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Trusting that everyone will realize, particularly because of the letters she wrote home to her sisters, that they were enbroiled in this and they were. When abigail wrote a letter it was known it was actually written for the whole neighborhood. And mary would get the pleasure of having everyone important in the neighborhood come over and she would read allowed abigails letter. And then there were chapters when mary is trying find a minister for the first church of quincy and she is the most important person. And even john adams think she is the most important person in quincy. And one day, abi...

He claimed that lincoln had never loved mary todd lincoln. The love of his life had been a young woman named ann rutledge to die when lincoln was off in springfield or actually the old state capital for his first term in the legislature and that he never got over the loss. He claimed that lincoln had syphilis. It was not clear why this was helpful or helping to set, you know he tried to make him a very earthy figure. The family was absolutely furious. They elected these interviews and thought, there is no possible way that people could remember with any precision somebody whom they had no expe...

And then immediately after the First World War or the second world war, sorry, we had the only major incidence of increased fertility rate, and thats the baby boom. Everybody knows about the baby boom. And it really was a remarkable moment, because not only did the fertility rate increase quite high, as high as 3. 7, i think, for white americans and, i think, 3. 9 for black americans, not only did it jump up, but it stayed up for an entire generation. It was a really long lasting effect. People changed the way they lived for a generation, and then by 1970 that momentum had ended, and we saw no...

[inaudible conversations] doesnt tell us what to do. It tells us what we think is going to happen and then went to make choices about that. One argument is the earth is always changing. Societies can change and adapt in many ways. And, of course, we dont know if that is necessary the case with the climate problem. It may be something we can adapt to. But if you take that idea that societies can adapt, it leaves us with the question of, even if we can adapt is the second world we want to live in with his extreme heat, with the drought, the sea level rise. So many things that we care about are e...

Dont like the sequester. That the sequester was leverage to extract entitlement cuts. I got 90 of what i wanted, im pretty happy. Congress is out this week. Theyre taking this week off. Which says something, i suppose. This all began in 2011. Both sides did agree to the sequester. It is a very dumb thing, just stupid. The way it is structured . It is like a situation of dumb and dumber, moving on. Things are still moving forward on immigration. John mccain really took some heat. Just ask john mccain. Youre a senator with the federal government. Question after angry question. You said build a d...