The Heritage Foundation ink Heritage Foundation and good morning. Great to see you. We have many friends with us today for those of us joining a person watching on line are viewing this on cspan we are grateful that you were included in with us today. I am robert bluey executive editor of our news outlet and its my pleasure toto host the great cal thomas for todays event. As one of americas most read columnist with a distinguished career in media theres not a lot i can tell you about cal that you dont already know. Ill start with his new book which is called a watchman in the night what ive seen over 50 years reporting on america. The book takes you on a journey in time as a columns from the start in 1984 the Los Angeles Times to today but we have a limited number of Copies Available for sale after todays event which cal will sign for you. This book is a remarkable achievement even for a rider and i can say that assn a writer myself. His other titles include americas expiration date, t
Is nbc nightly news with Brian Williams. Good evening. Divided government it is after republican candidates swept to victory last night across the country taking historic margins in congress defeating a lot of bigname democrats, setting up an even more interesting National Election in 2016. Republicans needed to flip six seats to take control of the senate, so far they have seven. That number could grow further as some races are undecided. Their margin of leadership in the house is history making. It was red over blue in a big way last night. Nothing tells the story more vividly than this. The nation as viewed by congressional districts showing patches of blue, slivers of blue on a canvas of red. An angry electorate voting locally, not nationally. And in lesser numbers, but sending a clear message nonetheless. We begin our coverage and analysis tonight with our National Correspondent Peter Alexander in washington. Peter, good evening. Reporter brian, good evening to you. Capitol hill w
Divided government it is after republican candidates swept to victory last night across the country taking historic margins in congress defeating a lot of bigname democrats, setting up an even more interesting National Election in 2016. Republicans needed to flip six seats to take control of the senate, so far they have seven. That number could grow further as some races are undecided. Their margin of leadership in the house is history making. It was red over blue in a big way last night. Nothing tells the story more vividly than this. The nation as viewed by congressional districts showing patches of blue, slivers of blue on a canvas of red. An angry electorate voting locally, not nationally. And in lesser numbers, but sending a clear message nonetheless. We begin our coverage and analysis tonight with our National Correspondent Peter Alexander in washington. Peter, good evening. Reporter brian, good evening to you. Capitol hill will be a very different place when the new congress is
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That document describes a come and save compromise emancipation plan, his last ever to get slaveholding border states to sell their slaves to the federal government so that they could be out of that is this. When he rejected that, he began to discuss the process of the emancipation proclamation. We believe, as ron white points out, that pastor girlys relationship with mr. Lincoln helped mr. Lincoln develop a higher understanding of his relationship with his god and allowed him to think through clearly from a religious perspective, how vehement patient proclamation can best be described and encompassed. With that, we are ready to begin the program. I would like to introduce edna green medford. History professor and chairperson at howard university. Shields degrees from Hampton Institute and the university of illinois and her phd is in history from the university of maryland. Dr. Medford specializes in 19 country United States history and teaches courses on the jacksonian era and civil w