said lincoln was very much opposed. >> did lincoln ever have any accomplishments in his one term after he left congress? >> he had a number of them. the conventional wisdom the was mediocre, and they cannot pass up a chance to say he is undistinguished, i absolutist reacting he was very distinguished and this is not very academic but he was a driving force between the omnibus post office bill. we can mail anywhere five days a week even in the grand canyon but the limited mail route dictated where you live or did business. lincoln was on the roads committee the was a member of and he could help kraft this bill with procedural setbacks but get it passed signed by the president's opening rounds for people to live in the business for i have held that bill in my hands and his handwriting is all over it. it is interesting to see what will this take to get your vote? he could wheel and deal with the best of them in the 30th congress. also to compensate people in the district if they owe you money but lincoln would apply for patents for people , he would go get your passport, he would go as a

lincoln. it's a new market praise for it books, 224 pages, illustrated, and it's 16.99 and we can get you this signed as well in first edition. well, thank you both for joining us here at the shop. and i have a ton of questions and i hope some will come in as well. first one is one you may have heard before but first time here and that is that we now know that john favreau, obama's speech writer, has decided to become a screen writer. so as a screen writer, you think you can become obama's speech write center. >> i don't think i'd make a very good political speech writer. i think the requirements of the job that i -- patience and willing to be severely edited, and writing on deadline and so on. not me. >> put some wonderful words into lincoln -- >> i did my best. i think that we have a president that at the moment is really capable of writing very beautiful speeches on his open. and it's night to have a writer back in the white house. >> the spielberg -- >> done being president he'll become wo

so i think when we first started talking about lincoln he tells me one of his earliest memory of lincoln was cutting out a cardboard selective lincoln on presidents' day in second grade and when we further -- had her first meeting with daniel day-lewis we were in a pub after the meeting was done and daniel and i were talking about it in a window and it was twilight. daniel was silhouetted against the window and he took a picture with this phone of daniel still wet in the e-mail that to me that night. it looks like abraham lincoln so it's sort of made a circle graham and this was something he is wanted to do. >> how did you approach your part of the project collects you certainly had to do a good deal of research and the lincoln literary field. what were the major influences that you had? >> i came to be -- to the abraham lincoln bookstore and left with a carton full of books. i began reading what seemed to me was the major lincoln texts. i began reading through the library of america collection of speeches and letters. i read a few general histories of the civil war and sort of intent on

to lincoln. and i was really inkrieged and inkrieged that most historians don't actually comment on this. when lincoln decided to go the day after richmond fell to union forces he decided to get on a boat and go up the james river to richmond. an walk through the streets of richmond. and admiral porter, one of the, his admirals who was going to take him said this is a dangerous trip. it's a crazy thing to do. and porter was really horrified when he learned that lincoln was going to bring his son tad who turned 12 the day that they left. and he said to lincoln you can't bring a little kid on this trip. it's-- it's criminal. i mean as a kid we could die on this trip. he. >> which is an odd thing, because it really was a genuine, they saled under confederate force that was still manned by soldiers who may not have heard that the war was over, or at loews that richmond had fallen who still had guns on the river. and i remember calling doris and saying i don't understand what kind of father this is. a

lincoln has freed you. come and join the union army and from that point on you see right from the start of the war. and that part you see truly enormous numbers of slaves following the union army because of the act or policy from the emancipation forward is to encourage this. >> i don't think you can sell short the immense symbolic value. it got enormous exposure not only in the united states, but abroad. and it's the one single document that stands out. it is part of a process that's been going on before the emancipation proclamation and continued after the emancipation proclamation. but it is like kind of an ekg. suddenly it is that they are and it has this enormous visibility and the work of it circulates through the south. i think it encourages even worse ways to run away. but it is also announced that that the war has another purpose as well as just restoring the old union. it's no longer the old union as lincoln said baker and gettysburg. give me a new birth of freedom and the one thing that stands ou

>> "lincoln": hmm? >> "tad": papa, i want to see willie. >> "lincoln": me too, taddie, but we can't. >> "tad": why not? >> "lincoln": willie's gone. it's three years now, he's gone. >> stahl: the four years of the war took a toll on lincoln. you see can see that he aged, as does daniel day-lewis in the course of the movie. he grows wearier, he hunches over more, his distinctive walk seems to slow. >> goodwin: "it was almost as if his gaunt frame needed oiling," people said. and he would walk as if he were walking over a difficult field, and his leg would come up and go down in a very uncomfortable way. one of his friends said, "he looked like a laborer coming home after a hard day's work." that the... somehow, the weight of the world was felt in that walk. >> "lincoln": am i in trouble? >> no, sir. >> "lincoln": thank you, mr. slade. >> stahl: one of the most poignant scenes in the movie comes near the end. it's april 14, 1865; lincoln is leaving the white house for ford's theater. >> "lincoln": i suppo

>> lincoln you say? >> lincoln here we go. you say willing. let's go listening. lincoln. come on let's go listening. l i nc l o n. that's right. let's go. red and blue. red and gold. red and gold. we are lincoln. let's go lincoln. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> all right. let's here if for you lincoln cheerleading squad. you you know, i had to get here a little early to get that down. i appreciate that. at this time, i'd like to ask the children from the day school to come down. give it up for your second-graders everybody. show them your love everybody. come in come on. hi kids. hi. this is fantastic. oh, this takes me back to my high school assembly. now we're going to hear now from the man who earned the index name the preacher. we'll never forgot his talks. show your love right now and give it up for giants right fielder. hunter. >> yeah. hello lincoln high school. how's it going out there. how do you feel about san francisco giant chamber? pretty amazing. we definitely wouldn't have done it without the help of everyone in san francisco. there

without the color force, lincoln emphasized, we would be powerless to save the union. most right northerners probably in christ were 10 emancipation because it undermined a foe that is out to destroy their precious union. but many others came to the slavery destruction as a worthy goal in its own right. over the course of the work, and many white northerners who had never been abolitionists and particularly troubled in their consciousness by slavery also came to embrace emancipation for more than merely pragmatic reasons. in the ranks of people like this stood from northern democrats and union soldiers of various political backgrounds. one of these resurgent electric unit of minnesota, who explained to relatives of early 1863 that while he had quote ever been in favor of the abolition of slavery, his experience in this war has determined me in the conviction that it is the reader said that our government is able to stand and now i go in for a war of emancipation and i'm ready and willing to do my share of the work. abraham lincoln posed the slavery, including moral gro

with lincoln history and there lincoln scholars that said he knew from the time as a young man he would free all the slaves. >> host: is there anything politically at stake aside from professional quirks? what is at stake? >> the resistance? i don't know. it is too complicated to have an idea? >> no. you go through this and say look at this why doesn't anybody see this? then you discover something. >> is started in the '60s of what politics could do and up until the '60s and '70s there was a body of scholarship after world war to talk about anti-slavery and did traces back but think the scholarship by a cynical -- got cynical and they took an interest of social movements affect policy and people would write history from the bottom up and house slaves participated and lincoln scholars went off on their own son is the fragmentation of professional scholarship so i decided you need to put social history and political history and movement history together. >> i tried to do that to avoid the question who is the person responsible for the agent and say how did it happen? what is the process b

so now in lincoln park, abraham lincoln and mary mcleod bethune faced each other and abraham lincoln's back is to the u.s. capitol. since we are pressed for time i'm going to keep going here who. all right. one of the other things i decided to do when researching this book was to expand the focus beyond just washington, d.c. because of course the district of columbia wouldn't be here without virginia and maryland, and there are deep connections between those two states and the district. so i decided to look around the d.c. metro area and see if there were interesting tidbits of african-american history that i could find and one of the most interesting stories that i found about washington, d.c. comes from the civil war era. now, during the civil war, freed slaves from the self often been startup their own cities and their own towns and so they could learn to be self-sufficient. in fact, they're had been several movies, one of the most famous is called rosewood. one of those towns existed here in the metro d.c. area. in fact, it existed exactly where arlington national cemetery sits tod

still, she was undaunted and unabashed to play mary todd lincoln in steven spielberg's "lincoln." >> i'm proud of the film. i'm proud of my work in the film. i'm proud i fought to get in it. >> reporter: proud too to have done it all while deep in the throes of a personal heartbreak she has never before discussed. >> once, mrs. lincoln, i demand of you to try. >> reporter: yet this acclaimed performance, for which she gained 25 pounds, nearly didn't happen despite spielberg's initial enthusiasm for her playing the part. because even though steven had said you're my mary todd lincoln, what had happened? >> i just knew that it would be a battle. because i'm ten years older than daniel and mary was ten years younger than lincoln. i'm 20 years older than what mary was. it's just not going to work. >> reporter: but spielberg decided to give her one final chance. the customarily reclusive day-lewis had offered to fly from ireland to los angeles for the day to act with her. >> when he walked across the room, i was signature at mary and i did not rise until he was literally next to me and ga

only abram lincoln would do this. it appears lincoln asked speed for a letter of introduction. [laughter] there was an occupation that predated agriculture. what we've pieced together is lincoln visited the prostitute, and he had maybe $3 with him which was a lot of money. not eliot spitzer money, visiting escorts, but a pretty fair amount of money. and the prostitute apparently charges lincoln five bucks. which was an enormous amount of money at the time. so lincoln says to her, ma'am, i have to tell you -- honest abe, right? he says, i can't afford it. i only have three. well, she knows speed, so there's a possibility that he could pay her when he gets the money. he doesn't have the money. what we know is either, a, because lincoln got embarrassed or, b, his honor got the best of him, but when she said to lincoln you can either pay me later, or maybe this one's on the house, lincoln ran out the door. so they say when you visit a prostitute there should be a happy ending -- this is not from perm experience, by the way -- but in this case it was not a happy ending, the it was a

he played grant in the "lincoln" movie. we say -- >> if you can either have the opportunity of having lunch with lincoln or one night of pure bliss with marilyn monroe, which would you choose? >> i'm going steamy night with lincoln. [laughter] jared harris is -- >> i would like to have a minajatwa with both. >> it's not even close. >> i'm going to grill you. marilyn monroe or beyonce? >> beyonce. >> not even the best for you. max, i move it to you. marilyn monroe or miranda kerr. >> miranda kerr. >> are you crazy! boo! >> can i play devil's advocate. you love lincoln. what if you meet him and he's not everything you wanted him to be? >> wait until lincoln drops the first n-bomb, then it's all over for you. >> yeah. >> have a good day, sir. >> coming up -- >> kathie lee gifford on the west coast, having a big deal with hoda kotb. she wants to be west coast, like tupac and she wants to be east coast like diddy and like diddys and biggie. >> next "tmz," one of the biggest pop stars in a >> "tmz" online and on your phone 24/7.

steven spielberg, "lincoln." david o. russell, "silver linings playbook", -- >> and the oscar goes to ang lee. [ applause ] >> including this nomination for best picture for "life of pi," this is the second academy award nomination for ang lee and his second oscar win. >> thank you. [ cheers and applause ] thank you so much. thank you, movie god. [ laughter ] i really need to share this with all 3,000, everybody work with me in "life of pi." i want to thank you for -- i really want to thank you for believing this story and sharing this incredible journey with me. i need to thank yann martel for writing this incredibly inspiring book and everyone at fox, thank you for taking the leap with me, jim and elizabeth gabeler. my producers, gil netter, david womark, david lee. wonderful cast, where are you, you're a miracle. the young pi carrying the movie. every one of you in the cast, i cannot waste this time talking about them. you hold a golden statue in my heart. i cannot make this movie without the help of taiwan, out there.

everybody when i say lincoln you say keep ready. lincoln. sweep. all right. thank you so much i'm here to welcome you all to the beautiful sin set district. and i want to thank you for principle payne. can we hear a loud applause for the principle. i think what the mayor said was right on we all have to come together and pick up the trash. so i want to welcome you to our beautiful district and your beautiful reconcile and thank the giants for sweeping and going on to do another sweep. thank you. now we're going to hear from the member of the san francisco giants organization an organization by the way, that priced itself on being a strong partner in san francisco and a team player when it comes to living in san francisco to work and visit. now let's welcome stacey. >> thank you on behalf of the entire giants organization we're thiefrd to be here and we're provided of this initiative. when you come out to the games you're going to see a lot of the information on the sweep so thank you everybody. thank you stacey. although, i know it's hard to sit still you wan

steven spielberg, "lincoln." david o. russell, "silver linings playbook", -- >> and the oscar goes to ang lee. [ applause ] >> including this nomination for best picture for "life of pi," this is the second academy award nomination for ang lee and his second oscar win. >> thank you. [ cheers and applause ] thank you so much. thank you, movie god. [ laughter ] i really need to share this with all 3,000, everybody work with me in "life of pi." i want to thank you for -- i really want to thank you for believing this story and sharing this incredible journey with me. i need to thank yann martel for writing this incredibly inspiring book and everyone at fox, thank you for taking the leap with me, jim and elizabeth gabeler. my producers, gil netter, david womark, david lee. wonderful cast, where are you, you're a miracle. the young pi carrying the movie. every one of you in the cast, i cannot waste this time talking about them. you hold a golden statue in my heart. i cannot make this movie without the help of taiwan, out there.

lincoln in front of them. here's abc's chris connelly. >> reporter: sally field has been a beloved part of american pop culture for nearly a half-century. >> well, i learned my lesson. from her '60s sitcom "gidget," the flying nun. and "forrest gump" in the '90s. >> i'm home, mama. >> i know. >> reporter: today, at 66, she has as many best actress academy awards as meryl streep does, still she was undaunted and unabashed to play mary todd lincoln. alongside daniel day-lewis in steven spielberg's "lincoln." >> madam president, if you please. >> reporter: in this acclaimed performance for which she poured through books for the former first lady, gained 25 pounds, nearly didn't happen. >> because mary was ten years younger than lincoln, it wasn't going to work. >> reporter: but spielberg decided to give her one more chance. a customarily reclusive daniel day-lewis offered to fly in for the day to act with her. >> when he walked across the room, i said mr. lincoln, and he kissed the top of my head and said, my hon

he played grant in the "lincoln" movie. we say -- >> if you can either have the opportunity of having lunch with lincoln or one night of pure bliss with marilyn monroe, which would you choose? >> i'm going steamy night with lincoln. [laughter] jared harris is -- >> i would like to have a minajatwa with both. >> it's not even close. >> i'm going to grill you. marilyn monroe or beyonce? >> beyonce. >> not even the best for you. max, i move it to you. marilyn monroe or miranda kerr. >> miranda kerr. >> are you crazy! boo! >> can i play devil's advocate. you love lincoln. what if you meet him and he's not everything you wanted him to be? >> wait until lincoln drops the first n-bomb, then it's all over for you. >> yeah. >> have a good day, sir. >> coming up -- >> kathie lee gifford on the west coast, having a big deal with hoda kotb. she wants to be west coast, like tupac and she wants to be east coast like diddy and like diddys and biggie. >> next "tmz," one of the biggest pop stars in a >> "tmz" online and on your ph

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there can be a little lincoln on either side here. >> i say go watch the "lincoln" movie. i predict it's going to be the best picture tonight. i know you don't want my prediction, save that for later. look, the president has put a plan on the table to save the $85 billion. the president has made phone calls to the republican leaders -- the idea the president hasn't reached out is just not true, not factual. he's reached out. he's talked to republican leaders. he's put a plan on the table. now it's the congress's opportunity this week, as they come back from listening to their constituents about all the hurt that's going to be taking place in the country as a result of this sequester. i believe these members of congress will push their leaders to say let's fix this before friday. >> fair enough. as the chief executive, does the president have a unique responsibility to do something to break this impasse even if he feels he's absolutely right and doesn't have a good negotiating partner? >> he's done that. he's made phone calls to republican leaders. he's put a plan on the ta

first of all lincoln. he has warned the two factions of congress, he wants to get slavery abolished. it has been used as maybe a model for our own president having problem with partisan issues. >> yes that, is right. >> let's take a look at lincoln here... . >> she is so good, she really is. >> and so is tommy lee jones. >> and everything i ever read about mary todd lincoln is in the movie. it makes people want to look it up and get educated about lincoln. that by itself is enough to thank the academy. >> and daniel-day lewis is up for a best actor. >> yes. >> 12 nominations in thfilm. >> yes. and "argo" is about the plot to get not the hostages persave but the people in the embassy out of iran. you will like this one. >> yes. it goes quickly. it is not one of those long movies. you get emotionally connected and excited. what could be better than that? >> okay. let's take a look at "argo"... . >> i saw this yesterday and i knew the outcome coming in and it still had my blood pressure sky high. >> it is goo

i like "lincoln" better. "argo" bothered by the end. >> this is a big issue because it didn't happen. that didn't happen. >> it didn't happen, just seems overdramatized. now i'm becoming a theater critic. "lincoln" whether it wins the academy award or not, the movie that ended up resonating more in this moment in time, this moment in history. it's perhaps the more significant movie for that reason, even though "argo" -- >> if you've got historical drama and gaps in what's true and what's not. so many americans are getting a sense of this history through the drama, through "zero dark thirty" and lincoln and "argo." >> "silver linings playbook" did beat the cowboys. everybody from philadelphia, my father and i have had the exact relationship cooper had. "lincoln" wins for exactly what we're talking about. >> you think "lincoln." >> what i want is silver linings. "lincoln" gets it because they say i hate washington, let's vote for original washington, a republican that managed to get everybody together. >> harol

linker or no lincoln how are you getting to this now? didn't the release of mississippi burning push to revisit the issue? to be fair they had taken steps towards banning the controversial practice of people owning other people. >> the legislature did sign on in 1995 but cannot file the proper paperwork. >> jon: oh, red tape! they tried to ratify the 13th amendment all the way back in 1995. [ laughter ] inspired no doubt by that year's blockbuster i know what did you 130 summers ago. [ laughter ] then there was the 18-year paperwork malfunction. what did happen with the paperwork. >> their former secretary of dick mulfis failed to send a copy of resolution to the federal registrar. >> jon: classic dick mulfis. i'm sure he meant to file it properly. here is my impression of him mailing it to the federal registrar. oh, i'm so glad we did this. that's really nice. let me put this in the mailbox. [laughter] i imagine that will get there tout suite. who cleaned up the mess? >> the current mississippi secretary of state dilb rerks rerksdilbert

argo beat films like "lincoln" and silver linings playbook. a bit of redemption for affleck who was passed over best director, which went to ang lee for "lie of pi." "lincoln," though, had its day in the sun, as daniel day-lewis earned his third academy award for best actor. jennifer lawrence might have enjoyed her best actress win for "silver linings playbook" if she hadn't take an spill on her way to the stage. she didn't let that incident get her down. >> thank you. you guys are just standing up because you felt bad that i fell. this is nuts. >> she is amazing. second nomination. she's just 22 years old. rounding out the list of awards, anne hathaway took the prize for best supporting actress for "les miserables." and christoph waltz won his second supporting actor. as for the host, reviews are in. it's a mixed bag for seth macfarlane. "time" magazine calls him "american dud." but the washington post thought that he proved his worth calling him a "versatilite host." we'll show you ben affleck's rambling acceptance speech. >>> but first, let

but the overall winner from oscar nods and from the audience, "lincoln." > > "lincoln." a really surprising $176 million at the box office. a historical biopic film that people didn't think was going to do that well at the box office, and it really inspired people to go. a lot of great word of mouth from just average people going to see the movie, and it is my pick for best film of the year, so i have no problem with that. > and look at these numbers! > > six movies over $100 million in the best picture category. last year we only had one, "the help." and "zero dark thirty" is approaching $90 million, so, it's a tremendous year at the box office for the best picture nominees. > all right, the behind-the- scenes gossip. > > what have you got? > definitely "zero dark thirty." a lot of controversy. will it hurt come oscar night? > > yeah, i think it actually has. there was sort of a surprising surge when the movie was finally shown to people that it was going to be the film that kathryn bigelow might win again. up until the snubs, that bigelow got snubbed, that affleck got

they made their movie debut in "lincoln," now time for their closeup. >> in steven spielberg's, "lincoln," tours the civil war battlefield. while daniel day lewis was only playing the president, some of the movie soldiers weren't just acting. >> john. >> two years after losing his legs in an ied explosion, joey jones was one of three veterans cast in the acclaimed movie. >> as a georgia boy, you are intimidated by hollywood. >> spielberg wanted real military amputees for this crucial scene where lincoln visits the hospital. >> before they shot the scene, steven spielberg came in. i don't know -- i got the impression he was positioning us to where the veterans would be closest to the camera. >> jones shot three scenes, you can only see him in this one. his one line. >> president john. >> i've seen you before. >> the president is going to come in and we are going to say hello to you and greet you like he did in the war. >> just six seconds, but it left an impression. >> i've had dinner with president obama. when daniel walked in the room, i think that in my mind, i got more of the feeling

lincoln is tyrant? >> yes, ma'am. >> it's not something you normally hear. >> no, it's not but lincoln and hitler are very similar but most are not aware of it. >> hitler killed 600,000 jews. lincoln killed 600,000 americans. >> did lincoln give liberties to people as well? >> not that i know of. >> no liberties that you can think of? >> no ma'am. >> but don't worry his fresh historical perspectives have not gone unnoticed. >> i ran for senate in 2008 and received 22 5,000 votes. >> 22 5,000 votes. get the (bleep) out of here! yes the idea of is a seeding from the united states is popular in texas but thankfully not with everyone. bob wilson of arlington. >> texas cannot is secede from e united states because they need ceded anything to the united states at all. >> apparently a clerical error in the annexation agreement of 1845 proves texas never legally joined the union and bob's mail order documents are officially detailed and extremely well laminated. >> let me get this straight. i'm in a foreign lan