and he takes the oath on the lincoln bible and i believe that he has mentioned abraham lincoln 230 times. since he has been president. i just think that it's very important for us to get abraham lincoln right. if you get it right, then you can america right. and you get what i believe should be our animated purpose as conservatives. so by way of introduction, i think there are common misconceptions and we tend to think of him as a man of the earth, and accidental president. the common people and common sense. i think that really underestimates him and he would not be surprised by that because he was underestimated throughout his life. part of it was just very superficial. this ungainly character. he said once that he had the insight that god must love common looking people more than anyone else because he made more of them. he was common looking. but anyone who judged him on this basis of his looks or thought any of those things i just mentioned about him was making a grave mistake, this was a ferociously ambitious man. it was possessed of extraordinary intelligence from the time of his

he takes the oath on the lincoln bible. lieve someone told me independently confirmed it he mentioned lincoln 230 sometime or something sin he was president. i think it's important to get lincoln right. if you get lincoln right, you get america right. you get what i believe should be our animating purpose as conservatives. by way of introduction they are common misconception of. we think of him as a man of the earth. the accidental president. the tribunal of the common people and common sense. i think it underestimates him. he wouldn't be surprised. it was a way he looked. the way he he said one in the white house he had the insight that god must love common looking people. he made more of them. he was common looking. but anyone who is judged him on the basis of his looks or thought any of those things i mentioned about him was making a grave mistake. this was a fear ambition man from the very youth, really. process of an exceptional and extraordinary intelligence. again, evidence from the time of his youth. people would rep

he takes the oath on the lincoln bible. i believe someone told me i haven't independently confirmed this. he mentioned lincoln 230 times or something since he's been president. i think it's important for us to get lincoln right. if you get lincoln right, then you get america right. you get what i believe should be our animating purpose as conservatives. by way of introduction, i think the common misconception of lincoln. we tend to think of him as a man of the earth. this kind of accidental president. try biewn of the common people and common sense. and i think that really underestimates him. he wouldn't be surprised. he's undersmimented throughout his life. part is super official. it was the way he looked, the ungainly character. he said once in the white house that he had the insight that god must love common looking people more than anyone else. he made more of them. he was common looking. anyone who was judged him on the basis of his looks or thought any of those things i mentioned about him was making a grave mistake. t

believe it goes back to what is a trinity that lincoln supported, a dynamic economy, education and a return to those very basic laws of virtues. this is an bible thumping stuff. it doesn't have to be moralistic at the things that make it easier to get ahead. marriage, work and discipline. so, i will just leave you with one last passage from lincoln. long before anyone had heard him he gave what was called the lyceum speech as a young man in springfield and it talked about how even then this week, amateur country that we are invulnerable to military assault. he said he can take all the armies of the world and put the greatest general anyone has ever known napoleon at the head of these armies and they couldn't take a step on the blue ridge mountains. they couldn't get a foot in the ohio river but then he went on to say if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. as a nation of free men we must live through all time or die by suicide. ladies and gentlemen i submit to you that we should resolve to live. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you. thank you. [applause] >> mr. lowry thank you. ladies and gentlemen as sa

lincoln supported. a dynamic economy, education and return to the very basic border lal virtues and this is not bible thumping stuff. it doesn't have to be realistic about the things that make it easier to get ahead. marriage, work, discipline. so, i will just leave you with one last passage from lincoln. long before anyone had heard of him he gave the life of speech as a young man in springfield. and he talked about how even then, this week and amateur country that we are vulnerable to the military. he said to contain all the armies of the bottle and put the greatest general anyone has ever known at the head of the army and they couldn't take a step on the blue ridge mountains. they couldn't get their foot in the ohio river by the force. but then he went on to say if the destruction is here a lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. as a nation of free men, we must live through all time or die by suicide. and ladies and gentlemen, i submit to you that we should be resolved to live. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you. >> ladies and gentlemen, he has agreed to take some questions. this is b

bible in perfect condition. a draft of the gettysburg address in lincoln's handwriting.h the name "america" printed on it from 1507. the library contains more than 155 million items. founded in 1800 for members of congress to use. >> this is thomas jefferson's library. >> reporter: the library bought library. >> reporter: the library bought thomas jefferson's books nearly 6500 of them after its original collection was burned by the british in the war of 1812. >> we pull volumes from this collection, between 15 and 20 times a week. yes, it is still heavily in use. >> reporter: one of the most requested according to the communications director is jefferson's koran. >> you can see it was published in 1764. >> reporter: may i touch it? wow. it's just astonishing to be touching a book that belonged to thomas jefferson. >> it is is extraordinary. reporter: anybody 16 or older can get a library card. but you can't leave the building with any of its 35 million books , nearly 14 million photographs, or more than 3 million sound recordings. to name just some of what's here. >> you

lincoln ball the time. public sentiment is everything. support immigration reform. badges, business, bible, many of those folks are republicans. they have been very enthusiastic overtime and getting impatient about congress taking action. it would be a real failure on our part if we could not find a path to go to conference, to air our differences, to come up with the bill. i just have time for one more question because i cannot miss this vote. >> there seemed to be a deal in the senate. >> would that not be great? with democrats in the house go along with a market-based system if it had the kind of protection [indiscernible] >> as you know, we have our own -- we split on our motion to recommit to what the president was proposing. but until i see the bill -- have you seen it? >> knode. >> -- no. >> until we see it coming it is hard to say how we would respond to it. , it has been hard to find a way to get the job done, which we must do. the burden on young people to go to college is really unconscionable. this is a fight we have been engaged in a long time with republicans. i do not suppor