mr. lincoln. >> he realized that he could combine both of his pursuits on the same circuit, and it enabled him to become very well acquainted and respected throughout the whole band of central illinois, from indiana to missouri and iowa. >> illinois was very racist. there's no other way to depict it. it came close to voting to be a slave state. it barred african-americans who were free from coming into the state. so it was a very racist society in which lincoln had to deal. it was the very people he had to appeal to, so many of them, to get elected who held these very strong antiblack views. they didn't want anything to do with blacks, and they didn't want anything to do with slavery either. >> to try to get back in those days and to understand racial relations, it's just hard for us to do that. the best scientists of the day, louis agassiz and others, are telling you it's good science that people from africa are biologically inferior. >> of course, a lot people still argue that lincoln is a racist

mr. lincoln touched mr. johnson and pointed me out to him. the first expression which came to his face and which i think was the true index of his heart was one of bitter contempt and aversion. seeing that i had observed him, he tried to assume a more freely appearance, but it was too late. it is useless to close the door when all within had been seen. his first glance was the front of the man. the second was a bland and sickly smile of the demagogue. i turned to mrs. dorsey in said, whatever andrew johnson may be, he is no friend of our race. that is what frederick douglass thought of andrew johnson. tell me more. >> well, here actually read johnson. frederick douglass was a brilliant man, and he could see that this was a man who did not have the best interests of african-americans at heart. it is a terrible thing to think that this guy was ahead of reconstruction. the question was what do we do with four million african- american slaves who were set free. his answer was, send them back to as near slavery as possible. >> was johnson that of

mr. lincoln, thank you mr. washington. >> don't take away our 49ers stadium money that is the message santa clara city council plans to send to gerry brown. sharon chin is at the site to explain why $40 million is at stake. >> reporter: good morning sydnie. santa clara city council does not want to fumble on this one. it wants to keep redevelopment money for the new 49ers stadium. the city has already committed up to $40 million in redevelopment money for a new 49ers football stadium, land near great america theme park. council's message to governor gerry brown don't cut that money as part of your budget tightening proposal to do away with redevelopment funds. >> the council plans on firming up its right

lincoln. it is a very powerful image. >> that portrait was bequeathed to the white house by mrs. 1939 . >> it is fitting that below the portrait is a lasting american image on the fireplace mantle left her by president roosevelt and still seen today. >> the buffalo heads are there because of theodore roosevelt. the mantelpiece is not the original but it is a copy of the original which was put there after the 1902 renovations with lions on the front. roosevelt had a thing about lions. he disliked them all. he thought b americanison -- he thought the americans bison should be there. they were carved on the mantelpiece. >> looking down from the state dining room through the parlors, use the portrait of theodore roosevelt hanging in the east room that george washington designed. part of this renovation of the white house, he revived vest that when i look at the portrait, theodore roosevelt did not get along with p stateainter. roosevelt got impatient and finally, roosevelt stops and put his hand on the new will post and the painter said that was it. he painted that on the landing of

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mr. lincoln's university just as university of pennsylvania is mr. franklin's university or the university of virginia is jefferson's university. i'll take lincoln any day, and there would not have, in fact,ta been a land-grant school had the south not left the union, and p they only left because lincoln was president. so i think we have good claim to be lincoln's university. too much of a diatribe, but thank you.inco >> never too much of a diatribe about lincoln. he's one that rewards constant and continual study. >> he is.no >> i can't think of another figure even worldwide. it's really kind ofll remarkabl. we still have books like professor burton's that keep is coming out, and there's always more. the new book that just came out about lincoln's marriage. i'd seen that one, i thought it had interesting insights. things maybe you already know but turn it just a little bit. you have these kind of lives overlapping like that, and can to be able to look at the letter that gatling wrote to abraham lincoln, a. lincoln, white house, washington d.c. it's l

mr. lincoln. yes, sir? >> why was he so opposed to being a monarch? if he didn't have this historical background and not much training in politics, why did he oppose the idea of monarchy? >> that's a good question, because he's not madison or jefferson and adams in his reading. he's a primal elemental person. he doesn't talk much about what republicanism means. in fact, the word he tends to use more than any other is empire. not the american republic, but the american empire. but he has a basic primal understanding of what republican principles are. and believed that in the end, they must mean the consent of the governed, the elimination of divine right, and the role of the citizenry in selecting their leaders. and it's not complicated. it's very simple. but it's deep in him. i also think, if you want to become a bit psychiatric, washington understood in a way that few great men did, or do, that his own power would be enhanced by surrendering. that his own place in posterity would be greater because of that act. and everything he does is done with an

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mr. lincoln called the right for example -- the red for influence of the republican a sample. to protect the purchase legacy's our ancestors have built here in north america over the past four centuries, we in america must return to the founders' goals for the country that of being the well-wishers of freedom and independence for all. the indicator of our own. thank you very much. [applause] >> we are going to have some questions after that speech. i would encourage you to freeze your question as a question and we will take one per person only. second row. the one behind you. we will get to you. >> i'm confused about the relationship about the saudi family and al qaeda. can you explain that a little bit more and particularly, what does the saudi family established the sales in the united states? how does that work? what is being done? >> the saudis are an offensive and pure realist purveyor of islam. they are indeed the people who want to build the caliphate worldwide. bin laden is more of a jihadists wanting to take back the land that he believed were taken from islam. the sa

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mr. lincoln called the right for example of our -- to write full influence of our republican example.to protect the precious legacy our ancestors have built here in north america over the past four centuries. weak and america must return to the founder school for our country. that of being the well-wishers of freedom and independence for all. but the champion of the indicator only of our own. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you, michael. i have a feeling we are going to have some questions after that speech. i would encourage you to freeze your question as a question and we will take one per person only. second row. no, sir, the one behind you. we will get to you. >> thank you. i am confused about the relationship between the saudi royal family and al qaeda. can you explain that a little bit more, and particularly how -- what is in the interest of the saudi royal family to establish a al qaeda sales in the united states? how does that work? what is being done and how far has progressed? >> the saudis are inoffensive almost imperialists purveyor of islam. they are indeed the p

she called her husband, lincoln sheeds, she was mrs. grace lincoln sheeds. hire this man immediately. he's the only one that can get this stuff off of the shelfs. fly tops is better and you know it. for the next 14 years from 1941 to to -- he had quick henry the flint, it was part of fred allen's routine. he was a made man in madison avenue. everyone knew quick henry. and theodore geisel was making in the depression era $12,000 secure salary, which today would be the equivalent of $500,000 a year. but there's something missing. and it began to feel the force of the something missing. first in 1931 when henrietta died. then when it goes back to germany in 1936, and beginning to create and to think that i saw it on mulberry street. when he creates and to think that i saw it on mulberry street, he began to feel there was something in the name seuss that had to be connect the experience of creating that name seuss when he had to get by an authoritarian censor in 1925 that sutured him to his getting by his father in 1912, and the little boys who screamed at him a

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mr. holzer just dismiss the nasdaq that i just -- an aspect that i just recently was acquainted with. lincoln was born and grew up when there was great migration to the west, the great wagon trains that went from the 1820's, the 1850's and beyond. he probably grow up with a vision of expansion of this continent. so, during the war, or around that time, he built the transcontinental railway, or initiated it, the telegraph was beginning to be, you mentioned the technology. i think that the liberation of the slaves was not the only result, but in a way, he initiated the 20th century because when he united this country and theodore roosevelt came in and build the panama canal, which europe could not do. then, in the middle of the 20th century, the country defeated nazism, and at the end of the 20th century we defeated communists. lincoln initiative this progress. host: we will leave it there. harold holzer? guest: i did not mean to be dismissive about his vision for a broader country. he was interested in it. his vision was for free labor. that is what divided him from the southerners who also ha

and plop them down in the very place where abraham lincoln spoke, plop them down and say go and speak. i will tell you when you sit down on this floor, mr. speaker, and you wonder how in the world did i ever get here, the good thing is you meet all our other colleagues and say, how did they get here? and you understand the great diversity of this country. you understand that our strengthwise and our ability to have difference and competing opinions with a common goal, a strong, fair country with equal opportunities that awards hard work and treatment and understands you can't always control life's circumstances. at times there will need to be a safety net and the saying we'll rip out obamacare -- i don't want to go back to the days 47,000 people don't have health insurance. it's not ethically right. i know i'm paying for it anyway when they go for the emergency room and it's more expensive. why not get the best preventative care and deliver that care and quit spending twice as much as any other nation and start using that money to invest in innovation and job creation? that's how we pay down the debt. that's how we move forward. that's

mr. president, we americans say that anything is possible, and nothing symbolizes that more than the american presidency. we see it in president obama today. we saw it in president lincoln, we saw it in president truman, we saw it in president eisenhower, and we saw it in ronald reagan. no president symbolized that more in the last half-century than president reagan did, though. he reminded us of what it means to be an american. he lifted our spirits, he made us proud, he strengthened our character, and he taughtes a great many lessons. we celebrate the centennial of his birth and the half-century of his influence in public life. mr. president, i ask unanimous consent to include at the end of my remarks ronald reagan's speech "a time for choosing" made october 27, 1964, which was the beginning -- which launched him into public debate in the united states. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. alexander: i ask unanimous consent following that to include remarks i made in orange county, california, on october 28, 1994, on the 30th anniversary of the speech "time for choosing." the presiding officer: without objection. mr. alexander: and fine amly, mr. president, i

mr. president, we americans say that anything is possible, and nothing symbolizes that more than the american presidency. we see it in president obama today. we saw it in president lincoln, we saw it in president truman, we saw it in president eisenhower, and we saw it in ronald reagan. no president symbolized that more in the last half-century than president reagan did, though. he reminded us of what it means to be an american. he lifted our spirits, he made us proud, he strengthened our character, and he taughtes a great many lessons. we celebrate the centennial of his birth and the half-century of his influence in public life. mr. president, i ask unanimous consent to include at the end of my remarks ronald reagan's speech "a time for choosing" made october 27, 1964, which was the beginning -- which launched him into public debate in the united states. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. alexander: i ask unanimous consent following that to include remarks i made in orange county, california, on october 28, 1994, on the 30th anniversary of the speech "time for choosing." the presiding officer: without objection. mr. alexander: and fine amly, mr. president, i

mr. president. i -- i rise to talk about one of america's great institutions, gallaudet university. on july 4, 1861, president lincoln celebrated our nation's independence on the eve of the civil war by declaring to congress the principal aim of the u.s. government should be to elevate the condition of man, to lift artificial weights from all shoulders, to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all to afford all an unfettered start and a fair chance in the race of life. just a few months before that, president lincoln signed into federal law the authorization to confer collegiate degrees to the deaf and to the hard of hearing in a campus in washington, d.c. for the first time in the nation's history, and still alone to this day, gallaudet university is the only liberal arts university in the world dedicated to the pursuit of higher education for deaf and hard of hearing people. simply put, gallaudet is a gem, a gem for our -- for this city, a gem for our country, a gem for the world for higher education. truly a national university located a short distance from the capitol and founded by president abraham lincoln. i