doris sending you, you know what? i ve got to put this up on the screen. i produced a segment of the millennial celebration for the white house for the clinton white house. and during that time i convened a kind of think tank including steven ambrose and ken burns, and i invited doris goodwin to be part of this think tank, try to figure out, how do we frame the last 100 years. and doris told me she was writing a book about lincoln s presidency. at that moment, i said, are the film rights available? literally that day. because i had always really wanted to do something on lincoln but not until i knew doris was the one that was going to put it down on paper that i threw my hat into the ring at that point. you know, saving private ry ryan sort of defined world war ii for a lot of people who didn t live through it. this movie will define lincoln and the 13th amendment. i have to ask what s knocking around in your head now? what s your next project in terms of history? i hope link