Policy to lincolns economic philosophy. All right. Good evening. Good evening and welcome to lincolns cottage. Silence your phones. 20152016 cottage conversation series was made possible by David Bruce Smith and james and matthew. We invite youion, to join us downstairs for the book signing. The next conversation will be on march 3. It will discuss the life of frederick douglass. We are pleased to welcome backyearold Holzer Harold holzer. Holzer. Me back harold he is the chairman of the foundationentennial and is the coauthor of books on the civil war, as well as hundreds of articles and chapters in additional volumes. Inreceived the lincoln prize 2005 and was awarded the National Humanities medal by george bush. Bookceived a prize for his , lincoln and the power of the press. He is an onair contributor to cspan, the history channel, cbs, nbc, msnbc, and the bbc. Nkel challenge the understanding of the civil war. The book traces Economic Opportunity develop through lincolns life and ho
Good evening and welcome to lincolns cottage. Please silence your phones. The 20152016 cottage conversation series was made possible by David Bruce Smith and james and matthew. At the conclusion, we invite you to join us downstairs for the book signing. Our next conversation will be on thursday, march 3. It will discuss the life of frederick douglass. We are pleased to welcome back harold holzer. He is the chairman of the Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation and is the coauthor of books on the civil war, as well as hundreds of articles and chapters and additional volumes. He received the lincoln prize in 2005 and was awarded the National Humanities medal by george bush. A prizer, he received for his book, lincoln and the power of the press. He is an onair contributor to cspan, the history channel, cbs, nbc, msnbc, and the bbc. Harold and his coauthor challenge our understanding of the causes of the civil war. The book traces Economic Opportunity develop through lincolns life and how later p
I am pleased to have them both at this table. First of all, how do you get together to write a book . Mr. Lott we served together in the senate long time, both of us. Through it all, we developed a good chemistry. It really involved our respect. We have different views, quite often. We developed a real trust for tom. We became friends. We were together with our wives, and tom said, it is time to put our experiences mr. Daschle we could not write a book like that if it were not majority leaders who could share perspectives about how we got here and the different views we have on issues to come to a consensus on what we need to do. Charlie people always talk about president obama, it was a priority for him, he wanted to come here and bridge the bipartisan rift. Says heot do it and wishes he had the political skills of Abraham Lincoln or roosevelt to accomplish it. Is other person they cite Ronald Reagan and tip oneill, that they had the capacity. Why is that not true now . Is it because
President s done over the years, and compares the criteria and results. His class is about an hour and 10 minutes. four scores are fathers said, with those words, there was a battlefield not far from where we sit today. The brilliance of those words is not recognized at the time. In fact lincoln was not the featured speaker at gettysburg. Everett,tually edward a senator from massachusetts who spoke for two hours well lincoln waited to give his closing words. Today we recognize the gettysburg address is perhaps the greatest moment of president ial speech and history. The fact that people did not see the speech that way at the time, lincoln was not the featured speaker points to the fact that lincolns greatness was not recognized at the time in general. We have to remember that when lincoln became president , he had not served in Public Office for 10 years. Of dress, hisyle speaking, his selfeducation, all that meant that lincoln was looked upon with some degree of condescension from the
Parks is the name of the book. Our topic for today is henry clay and americas greatest statesman. Mr. Unger is a veteran journalist broadcaster, educator and historian, former distinguished visiting fellow at the George Washington. He is the author of 25 books including three histories of early america and ten biographies of americas Founding Fathers. Among them George Washington, lafayette, Patrick Henry and james monro. Hes appeared on the History Channel and a cspan book tv spoke at mount vernon, yorktown and many other historic sites. A graduate of the Yale University with a Masters University with a masters of arts from california state university. Spent many years as an analyst for the new york World Tribune in the service and the canadian broadcasting corporation. Mr. President and John Marshall reveal how George Washington and John Marshall constructed the executive and judicial branches of the american government. The greatest statesman tells how a fearless young kentucky warr