And he argues that president lincoln was against slavery, but was willing to accept it in order to preserve the union. This is an hour and a half, hosted by the New York Historical society and the bryant park reading room. Thank you alex castle and paul room arrow. And thanks to the Bryant Park Corporation and the bryant park reading room, and the hsbc corporation and all those who have made it possible for me to appear here tonight. Its a particular privilege to speak here in new york city. Already, in 1860, as it remains today, new york was the nerve center of the nation. The herald, the tribune, the times, the three most influential and widely read newspapers in the United States, were publish right here. Each provides the historian with a wealth of insights, and each informs my presentation tonight. Here is what i am going to talk about. I focus on the fateful series of events in late 1860, and early 1861, when a president ial election triggered a grave crisis, and before long, a c
Test captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 lilienth. Lincoln won the 1860 president ial election because he carried every free state except for a divided electoral vote in new jersey. So he compiled a clear majority in the Electoral College and as we all know, of course, it is electoral votes that count. He also amassed far more popular votes than any of the other three candidates. But his plurality victory gained only 40 of the nationwide popular vote. He got no electoral votes and hardly any popular votes in the south. He was not on the ball loballotn Southern States. As we have seen an articulate ideological minority of republicans did consider slavery a moral problem, but mainstream republican moderates always said slavery was beyond their reach. Lincolns victory shocked the south. Throughout the summer and fall political orators warned of catastrophe. A symbolic humiliation added to southern distress. The south contended for a supposed constitutional right the rig
Honesty and no naivete, and the way you helped conduct Foreign Policy during a period of enormous crisis in dwrunt states, constitutional crisis, people on the streets and dealing with one of the most intractable problems, i really must say it was an honor to serve with such great men, and thank you very much for sharing your perspective with all of us and putting it down for history. I think people can learn a lot from what youve done for your nation. With that, thank you very much. [ applause ] president obama visits new orleans on thursday to mark the 10th anniversary of hurricane katrina. You can watch live coverage of the president ial visit beginning at 5 00 p. M. Eastern time on cspan. President nixon appointed four justices to the Supreme Court and others who were rejected by is senate. Kevin mcmahon is the author of nixons court. Justice Antonin Scalia makes introductory remarks a this the event that took place in the Supreme Court chamber. This is 45 minutes. Good evening. My
Proud san franciscans the didntn franciscan dutch live in san francisco. Both ofappointed them still serve on the court today. Pretty much part of the liberal block of the court. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who just turned 84, has now surpassed by few months. In terms of longevity. Stephen breyer had an he served in the 1980s. As the chief dutch both he Ruth Bader Ginsburg congeniality on the corporate he got along with everyone. He was able to get on famously orrin hatch on the other hand. Kennedy and orrin hatch agreed on not many things. They greet in their admiration with respect to steve breyer when he was nominated in the last days of jimmy carters administration. Domination. Anyones later who could get along with orrin hatch and ted kennedy must have been doing something right. From replace to elena cage, so we get through the introduction portion. Ok. Kagan, who is a graduate of princeton university, and Harvard Law School, was also a marshall scholar at Oxford University as was steph
Original jurisdiction are preserved here at the National Archives as are opinions, docket books, minutes, attorney rolls with our earliest records starting in 1790. We also have the audio recordings of the Supreme Court and the majority have been digitized and available online. We are working on a project to prepare all of these digital recordings for our online catalog and we hope to have them available by september of this year. Since its founding in 1934 the National Archives has hosted Supreme Court justices in person as well as in its records. In some of the justices we will discuss tonight have had close connections with this agency. In the 1950s Justice Felix frankfurter served on the board of the National Historical publications and records commission, followed by justice brendan, rehnquist, blackman and associater. In the 1960s Justice Goldberg served on the archivist advisory council. The archives launched a series of conversations with Supreme Court justices of the United St