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welcome to the december meeting of the lincoln group of the district of columbia. group was formed in ,he 1930 s to honor the memory legacy, principles of abraham lincoln, and for over 80 years, we have had programs like this with outside speakers, and our own members, and today, we are very pleased to have three of the members of the lincoln group of d.c. who have authored books related to the life and times of abraham lincoln. each of our speakers will talk for about 15 minutes, and then the three will gather here and have an opportunity to take your questions. , so keep your questions that you have in mind for the first and second speaker, or after the third speaker. briefly.troduce them all three of them. and then have an opportunity to say a few more words about each as they begin their talks. is a biography of lincoln, subtitled the man who saved america. and it is for the general reader. show,thor, david, will has some astonishing illustrations. the second bo ....
we ve also got some other raffles going on, and at your table you have been given a notecard that we would like you to write down a question for our panel this afternoon. if you have a question for them, and what i will do, i will take up the most objectionable ones [laughs] we ll proceed from there. but, so if you ve got a question, write it down, and we will ask our wonderful speakers today. we ve also at the break we are going to bring in my staff and we re going to have a chance acknowledge them. our panel discussion is after lunch at 1:00. so, that ll be the end of our day. i really like our speaker s presentation title today. mission impossible: rethinking george b. mcclellan. after what we ve heard so far in this conference, i think it is even more impossibler. dr. george rable is the professor emeritus at the university of alabama, roll tide. he held the charles sumner so chair of history. he is the author of fredericksburg, fredericksburg, which won a l ....
panel discussion featuring all seven speakers. coverage on american history tv on c-span 3. [no audio] everybody.ning, we re ready to get started. welcome back to the last day of our conference. and also welcome to our c-span viewers. we re live. just a couple of announcements before i introduce the speaker. we still have some tickets available on our wonderful plan k, that you will be able to take him today if you want. we ve also got some other raffles going on, and at your table you have been given a notecard that we would like you to write down a question for our panel this afternoon. if you have a question for them, and what i will do, i will take up the most objectionable ones [laughs] we ll proceed from there. but, so if uyoyou ve got a question, write it down, and we will ask our wonderful speakers today. also at the break we are going to bring in my staff and we re going to have a chance to make knowledge them. our panel discussion is after lunch at 1:00. so, ....
we do say good morning, everybody, on this monday and we re going to start with the newly disclosed meeting involving the president s son. apparently the earliest known connection between the trump campaign and a russian associate. donald trump jr. acknowledged he met last year with a russian lawyer with ties to the kremlin. meanwhile, the president is backing away from the idea of teaming up with russia on cybersecurity. abc s janai norman has the latest from washington. janai, good morning. reporter: diane, kendis, good morning to both of you. don jr., jared kushner and then trump campaign manager paul manafort were all at that meeting, and that s when the president s son believed he d get information about alleged connections between russia, the dnc and hillary clinton. russian president vladimir putin dominating headlines and the president s twitter time line. overnight president donald trump backtracking on a discussion with the kremlin writing, the fact that p ....
we do say good morning, everybody, on this monday and start with the newly disclosed meeting involving the president s son, the earliest known connection between the trump campaign and a russian associate. donald trump jr. acknowledged he met with a russian lawyer with ties to the kremlin. meanwhile, the president is backing away from the idea of teaming up with russia on cybersecurity. abc s janai norman has the latest from washington. janai, good morning. reporter: diane, kendis, good morning to both of you. don jr., jared kushner and then trump campaign manager paul manafort were all at that meeting and that s when the president s son believed he d get information about alleged connections between russia, the dnc and hillary clinton. russian president vladimir putin dominating headlines and the president s twitter time line. overnight president donald trump backtrack on a discussion with the kremlin writing the fact that president putin and i discussed a cybersec ....