CSPAN3 Lectures In History March 20, 2016
David oconnell examines president ial legacies and what factors contributed to making a president ial term successful. He discusses several rankings of president s over the years, and compares the criteria and results. His class is about an hour and 10 minutes. The brilliance of lincolns words was not recognized at the time. He was not the featured speaker at gettysburg. It was actually Edward Everts from massachusetts, who spoke for 2hours while lincoln waited to give his poignant closing word. Today of course we recognize the getty version address as perhaps the greatest president ial speech...
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