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While we here in america think we discover and invent and improve faster than any of them. Unquote. I think maybe when he said that, lincoln recognized he was on thin ice. He said they may think this is arrogance but they cannot deny that russia has called on us. In other parts of asia, they scarily know that such things as steam boats and railroads exist. In anciently inhabited countries, the dust of ages, a real down right old fogyism, there he is again, seems to settle upon and smotherter intellectual energies of man. While neither appreciating them, lincoln like many 19th century nationali...

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...

Into law by lincoln five years earlier and the only one in that original group founded in lincolns home state. Indeed one of the reasons i was drawn to come to illinois last year to take the job as law dean is the prospect that the university of illinois can build upon the legacy of, and become linked with lincoln in the way the university of virginia is associated with Thomas Jefferson. Who to my mind was not as great a president and not as great a person. This brings me to a fourth question, why bob woodward . That might be the easiest one of all. Many people consider the New York Times the ...

Meeting. And i had the luxury of time, two fulltime assistants. We looked at all the contemporary coverage of the pardon, got all the memoirs, got the legal memos from the ford library. I kept going back to interview ford. And to try to piece together what happened. I interviewed him in colorado a number of times, where he had a home, and many times at his main home at rancho mirage, california. I remember the last interview asking him, why did you pardon nixon . He said, you keep asking that question. I said, but i dont think youve answered it. And then he said, astonishingly, ok, im going to...

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...