Leadership, ideas but principally people who inspired and motivated him. Its a pleasure to welcome as our panel from my left to right, the author of the political life of Abraham Lincoln, volume i, a selfmade 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 lincolns 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 lincolns 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 the woman he r
recall supporters have any prayer tonight, there is no way. san diego can t be this way. i ll give you one more and we ll move up the map. if you look here, this is orange county. i m old enough to remember reynold regan when california had a republican party. you found it in orange county. look how close it was. this is a split county. a lot of republicans. if this is close to split, gavin newsom is fine. republicans need this to be no. recall supporters need this to be no. you see a lot of red on the map for cox. the problem for him is most of these counties with the exception of down here, most of these counties are solid republican counties but not that populous. not that many voters. that s the big question. part of the reason that this all became such a story is gavin newsom faced a lot of criticism and disdain from his party and state. that s how sort of this got to a point where it was in question. and part of the reason that he was able to turn that around is trump s involve
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tonight a real wakeup call if you think your kids are getting the best education they can. it s four years after president obama says what is at stake is nothing less than the american dream and george w. bush warned about the soft bigotry and reynold regan said it s eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity. a global exam given to 15-year-old s showing them average in science and reading and below average in math. there were little or no gains in the last decade while other countries raced ahead of the united states. here to talk about it amanda riply author of the smartest kids in the world and how they got that way. this latest study is one of a continuing string of stud sdis that shows the u.s. educational
0 doing this. but it s been a fascinating show. i want to thank everybody tonight for joining me. thank you all my guests and this great studio audience. and have a happy and healthy evening. good night. [ cheers and applause ] tonight breaking news, we may know what sent a train off the tracks and four people to their deaths. the answer may lie with the engineer, not equipment. what it was like in the car paul walker die inned. they thought this was a dead man s hand after two and a half days at the bottom of 90 feet of ocean, why wouldn t it be? it was a man alive after all that time that deep in the water we begin with the breaking news the new york train wreck that took the lives of four dozen and sent many to the hospitals. it came after investigators answered no alcohol involved they said. no sign of break trouble or malfunctioning signals or any mechanical problems that day. ruling all that out only tightened the focus on train enga near william rockefeller and his train g