he knows seward is an ambitious guy and he knows seward is doing good work on foreign policy. he then engineers chase as well, tenders resignation, almost grabs the resignation from chase, and says this is what i need. he has letters from both seward and chase. lincoln writes a wonderful letter to both, i do not want your resignations. seward graciously, and chase less graciously, continue working. it is a great example of lincoln's masterful dealings with the senators, his cabinet members. you could name a lot of the folks in this picture who you might say are frenemies. lincoln is managing to keep all of them marching forward for the union. catherine: balancing the egos, too. by pitting them against each other, chase is out there with his daughter working overtime to engineer things and lincoln, always aware of the egos involved -- i am really struck by the way lincoln was charmed by kate chase and use that to his advantage and by showing up at her wedding. mrs. lincoln refused to go. she was always want to be aware of dress and presentation and was probably not willing to b

william seward who, in 1858 -- we forget seward now. a character in a movie. seward's famous "iron law" speech or his irrepressible conflict speech, seward said the same things lincoln said about a house divided. lincoln said it first in the 1858 campaign. later that house divided cannot stand. they both said house slave and free -- i can't resist -- when in doubt, i always quote frederick douglass. douglass had this to say. in his final autobiography, late in life, as he was remembering the secession crisis, remembering the 1859-1861 historical moment, and he goes on at some length as he always has before saying, finally, the cause of the slaves and the cause of the nation has been wrapped in the same bundle. finally, he said. then he said, in every way possible, the columns of my paper and on the platform by letters to friends at home and abroad, i did all that i could to impress this conviction upon the country, but nations seldom listened to advice from individuals, however reasonable. they are taught less by theories then by facts and events. taught by ev

in boston has as a headline, remove seward. the republican senators go and tell lincoln in this bizarre couple meetings with him that they want seward's head. and lincoln is reluctant to remove him, coming back to the point of keeping your enemies close. he knows seward is an ambitious guy, and he knows he's doing good work on foreign policy. he doesn't want to get rid of him. and he then sort of engineers that chase as well tenders a resignation. he almost grabs the resignation letter from chase and says this is what i need. he now has got the letters from both seward and chase, lincoln writes a wonderful letter to both of them saying i don't want your resignations. i want you to keep working. and seward graciously, and chase, less graciously, continue working. so it's a great example of lincoln's sort of mast terful dealings with the senators, with his cabinet members. and, you know, how to put it, you could name a lot of the folks in this picture, seward, chase, senators charles sumner who you might say are frenemies. but li

she mentioned she had already written to secretary of state liam seward, -- william seward, who she knew when she was governor of new york. the result, as we know, was lincoln's decision to write to call a national thanksgiving. stewart, who had issued proclamations in albany, drafted lincoln's reclamation. -- proclamation. there is no official record of a meeting the twin lincoln and hale, but indications that one may have taken place. her biographer said her ransom told her -- her grandson told me, i remember her telling she had visited president lincoln and found him to be a kindly and interesting gentleman. hale might easily have secured an interview with the president in her capacity for editor of the nations most popular magazine. but in addition to seward, she had another personal connection she might have used to obtain an interview. major general david hunter, who is close to lincoln, was the brother of the husband of mrs. hails daughter. a word from him could have opened doors at the white house. 1864, lincoln issued another thanksgiving proclamation, again naming the last thur

about seward, that he had to go, lincoln was apoplectic because of his alliance was seward and is believed and their collegiality on issues. what did he do as the president? he tells the radical republicans, come back the next day. he tells seward about this, and they knew what was going on. they had an idea that chase was in league with some of the radicals in congress. and convened the next day lincoln has the whole there, including chase, the perpetrator , but not seward. leave the andto lincoln wouldn't have any of it. ,adical republicans are there the perpetrator is there, and lincoln confronts them like the illinois lawyer he was. that chase was trying to make the radicals believe in was that lincoln did not have the submission cabinet meetings, that their voices were not heard by the president. lincoln went around to each cabinet and asked them --cabinet -- cabinet member and asked were meetings,nt did they express their views, and chase said the same thing. all over for chase. the radical republicans left and certainlyhead with less credibility for the secretary of the treasury for

the false report that secretary of state seward had been assassinated. that wasn't true, but he was gravely injured. so you see that throughout. this one has this last one as its false report. many of the reports in this newspaper come from the a.p., the associated press, which we still have today, it was established in 1846, a conglomerate of five newspapers pooling their resources, "the herald" being one of them to make sure they're getting as much information from around the country as they possibly can during any period in time. it rises to importance in the civil war, it's sort of at the apex of its early significance here. so a reporter is actually the a.p. correspondent in washington and he is doing much of the reporting. so much of the original reporting is coming from him. and then through the a.p. and into "the herald." also, you see stanton, who is the secretary of war, giving his official dispatches and they are recounted in the paper as well. so stanton would go to the war telegraph office and dispense information that's officially coming fr

one, he told -- he related to william seward we identified as a close friend at the end of his life. when seward said a lot of con fed rats have been killed on the peninsula, on a particularly bloody day in 1862, lincoln said, and this might represent a feeling he had through his life, the loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends. by then he had lost speed in some ways as a friend and yet his resilience is remarkable, too, this is another quote from 1861. i don't know if it plays into the theme that we began with, which is the ability lincoln had to lose friends and make other friends. he said, i have learned the value of old friends by making many new ones. take that as you will. join us at the book signing tables and thank you for your attention. [ applause ] >> you're watching american history tv all weekend on c-span tv. to join the conversation, like us on facebook at c-span history. >> tonight on "the communicators" at bell labs where they conducted communication research. >> on the fore70 is 5 g communication. >> which is? >> it's an interesting thing. like

>> yes but there's also seward. stewart talked to him most days so that that would be in another category. yes he likes to have people admire him. i want to add one thing about -- the wonderful story about sojourner truth. lincoln didn't do very well with women and i would suspect that wouldn't be a racist comment as much as a sexist comment. he couldn't deal with sojourner truth as a strong woman. he was drawn to men, men liked him for all the reasons we were talking about earlier if you look at his relationships -- his mother and sister died, there's nothing concrete -- but certainly with anne rutledge who he was close to and loved and she suddenly died, we have very indirect kind of evidence but elizabeth edwards, whose hom where the coterie met and she greeted her guests in french at the door, in springfield, illinois, can you imagine? i know springfield. nobody speaks french in springfield. in the 18 to 30s she would greet her guests in french. she called lincoln peculiar. she loved speed. he came from a slave

>> yes, but there was also seward, probably his closest friends who he talked to him most days. that would certainly be in another category. yes, he liked to have people admire him. i just want to add one thing about the wonderful story about truth. lincoln didn't do very well with women, basically, and i think that's less -- i would suspect that wouldn't be a racist comment as much as a sixist comment. he just couldn't deal with truth as a strong woman. and i think that is a long history. he was drawn to men. men liked him for all the reasons we were talking about earlier. if you look at his relationships, you can only guess about the mother and the sister because they both, you know, died -- there is just nothing concrete. but certainly with ann rutledge, whom he was very close to and loved and she suddenly died. we have very indirect kind of evidence. elizabeth edwards, whose home where the coterie met and she greeted her guests in french at the door in springfield, illinois. can you imagine? i know springfield. nobody speaks french in springfield, 1830s she would greet her g

uncle seward go to gamble see if we're going to save these we now strap it in here. and make a lot of kids are going to be coming out of what i'm doing. if i don't get some rain here and you know they're. going to go find. a new record they will be able to be all that so when i when the coal mines i was eighteen years old it was around and i asked works in the coal mines for five years underground until years surface. player to. take. my. thirteen cents an hour plus to it and since there are no my around anymore. kids are very good. there's not as much money in the sand. why am i doing here i just got out of jail one. possession of stolen property. i'm not here to. jails jail. has. now ruled. it's. a feature three times a day. he replies straight from t.v. . well a step. i don't need all those things you. need you leave here with me no one was no. good so. when. you know i'm down. this is how well i was a teenager smith and jones he screamed this is through the roof is places really and the story carried a pistol in us that we have euro enough carried will never see

lincoln, seward and john hay call at mcclellan's home. in the evening. they were told the general was at a wedding. everybody in this audience knows what is coming up. john hay railed against mcclellan's unparalleled insolence. , hay, lincolndent seward wait for an hour. , mcclellan goes upstairs without seeing him and goes to bed. according to hay, lincoln took no apparent offense. sort of brushed it off. notice they call in the evening, ok? and notice the only source for this is john hay's diary, a decidedly hostile source but a good source. his diary is a wonderful source. you realize that hay has his his prejudices. there is some indirect evidence that there were other occasions in which mcclellan treated people in a similar manner. now, mcclellan biographers and others have tried to offer explanations. warren hassler said mcclellan may have been intoxicated having been at the wedding. he like will green is a presbyterian, so he likes a drink now and then. [laughter] dr. rable: the wedding may have saddened mcclellan because he missed his wife nelly.

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the words of william seward burroughs, one of my heroes.ly after shooting his wife to death in a drunken accident in mexico city. he was a heroin addict, a homosexual and an inspiration to those protohipsters who became known as the beats. burroughs had nothing about him that was a beat nick. he was a somewhat stuffy, well-dressed st. louis son of a good family gone wrong. he was also to my mind the greatest writer of the whole damn bunch. on the road, you can have it. his classic "naked lunch" was written here. a nonlinear, dark, dry humored searingly critical and satirical and profane masterpiece. burroughs was apparently high for much of the process on heroin or locally valuable prescription opiate. much of the process, on heroin, and the daily staple in many of these parts. hashish, keef and maldune. hashish is the concentrated thc resin of the cannabis plant as well as the leaves and flowers that have been separated from the buds compressed into sheet or brick-like form. keif is the part of the plant containing only the strongest conce

william h seward, sitting on the other side of the table right ,ere closest it abraham secretary of state, has said something like, don't you think we should make for a major victory? wouldn't that be a good idea? generally, the artist has arranged the progressives over on the side. then otherase, and figures over there, gideon welles, edward bates. people that had reservations or not thinking along the lines of lincoln in relation to the emancipation proclamation. lincoln said, yes, this is a good arrangement. in fact, this artist lives in the white house for six months in order to make this painting. he had photographs taken of every person. he had measurements drawn up of the room. he drew the furniture and then produced this painting, which i have to say, is kind of mu ddy. i don't know. he cannot stop touching it up. the resulting print -- tij is whath -- this is what it might have looked like with abraham lincoln looking over the shoulder of carpenter. no pressure, just a blinbe lincoln watching you paint. carpenter did spend a lot of talking aboutoln the war and the conduct of thin

william h seward, sitting on the other side of the table, closest to lincoln, secretary of state --, had said something like don't you think we should wait for a major big three before we unroll this. but generally, the artist had arranged the progressives over on this side, edwin stanton, secretary of war, chase, secretary of treasury, and the other figures mirror, secretary of the navy, gideon welles, edward bates, attorney general -- people who had reservations or who were not taking along the lines of lincoln, in relation to the emancipation proclamation. and lincoln said, yes, this is a good arrangement. the artist lived in the white house for six months, in order to take this tainting. up of measurements drawn the room, he had photographs taken of every person. the painting is kind of muddy, i would say. most like he could not stop touching it up. so the resulting print, this is what it might have looked like with abraham lincoln over the shoulder of carpenter. no pressure,. paint -- wehing you do not know if this actually happened, but carpenter did spend a lot of time with li

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seward, sitting close e to abraham, secretary of state, has said something like, sir, don't you think we should wait for a major victory before we unroll this, wouldn't that be a good idea? but generally, the artist has arranged the progressives over on this side, edwin stanton, secretary of war, sam p. chase, secretary of the treasury, and then other figures over there, giddeon wells, secretary of the navy, edward bates, attorney general. people that had reservations or who weren't thinking along the lines of lincoln in relation to the emancipation proclamation, and lincoln said, yeah, this is a good arrangement. in fact, this artist, carpenter, lived in the white house for six months in order to make this painting. he had photographs taken of every person. he had measurements drawn of the room. drew the furniture. and then produce this painting, which i have to say, is kind of, i don't know, kind of muddy. i don't know. he couldn't stop touching it up. and so the resulting print, this is what it might have looked like with abraham lincoln looking over the shoulder of carpenter. no p