in fact, the outdoor vegetable garden was planted by thoreau for them as a wedding present. and we have continued to maintain a garden in that spirit outside. in fact, even the windows tell a little history. there is an etching here from nathaniel hawthorne and his wife sophia when they used this room. we have several of these throughout the house. sophia and nathaniel took her wedding ring that had a little diamond in it and etched this in and said this is his study. and also said nathaniel hawthorne 1843 and by my wife and written with her diamond, inscribed by my husband at sunset on the gold light. you get this wonderful graffiti on a windowpane. i want to point out the idea of golden light in this room. it is so important to the history. we just installed and are so excited, this wonderful golden wallpaper. nathaniel and sophia but gold. they used it in all their houses. they write in their letters there was a golden light here, a hanging astral lamp that shed beautiful light in the room and they put on a golden paper. we didn't really know what that looks like. short o

charitable, but they are penalized for that charity. -- because thoreau charitable, but they are penalized for that charity. so this will hurt middle-class taxpayers. now, there are some efforts to compromise state and local deductibility. they don't work. some have proposed, okay, let taxpayers take a choice between getting rid of the mortgage deduction and getting rid of the state and local deduction. that's like saying should i chop off your left hand or should i chop off your right hand, mr. middle-class taxpayer? others have said let's limit it to people, say, below $100,000. that still leaves lots of people at risk, particularly in high-price areas like long island, and doesn't reduce the deficit by much. it's estimated that a large percent of the deficit will still go up. so it makes no sense to eliminate state and local deductibility. vice president pence ought to go to western new york, but instead of just visiting a small business, and we want to lower small business taxes, he should go to a middle-class family in amherst or orchard park and tell them that he's there because he's

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buhl was to throw a soldier to command one of our armies -- too thoreau a soldier to command one of our armies." -- too thorough a soldier to command one of our armies." [laughter] >> in may of 1864, he resigned. his mark on the army of ohio remains shrouded in mystery. military plus be him without a complete understanding of the war's political nature. he could never see confiscation and emancipation as a precondition of reconstruction, refused to subordinate military operations for political necessities and failed to calibrate his conduct with the desires of the administration. has flawed conception of civil military relations and his refusal to grow with the work reflected his political conservatism and his obstinacy to appreciate the war for what it was. his focus on conciliation was part of his dismissal. in the end, lincoln had moved beyond commanders who built armies and embraced those who used them effectively for union buhl's and story was written. thank you very much. [applause] we have time for questions. again, my lovely assistants will hand you a mic. we have several here.

is that what you're calling upon, listening to churchill or reading thoreau as your writing these things? >> maybe there was a muchmore conscientious person in our office who was sitting down and reading their cicero before embarking on a speech but most of the time , the main thing is you have a lot to do and not a lot of time to do it. and that was actually, you realize maybe cicero had the same problem so i do feel like you learned that about the job very quickly, that most of what you are trying to do is do a job you think you can do but you don't know whether you can do it under that level of pressure or when the stakes are that high and the other thing i feel i learned about speechwriting is that speechwriters absolutely play a role in what our leaders say, but they don't really putwords into their mouth. that's not really possible. so when you hear a great oratory from the past say something, it does reflect who they are. some of those people may have had help writing but fundamentally, when you see a speaker and it looks like they don't know what they want to say, it's usually be