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Picture? >> that was a beautiful picture. >> do you know who took that? i did. on my iphone. >> i'm glad you figured that out finally. >> just to impress you. tuesday marks 149th anniversary of president lincoln's assassination at the ford theater here in washington. ken burns has come. he's made a new documentary of the impact of the gettysburg address. always great to have you here. >> thanks. >> this was -- you live up near a school where the gettysburg address was playing a buying role. >> it's called the greenwood school in putney, vermont. i was asked ten years ago to be a judge. the boy...

>> we did a national study of 33 institutions, private, public, minority serving, arts, 123,000 students and found that there was no difference whatsoever on either cumulative gpa in college or graduation rates between the students who submitted tests and the students who did not. we also found that those students who were lakely to not submit their tests one way or the other, more like ly to be first generation college students, minority students of all groups, slightly more likely to be women, pell grant recipients, low income students, and students with learning differences like dyslexia. t...

This is the greatest and bloodest battle in all of american soil. and lincoln came four and a half months later to dedicate this place and reinvigorate our american promise. extraordinary words. presidential protriat its finest. and we hope inspired by these young boys with learning differences, that the rest of us can learn it. i don't just mean school kids. john and christine, i want you to learn it and memorize it. with like to sing in church and "take me out to the ball game." when we do things in unison, we feel better. and in these fractured times being reminded of this union that lincol...

And division, unity and patriotism are a powerful reminder of this country's battle scars and may clear extraordinary challenges and accomplishments of american democratic project. joining us now is one of the greats, documentary filmmaker ken burns. thank you for joining us. >> thank you, alex. >> i get chills when i read the gettysburg address. >> as we all should. i'm making a film about kids with dyslexia at a small school and other learning differences, small school in vermont, boarding school, boys school, very young. each year the school has been in existence they have asked them to mem...

Preview. >> just got a weird sinking feeling in my stomach. >> saturday's at the office ringing a bell? >> i love great education institutions. i want to plug the lab school of washington where my son is at school. it's a wonderful school for kids with learning differences. >> that's great. i'm going to plug a thing. the robert wood johnson hospital in trenton, new jersey, the doctors helped him after i fed his allergy a peanut butter cookie. thank you, doctors, you saved my marriage. that's today for this edition of "the daily rundown." tomorrow on the show, chuck's interview with secretary o...