to nicolay who taken to washington to become his private sector it and it was the undisputed nicolay became somewhat influential. a controlled access to the president-elect as scores, if not hundreds of politicians from around the country came to springfield to confer with lincoln, and he also labored alone answering upwards of a 100 letters a day that would come into the president-elect, many of them of a sensitive political nature. he became the gatekeeper to the president-elect. when the mail and divisions became unmanageable, hay began exiting his old friend on an informal basis. they were all working out, working out of the governor's office at the statehouse in springfield, the governor of illinois graciously offered the president-elect use of his office and until he left for washington. it was at this point that the officials offered nicolay three times what he been earning his campaign strategy but not long after this deal was struck, nicolay said to lincoln got a mighty good to bring hay to washington as his assistant secretary, to which lincoln replied we can't take all of

nicolay was in the room. all of these descriptions, lincoln suddenly pulls ahead, the third ballot where he describes the silence that befalls the wigwam in chicago and you could hear the reporters he does it from a third person voice of god. he describes how you could hear the telegraph operators clicking our results. that is tremendously exciting as you can feel the moment and ironically is when they break with their own convention when hay describes personal recollections of conversations he had with lincoln. if you match up his diary against the way they wrote it in the but it is written pretty free form. it is -- he was basically just taking rough notes. he flashed a this out and they kind of violated their own rule, but that is where it gets truly exciting. they could not really help themselves. >> this special bill order, 15 that was initiated by sherman, what is their treatment of that in the volumes that they had. what is your field of lincoln's position. were he not assassinated what is your assumpt

i would like to respond to what nicolai is saying, yes, it's true, but putin's military action against ukraine has its roots and sources in russian domestic politics, but this is what they're targeted. they're aimed at incurring costs for putin in the domestic arena by complicating the current regime so that at some point down the road, putin feels more constrained by the economic costs and potential decrease and popularity of his regime. >> nicolai. how do you respond to that? well, the sanctions make sense because it makes him pay a domestic price. >> i would say first we have to take a look at the bigger picture. unfortunately most of russians feels like time after the cold war when russian became partner of the west at the time russia was getting bigger and bigger. everybody wants to reserve that. russia is an observer of the west economic or energy needs. so when putin is saying we have to reverse it. we have to change it. most of the people support him. theirs first. second, as the kremlin sees it, i'm not a communist, so i can't say that it is reel but first the russian economy

joining me from odessa, ukraine, is nicolai petro, a fullbright research fellow in ukraine. i think there's a lot of confusion about how ukrainians are reacting to this. ukrainians is a massive category. ukrainians in the eastern part of the country that is more predominantly russian speaking, how are they reacting to what has happened? >> with many of the same reactions that people throughout this country are reacting. i would say there have always been those here who feel that the breakup of the ussr was a mistake, but that was a minority. a larger group would welcome close relations with russia, but the largest group has always wanted association with the e.u. people are not welcoming russian military intervention on the one hand, but crimea's initiative does seem to have rallied the groups here that are anti-midon to be more active. so i'd say the east and the south do not want to secede. what they seek is a more formal recognition of their rights. so a popular slogan at the rally that was mentioned is we are not separatists, we are federalists. so in this context being

over to you, nicolai. >> thanks for your introduction. into the heritage foundation, of course, for the invitation. i am nicolai, a journalist. i came to washington, d.c. three weeks ago. so, i just operate with a lot of information of what is going on inside of ukraine, and my colleagues in kiev and also crimea. i've been working since 2009 after receiving my masters masts degree in ukraine national university. actually i have a presentation that i want to focus on more practical things. the problem here in the united states i think is like for journalists which come to ukraine to cover the situation is because they are not -- most of them despite their profession of course -- they come to ukraine just for a couple of weeks and do brief coverage of the situation. so, the situation here is to make more stories. i hope so. so, i would like to have a brief history about the situation in ukraine and first three weeks i went to the american society about what is going on in ukraine and several things here. so the ukrainian people went to sign

. >> nicolai petro, thank you so much for joining me. >> sure. >> joining me now is michael mcfall, just stepped down last week as u.s. ambassador to russia. he's professor of political science at stanford university. ambassador, what is the next step here? it seems that this has escalated tremendously quickly. what do you see as being the next step either from the u.s., nato and the e.u. or from vladimir putin? >> well, with respect to the united states and their allies and western community, i think the step is to make clear to president putin that there will be costs of continued occupation of the sovereign country of ukraine and to make him think about what those costs might be and to make people around him think about what those costs might be down the road. and to give him the chance to rethink where he's going with his operation in crimea. it's my own view, and i did just step down a few days ago, i was just working in moscow last week, that this is not some master plan that putin has planned out for years and years. this is a reaction from president putin to the fall of his partn

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