the answer is mary todd and steve steven a. douglas are completely indispensable figures for the creation of abraham lincoln. there's no lincoln without these two people in illinois. mary doesn't play quite the same role as she did earlier in the first volume, but she plays a very important role here, and it's a little known incident in which lincoln runs for the senate in 1855, not 1858 against douglas. he runs for the senate in 1855. she pushes him to run. he was slated to run for the state legislature, and she -- he's elected again, and she -- he's been a congressman in the legislature, she thinks -- the senate seat opens up, and she thinks this is completely beneath him. his ambition is a little engine that knew no rest, and mary's was real are knew no rest, and lincoln's friend describe a period of two days of yelling and shouting and lincoln hanging his head and at the end of which he drops his being elected to the state legislature and announces for the senate because his wife says, you're a senator. and it's really impor

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part of his lunch flirting with mary todd lincoln. usually this would merit a combat service --. badge. [laughter] sawt was the only time mary someone flirting with her instead of her husband. thingsnderstood these and even then he was clumsy in trying to advance these things. he was very conscience of his reputation and was not very skilled at self-promotion. he would have been awful at twitter, for example. his facebook page would be bland. kind of like hennessy's. case, he does not have those things. it is filled with pages that there are tributes to meade and how he has been unjustly overshadowed why others. meade doeses not -- not have that skill even though he wish he had it as an artificial promotion of his image. himself at a sees quintessential 19th-century philadelphia german. he writes over and over in his letters about duty. is duty. him, it a sense to be dutiful and follow orders which is not parallel to shameless self-promotion. simpsond been more like -- >> then you would have a much more interesting biography. big bobblehead. >> at least my bobblehead has a scarf a

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mary sinclair. >> i'm so happy to be sponsored in family campaign. the coolest things to do. we will start with 2 in 1. rocking hammock. toddthy essence. >> it's fun for the backyard and enjoy that right now. [laughter] todd: it was until i got on here. >> i love this. kids build this and decorate. we have a juice stand instead of all the sugary powder. we made a tropical sparkler. what's in this, tropical fruit juice and white grape juice and sky is here to receiver you. real fun for kids. >> is it free? >> thank you. >> we don't want to give our kids more sugar. no sugar added. >> thank you, girls. >> this is a diy, i'm about getting kids to create their own play as well. you could put party on this as well and then what we've done is taken our empty juice bottle and put paint in it and you shake the paint around it there and you set them up like that and who wants to do it? you can weight that down with pebbles if you want. bowling. now we will move to hula hoops. abby: i won a contest in elementary school. i won't do that today. >> six bucks, put these out, get a bunch of them and put them in the backyard. >> this looks