Example to turn to in a time of crisis. He is notable for his empathy and accountability and humanity. Those characteristics were on display when he was living here at the cottage. Hit, we Current Crisis turn to dr. Jared peatman. Our First Program with jared sold out to capacity quickly and he agreed to do this on core program. Encore so much has changed that it will no doubt be a Different Program in its own right. From better for the college with a masters degree from texas a m. A metaphor toy as examine current leadership challenges. Is a senior fellow at the George Washington University Center for excellence in public leadership. He has delivered over 500 leadership seminars and dozens of different sites including gettysburg, mount vernon, the alamo, waterloo and president lincolns cottage. Jared was named the organization of american historians doctoral fellow. Prize fore received a the best work on a bram lincoln. Abraham lincoln. He is the author of a book on leadership lessons
York. His honors include the National Humanities medal presented by president george w. Bush. Before we begin, i ask that you please turn off your cell phones and other electronic devices, and now please join me in welcoming our guest. Thank you. [applause] mr. Holzer good evening. Happy lincolns birthday. I am so proud and grateful to be asked to do another lincolns birthday talk here at the New York Historical society. Two years ago, it was snowing. Last year it was sleeting with ice. I think lincoln might have been another president who was not too unhappy about global warming. Just a guess. [laughter] tonight, i want to give a speech about a speech. And here is a spoiler alert. Only masterpieces qualify for that kind of analysis, so let me call your attention to the fact that lincolns sin second inaugural address, if you had any doubt, is indeed a masterpiece. I think most of you already know the speech, at least the most familiar part of it, with malice toward none and charity for
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On July 9, 1858, Illinois Senator Stephen Douglas gave a campaign speech to a raucous throng from the balcony of the Tremont Hotel in Chicago. Abraham Lincoln was in the audience as Douglas prepared to speak. Douglas graciously invited Lincoln to join him on the balcony to listen to the speech. In his speech Douglas sounded the themes of the momentous campaign that Lincoln and Douglas waged that summer and
Today is of course the anniversary of the birth of America s greatest president, Abraham Lincoln. As a politician and as president, Lincoln was a profound student of the Constitution and constitutional history. Perhaps most important, Lincoln was America s indispensable teacher of the moral ground of political freedom at the exact moment when the country was on the threshold of abandoning what he called its ancient faith that all men are