[applause] ladies and gentleman it is a pleasure to welcome you to the Heritage Foundation and a the first event in the preserve the constitution series and running through november i will say more about that later ron. It is appropriate and on and sunday to commemorate the day when 7087 the representatives of 12 states so this Constitution Day is second only to for the july. I say that because of 177656 men signed the declaration of independence and pledge to each other their lives and fortunes and sacred honor. So in the war for independence some of them lost their lives many of them lost their fortunes but none of them ever lost theirou sacred honor. R families m in their sacrifices that they have made to ultimately make possible a new nation. D but what they accomplished with the declaration of independence the job was not yet finished because they have to establish a government that was still preserve the of liberty at great cost and that is why some of the original signers of the
I mean the woman he referred to as his angel mother, nancy lincoln, the woman who regarded in his fatherand his whose relationship with him remains something of a controversy even today. Of the three, who was influential and who was a negative influence . Why dont we start with sydney. Microphone. Negativesitive and the were about one experience, and that was an experience of being in the lincoln family growing up. Him,tepmother protected crucially, from his father, which enabled his Early Education and that was the initial positive spark for lincoln. Lincoln was a bright, inquisitive, naturally inquisitive child, but he was suppressed by his father. Was ather himself suppressed man and that have enormous influence all the way through his life and deeply on his articulate thinking on slavery. Had been a poor third farmer in kentucky. He had been cut out of the family inheritance. His stepbrother had taken it all and wound up being a quasiaristocratic. He had terrible luck was reduced t
I mean the woman he referred to as his angel mother, nancy lincoln, the woman who regarded in his fatherand his whose relationship with him remains something of a controversy even today. Of the three, who was influential and who was a negative influence . Why dont we start with sydney. Microphone. Negativesitive and the were about one experience, and that was an experience of being in the lincoln family growing up. Him,tepmother protected crucially, from his father, which enabled his Early Education and that was the initial positive spark for lincoln. Lincoln was a bright, inquisitive, naturally inquisitive child, but he was suppressed by his father. Was ather himself suppressed man and that have enormous influence all the way through his life and deeply on his articulate thinking on slavery. Had been a poor third farmer in kentucky. He had been cut out of the family inheritance. His stepbrother had taken it all and wound up being a quasiaristocratic. He had terrible luck was reduced t
It is a pleasure to welcome on our panel from my left to right the politicalf life of Abraham Lincoln volume one, a selfmade man, sidney blumenthal. And richard burr kaiser, the author of founder son a life of Abraham Lincoln. Author, not the only of the recently published american ulysses, a life of ulysses s grant, but a biographer of Abraham Lincoln, an author of a lincoln and expert of lincolns writings, harold wright. Welcome to you all. [applause] youur goal is to hear from and to see if we can evoke differences of opinion. The evil certainly welcome audience the well certainly we will certainly welcome audience for dissipation. I will give you a single to line up and engage with us. The first person i want to talk to in relation to lincolns inspiration are the three sets of parents. The three sets of parents in his life. You have all written about them. By the three amine the woman he referred to as his angel mother, nancy lincoln. The woman regarded him as his son, his stepmoth
[applause] ladies author and Oxford University professor Margaret Mcmillan talks about Woodrow Wilson second term. Once the world war one started the majority of his efforts focused on Foreign Affairs and public policy. Professor mcmillan talks about the attempts to avoid a war and the attempts for a last piece. Here in the United States the great war is indelibly linked through the presidency. Since presidency was infused with irony and contradiction many of you may know that when he assumed office his primary focus his priorities were wrong. He spent most of the next eight to pay bills still you still stay your portion. He ended up parking on a great crusade abroad to make the world safe for democracy. We will send wilson was the first president during his tenure in office to actually go abroad. He went to paris at the end of 1918 to engage in the negotiations of the paris peace conference. When he went abroad, he was heralded as a great savior in december of 1918. The crowds in pari