and seward, i'm interested, seward plays an interesting role in your book as the american secretary of state. do you see seward as someone who's just kind of a blusterer and really is a little out of his element making all these threats and crazy schemes, or is there a method in his madness? i mean, is he trying to be so bellicose in his language that the british are kind of nervous? and they say, well, we'd better not do anything otherwise this crazy seward may go to war with us in canada or something like that? looking back at the whole four-year war, do you see seward as really a successful diplomat or secretary of state in terms of dealing with britain, or was he out of control, a loose condition non? >> guest: i think it's both. i feel he was a brilliant man. he knew he was a brilliant man. i think he genuinely believed he was the smartest man in the world. >> host: and he thought in the beginning, of course, that he should be the president. he was very unhappy that lincoln had gotten the nomination instead of him in 1860. >> guest: that's right. and i think although he rather bri

it's one that's interesting outcrops of seward's policy.f there was not such friction -- >> host: not all viewers know what the affair was. briefly, what happened with that vessel? >> guest: yes. it's one of the small diplomatic accidents that became huge. it involved one called the trent, two passengers on board who were controversial, two confederate ambassadors, one going to france, and another to britain. seward, and up deed all americans,mented those two -- wanted those two ambassadors captured preventing them to go to europe. nevertheless, he found these two -- found the trent, took off the two ambassadors. >> host: in international waters? >> guest: yes. it's the equivalent of iranian fighter jets intrempting a u.s. passenger plane and taking off two iranian disdense and taking them back. you just can't do that. at the mere hint that america wasn't going to do that and suggestions that america wasn't and indeed, congress voted to give a medal of honor and sent over thousands of troupes, and 13,000 troops a week away from landing in c

here's nbc's bill seward with an early look at all your sports headlines. >> hi, everybody. if you're a baseball fan, it doesn't get much better than the yankees and red sox with first place on the line at fenway. pick it up in the ninth inning, sox down one, man on third, all dustin pedroia has to do is hit it deep and he does exactly that. sac fly to left, in came the tying run and we're off to extra innings. they completed the comeback in the tenth. josh reddick with an rbi single into the corner. red sox walk off with a 3-2 win, take over first place in the a.l. east. to texas, where the rangers hung a five spot on the indians in the eighth. elvis anders scored a pair to give texas the lead. they beat the tribe 5-3. rays and a's. that rhymes. so does this, wham, bam, thank you josh willingham. solo shot in the tenth put oakland on top. they win it 5-4. tough day for the mets. jose reyes left the game with a strained hamstring. daniel murphy, likely out for the season after tearing his mcl on this play at second. add insult to injury, the braves' chipper jones singling in

here's nbc's bill seward. >> hi, everybody.eball fan it doesn't get much better than the yankees and red sox with first place on the line at fenway. ninth inning, sox down one, man on third. all pedroia has to do is hit it deep. he does that. sac fly to left. we're off to extra innings. completed it in the tenth. reddick with an rbi single and red sox walk off with a 3-2 win and take over first place in the a.l. east. >>> to texas, the rangers hung a five spot, elle just andrews scored a pair. they beat the tribe, 5-3. >>> rays and a's, that rhymes and so does this, wham, bam, thank you willingham. >>> tough for the mets. reyes left with a strained hamstring and an acl was torn on 28. chipper jones singling the go-ahead run and mets lose in more ways than one. >>> nascar, despite breaking his ankle, brad keselowski won his second race of the year at pocono. >>> the big story in golf was supposed to be tiger woods' return. instead his recently fired caddie stole the spotlight. woods struggled for the third straight day. bogey an

, many of you read "team of rivals" and then you know william seward was the craftiest member of thedministration. he was walking across the square in washington, the emancipation just proclaimed, runs into a union officer and stops him and says congratulations on this great historic act that the administration proclaimed today, and seward snorts and says, great historic agent? what are you talking about? the emancipation proclamation. he says emancipation was proclaimed in the first gunfired and we have been the last to hear it. we have simply let off a puff of wind about an established fact. [laughter] >> very interesting. this will be the last question that i'll ask, and i think then we'll want to throw it open to questions from any of you who wish to do so. the south seems to try hard particularly to the political debate leading up to suscession and beyond to have the two documents, the declaration of independence and the constitution. there's a little bit of comfort with the declaration of independence because it's that awkward mention of equality, but nevertheless, they truly c

he basically left foreign relations to seward. he kept military affairs under his direct control and the slavery issue under his direct control. when subordinates started making policy about slavery lincoln would slap them down. general fremont issuing an order early in the war. lincoln wanted -- he said i'm making policy about slavery, not the generals in the field. it does seem like he was in charge of that. you know, i am interested to maybe go to law whole other area. your book -- you are not a professional academic in the sense that you don't teach at the university. this is not a criticism. you have a ph.d. degree from oxford. you're obviously a scholar. this book is what you might call popular history, and i don't say that as anything but praise. in other words, extremely well written. heavily fed noted and based on scholarship. it is history that tells stories along the way. too often academics don't really like that and therefore did much of -- it is narrative based. >> sure. >> i wonder, as a writer, if you think about t

, many of you have red team of rivals, you know that william seward was in many ways the sort of canny and crafty member of the lincoln administration walking across the lafayette square in washington and this was the emancipation has been proclaimed he runs into a union army officer and a man stops him and says secretary seward, congratulations on this great historical act that the administration has proclaimed today, and he says the great historic act, what are you talking about and he says well, secretary seward, the emancipation proclamation, you freed the slaves and he says emancipation was proclaimed in the first gun fired at fort sumter and we have been the last to hear about it and we simply let of a puff of wind about the established fact. >> very interesting. >> of ha with -- -- this seems to me the south has tried very hard particularly in the political debate leading up to the secession and then beyond to appropriate america's founding documents, the declaration of independence, and the constitution. a little bit of discomfort with the declaration of independence because th

, many of you have red team of rivals, you know that william seward was in many ways the sort of canny and crafty member of the lincoln administration walking across the lafayette square in washington and this was the emancipation has been proclaimed he runs into a union army officer and a man stops him and says secretary seward, congratulations on this great historical act that the administration has proclaimed today, and he says the great historic act, what are you talking about and he says well, secretary seward, the emancipation proclamation, you freed the slaves and he says emancipation was proclaimed in the first gun fired at fort sumter and we have been the last to hear about it and we simply let of a puff of wind about the established fact. >> very interesting. >> of ha with -- -- this seems to me the south has tried very hard particularly in the political debate leading up to the secession and then beyond to appropriate america's founding documents, the declaration of independence, and the constitution. a little bit of discomfort with the declaration of independence because th

, many of you have red team of rivals, you know that william seward was in many ways the sort of canny and crafty member of the lincoln administration walking across the lafayette square in washington and this was the emancipation has been proclaimed he runs into a union army officer and a man stops him and says secretary seward, congratulations on this great historical act that the administration has proclaimed today, and he says the great historic act, what are you talking about and he says well, secretary seward, the emancipation proclamation, you freed the slaves and he says emancipation was proclaimed in the first gun fired at fort sumter and we have been the last to hear about it and we simply let of a puff of wind about the established fact. >> very interesting. >> of ha with -- -- this seems to me the south has tried very hard particularly in the political debate leading up to the secession and then beyond to appropriate america's founding documents, the declaration of independence, and the constitution. a little bit of discomfort with the declaration of independence because th

usa then and i observed that the japanese there and then the koreans and seward and the chinese in beijing are two of the far east where much better and he's always me understood me better understand them better than what i could observe between them and americans and that's why i said we thought we were speaking english we are not we are speaking a different kind of language they something different so what is great as fast culture its function of business is concerned internationally he's not and david had or who have been good to meet wrote the report for the british council which i quote extensively in my book and indeed people there are many scenes which are worse he brought in here one of them is that in ninety six percent of the cases in international communication there is at least one known native english speaker who is involved and it's up to your native english speakers to adjust to the river of this person or not be as good in worshipping as girlish because they could be ok example i mean i could agree with you maybe if you're talking about your childhood or buying a ticket at

seen a some of the individual military aircraft making a doing some stunts in the air we saw the seward thirty of modification destroyed twenty seven as well as the f. fifteen that was pretty impressive as well and this is what it really is the a max two thousand and eleven it's about showcasing what they're capable of what these aircraft are capable of doing in the sky and as far as russia's participation is concerned one a very a highly anticipated model is the assume boid t fifteen and that is the first russian made fifth generation plane and it's also the first in twenty years that russia is putting something forward in the market here not the only other the generation plane out there is the f. twenty two raptor which belongs to the u.s. air force and we're talking this generation these are more efficient faster and have better stealth capabilities of military aircraft so again it's sort of going to be a game changer if it does get into the market right now they have a prototype is going to make its first public on daily here at the max two thousand and eleven certainly looking forw

lincoln's secretary of state, william seward, famously used the place we had an irrepressible conflictn the united states. he didn't mean the conflict between slavery and free labor. he said, the irreplaceable conflict fundamentally was the eternal battle between the privileged few and the unprivileged many. so lincoln said what he was there to protect is the just and generous and prosperous system which opens the way for all, gives hope to all, and energy and progress and improvement of condition to all. hard to imagine a more succinct statement of the economic promise of american life than that. point two. point three, prudens. as conservatives we make much rightly of principal. but we also need to focus on the value of prudence. and the lincoln biographer focuses on this a lot. what he says, he says that politics of prudence really has four elements. you're concerned with outcomes not just with intentions, not enough just to have good intentions or liberalism would work. you are willing to make tradeoffs, because you are never going to have an ideal world. you see problems in societ