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Pres. Abraham Lincoln became the first wire president by embracing the original electronic messaging technology. The telegraph, the 16th president may be remembered for soaring oratory that started the but the nearly 1000 bite-size telegrams that he wrote during his presidency helped win the Civil War by projecting presidential power and unprecedented fashion.

The federal government have been slow to adopt the telegraph after Samuel Morse's first successful test message. In 18 for prior to the Civil War federal employees who how to send a telegram from the nation's capital how to wait in line with the rest of the public at the city Central telegraph office days after the apartment of Fort Sumter, Andrew Carnegie future industrialist who at the time was superintendent of the Pittsburgh division sent the following orders Robert Superintendent, telegraph, send forth your best operators to Washington.

I once prepared to enter government telegraph service for four men would be the first of the 1500 called in the service of the newly created US military telegraph wire coils on the backs of the core undertook a dangerous worker crossing battlefield delay more than 15,000 miles of telegraph wires on fences and bushes that allowed news from the front lines to be transmitted nearly instantaneously telegraph office established inside the old library of the apartment building adjacent to the White House in March 1862 Lincoln keen interest in technology only American president with Pat more of his presidency, and the more departments telegraph office anywhere else outside of the White House as Pres. Craig knowledge he tried a well-worn path across the executive mansion to launch the war Department to monitor the latest intelligence arriving in dots and dashes. David Homer Bates, one of the four original members of the US military telegraph Corps recounted in his book, Lincoln and the telegraph several times a day. The president sat down telegraph office desk window, read through a fresh stack of incoming telegrams, which he called lightning messages as telegraph keys chattered pure over the shoulders of the operator to scribble down incoming messages converted from Morse code.

He visited the office nearly every night for turning in and slept on a cot during pivotal battles not made a great first impression upon Bates and the other telegraph operators. He seemed uncouth and awkward and he did not conform to our ideas of what a president should be based more time the president spent the telegraph office more, their impressions changed. He would dare relax from the strain and care ever present at the White House and while waiting for first dispatches while they were being deciphered would make running comments or tell his new mobile stories. I soon forgot his awkward appearance came to think of him as a very attractive and indeed lovable person.

Major ADH Johnson remembered he came over from the White House several times a day and thrusting his long arm down among the messages fish them out one by one and write that he had a habit of sitting frequently on the edge of his chair with his right knee dragged down to the floor. Bates also called on Lincoln that in the intervals of waiting he would write messages of inquiry, counsel and encouragement to the generals in the field to the governors of the loyal states sometimes dispatches announcing Parton for reprieve to soldiers under sentence of death for desertion or sleeping on post Lincoln even communicated by telegraph with his family when they were away from the nation's capital. One time when traveling in New York City.

Mary Lincoln wired her husband asking for $50 and news of their young sons petticoats at the White House we can telegram back tell town to goats and father very well, especially the gaps as his family learn Lincoln would be very direct in his communications channel such as George McCall sent 10 page Mrs. president replied in 3 to 4 sentences. Telegraph allow the president to act as a true commander-in-chief by issuing commands to a generals and directing the movement of forces in nearly real time. For the first time a national leader Virtual battlefront conversations with his military officers, the lack of interstate telegraph lines in the South precluded Confederate Pres. Jefferson Davis from doing the same. Lincoln wasn't shy about stepping in and asserting his thoughts on telegrams.

I want even addressed to him when Gen. Ulysses S. Grant rejected Jalan Henry Hallett suggestion to remove troops from the siege of Petersburg in 1864 the president lent this support after reading their communications along with a bulldog rep and chew and choke as much as possible to link in the telegraph office was not just a 19th-century command center by sanctuary from the throng to descend upon the White House every day in search of jobs and favors. I come here to escape my persecutors Lincoln quick to telegraph officer Albert B. Chandler telling homespun tales and cracking jokes. The president befriended the officers, telegraph operators, when user grants capture Vicksburg, Mississippi arrived by wire in 1863, Lincoln flouted regulations about beer for the operators drinking a sexy toast with the Charles telegram in his hand on April 8, 1865 Lincoln himself telegraph the office from city point Virginia when user grants capture Richmond a week later the telegraph office broke the devastating news of Lincoln's assassination to the nation as a tapped out the message that Secretary of War Edwin Stanton wrote for the president stepped out across the street from Ford's theater. Abraham Lincoln died this morning at 7:22 and a great job as always to Greg Dengler for the production on the piece. Special thanks to Christopher Klein, Abraham Lincoln, the first wired president here on our American stories, folks, if you love the stories we tell about this great country and especially the stories of America's rich past. Know that all of our stories about American history from word innovation culture and faith are brought to us by the great folks at Hillsdale College placement. Students study all the things that are beautiful in life and all the things in life if you can get the Hillsdale will come to you with a free and terrific online courses go to Hillsdale.edu to learn more doing household chores can Artie be time-consuming and there's nothing more daunting than facing piles and piles of laundry that need to be done can be overwhelming for anyone. If you want to get those larger laundry loads down right and get back to your life. Try all free clear maggot packs all three clear mega packs are bigger packs two times the cleaning ingredients compared to a regular pack so that you can tackle any laundry load without the worry free, clear, mega packs are also 100% free of perfumes and dyes and their dental and skin which is great for any family sensitive skin needs my family.

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Larry, president emeritus of the foundation for economic education with it was on the morning of January 3, 1920 Americans woke up to discover just how little their own government regarded cherished Bill of Rights was during the night some 4000 of their fellow citizens were rounded up and jailed for what amounted in most cases no good reason at all and no due process.

This was the worst night of the Palmer raids largely forgotten today. Unfortunately, they shouldn't be, they were horrific, shameful episode in American history. One of was moments from liberty since King George III quarter troops in private homes during the wee hours of January 3, 1920, literally shocked and frightened Americans from coast-to-coast.

But to understand why the Palmer raids occurred understand the times in which they happened and know about the other infractions on civil liberties that occurred in tandem with them during this time, roughly from the start of the first world war, American entry, I should say World War I and in 1920, there was widespread suppression of speech prints location.

The Wilson ministration to that many Americans were conflicted about whether or not we should first world war. So as a response to that it launched a sweeping propaganda to instill hatred of both the German enemy abroad in disloyalty at home.

Wilson himself publicly stated that disloyalty to the war effort. Quote must be crushed out and disloyal citizens had sacrificed their rights and civil liberties like free speech and expression under intense pressure from the president, the Congress passed the espionage act, any person who made quote false reports or false statements with intent to interfere with the official war effort could be punished with 20 years in prison or a fine of $10,000 and today's money that would be about 1/4 million. It was amended in May 1918, by the sedition act, which made the repression even worse. That made it a crime to write or speak anything disloyal or abusive about the government about the Constitution, the flag or US military uniform. Just imagine how arbitrary such a provision in law is how all of the mentation of it is as it was totally arbitrary and quite abusive towards a lot of people. A good example of the administration's repression concerns the Hutterites the Hutterites were pacifists of religious to me today in the upper Great Plains primarily North and South Dakota, and his administration.

Wilson's harassed and imprisoned Hutterite man who oppose the draft. Two of them were actually killed in federal custody. Finally, the Hutterites did what they been forced to do so many times in their history picked up and left the entire population of Hutterites in America. An estimated 11,000 left the country and migrated to Canada.

Wilson's Atty. Gen. strongly encouraged Americans to spy on each other. He wanted them to become what he called volunteer detectives and report every suspicion to the Justice Department and in a matter of months. The department was receiving about 1500 accusations of disloyalty every single day and time. The postmaster general Albert Burlison jumped the cause with both feet.

He ordered that local postmasters must send him any publications they discovered that might embarrass the government the post office even began destroying certain mail instead of delivery of even banning certain magazines altogether.

In one case an issue of particular periodical was outlawed for no reason that it suggested that the war be paid for by taxes instead of loans. Rev. Clarence Waldron is a great example of how personal this repression was distributed a pamphlet claiming that the war was unchristian and that's all he did and for that he was sentenced to 15 years. In another case, there was a filmmaker named Robert Goldstein and he got a 10 year prison sentence for producing a movie about the American Revolution was called the spirit of 76 is crime was depicting the British in a negative light, which, of course, and 7617 76. They were on the other side. They were allies. Now, so that sort of thing was a no-no. The administration was violating the rule of law by throwing the First Amendment to the curb in order to advance their political position which you can't do because were nation of laws.

Another dramatic violation of the rule of law was the Palmer raids themselves, which violated the right to due process for many people who had done nothing wrong. The Palmer raids really describe a couple different days to months apart. Their name for Wilson's Atty. Gen. Mitchell Palmer, but he states the first of the race.

On November 7, 1919 and he had J Edgar Hoover we know is, of course, the longtime head of the FBI had a young J Edgar Hoover spearheading the operation and federal agents scooped up hundreds of alleged radicals, subversives, communists, anarchists, undesirable legal immigrants in 12 cities on that November 1919 day alone some 650 in New York City.

Now this second round of Palmer raids was the bigger one was January 2, 1920, that very night in the wee hours of the next morning.

That was when the largest and most aggressive batch of federal raids was carried out. It was a night of terror about 4000 arrests across 23 states often without legitimate search warrants. The arrestees were frequently tossed into makeshift jails and substandard conditions, leftist and leftist organizations.

When the targets would even visitors to the meeting halls were caught up in the dragnet meetings and police stations were not uncommon.

Atty. Gen. Mr. Palmer actually said, quote some of my agents out in the field were a little rough and unkind, or short and curt with these alien agitators.

I think it might well be overlooked.

Well he overlooked things like the First Amendment as well. First Amendment to the nicest Constitution is the bedrock of American liberty. Everything flows from that because the First Amendment says very specifically, Congress shall make no law, not some law, not a case of a law that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for redress of grievances. Little part of that the prohibition against abridging the freedom of speech and of the press is pivotal once freedoms of speech and press are muzzled by a government does not typically stop there. And so to me the First Amendment is so critically important in so few people in the history of the world have been afforded the kind of protections. It is supposed to guarantee we know from experience under the Wilson administration that government can take an inch. It will and it will take a mile beyond.

Fortunately, the new administration came into office and got rid of a lot of stuff we should look back and be able to say to ourselves that is a frightful experience in the repression of civil liberties, First Amendment prohibited and will not let that ever happened. And special thanks to Larry Reed of the foundation for economic education and what a story about the Palmer raids developed here quote I disapprove of what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it is with the First Amendment is really all about our rule of law series. The Palmer raids story about government power, government abuse here on our American stories doing household chores can Artie be time-consuming and there's nothing more daunting than facing piles and piles of laundry that need to be dine can be overwhelming for anyone. If you want to get those larger laundry loads down right and get back to your life. Try all three clear maggot packs all three clear mega packs are bigger packs two times the cleaning ingredients compared to a regular pack so that you can tackle any laundry load without the worry all three clear mega packs are also 100% free of perfumes and dyes and time skin which is great for any family sensitive skin needs my family. We definitely have sentence again the next time the whole family gets home from long vacation or you get the kids back from summer camp or whatever the situation is. That's because this big pile of dirty clothes. All three clear maggot packs purchase all three clear mega packs today and conquer any laundry load for all fabric types you guys, this is Tori Johnny with the 90210 MG podcasts we have such a special episode brought to you by near attack ODT.

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I was present amazing time of our conversation with some of our closest friends & was brought to you by near attack ODT were meant to plant 75 mg life with migraine attacks can mean missing out on big moments with friends and family only near attack ODT were meant to plant 75 mg is the only medication that is proven to treat a migraine attack and prevent episodic migraines else cell lively event like window tango down have to be next to millions will make Medicare coverage decisions for next year and United healthcare can help you feel confident about your choices for those eligible Medicare annual enrollment runs from October 15 through December 7. If you're working past age 65. You might be able to delay Medicare enrollment. Depending on your employer coverage. It can seem confusing, but it doesn't have to be UHC Medicare health plans.com to learn more United healthcare helping people live healthier lives, and we returned our American stories next story from a regular contributor Timmons from Connecticut entitled uncle Bob's last take it away. His kitchen table reflecting on my life. Sleep wiped out in the last days of his bout with cancer just been diagnosed on April 8. It was now May 10 ticket needed to go to work and left me to sit with. I arrived in Louisville on May 8 for final visit and help in any way I could open my laptop to do some work better, and instead open the story I'd written about the first visit with our kids to Louisville 2006 – of motion overcame me. As I read the story. We eventually made three more summer trips to see but every one of them was a precious time since I'd arrived, but it slept much of the time when tension the time I visit.

When he was still comfortable failed he could muster up the strength to sit with me and talk a few hours each day.

I labored over what to discuss with him. I wondered what he would want to talk about. I let him take the lead as much as he wanted, and initiated some discussions about topics I wanted to discuss from a list I made when he first broke the news to me one morning that labor ceased. I heard but staring down he had gotten into the shower after he finished and returned to bed, pulled up a chair beside it. About the time he said how you doing son. I broke down trying to control my emotions. I looked away and sensed him waiting for it to pass. Once it did. I told him that what I liked about writing was the fact I can look back at what I've written. See what I was thinking at the time and see the change between then and now asked what a change from that.

We launched into a two hour conversation. It was wonderful. It was relaxing there was no labor discussed what matters most. I told him that part of his influence on my life was that he had done his best to impart what he had learned from life to me that it shaped the way I think it was an impressive feat on his part. Given the fact that while we are similar in temperament. We are drastically different in some core beliefs.

When I saw he was tiring and as the time approached for the hospice nurse to arrive.

I left him to rest. The nurse arrived a little late, but once she left, but wanted to talk more. We set another few hours and he poured out more thoughts. Many of them about his struggles with his relationship with his father. This will become a routine over the next day but would rest in bed and muster the strength to either get up or have me sit by side and talk many of the conversations revolved around the major events and relationships that shaped his life molded his thinking and drove him to do certain things. We discussed how the tingle blood from his grandfather Asher had been passed on to his father lives, but to me through my mother and now to my sons Elias and Asher.

That blood seems to produce very complicated, multifaceted man, we could put her fingers on that imprint and every one of the man I just mentioned. As we talked, I could easily identify the tingle influence in my life, that blood produces men seem to end up carrying a great minds. It creates and the actions it tends to lead us to. We talked about how that weight was finally lifted at least partially in the life of the age of 44.

He described it as being freed from a chain free from bondage having that great weight lifted off his shoulders. The conservative mind of what to discuss with my uncle resolve itself. We both wanted to discuss the same thing.

The things that had the greatest impact on our lives. Things that shaped who we become. I made it clear that he had done a great deal to shape who I had become. Among the many influences in my life. Part of who I am has to do with our tingle blood part of it has to do with his lifelong attempt to share what he had learned in life I felt like in these last days he wanted reassurance yet accomplished a positive influence to some degree, it was easy for me to in these last conversations he was reminding me of who I yes I am a Timmons and that influences for another story, but I'm also tingle. I've understood that influence since my teenage years and talking about it only became more apparent.

We have our thoughts yes but working through those thoughts makes us better men. The very act of working through them makes us stronger.

I'd come to help but think in Bud's last days.

Instead, it was, but helped me. He reminded me that it takes a lifetime to complete the work of influencing those around us is slow and calculated work requires great patience and determination.

When the work is done we can rest knowing we have completed the task. It was his last great gift. Thank you. The day before I was to leave I asked whether the timing of my departure was wondering whether I should linger a while longer. He said there is life in your home that you need to attend to hear there is you need to go home. While I conceded that the time to return home was right. I disagree with the idea that here there is there is only the passing of your physical body. Your life will continue to be with us works a lifetime to make sure that Andy great job on the production by Monty Montgomery in a beautiful piece of storytelling about Brent Timmons's uncle Bud and by the way, if you enjoyed this story.

You can find Prince other stories as well of all our stories on our American stories.com. We love to hear stories that are more eulogies than anything else in remembrances, and particularly in these most core relationships in our lives is father Mrs. Mother's Day siblings's aunts and uncles and grandparents because this is where most learning occurs for much of the fundamental learning in our lives occurs. If you have any photo story send them again to our American stories.com. You are the stars of the show to you, our listeners Timmons story about his uncle Bud's last days here on America's all doing household chores can Artie be time-consuming and there's nothing more daunting than facing piles and piles of laundry that need to be done can be overwhelming for anyone. If you want to get those larger laundry loads done right and get back to your life. Try all three clear maggot packs all three clear mega packs are bigger packs two times the cleaning ingredients compared to a regular pack so that you can tackle any laundry load without the worry all three clear mega packs are also 100% free of perfumes and dyes and their dental and skin which is great for any family sensitive skin needs my family.

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The age of 60 some months ago I went to see someone about a horse 30s screwball comedies. That phrase meant stepping out for drink in my case, that wasn't my intention, never written in my life I've been moved by two things. First, by personal loss now is in the past. Grief overcame my loathing of change.

Second concern that I spent my life writing about other people's lives rather than living my own that may be untrue as I've had a few ventures but the worry prayed on me. I knew I was comfortable with domestic animals. Despite the barrier of language. I knew other ways in which I could communicate respect and affection for a thinking creature with whom I could not speak.

Mother was a long time fascination with obsolescent technologies, sailing ships and steam locomotives things that work that have proven uneconomical against the internal combustion engine. I was intrigued by the notion that their operation and maintenance were becoming a lost arts and so the horse, which had remained commonplace transportation into my father's youth some 80 years ago, which for a cavalryman that the charge meant delivering a living projectile 1200 pounds of mass in 3 feet of steel charging at 30 mph over 30 years ago. I've been a staff officer in regard I've known a number of older men whose careers have begun in the pre-armored cavalry. I remembered one retired colonel met at a funeral. When he stepped out of his cabin faultless dress blues decorations and saber with riding boots, spurs and pinks breaches in the shade of khaki that looked almost pain in the sunlight.

The last three being no longer in the uniform regulations. Somebody had asked him whether he'd been in the Army brusquely replied no cavalry. In those days. This eccentricity of apparel was his privilege as he had been trained to ride horses into battle sword in hand in the cavalry was romantic memory in the Army an extra in the Errol Flynn version of the charge of the light brigade colonel was not a sensitive man. And yet, I was struck that is discussed is became a cavalryman of the studio's treatment of its horses at least 25 of which have been frivolously killed picture.

These interests intersect in early 2017.

How do humans and horses work together could I deal with an animal five times my size. What was the physical experience of writing that I take a horse to a trot. A counter gallop taking over a fence. It was as much about my character, perhaps even the courage to get back in the saddle after being thrown was as much about knowledge of myself as of the so I went to Stoddard New Hampshire where I met Julio is stable is owned by a woman whose writings on equestrian is him led me to think that she was inclined to unsentimental and affectionate relationship between horse and rider. This appeal to me. The basis of any relationship between horse and rider.

Scintillating grooming feeling joy at having his hooves cleaned and curry combs and then brush with hard medium and soft brushes then went over his mane and tail with a steel brush. About 45 minutes after which Julio nudged me with his muzzle and then kissed me on the right cheek. This was the first time I've been kissed by mail five times my weight. It did not terrify me instructor guided me in saddling the horse, which is a time-consuming and necessary process for the comfort and safety of horse and rider and lent me a helmet.

I was already in an old pair of chinos and rubber Wellington boots which had enough of a heel to keep me safely in the stirrups helmet intrigued me.

Having read and reflected on Marcus Aurelius's meditations. I didn't particularly mind dying after taking a header, whatever is intended for me thereafter is beyond my control, and the gods mean me know evil but as a lover, husband and gentlemen, I would not want Mimi to have a drooling idiot on her hands for the next three decades solo. The helmet was uncomfortably snug. I wore my instructor insisted that I place myself on Julio's left right when fiddling with his hind hooves, hindquarters or whatever. I thought of Copenhagen, not the Danish city, the Duke of Wellington's charger at Waterloo after the day of battle. Duke had dismounted exhausted from some 20 hours in the saddle writing from unit to unit throughout the day to observe command and inspire us on the rump while the horse is a prey animal. He prefers to run but he can defend himself. Think of this from Copenhagen's point of view. Yeah, lots of noisy stuff today.

Okay bullets whizzing by. Okay cannonball flies over my neck and takes off the nice guy to my left. Okay general to my right, losing his leg to another cannonball. Okay one day.

Lots of stress. Okay Copenhagen.

It had all been okay will horses like to work it's there, Copenhagen had been trained to work in battle, remain calm amidst gunfire calls and screaming. On that day as on many before he had done his job as the Duke later said of him using a word that English means God's there may have been many faster horses. No doubt many handsome or bottom, and endurance. I never saw his fellow if the Duke unsentimental man had not himself been worn out since the Copenhagen to had spent the day suppressing his fear of shot and shell practicing that quality we call courage, touch, surprise the horse who lashed out with both highlight happily for the Duke, he missed anyway I went Julio from the barn to the mounting block and listening to my instructor every inch of the way climbed up put my left foot in the stirrup and hoisted myself into the saddle took more effort than I expected but then I was about to turn 62 with my instructors help.

I put my right foot into the stirrup then as directed by the instructor. I squeezed my legs and Julio began walking, a writer must move in with them with the horse as a beginner I had years of learning. We walked for a bit along the muddy path than the instructor had me press my legs together again. Julio began trotting. This is how one learns how to ride is about an inch above the saddle and came down hard. I thought my seat had been shoved into my I wonder whether Theodore Roosevelt had felt like this as he trotted little Texas up San Juan Hill in 1898. I didn't think so having some self-respect. I didn't scream. Instead, I took a deep breath, which Julio has been trained to know is a signal to stop and I learned to make him turn his left side and he turns right press his right side and he turns left into circle.

I remember once hearing someone explain left star turned to the right right spur turn to the left will I would prefer not to spur a horse, it's still good to know. All horses will test you to see whether you are ready to take command. If you are not, they will take command for their own safety and the writer may become merely an inconvenient ornament to be discarded as quickly as possible. Once Julio realized that I was gently determined command had some physical courage and had no foolish intentions. He deferred as his nature. Once he realizes writer is in control. I think we'll get along then I took him back to the stable bodily dismounting was more intimidating than the rest of the process. I successfully took my right foot out of the stirrup, pulled my right leg up and over Julio's back with my weight on the left stirrup loose my left foot and dropped felt might be more accurate.

Some 3 feet to the ground, so I know something about caring for horse and how to direct him. I know how much I have to learn before I can understand what a writer needs to know. I know enough to know my ignorance, which is always good.

Someday I may even be a horseman and what a delightful story by Bill break and daring thing to do in your early 60s we fall harder when you're older and you're gonna fall. That's just what's gonna happen if you ride a horse. It was as much about knowledge of self, knowledge of the animal. Bill said, and that is true, that is a big part of that game is commanding the horse and doing it without speaking, no breaks, daring new hobby riding horses beautiful story Bill break story here on our American story millions will make Medicare coverage decisions for next year and UnitedHealth care can help you feel confident about your choices for those eligible Medicare annual enrollment runs from October 15 through December 7. If you're working past age 65. You might be able to delay Medicare enrollment. Depending on your employer coverage. It can seem confusing, but it doesn't have to be this UHC Medicare health plans.com to learn more United healthcare helping people live healthier lives.

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