host: this is the bicentennial of abraham lincoln's birth. they just rededicated the monument this past weekend. guest: the president of tuskegee university spoke. i have been a member of the board of trustees there for a long time. they spoke with the memorial was first opened. host: how do you think abraham lincoln would you the civil- rights condition in the country today? guest: i would love to talk about what people would do today. i'm often asked to do that about martin luther king, for example. i think abraham lincoln based on everything we know about him, he was a wise man. he was pragmatic. he had a human touch. i think he would look at obama as president. he would look at the great progress we have made with sotomayor nominated for the supreme court. i think he would say that we are on the verge of a new birth of freedom. host: the firefighters of new haven say their civil rights were violated. what is your view of how this played out? guest: one point i would make is that everyone should remember that no one got promoted. that is t

he was very careful and very considerate even as he was trying to move the country, but abraham lincoln had the overriding mission to save the mission and keep the country from dissolving. >> that is impossible to do without engaging the public opinion. >> host: i am asking the unanswerable question which is polls are nothing more than a tool. like a hammer you can use it to build a house or split somebody's head open. the way their use makes them good or bad. >> guest: absolutely right. if the leader, ehud barak, he begins a process it is essential for israel's security that israel and achieve a peace with palestinians, neighboring countries, lebanon, syria, he was to achieve this in a fairly short period of time because he thinks it can only happen when clinton is there and before arafat would become too ill to do it. he wanted to move he thought it was critical for israel's security. two-thirds of the country were against or opposed to any agreement that divided jerusalem. over a two month period, the educated the public, open and a debates over the final summons that ended the confl

abraham lincoln took what he called, you know, opinion baths. he asked people to come to his people to the white house and he said it was the most valuable time i spent 'cause he wanted to try to hold the union together and to do that he had to -- he had to be apathetic. he had to understand the south and the border states and he had to keep -- you know, the union to understand slave-holding parts of the country. he moved with great care in the emancipation proclamation. he was very careful and contract with public opinion even as he was trying to move the country. the fact is abraham lincoln had an overriding mission. which was to save the union. keep the country from, you know, dissolving. this special exceptional country. >> host: it's impossible to do that without engaging public opinion. >> guest: correct. >> host: i guess i'm asking you an unanswerable question. which is polls are nothing more than a tool. i mean, just like a hammer you can use a hammer to build a house or you can use a hammer to split somebody's head up so the way the pol

but abraham lincoln has the best idea to have a public bank their prints money debt-free. we do not need to issue bonds to private bank and have them give us money. we need to print our own money. guest: there are few. there were taking up. one, the fed is a very difficult institution for people to understand. it was created in 1913. it is a mix of public and private interests. we have the federal reserve board in washington with governors who are appointed by the president and confirmed by the senate. then you have 12 regional federal reserve banks around the country with boards that represent the private sector whose elect their own presidents. the president's then have to be approved by the federal reserve board in washington me know there is an odd mix you do not see in other areas of government between public and private interests. ben bernanke is a scholar of the great depression. he is a former princeton university professor. his guiding du in managing this crisis has been driven -- his guiding view has been driven by reading history. he has thrown some much money a

lincoln. it's a great story and it really illuminates a lot on american history. another book i read in the last year or so, i've read a number of military histories. the coldest winter, which is a wonderful story published posthumously by a great writer on the korean war. not a lot of single volumes on that period of american history and really well, well done. rick atkinson has published the first of two books on the second world war, and specifically the first log is on the american involvement in north africa and the second is on the italian campaign which was a bloody, bloody affair. and doesn't get a lot of attention in history, and obviously deserves a lot more. just a luminescent writer. a wonderful, wonderful piece of history and a great, great writing. but a book i would recommend for people who want to understand what went wrong in iraq, is a book called the asko. he has since written another one which i haven't read yet. but fiasco is a great book in terms of peeling away what happ

the abraham lincoln museum is a project i thought about 18 years ago understand is today is a reality. this abraham presidential library and human draws over a half million tourists to springfield, many of them families of children who leave with an enjoyable visit. southern illinois draws visitors to its garden of the gods. it is the gateway to the shawnee national forest. summer visits to quincy, illinois, feature historic architecture and a lot of enjoyment along the mighty mississippi river. we have our unusual tourist attractions in illinois. near my old hometown of east st. louis, you can see the world's largest ketchup bottle or the two-story outhouse in gaze, illinois, or the home of superman, including a 15-foot superman statue and a six-foot popeye statue in chester, illinois. a lot of photographs have been taken in front of them. every state has these historic, amazing places to visit and those curiosities that draw people from all over the united states and all over the world. illinois offers the international visitor a truly american experience. in fact, in illinois, tour

then i started thinking the woman who made the clothes, the great-grandmother who sought abraham lincoln at gettysburg, raised turkeys and it was her talk is a cause me to get on my feet in 1940. i got up my hands and knees when i saw these turkeys on and on and made a staggering steps that we all do when we learn to walk going after turkeys and if you have a copy of a photograph of my published map of that moment and i thought of case we have got quilt patterns, we have got quoz, and then reading another book won by john hanson mitchell called abilene walking across vermont, a good book, he talks about the spanish concept panacea. it means several things, i think initially it was used by the old people in texas to describe a place where a longhorn is mormon. the longhorn has a special affinity for that spot where it was born. and then i learned that apparently is used in bullfighting in mexico and spain. analysts correct in my version in portland, the currency of the bowl is a place that imagines in the ring that is its bought and wants to keep the matador and out of that spot and the m

remember what happened when abraham lincoln was assassinated? we established a military tribunal here in the district of columbia that actually tried those individuals and they were executed. that was a military tribunal. for what? murdering a president of the united states. in time of war. now what we are saying is, those rights were not sufficient. if that were to happen today, suddenly we say we have to do it now within the context of the full pana pli of constitutional rights, and we are directing that voluntaryly saying we are going to close down guantanamo. if anybody has looked at the prisons and jail system across the united states and compared it with guantanamo, it is of the highest standard of any of our incarceration units there is. guantanamo happens to be a place that is not sovereign american territory, that's the important distinction. i thank the gentleman for his time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from california. mr. lewis: it's my intention to yield to mr. frelinghuysen. i'd like to

i hope that the republicans remember abraham lincoln and the civil rights [unintelligible] justice marshall was not the first to face adversity. when another was nominated, he had to overcome severe anti- semitism, there were questions about the jewish mind. this sounded like an attack on empathy. i mentioned that the opposite of empathy is an difference, do we really want that, and i think the first catholic nominee -- he would be nominated by the pope. this has nothing to do with the speech, this is what john f. kennedy was facing, they said the pope would run things. they only had enough money for the pope, "unpack." but i was asking sonia sotomayor about her experiences, she went on to say ultimately and completely, as a judge you have to follow along. ultimately and completely, the judge will have to follow the law. this is the kind of impartial judge that we want. this is respect for the rule of law, this is the kind of judge that she has been. she will live up to the description -- and she has said that we must continue to realize as individuals, and not statistics. these are importa

thomas jefferson and alexander hamilton and abraham lincoln would compulsively identify. the founding fathers debated what america was to become. the possibilities of america. america was founded as an act of separation from the misdemeanors and errors of the miserable old world, it would be a new thing in the world, a place in which you could become an american irrespective of fraud or origin port nation or class, simply by virtue of subscribing to the great democratic ideal of freedom, unless you were black, something that is now at last, that disingenuous hypocrisy has been exercised. there's a sense in which history matters in america. out of the crushing tyranny, the social studies curriculum text book. part ii of our campaign, there are subscription envelops, we all just abolished social studies, we are moving on to abolish a textbook, i hope no one from mcgraw-hill is here, you are out of a job. this sense, past and present, i said, rashly, when obama was beginning campaign, and not doing very well, long before the iowa caucus which you had just seen. the person wh

january of 2011 the most recent impressive exhibit, the library of congress' most recent exhibit on abraham lincoln "with malice toward none," will travel to the museum showcasing some of our revered former president's most transformative speeches and eloquent leaders. so madam president, i urge that this not be considered just a local project. it is associated with a library of congress and as such has a tie that is long-going and long-standing relationship that will benefit both the library of congress and the durham museum. there is a nexus here and it is not isolated incident. so at this important in time i ask my colleagues to support the inclusion of that funding within this budgetary request. i note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: the presiding officer: the senator from alabama. mr. sessions: quorum call i ask unanimous consent the call of the quorum be dispensed. the presiding officer: without objection, so ordered. ing is session madam president, the nomination of a new justice to the supreme court has somewhat unexpectedly

there was the so-called dictatorship of abraham lincoln . then there was what some dubbed "congressional government." is this pendulum swing built into the constitution? is it an invitation to struggle? does the constitutional separation of powers in power and bumbhumble presidents and congress? we found the anti-federalist opponents of the constitution careful of the presidency. the federalists responded that energy in the executive was a leading characteristic of good government. federalists alexander hamilton and james madison found themselves at odds over it shortly after the ratification of the constitution. they did such an effective job of drafting the constitution. they found themselves at odds over executive power across the constitutional divide that is now defined by the length of pennsylvania avenue. he criticized and defended washington's proclamation in the 17 nineties. who is right? prior to the 2008 presidential nomination contest, an article was written about the as have been, unknown next president's likely posture towards

lincoln or the atomic bomb no one is interested. [laughter] >> good afternoon i almost feel as if i know you personally per or have been keeping up with you over the years i first saw umc on college student at the time. you are very welcome. [laughter] you did a great job on that by the way. also said documentary of debbie bd ball which is excellent. i want to ask you, had you feel about ida b. wells being the precursor of the generation of the 1960's that believed in bearing arms cracks there's a tendency to jump from slavery to the 60s and it skipped over which is a terrible injustice as far as i am concerned and lastly, ida b. wells what was the conclusion of marcus garvey? let me begin with marcus garvey. she liked but young black nationalist leader. soleil tim because he was a grass-roots leader that the people actually made him the leader or superimposed by others she did worry about the boat scheme at. [laughter] she knew she would get in trouble with that. and it is very interesting lucky into the military intelligence files

you study abraham lincoln, every newspaper in america was partisan. if you were a democrat, you subscribed to your democratic newspaper and if you're a republican, you subscribed to republican newspaper. the best way to capture the lincoln-douglas debates was to take the two sets of newspapers and bring them together as cspan did and you found that each side cover the other in very interesting ways. we are moving back to that. i expect msnbc to be a rapidly left-wing channel. i am sure that james expects fox to be very right wing. >> in most countries, it is a labor paper and a tory paper. it is this or that that may be fine. we also know for a fact that this whole industry is changing by the day. the chicago drop-in, "the los angeles times, "the new york times, is not like it is the same period the speaker made a point that when you were our age, you can go -- right now co. the big change i see -- >> none of them think they will be our age. . i am from nebraska. what do you guys think is the biggest lesson you can take away from the academy? >> chall

as abraham lincoln told me wisconsin agricultural association, in 1859, it had room for any one of energy and ideas whether they lived in a mud shack or behind brass knockered doors. foreign visitors were dazzled by the energy released by a society so revolutionarily egalitarian, and which makes them all learning from one another. the civil war changed everything, in the northern industrial state which emerged in its wake, entrepreneurialism was unwelcome. factories and finance came to rule the roost when that transformation, people with minds of their own, became troublesome, to management,... to follow orders or from a management perspective, best kept childish, childish people at bay. children make the best customers. they have no sales resistance. since plato, a long string of you tone yep thinkers has worked to supply society's managers with algorithms, which lead to childish lives. they all begin with wiping the slate as clean as possible of close emotional ties to family, to religion and so on. all these things interfere with the authority of managers and no law is more dangerous t

the other justices might think of abraham lincoln. some of the justices are great gardners, love to dig in the dirt in their spare time. but for me -- gardening is not for me. it is not right for me. i tend to be a city girl. most of us are more apt, when they think about diversity, to think of it in broad cultural terms related to differences in music or art or literature or food or the like. this is because it is often challenging to develop genuine relationships with people who are not like us. people who require us to better appreciate the unique strengths that each person possesses and what real diversity brings. my eyes of been opened to the new and different world by my colleagues as well as by the lawyers who practice before the court. this has indeed made it more fulfilling and livelier than i could have ever anticipated, and i have witnessed and level of courage and commitment and self control and perseverance to which all public servants much -- must aspire. trust is to lubricant that fuels a great democracy. mostly, we bas

, each of whom thought he was smarter than lincoln and each of whom thought he should be in that swivel chair and not abraham link son and it is a great story and really illuminates a lot about american history. and another book i read this last year or so, is a book, i read a number of military histories, david halberstam's book, the coldest winter, a wonderful story, published posthumously by a great writer on the korean war. not a lot of single volumes on that period of american history and really well, well done. and rick atkinson is working on a trilogy and published the first two books on the second world war, and specifically, the first volume on the american involvement in north africa and this second on the italian campaign, which was a bloody, bloody affair and doesn't get a lot of attention in at thises and obviously deserves a lot more. and rick atkinson, a journalist with the "washington post" is just a luminescent writer, wolf, wonderful piece of history, and great, great writing. but a book i would recommend for people who want to understand what went wrong in iraq is a b

it was abraham lincoln who said insofar as there's any measure that will them lot of the average working man, i am for that measure. and i think that attitude should be at the core of what we're about as conservatives. >> we end on the note that free enterprise is at the center of american culture. it is the essence of opportunity and freedom. entrepreneurship is a question of character and indeed a vehicle on which we will take not the conservative movement bureau america on greater and greater heights and a note on which i'm delighted to leave you today. before we break up i do want to ask you to join me in thanks to the bradly foundation. as many of you know it has been the leading venture phelan throw pist in the cause of philanthropist in the cause of celebrating entrepreneurship, defending free enterprise. this this is something that's been of great benefit to our communities and indeed to the united states so, please join me in thanking the bradly foundation for this conversation and so many others. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyr

the day abraham lincoln was born if teachers were learn themselves how to in still learning our education system would be taken care of >> new york daily news this morning looking for an irs proposal. the irs may dial up >> rules that can cost you more in taxes if the employer gives you a cell phone. proposal taken or taxing 25%. someone in a 28 percent tax bracket and costs they're company a thousand dollars a year would pay more in income tax. between 17 and 20% in cell-phone taxes charges and fees the irs has laws regarding taxation on business phones for two decades. companies rarely complain for the difficulty of keeping such records. oklahoma city - >> good morning. let's talk about the holocaust shooting. way to go right wing and sara palin. this is what she believes in. having gun as and the government were to treat us like anybody, go shoot them. rush limbaugh. sean hannity, this is what you guys wanted. you know you keep starting hate and now it's coming back and this is happening. >> we'll leave it there. patrick kennedy according to the "washington journal" that struggled with

if you study abraham lincoln, every newspaper in america was partisan. if you were a republican, you subscribe to the republican newspaper, and vice versa. the best way to capture the lincoln-douglas debates was to take the two sets of newspapers and bring them together as c- span did. he founded side cover the other in very interesting ways. we're moving back to that. i am expecting msn b.c. to be a rapidly left-wing channel. i'm sure james expects fox to be a left-wing channel. >> in most countries, it is the -- it is a different paper. that may be fine. this whole industry is changing by the day. the chicago tribune, the loss angeles times, the new york times was marketing its building. i think the speaker makes a point. when you are our age, -- right now, the big change i see -- >> none of them think they're going to be our age. [laughter] >> you can go and never read a conservative thing. you can spend your entire life -- so many people use information the way that a drunk uses the lamppost. the use it for support and not elimination. people want va

also abraham lincoln's view approximate. there's been immense efforts to drive these thoughts out of people's heads to win what the business world calls the everlasting battle for the minds of men. on the surface they may appear to have succeeded but i don't think you have to dig too deeply to find out their lane and they can be revive and there have been some important concrete efforts one of them was undertaken 30 years ago in youngstown, ohio, where u.s. steel was going to shut down a major facility that was at the heart of this steal town and there were substantial protests by the work force and the community and there was an effort to bring to the courts the principle that stakeholders should have the highest priority. well, the effort failed that time. but with enough popular support it could succeed. and right now is a proefficiency time to revive such efforts although too old be necessary that we have to do the this to overcome the effects of this concentrated campaign to drive our own history and culture out of our

perhaps the only place where people from humble and modest roots like andrew jackson, abraham lincoln, ronald reagan, bill clinton, and president barack obama can rise to become president. america remains the same beacon of hope for the world that was when my grandmother -- ellis island, the place for her story is renewed with each new generation of immigrants. reward for hard work, free enterprise, fairness, self- reliance, community and faith. these are the values that have sustained this for over two hundred years. may we never forget these values as we work together to build a better tomorrow for our children. thank you very much for having me. [applause] >> thank you very much. i has been in elective office for 31 years. that's a long time. among the things i'm proudest of is the relationship i have had with the hispanic community both in philadelphia and the route the commonwealth. the latino coalition was extraordinarily helpful in getting me elected governor. we have made so much political progress. the councilman ran at large in philadelphia which only has 7% registered hispa

february marked its 100th birthday, founded on the 100th birthday of president abraham lincoln. for 100 years the naacp has fought for justice for all americans. and i want to thank their president, and through him all the members of the naacp. i want to acknowledge several staff members who made this resolution possible. senator brownback already recognized rochelle young. i want to thank her for getting us to this point. jackie parker, a senior advisor to senator levin and cofounder of the senate black legislative staff caucus, has been instrumental in planning the upcoming ceremony with civil rights leaders and other luminaries to recognize the injustices of slavery and jim crow. finally, i would like to recognize the tireless work that mike house daniel goldberg has dedicated to seeing this resolution become a reality, the countless hours that he has committed to make this occasion happen is almost uncountable, the number of hours he's pullete is a put into this. i had like to add senators leahy, dodd, murray and kerry as cosponsors of the resolution. i yield the floor. the

those are the ones i would like to talk to, and also of course, abraham lincoln and franklin roosevelt who had a remarkable sense of pols.

it was the carrier abraham lincoln that was that poured in hong kong on a routine visit over the christmas holidays on a sunday. by saturday, she was providing 50,000 pounds of food and water a day into this tsunami affected area. in indonesia. that event also led us to adjust our strategy i think in a very significant way. as i said, we have been responding to disasters during our history we said, let's see what we can do proactively. we began a series of humanitarian missions that, to date in four of which we have been conducting them, have touched 409,000 patients from our ships. that is in south america and the pacific and africa. if you consider the 409,000 patients, that is like going to the verizon center, packing the house, and then having doctors treat each one of the people in the verizon center 20 times. that is not an insignificant contribution that our people are making. it is not just the aircraft carriers. it is the cruisers and destroyers that are out and about. the forces of our fleet as i like to call them. and they are flexing from the high end of warfare to the low end.

and abraham lincoln exercised incredible power in his authority as commander-in-chief, which is what frankly george bush has done, president bush took his role as commander in chief very seriously and used the very broad grant of authority given to the president by constitution to interrogate these killers and find out what they're up to and save lives, particularfully los angeles, for example. there would have been thousands of degrees in downtown los angeles but for the interrogation of those toy yosts. lincoln suspended habeas corpus, arrested americans for speaking out in favor of the confederacy's right to succeed and spendded habeas corp pause nationwide to do all sorts of things that caused outrage during the war and nobody questioned it. so i always have a particular interest in constitutional history and the war between the states, i'm finishing up this book, and i recommend james mcpherson to anyone. i always keep several books going. the whole second area i work on continuously are die riz of texans during the war between the states, and in particular i found this one -- i

abraham lincoln made himself one of them, of course. and of course you know, you say the power, not just the sort of all mental beauty of fine speaking, but the ability to actually speak persuasive as a speaker was something perceived to be absolutely sort of discounted in the world of campaign spin and take them betook character assassination. but obama sort of delivered at. i mean, the greatest speech of all was march 18. that still remains one of the great speeches that has ever been composed in the history of american politics. and i thought that morning we were filming in monticello, actually when he made that speech. when i heard it i thought he's going down in flames, you know. it's hillary's -- hillary will be the nominee because this was an act of most extraordinarily dead on frontal candor explaining to america the roots of black rage in the church forms they took, as well as a duty to white rage. in fact, america took. it was a credit to the sophistication of the electorate really. its willingness to face something fresh, to

lincoln, who some writers consider racist for autograph graphicing her book to auntie, i accept her word that lincoln treated her kindly and i discuss the complexity of the term "auntie" itself but racism wasn't played when sojourner truth was prevented from attending an open white house inaugural reception while frederick douglass was admitted. my treatment over the troubling guide of the 15th amendment does not place sojourner on the side of elizabeth cady stanton and susan b. anthony as other writers do. while sojourner's greatest personal triumph was probably winning the hearts of her own people, her activism was broader than that. and her sacred ethos had large, secular aims of human progress. religion without humanity, she said, is a poor human stuff. thank you. [applause] >> we are next going to hear from the two authors of "black maverick" the biography of trm howard and his fight for civil rights. and the first of those two authors professor linda beito. [applause] >> one benefit of the book is that it allows for those hard-working lovers of freedom to be known. dr. howar

as abraham lincoln so aptly said during the 1860 presidential election, the slavery question revolves solely around the question whether black skinned human beings were men within the declaration's promise. the century that followed saw a myriad of political discussions and debates that culminate in the civil rights revolution that essentially asked whether one could be said to be created equal if one were the subject of legal and social discrimination, exclusion and ostizism because of the color of their skin and today's debates on affirmative action and debate policy answer this question in the last trilogy namely whether being created equal is really being equal if one sees the distribution of economic, political and social goods in this country being distributed not on the basis of a rough portion of different race groups and ethnic groups of the proportion. dr. abigail thernstrum has worked on these questions. sometimes in conjunction with her husband steven and sometimes on her own. she has written and analyzed the most emotional topics in today's political debate including affi

i say with a heavy heart as a student of american history that preparations were paid, as abraham lincoln said, in the lives of 600,000 americans who fell on both sides in the civil war. his stirring words that if the horrors of war had to continue until every drop of blood drawn by the slave masters lash is matched by one drawn in battle may well have been precisely true. in terms of the justice served in the civil war. and i understand a great sensitivity of many in the african-american community about that time, but i have great confidence that african- americans, like all americans, looking no further than the oval office of the united states of america and looking at the opportunities provided to african-americans on a widening basis over the last 50 years in this country would see the wisdom of moving on from dwelling on those moments of the past and i think discussions of reparations or apologies that to not acknowledge the extraordinary sacrifice made by americans to end slavery is not productive. should the government apologize? again, i believe the willingness of americans to la

lincoln with whom some but compulsively identifies. so there is this a sense at we i think the founding fathers because the debate what america was to become, the possibility of america. america was founded as an act of separation from the of vice and misdemeanors and errors of the miserable old world of so many. it would be a new thing in the world. there would be a place in which you would become an american perspective of the class simply by virtue of subscribing to the great space ideal of freedom on less of course, all this, you were black. [laughter] something that is now at last the art of genuine hypocrisy. so there is a sense of which history matters. it matters deeply in america and it matters out of the crushing and i mean this of the social studies curriculum textbook. part two of the campaign there are subscription envelopes in the back. we have all abolished social studies. we are moving on to abolish the textbook. anyone within the hill? [laughter] you're out of a job. [laughter] but there is this sense that past and pre

those are the ones i would like to talk to, and also of course, abraham lincoln and franklin roosevelt who had a remarkable sense of politics. host: what would you ask them? guest: where would you start? with roosevelt -- you know, how did you have the political field to know you could not move and do it all at once? franklin roosevelt understood that america was not really ready to go to war. he took its step-by-step into the second world war. when did you sense it was the right moment? just the politics of it. i would like to talk with him about some of the stories, these great political stores. lyndon johnson, you know. the stories about lyndon johnson are just remarkable. it is like something mark twain would read. those are the kinds of t thingsi would like to talk about host: please come back again. >> the house came in today, debated five bills and has recessed until 6:30 eastern for votes on those bills debated this afternoon. tomorrow mens -- members consider nearly $46 billion for the homeland security department next budget year. a $7% increase over this year. also this week

the bad vibes are basically that abraham lincoln was assassinated on april 15th and also the titanic went down so i thought, i think it is basically going to be the photograph in of presidents. so when i started john was sometimes referred to me as possibly i was one other earlier citizen journalists but prior to the internet when i started photograph in america and needed to photograph presidents but unlike some of the people may be here i had had no press credentials to do so. and again i thought i have to photograph presidents but i don't really have any press credentials -- time i going to get in. then there was one of those meaningful personal moments rely intervenes and suddenly your life is here. you know you're on the right track and what happened to me and my home in southern california in eight our time i get one phone call from my friend who lost a job who came up and got a new job and suddenly they were working for the chairman of the democratic national committee ron brown who became the secretary of commerce. she asked me, could you photograph some of the upcoming campa

abraham lincoln bearing the union at gettysburg finally change the grammar and the perception in the 18 '60s. in 1825 to see to shining sea continental nation a patriotic song will still a drink of the land was asked, access to and control of it was limited. the louisiana territory had been purchased two decades earlier that remained mostly on organized. mexico's north stretch from the sabine river on the gulf of mexico to the 42nd parallel on the pacific ocean encompassing all of what are now texas, new mexico, arizona, utah, nevada and california as well as part of colorado, oklahoma, wyoming and kansas. the pacific northwest was open country. backbeat the appalachian mountain range guarding the interior from south carolina to what only recently have become main, threatened to confine the great american experiment to the atlantic seaboard. the allegiance of the several new trans- montaigne state was unproven, their settlers looked westbound rolling river valleys for the mighty mississippi, not over their shoulders at the mountains that separated them from their political creators.

president bush, just as abraham lincoln did, took his role as commander-in-chief very seriously, and use the very broad grant of authority given to the president by the constitution to interrogate these killers and find out what they're up to and save lives particularly in los angeles. there would have in thousands of deaths in downtown los angeles but for the interrogation of those terrorists. lincoln suspended habeas corpus, 13,000 americans simply for speaking out in favor of the confederacy's right to succeed, suspended habeas corpus nationwide, use his powers as commander-in-chief to do all sorts of things that caused outrage during the war and nobody questioned the. i always have a particular interest in constitutional history and the war between the states. i am finishing this book, i highly recommend james mcpherson to anyone. i always keep several books going at the same time. a whole secondary i work on continuously are diaries of texans during the war between the states. in particular i found this one. i can't recommend this one highly enough, it is hard to find, but it is

as abraham lincoln said, prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it makes crimes out of things that are not crimes. host: see why. guest: i do not know i would go as far as to say to legalize drugs, because an order to destroy the black market you would have to legalize all drugs and there are certain drugs we cannot as a society say we are going to authorize our fellow citizens to use. but, yes, i agree that there is a major problem with our drug laws. one of the other issues i have been of all been is trying to convince congress to change the of 100-1 disparity between powder cocaine and crack sentencing and that the spare seat -- disparity created a significant problem in the african-american community as far as young men getting locked up for an extended period of time. host: this, saying -- aren't prison officials, by definition, liable for the consequences of rape in prisons? the prisons are under their supervision. guest: well, if prison officials know this activity is taking place and they are i

one is the team of rivals, the abraham lincoln book by doris kearns goodwin and the other is by eight jon meacham, "american lion" which is sitting at home. to history books of a need to read, want to read and in one case need to finish. the third book i want to read is written by a friend of mine who used to work at dow jones, which owns the "wall street journal" and it is called a restless genius. it is the story of a famous and very influential american journalist, barney kilgore, who was the editor of my newspaper, the "wall street journal" for years and years and treated the modern "wall street journal" and in many ways modern journalism. he is written and interesting biography of barney kilgore who will go down in history as a person who created much of what we think of in journalism in the '20s century. finally, for fun i want to read the rockets that fell to earth, the new book about roger clemens and how he sort of rose and tank as to the drug controversy has somewhat fall and. >> to see more summer reading lists and other program information, visit our web site at booktv.org

lincoln and the atomic bomb, no one is interested. >> who is next? >> good afternoon. first of all want to say that i almost feel like i know you personally. i have been keeping up with a whole bunch of stuff over the years. i was a young college student at the time. >> thank you. >> you are very welcome. [laughter] you did a great job on that by the way and also in the documentary w.e.b. dubois, in my personal opinion is an excellent. i wanted to ask you how would you feel one of about ida b. wells and bishop henry, of being the precursor of the generation of the 1960's that believe in bearing arms because, the work you are doing kind of represents a part of history. there is a tendency to jump from slavery all the way to the 1960's and kind of skip over, which is a terrible injustice as far as i am concerned. lastly, what was mrs. ida b. wells conclusion of marcus garvey? >> let me begin with marcus garvey. she liked the black nationalist leader. she liked marcus garvey. she liked him because she considered him a grassroots leader, that the people

and our forefathers before us especially abraham lincoln i can see what you are doing and i pray and pray for you to give you the wisdom and the shield of that you can continue in your work. just want to tell you my question is, i know where you are doing and i pray for you. but the the thing is i know where you have got to two and it will be a big task. the big thing you tell them this is what it is. don't judge me because only god judges me. >> host: thank you very much what you make me think of as a couple of things the recognition of your own life and people and land i saw a documentary friday night and undergraduate from university of chicago the documentary film festival just undergraduate kids there were all very short and so one that broke me up was a two-minute sequence with a young woman who was an iraqi bet she started talking about how beautiful iraq is and the beauty of the land and the beauty of the people and how every morning she would give up so she could see the spectacular sunrise in she would watch the sunset and have all of the troops stopped and watched because

going further back in history we witnessed the constitutional dictatorship of abraham lincoln during the civil war followed by decades of what scholar would for a wilson dubbed congressional government. is this pendulum swing built into the constitution? is the constitution and invitation to struggle as edward cohen suggested? was the constitutional separation of powers in power and humble presidents and congress? going back further in the ratification debate over the constitution, we've not antifederalist opponents of the constitution fearful of presidential office that, quote, squints towards markey, end quote. with federal lists responding, quote, energy and executive is the leading character in government, end of quote. yet federalist alexander hamilton and james madison's madison found themselves in odds over the revocation debate in the constitution. in drafting the constitution madison hamilton is such an effective job joining in the interests of the man with constitutional rights of the place to barham addison's days in federalist 51 they found themselves at odds over executi

and our forefeathers before us, especially abraham lincoln, i can see what you're doing and i pray and pray for you to give you the wisdom and the shield that you can continue in your works. and i just wanted to tell you my question is, are you needing the -- i know what you're doing and i praise you. but the thing is i know what you got to do and it's going to be a big task. the good thing is, this is what is, don't judge me because only god judge me. >> host: we have to leave it there. thank you very much. >> guest: well, thank you very much. and what you make me think of i is a couple things. when when you talk about the recognition of your own life, your own people, your own land, i saw a documentary friday night, an undergreatwall of the university of chicago -- under graduate kids that made documentaries and the one that broke me up was a two-meant sequence with a young woman who was an iraqi vet and she talked about how beautiful iraq is and the beauty of the people and how every morning she got up to see the sunrise, and she liked the sunset and had all of her troops stop for a

lincoln and ronald reagan, and every day i'm so grateful for the opportunity to serve. and it's kind of fun to be back in the arena. a lot of things are happening as we found out from our conversation this morning, steve. >> host: we appreciate your time. senator john mccain, republican of arizona. please come back again. >> guest: thank you. >> u.s. senate's coming back in just a couple of minutes at 2:15 eastern. senate majority leader harry reid working off the floor to come up with an agreement to bring the legislative branch spending bill to the senate floor. the house passed its version late last week. we'll have live coverage when the gavel comes down about 2:15 here on c-span2. also on the senate side, the health committee has a mark-up session on health care legislation, covering that live at 2:30 eastern also c-span.org. while we wait for the u.s. senate to come back in, a look at item in the news and viewer phone calls from today's washington journal. >> host: showing americans are seeing better times ahead. the dateline is mexico, missouri, susan page writin

so i said, please get off abraham lincoln's head, i'm taking a picture. so at that point, the park ranger heard what i was sailing, he was very upset, he walked up to me and he said, cause me, sir, -- excuse me, sir, that's not going to happen any time soon. that is the superintendent of the national parks, he's in charge of every park west of the mississippi river. what can you do? i waited for mr. orange t-shirt to get off. ultimately he stepped around, he was out of shot, out of sight and in an eighth of a second, i had the shot. i'll always remember that superintendent and i'm sure he'll remember me too. other shots that i take are ordinary, and i would say that's, i specialize in photographing ordinary america on an ordinary day. this is is where joe shmo comes in of because it's through the lens, which is frequently a bird's eye lens, i look for the daily things that shout out, here is america. my lens might focus on this homeless man in beverly hills that i got, where in beverly hills, you're not homeless for too long. if you are, you move to santa