CSPAN Public Affairs Events October 4, 2016
His mother and fathers families were both from virginia. We claim him as a brother in virginia because of affection he held for the south, for southerners and virginians during his entire life even during the difficult war years and especially the days after the war. We must especially claim lincoln as a virginian because the project of his mature adult life was to pick up and rescue from the most virginia value that all men are created equal and work to continue the project that was authored by the other virginia, Thomas Jefferson 85 years before. That was the work of Abraham Lincolns life. [...