at the new museum. the facility is climate controlled. we will make sure all of the objects stay safe until the opening day and we can put them on display. national law enforcement museum will be opening in judiciary ,quare in washington, d.c. straight across the street from the national law enforcement officers memorial. the museum is an outgrowth of the law enforcement memorial. 25 years ago, the memorial began and from there, people realize there were more stories to tell. we wanted to tell about the lives of these officers, not the officers who died in the line of duty, but to talk a lot the officers and the work that they do. the idea for the national law-enforcement museum began around 2000. it is a congressionally authorized museum. our goal is to tell the story of american law enforcement, which is a wide ranging story that covers a lot of different parts of the history of the united dates. the museum is mostly underground, but it has two very beautiful glass pavili
, his outstanding new book, gathering dissemination, we come to know a new team of lincoln allies. we are likely familiar with names like gates, andrews and some others. but steve brings another analysis of the nearly five dozen individuals who served as chief executive during lincoln s presidency. this nearly 500 page volume is supplemented with 122 pages of footnotes and nearly a 70 page bibliography. for those of you who can read in the program a little bit about steve but for those watching, , let me say that stephen engle is the professor of history and director of alan b. larkin s symposium on the american presidency at florida atlantic university. he is a past fulbright scholar to germany. he is currently a distinguished lecture for the organization of american historians. in 2016, he was awarded a andrew mellon fellowship to the massachusetts historical society. the incoming president of the abraham lincoln institute associate professor john white whose opinion ca
chairerald holzer, vice of the lincoln forum. it s a pleasure to welcome you to panel discussions we will have on foundations of lincoln s leadership. ideas, but principally people who inspired and motivated him. it is a pleasure to welcome as rightnel from my left to the author of the political life of abraham lincoln, volume one, sidney blumenthal. richard burr kaiser, the life of abraham lincoln. author not only of the recently published american ulysses: the life of ulysses s grant, and the author of a. lincoln, ronald white. thank you to you all. [applause] our goal today is to hear from you and see if we can evoke differences of opinion. we will certainly welcome audience participation and questions from our usual microphone. i will give you a signal in about 20 minutes or so to encourage you to line up and engage with us. first person i want to talk to in relation to lincoln s inspiration are the three sets of parents. not one person, but three. the three sets of
leadership, ideas but principally people who inspired and motivated him. it s a pleasure to welcome as our panel from my left to right, the author of the political life of abraham lincoln, volume i, a self-made man, sidney blumenthal. and richard brook hihiser, and finally, the author not only of the recently published american ulysses, the life of ulysses s. grant but the author of a. lincoln and an expert in lincoln s writings, ronald a. white. welcome to you all. so our goal today is to hear from you and see if we can evoke some differences of opinion. we will certainly welcome audience participation and questions from our usual microphone. in fact, i will give you a signal in about 20 minutes or so to encourage you to line up and engage with us. the first person i want to talk to in relation to lincoln s inspiration are the three sets of parents, really, not one person but three, the three sets of parents in his life. you have all written about them. by the three, i mean
i am bob willard. i used to work for a texas congressman. old texas use an observation. if you ever see a turtle on the top of a fence post, you know he didn t get there by himself. the man we all revere would be the first to admit that his success was due to the contributions of many others. we know about his team of rivals. sometimes helpful, sometimes less so about the generals and the hundreds of thousands of troops, including those soldiers, newly emancipated. and hiso stephen engle a newok we come to know team of lincoln allies. we are likely familiar with names like gates, andrews and some others. another analysis of the nearly five dozen individuals who served as chief executive during lincoln s presidency. nearly 500 page volume is supplemented with 122 pages of footnotes and nearly a 70 page bibliography. you can read a little bit about ,teve but for those watching let me say that stephen engle is the professor of history and director of alan b larkin s symposium