presidency and to know that his brother who was assassinated five years later is buried next to him robert kennedy, the significance of this location to you and to others is what? well, in the words of secretary stanton, he belongs to the ages and in a sense, john kennedy and robert kennedy belonged to the nation and they are i think the kennedys were very generous in acknowledging that and there was controversy at the time about it. compared that of lincolns who took the body out of the capitol and back to springfield and the family gathered around this is our dad and my husband. the kennedys recognized that john kennedy belonged to the nation. it was generous on their part. we are watching president
the president is notably absent there. they did pay tribute by taking part in a special project designed to honor this important part of len con s legacy. it s called learn the address . our father s brought forth on this continent a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equally. now we are engage in a great civil war. testing whether that nation we are met on a great battlefield of that war. we have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place. joining us now is the man behind this project, ken burns. good morning. so nice to see you. why do you think good morning, christine. why do you want american s to learn lincolns words by heart? i just phoned the film called
everyone at va should be focusing on how best to accomplish their missions. so i ask the committee and rest of the congress to help us by resolving this physical impasse now so that va and federal partners on whom we have to rely to do our work can get back to work full-time. fulfilling president lincolns call to care for those. let s step away from this. i want to go back to ken fisher of the fisher house. he provides housing for military families desperately in need. has offered to give money to grant money to reimburse military families for death benefits and such. so as you re listening to this hearing and the politicians talk, what s going through your mind? well, a couple of things, actually. one, not once in all of this and, you know, i work very closely with chairman miller and obviously with the secretary, not once did i hear anything about the death benefits and the resumption of that.
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copies. you guys are smart. signed copies will be in demand. moving now guarantees your gift. there is dissent on the book. i refuse to read your new book killing jesus because you go too far. i am a baptist christian and don t want to hear that jesus s death was like lincolns. you shouldn t give your opinion on religion. you re smart not to read it. out s not for you. there is no religion in the book. it is about history h. jesus of nazareth was a man. his life and death is incredible. we tell the story with details that may surprise you, but probably not since you won t read it. if you are very emotional about the subject of jesus you may not want to read the book. we respect that.