tv,ext on american history history professor at psychoanalyst, charles strozier, discusses letters exchanged by abraham lincoln and his friend, joshua speed. he is the author of, "your friend forever, a. lincoln: the enduring friendship of abraham lincoln and joshua speed." the lincoln group sponsored this hour-long event in washington, d c.

. >> announcer: a history professor at psychoanalyst, charles strozier, discusses abraham lincoln letters. he is the author of, "your friend forever, a. lincoln: the enduring friendship of abraham lincoln and joshua speed." the lincoln group sponsored this hour-long event in washington, d c. [applause] charles: thank you. it is a great honor to be here. i am very impressed with what a robust group you have and all your activities. you take trips and go to the lincoln sites. it is wonderful. in mid-december, my wife and i got a dog, a maltese dog.

. >> next on american history tv, a history professor at psychoanalyst, charles strozier, discusses abraham lincoln letters. he is the author of, "your friend forever, a. lincoln: the enduring friendship of abraham lincoln and joshua speed." the lincoln group sponsored this hour-long event in washington, d c. [applause] charles: thank you. it is a great honor to be here. i am very impressed with what a robust group you have and all your activities. you take trips and go to the

tv,ext on american history history professor at psychoanalyst, charles strozier, discusses letters exchanged by abraham lincoln and his friend, joshua speed. he is the author of, "your friend forever, a. lincoln: the enduring friendship of abraham lincoln and joshua speed." the lincoln group sponsored this hour-long event in washington, d c. >> good evening and welcome to the lincoln group of washington, d.c. it is a pleasure to have you all here tonight for our speaker program. those also who are watching on c-span. the lincoln group of washington, d.c., is the longest, continuously functioning lincoln organization having been founded in the 1930's. www.ve a website at lincolngroup.org, which is where our members and friends find out what we are doing. we are pleased tonight that our speaker is charles strozier. charles is both a historian, professor at the city university of new york, but also a practicing psychoanalyst, and his study of abraham lincoln, which began many years ago -- 40 years ago and more -- has culminated in the book he published last year, "your a. lincoln: the enduring

. >> next on american history tv, a history professor at psychoanalyst, charles strozier, discusses abraham lincoln letters. he is the author of, "your friend forever, a. lincoln: the enduring friendship of abraham lincoln and joshua speed." the lincoln group sponsored this hour-long event in washington, d c. [applause] charles: thank you. it is a great honor to be here. i am very impressed with what a robust group you have and all your activities. you take trips and go to the lincoln sites. it is wonderful. in mid-december, my wife and i got a dog, a maltese dog. we named it lincoln. at least, i named it lincoln, and my wife agreed reluctantly. about three weeks later it , started recognizing itself in the mirror. it recognized something that looks like another dog in the mirror. the next sequence was -- when we watched nature shows or he saw a will or a there and he would run over to the tv and growl, and at the end of january trump came on the tv and growled. [laughter] charles: i thought that was a smart dog. i want to try an experiment. it is dealing -- thank you very much for your nic

let's say you have a more sedentary lifestyle or in my field because i'm a psychoanalyst, let's say you're a victim of childhood trauma, childhood sexual abuse and because of that, you unconsciously walk around in a fat suit because you feel that that's the only way you can avoid being sexually abused, object of sexual intention. >> tucker: you're getting too deep for me, i may drown here. again, i'm not attacking fat people. i think the reason they put those ads up is that fat people like cigarette smokers are unpopular and unfashionable and fashionable people hate them aesthetically. but that aside, i think that you're making an argument for alcoholism as well. people are predisposed to it. they have all kinds of psychological reasons for it, but we don't excuse alcoholism. we say don't drink so much or get help or something. why is that different? >> but when we warn about alcoholism, we actually hope that people find resources. the problem with this ad campaign first of all, has that sort of that hangman type look to the ad. i don't know if you notice that. did you ever play that game

. >> but you don't need a psychoanalyst to decode many of trump's blunt attacks. this odd statement, though, from the signing of the first order that he did, the very first travel ban is more open to interpretation. >> this is the protection of the nation from foreign terrorist entering into the united states. we all know what that means. >> we all know what that means. six words that could haunt trump. today the lawyer opposing the travel ban also told federal judges that what you just heard there, those words were a trump dog whistle, a wink to supporters who think that trump's real immigration goal is still to make america christian again. >> when he issued the first executive order, he read the title of the executive order, looked up at the camera, and said "we all know what that means." that's in scr-148. and if it was clear from the title what it meant, he wouldn't have had to say it. it's a reference to something else. >> to something else. trump's lawyer saying it the reference was something else. now, the justice department said no, he was just referencin

maybe she didn't want to win somehow, but political observers are not psychoanalysts. i want to talk about a couple of points. 12 agreed want to disagree. -- one to agree and want to disagree. there is a nationwide marine le pen -- there is a reason marine le pen behaves the way she did, the of people not to vote. but having said that, whatever the figure is, 5% or so less than the average, the idea that 75% of the electorate out for two candidates who were kind of minority popular is pretty amazing actually. that's the point i agree that you made earlier. fromhe question of macron the system. educationally he is from the system. there was virtually nowhere else to come from. a politically he is overturned the whole political structure of the republic. in that sense he has come from outside the system and overturned it. it was an interesting point you as a member of the elite, how will he think the next three weeks, four weeks and the possibly five years? that the national the crucial question. >> a crucial point. indeed he thinks outside the system are not, independen

the social worker who gave me my results was a psychoanalyst in training so did psychoanalysis with him for five years. the whole point was we knew i would be dead soon. and all of the understanding and medical science at that point said that the position you irene, you are going to die and it will be quite a short lifespan. yes. until 1996. and even then, i know that it took a long time for me to really understand that was not the whole point of my life. listening to that it isa point of my life. listening to that it is a perfect illustration ofjust how far we have come. could you outline for is where medicine has reached in terms of treatments now? as you say, the big revolution occurred in the late 19905 when combination therapies became widely available and it became apparent that what had been a rapid death sentence was no longer the case. what we have shown is that things have become steadily better over years since then and, so, because of better drugs, that are easier to ta ke better drugs, that are easier to take with fewer side—effects and less likely to develop resistance t