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

mary todd and stephen a douglas are completely indispensable figures for the emergence, the development, the creation of abraham lincoln. there is no lincoln without these two people in illinois. and mary doesn't play quite the same role as she did earlier in the first volume but she plays it, a very important role here. and it is 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 wasn't slated to run for the state legislature and she - he is elected again and, he has been a congressman, he has been in the legislature. and she thinks and the senate seat opens up. she thinks this is completely beneath him. his ambition is a little engine that knew no rest according to herndon. but when it did, there was mary. and hers really knew no rest. and lincoln's friends describe a period of two days of yelling and shouting and lincoln hanging his head and at the end of which he drops is being elected to the state legislature and announces for the senate. because his wife says, you're a senator. a

because in 1842, he marries mary todd. now, if you notice john todd stewart and mary todd lincoln, yes, they're related. they're cousins. that, in fact, is how mary todd comes to springfield. she's coming from her home in lexington, kentucky, visiting springfie springfield, and it's there that she meets lincoln. now, it has to be said in all candor that meeting lincoln was not always the easiest thing to do because, all right, let's be frank, the man is homely. he is. i'm sorry. it really is true. homely enough with the big ears, the big nose, the high hollow cheekbones. and although the collar and the stock tie tend to mitigate it, his neck reminded you of a giraffe. the man was 6'4" tall. most of the height in his legs. if he was sitting in a chair here, he'd be about the same -- strike you as being the same dimensions as any of the rest of us. it's when he stood up, suddenly. watching lincoln stand up from a chair was like watching a jackknife unfold. he was awkward. he spoke with a peculimpeculiar. very high pitched, tw

mary todd lincoln will get in a boat to go into richmond to sort of over the defeated south. julia gets in the boat and sits down in a seat. mary todd lincoln says you're sitting in my seat. get up. julia got up. she never forgot this. and then when they had a carriage tour to see all of the lights to celebrate the victory of the north she invites her husband to join her in the carriage and just leaves julia sitting there. julia did not forget this. when they were invited to the theater the evening that lip ncn was killed julia says to her husband, i'm not going to be with that woman. thank goodness she didn't because her husband might have been killed as well. so there was a feud that turned out well for somebody. >> and holding a grudge too. >> yes. >>> do you have any relationships between first lady? >> they were actually close to one another. they shared a correspondence. she was talking to her sister and talking to martha. she said she didn't want anymore children. she was going to have a baby and she was hoping this was the last one. she had four more after that. they

. >> there's a similar feud between julia dent grant and mary todd lincoln. they're going to get into a boat to go into richmond to sort of lord it over the defeated south, and julia gets in the boat and she sits down in a seat and mary todd lincoln gets in and she says, you're sitting in my seat. get up. and she -- and yujulia got up. she never forgot this. and then when they had a carriage tour around washington to see all of the lights to celebrate the victory of the north, mary todd lincoln invites her husband, ulysses s. grant to join her in the carriage and leaves julia sitting there. julia did not forget this. and when they were invited to the theater the evening that lincoln was killed, julia says to her husband, i'm not going to be with that woman, and thank goodness she didn't because her husband might have been killed as well. so there was a feud that turned out well for somebody. >> and holding a grudge, too. >> yes, and holding a grudge, yes. >> annette, do you have any stories of relationships between first ladies or first lady and other women?

so i talk about mary todd lincoln and her brother and he gets horribly winded at the battle of shiloh. just the awful tension that you're the first lady of the united states but the media is very happy to talk in an ugly way about the fact that you also have brothers serving in the confederacy. and how she dealt with that. i wanted to talk about the death of their son, willie who dies in the spring of 1862, to make people realize that both presidents lose a child during this war. it wasn't like their elite families who remain untouched. there suffering as well. when i talked about jefferson davis i did the same thing. those just me being spoiled. but that way you get these people in the stories come i can't talk about the american civil war without talking about the lincoln assassination. it's fascinating to me and readers but again i decided to tell it with claire harris whose with the presidential box and whose husband she engaged in at the time. whose husband is so later traumatized in part by the experience and apart from the mental illness that he will wind up killing her after t

i don't talk as much about abraham lincoln but mary todd lincoln and her brother who was wounded in the battle of shiloh and that awful tension, you are first lady of the united states but the media is happy to talk in a very ugly way about the fact that you have brothers serving in the confederacy. and how she dealt with that and i want to talk about the death of their son willie who died in spring of 1862, to make people realize both presidents, daviss and lincoln lose a child during the war. wasn't like these elite families who remained untouched. they are suffering as well. when i talk about jefferson davis i did the same thing, talk more about his wife who i like better than jefferson davis. it was neat seeing that. that way, you get people in these stories. i can't talk about the civil war without talking about the lincoln assassination. it is endlessly fascinating to me and readers. but i tell it from the perspective of claire harris who is there with her fiancÉ in the presidential box when president lincoln is assassinated and whose husband she is engaged to at the time and is t

meade writes back to his wife back in philadelphia that he had spent part of a lunch flirting with mary todd lincoln. now usually this would merit a combat service badge. [ laughter ] >> and it is the only time apparent apparently that mary saw someone flirting with her rather than her husband. but the fact of the matter is meade did understand some of these things but even then he was clumsy as trying to advance himself and he didn't like it. it wasn't who he was. he was conscious of his reputation and conscious that that he was not very skilled at self-promotion. he would have been awful on twitter for example. his facebook page would be bland, kind of like hennesseys. >> you were waiting and now you got it. >> john's excitement comes tonight. but in any case, he doesn't have those things -- he has a staff that is passionately loyal to him. and has filled the pages of many an archival box with tributes to meade and how he's been unjustly overshadowed by others but meade doesn't have that skill to portray himself and in fact, would have seen this, even though he wished he it, as an artifici

. >> mary recovered at brooke army >> todd: 33 minutes after thes, hour there we're looking at a shot there of corpus christi yo, can see a tree uprooted, for the very latest we go to fox 26s steven morgan he is live there in corpus christi with the verya latest on the ground. steven? >> reporter: yeah, good morning. we have some wind still blowing here. we have the rain that's continued to fall and in fact it's lightened up a little bit but that wind still how els and as the sun has risen we're getting a first look at the damage in corpus christi. we're actually at a t head. it's a local restaurant actually that you can see the corpus christi bay and if we want to pan over and just see some of the damage done here at the land ers shrimp and seafood house a as they call it, some debris scattered on the ground here. also some glass has been shattered. when those winds came at about 130 miles per hour, just yesterday as hurricane harvey landed and really pummeled the coast just north of corpuso. non christi, we still saw a lot of the damage. you can see the roof here completely torn off

todd: original forget tweeted out on sunday quickly going viral. heather: statue of the virgin maryof three homes. todd: the fire destroyed three homes near crirps. >> some may blame god. some may blame the hurricane. the only thing stand were holy things. todd: the statue's survival is a sign they can make it through. heather: yes, they can. "fox & friends" starts now. >> my thoughts and prayers for those affect by hurricane harvey. nothing can defeat the unbreakable spirit of texas and louisiana. >> harrowing and heart wrenching situation unfolding in houston. todd: shutting down highways and byways and turning them into waterways. >> i have been in law enforcement for 28 years and this is the worst i have ever seen. >> i'm still breathing. >> i love this town. i love these people. excuse me. >> people stuck in their homes. got to look out for everybody. >> you see people pulling together and hpi

marie. they have four children two by birth and two by adoption. todd: this is not the bad.new museum in boston. the figure just unveiled getting panned online. one thing both can agree on not as infamous as this courtroom sketch. heather: riot over chick-fil-a over cold nuggets. todd: "fox & friends" begins right now. heather: bye. >> the trump administration took a big step today toward fulfilling a central campaign promise by endorsing immigration reform bill. >> this competitive application process will favor applicants who will speak english, financially support themselves and their families, and demonstrate skills that will contribute to our economy. >> we bring over a million immigrants into this country a year. that's like adding the population of montana every single year. >> the bill would sharply he

mary fallin's office, she is the first -- not only the first woman, she was the first woman and first republican lieutenant governor in 1995. right around the corner from her office, lieutenant governor todd lamb's office they're elected separately. they could be of different political parties. they are both republicans this time around and both are elected for four year terms. this is the guardian sculpted by one of our former state senators. this statue represents all of the indians of oklahoma. there are 39 tribes that have headquarters in oklahoma, looking at the general population -- probably something in the neighborhood of 60 tribes. notice that the speer, he has driven the speer through his leg and the ground. and he says that means he is staying to protect the state capitol. >> is this statue -- >> no, it is generic. it represents everyone. >> where is this? >> this is a hall of the former governors. all of the governors, except for the last three were done by leonard macmurray for our 75th statehood anniversary in 1982. henry has more stories to be told about him than any other group. had to wait a while to become governor. he called out the oklahoma national guard more than 40

todd: good morning, guys. great job mary carroll. we are here in st.offee. we are talking about the issues of the day. president trump's speech right down the road. obviously a lot of reaction to that. a lot of reaction to the fact that their governor just switched parties and wouldn't you know it? a train packed with coal just drove by a few moments ago. we're in coal country, we are in the mountain state all morning long "fox & friends" when we come back ♪ ♪ binders. done. super-cool notebooks. done. that's mom taking care of business. but who takes care of mom? office depot/office max. this week, filler paper just one cent with five dollar minimum purchase. ♪taking care of business. rethink your allergy pills. flonase sensimist allergy relief helps block 6 key inflammatory substances with a gentle mist. most allergy pills only block one. and 6 is greater than one. flonase sensimist. ♪ there's nothing more than my vacation.me so when i need to book a hotel room, i want someone that makes it easy to find what i want. booking.com gets it. and with thei

making sure i'm not in too deep ♪ >> todd: a missouri democrat refusing to back down after saying she hopes president trump is assassinated. >> trish: state senator marietor of the black sphere and fox news contributor kevin jackson. kevin should she resign? >> yes, she should. i don't think she will and i think the cries of the democrats for her to resign is more of a c ya move on their part because times are changing. i was telling one of the producers before the show that this is a big sign that people are finally they've been living on the muscle memory that bash ing conservatives and bash ing trump has been the thing to do and nadol is finding out pretty quickly maybe times are a little bit differently. ask yourself a very simple question guys. when if we had done this to barack obama, what would we be saying with the republican who said let's kill and be asked to resign. he would not only be asked to resign but would have been resigned by now. >> trish: clearly. >> jon: want to take you a step further here there's a petition started by maria called i stand with maria and it says "we know there is a huge difference between saying that someone hope

todd yurounger joins us live fr new york welcome to the show. >> thanks. great to be here >> so i've heard this move by disney described as a hail mary. is that how you see it >> i wouldn't choose those words. we don't really know what the move really is don't know a lot about it. what we do know is disney's existing business, particularly of the television networks, is facing structural decline, just like all television networks are. and that seems to be getting worse. but we also know is that disney announced last night a their reticle plan on what they're going to proactively do to try to make that better. but there aren't have many specifics. we don't know what these new products will look like, we don't know how they'll be priced, but we know that disney has a great brand and great assets and it's conceivable that they can build a business. is it a hail mary or is it a recognition that times are changing and they need to take the future in their own hands. >> i mean, let's say we say that desperate times call for desperate measures is this desperation or not >> listen, i think the situation is desperate i'm not going to take the

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