Ladies and gentlemen our president has breathed his last. As the spirit fled god who gave it. At this time my knowledge of physical eeology pathology, and psychology told me that the president was totally blind from the pressure of the blood on his brain. As indicated by his paralysis, his dilated eyes and their bloodshot and bulging quality, but i persisted in the belief that he retained his ability to hear and to feel. So in that belief, i think he heard me when i sent for his son, he heard his wifes voice as she spoke to him. The knowledge that frequently in the moments before departure recognition and reason returned to someone who has been unconscious unconscious, i persisted in this belief. And i held his right hand for several hours the hand that signed the emancipation proclamation freeing 4 million slaves, firmly within my grasp so that in his blindness he might know that he was still connected to humanity and that he had a friend. Salute. A little more than a month before he
Ladies and gentlemen our president has breathed his last. As the spirit fled god who gave it. At this time my knowledge of physical eeology pathology, and psychology told me that the president was totally blind from the pressure of the blood on his brain. As indicated by his paralysis, his dilated eyes and their bloodshot and bulging quality, but i persisted in the belief that he retained his ability to hear and to feel. So in that belief, i think he heard me when i sent for his son, he heard his wifes voice as she spoke to him. The knowledge that frequently in the moments before departure recognition and reason returned to someone who has been unconscious unconscious, i persisted in this belief. And i held his right hand for several hours the hand that signed the emancipation proclamation freeing 4 million slaves, firmly within my grasp so that in his blindness he might know that he was still connected to humanity and that he had a friend. Salute. A little more than a month before he
Aside from the lincoln death house, this is a great museum of immigrant culture in washington and boarding house life in washington, d. C. I have been coming here years, making pilgrimages here. I started coming here in 1986 when i joined the Reagan Administration and i have been coming here for years. I am very excited that this year for the 150th anniversary there will be a big commemoration for Abraham Lincoln. In past years, i am usually here alone. No one comes here on the night of assassination, no one comes to honor lincoln. I might find one or two here on the steps of Peterson House and contemplate what happened. Couple years ago, park Service Almost arrested me sitting on the steps because the guard across the street accused me of being a homeless loiterer. I tried to tell them i wrote a book the anniversary of the assassination, i serve on the ford Society Council of advisers. Two squad cars rolled up and the National Park Service Police questioned me. How do we know youre no
Couples to marry. And a conversation on first ladies with the most impact on the executive mansion. Sunday, the life and death of James Garfield who served almost two decades as a congressman from ohio and was assassinated 200 days into his term as president. Get the complete schedule at cspan. Org. Each week American History tv visits museums and historic places. This is Peterson House in washington, d. C. Where president Abraham Lincoln passed away at 7 2 7 22 a. M. A tour of the boarding house across the street from fords theater where president lincoln was shot 150 years ago. This had a great history even before lincoln was assassinated here. This house built in the early 1850s by a german i am grant to america, William Peterson. He used it as boarding house, 10 to 12 lived here at a time. This is a relic of 19th civil war boarding house culture. Once upon a time, everybody lived in boarding houses, congressmen, senators, Vice President s of the United States lived in group homes.
When he expected the nobel prize i thought we were making a movie and and in the jewish neighborhood he was reminiscing about his wife over his own goals radio shop id white chapel became yiddish and his face lit up remembering those growing up in the jewish ghetto of london. How could herald denigrate the west if not for the United States him and every hitherto in london would have been killed. I thought that was odd. Remembering the intersection of the cultural upbringing that remember thinking 21st record righty about politics by thought his a that a shame this writer turned into an old man and he could only write about politics . [laughter] ha ha. Good the other great philosophies leadbelly said he had done his fighting in the commenced a steady in a long time. That is what i have been doing to commence a steady to go from thinking from the minute interactions from two lines of dialogue to think what the hell is going on. So i wrote this speech. [laughter] [applause] the 2012 emmy