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Every one of you for being a wonderful attentive audience. Thank you so much. [ applause ] questions for our speaker . Lincoln approached notnothing voters during the 1860 campaign. Did he announce them or try to win them over to the republican . Or how did he fdo that . He said how do you want to welcome those people . I will welcome the nonothings if they will accept in the entirety the republican platform, which does not include exclusion. When lincolns people went out and campaigned and somebody would say, well, what does your boy think about immigration . Lincoln instructed them to tell t...

Policy seems toe contradict any notion he sought to eliminate the weapons. Strategic forces received an increase in funding as he saw the to the modernize all three legs of ballistic bombers, missiles and submarines. To relaunch the b 1 program, to modernize existing bomber force, improve the trident missile. He will produced an additional 17,000 warheads by 1987, a significant increase over the plans of the carter administration. By 1985, u. S. Nuclear forces were more lethal and technically advanced than at any point. American history. It presents a strong con taft to the focus on arms contr...

Emancipation. Its important to us. Because when we think about a reunified United States in the aftermath of civil war, what conclusion must we draw. Clearly, a large majority of the American Free population was not enthusiastic about emancipation. And to come back to a final theme that has been the bedrock of this course throughout, in a democratic society, where a large majority holds a particular value, that is inconsistent with the interest of minority, theres not much reason to be optimistic for the rights of that minority. Remember James Madison had said if majority be united by a common...

America. But they needed assistance to do so. He asked congress to pass a bill, and Congress Responded on july 4th, 1864, with the first, last, and only time america passed a law to encourage immigration. Lincolns act to encourage immigration was a signature piece of legislation that many of you, who i know have been familiar during the civil war celebration, went by without a single moments attention. Lincoln knew that immigrants played a major role in the building of industrial america, and to his dying day he related to the immigrant in a manner that few of his contemporaries would or could...

Lament of the irish immigrant, set to music. Many of lincolns quips also resorted to irish analogies. Sometimes they were caustic, and perhaps a bit insulting to make a point. His first reported jibe about a poor irishman comes from one of his congressional speeches on the need for sensible improvements which he described an irishman who had a pair of new boots. Quoting lincoln i shall never get him on, said patrick, until i wear them a day or two and stretch them out a bit, unquote. Late in the quarter, an observer recalled that lincoln said there was a Cabinet Meeting in the afternoon, gener...