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Good evening and welcome to the Lincoln Group of washington, d. C. It is a pleasure to have you all here tonight for our speaker program. Those also who are watching on cspan. The Lincoln Group of washington, d. C. , is the longest, continuously functioning lincoln organization having been founded in the 1930s. Www. Ve a website at lincolngroup. Org, which is where our members and friends find out what we are doing. We are pleased tonight that our speaker is charles strozier. Charles is both a historian, professor at the City University of new york, but also a practicing psychoanalyst, and his study of Abraham Lincoln, which began many years ago 40 years ago and more has culminated in the book he published last year, your a. Lincoln the enduring friendship of Abraham Lincoln and joshua speed. Author of many books. In particular in 2011, and the anniversary of 9 11, his book until the fires stopped burning the11 and new york city in words and experiences of survivors and witnesses was n
P. J. first question i have is what is the most memorable thing about the building of the Abraham Lincoln hearse . What i learned and our family learned was that its not about the hearse. It is about those building the hearse and it is about the veterans to whom were building the hearse for and that is Abraham Lincoln. Is this your writing paris . [laughter] [indiscernible] p. J. ok. I guess i can read it. I dont know what that one word means though. [indiscernible] p. J. what does that say . How has this impacted our life . Im sorry. Does a big word impact. That is a big word impact. One of them the things that has come out of this is that i have begin to heal. I am not a veteran, but you slowly begin to heal wounds that have surfaced over many years of working with that. Death. It is different from ptsd. He call it cumulative stress syndrome. And with that comes the burden of trying to take peoples grief away. And we cant do that. We can only walk through it with the and that is what
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Into the civil war in support of the confederacy. This is about 45 minutes. [applause] thank you. It is great to be back at the Lincoln Library. I did some of the research, spent many happy days down the hall scrolling through newspaper microfilm wheels and letters across the hall. It is doing research at the Lincoln Library which is a great and terrible thing. It is great because the people are absolutely amazing to more people like eileen you is an expert in Foreign Policy in her own right, people like dr. James cornelius, the curator of the lincoln connection who is a living, breathing, encyclopedia of all things lincoln. Those are the good things. The terrible thing is when you are here to research youre surrounded by the 15,000 books about Abraham Lincoln that have already been written. And so i think it is a stark reminder that anybody who comes here and asks you to put another book on that shelf really has some explaining to do right at the beginning. That is what i wanted to st