At the new museum. The facility is climate controlled. We will make sure all of the objects stay safe until the opening day and we can put them on display. National Law Enforcement museum will be opening in judiciary ,quare in washington, d. C. Straight across the street from the national Law Enforcement officers memorial. The museum is an outgrowth of the Law Enforcement memorial. 25 years ago, the memorial began and from there, people realize there were more stories to tell. We wanted to tell about the lives of these officers, not the officers who died in the line of duty, but to talk a lot the officers and the work that they do. The idea for the National Lawenforcement museum began around 2000. It is a congressionally authorized museum. Our goal is to tell the story of american Law Enforcement, which is a wide ranging story that covers a lot of different parts of the history of the united dates. The museum is mostly underground, but it has two very beautiful glass pavilions. We are
, his Outstanding New book, gathering dissemination, we come to know a new team of lincoln allies. We are likely familiar with names like gates, andrews and some others. But steve brings another analysis of the nearly five dozen individuals who served as chief executive during lincolns presidency. This nearly 500 page volume is supplemented with 122 pages of footnotes and nearly a 70 page bibliography. For those of you who can read in the program a little bit about steve but for those watching, let me say that Stephen Engle is the professor of history and director of alan b. Larkins symposium on the american presidency at Florida Atlantic university. He is a past fulbright scholar to germany. He is currently a distinguished lecture for the organization of american historians. In 2016, he was awarded a Andrew Mellon fellowship to the massachusetts historical society. The incoming president of the Abraham Lincoln Institute Associate Professor john white whose opinion carries a lot more ,
Leadership, ideas but principally people who inspired and motivated him. Its a pleasure to welcome as our panel from my left to right, the author of the political life of Abraham Lincoln, volume i, a selfmade man, sidney blumenthal. And Richard Brook hihiser, and finally, the author not only of the recently published american ulysses, the life of ulysses s. Grant but the author of a. Lincoln and an expert in lincolns writings, ronald a. White. Welcome to you all. So our goal today is to hear from you and see if we can evoke some differences of opinion. We will certainly welcome audience participation and questions from our usual microphone. In fact, i will give you a signal in about 20 minutes or so to encourage you 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, really, not one person but three, the three sets of parents in his life. You have all written about them. By the three, i mean the woman he r
Nd is bob willard i have been president of the Abraham Lincoln institute in the past. This is the 17th symposium of my Abraham Lincoln institute wife and i are now ensconced in southern california. In the past couple of weeks the eyes of the nation were focused on the reagan president ial library. As america said goodbye to nancy reagan to you interests james baker and ron reagan junior both claim to that without mrs. Reagan there wouldve been no president reagan. Im not a real fan of iunterfactual history conduct have expressed that same view regarding mary lincoln. Is underscore this morning by sidney blumenthal. I have attended lots of events like this. Ive heard many presentations on mrs. Lincoln from friends and foes of this controversial first lady. Love her or hate her. There is little doubt in my mind that they love each other deeply and supported each other for better or worse in sickness and in health. Her support was an indispensable elements of his ambition. Our next speake
About the ways in which experience transforms attitudes. So lincoln grew but so did so many other americans. In my last book i wrote about a lot of soldiers. And one of the important elements of the emancipation proclamation can is when the army becomes an army of liberation, it changes their mind. The enslaved are an abstraction for the vast majority of northerners. So what does it mean when youre marching south and youre able to humanize african americans. The soldiers that medford talked about, very important, 179,000 men serving. So in all of these ways its not just lincoln. Its parts of a society thats trying to move ahead to solve what for them is lets pose it has a problem. The problem of freedom in the age of slavery. Thats a complicated problem. And on one hand vast strides are made. On the other hand 150 years later its a problem that the nation continues to have to address. I think for lincoln its that basic sense of allowing individuals to rise or fall on their own merits a