moments in american history, and outside of the lincoln memorial and lincoln s listening to it, right, is martin luther king saying, i have a dream. so it is a century after his gettiesburg address, exactly. he s listening in a photo of atherton what s going on. the klan in 1925 with you know their history from birth of a nation, gone with the wind. they added to their portfolio. they said, we can be anti-immigrant and anti-catholic and anti-jewish as well as anti-black. swelled to 4 million population. controlled the southern half of alabama. they were able to march in by the thousands and thousands and the next day they went to arlington, burned a 80-foot cross singing onward christian
of politics. city poured over intelligence reports about begin and sadat so he understood them. he took them to gettiesburg battlefield to show them the costs of continued war. he negotiated for 13 agonizing days and nights personally over 20 drafts and then chris, the last day, the 13th day, begin had decided no more concessions, i m leaving. carter had a brilliant insight. he knew from the intelligence reports how much begin loved his eight grand children. he took photographs of himself begin and sa dad, hand wrote inscriptions to each of the grandchildren, walked over to a bag gin s cabin and handed it to him. as he was ready to go back, he saw the tears come in a bag gin s eyes as he went through each one of them. begin said mr. president, i ll give it one more try. the rest is lift. 40 years that treaty has never been violated central to
speaker. form he senator edward everett delivered the oration for two hours. the president spoke for two minutes. 272 indelible words. did people realize the gettysburg address was the gettiesburg address? in the immediate aftermath, i don t know that a lot of people here recognized something historic in what lincoln had said. but edward everett did. the day after he writes lincoln a note. and he said if i could have come as close to the central meaning of what we were there for in two hours as you did i in two minutes, i would have been satisfied. this is thought to be the draft lincoln read that day. the first written in ink on white house stationary. the second rewritten in pencil. lincoln sees it as a chance to speak to the people in a brief speech and define, this is the heart of what this war is about and this is also who we are. from these honored dead, we
fox news alert on our top story today. crisis in egypt. for the second time in two years, the nation s powerful army is positioning itself to remove the country s leader. troops in key facilities and huge crowds are filling the tari square and waiting to hear more from the army. some are suggesting that the obama administration is striking a different tone on what we are seeing today than it did in 2011 when hosany mu barak was forced out. joining me now is a fellow in the american enterprise and a speech writer for president george bush and ralph peters who is the author of hello richmond and can t at gettiesburg. look at the crowd size, it is overwhelming.
the prison director. it appears it was an inhouse escape. brian: the signing of the u.s. constitution and the document that created the role of the president. 43 different men assumed the role. gretchen: many are remembered fondly and others get lost between the pages and joining us is author of the don t know much about the american president. kenneth davis. you told mow you started this when you were nine years old and found a copy. i found a project written about the presidents in third grade and thinking about this and working on it a long time. a lot of people ask me how to you get interested in history. i went to gettiesburg or sagamore hill and history