Introduce our speaker for today. Todd harra tod is both an author and a funeral director. In fact, his family has been involved in that profession in delaware for four generations. Todds most recent book is last rites the evolution of the american funeral. And todd will be speaking to us today about how Abraham Lincoln was at the center, really, of the transformation of american funeral practices, both during his time in the white house and then also through his tragic death. Now we will have a question answer session at the end of todds talk. There will be a couple of walking microphones. I would ask, please take advantage of those, because we want our cspan audience to be able to hear both the questions and the answers. So at this time, ill turn it over to ty. Thank you, judge primos. And lincoln club of delaware is my pleasure to present to you. This evening. Now, we all know what happened. Good friday, 1865. But what im going to talk to you about this evening is about how the grand
Welcome to uncommon knowledge. And then to host with the Ronald Reagan institute with the speechwriter in general mcmaster has ordered me to tell the story of the speech. With the first page of the speaking copy. And first for some historical background after a portion of berlin itself with the british and french control even with east berlin and all of the surrounding east germany and with a communist regime its important to grasp that west berlin is completely surrounded and you can see it is a little. Insight east germany. Again, after the war, thousands of these germans flee the communist music regime east germany to the democratic west. How do they do this . Very often they do it just by stepping across the street and then they could get on the train to cross the german territory to the west. So by 1960, one fifth of the entire population of east germany just that. They fled. So to stop the enormous exodus these germans proposed a physical barrier and moscow agreed and in the midd
Cspan now app. A healthy democracy does not just look like this. It looks like. This where americans can see democracy at war. And citizens are truly informed. A republic drive. Get informed straight from the source on cspan. Unfiltered, unbiased, word for word from the Nations Capital to wherever you are. It is the opinion that matters the most is your own. This is for democracy, this is what democracy looks. Like cspan, powered by cable. Welcome to uncommon. All i am peter robinson. Today a conversation hosted with the Ronald Reagan institute, and in a moment jamie fly and hr mcmaster will join me and discussing president reagans june, 12th 1987 tear down this wall speech. But since i was a speech writer who wrote the speech i have been asked and general mcmaster has ordered me to tell the story of this speech. Right there by the way is the first page of president reagans speaking copy. You can see my name as a speech writer in the upper left hand corner. First is some historical bac
The speechwriter in general mcmaster has ordered me to tell the story of the speech. With the first page of the speaking copy. And first for some historical background after a portion of berlin itself with the british and french control even with east berlin and all of the surrounding east germany and with a communist regime its important to grasp that west berlin is completely surrounded and you can see it is a little. Insight east germany. Again, after the war, thousands of these germans flee the communist music regime east germany to the democratic west. How do they do this . Very often they do it just by stepping across the street and then they could get on the train to cross the german territory to the west. So by 1960, one fifth of the entire population of east germany just that. They fled. So to stop the enormous exodus these germans proposed a physical barrier and moscow agreed and in the middle of the night august 13, 1961, the east germans strong barbed wire all the way aroun
Forget that you are invited , something amazing will certainly happen at the ball, because its not for nothing that our kingdom is fabulous, come, dont forget, honestly, you wont regret it, the king got up at 5 00 in the morning, personally wiped the dust on the main staircase. Then i was in the kitchen and quarreled with the boss cook, renounced the throne in anger, but then changed his anger to mercy, and now runs along the royal road, checking if everything is in order, he sees. Hello, mr. Forester, hello royal majesty, listen, forester, i have long wanted to ask you why you have been cheering up lately, oh and look around to see if a monster has appeared in the forest, threatening you with death, no, your majesty would have stabbed the monster right away, so , maybe robbers appeared in the forest, but, sir, i would immediately throw them out, maybe some evil wizard is pursuing you, no, your majesty, i would have dealt with him long ago, well then, what brought you to this . Fortune