and i ams fred martin the president of the abraham lincoln student and the other of abraham lincoln's path to 1864, and i'm here to moderate the panel of distinguished scholars. and so we will keep it informal. i might say, i got into lincoln unclee my great, great was the head of a regiment of the volunteers and became a major at appomattox for cutting off lee's retreat. my great aunt was a strong influence and came out to my -- montana in a covered wagon and they met lincoln and one of the daughters of one of the great ands -- aunts decided she would marry this fellow. and one said, he is a democrat. and she said, yes. said,e other and -- aunt we would rather you marry a dog. but lincoln was very much in the picture. anyway, you have already met all of our distinguished panelists. so we are going to have a about the and -- various topics that have been covered here. and i think, is somebody saying something? which one, let's -- of you, i guess we will take questions from the audience. there is a question over there. yes, some of the lectures have talked about, in their lectures, loo

lincoln: the enduring friendship of abraham lincoln and joshua speed." the lincoln group sponsored this hour-long event in washington, d c. [applause] charles: thank you. it is a great honor to be here. i am very impressed with what a robust group you have and all your activities. you take trips and go to the lincoln sites. it is wonderful. in mid-december, my wife and i got a dog, a maltese dog. we named it lincoln. at least, i named it lincoln, and my wife agreed reluctantly. about three weeks later it , started recognizing itself in the mirror. it recognized something that looks like another dog in the mirror. the next sequence was -- when we watched nature shows or he saw a will or a there and he would run over to the tv and growl, and at the end of january trump came on the tv and growled. [laughter] charles: i thought that was a smart dog. i want to try an experiment. it is dealing -- thank you very much for your nice comments. one of the dilemmas of my book is that the punchline comes towards the end with the speed correspondents. i can't emphasiz

lincoln: the enduring friendship of abraham lincoln and joshua speed." the lincoln group sponsored this hour-long event in washington, d c. >> good evening and welcome to the lincoln group of washington, d.c. it is a pleasure to have you all here tonight for our speaker program. those also who are watching on c-span. the lincoln group of washington, d.c., is the longest, continuously functioning lincoln organization having been founded in the 1930's. www.ve a website at lincolngroup.org, which is where our members and friends find out what we are doing. we are pleased tonight that our speaker is charles strozier. charles is both a historian, professor at the city university of new york, but also a practicing psychoanalyst, and his study of abraham lincoln, which began many years ago -- 40 years ago and more -- has culminated in the book he published last year, "your a. lincoln: the enduring friendship of abraham lincoln and joshua speed." author of many books. in particular in 2011, and the anniversary of 9/11, his book "until the fires stopped burning t

lincoln would remain a whig. the whig party was the party of lincoln. for several more years before finally deciding that he had to become something else or disappear along with the whigs. his own political prospects were dimming while those of his rival , senator stephen a douglas were lighting up the sky. lincoln was not an abolitionist. but, he was and-- as he insisted naturally antislavery. his deepening understanding of slavery in its full complexity as a moral, political and constitutional dilemma began in his childhood among the primitive baptist anti- slavery discontents in backwoods kentucky in indiana whose churches his parents attended. as a boy he wrote-- row down the mississippi river to new orleans where the open air emporium of slaves on a gaudy display shocked him. as a congressman, he lived in a boarding house known as abolition house. he experienced the invasion of slave catchers coming to seize one of the waiters as a fugitive slave. undoubtedly, lincoln knew the secret of the house where he lived across from the capital that it was a

. -- thely, lincoln illinois that lincoln started out in is a really crude frontier society. you think he is a lawyer, but you have no idea what a lawyer did. and herndon talked about this all the time, you should have seen the way we practiced in those days. it was really horrifying. and a very parent up -- and a very primitive kind of thing. and they brought them along and and they set up shop. and it has to affect the kind of country it was. it is hard to characterize on-the-fly. maybe somebody has a better thought. >> go ahead. >> ok. william lee miller, and some of his works on making, compared lincoln's preparation for the presidency to the canon's preparation. it is generally considered that buchanan was the best prepared had as as we legislator and a diplomat, yet he is considered a failed president. where as lincoln was considered to be utterly unprepared for the presidency, yet by most people with the notable exception of -- without lincoln was, in terms of personality and intellectual acumen, one of our best prepared presidents. so would any of you like to comment

lincoln. in one of the most perceptive comments made about lincoln, one said, anybody that took him for a simpleminded man it would wake up with his back in a ditch. there are a lot of people in that ditch by 1865. people found out that this man lincoln was a lot more sharp, a lot more intelligent than they give him credit for. but he in a way invited them to underestimate him. he would sit there with that kentucky upper border drawl. he would tell these hokey stories. and people would assume that they are dealing with a more on. -- moron. boy were they wrong. [laughter] >> best illustration i know this was an occasion in which senator benjamin wade, an ohio radical, very impatient with lincoln one day found his impatient brimming over. came down from the capital to the white house, into the white house, into lincoln's office and began telling him everything that he was doing wrong. lincoln interrupts and says, senator, that reminds me of a story. [laughter] >> wade erupts, that was the wrong

lincoln: the enduring friendship of abraham lincoln and joshua speed." the lincoln group sponsored this hour-long event in washington, d c. [applause] charles: thank you. it is a great honor to be here. i am very impressed with what a robust group you have and all your activities. you take trips and go to the lincoln sites. it is wonderful. in mid-december, my wife and i got a dog, a maltese dog. we named it lincoln. at least, i named it lincoln, and my wife agreed reluctantly. it started recognizing itself in the mirror. it recognized something that looks like another dog in the mirror. -- when wequence was watched nature shows or he saw a will or a there and he would run over to the tv and growl, and at the end of january trump came on the tv and growled. [laughter] charles: i thought that was a smart dog. i want to try an experiment. it is dealing -- thank you very much for your nice comments. one of the dilemmas of my book is that the punchline comes towards the end with the speed correspondents. andn't emphasize and not -- not the significance of th

the furniture making of thomas and abraham lincoln. >> i love lincoln, and i always have. it kind of started as a hobby, but then it's really grown since then. >> the duo begin by asking, what exactly is this mallet and where did it come from? see the half-moon shaped groove? it looks like part of a hole that had been drilled into a larger chunk of wood. steve concludes that that hole once held a much longer handle, and that this mysterious relic began as a completely different tool. >> okay, i brought with me today a maul which looks pretty much identical to what that mallet would have looked like originally. >> is this the kind of thing that lincoln used as a young man as the rail-splitter? >> absolutely. and if you look at the lincoln mallet, you can see it broke, and it really split almost symmetrical. >> so, lincoln's broke and was repurposed? >> yes, into a smaller bench mallet. now we're no longer hitting wedges to split rails with it, but something a lot smaller. >> it's on the freshly exposed surface that the new mallet is dated with nails that steve confirms are

lincoln approved. what i think you should provide to retain where you are and bring the rest with you personally and to make a vigorous effort to destroy the enemy force in this vicinity, lincoln council grant. i think there's really a for chance to do this if the movement is prompt. he offered this, lincoln emphasized as a suggestion and not a order. the president wanted to rent to take chart -- grant to take charge. after thinking it over, grant decided not to come personally. he had great faith in the union to generals and the washington area and he hated to leave petersburg because that would leave benjamin butler in charge of all the forces. the civilw much about war, that is a frightening proposition. routed the force at manatt c and advanced on the outskirts of the district of columbia. troops arrived just in time to help occupied the defenses and lincoln visited the front. the famous story reportedly oliver wendell holmes telling him to get it down, you idiot because lincoln was so curious to o

lincoln and republican officials in d.c. are getting a steady stream of pressure from the army, from certain segments of the army to do war against slavery and that pressure increasingly comes from northern civilians as well. there are plenty in the north who had the exact opposite the and said this should not be a war about slavery at all. lincoln is getting pressure from both sides. it is in july of 1862 that he announces that he has decided to issue a emancipation proclamation. july of 1862 --it is not until september that lincoln actually issues the emancipation proclamation. does anyone remember why he waits? >> he needs a victory first. >> why? >> he is worried that france and england will accept the confederacy. >> the war is going badly in september 1862. he gets it by for that if you emancipate now, you will be read as a last act of a desperate government and it might inspire french or british intervention in the war. >> [indiscernible] wasn't there a debate that in order to come up to the disagreement -- >> maximo

but lincoln is absolutely necessary. you have a politician like lincoln and the office to get the war in the first place, and who is willing to take measures against slavery that lincoln did. we can obviously is a big part .f how emancipation happened self emancipation is also a huge part of how emancipation happened. continue really, from the beginning of the war, enslaved men and women are forcing themselves on federal officials and making an issue of themselves and of slavery. even those that don't reach union lines, those behind confederate lines to month there are rebellions -- not in the sense of the nocturnal rebellion, that there are rebellions going on behind the lines where enslaved men and women still on plantations, not running away to the union line see that dynamics have changed and use the social disruption, so many men being off to war, to change the terms of slavery. they did things like refuse to work under certain conditions and weekend the confederacy from within. weakened confederacy from within. uni

lincoln does hang back from an open embrace. this does not mean the emancipation proclamation just formalized policy already in place. the emancipation proclamation still is a big shift in union wartime policy toward slavery. here is an open embrace a military emancipation as a means of winning the war. right? and link it, in the interim between august 1861 period in september of 1862, when he announces the emancipation proclamation, he is criticized up and down by leading radical republicans, abolitionists, black leaders like frederick douglass, for not doing enough to emancipate and make more on slavery as a means of defeating the confederacy. one thing about this emancipation policy -- it really hinges on this communication between butler -- will very soon you generals and federal officials, and it is happening on the front lines. so, if you are not privy to this communication, or if you are on the front lines watching this happen, it is easy to miss how emancipation earlier in the war is part of the union were efforts. ok? l

lincoln: the enduring friendship of abraham lincoln and joshua speed." the lincoln group sponsored this hour-long event in washington, d c. [applause] charles: thank you. it is a great honor to be here. i am very impressed with what a robust group you have and all your activities. you take trips and go to the lincoln sites. it is wonderful. in mid-december, my wife and i got a dog, a maltese dog.

it would be much more difficult for lincoln to resist that. meanwhile, slavery continues to exert a very complicated and changing influence on this whole process of civil war diplomacy. gun is my smoke and quotation here. graduallyncoln moved toward the emancipation policy, which he did throughout 1862, diplomatic issues, world opinion, were much on his mind. 1862, i can'try imagine that any european power would dare to recognize the southern confederacy if it became clear that the confederacy stands for slavery and the union for freedom. course, this wasn't the only reason. the main reason that he linked that she moved toward emancipation policy, but i think it shows how important the international context was in his mind as he was deciding how to move forward and when to move forward towards emancipation. during 1862, as all of this is going on, as lincoln and his slavery policy is devolving. again, the big prize, continues to watch and wait and actually gets close to taking some sort of role in the inrican civil war, probably some kind of o

all abraham lincoln's fault. we're going to have to wait for the follow-up interview on what the president meant. and that is the question of the day. what did the president mean? north korea is wondering what the president meant tonight. when the president said, unlike any other president before him, that it would be an honor, his word, an honor to meet with the murderous dictator of north korea kim jong un. if you're wondering what kim jong un has to do in order to have a meeting with the president of the united states, the answer is we don't know because the president won't say. we don't know what he means. that means kim jong un doesn't know what he has to do to get a meeting with the president of the united states. and so we enter the second 100 days of the trump presidency with a preexisting condition. no one knows what the president means. will the president sign the health care bill that allows states to make coverage of preexisting conditions optional? no one knows. how does the dictator of north korea h

all abraham lincoln's fault. we're going to have to wait for the follow-up interview on what the president meant. and that is the question of the day. what did the president mean? north korea is wondering what the president meant tonight. when the president said, unlike any other president before him, that it would be an honor, his word, an honor to meet with the murderous dictator of north korea kim jong un. if you're wondering what kim jong un has to do in order to have a meeting with the president of the united states, the answer is we don't know because the president won't say. we don't know what he means. that means kim jong un doesn't know what he has to do to get a meeting with the president of the united states. and so we enter the second 100 days of the trump presidency with a preexisting condition. no one knows what the president means. will the president sign the health care bill that allows states to make coverage of pre-exiexisting conditions opti? no one knows. how does the dictator of north korea h

so, lincoln had two reasons for stopping -- one, he wanted to be a tourist. he understood how important trenton was for the winning of the american revolution and i like george washington, i made reference to that in his speech to the legislature. of course, the second reason was a more political reason. and that is the pending conflict, which of course, which was the american civil war. what is interesting about lincoln's visit to new jersey is in the other state capitals, he actually addressed a concurrent, or joint sessions of the legislature. he had one speech that he was getting. for example, one speech he gave in connecticut. by the time he arrived in new jersey, for some reason, there wasn't a joint session, but rather, he addressed each house separately, which meant he had to come up with a second speech, somewhat extemporaneously. his first speech that he gave to the senate talked about trenton and how famous trenton was to the winning of the american revolution, and the second speech to the general assembly, he was more poignant. he addressed the me

and lincoln said i just wondered where all that water came from. he is making fun of him. entire program at it, p.m.. this is american history tv on c-span3. tonight on afterwords, campusists examines sexual assault policies in his book the campus rape frenzy, the attack on due process at america's universities. he is interviewed by the editor and chief of the law journal. share for the viewers what is your general thesis that we are looking at. what will we be reading about in the pages. >> the gist is there is a huge met that has taken root that there is an epidemic of campus rape and a culture of campus rape where it is encouraged and condoned even by administrators. that it is increasing and it is worse on campus that it is off-campus and that it requires completely demolishing all due for the accused people, 99% of whom are male. this comes from extreme feminist , male hating extreme feminist in some cases. it was also in pushed ahead by the obama administration. >> watch that tonight on c-span two. next on american history tv, author lynne cheney discusses resident j

areas said the ambiguity or with lincoln? ; potential feature with a separation of powers is secrecy that is hard to ensure in certain techniques and a mechanism that enables secrecy the way it could be confounding of those. with those communications said not always great. and that i often think back and in their absence but if you think about what they have done and that is not a secret some of the operations that year talked-about and that is a separate set of difficult issues. >> sebelius said a couple of things said it is interesting. and all this time later raised show care about this topic and then you talk about the seriousness that legal teams from the military take this so and they're at their dinner table and this particular thing is a major topic and it goes right down. if you make a statement but how should we get that information so low that they do know? is there a couple of bullet points that we could share with others as we talk about this?. >> and to read just reading the history that they are generally aware

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no surprise, lincoln has been elected president. but charleston shouts at the top of its lungs, hurray for lincoln. bring it on. they can't wait to confront andrew gordon. federal district court judge right there in the heart of the slave trade district opens up business that morning. takes off his robe and declares the state of south carolina and other federal officials, hamalton resign as well. they become on instant folk hero in the subject of painting posters addoring the streets. charleston builds a succession poll where the charleston hotel used to be and honors it with singing the french revolution songs. liberty, equality, interesting choice. the citizens knew about the stanz in colonial massachusetts with the blue tint on the pride of the hat which is the emblem of the revolution. they say the tea has been thrown overboard. the revolution of 1860 has been initiated. this is patriotism. south carolina is too small to be a republic and too large to be an insane asylum. >> four months later, fort sumpter, charleston harbor, th

they say go talk to lincoln and orville meets with lincoln and presses the case and what he tells them it's either the abolitionistis either theabolith congress or you run the war as commander in chief. lincoln was in the right with the secretary and told him for the first time i think i'm going to issue an emancipation preparation. and that emancipation proclamation actually goes further than the second act. other than telling me congress is against me and threatening me, they are setting a policy of the emancipation that i was worried the public wouldn't be ready for that i now see they are and he's decided to issue it. when he issues the emancipation corporation, he wraps it up in confiscation act, which he quotes an old in the preliminary proclamation just to show the connection between what he does and what congress has done. last story comes from world war ii and as many of you know, roosevelt was leading the country that was reluctant to get back for many of the reasons we will probably talk about. in that dilemma, roosevelt was more interested in helping the european allies the

the montauk, one of the sailors aboard her was the son of a friend of lincoln that lincoln wanted to visit. he came to see one of the sailors and tour the montauk. he invited those sailors to visit him at ford's theater that evening. some of those sailors did go to ford's theatre and witness the assassination of abraham lincoln. the montauk is also famous for other reasons too. after the assassination, and during the time they are rounding up all the lincoln conspirators, the people who took part in conspiracy to assassinate lincoln, and spirit jurors are brought here to the navy yard and are imprisoned aboard uss montauk. and in fact, the photos that were taken of the can reuters. -- conspirators. if you look, there's all that iron in the background, that's the carrots of uss -- turret of the uss montauk. the only one who's not imprisoned here was mary surratt. she ran the boarding house where all the conspirators met. montauk is also famous for when john wilkes booth, the assassins, was killed, his body was brought back here to the navy yard. it was autopsied on the montauk, which

only northern the state that lincoln did not when and in the popular vote. electoral awon the margin of 4-3. so, he understood that not all of the members of the new jersey legislature were supportive. by the timely can arrived here, seven states have party succeeded from the union and there was a confederate president in place. reasons forhad two stopping -- one, he wanted to be a tourist. he understood how important trenton was for the winning of the american revolution and i like george washington, i made reference to that in his speech to the legislature. of course, the second reason was a more political reason. and that is the pending conflict , which of course, which was the american civil war. what is interesting about lincoln's visit to new jersey is in the other state capitals, he actually addressed a concurrent, or joint sessions of the legislature. he had one speech that he was getting. for example, one speech he gave in connecticut. by the time he arrived in new jersey, for some reason, there wasn't a joint session, but rather, he addressed each

lincoln wanted to visit. he came to see one of the sailors and tour the montauk. toinvited those sailors visit him at ford's theater that evening. some of those sailors did go to ford's theatre and witness the assassination of abraham lincoln. the montauk is also famous for other reasons too. andr the assassination, during the time they are rounding up all the lincoln conspirators, the people who took part in conspiracy to assassinate lincoln, and spirit jurors are brought here to the navy yard and are imprisoned aboard uss montauk. the photos that were taken of the can reuters. -- conspirators. if you look, there's all that iron in the background, that's the carrots of uss -- turret of the uss montauk. the only one who's not imprisoned here was mary surratt. house whereboarding all the conspirators met. montauk is also famous for when john wilkes booth, the assassins, was killed, his body was brought back here to the navy yard. montauk,topsied on the which is one of the reasons why we believe the navy has on

lincoln is by most accounts one of the greatest presidents. it was not that he sort of appreciated the equality of black folks and white folks he had some kind of vision in terms of the federal government and how liberty was going to have to be a cornerstone if we were going to move forward into the 20th century. i don't understand where president trump is on this and i think he's baffled off of those. i don't think a lot of thought went into his comments around the civil war. >> i think it's great that lincoln understood the end of the war before he was killed himself. the heart of the war was in many ways for what those 250 years of slavery, and the way people were treated and the horror it was in a biblical thing. i -- the address is powerful. >> it's really moving. >> it does. it shows you how sad and how dark that moment was. listen, we should not take lightly to civil war, chris. this is a war with over 600,000 casualties tremendous of destruction, touched every single family in the united states and it was far over an impasse in this co

his name was abraham lincoln. here is the pitcher in chicago in may at the convention really as a moderate. the lincoln never set foot it is time for some fake news. [laughter] he is an abolitionist and though florida looking wretch and a scoundrel after him what decent white man would be president? so of course of a white man was discredited by those abolitionist as he should be back in february with cooper union and to explain his position with the territories that you will be left alone and then slavery withers and dies. so secession fever returns they write in a pamphlet note to the south so how'd you decide is it a lonely resistance? but the ladies are on board also. the widow rights i have said to my three sons if anyone should be brazen enough then let him look upon my face there is the search for lincoln in charleston on a mission to the south and makes it through mobile and new orleans and immediately slips out that lincoln's by so yes charleston was on the watch. and the guy supposedly who invented baseb

lincoln loved the absurd and he loved tall tales. according to know what brooks he thought the chief characteristic of american humor was its grotesqueness and extravagance. he loved the story of bill the drunkard, and a lot of drunks in the lincolns of stories, a drunkard who got catastrophically intoxicated on a day of heavy rain, staggered down an alley and fell asleep in a bed of that mud. awake it was getting dark he thought-- assad out to wash himself and there was another drunk leaning over a horse post which he mistook for the pump and took hold of the arm of this man with a handle, the use of which said occupant-- ascent occupant of the post to throw up. bill put both his hands under her and made thorough washing and made his way to the grocery. at the end one of his comrades horrified, what in the world is the matter my gosh he replied you should have seen me before i was washed. there may be no surprise that lincoln celebrated the craftsmanship, energy and idiomatic color should have let the humorous possibilities of the e

lincoln: the enduring friendship of abraham lincoln and joshua speed." the lincoln group sponsored this hour-long event in washington, d c. [applause] charles: thank you. it is a great honor to be here. i am very impressed with what a robust group you have and all your activities. you take trips and go to the

each had a hand in getting the "uss lincoln ready." he has bhneen a pipe fitter, an his son now works in the shipyard. what does that mean to you to be able to see that through? >> there's just something about this stage when you're ready to go to sea that when you go down that river and all those hours were put in, just a pride in what you do. >> reporter: 33-year-old ramirez crumley is an electrical foreman. do you feel that pride too? >> yes, ma'am. i didn't get it at first. when i first got here, i thought it was a job. and then to actually complete a carrier and to actually see it go out to sea, i mean, it's just outstanding, and it just makes you file speci you feel special as a person that i was part of that project. >> reporter: she served on carriers. >> it makes you work harder, especially after knowing what it's like to live on that ship. >> reporter: all four says working on equipment that helps keep the country safe carries with it a heightened sense of responsibility. and building ships with a 50-year life-span can quickl

each had a hand in getting the "uss lincoln ready." he has been a pipe fitter, and his son now works in the shipyard. spruell helped build the "lincoln" and plans to retire once the overhaul is complete. what does that mean to you to be able to see that through? >> there's just something about this stage when you're ready to go to sea that when you go down that river and all those hours were put in, just a pride in what you do. >> reporter: 33-year-old ramirez crumley is an electrical foreman. do you feel that pride too? >> yes, ma'am. i didn't get it at first. when i first got here, i thought it was a job. and then to actually complete a carrier and to actually see it go out to sea, i mean, it's just outstanding, and it just makes you feel special as a person that i was part of that project. >> reporter: she served on carriers. >> it makes you work harder, especially after knowing what it's like to live on that ship. >> reporter: all four says working on equipment that helps keep the country safe carries with it a heightened sense of

each had a hand in getting the "uss lincoln ready." he has bhneen a pipe fitter, an his son now works in the shipyard. what does that mean to you to be able to see that through? >> there's just something about this stage when you're ready to go to sea that when you go down that river and all those hours were put in, just a pride in what you do. >> reporter: 33-year-old ramirez crumley is an electrical foreman. do you feel that pride too? >> yes, ma'am. i didn't get it at first. when i first got here, i thought it was a job. and then to actually complete a carrier and to actually see it go out to sea, i mean, it's just outstanding, and it just makes you file speci you feel special as a person that i was part of that >> reporter: she served on carriers. >> it makes you work harder, especially after knowing what it's like to live on that ship. >> reporter: all four says working on equipment that helps keep the country safe carries with it a heightened sense of responsibility. and building ships with a 50-year life-span can quickly become

are remarkably bloody and costly to the north and very costly to lincoln. we talk about what that is doing in the summer of 1864 at the same thing all this is happening -- at the same time all this is happening to undermine lincoln's political power. , for early moves rapidly the reasons you heard, which was washington in order to put political pressure on it and also try to get grant to send men to washington, which he in fact does. the expansionat into maryland and into be not fora seems to any particular military goal because i do not believe -- i would be curious to hear the discussion if he thinks he can really take washington, d.c. i don't think he does. i think he thinks he can shift the focus of attention to the continuing threat at the confederate army still poses after all the sacrifice the north has made. lee'sis eager to fulfill plan to use the valley, now free of any union presence at all. you had siegel and hunter, and now they are all gone. early needs to threaten the north with a large force so grant would have to divide his forces individua

everyone from abraham lincoln to the -- had confidence that grant, given his record, would be able to defeat lee and the rebellion in the u.s.. everybody knew in this titanic struggle, the dali -- valley of virginia would play a critical role. it has so far as battlefield, supply pace, -- base, root of invasion. the army who control the valley would control much of virginia and the state of the nation. the shenandoah valley was both in the center of some of the fighting, like the times of stonewall jackson, and sometimes on its western border. they had fought in the valley one battle after another, but it had also need various forms of guerrilla, partisan, and a regular conflict. the valley, more than anywhere else, had all the different kinds of warfare that we see in the civil war. stanton felt the suffering of the first battles of the campaign with terrible immediacy. you remember that the map that we had on the screen? rail frommiles by richmond to stanton, the longest railroad tunnel in the world at the time. feels the overland campaign as train loads oh wounded men poured into t

each had a hand in getting the uss lincoln ready for duty. ed has and about pipe fitter at new incorporate news for 39 years and his son now also works in the shipyard. he helped build the lincoln and plans to retire once the overhaul is complete. >> what does that mean to you, to have been able to see that through? >> there's something about this stage when you're ready to go to sea that when you go down that river and you know all those hours were put in, and now you go down on sea trial, just a pride in what you do. >> reporter: 33-year-old ramirez is an electrical foreman. >> do you think you feel that pride too >> yes, ma'am. i didn't get it at first, when i first got here. i just thought it was a job. thoen actually complete a carrier and to actually see it go out to sea, i mean it's outstanding. it makes you feel special as a person that hey i was a part of that project. >> reporter: for medical, kristoff and lucas served aboard carriers in the navy. >> it makes you work harder. >> reporter: all four ship builders said working on equip

lincoln and nevada. whatever is happening is further down the street, down lincoln. step out of the way so you can see the large police presence in the area. we understand the s.w.a.t. team is here as well. might not be able to see them from this vantage point where we're standing. neighbors believe there has been a shooting and they've been told to shelter in place. we're waiting for confirmation from san jose police department as to what happened. neighbors are just hearing there's been a shooting. but this is a large presence, requiring a lot of work on the scene as police and officers and detectives work to figure out what is going on. no information who might be hurt or if anyone has been killed. waiting for the police department. we'll be on the scene until we get it. >> good work. >>> cooling down tonight after bay area cities reached record temperatures today. steamy. emeryville camera. sandhya patel with more. >> all the records here. livermore, 94 degrees. low 90s all these places, napa, san rafael, oakland. all records. napa tied. 95 in ukiah. hot day. but

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live at the lincoln monument. back to you. >>> comic book conventions are popular with young people. but loudoun county investigators think those are the places where a man in nolan has been trying to meet teen girls. detectives have arrested 35-year-old derick la marr jones. detectives say he contacted a teen and gave her transportation to meet him in since march, they say he has been to at least seven cities around the country and has been posing as someone in his early 20s. they want to know if he pursued any other teens here at home or around the country. >>> developing this morning, we're working to learn whether conditions made this fire in rockville any worse. you can see bad damage to the home. multiple people made it out of the house safely. but it's not clear when they'll be able to go back. montgomery county fire ems didn't say when that fire started. also the roads are back open. this is middle brook road at seneca highway. this is not far from seneca valley high school in germantown. montgomery county

lincoln and nevada. whatever is happening is further down the street, down lincoln. step out of the way so you can see the large police presence in the area. we understand the s.w.a.t. team is here as well. might not be able to see them from this vantage point where we're standing. neighbors believe there has been a shooting and they've been told to shelter in place. we're waiting for confirmation from san jose police department as to what happened. neighbors are just hearing there's been a shooting. but this is a large presence, requiring a lot of work on the scene as police and officers and detectives work to figure out what is going on. no information who might be hurt or if anyone has been killed. waiting for the police department. we'll be on the scene until we get it. >> good work. >>> cooling down tonight after bay area cities reached record temperatures today. steamy. emeryville camera. sandhya patel with more. >> all the records here. livermore, 94 degrees. low 90s all these places, napa, san rafael, oakland. all records. napa tied. 95 in ukiah. hot day. but

lincoln was in the right with the secretary and told him for the first time i think i'm going to issue an emancipation preparation. and that emancipation proclamation actually goes further than the second act. other than telling me congress is against me and threatening me, they are setting a policy of the emancipation that i was worried the public wouldn't be ready for that i now see they are and he's decided to issue it. when he issues the emancipation corporation, he wraps it up in confiscation act, which he quotes an old in the preliminary proclamation just to show the connection between what he does and what congress has done. last story comes from world war ii and as many of you know, roosevelt was leading the country that was reluctant to get back for many of the reasons we will probably talk about. in that dilemma, roosevelt was more interested in helping the european allies then the countrymen. it made it hard for the americans to legally give support to the british and in particular churchill is begging him for some amazing destroyers that they have control of. but hhe feels

[laughter] lincoln loved the absurd. he loved tall tales. according to noah brooks come he thought the chief characteristic of american humor was his grotesqueness and extravagance. he loved the story of bill, a lot of drunks and lincoln stories with catastrophically intoxicated on the day of heavy rain, staggered down an alley and fell asleep in not. we denounce it was getting dark, he sat out the public to wash himself. on his way, another thing you know a post, which bill missed a band that once took hold the arm of his man, the use of which the occupant is opposed. though put both of his hands under and gave himself a thorough washing and made his way to the grocery. as the undead, what it is, is horrified by what in the world with the matter, you ought to see me before i was sloshed. there'd be no surprise that lincoln celebrated the craftsmanship, and the economy, energy and idiomatic color of his prose should of the humorous possibilities and curiosities of the english language. he discovered particular usages come enjoy discovering p

lincoln had a stark choice. let them go and break the country in half or fight the war in order to keep the country together. >> does it concern you at all that the president was asking the question or using those words in that way? >> well, it concerned me that, you know, the civil war is the seminoll event in history and it concerned me he was being so cavalier about why it happened and jackson prevented it. jackson died 16 years before the civil war began. you know, this is important and very detailed stuff. but to say nobody asked why, that just doesn't pass the straight face test. >> we appreciate you joining us today. coming up, a bloody passenger dragged off a plane. and now united airlines will face lawmakers in moments on capitol hill. >> and the president's statements about the civil war coupe co coupled with his fuzzny e can tails about the lelt care plan. one his torn questioned the president's mental state. stick around. that mean the most. boost® simply complete™. no artificial flavors, colors o

lincoln said, i just wondered where all that water came from. he's making fun of him. >> watch the entire program sunday at 8:00 p.m. eastern and midnight eastern. this is american history tv, only on c-span3. "afterwords," stuart taylor examines campus sexual assault policies in his book. mr. taylor is interviewed by beth for key, editor in chief of the national law journal and legal times. >> share for the viewers what is your general thesis that we are looking at here. what are we going to be reading about when we open the pages? >> the gist of it is that there has been a huge myth that has taken root that there is an epidemic of campus rape, that there is a culture of campus rape that has been encouraged and condone even by administrators, that's out of control and increasing, and it's worse on campus limited is off-campus, and it requires completely demolishing all the process and resumption of innocence, where the accused people are 99% male, and then that's not an accident. this comes from extreme feminists, male hating extreme feminists

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each had a hand in getting the uss lincoln ready for duty. ed has and about pipe fitter at new incorporate news for 39 years and his son now also works in the shipyard. he helped build the lincoln and plans to retire once the overhaul is complete. >> what does that mean to you, to have been able to see that through? >> there's something about this stage when you're ready to go to sea that when you go down that river and you know all those hours were put in, and now you go down on sea trial, just a pride in what you do. >> reporter: 33-year-old ramirez is an electrical foreman. >> do you think you feel that pride too >> yes, ma'am. i didn't get it at first, when i first got here. i just thought it was a job. thoen actually complete a carrier and to actually see it go out to outstanding. it makes you feel special as a person that hey i was a part of that project. >> reporter: for medical, kristoff and lucas served aboard carriers in the navy. >> it makes you work harder. >> reporter: all four ship builders said working on equipment that helps k