Have great day. Thank you very much. So welcome, everyone. This is i. Im president of the the Lincoln Group of d. C. My name is David Jay Kent and on tonights special program, the Lincoln Group, what they said marks 160th anniversary of lincolns gettysburg address, which was given november 19th, 1863. Im going to kick off program by reading the gettysburg address so that we all have it in our mind because its very short. Then three of our members will each discuss one aspect of this brief, but revealing elegy our nation first tom peet well discuss. Lincoln viewed the declaration of independence and not the constitution as a nations key founding. John. I mean, john obrien, sorry john o brien well discuss lincolns use of religious symbolism in the address and then ed epstein. Well talk about how lincolns two minute speech at gettysburg changed american political oratory forever. After that, all, members will be invited to offer their own and questions. The discussion i will be tonights m
his wife shielded wilson. she ran the whole administration without telling anybody. the 32nd president of the united states, fdr. he suffered from polio and lost the ability to walk at the age of 39 roughly. he went on to win four elections in a row, all in a wheelchair. but most of the country didn t know he was in a wheelchair. he used a cane or someone s arm for balance. and the secret service had pictures destroyed that were taken by rogue journalists. john kennedy wore a whack brace and was treated with and question liesers and opioid pain shots. you would think it couldn t happen today with am as everywhere. you would be wrong. the pandemic forced joe biden into the basement where he could hide some of his. and the media covered up. dr. biden is for it? , mr. president? dr. biden thinks my wife thinks that that i that we are doing something very important. the most common price of gas in america is $3.39, down from over $5 when i took office. brian: it was $2.
his wife shielded wilson. she ran the whole administration without telling anybody. the 32nd president of the united states, fdr. he suffered from polio and lost the ability to walk at the age of 39 roughly. he went on to win four elections in a row, all in a wheelchair. but most of the country didn t know he was in a wheelchair. he used a cane or someone s arm for balance. and the secret service had pictures destroyed that were taken by rogue journalists. john kennedy wore a whack brace and was treated with and question liesers and opioid pain shots. you would think it couldn t happen today with am as everywhere. you would be wrong. the pandemic forced joe biden into the basement where he could hide some of his. and the media covered up. dr. biden is for it? , mr. president? dr. biden thinks my wife thinks that that i that we are doing something very important. the most common price of gas in america is $3.39, down from over $5 when i took office. brian: it was $2.
memorial day. i m julie banderas. glad to be with you today. griff? i m griff jenkins. great to be with you. such a special honor to anchor on this day, memorial day, the day that we say never forget the sacrifice and valor of the brave men and women who laid down their lives in the name of freedom standing in the breach between tyranny and the cherished freedoms we have at home. arlington national cemetery a live look in the more than 400,000 tombstones in that hallowed ground of the sacrifice those heroes made. an important day as we reflect, honor and remember today, julie. but we also have more news to get to. that is go ahead. julie: i was just going to add it is a day we want to remind everybody not only a day to remember the fallen heroes, but also a day to give thanks for those veterans that were lucky enough to survive in place in war. those veterans today remembering and giving thanks for being alive but also remembering for those who did not be so lucky. we
texas with the latest. hello jeff. mike, present joe biden first lady joe biden are doing something many people this community and probably throughout this country are doing today. especially given what just happened a few days ago. they are going to church, they re going to mass as they pray. and trying to make sense of an unthinkable thing that happened. they are greeted by governor greg abbott is a bipartisan group of politicians. went over too robb elementary school where they paid their respects at the memorial site there for the people who died just a few days ago. he, along with first lady joe biden paid their respects and laid a wreath there. there joined by governor greg abbott as well as the mayor of uvalde, texas but we were told their protesters calling for governor abbott to take action on some sort of legislation that might help prevent future tragedies like this from occurring. once a church is over that is when president biden first lady are scheduled to spe