Would mclellan have denied it . Every paper said lincoln was going to make a stump speech at the cemetery. He come with them papers. Shouldnt have gone anyway. Nobody wanted him. Said right here he was just in one of them circulars. One of them myself. It wasnt much more than a week ago they asked him to speak. Couldnt have the president there, not call on him to say something. Chase didnt go, or stanton. And general mead wasnt there either. He said the army needed him. The way i figure it out is this, lincoln doesnt have a chance to be reelected and he knows it. Chase wants to be president. He wasnt going to gettysburg to lead a kite tail off the ground. Mead didnt go because the president was going to be there. Hes still hot under the collar on account of letting them get across the potomac after the battle. Theres a lot of people who think the president was right. The war might have been ended back there in july if mead followed lee from gettysburg but the potomac was flooded and me
Affected the outcome of the war. Mr. Stoker is a strategy and policy professor at the Naval War College in monterrey, california. The Bryant Park Corporation, Oxford University press and the New York Historical society cohosted this 55minute event. Thank you so much, paul. Good evening, everyone. As paul mentioned, im alex kassl, manager of Public Programs at the New York Historical society, and its a pleasure to see so many familiar faces in the audience tonight and a great pleasure to introduce tonights speaker and to once again partner with Bryant Park Corporation and Oxford University press on this terrific lecture series. Weve had a great run this summer. Next week is our final week in the series and at the historic society, we Just Announced the fallwinter series, and thats on the website now, brochures to come early september, so something exciting to look forward to. Tonights program will last about an hour and will be followed by a booksigning by our featured speaker, donald s
Very colorful. Mrs. Johnson spent time here at the ranch. It was important because it provided respite from the turmoil in washington. The johnsons could come presidency. First lady, lady bird johnson. Gentlemen, the president of the united states. Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether this nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. Weve come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that the nation might live. It is all together fitting and proper that we should do this, but in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate. We cannot hallow this ground. The brave men living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far beyond our power to add or detract
Start the first sentence and i hope the people that know the words can go along. We get a chorus going here. We get the bass voices going on here and some higher tenor, Abraham Lincoln voices going and see what it sounds like. Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Wow this is terrific. Thats only the first sentence. Okay. Who knows how the next sentence begins, anybody . Now now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. Great. Next line, we are met we are met upon a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is all together fitting and proper that we should do this, but in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate. We cannot consecrate. We cannot h
Its a pleasure to be back here. I remember when i first made my brash entrance into the lincoln field, one of the first invitations i got was from this group. And i remember that what i had to say astonished many people, but they were polite. And steve carson made me squirm for my dinner by asking hard questions, but he, too, was a good he was very dubious about what i was saying. Im pleased to report that our friend, the late steve, told me not too long before he died, really, that he remembered that session, and he was gracious enough to say that his doubts had been that he agreed with me, what i was arguing about. And of course, it was, as craig says, only a few years ago that we were honored, my partner and i were honored for our editorial work by this group, and it was its something that we are very proud of. And i cant thank you enough for that honor. You may not think that ive done you any favor of talking about the gettysburg address. Everybody knows the gettysburg address. Mos