Historian susan schulten, our country has experienced several fraught president ial transitions but the 1860 transition between James Buchanan and Abraham Lincoln is described by various historians as contentious, tumultuous, dangerous, and even the worst in history. What made it so . Susan on the face of it is what you have to recognize is this was the most consequential election transition in American History. The central issue, of course, is that several Southern States did not recognize the election of Abraham Lincoln as a legitimate. It considered him a sectional president for the fact that by and large his support came from nonslave states and no sooner had he been elected that South Carolina makes good on its promise to proceed toward seceding from the union on the grounds that the election did not represent its interest. Host lets set the stage for the transition. James buchanan had announced that he would be a one term president , but we did a regular president ial Leadership
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Hello, im sam water ston. You may recognize me from law order, or my personal pasta sauces where none of the money goes to charity. Tonight i will be your guide as we look at the the late show with Stephen Colberts 2020 Campaign Coverage. And while this will be a collection of some of the best moments from the late show, i assure you this is not some silly best of show. It is something much more important. Tonight, we fulfill a cotractual obligation to the network. We begin with some of colberts best monologues from the democratic primary. First, of course, the opening credits. Its a late show with Stephen Colbert 2020 Campaign Coverage special. Plus the best of candidat monologues, the best of candidate interviews and Campaign Field pieces. And Sam Waterston eating a giant sandwich. And now live on a burch of tapes from the ed sullivan theater, its Stephen Colbert trumps days are numbered. At least for his first term, because were getting closer and closer to the next president ial el
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Located in the Central Coast of libya and its very close to the oil ports and ruslan new so so its a very strategically placed. Its its extremely important now this comes after forces loyal to the warlord Khalifa Haftar have suffered major defeats and lost several key towns in western libya including the stronghold who know this battle here in central libya is much different than the ones then the battle in tripoli tripoli was very condensed it was urban the fighting was street to street house to house so its very different here the terrain is very wide and open and this makes this makes it very important for the airpower air power is extremely important in the battle here for sirte now yesterday airstrikes were were carried out by forces or carried out by the after selfstyled Libyan National army forces here adamant about control in sirte this will create a better position in power in any future peace talks also like i said it is close to russell knew of the major oil ports in libya s