it, the first, third, fourth, fifth amendments disappear and when it is cold the bill the rights comes back. fortunately i am just drinking gold water today. today we ll be talking about civil war and many of you are national securities studies minors and in a lot of your classes you study how to defend the nation. in this class what we re going to look at is a tension that exists in this country and in others between national security and individual liberties. we re going to use lincoln as a lens to do this today and in a week or two we ll look at jefferson davis and you will find that jefferson davis did the same exact things that lincoln did in the confederacy. now, last time we talked about succession. when lincoln was elected the deep south succeeded and when he defended a boat to photo sumpter to send supplies and the confederates fired on fort sumpter in april 1861 the confederates started the war in a sense. they said lincoln started the war because he sent a boat to
were he civilians. one to dig trenches, one to ride a horseback wards out of camp, a sign of humiliation, a sign across his back and read libeller of the press. lincoln tried revoking one decision to expel a new york herald reporter from grant s quarters but unable to irritate his most valuable general. if general grant shall give his express content general grant didn t want to give his success so he passed the buck to general lillian sherman who never met a reporter he didn t hate, absolutely hate. oblivious to politics because lincoln hoped to keep the department james bennett, sherman sent the reporter the following message. come with a sword or muskette, prepare to share with us our fate in sunshine and storm and i will welcome you, but come as representative of the press, which you yourself say makes no slight difference between truth and false hood. my answer is, never. the ban remained in force. following william mckee, who lincoln called a democrat editor, which wa
fort wainwright years, eleanor. and she brought a stack of documents that she took out of the office. she felt so betrayed and angry at madoff and felt so badly for the victims, who were her friends that she s the one who answered the phone. and when they called and say it s not true. she was in tears when she came to see me. she wanted to do anything to help bring this man down. and so that s how we got the little black book which is published in our book. and lots of telling details. she gave copies to the fbi and copies to meet. it is the madoff chronicles, includes a bernie s little black book you can see in the right hand corner. the author, brian ross. coming up next book tv presents after words, an hour-long discussion between a guest host and the author of a new book. this week, john yoo, law professor at the university of california berkeley and deputy assistant attorney general at the justice department s office of legal counsel from 2001-2003. he talked wit
let s not include ford just for the scum of the three presidents that you have written about four of them. rino i meant kennedy, nixon and reagan. of kennedy, nixon and reagan, could any of them have done what truman did, would either of them have had the will to overcome the opposition of their entire cabinet? something so fanciful as this? i don t know, the trilogy i wrote on it in the end shows what a reactive job it is that campaigns and promises and those things don t mean anything, we don t pay presidents by the hour we pay them for their judgment in crisis. .. in john mccain, a very instinctive and sometimes a politician this kind of a person who might have done something like this against all advice, against all counsel. [inaudible] well, yes, they are a breed apart. and they hated the air lifters who they called grocery deliverers. [laughter] well, i m not outcome he mentioned how bradley and marshall were so against the air lifters to begin with. wha
. i don t know where he was going, so i don t know what i m saying either. it s some event when you have to have someone like me speak at your memorial service. walter was such a good friend. i can t get over it. we met in london when we were both covering the air force. walters was with the united press, and i was with the army newspaper, the stars and stripes. we printed the paper in london, and he sent his stories back. and they would tell us when there was going to be a raid, if you can believe that of the army. these days you re lucky if they ll tell you after they ve had a raid. but walter and i and, oh, three or four other reporters would get on the train and go out to bedford, usually. bedford was the town in england that had five or six air force bases around it, and we would go and then we would split up and we d each go to a base that we liked, and we d write our stories. and then we d go back to the headquarters of the air force, and they had it