here's a show tune that became a number one hit for my wonderful mother-in-law, rosemary clooney. ♪ hey so special. it's filled with great instrumentals and beautiful ballads. ♪ ♪ there's a ship ♪ lies rigged and ready ♪ in the harbor ♪ tomorrow for old england ♪ she sails ♪ so i sing you to sleep ♪ after the lovin' ♪ with a song ♪ i just wrote yesterday ♪ and you light up my life ♪ you give me ♪ hope ♪ i'm sorry ♪ for all the lies i told you ♪ ♪ i'm sorry for the things i didn't say ♪ there have always been those singers with a special touch for love songs. now in the '70s and '80s, it was kenny rogers who gave us some of the most beautiful, romantic hits of all time. ♪ and she believes in me ♪ i'll never know ♪ just what she sees in me ♪ through the years ♪ you've never let me down ♪ you've turned my life around ♪ ♪ could i have this dance ♪ for the rest of my life ♪ i just can't believe all the great music we're hearing. what's really unbelievable is that all these timeless classics and romantic hits are together in one complete collection. there's really nothing else like it, three

i was born in kentucky, the home of rosemary clooney. and i understand from the panel, your two guests, henry clay is considered the favorite son of kentucky. although he and lincoln were members of the wig party, i don't understand how he could be the favorite son and not abraham lincoln. who -- when he met harriet beacher stowe, had you that lady that started this great war and -- she had never mentioned nor is uncle tom who is -- i consider the greatest christian in american literature. neither are mentioned ever as being great in their time. and yet on the times in which they lived and even today, their influences is greatly felt. especially by -- many african-americans who are historically informed. why is not lincoln? >> your response, please? >> abraham lincoln certainly -- kentucky, he may have started off as being friends in kentucky. certainly the emancipation proclamation is issued, he becomes a much hated figure here in kentucky. so -- henry clay, who considered himself a werner, but -- many southerners would have -- would ch