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Have great day. Thank you very much. So welcome, everyone. This is i. Im president of the the Lincoln Group of d. C. My name is David Jay Kent and on tonights special program, the Lincoln Group, what they said marks 160th anniversary of lincolns gettysburg address, which was given november 19th, 1863. Im going to kick off program by reading the gettysburg address so that we all have it in our mind because its very short. Then three of our members will each discuss one aspect of this brief, but revealing elegy our nation first tom peet well discuss. Lincoln viewed the declaration of independence and not the constitution as a nations key founding. John. I mean, john obrien, sorry john o brien well discuss lincolns use of religious symbolism in the address and then ed epstein. Well talk about how lincolns two minute speech at ....
Selfdefense force unit heading to south sudan will be allowed to protect civilians with weapons if necessary. And under investigation. Law enforcement officials in russia have detained the Economic Development minister on suspicion of accepting a bribe. Theres been a delay to a planned inquiry into south koreas president s connections to a corruption scandal. It was originally expected that park geunhye would sit down with prosecutors on wednesday, but thats not the case. Our reporter kim chanju joins us from seoul. Can you give us the latest . Reporter President Park got a lawyer on tuesday. His job will be to defend her against allegations that she has links to a scandal involving her long time friend and close aides. Parks lawyer held a News Conference and spoke about the delay. Translator i need to take consid ....
Published by a traditional publisher and that average age is 37 years old. So, i will tell you, bill, you are skewing the numbers very much. Bill walker grew up in knoxville, tennessee and went to the university of virginia for his undergraduate and masters and went off to teach at College Teaching at the university of new orleans and at Lamar University in texas. Then he went into the administration to be a Public Information officer, associate Vice President for Public Information. He was at Gettysberg College and Virginia Tech and finished up his work at william and mary. I first met ....
Question about that when he died, he was utterly inconsolable. Though he tried to console his children, it was a pretty tone deaf letter to his other son and he was saying whatever you have to make it half but to the soldiers. Its a heartbreaking moment he felt completely responsible for his sons death. [inaudible] microphone o microphone or i will shout it out again. Which of the wise did you wiu find the most abound of material did which was the most difficult . Most didnt keep their wives letters because they were in the field and couldnt you or they would protectively destroy them so they couldn could be capturd read. But he saved all of his wifes letters. He wrote her a letter in which he said i will tear every one of your letters up because every ounce on the march tiles and he didnt. That is the most complete. It was astonishing because the two of them were incredibly beautiful writers and if you do nothing else than find and read the letters you will have done yourself a favor. ....
Attack the same year as grant died. And nelly fled to europe again and that is when the memoirs were written and when her daughter was copying parts of the letters to give to the director. She had to know what was going on and allowed it to happen. She lived the rest of her life in france really. It was at a villa that was owned by her daughter and her soninlaw they had named after her husbands greatest victory. There is almost numbered else who would consider that the greatest victory. The shermans she predeceased him but they lived in washington after the war. He became the Lieutenant General of the army. She did work, as he was dealing with indians who were threatening the transcontinental rail road. She was doing missionary work and started an orphanage in washington. She was always into charitable work. There was talks about her husbands flirtation and affairs and there is evidence of that but it is clear he loved her. He ....