there is a pretty good precedent for that lincoln administration.e article, what war meant back then was a bit more clear. you had soldiers on the field of battle shooting at each other and there was a clarity of what was defined by the process of war. war is something moreai amorphous, doesn't have these reggid boundary lines theed and the president's president's line is more elastic. >> one of the things i have encountered in doing research on this question is virtually every yenration has had a crisis distinguishing war from peace, a crisis of its own. we seem to have had our share in the last 10 years or so. it's not actually new to our time. it's something lincoln dealt with. it's something that jefferson and washington dealt with. we had repeated experiences, trying to work out this kind of problem. the drones are just the latest. >> as you point out in the article, it really was one of those pieces i wanted to re-read because every time i read it, there were new questions emerging. at the end of the article, you make the point, we will not be

john wilks killed lincoln, brought these letters to general grant, other people within the lincoln administration and said, look, edwin booth is a union man. i have 300 letters where he is saying bring me the head on a plate or kill those rebels. very patriotic letters. and so adam badeux was an advocate for edwin in the roundup of suspects after the assassination. but when -- but it -- the breakdown of their relationship reveals kind of the cruelty and the ruthlessness at the heart of this star, because once edwin put that play, "our american cousin" up on stage in boston, i think adam badeaux, he couldn't accept that. and he couldn't accept edwin's coldness towards him after all the labor he had gone through to prove his innocence. so their friendship ended in '65. but adam badeaux would go on to be general grant's ghost writer, helping him write his memoirs. and he also is the best source we have about edwin booth. he wrote a lot after edwin died about their friendship, and about the character of this great actor. >> final question. >> yes. >> what is your next book focusing on? >> do you have

he was a very important figure in lincoln's administration. he was the chief of military justice. and after lincoln was assassinated he was the prosecutor of the lincoln assassins and anybody who has seen the film, the -- conspirator, then went -- "the conspirator," has seen a represent take of joseph holt. nobody knew who he was. now some people know who he was. >> congratulations. it will be available. we are going on -- in a historic house. it is, you know, it is not the top of the hour, it is a couple minutes early here. the clocks are ringing. you will hear a couple of them at this -- at the top hour here as we get into the second half of our program. let me take another telephone call from michael. watching us in tampa. >> caller: i think your show is wonderful. i appreciate the historical commentary as well as the interviewer's commentary. can we put forth personal commentary versus blaine's period of time compared to today's political landscape? >> what do you mean? just give me a little more of what you would like. >> caller: i think brain represents something that's prett

emancipation was still in its first steps, war weariness in the north might well be checked and the lincoln administration in favor of a negotiated peace. in short, the very fate of the union hung in the balance. as early as january, feelings were strong as someone outside politics might be good, a good presidential nominee. james gordon bennett of the new york herald went so far as to assert the next president must be a military man. no such figure of prominence existed in the eastern theater, but out west, a general who had gained spectacular victories at vicksburg and chattanooga was there. his name was ulysses grant. president abraham lincoln was well aware of grant's fighting prowess and his victories. lincoln now wanted him in washington, not as a chief executive, but as general and chief of all the armies. first, however, the president did a little background check. lincoln once observed you know when the presidential grub once gets into a man it can gnaw deeply and we are seeing that now with these political campaigns. indeed, joseph hooker, mead's predecessor had once talked open leap of the need

the federal government united states from the george washington ministration to labor and lincoln administration paid for every senator every congressman every president every army all of them paid two thirds of the cost of federal government to world war one and a third of the cost of that are go into world war two and those tariffs those import taxes on foreign manufactured goods kept the prices of foreign manufactured goods high enough that all the factories stayed here in the united states for two hundred years then along came this debate and ross perot came along and said you know hey if you do there are going to hear this giant star and you got twenty percent of the vote. i genuinely believes that if one of these two political parties was to become the the reform party you know to adopt that platform and say ross perot was right we're going to blow up these treaties and we're going to go back to work what worked for two hundred years which by the way brazil just did you know they just put a tear they just said tariffs on imported like trying to goods box caught in china is building a two b

and in 1863 the lincoln administration and congress pass a draft law. prior to this is all volunteer. the draft law of 1863 requires men to register in new york and throughout the north, but it has this clause whereby if you pay $300 you can be exempted from the draft and basically the money goes to pay for a substitute, a poor man will take your place. $300.8063 is a phenomenally large amount of money. people are making, day laborers are making a dollar a day. sabine asked sebacic take, if you are poor, it is one year's worth of your -- under salary, but your wages that you don't have because you have been spending it. to basically it is seen as class legislation, is seen as part of the rich man's war and a poor man's fight was the model the became common in new york and other cities. in july of 1863 when the draft law is implemented all of these background resentments explode. the largely irish working class in new york seeing this as a republican plot against them, seeing it as discrimination in a class sense, they blamed the war by this point on sla

in 1863 the lincoln administration passed a draft law. prior to this is all volunteer. 1863, requires men to register in new york and throughout the north it has this clause that if you pay $3,000 you can be exempted from the draft and basically the money goes to pay for a substitute, poor man will take your place. $300 in 1863 was a phenomenally large amount of money. people making $1 day. they're being asked to take your -- a year's worth of your salary -- your wages that you don't have because you have been spending its of basically it is class legislation. .. >> they also were fearful that with the emancipation prola mission which lincoln has already implemented, there's going to be a flood of freed african-americans coming up from the south to work in new york to take their jobs away from them, a fear that is fanned by some of the new york city newspapers including the new york herald. so you had this tremendous riot that starts and goes on for four days. it is, to date, the worst riot in american history. at least 100 people died, m

and so this is an oversimplification, but in a sense you can say lincoln's policy on the war and much of his administration is that it assumed the u.s. was and would remain a white man's democracy. turning it into a democracy in which black are equal under the law, that's a social revolution. that is a social revolution. so lincoln, from the outset, wants to sideline initially blacks within the united states. and yet from the beginning of the war, whether it's frederick douglass' voice, whether it's "harpe "harpers weekly," here's "harper's weekly" illustrating, what's front and center of the front page? a black man. he's a black driver who's actually driving lincoln to inaugural address. when linking calls for troops explicitly prohibits blacks from fight i fighting, yet many blacks fight as independent soldiers. they're not legal but they want nothing more than to be able to shoot and kill their old slave owners and slave owners more generally. and "harper's weekly" in illustrating from an eyewitness sketch artist the battle of bull run, the first major battle of the war, front and center of "harper's we

responds to the worry about the border states, in essence, by saying, well, lincoln has already shown that his administration is very efficien efficient at suspending habeas corpus. it's silencing and imprisoning northern copperhead democrats. and just do that more vigorously, more aggressively. william stewart at one point during the war said he could have any northerner imprisoned in 24 hours. douglass said, go for it. then the border states aren't a problem. you know, if border state politician starting threatening you, you just throw him in prison. it's, after all, civil war. prevent social revolution. lincoln was especially compared to abolitionists and many other republicans, even, he is not a revolutionary. he wants to -- he wants to preserve the union without a social revolution. he knows ending slavery is a social revolution. that's why he comes late to turning the war, the union also into war to end slavery. throughout really even into 1863 after the emancipation proclamation, hiss policy toward the border states, the loyal slave states is still gradual emancipation. compensate masters for loss of

in that letter, lincoln said you will support the next administration as i expect at this point not to be reelected. he said, and i paraphrase, what he said was you will help to save the country, the union, between the election and the inauguration because he, meaning his opponent, will not be able to save the union after the election, after the inauguration. in other words, lincoln expected not only to suffer electoral defeat, more than likely knew it would pretty well be george mcclellan, that mcclellan by negotiations, the union is in peril. then things change within the next ten days for lincoln. this is the -- lincoln heard the reports that we're not going to win certain states the way things are going. the democrats meet in chicago. they do nominate george b. mcclellan, who is essentially a war man, but put him on a peace platform. politicians have a way of doing that. that immediately helps the cause of the republicans. far more importantly, september 27bd, william t. sherman wires atlanta is ours and fairly won. it is as though sherman had disappeared in georgia since early ear

administration. the state had been union began the war. so lincoln and his party are on the outs. it is only in the 20th century kentucky starts replay ring abraham lincoln with the building of the memorial in first place and then lincoln commissioned created in the 21st century. so kentucky reclaimed lincoln. he was on the wrong side after the war. >> how far from where we are physically is the lincoln birth place? >> it is probably an hour and 15 minute drive straight down the interstate. >> in that time period how long would it have taken to cross? >> it took -- it took henry clay to go from lexington, frankfurt, 25 miles all day sometimes in the mud. that's why he was so much in favor of putting better roads and canals through federal government aid. >> by the way, during this discussion of lincoln, we had a brief picture of an artifact that you have here in the collection which has an inscription. tell us what we were looking at. >> yes, this is called "the life and speeches of henry clay." there is an inscription that says to abraham lincoln with constant regard to friendshi

lincoln, nebraska and hartford, connecticut. thank you for being here. i want to welcome the various school board members and administrators that are here today on this important topic of community schools, thank you for coming to san francisco. thank you for taking this opportunity to learn from each other how we can do better. i was talking with my education adviser, hydra mendoza. it doesn't go a week that we don't talk to each other about the value of education. whether it is hurt, carlos garcia, or the incoming superintendent, we will always place education at the center of our agendas. that is what we have to do. i can't conceive of any city in the country who would not place education the highest part of their agenda. it just doesn't seem like you are a city if you don't do that. in san francisco, we value that because we are knowledgeable. we know how important it is not only for our kids, but the role of education and everything that we do. and the fact that our community school concept is alive and well and our city -- in our city. we have had those years where we look at the school district and we say, wait a mi

i naturally enough, that she would play a big role in the administration and she and obama started talking how he should redecorate the lincolnsts and who the guest list should be be for parties and how he should handle his communication strategy and when mrs. obama, michelle obama and her closest friend in the white house, valerie jarrett heard about that, they got very upset, because they thought oprah was horning in and acting like she was the first lady and decided to freeze her out. when oprah offered to do an oprah winfrey show to launch mrs. obama's anti-obesity campaign, michelle held a meeting and said i don't want some fat, rich woman being the emblem of my campaign. >> mike: wow. >> you know what, oprah? i want to tell you, sweetheart. you endorsed the wrong person four years ago, should have been me. [applaus [applause] >> i had to throw that in there, ed. and there is another very interesting high level people obama administration that abruptly left. rahm emanuel and bill daley, two men chief of staff. it's rare that people in that position sort of kind of one day up and leave. >> they ran into the buzz saw named

public policy and administration at the university of massachusetts-amhertz, where she is a professor of economics. next, mr. kyler broadis, an attorney and associate professor of lincoln university in missouri. he is the founder of transpeople of color coalition. next mr. sam baggenstos. i think i got that right now. professor at the university of michigan law school. he has served as a law clerk to justice ruth bader ginsburg, was on the faculty at harvard law school. most recently served as attorney general for civil rights in the justice department. the number two official in the civil rights division of the justice department. next i was going to yield to my colleague from minnesota for purposes of introduction. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i'm honored to have the opportunity to welcome ken charles. mr. charles is the vice president of global diversity. and inclusion for general mills, which he is -- where he has been employed since 2000. i'm proud to say that general mills has its roots in minnesota that go back 150 years. currently employs 35,000 minnesotans. those workers, along with

lincoln was assassinated by a conspiracy. there was a conspiracy to decapitate the entire link in cabinet. watergate was a conspiracy. here's a clue, the most powerful administration on the planet could not even break into a hotel room. the idea that they can run a world economy like the alumni the, 12 guys in london running the economy and doing a crappy job of it. i sort of go through a bologna detection kit of conspiracy detection. the more people that are involved the less likely the theory is to be true. two reasons. most people aren't confident and most people can't keep their mouths shut. the most it -- more people you have involved the more leakage and bumbling and fumbling your way through. the more elements that have to be involved, the have to come together it's just the right time it's just the right place perfectly, the less likely anyone will be able to do that. the bigger in grander the conspiracy is the less likely it is to be true. most involve very specific, target things. conspire to collude about the price of a product or control some little market or spy on some particular government agency that we are not sure -- those are more likely to be t

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lincoln savings and loan in arizona, and david paul. here is another datapoint i find interesting. in the early 1990's, president bush made it clear that finding fraud was a top priority of his administration. he directed the justice department to make these cases with vigor. if we fast-forward we find the opposite approach. in the spring of 2000 it, but just as the storm was gathering, the fbi scaled back plans to assign more field agents. that summer, weeks before the collapse of fannie mae and freddie mac, the department of justice rejected calls for a task force related to mortgage related investigations. leaving these cases understaffed. only much later did the justice department establish a more general financial crimes task force. why have there been so few prosecutions that succeeded out of this mess? some of the prosecutors i have spoken to argue that the types of fraud perpetrated were easier to litigate. those cases were characterized by embezzlement, self dealing, and other bad behavior that was more easily identified and exposed. we do know that wall street likes to great complexity. there is no doubt the securities involved in this debacle were far more convoluted. i think a