and this story, why congressman lincoln? there are 16,000 books written about abraham lincoln. if you go to ford's theatre in washington dc, which is the final scene of the extraordinary story, you will see half that number piled to the ceiling. and when i say books about abraham lincoln, i do not mean about mary todd or the civil war, i mean about him. but yet, books about his time in congress, one of three political jobs he ever had. the only other job he had in the federal government, besides president. there have only been three of them written and this is the third. the last one was written before i was born. this is the missing piece of the puzzle in the lincoln story. i think we are all very familiar with his hardscrabble upbringing. we know about his career in the illinois legislature. we know about his career in the court houses of illinois, handling of a variety of cases as a frontier lawyer. we are very familiar with the lincoln story as president. right? the author of the emancipation proclamation, the guy that wrote the gettysburg address. sixteenth president of th

abraham lincoln, i had to mention abraham lincoln everybody else did, he showedinstinctive understanding of this in the first inaugural in the famous closing in which pleading against the rising tide of the succession. he stressed his hope in one of the great run-on extensions in -- sentences inthe english language. the mystic court of memory stretching from every battlefield and heart overall this broad land will yet swell the chorus of the stretching from union. he could run on a lot longer for my sake. one thing i want to point out about this,there's a dignified mingling with the national. the public with the private in these words. those mystic chords, the musical image. not only from the earth fallen heroes, fallen patriots but also from the heart of living individuals and the living family. that word hard stuff is inspires. it invokes whole university, localand in particular loyalties that are the stuff ofordinary human life. lincoln presumed it by sounding the notes of the local one could also reinvigorate the course of the national. of course, i have to note the inconvenient fact

lincoln kass. [applause] >> thank you diana for that wonderful speech and now james ceaser. james: thank you. patriotism has it is experienced first by most americans is a sentiment of deep attachment for the nation. it's something akin to love. it's something felt coming from the heart and it surges at a certain moment in response faced with symbol like the jet planes that screamed past the opening of the super bowl. or the sight of the flag in the breeze or through music that which is the star spangled banner or god bless america or lee green's "proud to be an american." patriotism is connected with feelings for those in the military and their sacrifices by the encounter with the monuments of the soldier of iwo jima. of time spent with friends and family on july 4th. simple familiarity being together and being free together. no one, i think, really encounters patriotism unless he has experienced these moments of connection and attachment. patriotism may mean a lot more than this. it cannot mean l

lincoln's, and lincoln made those changes, two out of three. the one of the relationships where very few people, if anybody knows about that. historically you look back and think that's significant. you had a vice president pushing a president to issue such a momentous document. so, the institution as it's grown -- and isit has grown considerably -- we still never seen a change in the basic fundamental constitutional role of the vice president. one of the comment in terms of the role and presiding and casting a vote, that makes the vice president very unique in our system in that the vice president is attached to the executive, doesn't have executive authority or responsibility but is attached to the executive branch and is also attached to the legislative branch. no other political position in the u.s. system is that the case. so that's very unique. you can go to countries like -- if you good to great britain fish prime minister, members mes of -- brian, the prime minister, members of cabinet, remain in parliament. that's not in the case in ou

antietam, joe hooker gives his version to lincoln and lincoln never shakes it. when he visits in october 1862, he insists on seeing where hooker's men fought. sickleshappens is dan loses his way, but that gives him first access to lincoln. actually writes, in lincoln's mind, the first draft of what happened at gettysburg. bosses like this, the first story they get is the story that sticks in her mind. lincoln had that weakness. you report to me, i get this understanding, especially a simple notion that i could have gone down there and what the win in thate cannot situation. sickles is already recuperating in washington. that is when the campaign against meade began. >> one of the myths that has about meade at the potomac that he just had to reach out and take it. that is how all these people testified at the end of the war, they all make this statement of easily they could destroyed the army cued in the case of two of them, they're not in the battle of antietam. they should've known better. the battle of antietam, lee's army was in worse condition and they did n

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lincoln wrote a letter to him. alexander stephens wrote a letter to abraham lincoln while lincoln was waiting to come to washington just after he was elected to be president wondering if there is anything they could do, if he had any suggestion. lincoln wrote back to him, i would really like to to be able to work this out he said but we don't seem to be able to agree on the extension of slavery. he said in his letter, that's the rub you want to extend slavery and make slavery national while we want to restrict it. >> host: is your book written for a general audience or scholarly audience? >> host: we wrote this book for students that we have been teaching for gary gallagher has been teaching for over 30 years and i have been teaching for over 20 years. he's teaching at uva, and i am teaching at ucla. we thought a lot about the fact that there is no short, distinct, and yet provocative book, textbook on the civil war that would combine the chronological in the political and economic, the progress of the battles, but

term of the lincoln administration, first administration, he was a close confidant of lincoln. they met often to talk policy and politics, and hamlin also pushed lincoln well before he actually did it, but he pushed and issued the emancipation proclamation, and he encouraged him on a number of times in meetings and told him straight up he needed to do this, this is something lincoln should do. and so when lincoln did eventually compose emancipation proclamation, the first person he brought to see the document and read the document was hamlin. and they met and read over it together, and hamlin, according again to his grandson, hamlin made like three suggestion for change in wording and whatnot of lincoln, and lincoln took out of through those into consideration, or made those changes. and again that's one of the relationships where very few people if anybody knows about that, but historically you look back and it's like that's pretty significant where you had a vice president pushing a president to issue such a momentous document. the institution as it's grown, and it has grown

great speeches, he gives some great speeches about lincoln and about his love of lincoln and about lincoln as a great savior of the country. it is a complex, prickly and still very moving relationship between these two great figures. >> than you. another question? >> i have a quick question that may be anyone on the panel can answer. one is about the relationship between douglass and harriet tubman, because they were both from the eastern shore. although they were from different counties. i am not sure about the dates on that. i thoughtecond one is, more about this over the years as i have studied african american history, my history, when douglass was making his speeches about slavery, what were thoughts of native americans? what did douglass think about the status of late americans -- native americans, because slaves were not citizens, free blacks were not citizens and native americans were not citizens. so we had three categories where there was no citizenship. back to harry tubman, since harry todman is real big right now -- uharriet tubman is real big in dorchester county. did they me

he is not going to concede anything to lincoln. mcclellan goes and moves further south and lands at what we call the virginia peninsula. he lands his army down at fort monroe at the tip of the peninsula near hampton roads which is the area right here. he is going to now march over this peninsula up toward richmond. mcclellan's argument is we can still out flank the union army, the confederate army. we'll get to richmond perhaps before johnston even does. he sees a lot of advantages for this. the problem with this is that mcclellan hadn't exactly researched the peninsula very well. he knew what he was getting into when he was going to land at urbana. just walk across a small neck of land, pick up the railroad, and it will serve as our supply line all the way into richmond. to get to the same railroad, by landing here, you got a much further distance to cross before you can get there. and mcclellan is not terribly familiar with the land. he thinks the roads will be just fine. he thinks rivers flow in directions they don't so mcclella

mcclellan resentence the fact that lincoln seems to keep offering him -- resents the fact lincoln seems to keep offering him military advice. he graduated second in his class thank you very much. what did you do, you read a book, maybe two on military affairs? please stop. so mcclellan sort of resented the fact of lincoln interfering and comes out with an alternative plan. instead of the direct route to richmond, mcclellan is going to try to out flank the confederate army hanging out at manassas and approach richmond from the east. an important point here. the original intent was to land here on the rappahannock river at urbana and then march directly overland across this area right here and pick it up at white house and then move to richmond that way. he'll pick up the railroad line at west point here. from urbana to west point pick up the railroad line to help him attack richmond. the problem is before he can even engage in that plan the con federal army retreats from manassas. it falls back. in march of 1862 the confederate army realizing it is foolish to stay up at manassas. we're o

what did lincoln think? there were a substantial number of white southerners could be brought loyalty to the united states. that there were many who have gone with the confederacy reluctantly or maybe not at all really believing in it. i think lincoln overestimated their numbers. andrew johnson also underestimated -- overestimated their numbers. that is a what if. some people have said, you need the marshall plan. if the u.s. government had said, we are going to develop the south, we are going to create job opportunities for everybody, yeah him a it might not of been a bad idea. but it was utterly impossible in the 19th century, there was no such thing as a marshall plan in the 19th century. created inostility the civil war, i don't think most northerners wanted tax money to bolster the south. that is how they would've seen it, at least. >> thank you. i learned something. you just said most of the troops have been pulled out by 1877. >> oh yeah. >> i thought was the crux from the hayes election was pulling o

now, why did, what did lincoln thing? lincoln thought that there were a substantial number of white southerners who could be brought back to real loyalty to the united states. that there were many, many who have gone with the confederacy reluctantly, or maybe not at all really believing in it. i think lincoln overestimated their numbers. andrew johnson also overestimated their numbers. but, you know, that is a another "what if." some people have said, you needed a marshall plan. we are going to create job opportunities for black, white, everybody. that was utterly impossible in the 19th century. there was no such thing as a marshall plan in the 19th century. and given the hostility the civil war created, i don't think most northerners one of their tax money to go to bolster confederates in the south. that is how they would've seen it, at least. >> thank you. i learned something. you just said most of the troops had been pulled out by 1877. mr. foner: oh yeah. >> so, i thought one of the crux is from the hayes election was

lincoln also said, i'm sitting on two volcanos. i've got a war to fight, there's a potential to start a riot in chicago. and i've got new york that has already exploded. and if i dig deeper and have a federal investigation that you want, i'm going to scrape a little loose dirt from the crater and it's going to erupt again. those were his kind of words. so that was pretty much his response. he really -- it's sad that he couldn't do more in the sense it would have been more satisfying in a moral sense to come in and hold people to account. on the other hand, i think he had -- >> he was an excellent politician. >> but he had his eye on the long game, which was he had to win the war. that was really going to help african-americans in the long run. >> how did public officials react to the riots? did they condemn them? >> well, once again, the republicans blamed the democrats, the democrats blamed the republicans. the democratic governor, governor seymour, used it as a p pretext to say to abraham lincoln, let's suspend in new york city.

he had become a fan of lincoln. it has been said that there is an extent to which it was a hit -- hippodrome of sorrow. in other words, there was a fair amount of false sentiment there. once again i'm going to sound , cynical. you could get new yorkers out for anything. you could parade a dog down the street and a lot of people would come out and watch. i think there was a certain amount of of gawking. hostile a city that was to him. the majority of people have not rooted for him, they were happy the war was over, but they were not happy because they thought he had dragged him into the war. i'm sure there was some grief and actual shock and real sorrow, of course there was, but i think there was also an edge of new yorkers being new yorkers. barnet: the african-american community attempted to be part of the funeral parade and were excluded by the city council. later, the war department eased, and they were able to have some people at the tail end of the parade. they were experiencing genuine shock and grief. we have

most would say lincoln was the greatest president.ing everyone together, to they'll south, all the time with the rebel trumaoops. he could see the lights of enemy when he took office. >> if you think about having covered lots of trump rallies, there's so much theatrics involved in this. he plays to the crowd in this way. he also doesn't have any legislative, major legislative accomplishments to go back to a state that he won and say i did. this i think this sticks out to him, november 8, 2016. he repeatedly references the election. and the fact he won the election. over and over and over again. >> it was very impressive to come in second in the popular vote. >> he won. break your heart. you're counting hits. count runs. >> i think it is a mixed -- i think it is a mixed medicalory. >> the amazing thing is he got 46%. we were talking about that today off camera. let me ask but the buffoonery of i think there are three things to worry about. one is the buffoonery. the other is we don't have an actual presidency ready. even with nixon, we

not lincoln. he would sit in these little county seats all by himself. the weekends on any prefer that to being with his wife. i know he loved her but it was a relationship that gave him great problems. we're almost out of times. if you want to learn more, i encourage you to go to lincoln for congress.com. w createde a fake website for abraham lincoln. i basically used all of his own words. if lincoln were using the web to communicate, we think this is what it would've looked like. american watching history tv, 48 hours of programming on american history every weekend on c-span 3. c-span us on twitter @ history for information on our schedule and to keep up with the latest history news. 50 years ago on july 23, 1967, detroit erupted in five days of civil disorder that led to 43 deaths, hundreds of injuries. and 7000 arrest. the next day president johnson announced 5000 federals were sent to detroit in an attempt to restore order. this is about 10 minutes. president johnson: in the early morning today governor romney communicated with ramsey clark and tol

abraham lincoln's autograph. a. lincoln, member of congress. a copy of a fountain i got from the library of congress that's the copy on the only photograph of lincoln when he was in office. and i love lincoln and i have read just about every biography. i read one by thomas that won the pulitzer prize so might be a recommendation there on the bomb is an autograph. james mad -- madison, to remind me what we're doing here. and he is not as well known others other president but one of this did indicated -- dedicated individuals who started our country and is a great president. now to get to the answer to your question, what have i read recently, yesterday morning i finished a book about the chiefs of staffs of presidents and it is this book right here, by chris whipple. i hope he won't take this personally, think he might have benefited a little bit by having his own chief of staff. this is a very good book. think it could have been maybe slightly better if he had had a chief of staff himself who said maybe better not put the these half dozen parag

lincoln had a pretty accurate assessment of the size of wii's armie. he could not get his commanders to buy into it -- lee's army. he cannot get his commanders to buy into it. >> troops had been there earlier in the valley, and to a -- underestimate by that factor just seems striking to me. >> i do think you are bringing up some important things for us to remember. one time a national historian said one walkie-talkie or two, actually. [laughter] would have changed virtually every battle, if you had some idea of where they were. partly as ahis neophyte. i'm taking that it was really hard to do this and i'm just not willing to pass judgment. i assume they are doing the best they can do the information they have. striking when you read at the time, how dark and murky everything they are doing is. youooks a lot clearer if just reason -- just read the newspapers after the fact, but in the moment, it is really hard. >> we were talking about this during one of the breaks. if you read the congratulatory order after the battle of gettysburg, written by daniel b

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and the drab big building was to measure the crime which shocked the world there in ford lincoln washot down on that evil april night of eight hundred sixty five. again and we fly over them all now being actively developed into the sweep of beauty dreamed by a planet over a century and a quarter ago on our way rare that sap of the glamour of memory of the past present. and its simple austere beauty the washington monument five hundred fifty five. dominates the land. near the top. over the city held on to over. from the northern end of the mall we see the monument down a vista of unforgettable beauty across the lagoon. through another great amount of. the acts that lincoln memorial is the greatest monument ever erected to the memory of one man the great emancipator fittingly each of the thirty six states in the union when he died is represented by a dusted the reconstructed land. where then is the suburban statue of the. flanked by a bronze tablet vetting has exalted out of. the spirit of lincoln seems to brood beside the river which so often held anguished thoughts in the house or in

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you see lincoln. you see washington. you see jackson. it's important to remember, they were political rivals, but here, they are coming together. so were jefferson and john adams political rivals, but here, together. that is calhoun, the great defender of states rights, and , they areut notice almost shaking hands. this is actually going to be bringing people together. so this crucial image then brings us to a question we have heard a lot of people talking about the tragedy of reconstruction -- what was it? one of the best writers on , he says this about the treasury reconstruction. he says the tragedy of reconstruction is rooted in the imperative of healing and the imperative of justice. says, is aion, he noble and essential human impulse. unfortunately, south rick -- reconciliation was bought at the price of racial justice. endorse racial freedom. that is probably a more utopian vision then out of the racial justice that he has. we can see that -- remember underneath the dome -- there are the people who are still alive. as they say, th

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the examiners looked at 52 real estate loans lincoln made.wers in all 52. >> on top of that, charles keating has lincoln savings sell uninsured junk bonds, and he targets the widows and the retirement community. >> there were 23,000 customers who would buy $250 million of these bonds. >> we had sold our home in sherman oaks. my husband had a stroke. we moved down here, went to lincoln savings. >> how much? >> you really want to know? >> it was $30,000 and for us, that was quite a bit. >> capitalize on this, the bond salesman were told. the weak, meek, and ignorant are always good targets. >> the regulators were looking at us saying, this guy is a disaster. we have got to stop this. but by that time, keating had a construction company in arizona. he had thrifts in california. his tentacles spread out to several states. so he was able to call on congressmen and senators and say, hey, get these dogs off my back. >> this morning, the s&l crisis goes to capitol hill. the senate ethics committee is looking into charges against five senators accused

. >> stephen: do you know anything about abraham lincoln?hat state is he from? >> from the one where he cut wood. ( laughter ) i'll get there! >> stephen: yeah, the one state that had wood. ( laughter ) i always love to talk to actors who have successful careers now but started off a little rough and tumble. i understand you actually did one of the lowest forms of entertainment in the world. you were a busker on the streets of london. what is that. >> begging but like with a guitar. it's when you put your guitar case out and you play songs and hope for the best. >> stephen: you were going to be a musician originally? >> i wanted to be a guitar player but i wasn't good enough. >> stephen: who were your idols? >> i was really into people like johnny marr and thesmiths at the time. >> stephen: okay. so you were depressed. ( laughter ) >> no, he's very funny! >> stephen: he's very funny in private? ( laughter ) because i've interviewed him. >> well, that's a different matter. >> stephen: i busked. what did you play? >> stephen: it's so embarrass

clayton: it is because of a abeoln, the log cabin is lincoln. it goes back to how they think conservatism and as intertwining as one of the same. a lot of them talk about abe lincoln as an abolitionist, a favor of rights. he is a wartime president, they also talk about his stock individualism -- staunch individualism. in what ways do they work within the republican party. ? clayton: they go to conferences. sometimes they set up booths, if they are invited. meetings tot of talk to people, letter writing campaigns. a number of them, particularly in the 1980's, ran for office. they would be the lone republican in the democratic district. the respect of other republicans by running in this uphill battle. that is another way they reached out to people. >> how has their strategies changed over time? clayton: they have been pretty consistent in terms of the education. i said earlier they line up with the larger mission of the gop, in part because they want to demonstrate they are loyal republican voters and other republicans can see them as part of the