Good morning. Im jane pauley. This is sunday morning. No one likes to be lazy, except for only people you will meet this morning who seem to find comfort in lazing away on a balmy spring afternoon. Could they be on to something . Something hardworking souls everywhere might actually learn from . Susan spencer takes a closer look at taking it easy. Reporter in a country where hard work gets all the glory, author he autonomous Celeste Headlee says we would all benefit from being lazier. You wouldnt be insulted if someone said you are slacking off in. I am a recovering workaholic. I would proudly wear that badge. Reporter the hidden virtues of laziness coming up on sunday morning. She has been making movies for decades and now she is indulging her other passion. With tracy smith, we take note of kate hudsons latest career move. You and i will be forever reporter who knew she could sing, too . Well, she knew. I guess i wasnt ready for it until now. Reporter why do you think now youre ready
Since the 1930s to honor the life and legacy of Abraham Lincoln. And this year we have a special opportunity to hear from an extraordinary speaker. And in introducing him i would like to repeat something that he said at the First National Republican Convention that he attended as a young man in 1884. He was part of a reform wing of the Republican Party, and they had an insurgent candidate to be temporary chair of the convention, taking on the candidacy of the Republican National committee. That candidate happened to be the africanamerican congressman from mississippi, john r. Lynch. Here is some of what our speaker said. It is now less than a quarter of a century since in this city, chicago, the Great Republican Party organized for victory and nominated Abraham Lincoln of illinois who broke the fetors of the slaves and rant them asunder forever. It is a fitting thing for us to choose to preside over this convention one of that race whose right to sit within these walls is due to the bl
Point counterpoint. But i expect that to happen. At any moment. So i have all the questions here. Theyre really good ones. And not surprisingly, there are about four of them that are basically the same, but with a little bit of a twist. And it was a question that i was planning to ask anyway. So what i would like to do is just start over here and one at a time tell me who you think was the most hated general of the war. I think we all pretty much know this answer already. But and well go down the panel with that, and then start back here and say who do you think was the most loved general of the war. Okay . So lets start over here. The most hated general of the war. I get not only that question, but i getting to first. [ laughter ] can you start on that end . So i can kind of deal with the rest of us . Youre on the spot. Okay. Im not seriously i am not dodging when i answer this. I dont hate any of them. I really dont. Anybody of any rank from private to general, any of these guys who
Structure houses an amazing collection. Our founder, in 1947, amassed an amazing collection that the Shelburne Museum houses amongst 39 buildings. Its a plethora of objects and collections within collections, from impressionist art to weathervanes to Cigar Store Indians and one of the largest objects she collected, which was the ticonderoga steamboat, which plied the waters of Lake Champlain from 19061953. It was built, as i said, in 1906, which you can look at as the cost or the changeover from the steam era the cusp from the steam era to the internal combustion engine. She was one of 29 steamers built on the lake and she was the last one. She basically operated on Lake Champlain as a day boat. The lake is over 125 miles long, but the ticonderoga ran from the vermont shoreline to the new york show line new york shoreline. Her homeport was burlington, vermont. The passages were about an hour or an hour and a half, but she had her regular scheduled that she kept two. She kept to. It was
World history surveys to freshman, i tell the students, most of whom are there only because the university requires them, that the value of history lies in its ability for us to see the past in such a way that we can reimagine the present and the future. That perspective can allow us to create a better world than the one in which we now inhabit. This is the gift our speaker, Michael Kazin brings to us tonight and has shared with the readers of many of his books, such as his biography of William Jennings bryan, his account of the political place of the left in American History, and most relatively to this conference, his recent study of peace activists in world war i. He is a professor of history at Georgetown University and the editor of descent magazine. He writes for the new york times, foreign affairs, the nation, and the daily beast. He has written many books and lectured in the United States, europe, and japan and we are lucky to have him here this evening. Please join me in exten