Meme is the movie you know in just a couple of months i has some of you may know, in just a couple of months i will be leaving my position as executive director of the Reagan Foundation institute. I hope you will forgive me if i take the opportunity to act a little nostalgic over some of the previous visits that our guests tonight has paid to the Reagan Library in the years that ive been here. Ive had the opportunity to have quite a few people on this stage. Imagine the nervousness quotient involved when i have the job of a processional interviewer. Those of you who routinely watch interviews conducted each evening on fox news as i do, you know what i mean. He is among the very best in the business. And you may not take my word for it, that consistently ranked as the top leading program in his timeslot. This has been the case for many years. He has a second career going as a best selling author and we are not talking about the, am i cool or what, autobiography or a selfhelp guide that
Rights exhibit which you would have passed on your way in tonight, marks an episode when president Abraham Lincoln directly independent interseeded for american jews. The document is general grants to ber 1862 general order expel jews from the department of tennessee. Grant blamed jews for smuggling and demanded their immediate removal. Jewish citizens of paducah, kentucky, appealed to lincoln, expressing their outrage and lincoln counter manneded grants order. History cannot be written without the primary sources that tell us august. Incident rik lir auth incidentically what authentically what happened at a particular time. Grants order to expel jews and lincolns later order testify to a moment in history that many in the wider public are not aware of, yet it cannot be forgotten, because the records exist to tell us so. By brathing together and publishing the documents in his volume, dr. Zola has given access to a large number of primary source documents that present and future schola
Would have passed, the exhibit on your way in tonight, marks an that markscument in an episode when president Abraham Lincoln directly interceded for american jews. Generale document is ulysses grants december 1862 general order to expel jews from the department of tennessee. Grant blamed jews for smuggling and demanded their immediate removal. Jewish citizens of paducah, kentucky appealed to president lincoln, expressing their outrage, and lincoln countermanded grants order. Histories cannot be written without the primary sources that tell us authentically what happened at a particular time. Grants order to expel jews and his later revocation of that order documents preserved here in the national archives, testify to a moment in history that many in the wider public are not aware of, yet it cannot be forgotten, because the records exist to tell us so. By gathering together and publishing the documents in his volume, dr. Zola has given access to a large number of primary source documen
Building at the epicenter of things. The museum is on the site of the National Hotel which is the hotel where booth stated before he committed the horrible crime. You can take a look on the floor of this room after you read through the newspapers and place yourself in all the different spots that are being restaurants, from the National Hotel, the fords theater, the hotel where lincoln was taken after he was shot. Its right across street. It is the spot where he ultimately died, to the telegraph offices in newspaper row where the New York Herald office work, to the white house. You can place your self among all these significant spots that are part of this story. The First Edition is the regular edition of the morning paper at that time. Essentially it is the breaking news, the flash moment of the president has been shot. Interestingly enough it uses the word assassination already in that paper, because at the time, that word meant a surprise, violent attack on someone that didnt neces
Earnest with an announcement by the president and office of management and budget. Welcome to the washington journal. As the sequestration has begun, 85 billion is at stake. You have heard from the president and the speaker of the house. Now it is your turn to weigh in on the mandatory budget cuts that are taking effect effective today. The number is 2025853884, democrats 2025853881 for republicans 2025853882 for independents. You can also send us an email, the addresses there. We want to begin by showing you some of the headlines around the country, beginning with the chicago tribune, regarding the sequestration. The president s home town newspaper from the Atlanta Journal constitution, and on the front page of the Long Beach Press telegram, they say the sequestration will cost 250,000 will cost 750,000 jobs. This morning in the fort wayne indiana, no end in sight. We are going to take a look at more of the covers. Lets go to the phones. First of this terry in hagerstown first up is t