. >> on the night of april 11th 1985, large crowd gathered outside the north portico of the white houseto hear the president speak and now with the war all but one his were the words northerners most wanted to hear and southerners most needed to hear. he spoke of black voting rights. he spoke of reconciliation tolerance and moderation toward fallen folks. it was not the best spee

. >> on the night of april 11th 1985, large crowd gathered outside the north portico of the white houseto hear the president speak and now with the war all but one his were the words northerners most wanted to hear and southerners most needed to hear. he spoke o

. >> on the night of april 11th 1985, large crowd gathered outside the north portico of the white house. they come to hear the president speak and now with the war all but one his were the words northerners most wanted to hear and southerners most needed to hear. he spoke of black voting rights. he spoke of reconciliation tolerance and moderation toward fallen folks. it was not the best speech me made far from it. fell dead holding without affect on the audience. but given the time to make deeds of his words it might have been one of more far reaching. tragically he was not to be granted that time. as has been noted there was one in the audience that night who would use lincoln's words as the catalyst for one of most heinous and destructive acts in our nation's history. from childhood we are taught to know john wilkes booth is to hate him. he's demonized as the embodiment of evil and yet few of us really know very much about him other than the fact that he was a handsome and popular member of the nation's leading thespian family until he jumped the track. his own brother described him a

. >>> some of the arrival at the booksellers room and up to the north portico.resident obama and first lady michelle obama preparing to greet tonight's honored guest the prime minister of japan shinzo abe and his wife. live coverage here on c-span3. ♪ >>> the president and first lady welcoming prime minister shinzo abe of japan and his wife to the white house. you're on c-span3 and take you back live. the booksellers area where other guests are arriving for tonight's state dinner for shinzo abe and his wife. live coverage here on c-span3. ♪ >>> mr. bob dan and mrs. rainy dan. ♪ [ inaudible ] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> the home daniel russell and ms. kito russell. >>> [ inaudible ] ♪ >>> the honorable kito chen. >>> mr. ron and mrs. john olivere. >>> mr. paul glenn iii. ♪ >>> honorable ron wyden and mrs. widen. >> how are your use of chopsticks? >> it will be challenging in that department. yes. >> will you use the flatware. >> i always play it safe. i'll try a double threat and use both. i am obviously there's a long way to go, but the fact that we had such a thrown vote i

inaugural day when the clintons were leaving the high -- the white house, i was standing at the north porticoand the last person to leave was amy carter -- i mean chelsea clinton. everybody else had gotten in the cars and was waiting. she came up to me and gave me a hug. a day i will never forget. but we had to turn that right around immediately and get the new family moved in. and the family thinks they have to come in and adjust to the executive resident staff and that is probably the greatest mantra that the residents staff has to live by. no it's not the white house way. it is the family's way within the white house. and you need to adapt to the new family. that takes a while. i think the residents staff does it better. these are people who worked for the previous president. now you are working for me. how are you going to respond. how do i respond to you. we know in the resident staff when that has taken place. usually when you walk into the room when there is a conversation going on with family members or staff members were the first lady, conversation stops. they do not know whether he

on inaugural day when the clintons were leaving the white house, i was standing at the north porticove the white house was amy carter. i mean chelsea clinton. everybody was had gotten in the cars and were waiting for the cars to be loaded to move out, and she came up to me and gave me a hug. a day i'll never forget, but we have to turn that right around immediately and get the new family moved in, and then the family thinks they have to come in and adjust to the executive residence staff, and that is probably the greatest mantra that the residence staff has to live by. no. it's not the white house way. it's the family's way within the white house, and you need to adapt to the new family. that takes a while. i think the residence staff does it better because they've been through it before than the families do. these are people who worked for the previous president. now you're working for me. how are you going to respond? how do i respond to you? and we know in the residence staff when that's taken place because usually when you walk into the room when there's a conversation going on a

read an excerpt from president lincoln's second inaugural address given on the east portico of the capital. the north duncan. >> on the occasion corresponding to this, four years ago all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. all dreaded it. all sought to o vert it. while the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted all together to saving the union without war, urgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war. seeking to dissolve the union and divide effects by negotiation. both parties dep ri kated war, but one of them would make war and the other would accept war rather than to let it perish. and the war came. one eighth of the whole population were colored slaves. not distributed generally over the union, but localized in the southern part of it. these slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. all knew that this interest was constituted a peculiar powerful interest and all knew the cause of the war to perpetuate and extent this interest was the object for which the negligents would rend the union even by war. neither party expec