many offers to have that coat bought from him, including a very generous offer from the famous p.t. barnum. and he refused all those offers. and that coat was in his family's hands until it came to the national park service in 1968. since 1968 ford's theater national historic site has been run through a very special public/private partnership. the public part is the national park service. the private is ford's theater society. and that's been since 1968 that we've run this site together. we've run it both as a national historic site, where we have thousands of visitors come in, t happened here. at the same time, this is still an active working theater. and so in that way we get to preserve lincoln's memory and it is a living memorial thatys tribute to his love of the performing arts. so, that's the way the theater still is today, and we're very proud of that partnership. so, we are about to open boxes of two items that are going to be in our education and learning that is going to be opened up in february, 2012, across the street from the theater. these are two items in our collection that

no less an authority than p.t. barnum credited wickoff of teaching him his first-ever lesson in the art of hook 'em. wickoff was washington insiders noted variously a terrible liberti northeast, a whore monger and swindler, an unclean bird, a vile creature, a social pariah, a man with a singular facility for thrusting his diplomatic fingers into other people's pies. it's a disgrace to american society, wrote lincoln's secretary, that it suffers such a thing to be at large. well, among his other shifts, wickoff was a spy for the new york world, and in early 1862 he somehow gets a copy of lincoln's annual message to congress and leaks it to the press. you can imagine any president in any day does not like to see the speech he has not yet made in the newspaper as he is drinking his morning coffee. congress subpoenas information. wickoff it admits some, but he refuses to name his source. give him a couple of days, see if his memory becomes more fresh, and then they throw him in the old capital prison. now, the blue rumors hav

p.t. b barnum. she was talking about the endorsement of donald trump. some call him donald.peculation he was going to endorse newt gingrich. official today in one of his hotels in las vegas he was endorsing mitt romney. here's how the event unfolded mid-afternoon in las vegas. >> thank you very much. it's a great honor for me. as everybody in this room knows our country is in serious, serious trouble. whether it's opec, the opec nations or china, or virtually anybody that we do business with throughout the world, they take advantage of us, they laugh at us, they can't believe their good fortunes. ideal with these people. they can't believe what they are getting away with. so we really have an opportunity to do something great for the country. and just a little while ago i didn't even mention this, but the cbo chief in washington announced that unemployment is going up. to 9.2%. by sometime in january. so it's going to go up and the growth rate is going to be at about 1%. this just came out. not good news. it's my honor, real honor, and privilege to endorse mitt romney. [ app

. >> donald trump is the p.t. barnum to make his announcement. it's perfect so excuse the pun but it trumps all the other news that's taken place on the political front. >> and you know, it was a really interesting day because early yesterday morning, there was a lot of speculation swirling around nevada here that newt gingrich was going to get the donald trump endorsement. that turned out, of course, not to be the case and we understand that donald trump tried calling newt gingrich yesterday following the big announcement and newt gingrich would not take his call. guys? >> ouch! all right, casey live in vegas, thank you very much. let's dial back brian kilmeade in indianapolis. brian, yesterday, the national prayer breakfast, the president of the united states attended. president has gone there for 60 years. what was interesting is usually it's nonpolitical but the president invoked the name of jesus and to answer the question what would jesus do? the president said as we hear in this soundbite he'd tax the rich. >> for