He says in order to understand why lincoln is revered it is important to understand the criticisms of his detractors. The Lincoln Group of the District Of Columbia hosted this one hour 20 minute event. Good evening. I am former Vice President of the Lincoln Group and the District Of Columbia. It is my honor and privilege to invite tonights speaker, john mckee barr, a professor of history at Lone Star College kingwood, for the past seven years, teaching a class on darwin and lincoln, who were born on the same day. Before that, he was a High School Teacher in the Houston Public School system. That is good preparation for the kind of flack he has to put up now at it. This is his first book, and he has started a blog. I highly recommend it. It is very lively. It is loathinglincoln. Com. The book has received a lot of praise. I want to read you a couple summaries. Paradoxically, americas most revered president has also been its most reviled. Detractors of the rail splitter have been a crowd
Collection forward from this moment and the winner of the 2004m pulitzer prize. Welco man and we have Rick Perlstein whose r book is the invisible bridge. E. Very thick volume. M fit [laughter] are you saying i am a thick . Test spinnaker this is theis continues is chronicling of the conservative america that he began before the storm which is about arizonahe Barry Goldwater campaign. He continued that in the next chapter and that continued history so today the topic is h race and politics. Guili Rudy Giuliani has had interesting comments along theseendiveould lines. With do you think president obama loves america in the same way that you and i do . [laughter]ca theame way yo i think that he loves it in the same way but not in the same way such that Newt Gingrich or mr. Giuliani or sean hannity which is to say uncritically and i think that he understands that senator al franken had a great line that there is a sense among some on the right. I think the president loves america like grow
Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. How do you campaign for reelection when the country is falling apart . How do you try to get four more years when thats happening now is this . Today the president was in ohio for what were basically campaign events. At one event they actually played the song live and let die on the song system before he took the stage, which is a strange choice during a deadly pandemic. Sort of Paul Mccartneys version of it is what it is, i suppose. The plan had been for the governor of ohio mike dewine to greet the president when he arrives. So governor dewine got tested in advance of meeting the president. Guess what . The test showed that he has the coronavirus. Now instead of greeting with donald trump, he is in quarantine, making him the second governor in the country that we know of to have contracted the virus. And it did not get better. The president s remarks at the airport were billed as being about, quote, economic prosperity, but they came on a d
Ongoing attacks on democracy by the campaign of donald trump. Stacey abrams is here on what you can do to protect the election. Plus, senator gary peters on his new investigation of the sabotage of the post office. The new 2020 ad from the Biden Campaign that may be the perfect antidote to trumps nonstop lies when all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. How do you campaign for reelection when the country is falling apart . How do you try to get four more years when whats happening now is this . Today the president was in ohio for what were basically campaign events. At one event they actually played the song live and let die on the sound system before he took the stage, which is a strange choice during a deadly pandemic. Sort of Paul Mccartneys version of it is what it is, i suppose. The plan had been for the governor of ohio mike dewine to greet the president when he arrives. So governor dewine got tested in advance of meeting the president. Guess what . T
[applause] good evening thank you for that wonderful introduction. I like to start off tonights event based first offering a land acknowledgment birdlike to gratefully acknowledge the native people whose ancestral homelands we gather as well as the Diverse Communities who make their home in washington d. C. And for all of those streaming to acknowledge the land youre coming to us from. I am so excited and pleased about tonights event both personally and also at the secretary of education. As you heard this is a special evening for us as we are doing in person and Live Streaming for the first time. And also that education has been at the cook core of the smithsonian Mission Sensor 175 your founding. In fact the spirit and purpose of the programming you will have tonight the Smithsonian Associates have been doing for 55 years through highquality inperson programming. We are happy tonight. We are particularly excited about this event because we have two fabulous people pretty properly the