Good evening and welcome to lincolns cottage. Please silence your phones. The 20152016 cottage conversation series was made possible by David Bruce Smith and james and matthew. At the conclusion, we invite you to join us downstairs for the book signing. Our next conversation will be on thursday, march 3. It will discuss the life of frederick douglass. We are pleased to welcome back harold holzer. He is the chairman of the Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation and is the coauthor of books on the civil war, as well as hundreds of articles and chapters and additional volumes. He received the lincoln prize in 2005 and was awarded the National Humanities medal by george bush. A prizer, he received for his book, lincoln and the power of the press. He is an onair contributor to cspan, the history channel, cbs, nbc, msnbc, and the bbc. Harold and his coauthor challenge our understanding of the causes of the civil war. The book traces Economic Opportunity develop through lincolns life and how later p
It is fashionable. That i have retired it for the last two years and i brought it back now that they won the super bowl. Reporter you dont think that is bad luck . What about next year . I had not thought this to i had not bought this through. I am going to buy another short. I will be right back. Reporter anyway we are here looking for people with the craziest broncos attire. Reporter i am just off of broadway. The crowd is still filling in. There are all of these good folks right here. What time did you get here this morning . We got here at 8 30. This is a national holiday. Reporter what did you tell your boss . I am sick. I am feeling a little blue. Reporter you have your own fan club behind you. Are you a big a big broncos fan . Yes, i am. Reporter you have got a good spot. Back to you. The steelers were the hot. But the broncos werent going to beat them, right . Than the patriots came in, they were healthy, no one could beat them. Then the panthers were opponent. How do you beat
The answer was there is no plan. I blew up, not for the first or last time, and said, how can it be the head of the soviet union dies, and we have no contingency plan. It was criminal, said the president. The truth was the United States and the other western nations had very little idea of what was happening behind the iron curtain. Two years later at the first summit meeting of the cold war era at geneva in 1955, the United States still did not know who was running the soviet union. They sent four leaders, one tall white man in a white suit with a white goatee who looked like Colonel Sanders from kentucky fried chicken, clearly, a figure head. The head of the red army, ikes ally in defeating the nazis in world war ii. Eisenhower spent his son, john, to do some spying. Subdued and shaken, just whispered, things are not as they seem. President ize president eisenhower found out who was in charge on the fifth day of the conference. The big pier of the nuclear age was a surprise attack. P
[applause] what an honor and treat to be at the Eisenhower Institute and especially an honor to have susan introduced me. You know, families can be a little touchy about the great man and their family, but the eisenhowers were amazing with me. John, susan, david are completely open, not defensive, which is unusual. Incredibly helpful and i could not have done this book without them. So thank you, susan. Six weeks after Dwight Eisenhower became president , stalin died. Paik caught together top advisers and officials in that, whats the plan . Is little bit like Colonel Sanders of kentucky fried chicken. Was clearly a figure. Ike was rooting for the general, the head of the red army was ikes ally in defeating the nazis in world war ii. Eisenhower sent his son john out to do a little spying. John seidel up to him. Things are not as they seem. President eisenhower did not find out who was really in charge until the fifth day of the conference, when ike proposed what he called his opened sco
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