Historian susan schulten, our country has experienced several fraught president ial transitions but the 1860 transition between James Buchanan and Abraham Lincoln is described by various historians as contentious, tumultuous, dangerous, and even the worst in history. What made it so . Susan on the face of it is what you have to recognize is this was the most consequential election transition in American History. The central issue, of course, is that several Southern States did not recognize the election of Abraham Lincoln as a legitimate. It considered him a sectional president for the fact that by and large his support came from nonslave states and no sooner had he been elected that South Carolina makes good on its promise to proceed toward seceding from the union on the grounds that the election did not represent its interest. Host lets set the stage for the transition. James buchanan had announced that he would be a one term president , but we did a regular president ial Leadership
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Win the 2nd highest u. S. Office. Writes down barriers and highlights sacrifices made by american women the president though donald trump remains defiant showing no signs of conceding we will look at what band could mean for the transition of power. In other news as a by johns president says his military has taken the 2nd largest city in the disputed region of. And in sports tokyo is testing its ability to host a safe olympics next year the city staged its 1st International Competition at a games venue since the infix headspace i spoke to to coronavirus. It is just on 10 am on the u. S. East coast where the next president s promising to restore the soul of the nation while the current president still refusing to concede defeat joe biden has made his 1st address to the nation as president elect. Speaking of an end to an era of demonization and promising to heal americas deep political divide donald trump though threatening legal action in an attempt to overturn the election which was ca
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The workers are asking for a raise. To 15 dollars an hour plus union rights. Ohare is one of the busiest airports in the country. So its still not clear how this strike could affect travelers. Happening right now in overton. Flooding has caused Major Concerns with People Living in the area. Take a look at these pictures one of our viewers sent in. He says it started raining at 330 this morning. And he took these pictures at 6 30. We have a reporter heading to area to get a closer look at the damage. Well bring you an update in toss to greg toss to greg lets get over to greg bennett with a check of the forecast for this holiday week. Today, showers, heavy clouds and snow are expected to the valley and surrounding areas thanks to support from our upper level low that hovers over calnevari, the cold front coming from the Pacific Northwest is yielding a 50 chance for showers within the valley this morning and snow rain and snow chances are at their highest from 4am to 10am with these chanc