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 nice comments. one of the dilemmas of my book is that the punchline comes towards the end with the speed correspondents. i can t emphasize enough the significance of this correspondence. this is when the only people he opened up to and totally trusted. the letters, lincoln did not keep speed s letters. but speed cap everything he got from lincoln. these are, without q
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 friendship of abraham lincoln and joshua speed. author of many books. in particular in 2011, and the anniversary of 9/11, his book until the fires stopped burning the11 and new york city in words and experiences of survivors an
and he once took us inside his own family in a very personal way. he s authored 12 books. i m incompetent to properly introduce bill moyers there s simply not enough time. before a studio audience a man known for his modesty and his reluctance to talk about himself, agreed to sit down with me for a conversation i shall never forget. ladies and gentlemen, mr. bill moyers. (upbeat music) (audience applause) - it started in marshall, texas but it started before you were a journalist. something unusual occurred in marshall that taught you about this america. you were the son of one of the poorest people in town anywhere else, in any other time, you wouldn t have had much of a shot. how did it happen that a poor boy got the shot you got? - i was the beneficiary of affirmative action for poor, white southern boys. if you studied hard, worked hard, moved around town, met people, there were men particularly men in the town who would say, he s a comer let s help him. he s a poor boy
and he once took us inside his own family in a very personal way. he s authored 12 books. i m incompetent to properly introduce bill moyers there s simply not enough time. before a studio audience a man known for his modesty and his reluctance to talk about himself, agreed to sit down with me for a conversation i shall never forget. ladies and gentlemen, mr. bill moyers. (upbeat music) (audience applause) - it started in marshall, texas but it started before you were a journalist. something unusual occurred in marshall that taught you about this america. you were the son of one of the poorest people in town anywhere else, in any other time, you wouldn t have had much of a shot. how did it happen that a poor boy got the shot you got? - i was the beneficiary of affirmative action for poor, white southern boys. if you studied hard, worked hard, moved around town, met people, there were men particularly men in the town who would say, he s a comer let s help him. he s a poor boy
in a very personal way. he s authored 12 books. i m incompetent to properly introduce bill moyers there s simply not enough time. before a studio audience a man known for his modesty and his reluctance to talk about himself, agreed to sit down with me for a conversation i shall never forget. ladies and gentlemen, mr. bill moyers. (upbeat music) (audience applause) - it started in marshall, texas but it started before you were a journalist. something unusual occurred in marshall that taught you about this america. you were the son of one of the poorest people in town anywhere else, in any other time, you wouldn t have had much of a shot. how did it happen that a poor boy got the shot you got? - i was the beneficiary of affirmative action for poor, white southern boys. if you studied hard, worked hard, moved around town, met people, there were men particularly men in the town who would say, he s a comer let s help him. he s a poor boy let s help him. so the rodeo club gave m