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Great honor to be here at the lincoln forum. I am coming from a different country. This is certainly, eddies berg is one of the holy paces places in lincoln country. I have spent most of my career in Founding Fathers country. Although they are both in the United States, and they both helped define the United States, i think of the scholars and the two countries do not talk to each other as much as they should. Abraham lincoln talked to the Founding Fathers all his life. His most famous utterance was the speech he gave here, where he said, our fathers wrought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty. That was in november, 1863. Two and a half years into the civil war. But three years before that, february, 1860, at the cooper Union Address, the kickoff was his first president ial campaign. His new york city debut. A 90 minute speech, half of it was devoted to the framers of the constitution. Lincoln argued that a majority of them believed that the federal government ha
Great honor to be here at the lincoln forum. I am coming from a different country. This is certainly, eddies berg is one of the holy paces places in lincoln country. I have spent most of my career in Founding Fathers country. Although they are both in the United States, and they both helped define the United States, i think of the scholars and the two countries do not talk to each other as much as they should. Abraham lincoln talked to the Founding Fathers all his life. His most famous utterance was the speech he gave here, where he said, our fathers wrought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty. That was in november, 1863. Two and a half years into the civil war. But three years before that, february, 1860, at the cooper Union Address, the kickoff was his first president ial campaign. His new york city debut. A 90 minute speech, half of it was devoted to the framers of the constitution. Lincoln argued that a majority of them believed that the federal government ha
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Your 25th lecture. I will try to do him justice in describing this pedal for room you have chosen for your 25th lecture. You have chosen a remarkably historic room. I have to think the offices of the Senate Curator and historian who prepare and test histories alone of all of our art and all of our rooms. Without them, this introduction would not be possible. Begin, in the early 1900s, the house and senate decided they had outgrown their space. They commissioned two architects them aw york to build house and Senate Office building. Thee buildings have become russell Senate Office building. They are mirror images of one another from about. Those two individuals were educated in paris and a part of that education brought this beautiful art that you see around this room. They took great care to design this room. They spent over a year finding this marble that came from south dover, new jersey. Which is very interesting. This was known as simply the caucus room. It was intended to be a room