john has appeared from nbc to mpr, cnbc, msnbc and pbs.ive of illinois and there are many destinations and he continued doing that. therefore when you read the book there are several great erappendixes in one of them is e review of the various lincoln touristin destinations. and john, please tell us what would lincoln do. >> thank you, david, for that generous amount of words. it's always a pleasure to speaker and i thank you so much to our great sponsors from the school of business and the center for global security analysis and trend analysis and all of you for attending this session and what i hope is going toto be a revealing new look at abraham lincoln and infrastructure and the story starts in 1828, when a young man is transporting goods, agricultural produce from southern indiana, down the mississippi to new orleans and he discovers two things. he sees people that are enslaved do not have the same economic opportunity to advance their own station and he also sees the importance of transporting goods to market and having access to ma