one of them is named robert jackson, and -- after that robert jackson -- because i'm very fond of justice jackson and because one of the things that he observed about the separation of powers is that the constitution diffuses power the better to secure liberty. it also contemplates that practice which will integrate the disbursed powers into a workable government. it enjoins upon its blanches separateness but interdependence. autonomy, but reciprocity. as with the late edward levy, robert jackson believed that the branches of government were not designed to be at war with one another. the relationship was not to be an adversarial one. in that sense, mort, you and i are equally concerned about what we see happening between the president and the congress. but vie i have to say that my conclusion is much different than yourself as to the source of the provocation and the source of the difficulty. because, if one steps back and looks at the obligations of the president of the united states under article 2, he has one essential obligation. to take care that the laws are faithfully executed. we

so that's a nice rubric for rest of 1862 for thomas jackson. >> robert krick joins us from the library of virginia looking at the person of the year 1862. we also have a comment on facebook, a comment about the role of thomas stonewall jackson. matthew lowenstein says that richmond would fall in the spring of 1862 without him. what do you think of that? >> the parallel universe, the counter factual world is wide open for all of us to speculate. i'm with him. it is hard to imagine without jackson coming down from the valley onto the exposed federal wing even though that did not work nearly as well as it was hoped would, as it ought to have done, without jackson here, it's hard to imagine lee succeeding. skillful though he was, mcclellan had too many people. i'm not opposed to that notion at all. >> let's go to joe in new york. >> hello. i have a question regarding jackson's valley campaign. prior to the battle of port republic at cross keys, richard uell thought that battle almost independently without the knowledge of jackson. can we assume the two had a good relation or did it just ha

we heard from robert krick who was a historian at national military park and his nomination was thomas stonewall jackson. we'll talk to robert krick momentarily. and also take your phone calls, as well. here are the phone lines if you are living in the eastern and central time zone, the number is 202-585-3885. for mountain, 202-585-3886. make sure you do mute your television when you call in so you won't feedback. you can also participate online even if you don't want to call in at twitter.com/c-span. our handle is c-span history. and we will focus specifically on the hash tag poty 1862. if you put that in your tweet, we'll try to read some of those. we already have postings on facebook. facebook.com/c-span. and you can join in with your nomination for person of the year 1862. writing in for abraham lincoln, justin gates says it should be lincoln. with the emancipation proclamation. also paul martin says the abolitionist william lloyd garrison. so we'll take your phone calls, as well. robert krick joins us from the rye bra library of virginia. your nomination was thomas stonewall jackson. outside of 9 s

have heard from four of the historians so far and here are the nominations, robert crick nominated, thomas stonewall jackson. robert crick was the former head of fredericksburg battlefield. we heard from david blithe who dominated frederick douglass. james mcpherson nominated a miller david farragut and you heard the nomination of george b. mcclellan. we're going to open up our phone lines for your thoughts and your comments and questions about the day and hear your comments for john mountcastle as well. a couple of ways you can participate by phone, the numbers are 202-3855. and also for the mountain and pacific it's 585-3856. we wanted to remind you in case you missed today's procedure at the library of virginia, we will reair all of this in its entirety including the phone segments this evening at 6:00 p.m. eastern and 1:00 a.m. eastern on sunday morning. that's ahead of us. also this afternoon if you don't get through on the phones if you want to make a comment at twitter.com you can do that and the handle we're using for twitter is totw1862. and also on facebook, facebook.com/cspan. before we speak to

chomsky many years ago talk about it and went and read it, the opening and closing statements by robert jackson at the nuremberg tribunals. it's incredibly enlightening because that was supposed to be the education presentation of modern justice. and not only did jackson point out that aggressive war was the kingpin crime, the crime above all others, but he also said that the nuremberg tribunals would have value only if they were applied not only to the defendants, but also to all the nations here assembled, meaning the united states and its allies. and yet if you were to cite that and argue that that meant that george bush and dick cheney and don rumsfeld should be prosecuted as war criminals for the aggressive attack on iraq, there's almost nothing you could do that's more self-marginalizing than that. even people sympathetic to the idea that they should be investigated criminally for the torture regime somewhat recoil at the idea that they should be held criminally accountable further at least 100,000 dead innocent iraqis, i think because they view the act of congress authorizing it and the

robert e. lee. here are the nominations, stonewall jackson, nominated by robert krick who was the chief historian at fredericksburg. david blight for the yale center of the study of slavery resistance and abolition nominated frederick douglass. david fair gut, and the former chief of military history for the army john mount castle and robert e. lee nominated by professor thomas and we'll talk to him in a moment. in case you missed any of today's event we'll show the entire program beginning at 6:00 p.m. eastern this afternoon and at 1:00 a.m. on sunday morning. we'll open up the phone lines and we'll have them open for your calls while they count the votes. here are the numbers for the eastern and central time zones. the number is 202-585-3885 and 202585-3886. we'll take your calls until they announce the winner. >> been getting a lot of tweets as well at twitter.com/c-span. our handle is @c-spanhistory just in case you want to favor that. the hash tag today is person of the year 1862. #poty1862. just want to read one tweet before we go back to professor thomas. here's one from wilhelm ii. he's not

the nomination from robert krick was stonewall jackson. david blight choosing fed rick douglas and james mcpherson with david furrogate. the phone lines will be open in just a moment. make sure you mute your television when you call in. you can send us a tweet. our hash tag today if you want to jot this down is poty1862. post your choice for person of the year on facebook. facebook.com/cspan is where you go. ben says that his choice would be greely and second choice would be robert e. lee. on facebook a look at our facebook page, james saying that it's george. let's go back to the library and james mcpherson who just nominated admiral david furagate. he would be the only admiral on that list. you talked in your speech about the political implications of his victories in 1862. were they the main reason that france and britain looked at the confederacy that year. >> certainly the main reason why they delayed what looked like would be recognition in the spring of 1862. the capture of new orleans was the most important in a series of union vic

the nomination so far from robert crick, was stonewall jackson. david blight from yale choosing frederick douglass and james mcpherson with admiral david farragut. we're going to open up our phone lines for your questions and comments to james mcpherson in just a moment. 202-585-3886 for mountain and pacific. make sure you mute your television when you call. in you can also send us a tweet. twitter.com/c-span. our hashtag today if you want to jot this down #poty 1862." post your choice on person of the year on facebook. just a quick tweet and facebook reading, ben says that his choice would be horace greeley, second choice would be robert e. lee. that's from ben denikian. on facebook a look at our facebook page, james -- george b mcclellan "as much as i desize him, the army of the potomac is not what it will become in 1863." some of the thoughts of viewers on twitter and facebook. let's go back to the library and james mcpherson who just nominated admiral david farragut as his choice for person of the year 1862. james mcpherson if you look at the

robert krick chose thomas stonewall jackson. we will open up our phone lines here to take your calls so you get a chance to talk to david blight momentarily. if you are on east coast, the number is 202-585-3885. mountain and pacific, 202-585-3886. if you want to tweet us us, #poty1862. we have a tweet from someone who agree was professor blight. i think frederick douglass should be person of the year 1862. we are posting the question on our facebook page. if you want to look at facebook and post your comments, you are welcome to do that. a couple here. steven says, lincoln was person of the year every year he was president. i suppose next to abe in 1862, you have to choose robert e. lee. david blight joins us from the library in virginia. he will take your phone calls. david blight, welcome to american history tv. >> thank you very much. glad to be here. >> frederick douglass was born a slave, but in eastern shore of maryland, how did he become such an interesting part of the abolitionist movement? >> he did not become part of t

robert e. lee and stonewall jackson. and why? because they were selfless. they gave of themselves beyond anything which was ordinarily required. i look out at the young faces here and say, my god, how wonderful it is for you to be embarking on the military career opportunity. so learn what you can from your teachers at this stage of the game. find your own personal guides. let them tell you how to function, and give it your all. because what else is there? to the extent you can give of yourself, you then contribute. and then life is about contributing. we're giving that honor by our maker whom we serve. because we're really nothing. we get accolades, we wonder why. we're rewarded for doing that which we love to do. i think my greatest experiences in combat were providing close air support for my brothers on the ground. and when they were in desperate need, if you were there and had the opportunity with an appropriate weapons, to provide them some succor, let them survive to the extent that you had a capacity to provide that support, i had that experience on

humphrey, dirksen, gentleman javits, sam irwin, full bright, bird, ted kent, robert kennedy, wayne moss, henry jackson, albert gore, edmund musky, warren magnus sin. robert dole, frank church. john sherman-cooper, eugene mccarthy. margaret k smith, birch bayh and that's quite a cast of characters and those are names that many older americans remember today. of those names, which names pop out to you, and which have impressed you the most? >> let me say first in full disclosure, the narrative of the book focuses on the last years of the great senate, the late '70s, and then -- but the book is backlit by what happened before. my basic argument is that there was a great senate from the earl '60s through the '70s, so all those people you indicated are part of that. the ones that stand out most prominently in my memory would include hubert humphrey, who was perhaps one of the greatest senators of all time, although i think someone of a tragic figure because of what happened to him in-during the vietnam when he was vice president. but as senator he really invented the modern senator's role to some extent. h

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robert krick, the chief historian and military historical park, his nominee earlier was thomas stonewall jackson. two out of five historians so far. we have opened the phone lines throughout the day, too. we will do that later as well. also online at twitter.com, we have tweets if you want to give us your thoughts. send us a tweet. it is #poty1862. we pose the question on facebook.com/c-span. while we continue to work on the signal from richmond, virginia, we are working on that. we hope to bring you the rest of the event. in the meantime, a look at the civil war on c-span tv. >> this week on american artifacts, we visit the center for education and leadership across the street from ford's theater where john wilkes booth shot lincoln. the center is the newest edition to the ford's theater campus on 10th street in washington where you can learn about the life, death and legacy of lincoln. paul tatro talks about the center's purpose and goals. >> we are in the center for education and leadership. directly across the street from historic ford theater on 10th street in washington d.c. behind me is t

douglasss as his choice for person of the year 1862 and robert crick who was the chief historian at fredericksburg for 30 years chose thomas stonewall jackson. we're going to open our phone lines here and take your calls. so you can get a chance to talk to david blythe momentarily. the numbers are if you are on the eastern seaboard, if you're eastern and central time zones, 202-585 i 3885. mountain and pacific, 202-585-3886. make sure you mute your television. if you want to tweet us, our hash tag is poty 1862. and we will have one tweet from kashia who agrees with professor light that she says i think douglass should be the person of the year 1862. also at facebook.com/c-span, wes are posting the question there, as well. if you want to take a look at facebook and post your comments, you're welcome to do that. a couple here stephen grill says in a sense, lincoln was person of the year every year he was president. i suppose next to abe in 162, you would have to choose robert e. lee. david blythe joins us from the impt library in virginia, and he's going to take your phone calls. david blight, welcome to american history tv. >> thank you very

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robert e. lee, abraham lincoln, stonewall jackson? a lot of suggestions are flying around with the audience right now. >> tell our viewers who some of the historians are and how they will go. >> each historian will stand up and nominate for the man of the year. it is not a popularity contest. it is about who drove events, who was the most influential person of the year. it is kind of like "time" magazine. we have a great group of historians. bob crick, in re- thomas, and david white -- blight. they have lectured. they're very knowledgeable folks. i am sure your viewers have bookshelves full of their books. it will be an interesting group of historians. each one has a reputation of who they like and do not like. that is driving some speculation of who they will nominate and how well they will present a case for their nominee. >> waite rawls is the ceo of the museum of the confederacy. our viewers will be able to participate as well with phone calls. we will take a look at tweets throughout the day. that is getting underway at 9:30 east

let's ask our panel this morning, kevin jackson of the fellow, robert j dole. and despite itself.ou think, why the president's bounce? >> i think three things, and jeremy lin. >> dave: jeremy lin is unbelievable. >> no, and three main things, one, last week jobs numbers and most jobs created in nine months, 240,000, unemployment rate lowest in three years, and state of the union speech for the president had a chance to craft his accomplishments and propose an optimistic plan for the future and three, i think the republicans with the thousands of debates, negative attacks against each other, i think it sort of turned off, i think, maybe independent voters. >> dave: let's take those in two, one, is it simply the jobs numbers and two, have the republican attacks hurt the party and helped the president? >> well, it's certainly possible, but i want to say, there's only a 3% rise and that was within the margin of error and we should be careful about interpreting these. if the train comes into the station five minutes late. if obama goes up in the polls it doesn't mean that the public op

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jackson in the white house." it earned him a pulitzer prize. he's currently writing on george h.w. bush and thomas jefferson. finally, robert caro, he is a two-time pulitzer prize winning author and has dedicated decades to writing about lyndon johnson. his fourth volume "the passage of power," is set to come out this may. i am pleased to have them here to have this discussion about men and power, the power of the office and how those two things come together. i begin with barack obama. what did you go in search of? >> trying to find out to the extent anyone could what makes obama tick. we know if you support obama or oppose him there's something different about the way he seems as he prepares for his reelection before anybody expected four years ago when he was making his debut on the national scene. so trying to parse out whether the disappointment in him was the i evidentable because the mismatch between what he symbolized in his election and the kind of problems he had to deal with or whether it was something intentional he had done right or wrong and trying to answer the question has he been laying a long-term plan who

jackson. this is a saga of rock'n'roll and drugs. there have been one collection after another of dr. feel goods as it were. you go back to the beatles in the 1960, dr. robertsed to give the beatles drugs. >> gretchen: but it's not just rock stars who are dying from -- this is a national epidemic right now with just jane does all across the world. >> you're so right. we hear about it when it involves whitney houston, if, in fact, there is criminality here. we hear about it with michael jackson. we hear with elvis presley. we hear it with other stars, going back to charlie parker in the jazz age and some of the great singers back in the 40s, 50s and '60s. it is a problem. and the truth of the matter is, it's difficult to prosecute. there hasn't been the will to prosecute. jerry brown started a task force trying to coordinate all these prescriptions, who is getting what, where and then seeing what the aliases are. it's extremely hard. the other issue is people say, well, this person here, that person there, they're drug addicts. they charted their own course. there is a free will aspect and people say, well, how can you blame the doctors? but doctors have to