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Year of 1862 when he and country and his own family were dealing with so much trauma and grief. so much of the power is seeing handwritten form. the words that lincoln wrote are not just historical artifact. they're still important as to what we expect of the presidency and understand as moral inheritance as nation. way michael put it, not only most eloquent example of presidential condolence letter to family of fallen soldier, i find it so beautiful, i think what lincoln has written consoles anyone dealing emotionally with significant loss. this is that letter from lincoln. you can see at top...

Humans get that job done, let alone find energy and focus and compassion within the job to show the kind of grace that abraham lincoln showed in condolence letter he sent to his friend's daughter in the civil war in 1862 when he was awash in his own grief. but being president, getting elected president, staying president, doesn't just require strength and remarkable personal characteristics, it also requires innate political intelligence or at least instinct. something about what happened in niger has caused this president apparently instinctually to divert the conversation from what happened ...

Compassion within the job to show the kind of grace that abraham lincoln showed in condolence letter he sent to his friend's daughter in the civil war in 1862 when he was awash in his own grief. but being president, getting elected president, staying president, doesn't just require strength and remarkable personal characteristics, it also requires innate political intelligence or at least instinct. something about what happened in niger has caused this president apparently instinctually to divert the conversation from what happened to those soldiers, even acknowledging publicly the deaths of t...

As long as presidents have sent americans into battle. they have dealt with the burden of losing american blood and treasure on the battlefield. and consoling those left behind. our friend the historian, reminded us this week, of the special presidential role, he pointed to this letter abraham lincoln wrote to the daughter of a fallen union army soldier in 1862. here with us tonight to talk about the special role of american presidents, pulitzer prize winning author, jon meacham who's also an msnbc contributor. you and i are both obligated to quote once a week, so we're off the hook. >> it's a...

Foreign policy or north korea it's about what you and i are watching. we've had people playing the national anthem at sporting events since 1862 during the civil war. it was seen as a symbol of being together, of being american, of something we could all be proud of. what we've had on the left, is this continuing steady erosion of belief in america. this constant attack on our institutions, our history, our permits, and now you have this fiasco, i mean think about what you're watching. billionaire owners, associated with millionaire players, who make an enormous amount of the money because the...