Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Doris Kearns Goodwin explains how the one-term congressman and prairie lawyer rose from obscurity to become one of the most significant presidents in this nation's history. Scott Simon, host of NPR's Weekend Edition Saturday, moderates.

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Wonderful discourse. Ironically, Trump would delusionally compare himself to Lincoln.

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What is ironic about that?

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I was thinking, before 19:30 if republicans could understand this is what and how a president is suppose to be and think.
Then I thought, they wouldn't be watching, or understanding!

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5:55 to skip the verbose introduction

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7:20 starts the discussion.

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@@paesooaks9201 thanks!

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If he was gay - IT DOESN’T MATTER
As that is the least important of his qualities.
Team of Rivals is a phenomenal book.

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George Washington was also very tall, especially for the times, and it did add to his leadership qualities. It’s a thing.
A bit less so now, but it has had an effect.

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Thanks for uploading this! I've always admired Lincoln and I learned a lot about him from this video.

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Truly believe that Lincoln, and all of these great men were put together by Fate.

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One thing I didn't realize was that Mary Liñcoln visited army hospital s with no notice it complmented Lincoln Similar acts.

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To distorted

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she speaks so fast.

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