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Announcer 1 and you are watching live coverage of a symposium all day on Abraham Lincolns life, career, and legacy here on American History tv. It is being held at ford theater. The next speaker will be Douglas Wilson, who is the coeditor of herndon on lincoln. William herndon was lincolns law but law partner and biographer. After this will be a Speakers Panel featuring the presenters responding to questions from the audience and from one another. They had been indicating a fair amount of interest in each others books and writings as the day has gone on. We are live at ford theater in washington dc. [background chatter] i take great pleasure in introducing a longtime friend wilson. Eague, douglas he is the lawrence distinguished professor of english, not at knox ....