if you want to tweet us us, #poty1862. we have a tweet from someone who agree was professor blight. i think frederick douglass should be person of the year 1862. we are posting the question on our facebook page. if you want to look at facebook and post your comments, you are welcome to do that. a couple here. steven says, lincoln was person of the year every year he was president. i suppose next to abe in 1862, you have to choose robert e. lee. david blight joins us from the library in virginia. he will take your phone calls. david blight, welcome to american history tv. >> thank you very much. glad to be here. >> frederick douglass was born a slave, but in eastern shore of maryland, how did he become such an interesting part of the abolitionist movement? >> he did not become part of the abolitionist movement until he escaped in 1820. he was already conditioned, one might say, with a powerful and abiding story. he escaped from slavery at age 20. disguised as a sailor with a few dollars in his pocket and a copy of one book. he escaped by three ferry boats and two train rides to new y

jan tweets us this morning about the doc fix. so they extend it to december. what happens between the election and the end of december? or kick it to the next congress? white haven, tennessee, up next. larry is a democrat. you're on the air. good morning. >> caller: good morning. i agree with the payroll tax extension. the key is to putting everybody back to work. once you put everybody back to work you can fix everything. that is the key. and right now, we need to do everything we can do to help the economy. >> so, larry, so you believe that this investment that people will spend the money and that will help the economy? >> yes, ma'am, i surely do. and you cannot cut the way out of a deficit. that is crazy. i'd never heard anything like that. if you cut all the jobs, what would the tax base be coming from? >> thanks for your call. next up is martha, a republican watching us in chicago. good morning. you're on. >> caller: let them learn how to work overseas before killing everybody. that's what i say. take it from them and give it back to the american-born peo

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shoot us an e-mail or tweet us at willie geist 1 and let us know why you're awake now or you can do whatick jagger does and text the word awake followed by your response to 622639. we'll read the best responses later in the show. the next 30 minutes will be your cram session for this wednesday, ash wednesday, february 22nd. there's a lot going on today, including new details out of syria where the fighting has claimed two journalist's lives including one american. we'll have the latest on that. plus, controversy at the brit music awards. we'll show you what happened when adele's acceptance speech for album of the year went on too long for the producers' taste. first, let's get to the news live at 5:30 a.m. here at 30 rock in new york city. >>> the republican presidential field is heading to arizona today to square off in one last debate before tuesday's primaries in michigan and arizona. it's been noorlly a month since the candidates last shared a stage. and nbc news marist poll showed mitt romney and rick santorum in a statistical tie among michigan voters. ron paul and newt gingrich tr

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. >>> don't forget to tweet us using #edshow, we're right back, stay tuned. . >>> republicans say theyty of self-sufficiency, independence, individualism, you pull yourselves up by your boot straps. that is if you have boots. you don't rely on any of this government money. social programs, that is for slackers out there, you know? but hold the phone. in 2010, 48.5% of americans, almost half of the entire population of the united states received government benefits. and republican states are more reliant than democrats states. resident of the ten most conservative state received 21.2% of income from government programs. in the ten most liberal states, the number was 17.1%. recipients of government aid keep voting for republicans against their own self-interest. part of the reason is because significant portion of the population does not understand what a government program is. really? 44% of social security recipients, 4 #% of unemployment recipients said they have not used a government program. really? almost half of the people who collect these entitlements do not recognize they are u

don't forget to tweet us using #edshow. stay tuned, we're right back. >> well, sean hannity is blowing smoke about president obama in his role in the killing of osama bin laden. last night on the show, i challenged hannity to explain this quote. >> the president will say we got bin laden, putting that aside. >> the public gives him credit for that. >> the public does give him credit for it but it wouldn't have happened if he had his way, that can be proven as well on tape. >> we showed you tapes proven hannity wrong. today he brought it up on his radio show he insisted we would not have found bin laden without the use of the bush era enhanced interrogation techniques, which president obama opposed. his evidence was a tape of brian williams, an interview with former cia director leon panetta. >> can you confirm that it was as a result of waterboarding that we learned what we needed to learn to go after bin laden? >> you know, brian, in the intelligence business you work from a lot of sources of information and that was true

specifically today if you want to tweet use hashtag poty 61862. who do you think was the most influential person of 1862? facebook.com/cspan. coming up next, they'll get under way shortly at the library of virginia in richmond to get the program under way. live coverage on american history tv on c-span3. >>> good morning. hello, everybody. why don't we get started. good morning. my name is matt thompson, chairman of the board of the museum of the confederacy. and on behalf of the museum and the library of virginia, i welcome you to our 2012 symposium. this is the 15th year of our partnership with the library and we are truly grateful to it for hosting this event and for being a center of education in scholarship in downtown richmond. based on the feedback we received from last year's person of the year 1861 symposium, i think it's safe to say that this person of the year series is becoming a signature event of the continuing commemoration of the asses wa centennial of the civil war. as chairman of the museum, i'm obligated to remind everybody we a

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if you want to tweet us, our hash tag is poty 1862. and we will have one tweet from kashia who agrees with professor light that she says i think douglass should be the person of the year 1862. also at facebook.com/c-span, wes are posting the question there, as well. if you want to take a look at facebook and post your comments, you're welcome to do that. a couple here stephen grill says in a sense, lincoln was person of the year every year he was president. i suppose next to abe in 162, you would have to choose robert e. lee. david blythe joins us from the impt library in virginia, and he's going to take your phone calls. david blight, welcome to american history tv. >> thank you very much. glad to be here. >> frederick douglass was born a slave but in the eastern shore of maryland. how did he so at such a young age become so such an integral part of the abolition movement? >> well, he didn't part of the abolition movement till he escaped at age 20, of course, but he was already well conditioned can, one might say with a powerful and a

don't forget to tweet us using the hash tag ed show.re right back. >>> whoa. >> this is amazing. >> what are those? >> those are trees. they used to grow all around here. >> well, that's a scene from the new animated movie "the lorax" and message of environmentalism gives lou dobbs some serious high blood pressure. >> so where have we all heard this before? occupy wall street forever trying to pit makers against the takers and president obama repeating that everyone should pay their fair share in dozens of speeches since his state of the union address. the president's liberal friends using animated movies to sell their agenda to children. >> yeah. conspiracy theorist. leave it to lou dobbs that a kids movie about caring about the environment is about occupy wall street. he thinks "the lorax" is a conspiracy by president obama's hollywood friends? hold on a minute. it's based on a dr. seuss book written 41 years ago. it's been a bestselling book for kids ever since. making a "lorax" movie is a smart bet by our parent company nbc universa

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