lincoln's death. they undertook a mission to create an enduring reputation for their slain leader. and an extensive biography in the century magazine which at the time was the leading circulation in america. that effort was one of the single successful exercises of historical revisionism in history. writing against southern currents of the time, they created the northern interpretation of the war but it was their portrayal of lincoln which every writer had to stake out a position. they invented the lincoln we know today. the sage farmer, the military j jen genius, a master of a cabinet, the lincoln memorial lincoln. these are in every sense the intention or the imagination that was left by these two. lincoln was all of these things. in some measure there can be no doubt. but it is easy to forget and we do how successful they were in elevating his place in the national memory. while lincoln prided himself on the deep connection to the people, which was a phrase he used often, he never succeeded in tran

they're rendering of lincoln is basically null lincoln memorial lincoln, a man end up with on common humanity but was fundamentally flesh and blood. they could barely have claimed to know him better than any other man of their time, so it's little wonder then left to rendering. it would not be until 1947 that any others dollar was able to touch, look at, or consult the papers. and so essentially because of robert todd lincoln screed they enjoyed the playing field long after they died. as to what happened, nikolai gave the better part of this latter life to lincoln, first as a close adviser and then as keeper of the fine. shortly before he died he wrote to a former staff member and said, i don't let any unsatisfied ambitions or any. he died that year shortly after president mckinley was assassinated in september. they lived until 1905 and went on to achieve considerable wealth and success. the morning after he dreamed of abraham lincoln on that ship back from liverpool shortly before his death he wrote another diary entry in what she said, i say to myself that i should not rebel at th

he claimed that lincoln had never loved mary todd lincoln. the love of his life had been a young woman named ann rutledge to die when lincoln was off in springfield or actually the old state capital for his first term in the legislature and that he never got over the loss. he claimed that lincoln had syphilis. it was not clear why this was helpful or helping to set, you know -- he tried to make him a very earthy figure. the family was absolutely furious. they elected these interviews and thought, there is no possible way that people could remember with any precision somebody whom they had no expectation whatever rise that far. one of his informants said something really telling. look, you know, i'm sorry. i wish i could remember more. when i knew him it was just for a year in her early 20's, and i had no idea you would be president, so i did not think term member. so they relied instead on a vast body of lincoln's papers and any kind of primary sources they could get there hands on. they scoured the country by posting advertisements, looking

lincoln's death. they undertook a mission to create an enduring reputation for their slain leader. and an extensive biography in the century magazine which at the time was the leading circulation in america. that effort was one of the single successful exercises of historical revisionism in history. writing against southern currents of the time, they created the northern interpretation of the war but it was their portrayal of lincoln which every writer had to stake out a position. they invented the lincoln we know today. the sage farmer, the military j jen genius, a master of a cabinet, the lincoln memorial lincoln. these are in every sense the intention or the imagination that was left by these two. lincoln was all of these things. in some measure there can be no doubt. but it is easy to forget and we do how successful they were in elevating his place in the national memory. while lincoln prided himself on the deep connection to the people, which was a phrase he used often, he never succeeded in tran

we are fascinated with lincoln. we have to own him. >> reporter: a group of counterfeiters tried to steal the president's body and hold it for ransom. >> they tried to steal lincoln's remains? >> yes, mr. lincoln did not rest peacefully. they gained access inside the burial chamber. they were able to cut through the sarcophagus. they were able to expose the coffin, but that's when they were disrupted. they didn't get any further than that. >> reporter: protecting the president in death felt to an elite group known as lincoln's guard of honor. >> for many years they kept those remains buried in a shallow grave beneath the tomb, beneath the basement of the tomb. each member of the guard was sworn to protect this secret. >> reporter: it's found deep within the brick and granite monument few visitors have been allowed to see firsthand. we were given unique access to the interior cavities of lincoln's tomb. at one point lincoln's remains were moved down here in the chambers and covered with lumber. until it could be perm

i'm worried if lincoln did the gettysburg address, today. some politician would say, lincoln just tried to distract us from his miserable campaign out west. >> there's so much written about our historical literacy and how it's not being taught well about how people don't know much about their history so there is a certain dichotomy here that you've been so successful in telling the stories of our past. >> it tells you that there's pent-up demand, there is hunger, curiosity, we all can look at nice u tube things of kittens and balls of string. but we need longer-form things. >> what do you tell them? >> when we got rid of memorization we also got rid of narrative. the word history which for some people, means castor oil, something you hold your nose over, it's not good tasting. but history is made mostly about story. the series i've done, documentaries, same laws apply, it's story, story telling, if you've got a good story you've got them there. if it's a kid seven or eight years old, and hasn't really because of how they've grown up because

lincoln. ashhaash-har quraishi has the s. >> today those ballot stained gloves are a horrible reminder of the violence of that evening at ford's theater. >> completed in 1874 the final resting place of president lincoln attracts over 300,000 visitors each year. in death lincoln achieved legendary status, turning his remains into relics. >> you'll see swaths of hair, people trying to deal with blood stained fabric, saying this is lincoln's we are fascinated with lincoln. we have to own him. >> a fascination taken to the extreme in 1876 when a group of chicago counterfeiters tried to steal president lincoln's body and hold it for ransom. >> these are tools that the people who tried to steal mr. ploing' lincoln's remains. >> they were able to cut through the sar cough gust, gs sar cough sarcofagus. >> for many years. each member of the guard was sworn to protect this secret. >> few visitors have ever been allowed to see firsthand. we were given unique access to the interior cavities of lincoln's

lincoln's remains. they were able to cut through sarcophagus. . >> for many years they kept those remains buried in a shallow grave beneath the too many, beneath -- tomb, beneath the layer of the tomb. each guard was sworn to keep this secret. >> it is a where secret few visitors were allowed to see firsthand. we were given unique access to the interior cavities of lincoln's tomb. >> at one point his remains were moved here. >> his remained would be moved some 17 times and his coffin opened at least five times in the decades since his death. michael osiri works at the monument. >> give us an idea where the final resting place is. >> where we are standing right here, 15 feet across and straight down. ten feet underground ant in steal and concrete. >> 4,000 pounds of concrete and a location out of sight, finally provided a secretive yet final resting place for the 16th president of the united states. ash-har quraishi, springfield illinois. >> a full lunar eclipse known as the blood moon. the process start

saying this is lincoln's.are fascinated with lincoln, we have to own him. >> reporter: a fascination taken to the extreme in 1976 when a group of counterfeiters tried to steal the body and hold it for ransom. >> mr. lincoln did not rest peacefully. they gained access inside to the burial chamber, they were able to cut through the sar cough gus, they were able to expose the coffin, but that's when they were disrupted. >> reporter: protecting the president in death fell to an elite group. >> for many years they kept those remains buried in a shallow grave beneath the basement of the tomb. and each member of the guard was sworn to protect this secret. >> reporter: it is a secret found deep inside the mon yum few visitors have ever been allowed to see firsthand. we were given unique access to the interior cavities of lincoln's tomb at one point his remains were moved down here and covered with lumber until it could be permanently secured. his remains would be moved some 17 times and his coffin opened at least five

what about abe lincoln?ing that conservative return to. >> to echo what jamelle's saying, lincoln is response ebl f responsible for theestan existef the federal government. they like to think of him as the father of the republican party, when it comes to the specific thing, which is that he -- we think well of him as american people. it's not even that he freed slaves so much. it's they're trying to piggy back on the fact that people like abe lincoln. go ahead. >> i was going to say, jamelle, it's worth noting that you noted this, levied the first income tax on the country, something conservatives hate. i though there's a lot of back and forth online and in print about race this week, and going back and forth about conservatives and their relation to it. jonathan, who has a massive piece in "new york" magazine, hotly debated, he writes, effectively racial conservatism used to be similar things, now they are effectively the same thing. i think no other person bears this out better than rush limbaugh, i must p

in the gettysburg address, lincoln talks about a new birth of freedom. doubling down on declaration, the declaration being a flawed document written fourscore and seven years ago that says all men are created equal, but hoops, thomas jefferson owned human beings and did not see fit free thosetime to individuals. now after the greatest battle, lincoln was coming there and saying look, we really do believe it. i'm doubling down on this, and he is giving us a new operation -- new operating system. it is interesting the way has resonated over time, the poetry of these words that have such durability has lasted. from newe river hampshire where i live in a tiny town in newmont, are these boys who are experiencing a new birth of freedom by learning the gettysburg address, not just learning it, but publicly reciting it. to do it, and you can memorize it. students it takes two or three months of struggle and agonizing. that's what the film is doing. also bumping up against them with the historical context because we are all liberated by the struggle, and that lib

let's head back to lincoln ellis in the pits of the cme.ln. >> david, a little bit aflac luster day obviously with europe closed for the continue ages of the easter holiday and numbers pits are looking forward to this week a couple of housing numbers. existing homes tomorrow. new homes on wednesday, along with pmi. of course the weekly jobless claims towards the very light session in terms of volume and in terms of interest. that should accelerate in terms of interest and volume as we head into the rest of the week. david: lincoln ellis, thank you very much. liz: netflix earnings came out moments ago. not so much the numbers but being said in that report. david: exactly. what is being said is affecting after-hours trading. nicole petallides a six 1/2% jump for netflix. >> pretty amazing this stock moving up not quite 20 bucks but we're seeing the upside as numbers beat the street. let's talk about what they're talking about streaming and subscribers an comcast and the like. streaming members for the latest quarter, 47.84 million. that tops

lincoln also playsed in categories what the government should do into two categories.ich have not into the first category he put. those that have not he put into the second category. things like are crime, misdemeanors and nonperformance of contract. in the second he put those things that are without wrong but require combined action like public roads and highways, public schools, charities, orphanage, estates of the deceased and the machinery of government itself. those are the things including charity to the poor that old abe lincoln believed god government should do. here's looking at you, paul ryan. >>> that wroopz things up for the receipt report. have a great weekend. be sure to visit us on-line at the reid report.msnbc.com. the cycle is up next. they think salmon and energy. but the energy bp produces up here creates something else as well: jobs all over america. thousands of people here in alaska are working to safely produce more energy. but that's just the start. to produce more from existing wells, we need advanced technology. that means hi-tech jobs in cali

as lincoln's assets ballooned he used the spoils to pay for a lavish lifestyle.s black was a pivotal regulator in the savings and loan scandal. >> it was the most politically powerful of the savings and loans, and was able to get immense political intervention to try to protect the frauds against us, the regulators. >> reporter: but 1987 with commercial real estate prices in free fall, savings and loans started to fail. with regulators closing in, keithing enlisted the help of a handful of senators to call off the watchdogs. lincoln finally went bust in 1989, the largest of some 1,000 savings and loans failures that would eventually cost taxpayers $124 billion. new restrictions were placed on thrifts, effecttively reregulating them. nevertheless the excesses would be repeated. >> executive compensation along with the reregulation and de-supervision, those were the two biggest causes of the savings and loan debacle and the two biggest causes of the enron era scandal. >> reporter: but have we finally learned our less son? >> we do seem to have learned some of those

as lincoln's assets ballooned he used the spoils to pay for a lavish lifestyle.ams black was a pivotal regulator in the savings and loan scandal. >> it was the most politically powerful of the savings and loans, and was able to get immense political intervention to try to protect the frauds against us, the regulators. >> reporter: but 1987 with commercial real estate prices in free fall, savings and loans started to fail. with regulators closing in, keithing enlisted the help of a handful of senators to call off the watchdogs. lincoln finally went bust in 1989, the largest of some 1,000 savings and loans failures that would eventually cost taxpayers $124 billion. new restrictions were placed on thrifts, effecttively reregulating them. nevertheless the excesses would be repeated. >> executive compensation along with the reregulation and de-supervision, those were the two biggest causes of the savings and loan debacle and the two biggest causes of the enron era scandal. >> reporter: but have we finally learned our less son? >> we do seem to have learned some of tho

the result is a party of abraham lincoln that lincoln, himself, wouldn't be caught dead in.ball" for now. thanks for being with us. "all in with chris hayes" starts right now. >>> good evening to you from new york. i am ari melber filling in for chris hayes. tonight there's breaking news into the federal investigation into the lane closures on the george washington bridge at the center of the so-called bridge-gate scandal surrounding new jersey governor chris christie. we can report tonight for the first time that the attorney for christie's press secretary is confirming this evening that his client, michael druniak testified today before a federal grand jury at newark, new jersey's, federal courthouse. in addition, both abc news and the new jersey "star ledger" are reporting a grand jury,

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lincoln said 100 years later, if it required preserving slavery in order to save the union he was in favor of preserving slavery. if emancipation preserving union he would be for emancipation. the founders as you know from studying history were at a moment and this wasn't the only issue. there was the power of the states and federal us. so there are compromises. but look, dr. king referred and so did lincoln, referred back to those founding documents particular the greatest phrase ever written about human freedom. all men are created equal and endowed by their creator. they understood that rights in order to be protected from government had to be put outside the reach of government and dr. king appealed to that and lincoln appealed to that and you're absolutely right. >> host: but i'm not discussing that. what i'm talking about in this book in terms of trying to say their common sense solutions that predate all of this. >> guest: yes, of course. >> host: said is slavery and sodas oppression of women. >> guest: we could go on for an hour about that but slavery, denial of civil rights

nobody in lincoln knows. but we're to find out. the masked mankind of looks like your favorite caped crusader, except he's become affectionately known as speedo batman. you're about to see speedo batman from his apartment, known as the bat cave, outside of pinnacle bank arena, after a bon jovi concert. oh. he forgot his sight. he's got the mask, the cape, the speedo. and then the white tube socks, a nice touch. you can hear how many people out there are pumped up to see speedo batman. now, this isn't just a one time thing. this is legit, this is after the bon jovi concert. this happened after a jay-z concert, after a pink concert, in the same area. speedo batman makes an appearance and entertains the crowd. you can see all the people watching. this has become a thing. there is even a facebook page about this batman in lincoln, nebraska. >> this is awesome. why go to the concert? just go hang out with the crowd as people leave the concert, a better show and it is free. >> the thing is, no one knows who he is. the big news, we're abo

lincoln? >> 6% is a lot better than the last time they reported in february when the stock was off 20%. you're seeing incremental improvement. anybody investing in twitter or any of the high-flying technology companies yet to prove themselves in earnings revenues will continue to have to deal with this kind of volatility. david: kim, is twitter too high volatility for you? or would you buy in if it sells off? >> volatility isn't my problem. i think what the problem is, it's really an unproven model, business model. yeah, they're getting some people to throw addollars at them but i don't know this is long lived. it is pretty young as a product and i don't think it could be thought of as a platform. even facebook which is older if we can imagine that than twitter, it is not necessarily a long lived product either. this is way out on the edge for the kind of investing that we do. so i would pass on both of these. liz: jump in here, kim, but, oliver, the bid is at 39 and change. the annual low is

nobody in lincoln knows. we're about to find out.he masked man kind of looks like your favorite caped crusader, except he has become affectionately known as speedo batman, and are you about to see speedo batman from his apartment known as the bat kaf outside of pinnacle bank arena. this was after a bon jovi concert. >> check it out. there he is. >> he forgot his tights. >> you can see -- yeah. he got the mask. he has the cape. he has the speedo, and then the white tube sock, which is a nice touch, and you can hear how many people out there are pumped up to see speedo batman. no, this sent just a one-time thing. this is a legit mystery. this was after the bon jovi concert, but this happened after a jay zee concert. this happened after a pink concert in the same area. speedo batman makes an appearance, entertains the crowd. this has become a thing. there's even a facebook page about this batman in lincoln, nebraska. >> this is awesome. why even go to the concert? just go hang out with the crowd as people leave the concert. you get a be

we listen to lincoln's gettysburg address.ids take on something we don't do in our school anymore which is memorization and putting it on their hard drive permanently and you can see them escape the gravity of their disabilities, their differences and get to this new place. >> it's so striking. we were talking about this, that for someone with some learning difficulties, this is how an old speech can live anew because the brilliance was its brevity to use it to overcome some difficulty. >> and you know, i had the really great privilege of reading and reciting the gettysburg address with three sets of high school students in my district, and i was inspired when i heard ken burns take this challenge on. we uploaded it onto the website. the young people really enjoyed it, the teachers taught to it and it's been a great lesson. >> i feel sorry for edward everett who is supposed to be the star, went for two hours -- >> a little bit short of two hours, but he wrote the president graciously afterwards and said i wish i could flatter

lincoln because lincoln had to deal with the great sin that wasps committed, the great crime that wasps committed historically, which was slavery now, this was a crime, i think doubly so, in the first place because it is wrong and immoral to own slaves; in the second place, because it really is a violation of wasp approaches to politics. the best thing you can say in defense of wasps is that all the time there were slaves in this country or in the colonies, owned by wasps in most cases, there were also wasps, white english protestants, who recognized that slavery was wrong and that it should end. jefferson, who was a slave owner, nevertheless wrote the declaration of independence and the rhetoric of freedom which became the basis, the justification, for abolition. washington, even though he was a slave owner, when he died, he freed his slaves. it wasn't a matter in those days of just doing it. you had to have to set aside x amount of money for each slave so he could set himself up in some sort of profession. washington planned for that, and he did it when he died. and then on up to the

. >> it's lincoln-- . >> stephen: but is it really that good? or how much of it is hype?hat good. >> stephen: it's only 272 words. if it was good, i'm going to keep talking f it was good, wouldn't there be more of it? >> no, that's the beauty. pure presidential poetry, he's doubling down on the declaration of independence. because thomas jefferson said all men are created equal but he owned other human beings. lincoln freed those human beings and set in motion a kind of 2.0 version which the gettysburg address is we haven't replaced it. and in 272 words, in 10 sentence, the first one four score and seven years is where we've been, now we are engaged in a great civil war is where we are, and the rest are about pulling us into a future that we have become. he asked us to be a different kind of people to have a new verse of freedom. and this film is about a small school in vermont where the kids suffer from dix lexia, adhd, a whole host of learning differences that makes their passage through school very challenging. but each year the school for the 35 years it has been in e

in fact, it was abram lincoln, the very first republican who took this on as a cause.om god. >> abraham lincoln was known as the great uniter. he would have no love for the obstructionists that have taken over his old party. rabid conservatives like demint want to break down the government. in 1862 in the middle of the civil war, president lincoln wrote, my paramount object in this struggle is to save the union. well, lincoln not only expanded the role of the federal government, he also signed into law the first progressive income tax. if jim demint thinks emancipation proclamation and the 13th amendment were just love notes from god, he can keep on pretending. legalzoom has helped start over 1 million businesses. if you have a business idea, we have a personalized legal solution that's right for you. with easy step-by-step guidance, we're here to help you turn your dream into a reality. start your business today with legalzoom. [ banker ] sydney needed some financial guidance so she could take her dream to the next level. so we talked about her options. her valuable a

she spoke about the experience at the lincoln memorial, captured in a documentary produced by public.t.a. >> i wasn't a person, and am not to this day, a real great fighter for anything. there are people who will, if they want something, they fight, fight, fight. they don't mind, with their feet and their hands and everything. and those people are very, very necessary. but there are some who hope that, if they're doing something worthwhile, that it will speak for them. ♪ ♪ >> brown: underlining that point, national park service ranger monamma al-ghuiyy spoke of the impact anderson had on her personally in a chance meeting years ago. >> she came over and put her hands on my cheeks and said, "you are a beautiful woman and will go far in life." to say that had a really big impact on me. >> brown: the sun was shining again on the lincoln memorial this morning, much as it did 75 years ago, as the young sky jabali-rainey honored marian anderson with this reprise: ♪ my country 'tis of thee ♪ sweet land of liberty ♪ for thee i sing >> ifill: this year also marks the 50th anniversary of the s

. >> lincoln, you're for the question before. you're late to the market. that give you -- you see now the luxury works. >> an interesting question. in a way, that is true. it is interesting the luxury -- they will be paying toot of money, especially give them great vehicles with better pricing. i think the new lincolns, the response they're getting, they will be well received. >> what kind of advantage will that give you? class we will import them for a while. >> this may be the last year alan mulally will be running the home at fort and attend that auto show. legacyller discussed his with cory johnson. skepticalf people are with ford. jack bought everything under the sun and build for it and took over. in and in detroit, they called him jack. soldcame in and everything. .e got rid of jaguar, volvo every other brand and size ford and lincoln. he also borrowed a ton of money. .e mortgaged the kitchen that is what got them through. >> it reduces the number of different types of cars. >> that is most important, he changed the culture. it had been an infightin

lincoln is a great place to start to have a civil discourse. >> you have to remember the context. >>ur months after a battle that was the most blood soaked military experience the country had had. >> ever, yeah. and it's still the greatest battle ever fought on american style. 56,000 casualties, 185,000 soldiers involved. he comes to the now quiet battlefield to add a few appropriate remarks after edward everett's speech and nails it home and this is the operating system that still is our operating system. >> what's interesting is how short it was but think about it in today's age of sound bites. people would have taken off heres if it didn't fit on twitter. >> the real anxiety i have is what if somebody gave a gettysburg address today, maybe c span might have it. certainly we wouldn't be able to pick it up in the speed and rapidity in our news cycles -- >> maybe he understood before any of us the digital age. >> but nobody -- >> too wordy. >> i have a feeling that lincoln would be able to cut through. >> yeah. >> and i think his brevity -- >> but you don't think somebody -- >> even

abraham lincoln's gettysburg address. lincoln's stirring call four months after the battle of gettysburg, for america to dedicate itself to ideals has resonated, especially for children at a vermont boarding school where boys with larsh differences -- learning differences memorise the gettysburg address. their moving story and the cry for fullied om are the subject of a -- freedoms are a subject for a new documentary. it's creator is documentary film-maker ken burns. whom i spoke with about the address. >> great to have you with us. the civil war was your big break through. you've been nominated for oscars at that point. why had you decided to go back and deal with an important part of that era? >> people ask me how i choose projects, and how they choose me. i live in a town of rural new hampshire, across the connecticut river, is putney school, and they asked me to be a gauge at the gettysburg res itation thing. i wept and wept. i fully admit i cried at the inspirational nature. >> finally as 150 was approaching, i said

typically beats lincoln. and imagine that. there was in june 2005 a poll done by aol and time warner -- aol online, which surveyed americans, and they didn't give them a choice. they asked them to put in whichever name they wanted. the greatest mesh -- greatest american of all-time. novelty the greatest president. the greatest american. 2.4 million people responded which any statics will tell you is far and away a representative sample. you only need maybe 500 people to do this polling. and reagan won. greatest american of all-time. so, one republican wouldn't want to be like reagan? right? who wouldn't aspire to that success. you now have republican groups all over the country, county, state groups, they have been holding these annual lincoln day dinners for years. they've been changing the names of those to reagan day dinners because the lincoln day dinners were in february, which is the month of president's day lincoln's birthday and february is also the month of ronald reagan's birthday. so now many republican groups have

pursuit ended in a crash at 20th and lincoln. blocked off, we are working to learn more details about this robbery investigation, what was said, between the victims and the suspect, we are told that the victim is okay. suspects have possibly minor injuries. an officer is expected to be okay as well. live in san francisco ktvu channel 2 news. promoting peace is underway on the south bay. people in elm rock teamed with up with face leaders last night, it was the first night in a series of walks to bring positive change to the area. organizers say there has been an increase in crimes such as burglaries and gang activity, in ellen rock on the east side of san jose. >> there are people out here who want to have safe neighborhoods. we can't rely on the police to do the work. we have to do some ourselves. >> scheduled to take place through july. the walks are meant to receiver as a crime prevention strategy. >>> a task force at san jose released 50 50 recommendations. the incident involved four white students now charged with misdemeano

abraham lincoln and everett durtson. and he knew that senators would believe things like that. [applause] president johnson likes power. he likes the feel of it, the wielding of it, but that hunger was harnessed and redeemed by a deeper understanding of the human condition. by a sympathy for the underdog. for the downtrodden p for the outcast. and there was a sympathy rooted in his own experience. as a young boy growing up, in the texas hill country, johnson knew what being poor felt like. poverty was so common he would later say, we didn't even know it had a name. the family home didn't have electricity or indoor plumbing. everybody worked hard including the children. president johnson has known the metallic taste of hunger. the feel of a mother's callused hands. his cousin remember swelters days spent on her hands and knees in the cotton fields with lindon whispering beside her, boy, there's got to be a better way to make a living than this. there has to be a better way. it wasn't until years later when he was teaching in a mexican school, in a tiny town in texas that he came

king, like abraham lincoln, like countless citizens who have driven this country in ex sorably forwarde end was a story of optimism, a story of achievement and constant striving that is as unique upon this earth. he knew because he had lived that story. he believed that together we can build an america that is more fa fair, more equal and more free than the one we inherited. he believed we make our own destiny. and in part because of him we must believe it as well. thank you, god bless you. god bless the united states of america. [ applause ] >> that was president obama addressing the audience there at the 50th anniversary commemoration of the civil rights act, the passage of it. there with john lewis, congressman who was one of the key leaders of the civil rights movement, along with martin lu th luther king junior, the national correspondent, susan malveaux was outside the library able to watch the president's speech. it's not first time he's addressed civil rights. three months ago we heard him at the 50th anniversary at the march on washington. this was a little bit different talki

. >> he spends so much time with his kids, take them to the zoo, lincoln was his little shadow. >> in fact, preparing the boys was a major issue before paul left for his 28-day assignment abroad. >> we cried when he left. i mean, this is a big change for the family. we prepared lincoln, you know, paul had gone and bought him a map where daddy was going to be. >> he told his wife he was leaving a few things behind. >> i'm going to leave my wedding ring and my watch and should anything happen to me, i want the ring to go to the first son that's married and the watch to the second. and i -- i said something to him like, don't be stupid, just come back and i'll give it back to you and you can give it to them. >> hours earlier, pilot hamid and capital zaharie shah were at the the airport. >> they'll talk about the route, they'll talk about the winds aloft, they'll talk about turbulence. with that all in mind, they will come to an agreement how much fuel to load on to the airplane. >> hamid and shah load enough fuel to get to beijing plus 45 minutes to spare. hours later, phillip wood, paul