mrs. lincoln. the story in the "herald tribune" said that woodrow wilson went to the house judiciary committee for an of thel discussion treaty of her side. but that is it. -- treaty of versailles. but that is it. did the house judiciary committee ask him to testify? >> he exit proposed to do so. -- he actually propose to do so. all sorts of questions were raised. not just from the usual political adversaries regarding ,ossible motives behind this and in the ensuing uproar, he decided that it would make perfect sense for him to break and in facton become the first president since lincoln to testify before a judiciary committee. emember, this is after 25 years on capitol hill. there, andortable up the committee probably treated him less harshly than somebody they had not known and not worked with for 25 years. you say, he had spent 25 years on a hill -- stronge were lots of , and that was the committee that even i was rake nelsono rockefeller over the coals, they had asked some tough questions durin

mrs. lincoln. the story in the "herald tribune" said that woodrow wilson went to the house judiciary committee for an informal discussion of the treaty of her side. but that is it. -- treaty of versailles. but that is it. >> did the house judiciary committee ask him to testify? >> he exit proposed to do so. -- he actually propose to do so. all sorts of questions were raised. not just from the usual political adversaries regarding possible motives behind this, and in the ensuing uproar, he decided that it would make perfect sense for him to break with tradition and in fact become the first president since lincoln to testify before a judiciary committee. the reaction was much more negative than he had anticipated. all sorts of questions were raised, and not just from the usual set of political adversaries regarding possible motives behind this. uproar, heensuing decided that it would make perfect sense for him to break with tradition and in fact become the first president since lincoln to testify bef

mrs. lincoln. the story in the "herald tribune" to that effect. woodrow wilson invited the foreign committee to the white house for informal testimony on the proposed league of nations and treaty of versailles. but that is it. >> president ford pardoned richard nixon september 8, 1974. he was ousted by the subcommittee to testify? >> it was interesting. let it be said, the reaction of the party was much harsher and more negative than i think he anticipated. all sorts of questions were raised. not just from the usual political adversaries regarding possible motives behind this, and in the ensuing uproar, he decided that it would make perfect sense for him to break with tradition and in fact become the first president since lincoln to testify before a congressional committee. this is with 25 years on capitol hill paying dividends. he was comfortable going into the lion's den. i think the record will show the committee treated him less harshly than they might have someone whom they had not known and worked with for 25 years. committee,iciary comforta

mr. lincoln. you couldn't talk to them as if he was daniel. i didn't get to see daniel again until the awards ceremony started in the premieres so the first one in new york the premier said we had to go to a bar to celebrate, to remember that night before when he was just becoming lincoln. the way of a couple drinks, old cubans, his favorite drink and i only had to yet more than me which is an important part of the story. a few weeks later he won his first award in stephen kamen gave him the award. incomprehensibly he talked about he rejected the role so long and he finally said yes and it was so great. cedeno gets up and said i don't reject everything. when doris goodwin afscme to go been a streaky weather, i accepted out once. [laughter] was a "wall street journal" reporter there was in the paper next day, so as a, so it's a great adventure. i saw this man walked away like and want only because someone told us he walked like a labor coming off the end of a hard day. he talked with a high-pitched voice we knew because someone told. he had the

mrs. lincoln refurnished and named the prince of wales room for its only celebrated guest. yet lincoln's white house is more powerful in memory than any other. even washington. of course, he never lived there. it comes to us like a stage production with its characters, its ups, downs, few joys, amazing triumphs, many tragedies and sudden -- sad end. lincoln seems to have had no particular interest in the white house but respected its history. two times he referred to it as this damned old house, revealing it was an expensive headache. and then this big white house once when he expressed his respect for it among some young soldiers symbolically as a young house in which any american might aspire to live. it was lincoln's residency there that intensified the symbolic house and gave it power it had never had before that protected it from the ambitious and indelible victorians who followed. actually, i think there might be no white house today symbol or not in lincoln's melodrama had not played out there. building experts lay in wait. the corps of army engineers certainly eager

mrs. lincoln when her son died and how did mrs. davis react to all this tragedy? >> that is an excellent question. i think really important to the story. when joe dies, when he falls off the balcony, at that point that's the one day that jefferson davis takes off from the confederacy. to be with his child. that impacts them greatly. then they have other children die and when winnie dies, her mother just goes to pieces. again, verena pulled it together and never gives up. she eventually is able to function and go on and stays on and lives in new york. i think that the cumulative effect influences the four boys dying. it influences the the way they are together. they welcome codepartment on each other, but they cannot give her up to marriage. they have all the ailments. that's not a lot of fun for her either. jefferson davis adores his children. both did. it was devastating. even for the 19th century, that is a lot of death. that is unusual and all boys. so the name doesn't disappear. >> if you go to hollywood cemetery in richmond, there is this gorgeous old cemeter

mrs. lincoln's dress maker." >> no, i'm sorry. i have not. >> it's a good read. >> that's what i understand. thank you for suggesting it. >> i have a sense that mrs. obama has helped us to accept dresses again, and so no matter what level of dress, we can find one now, and there was a whole period of many, many years where it was very, very difficult. what do you think of that? >> yeah. that's a really good observation. i think you are correct. i've already discussed hillary with pants suits. i didn't talk about laura bush, but laura bush really gravitated to pants suits throughout the bush years, so i think you're making a good point. and you're right. if michelle obama is not involved with, say, the lets move type activity or throughout with gardening, you do see her a lot in dresses, whereas i am obviously not partial to dresses myself. i will say that one of my daughters who can wear some of the styles that michelle obama also wears, she wears almost exclusively dresses. i have noticed that with a lot of other young women. i th

mr. lincoln. well, dana's recollection is from the war of 1864 itself. the secretary of war is a man named edward stanton. stanton used power to bring vote neers line. to be sure they either vote ford lincoln or didn't speak too badly about the president. stanton dismissed dozens of officers during summer and fall of 1864 when they spoke out against lincoln. in one occasion, stanton dismissed almost two dozen at one time. one of the senators, one of the u.s. senators from new york was a man named edwin morgan. morgan went to stanton and said, you know, there's quarter master clerks who are out there harahhing for mcclelon. when stanton heard this, he outright fired them. he said, when a man receives pay from an administration and then denounces its terms he cannot be surprised if the administration prefers a friend on the job. now stanton made very little effort to hide this sort of partisanship. he learned about one officer who was wagering bets against the republican governor of indiana. which was illegal. still is, i think. and this guy, the soldiers

mr. lincoln. dana's recollection is supported -- the secretary of war at the time was a man named edward stanton and stanton used immense power to bring soldiers into line. stanton dismissed dozens of officers during the summer and fall of 1864 when they spoke out against lincoln. on one occasion, stanton dismissed almost two dozen at one time. one of the senators, one of the u.s. senators from new york was the man named edwin morgan, he also served as governor of new york and morgan went to stanton and said there's some water master clerks who are out there hurrahing for lincoln. and when he heard about this, he outright fired 20 of them. when they said how can you fire me. and stanton said when a young man receives his pay from an administration and spends his evenings denouncing it, he cannot be surprised if the administration prefers a friend on the job. now stanton made very little effort to hide this sort of partisanship. he learned about one officer who was wagering bets against the republi

mr. lincoln. his recollection is a substantiated by historical evidence i found from the election of 1864 itself. the secretary of war at the time ed wednesday.d he used immense power to bring voters into line, to make sure that they either voted for lincoln or they did not think too badly about the president. stanton dismissed dozens of officers during the summer and fall of 1864 when they spoke out against lincoln. on one occasion, he dismissed almost two dozen at one time. one of the u.s. senators from new york was a man named edwin morgan who once served as governor of new york, and morgan went to stanton and said there are some quartermaster clerks out there for mcclelland. and stanton outright dismissed 20 of them. one of the clerks went to stanton and complained here it stanton said, when a young man receives his pay from an administration and spends his evenings denouncing it in offensive terms, he cannot be surprised if the administration prefers a friend on the job. now, stanton made ver

lincoln did bake into the preliminary emancipation proclamation. those aimed at reaching all reference to more purpose would be recognized and that the pressure. such careful to get the proclamation and/or of mr in disguise as if lincoln was hiding something behind his tightly wound prose which he was a link in what spoke out forcefully against slavery for decades have just authored a proper measure of freedom without mentioning the most forceful reason for doing it which is the it was the right thing to do. just as i did read a proclamation ostensibly removing 4 million people from bondage, let him a disgrace concerns was that he in his own position of power not be seen as acting undemocratically as forcing his will on others, even as there was no denying he was indeed acting undemocratically at this the same men from your youth in 1864 a quarter the declaration of independence not only for its expression of equality of all men but for its expression that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. the whole situation was one of those russian nesting dolls with iron in case with them in another and that inside one more. wasn't also possible there was for lincoln no

mrs. rosecrans is buried at the same cemetery. mary sirotka was executed for being a conspirator in the assassination of lincoln. i stumbled upon a book and started raising -- reading all these superlatives and got deeper into the political asset. garrett shea is buried there. the direct show storm that came from the midwest and knocked out a lot of power -- derecho storm. it toppled that monument. has anyknow if he descendents that would be interested in restoring it. people often say there is new about the civil war. [laughter] gettysburg, lee, jackson, sherman, grant. i stumbled upon this, as i have said. no one seemed to be interested in this. read "decision of the west"? says, end of the book, he he expresses his wish, his young that some courageous historian will write about general rosecrans. no one seemed to be interested. hasn named frank barney written a book about general grant, and rosecrans. he's going to write a book down here in petersburg about five forks. there's a new book, gateway to the confederacy, about chattanooga. is a chapter there about the grant-rosecrans dispute. so i think it's begin

wireless mission lincoln and our two are the categorizing right now >> thank you very much superintendent i think you're going to give us an update. >> thank you president fewer and mr. cybercy as well i think the questions our asked are absolutely important questions we've done the analysis of what it does to make every clamor completely wireless less with enough abandon width for the 21st century technology within the digital plan we're bringing forward to the district the ball park figure is $190 million it is not a small ticket item but it is also highlights for us how important it is that we have been able to forge strong partnerships and with our elected officials across van ness doing this in a cooperated way but that will be coming to the board as well. >> thank you superintendent. >> thank you so much for the presentation i hope that was informative to all of us but thank you very much commissioners any comments. >> scomplinz i appreciate the questions and session we've had it's clear many of the things we will do and not to do it's not we don't want to provide those things and this recent discussion of the wifi conservative so it's clear we're not going to

mr. president. this isn't the type of resolution i would typically author. i just want to give a background here. some of you may have heard from the students as well, a group of students from lincoln high school that helped put together this resolution and began advocating for it, received a very significant number of e-mails from the students who were very passionate about this important environmental issue. and i think it's really important to send a clear and early message to young people that political participation matters and that if they organize and advocate that they can sometimes and hopefully frequently get what they want. so, i thought it was important to move forward with these students who are requesting with their passion and their hard work. thank you. >> supervisor tang. >> thank you. i actually just want to really acknowledge supervisor wiener for introducing this legislation given that a lot of the students were from our district high school. so, i really appreciate you showing them that, what their pro activity can do. so, thank you very much. >> colleague, can we take this item same house stayvv call? without objectionv, this resolution is adopted. [gavel] >>

mrs. clinton has already claimed just this year that she and president clinton were gone when they left the white house. and that abraham lincoln a senator. things are bound to be picked up in 2016. we begin tonight with good news in new york city, a 5-year-old boy who recently returned from guinea and who was taken to bellevue hospital for treatment has just tested negative for ebola. he was admitted to the hot the last night with symptoms similar to those of ebola. new york remaiis on high alert, the death toll overseas is astounding, nearly 5000 evil have now died of the ebola virus, of the more than 10,000 cases. the staggering numbers seem to have added no urgency to an administration will and to form up policies to work with the government and the medical system to protect the nation. chief white house correspondent ed henry has our report. president obama's response to the crisis continues as the centers for disease control late today unveiled new guidelines to help those returning from west africa, even as the cdc is overridden. >> the state and local officials have broad authority to impose a quarantine policy in their

lincoln there. do you think you can get through congress in a without. mr. peters was worse $00. and there's nothing wrong with that, scott. he's the eight richest member oaf the world but this is a man who on the city council he voted to increase. he took this and he took his pension early. this is very important. he protected the perks of mechanics of congress. . . needs to go off the record a she stipings in. and we got some other stuff in the choir. >> do you have something that you want to do in terms -- >> the water issue in san diego is about ex- and he voted to not fwull the solve. and won't save water anymore we changed the waters. r. peters, we're on a, the localities, the state and the federal government. we are very fortunate and. and we made a deal with the farmers. so we weren't deposit pen dend it was a d at local controversial thing when i was, we have to debate our washington supply. recycle or to waret. but we can't be sending what's treatable water out, four nstead of the ocean. . we've gone from being behind the curtains in always asking made a n't know if he

mr. balukoff is a vote for stagnation. before you say that an independent candidate cannot win, let me remind you -- lincoln was a third-party candidate when he ran for president, and he won. just event or a was a third-party candidate when he ran for governor of minnesota, and he won. great moments in history happen when people have had enough and finally stand up and take a stand, and this november, if you stand up, the power to change history rests in your hands. you do not need to take up your guns. it is not going to cost you a dime. you just need to go down to the governor,k bujak for and i will take it from there. thank you very much. >> again, thank you all for being here. i appreciate the opportunity of introducing myself and telling you where i stand on some of the issues as they are brought up. as you have listened to us, you can see that sometimes mr. bujak and i agree on some issues in their some instances where we disagree, but the one thing we do agree on is it's time for a change in leadership at the top. governor, change the and we need to change him now. if you are satisfied with going downhill and spiralin

mr. hassebrook went to first. >> the state has confirmed an average of three trains a week caring bakken crude oil are traveling from south sioux city through fremont and lincolny rail. does this raise safety concerns for you and does it affect your thinking on the keystone xl pipeline which could carry some bakken crude oil? hassebrook: you know last week the university of nebraska came out with a study come the university was charged to look at climate change, the extent of climate change, its causes and its implications for the state of nebraska. they release their report last week and they said the scientific debate about climate change and the extent to which burning fossil fuels is contributing, the scientific debate is over. the scientific research is overwhelming that the use of fossil fuels is contributing to climate change. we know that burning oil and developing oil in the tar sands region in canada contributes far more to climate change than our own domestic crude oil sources. that's one of the reasons i've oppose developing the keystone pipeline. i believe we have a responsibility, a moral responsibility to our children and grandchildren to step u

lincoln, nebraska. and my team is over, so i will recognize the ranking member, jan schakowsky, from illinois. >> thank you, mr. chairman. this is a very important hearing on improving sports safety. i look forward to hearing from all of our witnesses on both panels about the perspectives, experiences, proposals about how to make sports safer for everyone from children to professional athletes. athletes are continually becoming bigger and faster and stronger and much work remains. 300,000 sports related traumatic brain injuries occur annually in the united states. sports are the second leading cause of traumatic brain injury among people age 15 to 24, second only to motor vehicle accidents. this is a crisis and this subcommittee should do everything in its power to address. we'll hear today from a high school senior who suffered a severe head injury during a lacrosse game in his sophomore year. despite his impressive recovery, that hit later identified as his third head injury left him with a limited ability to enjoy the types of activities many of his high school classmates take for granted. his story should