothered me every time i closed my eyes. >> unfortunately, davis didn't know the name of the victim. he did, however, remember the neighborhood where he lived. >> he only knows that he lives at a house someplace off of harding road. he knows it's by a convenience store. he knows there's a couple car washes nearby, knows the guy works for a tv station, knows that he went to the outer limits and knows that he's killed in his house. >> mars davis was describing pat mcrae's murder, and the details he provided were so bizarre, it was hard for investigators to believe. >> it's not a story that you expect to hear every day in the news. >> mars davis said that fi

so it's hard to believe that this 19-feet high, 175 ton abraham lincoln, one of the most recognizableorld never almost existed because of congressional gridlock over government spending. when you hear about people talking about government as a swamp, it's not just a metaphor. over a century ago, right where i'm standing it was a swamp, a place to even dump dead bodies. now, to build this would cost $3 million. it doesn't sound like a lot in tod today's terms but back then it was the most expensive in history. >> joe cannon called it a swamp and he didn't understand how he could have a presidential memorial out here. >> reporter: it took almost a decade, five failed votes in congress to approve the site. >> the designer, who was henry bacon, came up with this idea of putting this thing on an elevated kind of hill on pile-ones 60 feet in the air and that's when the temple of the memorial actually begins. >> reporter: finally, in february 1914, 100 years ago this month, construction began and took eight years to complete. >> it's an epic memorial in that it is not only speaks to this hug

on mary lincoln. she does not rise to the top. she remained near the bottom, but her stature increases with a little more understanding of the difficult situation she was placed in and no longer just thinking of mary lincoln as someone who was mentally unstable, as she had been portrayed for a long time. theother first ladies near bottom in many cases are associated with presidencies that were seen as unsuccessful and they added little to it. one notable first lady -- florence harding -- stands out here the bottom because it's more and more been seen that she played some role in some of the perhaps corrupt aspect of the harding at the list ration and the harding times. florence harding is nailed by these historians as lacking integrity and scores right at the bottom. the other first ladies that tend to be at the bottom in many cases are associated with little-known presidents and presidents of both johnson and peers who book ended the civil war, i time in our country where we were looking for great le

president lincoln cutter off financially.to asking the country sacrifice and your spending like there is no tomorrow. spending was a huge scandal. whoew jackson's wife rachel was alive when he was elected but died right before the inauguration, she had been married to men -- two men at the same time. called sorts of negative words. nancy reagan had a lot of dresses from high-end designers while her husband is making drastic cuts in social programs. that was a minor scandal. been marital infidelities. it is a good thing we're having this conversation on a program .ike this are it is a highly public role and highly gendered role. i hope it changes with the times great. nicole in san antonio is underlined for independents. you're talking about the significant personal influence of first spouses. we are talking about the possibility of bill clinton being a first spouse. conceptis violate our of term limits in spirit if not in actual fact. can you comment on your understanding of first spouses. what is your take on the influence o

who is going to become the future secretary of state in the lincoln administration. sue ward was even rumored to have nurse jefferson davis back to health during one of the fit of illness. these friendships and the washington experience help explain why davis and others were so surprised by this speed in which succession took hold and the sadness in which they met at the end of the union. or at least what they expected to be the end of the union. there was a great scene at the end of this. jefferson davis saying goodbye to his fellow congressmen in january 1861. folding up his things. walking out of the capitol weeping the entire way. it's not the picture we think of jefferson davis. even he understand it was a serious moment and a moment he was not necessarily expecting. so i want to leave you with tonight is the idea that washington during this period, was not the typically divisive and violent place that we think of when we think of the coming of the civil war inspect many ways it was the exception. it was the kind of place where you could escape some of that divi

a huge tree came on 37th avenue near lincoln in san francisco. and we're not the only one's dealing withe elements. new development in the mountains... chain controls have just gone up on inters 80. they're also required on highway 88. here's what it looks like at donner summit. that's about 72- hundred fe up. it's a fairly high snow level right now. temperatures in the lake tahoe area are arod the freezing level. in southern california... a rain- soaked freeway may ha played a role in the crash big rig, in pasadena. it happened last night, in a tunnel along interstate 210. in eastern l-a county, a thousand homes are under mandatory evacuatn orders. heavy rain could cause flooding and mudslide steep mountain slopes, burny a recent wildfire in glendo. for up-to-date weather information, around the clo. go to "k-p-i-x dot com." developing this morning-- fs say surveillance video shown francisco cops stealing mon and drugs during searches. it's part of a three year lg investigation... and now, t officers have been indicted. anne makovec is in the ne

>> lincoln was taken, jefferson was taken.like to see him ranked among presidents? >> seventh or eighth from the bottom, hopefully in the bottom five. he's bigoted against jews, hates blacks, during the civil war he basically supports the confederacy. >> but fillmore did lower the price of the postage stamp. >> he did. >> he was a terrible president. but it turns out not so bad father which they commemorate on his birthday. >> as you're aware he served uv as chancellor for 30 years. university at buffalo delivered this year's fill lard fillmore. >> which we know the -- how did -- >> we feel a sense of pride. although isn't going to rise much in terms of presidential standings. >> do you feel a little bit guilty saying that right here? >> millard, do you mind? but over in east aurora the whole town turns out formyl lord fillmore's birthday party. even millard himself. >> i see you have some wipe here. you know that i was a tea totaller. >> this year a surprise guest. health and human services who bears striking resemblance. >>

. >> lincoln? >> lincoln?you got it. >> embarrassingly enough, i haven't heard that one. >> you haven't heard that? >> no, rub it in. >> who did lincoln free? >> the slaves. >> are you sure? >> no, not sure. >> ask not what your country can do but what you can do for your country. >> thank you anyway. >> i think i hear my mother calling me. >> ask not what your country can do for you but. >> what you could do for your country? >> very good. [screams] >> you can do for your country? >> who said that? >> john f. kennedy. >> excellent job. >> kennedy? >> you got it. [screams] >> ask not what your country can do for you but -- >> what your country can do for you. >> no. that's what i said. ask not what your country can do for you but. >> what you could do for your country? i didn't come up with that one. >> do you know who said that? >> bill clinton. no jack kennedy. >> you are o'reilly factor. >> he was funny at the kennedy awards. >> he is the only one not nervous about what i'm going to say. [ laughter ] >> do