georgia senator, and someone asked him what guided your decisions and he said i tried to think what abraham lincoln would have done for the south if he had lived. >> what did being magnanimous toward the south mean for lin lincoln. >> building them back up with a spirit of brotherbrotherhood, c for all, and securing military gains, removing the root causes of the war through political reform and including, of course, the end of slavery through the 13th amendment. economic expansion to move people's attention towards the future, and a sense of shared investment, moving people's attention west, and then cultural reintegration. it is about steering a nation toward what some peacemakers now call a horizon of reconciliation. it is a goal that we never arrive at, but the leadership he embodied is so essential. >> it was a goal that was never really achieved after the civil war, because of andrew johnson, who you write about as a truly