He had the distinct privilege of being the person to publish Abraham Lincolns bestselling book. Guess i should back up a little bit because people dont know that Abraham Lincoln wrote a bestselling book. When lincoln ran for senate and lost to stephen douglas, they had their famous debate. During the debate, there were always a couple of people from newspapers who were transcribing by shorthand and the next day or couple of days later they would be printed newspapers of those who did not attend could read about what happened. News, but lincoln, after he also senate race, work very hard to gather those newspaper transcripts, and i mean worked very hard. There have been nine surviving letters, and he cut them out column by column and pasted them in a scrapbook. You can still see the scrapbook today in the library of congress. Taken a tiny edison pencil, if one paragraph isnt quite accurate, he is cutting it out and putting a different paragraph in its place. Contains 100,000 of lincolns
The author of the new book author in chief. Who was oran follett . Why did he make the claim that he made Abraham Lincoln president . Oran follett was a publisher in ohio. He had is a Printing Firm in ohio. They published lots of different local books. He had the distinct privilege to publish Abraham Lincolns bestselling book. We should probably back up, because a lot of people do not know that he wrote one. When lincoln ran for the senate and lost to Stephen Douglas, they had their famous debate. During the debates, there were a couple of people from newspapers transcribing the debates, writing down shorthand and then a couple of days later, they would print it in papers so people who didnt attend could read it in the newspapers. Lincoln, after he lost the enate race, for most people, the story stopped there. This is breaking news. Lets move on. Lincoln, after he lost the senate race, he worked hard to gather those newspaper transcript. He worked hard. There are at least nine survivin
Deadly pandemic. Our guests, Maryland Governor larry hogan. The fda commissioner on antibody te testing. Dr. Jen ashton and tom bossert. Plus, a closer look at hardhit minority communities. For some of us, its a luxury to have social distancing. And how some in the middle of the country are watching uneasily whats happening thousands of miles away. Were under the impression that were safe, we truly are not. K. Here now, coanchor martha raddatz. Good morning and welcome to this week. Nearly three weeks ago, President Trump said he hoped to have the country opened up by this Easter Sunday, but this morning, with Virtual Services now scheduled for this easter morning, america has hit a grim milestone with more than a half a million confirmed cases of coronavirus across the country, more than 20,000 people have died. There are encouraging signs new york might be flattening the curve, but other areas across the country like maryland and detroit are still bracing for the surge to come. And y
Well thanks for having me on. You know this is its not an opportune time to start to defund any efforts at Public Health i think that should be hopefully obvious to most people you know donald trump is no fan of Global Institution and i think he certainly would want to take steps to make sure that blame is placed didnt places other than where he is im not suggesting that the w. H. O. Did its job perfectly here i think the weather today b. H. O. The c. B. C. Or anybody else plenty of blame to go around but in the middle of a crisis to take the feet up the street that you need in the middle of a global epidemic doesnt make a lot of sense to me was the obama admin and what the Obama Administration is you know would have been prepared for this. Well look its hard its hard to prove a negative i think i think id say 2 things one is there was a. Structure in place that would have been able to respond more quickly and i think thats thats the 1st thing the 2nd thing is that. They would have pro
Other thanks for joining us here with your global news update this is r. T. Starting with the latest figures on the covert 900 pandemic over 2200000 cases have now been registered will wide and 147000 lives have been lost the United States has the highest death toll followed by italy and spain and so far almost 560000 people have recovered from the virus globally. Russia has seen a sharp rise in coronavirus cases with 4000. 00 defections register over the past 24 hours and brings the total in the country 232273 faith tallaght the president has postponed the annual victory parade on red square due to take place on may 9th this years event would have marked 75 years since the defeat of nazi germany and speaking late on thursday night in a pigeon said the pandemic has made preparations simply impossible. Were now facing a tough choice the 9th of may is a special day for us but the life of every Single Person is priceless to hold the parade on the 9th of may we need to start rehearsals now