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Life and times. This is just over an hour. Im john eleff, president of the Lincoln Group of the District Of Columbia. The Lincoln Group has existed since the 1930s to honor the life and legacy of Abraham Lincoln. And this year we have a special opportunity to hear from an extraordinary speaker. And in introducing him i would like to repeat something that he said at the First NationalRepublican Convention that he attended as a young man in 1884. He was part of a reform wing of the Republican Party, and they had an insurgent candidate to be temporary chair of the convention, taking on the ....
And in introducing him i would like to repeat something that he said at the First NationalRepublican Convention that he attended as a young man in 1884. He was part of a reform wing of the Republican Party, and they had an insurgent candidate to be temporary chair of the convention, taking on the candidacy of the Republican National committee. That candidate happened to be the africanamerican congressman from mississippi, john r. Lynch. Here is some of what our speaker said. It is now less than a quarter of a century since in this city, chicago, the Great Republican Party organized for victory and nominated Abraham Lincoln of illino ....
According to the preface, he didnt take notes and then he lost the first two he got burned up and still wrote it. If you read the book it has enormous detail about the sand a dunes and what happened on the day of the movement. I dont know how he could possibly remember all of it. Its some of the most elegant writing ive ever read, so i read at night to go to sleep and i read a little bit of the seven pillars of wisdom and after zonkars of wisdom and after you have enough airplane time to read . I dont read much on the plane. I go back and forth to tennessee. Nd thats about an hour. So i usually read a newspaper or catch up on work or sleep. I read when im by myself and at night before bed or sometimes early in the morning. Or in the summer i go fishing for a couple of weeks and ive take some books to read. Mrs. Alexander is also a reader. Big time. She loves to read. We went to a discussion recently and she was talking about her list of the best which she had done for parade magazine a ....
From traveling to lebanon. And coming up later in sports. Sepp blatter and Michel Platini have their bans from football reduced from eight years to six. The u. N. Says that it has delivered its first drop of aid to th a besieged syrian town. The trucks were unable to reach the town last week because of isilcontrolled territory. There has been a development in the planned cessation treaty. And the last hour the Syrian Kurdish fighters, the ypg said at a the they will abidely the cessation of hostilities. We have more now on the latest developments. As a meeting of the u. N. Security council to discussed humanitarian situation in syria, the stinging criticism of the Syrian Government of delaying and blocking aid to besieged areas from the u. N. Humanitarian chief stephen obrien, they were putting bureaucratic obstacles ....
That the panel is being televised by cspan and one of our speakers michael corner will be zooming in for her remarks and you can see her right here on the screen. Unfortunately another panelists kerry lane merritt had a family emergency a while ago and and let us know that she would not be to participate today. So just in terms of this panel, i would like to just put forward a few framing remarks on the 1862 moment and then let the speakers go for around 10 minutes each. I deliver their remarks maybe talk amongst each other raise some questions for each other. Ill be happy to facilitate that and then really open it up for q a with the audience and another reminder do come up to the mic if you have a question. So in most conventional histories of the civil war the year 1863 is often taken as the turning point of the war the euro Significant Union military victories at gettysburg and vicksburg and most importantly the year presid ....