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Every one of you for being a wonderful attentive audience. Thank you so much. [ applause ] questions for our speaker . Lincoln approached notnothing voters during the 1860 campaign. Did he announce them or try to win them over to the republican . Or how did he fdo that . He said how do you want to welcome those people . I will welcome the nonothings if they will accept in the entirety the republican platform, which does not include exclusion. When lincolns people went out and campaigned and some...

Into law by lincoln five years earlier and the only one in that original group founded in lincolns home state. Indeed one of the reasons i was drawn to come to illinois last year to take the job as law dean is the prospect that the university of illinois can build upon the legacy of, and become linked with lincoln in the way the university of virginia is associated with Thomas Jefferson. Who to my mind was not as great a president and not as great a person. This brings me to a fourth question, w...

Meeting. And i had the luxury of time, two fulltime assistants. We looked at all the contemporary coverage of the pardon, got all the memoirs, got the legal memos from the ford library. I kept going back to interview ford. And to try to piece together what happened. I interviewed him in colorado a number of times, where he had a home, and many times at his main home at rancho mirage, california. I remember the last interview asking him, why did you pardon nixon . He said, you keep asking that qu...

America. But they needed assistance to do so. He asked congress to pass a bill, and Congress Responded on july 4th, 1864, with the first, last, and only time america passed a law to encourage immigration. Lincolns act to encourage immigration was a signature piece of legislation that many of you, who i know have been familiar during the civil war celebration, went by without a single moments attention. Lincoln knew that immigrants played a major role in the building of industrial america, and to...

That hes not accommodated to the idea of who he is, the opposite of lincoln. When gerald ford became president , the next year, one of the things he said, again, contradicting nixon, he said none of our problems today are as severe as those facing lincoln. He quoted one of the things lincoln said in one of fords kind of natural spontaneous statements of humility. He said, oh, lincoln fords in a dispute with congress. He said, well, lincoln said the following. We of the congress in this administr...

Getting in line. Maybe well see. Maybe not. I think if you have any further questions you can ask them of charles as he is signing your book, hint, hint and lets thank him once moore wednesday more for the preparation. [applause] thank you for coming, and safe travels. Friday, book if there features program ford fairs and festivals. At 8 00 p. M. Merchandizes marylands gaithersburg book festival. And then chicagos printers row on the biography of russell kirk. At 9 35 p. M. Eastern, the Los Ange...

The first group of landgrant universities created in 1867 by the acts signed into law by lincoln five years earlier, and the only in lincolns home state. One reason i was drawn to take the job as law dean is the prospect that the university of illinois can he come linked with ellington in the way that the university of virginia is associated with Thomas Jefferson mind, was not as great of a president or person. Why bob woodward . That might be the easiest. Many consider the New York Times the ne...

Successors, including richard nixon, Ronald Reagan and barack obama. This focuses on president relevance,ontinuing 150 years after his death. This is about an hour. I am the dean of the college of law here at the university of illinois. On behalf of the law school in entire university, i am pleased to welcome you here today for the first lecture in a new series hosted by the college of law and title the new lincoln lectures, what lincoln means in the 21st century. During this series, we will com...

Obama. This is about an hour. Vick i am the dean of the college of law here at the university of illinois. Behalf of the law school in entire university, i am pleased to welcome you here today for the first lecture in a new series hosted by the college of law and title the new lincoln lectures, what lincoln means in the 21st century. During this series, we will come over the next few years, bring in 10 or so ideologically Diverse National thought leaders to reflect openly on lincolns legacy and ...

In those days it was methodical about how careful we were. We would check with each other. I had a rent who is a great reporter from the wall street journal, we had a buddy system. If i felt something is not entirely confident about i will go to him. In the white house itself we had a terrific staff at the lower level. The press secretary of staff and other people who had real concern about the fate of the country and they quietly shared that with people. It was a great testimony and a great sys...