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Citizen petition out of philadelphia asking congress to please read that speech aloud to one another. please read it out loud in a joint session of congress in what would have been washington's 130th birthday that year. so they read it in 1862 during the civil war. and then they decided to read it again on the centennial of ratifying the constitution. then by 1896, congress decided that they were going to do this every single year in order of the united states senate now. and today, the honor fell to maine senator angus king. and honestly, it's kind of sad, but nowadays, not very many people s...

Country. and so in the middle of the civil war in 1862, there was a citizen petition out of philadelphia asking congress to please read that speech aloud to one another. please read it out loud in a joint session of congress in what would have been washington's 130th birthday that year. so they read it in 1862 during the civil war. and then they decided to read it again on the centennial of ratifying the constitution. then by 1896, congress decided that they were going to do this every single year in order of the united states senate now. and today, the honor fell to maine senator angus king. ...

Citizen petition out of philadelphia asking congress to please read that speech aloud to one another. please read it out loud in a joint session of congress in what would have been washington's 130th birthday that year. so they read it in 1862 during the civil war. and then they decided to read it again on the centennial of ratifying the constitution. then by 1896, congress decided that they were going to do this every single year in order of the united states senate now. and today, the honor fell to maine senator angus king. and honestly, it's kind of sad, but nowadays, not very many people s...

And competent secretary of state, henry seward. henry was more worldly than lincoln was, had traveled abroad quite a bit. that's why there's not a book about lincoln's foreign policy. if you put him at the center of foreign policy, lincoln didn't do everything. the things he did do were important. my goal in this book was to take a very episodic view of things and looked at things that lincoln did do in foreign policy without saying he did everything. >> now is lincoln's greatest challenge, i would guess, his greatest challenge is to stop the powers in europe from intervening on the side of th...

Comparisons to the fall of rome. but taking the long view, mr. obama may be seen as just another valley in the history of a country born in searing trial and crises. for the record, mr. obama began his first term clearly out of the mainstream. denying how exceptional we are. saying that this concept is the same way the british or the greeks feel about their own countries. a harvard law graduate his grasp with history is at best wanting. can we forget, and has the president ever thought about 1607 and the starving settlers of jamestown who ushered in america? or 1814, when the british burned do...