You can cherry picked certain things, but later on during his presidency he gains quite deep respect and affection even springfield. He lived in the neighborhood, this was back in illinois, a neighborhood that was full of africanericans. He became friendly to them and he kept corresponding with several of them while he was in the wte house. While he was in the white house Frederick Douglass who was at first thought he was quite conservative of slary that in a couple of timesn the white house and really was astounded. He came out of this thing, this is the least prejudiced white person i think ive ever met. The same thing with sojourner truth. She was an oer africanamerican feminist and she said before i die i want to et this guy, this president abraham lincoln. Sh had a delightful time with him and felt very, very close to hi Martin Delaney who was, we would call him beyond black lives matter. Heas like a black nationalist. Very militant. He became at the end of the war, lioln appointe
2007. I want to thank shelby for her steadfast support for the biography center over all these years. It is her program that made this possible. Please note the next event is coming up in two days on this thursday october 15th where victor and i will interview larry about his timely and important new biography of joseph mccarthy. Tonight we are here to celebrate the publication of abe, Abraham Lincoln in his time a new biography by david reynolds. His book launch and the book has received early reviews and the Publishers Weekly and elsewhere and we encourage everyone to look it up on amazon or your own local bookstore. David reynolds is a distinguished professor at the Graduate Center and the author of Walt Whitmans america a cultural biography, winner of the bancroft prize. His other books include beneath the american renaissance, john brown abolitionist and mighty year than the sword, Uncle Toms Cabin and the battle for america. He is a regular book reviewer for the New York Times bo
Taking a look at those danger zones we have throughout the bay area because of the red flag warning. Kari . Yes, in the north bay mountains well have a red flag warning in effect for today. It continues until 8 00 this evening, and with the very dry conditions weve seen, along with the high winds, we will have that high fire danger for today for all of these areas that are shaded in red. So these are the areas well have to watch as the winds possibly gust over 50 miles an hour once again for today. We will start out with those temperatures very mild, but then it will warm up in some parts of the bay area. A few of us will hit back up to 90 degrees for those high temperatures while the south bay will be in the low 80s. Well talk about the range in temperatures and whats ahead coming up in the full microclimate forecast. Mike, youve been watching the roads. Any issues early this morning . The freeways are moving smoothly. I do have to start out with some very sad news out of the Contra C
Rare look at a program to save Snow Leopards threatened by poachers and Climate Change. Its thursday, october 24th, 2019. Heres todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. This has been a disgraceful process. This is a sovietstyle process. Republicans storm an impeachment hearing. Our republican colleagues have freaked out. Its a pathetic stunt. Honestly it looked like a mob scene. President trump is taking credit for a permanent ceasefire in syria. This was an outcome created by us, the United States, and nobody else. Reporter in Northern California, hundreds. Thousands of pg e customers are once again without power to prevent wildfires. With our power goes out, were losing school, were losing work. A new video shows the moment a Fresno Police officer shot and killed an unarmed teenager. This was clearly wrong. And all that matters has written a book. They give away their identity when they request 12 weeks off for not a book tour. On cbs this morning. Taylor hits one in the air to l
87 of the vote. But there was defiance in the form of large queues at some Polling Stations in russia heeding the call of allies of the late Opposition Leader, Alexei Navalny, who urged people to turn out to spoil their ballots or to vote for any other candidate. Mr navalny died suddenly in a penal colony in russia last month. At least 80 protesters were arrested. Mr navalny s widow, yulia navalnya, cast her vote at Russias Embassy in berlin. There were also protests held and voting queues in a number of other countries. In london, there was a line a mile long outside the russian embassy. From moscow, heres our russia editor steve rosenberg. For Vladimir Putin, six more years in the kremlin. Russias president is sounding more confident than ever. Translation whoever might want to intimidate us, whoever might want to suppress us, ourwilland our conscience, they have never been able to do it, and never will. Then, mr putins first Public Comments on the death ofjailed Opposition Leader Al