lincoln had issues with depression and he had several courtships, one of his sweethearts died, and rutledge. madly in love with her and he gets very depressed and he needs mary todd, who is very intelligent, politically savvy and corrupt without whole culture in louisville. lincoln was very awkward socially unless he was giving a speech. things did not go well at first with mary todd and then they broke it off and he was horribly depressed and has fred took away his razor, he wouldn't come out of his house, and there was a challenge and 19th century duels were kind of complex affairs and that is what happened. so he didn't fight and that is a good thing. because i cannot imagine what this country would be like without lincoln. it's a good question mel, thank you, david. >> here's an interesting one. if you could pick one thing this, what would it be. >> for me it would be health care. because one of the things they discovered that writingca this book is that there are massive inequities in terms of health care coverage between communities of color than the rest of the country. it is unequal

then there is an interesting letter coming from thomas johnson who joins the court 1791 after john rutledgeesign on —- resigns and also can you oblige me to have address made for me intended for the other judges so those that have ordered their robes to get once he can match everybody else has on but what i found interesting is that at the end he says i should have inclined against it but i'm not too perverse as to be singular to be seen as an different. so he was against wearing robes so there was some dissent even if they wanted to wear these colorful robes. but this definitely shows johnson wanted a robe and wilson writes back and says your robe has been made. we know it was made. so what happens if every 1792 the court comes to meet right by independence hall there is a courtroom of the supreme court this is where the justices first were a unique set of judicial designed robes not anything else and here is a picture of it. so those trying to show what the early court might have look like you only when i found was not great but here it is. there are newspaper articles in the corresponden

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one of his sweethearts died, that was ann rutledge. madly in love with her she dies and he is bereft. he gets very depressed. there is a mary owens before he meets mary todd who was very sprightly intelligent, politically savvy. new henry clay. grew up with that whole culture and that louisville, kentucky. : : : >> . >> that that's what happened. he did not fight the dual if we would have lost lincoln i cannot imagine what this country would be like. good question. thank you. >> if you could one thing to spend infrastructure money on what would it be quick. >> that's easy for me. that would be healthcare. because one of the things i discovered in writing the book backwards is there are massive inequities in terms of healthcare coverage with communities of color and the rest of the country. it is very and evenly divided in a county north of the city we have a plethora of really good hospitals but the south side of chicago is not the case there struggling to stay opens why was been the many to say how do they have a broad-based plan ever

south carolina pinckney and others, rutledge, basically say if you do not assure us that our form of labor, slavery is never mentioned in the constitution. it is not kosher to do that but they say if you don't give us what you're asking for, some protection of our labor source we are going to leave and i don't think they were bluffing. then play the tape and see what happens if they decided to present them with that issue. .. the word slavery was never mentioned in the constitution, it isot kosher to do that. they say if you don't give us what you are giving us, but we are asking for some protection of our labor source, we are going to leave you. and i don't think they were bluffing. and then you have to play the tape and you say what would happen if they had decided to present with that issue. i think franklin wanted to make a proposal. and he was persuaded not to do it because it was considered it to politically risky. in the proposal was to say, for the time being, we recognize that the states in t deep south who were dependent upon slave labor, and they were, georgia and south ca

one of his sweethearts died, that wase anna rutledge in springville. madly in love with her, she dies he is very bereft and gets very depressed for there's mary ellen's before he meetswe mary todd, who was very sprightly intelligent, politically savvy. new henry clay, grew up with that whole culture in louisville, kentucky. lincoln was very awkward socially for some reason, unless he was giving a speech. things did not go well at first with mary. and then they broke it off. he was horribly depressed and his friend joshua took away his razor. he would not comee out of his bed. it was just terrible. someone insulted him and then there was a dual challenge. what you late 19th century duals were complex affairs. that is what happened he did not fight the deal that was a good thing if we would've lost lincoln lincoln i cannot have imagine what this country would have been like. >> here's an interesting one. if you could pick one thing to spend infrastructure money on today what would it be? >> that is an easy one for me. it would be healthcare. one of thing

questionable virginia seems to straddle this but the south carolina represents his pinckney and others rutledge basically say if you do not assure us that our of labor and notice the word slave or slavery is never mentioned in the constitution. it's it's not kosher to do that. but they say if you don't give us what we are asking for here in some protection of our labor source. we are going to lead the union. and i don't think they were. bluffing and then you have to play the tape and say what would happen if they decided to to present them with that issue. i think what should franklin wanted make a proposal? and that he was persuaded not to do it because it was considered two politically risky. the proposal was to say for the time being we recognized that the south the states of the deep south who are dependent on slave labor. and they were georgia and south carolina, especially 60% of the population in south carolina with african-american 60% um we will temporarily recognize your right. as long as you recognize that in principle. slavery is incompatible with the values of the american revoluti