1 00:00:31,899 --> 00:00:35,435 >>> AMERICA IS AT A RECKONING. FOR MORE THAN 250 YEARS WE HAVE 2 00:00:35,435 --> 00:00:37,995 BATTLED RACIAL INJUSTICE AND POLITICAL DIVISION. 3 00:00:38,005 --> 00:00:40,707 IN TIMES OF CRISIS, WE LOOK TO THE PAST FOR EXAMPLES OF BOLD 4 00:00:40,707 --> 00:00:46,777 LEADERSHIP. >> LINCOLN, OF COURSE, IS THE 5 00:00:46,780 --> 00:00:51,950 MOST ADMIRED AMERICAN PRESIDENT. >> IF THERE IS ANYONE WHO LIVED, 6 00:00:51,952 --> 00:00:56,089 BREATHED AND WALKED THE BASIC IDEAS AROUND WHICH AMERICA IS 7 00:00:56,089 --> 00:01:01,929 BUILT, IT WAS ABRAHAM LINCOLN. >> POLITICIANS RECOGNIZED THE 8 00:01:01,929 --> 00:01:05,666 POWER THAT HIS NAME STILL HAS AND USE IT. 9 00:01:05,666 --> 00:01:10,196 >> AND THAT VISION OF LINCOLN’S OF A GENEROUS, INCLUSIVE AMERICA 10 00:01:10,203 --> 00:01:13,907 HAS DRIVEN THIS COUNTRY FOR MORE THAN 200 YEARS. 11 00:01:13,907 --> 00:01:17,377 >> PRESIDENT LINCOLN NOT ONLY UNDERSTOOD THE HEARTBREAK OF HIS 12 00:01:17,377 --> 00:01:21,077 COUNTRY, HE ALSO UNDERSTOOD THE COST OF SACRIFICE. 13 00:01:21,081 --> 00:01:24,418 >> ABRAHAM LINCOLN SIGNED THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION. 14 00:01:24,418 --> 00:01:28,388 THE PRESIDENT SAID, AND I QUOTE, IF MY NAME EVER GOES DOWN INTO 15 00:01:28,388 --> 00:01:31,925 HISTORY, IT WILL BE FOR THIS ACT, AND MY WHOLE SOUL IS IN IT. 16 00:01:31,925 --> 00:01:36,925 MY WHOLE SOUL IS IN IT. >> GENERATIONS OF BLACK PEOPLE 17 00:01:36,930 --> 00:01:40,267 NAMED THEIR CHILDREN LINCOLN, BECAUSE LINCOLN FREED THE 18 00:01:40,267 --> 00:01:41,197 SLAVES. >> BUT IT’S A LOT MORE 19 00:01:41,201 --> 00:01:44,538 COMPLICATED THAN THAT. >> A LOT OF PEOPLE THINK LINCOLN 20 00:01:44,538 --> 00:01:49,108 WAS A FIERY OPPONENT OF SLAVERY FROM THE DAY HE WAS BORN, AND 21 00:01:49,109 --> 00:01:52,279 THAT’S NOT QUITE TRUE. >> TURNS OUT THAT A GREAT WAY TO 22 00:01:52,279 --> 00:01:55,916 PUT DOWN THE REBELLION IS TO YANK THE ENSLAVED AFRICANS OUT 23 00:01:55,916 --> 00:01:59,286 FROM UNDER HIS ENEMIES. AND THE GUY REALLY WAS FREEING 24 00:01:59,286 --> 00:02:01,386 THE SLAVES, HOPE THANKSGIVING WOULD GO BACK TO AFRICA. 25 00:02:01,388 --> 00:02:07,027 THEY DON’T TELL YOU THAT IN SECOND GRADE. 26 00:02:07,027 --> 00:02:11,127 >> THE SIN OF SLAVERY HAS LOOMED OVER AMERICA FOR CENTURIES, AND 27 00:02:11,131 --> 00:02:14,031 IT WAS NOT ABSOLVED WITH EMANCIPATION. 28 00:02:14,034 --> 00:02:18,538 >> LINCOLN DIED CLOSE TO EASTER, SO THIS MADE IT EASY FOR PEOPLE 29 00:02:18,538 --> 00:02:20,168 TO IMAGINE THAT HE DIED FOR THE SINS OF THE NATION. 30 00:02:20,173 --> 00:02:23,677 >> THE MARTYR NARRATIVE MADE IT POSSIBLE FOR US TO THINK OF 31 00:02:23,677 --> 00:02:27,247 LINCOLN IN A SIMPLISTIC WAY. >> WE LIVE IN A CULTURE WHERE 32 00:02:27,247 --> 00:02:31,985 EVERYBODY EITHER HAS TO BE A HERO OR A VILLAIN. 33 00:02:31,985 --> 00:02:35,355 AND THE REALITY IS GREAT POLITICIANS ARE BOTH. 34 00:02:35,355 --> 00:02:40,025 >> PART OF THE CHALLENGE IS TO RECAPTURE HIM FROM ALL THAT 35 00:02:40,027 --> 00:02:44,427 BRONZE AND LIMESTONE INTO WHICH HE HAS BEEN CAST AND SEE HIM AS 36 00:02:44,431 --> 00:02:48,001 A PERSON. >> LINCOLN HAD EXPERIENCES, AND 37 00:02:48,001 --> 00:02:55,275 MOST PEOPLE EVOLVE AS THEY HAVE MORE EXPERIENCES, AND IT IS NOT 38 00:02:55,275 --> 00:02:58,175 A CRITICISM OF LINCOLN TO SAY HE INVOLVED. 39 00:02:58,178 --> 00:03:01,508 IT WOULD BE A CRITICISM TO SAY HE WAS MAN WHO NEVER CHANGED HIS 40 00:03:01,515 --> 00:03:04,451 MIND, NEVER LEARNED ANYTHING. >> WE CAN BECOME BETTER VERSIONS 41 00:03:04,451 --> 00:03:07,851 OF OURSELVES. WE CAN CHANGE OVER TIME. 42 00:03:07,854 --> 00:03:10,924 LINCOLN WAS EVOLUTIONARY. AND IN BEING EVOLUTIONARY, HE 43 00:03:10,924 --> 00:03:26,573 BECAME REVOLUTIONARY 44 00:03:26,573 --> 00:03:36,416 . >> IN 1809, AMERICA IS A COUNTRY 45 00:03:36,416 --> 00:03:40,786 IN ITS INFANCY. A NATION TOILS TO PAY OFF ITS 46 00:03:40,787 --> 00:03:44,417 REVOLUTIONARY WAR DEBTS AND MAKE A NAME FOR ITSELF ON THE WORLD 47 00:03:44,424 --> 00:03:50,430 STAGE. DESPITE THE LEGAL END TO THE 48 00:03:50,430 --> 00:03:56,300 SLAVE TRADE IN 1808, THE MAN FOR AMERICAN‐MADE COTTON AND THE 49 00:03:56,303 --> 00:04:01,341 ENSLAVED MEN AND WOMEN WHO FARM IT BLOOMS. 50 00:04:01,341 --> 00:04:07,581 THE NEW COUNTRY’S GROWTH IS NOT ONLY INTERTWINED WITH SLAVE 51 00:04:07,581 --> 00:04:10,250 LABOR, IT’S ENTIRELY DEPENDENT ON IT. 52 00:04:10,250 --> 00:04:16,420 >> IT IS ABSOLUTELY CRUCIAL FOR UNDERSTANDING WHAT WENT ON IN 53 00:04:16,423 --> 00:04:20,093 THE COUNTRY, THAT BEFORE THE 1860s, MOST OF THE FIRST 54 00:04:20,093 --> 00:04:22,896 PRESIDENTS WERE OFF OF THE SOUTH. 55 00:04:22,896 --> 00:04:25,696 THE SLAVE POWER CONTROLLED THE COUNTRY. 56 00:04:25,699 --> 00:04:30,799 >> AT LINCOLN’S BIRTH, WE ARE STILL IN THE FINAL WEEKS OF THE 57 00:04:30,804 --> 00:04:37,077 THOMAS JEFFERSON PRESIDENCY. SO WE ARE REALLY IN THE FOUNDING 58 00:04:37,077 --> 00:04:41,877 ERA OF THE UNITED STATES. >> YOU HAD THIS IMMENSE 59 00:04:41,882 --> 00:04:45,252 TERRITORY THAT THE UNITED STATES HAD GAINED WITH THE LOUISIANA 60 00:04:45,252 --> 00:04:46,952 PURCHASE. AND SO THERE IS THIS WHOLE 61 00:04:46,953 --> 00:04:50,090 QUESTION ABOUT THE EXPANSION OF THE NATION, HOW IT WAS GOING TO 62 00:04:50,090 --> 00:04:52,759 EXPAND, WHERE SLAVERY WOULD EXIST, AND THIS IS THE MOMENT 63 00:04:52,759 --> 00:04:58,298 WHEN ABRAHAM LINCOLN WAS BORN. >> ABRAHAM LINCOLN ARRIVES ON 64 00:04:58,298 --> 00:05:07,238 FEBRUARY 12th, 1809 ON THE FAR EDGE OF THE WESTERN FRONTIER IN 65 00:05:07,240 --> 00:05:16,049 ARGENTVILLE, KENTUCKY. >> AS MUCH AS STORY WRITERS AND 66 00:05:16,049 --> 00:05:19,419 IMAGE MAKERS ROMANTICIZED LINCOLN’S BOYHOOD LIFE, HE NEVER 67 00:05:19,419 --> 00:05:26,927 DID. >> EVERYBODY WAS POOR IN THE 68 00:05:26,927 --> 00:05:29,396 FRONTIER. THE LINCOLNS WERE REALLY POOR. 69 00:05:29,396 --> 00:05:33,726 >> HE SPENDS HIS FIRST FEW YEARS IN A CABIN THAT HAS A DIRT 70 00:05:33,733 --> 00:05:38,603 FLOOR. THERE ARE WILD ANIMALS, ROOFS 71 00:05:38,605 --> 00:05:40,440 THAT LEAK. JUST THINK OF WHAT THE NIGHTS 72 00:05:40,440 --> 00:05:50,417 WERE LIKE. >> IN 1816, WHEN LINCOLN IS 7 73 00:05:50,417 --> 00:05:54,347 YEARS OLD, HIS FATHER THOMAS RUNS INTO TROUBLE WITH HIS LAND 74 00:05:54,354 --> 00:05:57,090 TITLE AND LOSES HIS FARM AND MOVES HIS FAMILY TO THE FREE 75 00:05:57,090 --> 00:06:02,060 TERRITORY OF INDIANA. >> THERE WERE NOT A LOT OF 76 00:06:02,062 --> 00:06:03,530 PEOPLE IN SOUTHWESTERN INDIANA WHEN THE LINCOLNS FIRST ARRIVED 77 00:06:03,530 --> 00:06:08,500 THERE. THEY REALLY HAD TO CARVE THEIR 78 00:06:08,501 --> 00:06:11,971 EXISTENCE, THEIR LIVELIHOOD OUT OF THE WILDERNESS WITH THEIR OWN 79 00:06:11,972 --> 00:06:15,272 TWO HANDS. AND SO YOUNG LINCOLN AND HIS 80 00:06:15,275 --> 00:06:17,010 SISTER SARAH WOULD HAVE HAD A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF 81 00:06:17,010 --> 00:06:25,750 RESPONSIBILITY. CHOP WOOD, FARM. 82 00:06:25,752 --> 00:06:28,488 IT WAS VERY ROUGH. LINCOLN AND HIS SISTER HAVE TO 83 00:06:28,488 --> 00:06:37,358 RELY ON EACH OTHER FOR SO MUCH AT SUCH AN EARLY AGE. 84 00:06:37,364 --> 00:06:39,666 >> HIS MOTHER, NANCY HANKS LINCOLN WAS A VERY BEAUTIFUL 85 00:06:39,666 --> 00:06:44,566 WOMAN. >> LINCOLN BELIEVES THAT HIS 86 00:06:44,571 --> 00:06:49,175 MOTHER IS HIS ANGEL. >> BUT JUST AS THE FAMILY BEGINS 87 00:06:49,175 --> 00:06:54,745 TO SETTLE INTO THEIR NEW HOME, TRAGEDY STRIKES. 88 00:06:54,748 --> 00:06:59,748 >> IN A PERIOD OF DROUGHT ON THE FRONTIER, CATTLE WOULD EAT 89 00:06:59,753 --> 00:07:01,553 SOMETHING CALLED SNAKEROOT, AND THAT’S A POISON. 90 00:07:01,554 --> 00:07:06,426 SO THAT GETS INTO THE MILK. >> LINCOLN’S MOTHER DRINKS MILK 91 00:07:06,426 --> 00:07:11,196 THAT’S DISEASED. >> AND SHE GETS SICK. 92 00:07:11,197 --> 00:07:25,607 >> AND SHE DIES. 93 00:07:30,216 --> 00:07:35,186 >> YOUNG ABRAHAM HELPS HIS FATHER NAIL HIS MOTHER INTO THE 94 00:07:35,188 --> 00:07:36,988 COFFIN THAT WILL TAKE HER AWAY FROM HIM FOR THE REST OF HIS 95 00:07:36,990 --> 00:07:42,128 LIFE. >> FROM MODERN PSYCHOLOGICAL 96 00:07:42,128 --> 00:07:45,028 STUDIES, WE KNOW IF THE SURVIVING PARENT IS EMOTIONALLY 97 00:07:45,031 --> 00:07:51,001 AVAILABLE AND SUPPORTIVE AND NURTURING, THAT THE DAMAGE DONE 98 00:07:51,004 --> 00:07:53,440 BY THE OTHER PARENT’S DEATH IS LARGELY OFFSET. 99 00:07:53,440 --> 00:07:57,340 BUT THOMAS LINCOLN DOES NOT FIT THAT DESCRIPTION. 100 00:07:57,344 --> 00:08:04,384 >> THERE IS LITTLE TIME TO GRIEVE ON THE FRONTIER. 101 00:08:04,384 --> 00:08:07,520 9‐YEAR‐OLD ABRAHAM AND HIS 11‐YEAR‐OLD SISTER SARAH ARE TOO 102 00:08:07,520 --> 00:08:11,620 YOUNG TO TAKE ON ALL OF THEIR MOTHER’S RESPONSIBILITIES, AND 103 00:08:11,624 --> 00:08:18,698 WINTER IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER. 104 00:08:18,698 --> 00:08:20,967 >> THOMAS LINCOLN NEEDS A WOMAN AROUND THE HOUSE. 105 00:08:20,967 --> 00:08:24,437 YOU CAN’T DO COMPUTER DATING IN THIS PERIOD, AND HE HAS TO GO 106 00:08:24,437 --> 00:08:28,237 COURTING. HE PICKS UP AND HEADS TO 107 00:08:28,241 --> 00:08:31,478 CIVILIZATION WHERE THERE ARE WOMEN FOLK AND LEAVES THESE TWO 108 00:08:31,478 --> 00:08:38,478 CHILDREN TO FEND FOR THEMSELVES. IT WAS A RISK THAT THOMAS HAD TO 109 00:08:38,485 --> 00:08:42,389 UNDER TAKE AND WAS NOT THE FIRST TO UNDER TAKE. 110 00:08:42,389 --> 00:08:46,159 >> THEY WERE PRACTICALLY REDUCED TO ANIMAL EXISTENCE. 111 00:08:46,159 --> 00:08:48,728 >> THEIR HAIR WAS NOT CUT. THEY WERE UNWASHED. 112 00:08:48,728 --> 00:08:51,758 THEIR CLOTHES WERE PEELING AWAY. YOU’RE IN PERIL EVERY SECOND 113 00:08:51,765 --> 00:08:55,235 LIVING IN THIS ENVIRONMENT. 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SHE BROUGHT POTS AND PANS, THE 170 00:13:00,413 --> 00:13:02,013 FURNITURE, AND SHE BROUGHT BOOKS WITH HER. 171 00:13:02,015 --> 00:13:09,255 A BIBLE, AESOP’S FABLES. >> THOSE BOOKS CHANGED HIS LIFE. 172 00:13:09,255 --> 00:13:12,185 >> HIS STEPMOTHER SAW SOMETHING IN HIM THAT HIS FATHER PREFERRED 173 00:13:12,191 --> 00:13:18,731 TO IGNORE. >> HIS FATHER CRITICIZED HIM AND 174 00:13:18,731 --> 00:13:21,631 SAID THAT HE SHOULD BE WORKING. HE SHOULD BE OUT ON THE FARM. 175 00:13:21,634 --> 00:13:23,670 HE SHOULD BE LEARNING USEFUL SKILLS. 176 00:13:23,670 --> 00:13:37,680 >> BUT ABRAHAM HATES FARM WORK. >> HE WANTS TO READ. 177 00:13:37,684 --> 00:13:42,755 HIS FATHER HITS HIM WHEN HE READS. 178 00:13:42,755 --> 00:13:46,855 >> HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS FATHER WAS VERY, VERY 179 00:13:46,859 --> 00:13:51,629 COMPLICATED. HE RESENTED HIS FATHER WHO WAS 180 00:13:51,631 --> 00:13:55,731 NOT LITERATE AND HIS FATHER RESENTED LINCOLN’S OWN DESIRE TO 181 00:13:55,735 --> 00:14:02,608 EMBRACE EDUCATION, TO MOVE BEYOND HIS FATHER’S LIFE. 182 00:14:02,608 --> 00:14:08,408 >> AS LINCOLN GETS OLDER, HIS FATHER GROWS MORE INTOLERANT OF 183 00:14:08,414 --> 00:14:11,617 HIS QUEST FOR EDUCATION. >> LINCOLN’S FATHER NEEDED 184 00:14:11,617 --> 00:14:13,447 MONEY. SO WHAT DID HE DO? 185 00:14:13,453 --> 00:14:15,922 HE RENTED HIS SON OUT TO NEIGHBORS. 186 00:14:15,922 --> 00:14:19,058 IN THOSE DAYS, YOUR LABOR WAS THE PROPERTY OF YOUR FATHER 187 00:14:19,058 --> 00:14:23,358 UNTIL YOU WERE 21. ANY MONEY YOU MADE HAD TO GO TO 188 00:14:23,363 --> 00:14:25,698 THE FATHER. AND THAT WAS THE LAW OF THE LAND 189 00:14:25,698 --> 00:14:27,628 AND CUSTOM. >> HE WAS IN HIS OWN MIND A 190 00:14:27,633 --> 00:14:35,108 SLAVE TO HIS FATHER. >> SO UNCONSCIOUSLY I THINK 191 00:14:35,108 --> 00:14:38,138 LINCOLN IDENTIFIED WITH THE SLAVES, IDENTIFIED HIS FATHER 192 00:14:38,144 --> 00:14:42,214 WITH THE SLAVE HOLDERS, AND THAT LED HIM TO EARLY ON HATE AND 193 00:14:42,215 --> 00:14:45,385 LOATHE AND DESPISE SLAVERY. >> LISTEN, I’M SURE HE WAS 194 00:14:45,385 --> 00:14:47,954 PISSED OFF AT HIS DAD, BUT IT DIDN’T DRIVE HIS POLITICS. 195 00:14:47,954 --> 00:14:51,290 THERE ARE A LOT OF SITUATIONS IN WHICH WHITE AMERICANS WHEN THEY 196 00:14:51,290 --> 00:14:53,526 FEEL LIKE THEY’RE BEING OPPRESSED AS WORKERS, THEY 197 00:14:53,526 --> 00:14:56,756 COMPARE THEMSELVES TO ENSLAVED PEOPLE. 198 00:14:56,763 --> 00:14:58,398 AND THEY WERE JUST FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEMS WITH THIS. 199 00:14:58,398 --> 00:15:01,868 THESE PEOPLE ARE NOT BEING COMPELLED TO WORK IN THE SAME 200 00:15:01,868 --> 00:15:06,968 WAY THAT ENSLAVED PEOPLE ARE. THEIR STATUS IS NOT INHERITABLE. 201 00:15:06,973 --> 00:15:14,313 ♪ >> AT 19 YEARS OLD, LINCOLN 202 00:15:14,313 --> 00:15:18,551 ACCEPTS A JOB TRANSPORTING GOODS TO NEW ORLEANS, WHERE HE GETS 203 00:15:18,551 --> 00:15:24,891 HIS FIRST LIFE OF BEYOND THE PRAIRIE. 204 00:15:24,891 --> 00:15:31,130 >> IT IS ENCHANTED, MYSTERIOUS, DAUNTING FOR A YOUNG MAN WHO HAS 205 00:15:31,130 --> 00:15:35,468 NEVER SEEN THE CITY. >> WE ARE TOLD THAT THE THING 206 00:15:35,468 --> 00:15:39,638 THAT INFLUENCED HIM MOST WAS THE SLAVE AUCTIONS. 207 00:15:39,639 --> 00:15:43,909 >> HE SAW AUCTIONEERS OUT THERE SELLING SLAVES AND SHOWING THEM 208 00:15:43,910 --> 00:15:50,650 OFF AS IF THEY WERE HORSES, PEOPLE CRYING AS THEY WERE TAKEN 209 00:15:50,650 --> 00:15:53,050 AWAY, FAMILIES SEPARATED, AND MONEY CHANGING HANDS FOR HUMAN 210 00:15:53,052 --> 00:15:57,922 BODIES. >> WHETHER HE TOOK A LIFE’S VOW 211 00:15:57,924 --> 00:16:03,529 TO END SLAVERY, AT THAT MOMENT WE REALLY CAN’T IMAGINE, BUT HE 212 00:16:03,529 --> 00:16:08,429 IS SEEING SLAVERY IN A DIFFERENT WAY THAN HE SAW IN INDIANA, 213 00:16:08,434 --> 00:16:13,272 WHICH IS SLAVES BEING MARCHED ACROSS THE CUMBERLAND TRAIL. 214 00:16:13,272 --> 00:16:21,481 HE IS SEEING THE SALE OF SLAVES FOR THE FIRST TIME. 215 00:16:21,481 --> 00:16:22,915 >> LINCOLN RETURNS HOME, DETERMINED TO MAKE A BETTER LIFE 216 00:16:22,915 --> 00:16:29,755 FOR HIMSELF. 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IT’S A PLACE WITH AN ECONOMIC 260 00:21:12,004 --> 00:21:16,041 OPPORTUNITY. >> LINCOLN IN HIS EARLY 20s IS 261 00:21:16,041 --> 00:21:21,881 ESTABLISHING HIMSELF, TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHO HE IS. 262 00:21:21,881 --> 00:21:27,486 >> THE EARLY NEW SALEM LINCOLN IS, TO COIN A CLICHE, A 263 00:21:27,486 --> 00:21:31,516 JACK‐OF‐ALL‐TRADES. HE TRIES HIS HANDS AT MANY 264 00:21:31,524 --> 00:21:34,193 DIFFERENT THINGS. >> LINCOLN INVESTS IN A LOCAL 265 00:21:34,193 --> 00:21:39,765 GROCERY, WHICH FAILS AND LEAVES HIM SADDLED WITH DEBT. 266 00:21:39,765 --> 00:21:44,435 HE WORKS ODD JOBS IN ORDER TO PAY IT OFF AND EVENTUALLY 267 00:21:44,436 --> 00:21:48,536 BECOMES POSTMASTER. >> GUESS WHAT CAME THROUGH THE 268 00:21:48,541 --> 00:21:52,111 MAIL? NEWSPAPERS. 269 00:21:52,111 --> 00:21:55,881 AFTER A WHILE, ALL OF THE SUBSCRIBERS BEGAN NOTICING THAT 270 00:21:55,881 --> 00:22:00,351 THEY WERE RECEIVING THEIR NEWSPAPERS REFOLDED AND CLEARLY 271 00:22:00,352 --> 00:22:06,358 READ PREVIOUSLY. WHAT THEY SOON LEARNED IS THAT 272 00:22:06,358 --> 00:22:09,758 THEIR VILLAGE POSTMASTER WAS SO HUNGRY FOR NEWS THAT HE WAS 273 00:22:09,762 --> 00:22:14,532 READING THE PAPERS BEFORE THEY CALLED FOR THEM. 274 00:22:14,533 --> 00:22:19,939 >> AS POSTMASTER, LINCOLN IS A PUBLIC FIGURE. 275 00:22:19,939 --> 00:22:24,309 HE BECOMES QUITE POPULAR AND KNOWN AROUND NEW SALEM FOR HIS 276 00:22:24,310 --> 00:22:32,017 GOOD HUMOR AND COLORFUL STORIES. >> HE USED WIT AND COMEDY AT HIS 277 00:22:32,017 --> 00:22:36,087 OWN EXPENSE TO CONNECT WITH PEOPLE. 278 00:22:36,088 --> 00:22:41,488 HE HAD A LOT OF FUN WITH THE FACT THAT HE WAS NOT A 279 00:22:41,493 --> 00:22:44,630 GOOD‐LOOKING GUY. I LIKE STORIES WHERE HE’S MAKING 280 00:22:44,630 --> 00:22:46,430 FUN OF HIMSELF. THERE IS THAT FAMOUS ONE WHERE 281 00:22:46,432 --> 00:22:51,837 HE WAS RIDING ALONG AND A WOMAN IS RIDING THE OTHER WAY AND 282 00:22:51,837 --> 00:22:55,937 STOPS HIM. >> SHE AIMED A RIFLE AT HIM, AND 283 00:22:55,941 --> 00:22:59,411 HE SAID HE SAID MADAM, WHY ARE YOU POINTING THAT GUN AT ME? 284 00:22:59,411 --> 00:23:03,681 >> AND YOU CAN SEE LINCOLN LIKE BUSTER KEATON, JUST STARING. 285 00:23:03,682 --> 00:23:08,721 >> AND SHE SAID BECAUSE I ALWAYS RESOLVED THAT IF I EVER MET A 286 00:23:08,721 --> 00:23:12,291 MAN THAT WAS UGLIER THAN I AM, I WOULD SHOOT HIM. 287 00:23:12,291 --> 00:23:16,161 AND HE LOOKED AT HER AND SAID MADAM, IF I AM REALLY UGLIER 288 00:23:16,161 --> 00:23:28,207 THAN YOU, THEN FIRE AWAY. THIS IS A GUY WHO HAD SEETHING 289 00:23:28,207 --> 00:23:32,607 AMBITION ALWAYS. HE REALIZES MEN LIKE HIM. 290 00:23:32,611 --> 00:23:38,617 MEN VOTE. AND SO HE RUNS FOR OFFICE. 291 00:23:38,617 --> 00:23:41,617 >> IN 1834, THE AMERICAN POLITICAL SYSTEM IS DOMINATED BY 292 00:23:41,620 --> 00:23:49,160 TWO MAJOR PARTIES. THE DEMOCRATS SUPPORT STATES’ 293 00:23:49,161 --> 00:23:53,331 RIGHTS, AND THE WHIGS BELIEVE IN A STRONG FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. 294 00:23:53,332 --> 00:23:56,669 AT 25 YEARS OLD, LINCOLN WINS A SEAT ON THE ILLINOIS STATE 295 00:23:56,669 --> 00:24:01,206 LEGISLATURE AS A WHIG. >> JOINING THE WHIG PARTY WHEN 296 00:24:01,206 --> 00:24:04,836 HE DOES REALLY REFLECTS AN INVESTMENT IN THE CAPACITY OF 297 00:24:04,843 --> 00:24:07,846 GOVERNMENT TO IMPROVE PEOPLE’S LIVES. 298 00:24:07,846 --> 00:24:11,176 THE WHIG PLATFORM IS ALL ABOUT IMPROVED TRANSPORTATION AND 299 00:24:11,183 --> 00:24:12,551 PUBLIC EDUCATION. >> THIS IS WHY HE WAS A WHIG 300 00:24:12,551 --> 00:24:17,589 EARLY ON. HE SAW THE UTILITY OF THINGS 301 00:24:17,589 --> 00:24:22,389 LIKE ROADS AND RAILROADS IMPROVING THE ECONOMY OF THE 302 00:24:22,394 --> 00:24:28,400 SMALL TOWNS IN THE WEST. >> IN THE ILLINOIS STATE 303 00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:36,440 LEGISLATURE, LINCOLN FACES WHAT IS QUICKLY BECOMING THE BIGGEST 304 00:24:36,442 --> 00:24:40,079 ISSUE OF THE DAY, SLAVERY. THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE OF 1820 305 00:24:40,079 --> 00:24:43,415 DICTATED THAT MAINE WOULD BE ADMITTED AS A FREE STATE AND 306 00:24:43,415 --> 00:24:47,315 MISSOURI AS A SLAVE STATE. AFTER THAT, SLAVERY WOULD BE 307 00:24:47,319 --> 00:24:54,889 PROHIBITED IN ALL OTHER STATES NORTH OF THE 36‐30 PARALLEL. 308 00:24:54,893 --> 00:24:58,731 THE CONTROVERSIAL RULING SET OFF A BITTER NATIONAL DEBATE OVER 309 00:24:58,731 --> 00:25:03,401 WHICH STATES SLAVERY RHODE ISLAND SHOULD BE LIMITED, 310 00:25:03,402 --> 00:25:08,540 STANDARD, ACCEPTED OR ABOLISHED. >> IN 1837, THE STATE OF 311 00:25:08,540 --> 00:25:13,140 ILLINOIS LEGISLATURE WAS ASKED TO CONDEMN THE ABOLITIONIST 312 00:25:13,145 --> 00:25:15,748 MOVEMENT. IT PASSES BY AN OVERWHELMING 313 00:25:15,748 --> 00:25:21,218 MAJORITY, 77‐6. ONE OF THOSE SIX WAS LINCOLN. 314 00:25:21,220 --> 00:25:25,920 THAT WAS FAIRLY COURAGEOUS. MOST OF HIS CONSTITUENTS WERE 315 00:25:25,924 --> 00:25:29,194 PEOPLE FROM KENTUCKY WHO HATED ABOLITIONISTS. 316 00:25:29,194 --> 00:25:33,532 PEOPLE THOUGHT RADICALS, THE ABOLITIONISTS, THEY’RE FANATICS, 317 00:25:33,532 --> 00:25:36,001 THEY’RE IRRESPONSIBLE, THEY DON’T REALLY KNOW THOU GET 318 00:25:36,001 --> 00:25:38,637 THINGS DONE. >> BUT YOU COULD BE ANTI‐SLAVERY 319 00:25:38,637 --> 00:25:44,877 AND NOT BE AN ABOLITIONIST. LINCOLN WAS NO ABOLITIONIST. 320 00:25:44,877 --> 00:25:48,477 >> LINCOLN WAS A MODERN ANTI‐SLAVERY ADVOCATE. 321 00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:52,480 AND WHAT THAT MEANS ESSENTIALLY IS THAT HE WAS A PERSON WHO SAID 322 00:25:52,484 --> 00:25:56,922 THAT SLAVERY WAS WRONG BUT DIDN’T BELIEVE THAT IT WAS 323 00:25:56,922 --> 00:26:03,128 REALLY IMPORTANT TO ACTIVELY END SLAVERY IMMEDIATELY. 324 00:26:03,128 --> 00:26:08,398 >> THE INSTITUTION OF SLAVERY IS FOUNDED ON BOTH INJUSTICE AND 325 00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:14,239 BAD POLICY, BUT THAT THE PROMLE GAGS OF ABOLITIONIST DOCTRINES 326 00:26:14,239 --> 00:26:19,109 TENDS TO INCREASE RATHER THAN ABATE. 327 00:26:19,111 --> 00:26:22,211 >> HIS EVOLVING ANTI‐SLAVERY POSITION WAS THAT SLAVERY IS 328 00:26:22,214 --> 00:26:26,218 FINE WHERE IT IS IN THE SOUTH, BUT IT SHOULD NOT BE EXPANDED 329 00:26:26,218 --> 00:26:29,818 INTO THE WEST. >> HE BELIEVED THAT THE FOUNDING 330 00:26:29,822 --> 00:26:34,626 FATHERS HAD INTENDED FOR SLAVERY TO DIE A NATURAL DEATH, AND THAT 331 00:26:34,626 --> 00:26:37,526 IF THEY AREN’T ALLOWED TO EXPAND, THEN THE INSTITUTION IS 332 00:26:37,529 --> 00:26:42,367 GOING TO DIE A NATURAL DEATH AND THAT THAT’S WHY YOU DON’T SEE 333 00:26:42,367 --> 00:26:46,397 THE WORD "SLAVE" OR "SLAVERY" IN THE CONSTITUTION. 334 00:26:46,405 --> 00:26:49,174 >> HE TALKED A LOT ABOUT THE FACT THAT SLAVERY SHOULDN’T BE 335 00:26:49,174 --> 00:26:51,877 ALLOWED TO EXPAND BECAUSE THERE WERE CONSTITUTIONAL PROHIBITIONS 336 00:26:51,877 --> 00:26:55,007 ON THAT. HE TALKED A LOT ABOUT THE IDEA 337 00:26:55,013 --> 00:27:00,486 THAT SLAVERY WAS HARMFUL TO FREE WHITE NORTHERNERS. 338 00:27:00,486 --> 00:27:05,486 >> HE BELIEVED THAT FREE WHITE FOLKS WHO WERE WORKERS COULD NOT 339 00:27:05,491 --> 00:27:09,361 COMPETE WITH SLAVE LABOR. HE JUST THOUGHT IT WAS BAD 340 00:27:09,361 --> 00:27:11,597 ECONOMICS. >> IT’S NOT ABOUT RECOGNIZING 341 00:27:11,597 --> 00:27:15,667 THE HUMANITY OF ENSLAVED PEOPLE. RATHER IT’S WANTING TO SECURE 342 00:27:15,667 --> 00:27:18,497 TERRITORY WHERE WHITE MEN WHO WERE NOT SLAVE HOLDERS WOULD NOT 343 00:27:18,504 --> 00:27:21,707 HAVE TO COMPETE AGAINST SLAVE HOLDERS. 344 00:27:21,707 --> 00:27:27,846 >> HE WAS WILLING FOR THERE TO BE GRADUAL EMANCIPATION. 345 00:27:27,846 --> 00:27:30,415 MOSTLY, HE BELIEVED THAT THOSE PERSONS FREE SHOD BE COLONIZED 346 00:27:30,415 --> 00:27:37,085 OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES. >> IT DOESN’T QUITE FIT WITH THE 347 00:27:37,089 --> 00:27:42,528 IMAGE OF THE GREAT EMANCIPATOR WE HAVE. 348 00:27:42,528 --> 00:27:45,628 PICK UP A LOT OF BOOKS ON LINCOLN, AND YOU’RE NOT GOING 349 00:27:45,631 --> 00:27:48,400 FIND THE FACT THAT HE AVIDLY PROMOTED COLONIZATION. 350 00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:52,970 HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE ILLINOIS 351 00:27:52,971 --> 00:27:55,040 COLONIZATION SOCIETY. THIS WASN’T JUST A PASSING 352 00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:56,540 THING. WHY? 353 00:27:56,542 --> 00:28:01,712 WELL, BECAUSE THE WHITE POPULATION DOESN’T WANT A NEW 354 00:28:01,713 --> 00:28:04,816 LARGE POPULATION OF FREE BLACKS. THERE IS NO PLACE FOR THEM IN 355 00:28:04,816 --> 00:28:06,985 AMERICA. NOW THE FACT IS BY THIS TIME 356 00:28:06,985 --> 00:28:08,645 MOST BLACK PEOPLE WERE BORN IN THE UNITED STATES. 357 00:28:08,654 --> 00:28:11,323 THE SLAVES WERE AFRICAN AMERICANS. 358 00:28:11,323 --> 00:28:16,128 >> AT THAT POINT UP INTO HIS PRESIDENCY, INTO THE CIVIL WAR, 359 00:28:16,128 --> 00:28:21,567 HE HAS SOME DEEP‐SEATED BELIEFS THAT BLACK PEOPLE SHOULD NOT BE 360 00:28:21,567 --> 00:28:25,167 CITIZENS. 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STILL WOUNDED BY THE LOSS OF THE 416 00:32:21,039 --> 00:32:32,849 WOMEN HE’S LOVED, HE STRUGGLES IN ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS. 417 00:32:32,851 --> 00:32:37,756 >> HIS PROMINENT AND NOTED ROMANCE WAS WITH ANNE RUTLEDGE. 418 00:32:37,756 --> 00:32:40,425 >> THIS RELATIONSHIP HAS REMAINED A MATTER OF CONTROVERSY 419 00:32:40,425 --> 00:32:45,025 AMONG HISTORIANS FOR YEARS. >> HE WAS ALWAYS SHY. 420 00:32:45,030 --> 00:32:48,700 AND IT WAS SAID THAT HE WAS QUITE AWKWARD WITH WOMEN. 421 00:32:48,700 --> 00:32:53,200 >> SO ANNE RUTLEDGE WHO IS ENGAGED TO A GUY WHO HAS LEFT 422 00:32:53,205 --> 00:32:55,474 TOWN AND SAID I WILL SEND FOR YOU. 423 00:32:55,474 --> 00:32:58,710 SO SHE IS A SAFE BET FOR HIM TO MAYBE FLIRT A LITTLE BIT WITH, 424 00:32:58,710 --> 00:33:01,847 BUT HE IS NOT EXPECTED TO COMMIT. 425 00:33:01,847 --> 00:33:05,047 >> BUT SHE FELL FOR HIM AND HE FOR HER. 426 00:33:05,050 --> 00:33:12,020 >> THERE IS A THEORY THAT SHE WAS HIS GREAT LOVE. 427 00:33:12,023 --> 00:33:21,032 BUT SHE GETS SICK IN AN EPIDEMIC OF FEVER AND SHE DIES. 428 00:33:21,032 --> 00:33:25,302 >> AFTER THE TRAGIC DEATHS OF LINCOLN’S MOTHER AND SISTER, 429 00:33:25,303 --> 00:33:29,441 LOSING ANNE IS A DEVASTATING BLOW. 430 00:33:29,441 --> 00:33:31,109 LINCOLN’S FEARS SURROUNDING MORTALITY AND ABANDONMENT 431 00:33:31,109 --> 00:33:34,979 WORSEN. AND HE EXHIBITS THE FIRST SIGNS 432 00:33:34,980 --> 00:33:41,450 OF WHAT WILL BE A LIFE‐LONG BATTLE WITH DEPRESSION. 433 00:33:41,453 --> 00:33:46,858 >> THERE WERE REPORTS THAT RAZORS HAD TO BE TAKEN FROM HIM, 434 00:33:46,858 --> 00:33:52,958 THAT HE HAD TO BE WATCHED AFTER ANNE DIED. 435 00:33:52,964 --> 00:33:59,371 HE STAYED AT HER GRAVE SITE IN INCLEMENT WEATHER. 436 00:33:59,371 --> 00:34:02,207 >> PEOPLE WORRIED THAT HE WAS LOSING HIS MIND. 437 00:34:02,207 --> 00:34:04,476 >> TO HIS CREDIT, HE THROWS HIMSELF BACK INTO HIS 438 00:34:04,476 --> 00:34:09,176 PROFESSIONS. AND SINCE HE’S DETERMINED TO 439 00:34:09,180 --> 00:34:15,450 BECOME A LAWMAKER, IT’S A GOOD IDEA TO LEARN THE LAW. 440 00:34:15,453 --> 00:34:20,725 >> LINCOLN BORROWS LAW BOOKS AND READS THEM, MASTERS THEM. 441 00:34:20,725 --> 00:34:24,095 >> HE HAD VIRTUALLY NO FORMAL SCHOOLING. 442 00:34:24,095 --> 00:34:28,965 SO THIS IS SOMEBODY WHO IS AN AUTODIDACT, SELF‐TAUGHT. 443 00:34:28,967 --> 00:34:33,397 AND IT’S AMAZING THAT HE IS ABLE TO READ LAW BOOKS AND MAKE 444 00:34:33,405 --> 00:34:36,441 HIMSELF INTO A LAWYER. >> HE WAS ABLE TO TRANSFORM 445 00:34:36,441 --> 00:34:38,076 HIMSELF. HE WAS GETTING AS FAR AWAY FROM 446 00:34:38,076 --> 00:34:44,316 THE WORLD OF HIS FATHER AS HE COULD. 447 00:34:44,316 --> 00:34:48,186 >> LINCOLN ACCEPTS A JOB AT A LAW FIRM IN SPRINGFIELD, 448 00:34:48,186 --> 00:34:51,516 ILLINOIS AND MOVES FROM THE SMALL RIVER TOWN OF NEW SALEM TO 449 00:34:51,523 --> 00:34:57,762 THE BUSTLING STATE CAPITOL. >> HE ARRIVES THERE ON APRIL 450 00:34:57,762 --> 00:35:03,468 15th, 1837. HE’S 28 YEARS OLD AND HE HAS 28 451 00:35:03,468 --> 00:35:10,808 YEARS LEFT TO LIVE TO THE DAY. HE ESTABLISHES HIS LIFE IN THIS 452 00:35:10,809 --> 00:35:12,439 NEW ENVIRONMENT THAT’S GOING TO CHANGE HIM AND WHICH HE IS GOING 453 00:35:12,444 --> 00:35:21,052 CHANGE. >> LINCOLN WAS A LAWYER. 454 00:35:21,052 --> 00:35:23,822 HE GOT TO BE A PRETTY PROMINENT ONE. 455 00:35:23,822 --> 00:35:30,261 >> HE HAD SOME PRETTY BIG CORPORATE CLIENTS, INCLUDING THE 456 00:35:30,261 --> 00:35:32,597 RAILROADS. >> BUT EVEN THOUGH LINCOLN 457 00:35:32,597 --> 00:35:34,697 PRACTICED LAW, HIS HEART WAS REALLY IN POLITICS. 458 00:35:34,699 --> 00:35:38,369 >> THIS IS WHEN HE STARTS SERVING AS A STUMP SPEAKER ALL 459 00:35:38,370 --> 00:35:43,508 OVER THE REGION IN SUPPORT OF WHIG CANDIDATES, IN SUPPORT OF A 460 00:35:43,508 --> 00:35:48,146 STRONGER FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, CONTROL OVER THE ECONOMY. 461 00:35:48,146 --> 00:35:51,576 AND ABRAHAM LINCOLN DOES BECOME ONE OF THE RISING STARS OF THE 462 00:35:51,583 --> 00:35:56,821 WHIG PARTY, BUT HE WRITES TO AN OLD FRIEND IN NEW SALEM THAT 463 00:35:56,821 --> 00:36:01,259 THERE IS QUITE A LOT OF BUSTLING ABOUT IN CARRIAGES HERE, BUT I’M 464 00:36:01,259 --> 00:36:06,829 QUITE AS LONELY AS I HAVE BEEN ANY PLACE ELSE IN MY LIFE. 465 00:36:06,831 --> 00:36:12,437 >> HIS COLLEAGUES URGE HIM TO ATTEND SOCIETY EVENTS AND MINGLE 466 00:36:12,437 --> 00:36:16,637 WITH SPRINGFIELD’S ELITE. >> SPRINGFIELD, BECAUSE IT’S THE 467 00:36:16,641 --> 00:36:20,378 SATE CAPITAL, LOTS OF YOUNG WOMEN ARE SENT THERE TO MEET 468 00:36:20,378 --> 00:36:26,278 PROMISING LEGISLATORS. >> IT WAS SAID THAT HE WAS NEVER 469 00:36:26,284 --> 00:36:32,424 MORE COMFORTABLE THAN ON THE STUMP, AND NEVER MORE 470 00:36:32,424 --> 00:36:34,826 UNCOMFORTABLE THAN IN A PARLOR. >> UNTIL A PARTY IN 1840 WHEN 471 00:36:34,826 --> 00:36:41,296 THE SHY LAWYER CHARMS ONE PARTICULAR SOCIALITE. 472 00:36:41,299 --> 00:36:45,437 >> MARY TODD WAS THE DAUGHTER OF A KENTUCKY BANKER WHO WAS A 473 00:36:45,437 --> 00:36:48,767 SLAVE HOLDER. AND SO SHE’S PRIVILEGED. 474 00:36:48,773 --> 00:36:55,046 >> MARY IS BY ALL ACCOUNTS QUITE BEAUTIFUL AND CHARMING. 475 00:36:55,046 --> 00:37:03,546 >> SHE WAS SAID TO BE VIVACIOUS AND HER AMPLE DISPLAY OF HER 476 00:37:03,555 --> 00:37:06,424 BOSOM WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS QUITE ATTRACTIVE. 477 00:37:06,424 --> 00:37:10,228 >> MARY COULD CHARM A BISHOP OUT OF HIS VOWS. 478 00:37:10,228 --> 00:37:14,898 >> HER 12 YEARS OF EDUCATION WAS QUITE UNUSUAL AT THE TIME, AND 479 00:37:14,899 --> 00:37:18,969 SHE FELL INTO LIVELY CONVERSATIONS. 480 00:37:18,970 --> 00:37:21,439 AND THAT WAS WHERE SHE MET MR. LINCOLN. 481 00:37:21,439 --> 00:37:25,109 >> THE ATTRACTION IS IMMEDIATE. AND IF IT’S TRUE THAT OPPOSITES 482 00:37:25,110 --> 00:37:31,216 ATTRACT, THEN IT’S MANIFESTED IN THIS MEETING. 483 00:37:31,216 --> 00:37:34,416 >> SHE WAS PETITE, 5 FEET, LINCOLN BEING 6’4". 484 00:37:34,419 --> 00:37:39,219 >> TRADITIONAL SOUTHERN BELL, AND IN FACT A WOMAN WHO HAS 485 00:37:39,224 --> 00:37:42,327 GROWN UP BEING TAKEN CARE OF BY ENSLAVED PEOPLE. 486 00:37:42,327 --> 00:37:49,567 >> LINCOLN IS UNEDUCATED AS A MEMBER OF THE FRONTIER 487 00:37:49,567 --> 00:37:51,297 PROLATERIAT. >> BUT LIKE LINCOLN, SHE LOSES 488 00:37:51,302 --> 00:37:55,807 HER MOTHER AT A VERY EARLY AGE. HER FATHER REMARRIES INCREDIBLY 489 00:37:55,807 --> 00:37:56,867 QUICKLY. SHE HAS A DIFFICULT RELATIONSHIP 490 00:37:56,875 --> 00:38:07,118 WITH HER STEPMOTHER. >> SHE WORSHIPS HER FATHER, BUT 491 00:38:07,118 --> 00:38:11,856 HE’S DISTANT. HE’S OFTEN AWAY. 492 00:38:11,856 --> 00:38:16,426 THAT EXACERBATES HER DESIRE FOR ACCEPTANCE AND LOVE AND HER OWN 493 00:38:16,427 --> 00:38:21,897 FAMILY. >> MARY SAW THAT SHE COULD 494 00:38:21,900 --> 00:38:24,900 DISTINGUISH HERSELF, SECURE HER FATHER’S AFFECTION BY BEING ABLE 495 00:38:24,903 --> 00:38:29,673 TO READ THE PAPERS, TO TALK TO MEN IN THEIR OWN LANGUAGE. 496 00:38:29,674 --> 00:38:32,443 NOT ALL MEN APPRECIATED THAT, BUT SHE WAS WILLING TO FIND ONE 497 00:38:32,443 --> 00:38:36,147 WHO DID APPRECIATE IT. >> LINCOLN AND MARY CONNECT 498 00:38:36,147 --> 00:38:39,617 DEEPLY OVER THE SHARED LOSS OF THEIR MOTHERS AS WELL AS THEIR 499 00:38:39,617 --> 00:38:45,787 LOVE OF POETRY, LITERATURE, AND MOST OF ALL POLITICS. 500 00:38:45,790 --> 00:38:48,190 >> SHE HAD STRONG POLITICAL FEELINGS. 501 00:38:48,193 --> 00:38:51,996 SHE WAS DESCRIBED AS A VIOLENT LITTLE WHIG. 502 00:38:51,996 --> 00:38:58,766 MARY SEES THE POTENTIAL WITH LINCOLN, WHAT SEES IT FIRST. 503 00:38:58,770 --> 00:39:03,340 >> AND SHE FELL IN LOVE IN THE WIN IT OVER 1840, AND THEY WERE 504 00:39:03,341 --> 00:39:08,847 ENGAGED. >> EXCEPT THAT LINCOLN STILL HAS 505 00:39:08,847 --> 00:39:12,247 WHAT WE WOULD NOW CALL A COMMITMENT PROBLEM. 506 00:39:12,250 --> 00:39:15,186 AND I DON’T THINK LINCOLN IS QUITE READY. 507 00:39:15,186 --> 00:39:21,556 SO ON WHAT IS CALLED THE FATAL 1st OF JANUARY OF 1841, ABRAHAM 508 00:39:21,559 --> 00:39:25,329 LINCOLN LEAVES MARY AT THE ALTAR. 509 00:39:25,330 --> 00:39:30,368 HE SENDS A MESSAGE THAT HE IS NOT WORTHY AND MARY WOULD BE 510 00:39:30,368 --> 00:39:34,906 MISERABLE. >> SHE WENT AWAY BROKEN HEARTED, 511 00:39:34,906 --> 00:39:37,375 PLUNGESED ED PLUNGED INTO DESPAIR. 512 00:39:37,375 --> 00:39:41,045 >> I THINK HE WAS PETRIFIED OF MATRIMONY, HE WAS PETRIFIED OF 513 00:39:41,045 --> 00:39:43,705 SEX. HE WAS PETRIFIED OF ALL OF THOSE 514 00:39:43,715 --> 00:39:47,118 INTIMACIES AND ALL OF THOSE THINGS, AND HE WAS A LITTLE 515 00:39:47,118 --> 00:39:51,088 OVERWHELMED THE MOST DAZZLING BELLE IN SPRINGFIELD WAS ON HIS 516 00:39:51,089 --> 00:39:54,789 HEELS, CHASING HIM AROUND TOWN. >> THE DEATH OF BEN RUTLEDGE, 517 00:39:54,792 --> 00:39:58,062 AND HIS SISTER AND MOTHER, THE LESSON HE SEEMED TO LEARN 518 00:39:58,062 --> 00:39:59,097 UNCONSCIOUSLY IS YOU CAN’T TRUST WOMEN. 519 00:39:59,097 --> 00:40:04,297 THEY’LL ABANDON YOU. >> AND SO THEY AVOIDED ONE 520 00:40:04,302 --> 00:40:11,542 ANOTHER FOR WELL OVER A YEAR. >> HOWEVER, IN THE FALL OF 1842, 521 00:40:11,542 --> 00:40:15,947 THEY FIND THEIR WAY BACK TO EACH OTHER AND BEGIN TO COURT AGAIN. 522 00:40:15,947 --> 00:40:21,117 >> I THINK THEY BOTH FOUND THAT THEY WERE MISSING ONE ANOTHER. 523 00:40:21,119 --> 00:40:23,488 THE NEWSPAPER EDITOR GAVE UP HIS PARLOR SO THEY MIGHT MEET 524 00:40:23,488 --> 00:40:30,028 WITHOUT PRYING EYES. >> THEY GET BACK TOGETHER, AND 525 00:40:30,028 --> 00:40:34,966 THEN THEY DO GET MARRIED, BUT THIS WEDDING TAKES PLACE ON ONE 526 00:40:34,966 --> 00:40:37,196 DAY’S NOTICE, WHICH WAS HIGHLY UNUSUAL FOR SOMEBODY LIKE A 527 00:40:37,201 --> 00:40:42,807 MEMBER OF THE TODD FAMILY. >> THEIR RAPID RECONCILIATION 528 00:40:42,807 --> 00:40:45,677 HAS TONGUES WAGGING AROUND SPRINGFIELD. 529 00:40:45,677 --> 00:40:49,747 >> WITHIN NINE MONTHS, EIGHT MONTHS AND THREE WEEKS ACTUALLY, 530 00:40:49,747 --> 00:40:55,247 ROBERT TODD LINCOLN IS BORN. >> PEOPLE ASCRIBE TO IT SOMEHOW 531 00:40:55,253 --> 00:40:57,722 THAT HE WAS BEING SHOTGUNNED TO THE ALTAR. 532 00:40:57,722 --> 00:41:03,292 I DON’T FIND EVIDENCE OF THAT, AND CERTAINLY THEIR MARITAL 533 00:41:03,294 --> 00:41:05,563 HAPPINESS, PARTICULARLY IN THOSE FIRST FEW YEARS IS QUITE 534 00:41:05,563 --> 00:41:11,736 PROFOUND. >> AS THE LINCOLN FAMILY GROWS, 535 00:41:11,736 --> 00:41:14,806 SO DO THEIR POLITICAL ASPIRATIONS. 536 00:41:14,806 --> 00:41:18,976 MARY KNOWS LINCOLN IS DESTINED FOR STARDOM ON THE NATIONAL 537 00:41:18,977 --> 00:41:28,817 STAGE, SO SHE GETS TO WORK GROOMING HIM FOR CONGRESS. 538 00:41:28,820 --> 00:41:30,490 >> 539 00:41:51,476 --> 00:41:53,236 Three Derm‐ingredients in one cream? 540 00:41:53,244 --> 00:41:55,613 Don’t settle for less. 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I’ll show you smoke. 600 00:44:18,556 --> 00:44:19,786 Try the new Smokin’ 601 00:44:19,790 --> 00:44:21,159 Kickin’ Chicken for a limited time. 602 00:44:21,159 --> 00:44:23,289 SFX: [Sounds of everyday life events, 603 00:44:23,294 --> 00:44:26,297 seen and heard in reverse] 604 00:44:26,297 --> 00:44:30,127 ♪ 605 00:44:30,134 --> 00:44:34,038 ♪ 606 00:44:34,038 --> 00:44:36,968 ♪ 607 00:44:36,974 --> 00:44:39,977 ♪ 608 00:44:39,977 --> 00:44:43,177 SFX: [Sounds of FedEx planes and vehicles engines] 609 00:44:43,181 --> 00:44:47,051 ♪ 610 00:44:47,051 --> 00:44:49,187 SFX: [Sounds of children laughing and running, 611 00:44:49,187 --> 00:44:51,057 life moving forward] 612 00:45:40,071 --> 00:45:41,539 >>> IN 1846, MARY GIVES BIRTH TO THE LINCOLNS’ SECOND SON, EDDIE. 613 00:45:41,539 --> 00:45:42,907 SHE CARES FOR THE TWO YOUNG BOYS WHILE LINCOLN TRAVELS THE 614 00:45:42,907 --> 00:45:45,207 JUDICIAL CIRCUIT AND BUILDS HIS POLITICAL CONTACTS. 615 00:45:45,209 --> 00:45:49,509 >> EVEN THOUGH IT KEPT HIM AWAY FROM HIS HOME, WHEN HE GOES OUT 616 00:45:49,513 --> 00:45:55,086 TO PRACTICE LAW ON THE CIRCUIT, HE STAYS THE WEEKEND TO BEFRIEND 617 00:45:55,086 --> 00:45:58,516 PEOPLE. HE VISITS NEWSPAPER OFFICES IN 618 00:45:58,522 --> 00:46:00,658 SURROUNDING TOWNS. >> WHILE LINCOLN’S AMBITIOUS, 619 00:46:00,658 --> 00:46:08,428 MARY IS EVEN MORE AMBITIOUS. AND HER AMBITION IS FOR HIM. 620 00:46:08,432 --> 00:46:11,369 >> MARY LINCOLN RECOGNIZED THAT LINCOLN WAS A DIAMOND, BUT HE 621 00:46:11,369 --> 00:46:15,769 WAS A DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH, AND SHE SAID THAT IT WOULD BE BOTH 622 00:46:15,773 --> 00:46:22,980 BEAUTIFUL AND BRILLIANT TO BE DAILY ENGAGED IN POLISHING. 623 00:46:22,980 --> 00:46:26,850 BUT MARY FOUND IT HARD THAT IN HER VERY FIRST BEAUTIFUL PARLOR 624 00:46:26,851 --> 00:46:28,751 THAT SHE BUILT, SHE WOULD COME IN AND FIND HIM ON THE FLOOR 625 00:46:28,753 --> 00:46:36,327 WITH HIS JACKET OFF. AND WHEN SOMEONE WOULD RING THE 626 00:46:36,327 --> 00:46:39,127 BELL, HE WOULD GO AND GET IT WITHOUT PUTTING ON HIS JACKET, 627 00:46:39,130 --> 00:46:44,969 WITHOUT WAITING FOR A SERVANT. HE TRIED TO LISTEN TO MARY’S 628 00:46:44,969 --> 00:46:54,339 ENTREATIES ABOUT FORM, ABOUT IT GET, 629 00:46:54,345 --> 00:46:57,081 ETIQUETTE, BUT HE FOUND IT SOMETHING HE COULD LAUGH AT. 630 00:46:57,081 --> 00:47:01,686 BUT MARY, AGAIN, WAS VERY ASTUTE AND SHE KEPT PUSHING AND 631 00:47:01,686 --> 00:47:04,146 PUSHING. >> IN 1846, MARY PUSHED HIM TO 632 00:47:04,155 --> 00:47:10,061 RUN FOR CONGRESS, AND HE WON. >> WHEN LINCOLN WAS ELECTED TO 633 00:47:10,061 --> 00:47:13,661 CONGRESS, MARY DIDN’T SIT AT HOME WITH HER FAMILY, WHICH WAS 634 00:47:13,664 --> 00:47:16,434 THE CUSTOM. MARY SAID WE’RE GOING TO 635 00:47:16,434 --> 00:47:23,841 WASHINGTON. >> IN DECEMBER 1847, WITH HIS 636 00:47:23,841 --> 00:47:27,911 WIFE AND TWO CHILDREN IN TOW, 38‐YEAR‐OLD ABRAHAM LINCOLN 637 00:47:27,912 --> 00:47:31,582 ARRIVES IN THE NATION’S CAPITOL FOR THE FIRST TIME. 638 00:47:31,582 --> 00:47:35,586 THEY MOVE INTO A WHIG BOARDING HOUSE. 639 00:47:35,586 --> 00:47:40,016 >> IT WAS NOT AS LUXURIOUS AND COMMODIOUS AS IT IS TODAY FOR 640 00:47:40,024 --> 00:47:43,828 MEMBERS OF CONGRESS. THE LINCOLNS LIVED FOUR PEOPLE 641 00:47:43,828 --> 00:47:45,528 IN A ROOM. IT WAS PRETTY CROWDED AND PRETTY 642 00:47:45,529 --> 00:47:49,567 CRAMPED. MARY DID NOT GET ALONG WITH 643 00:47:49,567 --> 00:47:52,567 EVERYBODY ELSE IN THE BOARDING HOUSE. 644 00:47:52,570 --> 00:47:55,106 >> YOU HAD TO BE AT THE TABLE AT A PARTICULAR TIME. 645 00:47:55,106 --> 00:48:02,946 MARY WAS NOT SO GOOD AT THAT. HER SOCIAL CIRCUIT WAS LIMITED. 646 00:48:02,947 --> 00:48:09,487 HER TIME WITH HER HUSBAND WAS LESS THAN SHE HAD HOPED. 647 00:48:09,487 --> 00:48:12,556 AND THE BOARDING HOUSE WAS NOT THE LIFE FOR TWO YOUNG CHILDREN, 648 00:48:12,556 --> 00:48:18,826 AND SHE GOT QUITE EXHAUSTED AND ACTUALLY LEFT, WENT BACK TO 649 00:48:18,829 --> 00:48:20,429 LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY, HER HOMETOWN, WHERE HER FATHER 650 00:48:20,431 --> 00:48:30,107 LIVED. >> AND THEN OF COURSE LINCOLN IS 651 00:48:30,107 --> 00:48:37,747 LONELY. HE WAS UNHAPPY WHEN SHE WAS 652 00:48:37,748 --> 00:48:39,917 THERE, AND HE WAS UNHAPPY WHEN SHE WAS GONE. 653 00:48:39,917 --> 00:48:42,186 AND MAYBE THAT’S THE STORY OF THEIR MARRIAGE. 654 00:48:42,186 --> 00:48:45,956 THEY NEVER QUITE FIGURED OUT A WAY TO BALANCE. 655 00:48:45,956 --> 00:48:52,696 >> WITH MARY AND THE BOYS GONE, LINCOLN IS COMPLETELY CONSUMED 656 00:48:52,696 --> 00:49:01,036 BY HIS POLITICAL CAREER. >> LINCOLN GOES TO WASHINGTON IN 657 00:49:01,038 --> 00:49:03,668 THE CONTEXT OF THE MEXICAN‐AMERICAN WAR, WHICH 658 00:49:03,674 --> 00:49:06,944 BRINGS INTO THE UNION THIS REALLY RATHER LARGE CHUNK OF THE 659 00:49:06,944 --> 00:49:09,213 SOUTHWEST. AND THE QUESTION WAS WHERE 660 00:49:09,213 --> 00:49:13,551 SLAVERY WAS GOING TO BE, WHERE IT WOULD NOT BE AND HOW COULD IT 661 00:49:13,551 --> 00:49:17,087 EXPAND OR NOT EXPAND. >> LINCOLN HAD BEEN STAUNCHLY 662 00:49:17,087 --> 00:49:19,356 AGAINST THE EXPANSION OF SLAVERY. 663 00:49:19,356 --> 00:49:22,056 BUT WHILE IN CONGRESS, HE MAKES HIS FIRST ATTEMPT TO ERADICATE 664 00:49:22,059 --> 00:49:29,066 IT RIGHT ON HIS DOORSTEP. >> WASHINGTON WAS VERY MUCH A 665 00:49:29,066 --> 00:49:31,226 SLAVE CITY. SLAVERY WAS NOT ONLY LEGAL, IT 666 00:49:31,235 --> 00:49:34,004 WAS THRIVING. IF YOU LOOKED OUTSIDE THE 667 00:49:34,004 --> 00:49:38,375 WINDOWS ON THE UPPER FLOORS OF THE HOUSE CHAMBER, YOU COULD SEE 668 00:49:38,375 --> 00:49:45,015 A SLAVE PEN BELOW WHERE HUMAN BEINGS WERE KEPT IN CAGES. 669 00:49:45,015 --> 00:49:48,015 >> LINCOLN COMES OFF WITH A PLAN FOR THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY IN 670 00:49:48,018 --> 00:49:53,588 WASHINGTON, D.C. KIND OF MODERATE PLAN. 671 00:49:53,591 --> 00:49:58,028 SLAVE HOLD WORRIES BE PAID FAIR MARKET VALUE FOR THEIR SLAVES. 672 00:49:58,028 --> 00:50:03,098 SLAVES WHO WERE ALREADY ENSLAVED WITH STAY ENSLAVED, BUT THE 673 00:50:03,100 --> 00:50:04,430 YOUNGSTERS WHO WERE BORN WOULD BECOME FREE. 674 00:50:04,435 --> 00:50:13,377 >> IRONICALLY HE’S STOPPED BY 675 00:50:13,377 --> 00:50:16,477 FELLOW WHIGS, A CONGRESSMAN INTRODUCED HIS OWN LET’S GET RID 676 00:50:16,480 --> 00:50:19,617 OF SLAVERY IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA BILL, AND HE MOCKED 677 00:50:19,617 --> 00:50:23,617 LINCOLN’S BILL ON THE FLOOR. HE SAID THAT THE PROVISION IN 678 00:50:23,621 --> 00:50:27,558 LINCOLN’S BILL, WHICH WOULD REQUIRE THE SLAVE HOLDERS IN 679 00:50:27,558 --> 00:50:31,228 WASHINGTON TO APPROVE THE EMANCIPATION OF THEIR SLAVES WAS 680 00:50:31,228 --> 00:50:33,697 RIDICULOUS, AND IT WAS KIND OF RIDICULOUS. 681 00:50:33,697 --> 00:50:38,967 BOTH BILLS FAILED. >> LINCOLN CLEARLY UNDERSTOOD 682 00:50:38,969 --> 00:50:42,539 THAT SLAVERY WAS WRONG, YOU KNOW, BUT AT THAT TIME HISTORY 683 00:50:42,540 --> 00:50:46,710 CALLED FOR ACTION, RISKS AND THE HISTORICAL RECORD DOESN’T REALLY 684 00:50:46,710 --> 00:50:52,480 SHOW LINCOLN AS SOMEBODY WHO WAS REALLY TAKING TOO MANY RISKS. 685 00:50:52,483 --> 00:50:57,121 >> AS HIS UNEVENTFUL TERM IN CONGRESS COMES TO AN END, 686 00:50:57,121 --> 00:51:01,058 ABRAHAM LINCOLN SCRAMBLES FOR HIS NEXT POLITICAL PLAY. 687 00:51:01,058 --> 00:51:03,458 >> BY PREVIOUS POLITICAL CONTRACT, THE AGREEMENT WAS 688 00:51:03,460 --> 00:51:06,630 LINCOLN WOULD SERVE ONE TERM AND ANOTHER WHIG WOULD BE NOMINATED 689 00:51:06,630 --> 00:51:12,436 AT HOME IN 1848 TO SUCCEED HIM, AND SO HE SPENDS TIME 690 00:51:12,436 --> 00:51:16,336 CAMPAIGNING FOR ZACHARY TAYLOR FOR PRESIDENT. 691 00:51:16,340 --> 00:51:20,978 >> HE WAS A WAR HERO WHO HAD NO POLITICAL BACKGROUND, NO 692 00:51:20,978 --> 00:51:22,278 POLITICAL INTEREST, NO POLITICAL STANCE. 693 00:51:22,279 --> 00:51:24,848 HE WAS A SLAVE HOLDER FROM LOUISIANA, BUT HE WAS REGARDED 694 00:51:24,848 --> 00:51:27,918 AS A WHIG CANDIDATE WHO COULD WIN. 695 00:51:27,918 --> 00:51:32,256 >> LINCOLN ABANDONED HIS PRINCIPLES TO SUPPORT TAYLOR FOR 696 00:51:32,256 --> 00:51:37,026 THE NOMINATION. >> HE SAID, WELL, HE’S NOT AN 697 00:51:37,027 --> 00:51:40,627 IDEAL ANTI‐SLAVERY CANDIDATE, BUT HE’S A LOT BETTER THAN THE 698 00:51:40,631 --> 00:51:42,800 DEMOCRATS. >> AND ON ELECTION DAY, ZACHARY 699 00:51:42,800 --> 00:51:49,506 TAYLOR WINS AND ABRAHAM LINCOLN SAYS I WANT TO BE COMMISSIONER 700 00:51:49,506 --> 00:51:50,766 OF THE LAND OFFICE. 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