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and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> brown: the presidential campaign spotlight shone squarely today on the economy and a single battleground state. the two contenders took their appeals to two cities, just 250 miles apart. it was a day of high political theater for president obama and republican challenger mitt romney and the stage was ohio, critical to both men, come november. several recent polls show the race in ohio may be tightening. one has romney ahead by three points. underscoring the stakes, one new and today, romney began his event 15 minutes early in cincinnati, getting in the first blow. >> now, you may have heard that president obama is on the other side of the state, and he's going to be delivering a speech on the economy. he's doing that because he hasn't delivered a recovery for the economy. >> brown: romney offered no new specific proposals and neither did president obama when he spoke in cleveland a short time later in what was billed as his first major economic speech of the general elec

but first, this is pledge week on pbs. this break allows your public television station to ask for your support, and that support helps keep programs like ours on the air. >> woodruff: for those stations not taking a pledge break, we take an encore look at president abraham lincoln and his evolving legacy. hari sreenivasan toured the new ford's theatre center for education and leadership here in washington, d.c., along with historian richard norton smith. >> sreenivasan: walking into the new theater center is like taking a step back in time to the cobblestone streets of washington on april 16, 1865, the day after president abraham lincoln's death. newspaper headlines cover the walls of the new exhibit which opened today in a building across the street from ford's theater, where the president was assassinated. >> you walk to the third floor and you come to this more thematic, less chronological treatment. >> reporter: presidential historian richard norton smith who helped design the center says its mission is to examine how