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Good evening. My name is brian lebeau. You to like to welcome the 18th annual university of st. Mary lincoln event. Featuring Smithsonian National portrait gallery Senior Historian david seymour. How Abraham Lincoln used photography for politics. A special welcome to the crew from cspan. When we open the floor to questions, be sure to use the microphones. Our speaker tonight david ward joined to the National Portrait gallery in 1981. He oversees the sections devoted to the antebellum age as well as the gallery and the ongoing exhibit 20th century americans. David was cocurator of an awardwinni...

Us for another program celebrating americas first ladies. In the lobby at the ticket desk, youll find a palm card which talk about some of our other upcoming events. Also dealing with our first ladies exhibition. Were honored today to have Annette Dunlap as our speaker. Annette was awarded an mba from Washington University at st. Louis. And has more than 30 years of experience as a writer, speaker and entrepreneurial consultant. In her spare time when shes not raising cattle on a 29acre farm in north carolina, annette writes books. Her first biography was frank the story of Francis Folsom clev...

And a natural, inspiring leader. In addition to the Lou Henry Hoover biography, dunlap is completing two other book projects. Louis comfort tiffany and the business of art, expected for release in 2017, and charles g. Dawes, to be published in early 2016. Following annettes formal presentation, there will be a question and answer period. If you have a question, please raise your hand and do not speak until a microphone is given to you. Now, the microphone will be given to you off. You just flip the little button. Look at the green light. That pull put it on. After you asked your question, shut...

This campaign is people see what did i say i was going to do in 2008, and what have i delivered, and they can have some confidence that the things i say i mean. Good morning, everybody. Thats a beautiful shoot. Bales of hay there. Its thursday, october 25th. Welcome to morning joe. With us on set, we have National Affairs editor for new York Magazine and msnbc political analyst, John Heilemann. We also have pulitzer prizewinning historian jon meacham. Thats a nice smile. Yeah. Hi, willie. And willie geist is here as well. Willie, you know, when president ial campaigns are coming down to the fi...

Characteristics that lincoln represents, patience, strategic delay, are things that in our society now, we would castigate a candidate for. you're slow to make decisions. you change your mind all the time. it's unfortunately -- and i think it's relevant for both candidates -- there are as sppe we see in the movie from lincoln that candidates do now because they would be criticized for having lack of leadership. >> for complete synergy, the film is based in part on doris kerns goodwin's book "team of rivals" about lincoln. and doris writes in the latest issue of "time" how abraham lincoln was a...