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City of springfield. Cyber is up to 2005 to the public, and home to many folks here in Central Illinois. A president ial library for the greatest president. The purpose of the library is very basic, to preserve and pass on the legacy of Abraham Lincoln. Hes a man who i think best caps related what it means to be american, what the whole idea of america is all about. Freedom, equality, opportunity. We do put him on a pedestal, rightly, but he was also a human being and had great ambitions to do g...

Outskirts in oak ridge cemetery. So, like it is important to the city of springfield. Cyber is up to 2005 to the public, and home to many folks here in Central Illinois. A president ial library for the greatest president. The purpose of the library is very basic, to preserve and pass on the legacy of Abraham Lincoln. Hes a man who i think best encapsulated what it means to be american, what the whole idea of america is all about. Freedom, equality, opportunity. We do put him on a pedestal, right...

[applause] thank you all for bringing this weather. As i understand it, lest they might have been worse. I might have been delivering this from the airport if we had done this last week. Want to begin our story a little bit after the civil war. On june 13th 1905. It was less than three weeks before his death that john hay awoken his cabin room on the are in as baltic, a great ocean liner that steamed the course from liverpool to new york. At this point john hay was a noted poet and historian, fo...

Um, i think all the different stages matter. From my knowledge of children, you make one impact before they are six or ten or whatever and then when they are adolescent they seem to forget everything. And later on, you are surprised as they seem to remember some. But i think they did the best they could as parents. I think they were strong parents. Some of them turned out and some didnt. So much had to do with luck and the era. [ applause ] thank you so much for coming. Wednesday night, booktv f...

Trusting that everyone will realize, particularly because of the letters she wrote home to her sisters, that they were enbroiled in this and they were. When abigail wrote a letter it was known it was actually written for the whole neighborhood. And mary would get the pleasure of having everyone important in the neighborhood come over and she would read allowed abigails letter. And then there were chapters when mary is trying find a minister for the first church of quincy and she is the most impo...

Reenforced concrete tunnel. It would percent him to get from one wing to the other. It was accessible from the house above. This is what it looks like to stand inside of it. That concrete is two feet thick. Before i move on here, i want to make one point very clear. The bomb shelter was obsolete almost from the time it was built. As soon as the soviets tested a Hydrogen Bomb in 1953 moving from the kiloton to the megaton range, the idea of a president shelters in place became completely to postr...

He claimed that lincoln had never loved mary todd lincoln. The love of his life had been a young woman named ann rutledge to die when lincoln was off in springfield or actually the old state capital for his first term in the legislature and that he never got over the loss. He claimed that lincoln had syphilis. It was not clear why this was helpful or helping to set, you know he tried to make him a very earthy figure. The family was absolutely furious. They elected these interviews and thought, t...

Who was he . I decided he was a delicious subject for a biography when it me that he had not lincolns aham bedside at his assassination but william he bedside of mckinley in 1901, they ugt who could this fellow be. Archives, i roosevelt. Realized what a rich subject it was. Ohn hay, his life really has end. Bookends at either lincoln on one end. He was the private secretary, live in the white house with for four years. So much of what we know about from hayes intimate contact with him. On the ot...

The complainer was mrs. Harrison. Mrs. Kerry harrison. She was found in terrible condition and disliked it a lot. Structurally it was bad and the walls were in bad shape. And actually after the roosevelts, the Franklin Roosevelts went out, the trumans went to a beat up house. 13 van loads of furniture taken by the roosevelts. Their possessions. There were white squares where the wallpaper where pictures had been you know, 13 years. And they that was that was pretty run down. Thats not why truman...

Mrs. Theodore roosevelt. The roosevelt. Wide. Why . The white house have been remodeled into him more modern setting. A was fresh and run like marine camp. Everyone knew their job and everyone did it. That was true on all levels. It was spit and polish. The Worst White House . The Worst White House was . Arked i never white house i never think of the Worst White House. The Kerry Harrison found white house in terrible condition. The structure was bad and the walls were in bad shape. Moved out,oos...