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Papers are opened and it said never sent and never signed. it's a great thing, write the letter, put the letter aside, cool down psychologically and never send it. >> i have to write that down, don't send those. you don't hit return. >> harder for the e-mail. >> that is a problem with e-mail. >> joe, you raise, i think, among historians, among just people who are taken with what happened at gettysburg, one of the more intriguing questions of american history. it is about lee. why did he perceive -- why did he proceed with that tragedy? by the time pickett's charge had finished, don't hold me t...

States, you know, secede and go south. and because he couldn't let that happen, he pretty much put on a political theater, political theater meaning that he said what had to be said to calm the border states down. and before the secession of the southern rebels, he tried very, very hard to prevent them from leaving by pretty much telling them anything they wanted to hear. but in his heart, in the deepest reaches of abraham lincoln, he knew that slavery had to be abolished at the very beginning of his term. >> was it a difficult decision zeroing in on one piece of his life? i mean, it's such a ...

He had an urge from his very young years that slavery was an atrocity. at the very beginning when the war started, he could not let those border states secede and go south. he pretty much put on political theater meaning he said what had to be said to calm the border states down. before the secession of the southern rebels, he tried very very hard to prevent them from leaving by pretty much telling them anything they wanted to hear. in his heart, in the deepest reaches of abraham lincoln, he knew slavery had to be abolished at the beginning of his term. >> was it a difficult decision zeroing i...