in an operation of an abraham lincoln tells the story of that speech through the eyes and ears of those who witnessed it, including walt witman, frederick douglass and john willick s boots. next, the author talks about that portentous day in march 1865 with frank williams of the lincoln forum, which shows that this conversation and provided the video. it s good to be with our four members and to have you at akon with us. this is an important occasion, i think for many reasons. you being recently retired from the providence journal, which was around in lincoln s day and commended him for his gettysburg declaration. and i m glad that the tradition continues at least with you, so when we think of the second inaugural, we think of the fact that for the first four years of his administration, the country and himself were scarred by civil war, which is probably the worst that could happen to any country, especially a republic. and the deaths were over 650, 000, at least by that t
years making him perfectly positioned to contemplate the idea of presidential transitions a subject on which we re all focused in 2020 as we meet. ted is a distinguished lecture at the macaulay honors program at the city university of new york and has been a contributor to such publications as the washington post and the new yorker and well as the new york times for the times he edited the collection of online civil war cesquare centennial essays called disunion. and just two weeks ago. he wrote a beautiful times op-ed essay on the indirect number between james buchanan and abraham lincoln in 1860 and 1861. that op-ed was drawn from his new book lincoln on the verge 13 days to washington, which you i hope you see over one of my shoulders. i this one i m not gonna try to guess which one that is. it s a riveting account of the great succession winter. focusing not only on lincoln but on his surroundings. kind of a railroad passenger. i view of the north as lincoln slowly made h
to such publications as the washington post and the new yorker and well as the new york times for the times he edited the collection of online civil war cesquare centennial essays called disunion. and just two weeks ago. he wrote a beautiful times op-ed essay on the indirect number between james buchanan and abraham lincoln in 1860 and 1861. that op-ed was drawn from his new book lincoln on the verge 13 days to washington, which you i hope you see over one of my shoulders. i this one i m not gonna try to guess which one that is. it s a riveting account of the great succession winter. focusing not only on lincoln but on his surroundings. kind of a railroad passenger. i view of the north as lincoln slowly made his way from springfield and washington to become the most looked at president in american history up to that time. so it ted i m going to lead the conversation and then in around. at around 11 11 15. we will we will go to the q&a, but we ll have a good long tongue time t
Morning, gary. Not as gloomy. Were not talking about well i just will say this. Theres a little bit of sunshine from time to time today and a lot of clouds too. Any sun would be great because clouds is overcast. More surprise Christmas Day. Thats my Christmas Gifts to you. Listen i wont make a big deal out of this. Its possible. I mentioned this yesterday we could have a few evening snowflakes around. Ill be more specific coming up in a few minutes if you stay with us and ill give you the full forecast. It does not look like accumulation. All that looks like it take place back to the west of us for Higher Elevations back to western virginia and West Virginia and western maryland too. They could pick up 2 to 4 of snow today and this evening. It could be a White Christmas out there. Not for us though. Look, we have rain streaming up to the south along a fr frontal bound write down th there. And it looks like later on this afternoon and this evening some of this comes and into rain if it