EP278: Robert Todd Lincoln: In His Father's Shadow, Don't Wear Slippers to a Job Interview and He Made Paper Airplanes His Full Time Job

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Some of our favorites and all of our history work is brought to us by the great folks at Hillsdale College. By the way, go to Hillsdale.edu sign up for their terrific and free online courses story comes to us from a man who simply known as the history guy's videos watched by hundreds of thousands of people of all ages over on you to history guys also heard here in our American stories in this next story guy remembers the 16th president. Some Robert Todd Lincoln because of his father Lincoln Robert Todd's life has been largely forgotten years on April 9, 1865 Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered the Virginia Union Gen. Ulysses S Grant. Following the defeat of the competitive Army at the Battle of Courthouse surrendered in the parlor of a home owned by a man named William McLean and they were witnessed by both Grant and Lee's staff. The last survivor among those witnesses lived all the way until 1926 and by coincidence, was a very famous person. One of the most important statesmen of his day. Robert Todd Lincoln was Abraham Lincoln's firstborn son, and the only one Lincoln's children survive to adulthood. His younger brother Edward died of a fever, just the three Robert grew up at a time when his father was practicing law on the circuit. Thus was probably gone most of the time and so the relationship was distance.

Not very close once noted that his most good memories of his father growing up was Abraham packing his saddlebags. By the time that Robert's father was elected president, Robert was attending Harvard University.

He described his father's been so busy that they scarcely had 10 minutes quiet time together during his entire presidency graduated Harvard in 1864. Briefly attended law school there. He felt compelled to join the Union army and share the risk that everybody else was taking at first. His mother resisted his little brother Willie had died in the White House of a fever. In 1862 and his mother Mary Todd Lincoln feared that she could not withstand another loss but Robert eventually prevailed and his father asked Gen. Grant if Robert could be assigned to his staff. Robert was made an assistant to the rank of captain and that is why he was present witnessed Lee's surrender traveled to Washington to visit his parents on April 15 and invited him to go to the theater with, but he declined. He had been traveling on horseback all day and needed a rest and so Robert narrowly missed his father's assassination. Robert moved with his mother and his younger brother to Chicago and he continued his law stocks.

He was admitted to the bar in 1867 in 1868 he married the daughter of United States Sen.

They had three children. In 1876. Robert was elected town supervisor of the town of South Chicago. What town it was eventually absorbed into the city of Chicago. That was his only elected office of his career in 1877 he was offered the position of assistant Secretary of State by Pres. Rupert B.

Hayes, but he declined. Although he remained active in Republican politics, and then in 1881 he accepted a cabinet appointment as Secretary of War in the new cabinet of Pres. James Garfield. He was with Garfield in the train station in July 1881 and witnessed Garfield's assassination, Robert continued to serve as Secretary of War in the cabinet of Pres. Chester Arthur where he was involved in many military reforms he left the position in 1885 and then in 1889 he was appointed to the important position of minister to the United Kingdom under Pres. Benjamin Harrison. He served for four years when he returns United States.

He became General Counsel of the Pullman Palace car company at the world-famous maker of railway cars and when the founder George Poland died in 1897 Robert was made president of the Pullman car company he served in that position until 1911 when he left due to ill health, but he stayed on as chairman of the board clear until 1922, despite his very accomplished life Robert Todd Lincoln is often remembered for three things.

The first was a coincidence. Somewhere in 1863 or 1864 Robert Todd Lincoln was riding a train from New York City to Washington DC and while in Jersey City, New Jersey.

He was bumped off the train platform, landing in the dangerous spot between the platform and the train a stranger reached down and pulled him out. And when Robert looked up he realized that his Savior was the most famous actor of the day and Edwin Booth. Only later did Edwin Booth find out that the young man that he had saved was Pres. Lincoln's son, and that is said to have offered Edwin Booth some solace as he was personally devastated when his younger brother John Wilkes Booth murdered Lincoln second in 1875, Robert had his mother Mary Todd Lincoln committed to an asylum. He was concerned about erratic behavior after the death of his younger brother Taft the age of 18.

Mary was able to get some letters out to her attorney who was able to convince Robert to let her leave the asylum and live with her sister, but it included some public embarrassment for Robert and he and his mother never fully reconciled and finally Robert Todd Lincoln is sometimes described as being somewhat unlucky because of his proximity to three presidential assassinations. He just missed his father's assassination.

He was there when James a Garfield was assassinated and he was just getting off the train going to visit Pres. William McKinley when McKinley was shot in 1901, he was there for three presidential assassinations because he was proximate to power during a tumultuous time but Robert Todd Lincoln lived an extraordinary life. He was born poor and it found great success and died very wealthy. He was an elder statesman. He was a leader in his party, who was suggested as a candidate for president or vice president many times but always declined.

He was the president of one of the largest corporations in the country. He was likely one of the most accomplished men of his era.

His last public appearance was May 30, 1922 when he appeared with Pres. Warren G. Harding and former president and chief justice of the Supreme Court, William Howard Taft at the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial. He passed away in 1926, just a few days shy of his 83rd birthday and started he deserves to be remembered as more than just his father son and those words are true and spoken beautifully by the history guide.

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This is our American stories, and now we bring you a story from Joshua text door to listen to his entire story in our website. Our American stories.com. It's a great one, but overcoming hardship and taking responsibility for your life. Today we bring you a piece of his story begins after Josh decided to own up on alcohol dependency moved to Nashville that married and take his own life into his own hands on a Sunday and I had a job that Wednesday was working that following Monday and then I ever since that day and that was almost 3 years ago, so I interviewed for FedEx United Parcel Service factory and UPS deftly went after the Postal Service is that there always hirelings I get a job that I got there from going to the post office. I hated it.

Hated hated hated hated to the pearlescent out money.

I would never ever have to do this. Never again be in a package handler at a post office distribution center sucks is the worst job ever and then, yes, I'll make a $16 an hour. What you work for a single penny you earn every single penny from working as a package handler and I was on one of the harder lines because they just see me. I'm not a small guy so I was one of the toughest lines at this at the jobsite I was in charge of 3 1/2 truck will respond to trucks.

I have 3 1/2 trucks and when Abdul got crazy because there's like a boat. There was a top and a bottom line local packages like like wet rail nonlocal packages.

Whatever. So what are local packages would fill up, I would have to start loading my truck go down on the bottom belt and held let me know that part just about to start loading my truck because the value is so crazy we had.

Instead of going in at three and one 2 o'clock in the morning so from 2 o'clock in the morning to like it o'clock.

I'm picking up boxes, no bathroom break, picking up boxes and I'm just like I would never ever ever ever ever ever do this again. It was so much that you can go to the bathroom. I just came back to play catch-up is not not go. I can't do this anymore, and then try to get a manager job at Dunkin' Donuts terrible. I was there for two days is that I'm gonna get so far is funny. I was in the post office and I was going Dunkin' Donuts at the same time. For those two days left on the second day the very next day I went to FedEx, there's a security company there LI verso just like his house.

That job is good.

You know it's not bad and I'm looking at them paid not really doing much of anything. Something that I should just go out on that and that day I applied for our universal hire process was great for me was great to get hysterical. The day my interview so in the paperwork in the application be clean-shaven and presentable sigh when I got a haircut I had a full beard cut the whole beer is clichéd and in my mind it's the interview so I have I got a button up shirt, tie, khakis and shoes on.

I go to the building them like walking past the room that I'm supposed to go to but in the room there's a bunch of people some wrong place.

So ladies – I'm here to apply now I'm here for the LI interview and she's like you're the right place man but I tell you I'm the only person dressed up. I'm the only person dressed up in the entire room. I'm laughing my son like you, they cannot be serious right now like who shows up like this for a job and I'm the only person dressed up that one girl in their slippers slippers share slippers on his pajama pants for a job interview is crazy and I get high like that day and I guess from the way I present myself to how I did my interview. I got a really good job site and I buy jobsite with the country music Hall of Fame. It was say it was it was a learning curve. It was it was I when I first got there.

So this is all new to me, this is I think this is like the second third month that I'm in Nashville so I don't even know anybody and I was in a quit. I was in a quit working security and it wasn't so much that I didn't like the Hall of Fame. The leadership at the country Hall of Fame for security. I was a man. This this is not good like you just seem like people doing whatever they wanted out of life making here but never I'm determined and pretty much like they hired me as part time there, but I ate of so many hours from people not showing up as they have events.

I was I was getting like 40 hours just off events and cover the shift and they end up after three weeks of leave really working hard.

I got offered a position they're not and I took it and I became the first supervisor and deftly made some changes that were working because I like I like to do. It works say you done this for ever and yeah but you don't work 10 years ago to work today sometimes will have the lashes not at work today you like you have to adapt. What's going on so I made some changes myself in the actual excitement supervisor made some real strong changes and you know we were working on building a better culture and a better relationship, security standpoint with the client. The client will Hall of Fame and I'm 100% believe that we did that and I end up becoming the actual size of the entire thing and no running a staff will work over 30 people handling timesheets a payroll handling on scheduling. I think from my leadership. There in Omaha work there. I've deftly built better relationships with the people at our last universal security as well. As the country music Hall of Fame and like I said, medications, everything. Respect is everything. I think I've earned my respect with people and I think my education is very long-standing with the people that I've had to work through my experience that the work ethic has has to shine through me. I myself, I was assigned supervisor and I was doing 67 hours a week like steady and I'm doing that. Also make sure that the initial demo of this was taking care of.

I'm sure like the new people again that hours like I didn't just take hours because I disable the hours I will let everybody that I will pick up the crumbs. Everybody was given a piece to everybody's happy and was making money is comfortable, we change the training at the Hall of Fame where it was more hands-on, rather than how was before us, you know, just figure it out and it was the music is a really really great experience for me to be there and like anybody who came in who didn't have a car. I made sure I made sure we got a lot of young people fresh out of high school and college, who didn't have cars. All those people who came were guilty would it have caused. I'm a shot. They all got cars now like a big thing for me was at least hoping young people don't get their accomplishments in at least pushing them along rather than saying that you work here. Whatever you know. So I take pride in and you been listening to just text the door and we were all wondering what would happen to Josh my goodness he had grown up right before our eyes in the first story just exit or story here on our American strong suit.

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That's where you make a big X in the page and then flip it over and pulled the other direction and listing all collapses down into a triangle is left on top and consider gravity automatically move forward to players in the front of the plane is this magic base.

I continually invent planes even to this day using this origami base. This water bomb base how my mom knew how to do that. I have no idea, but she did know how to do that and showed it to us and that you know and from that moment on I was off and running on making paper and I was just I think just a little bit better than my siblings at folding paper accurately and sharply and remembering folding sequences and stuff so I could see that this was a little bit of a success niche for me. You know the world record idea came along pretty soon after I started folding a lot of desires. I started going out pushing as far as I could with inventing new techniques on my own and try to figure stuff out in and around the fourth grade as a substitute teacher brought in origami book and she was in the lead the class through making origami crane, which is to me complicated things about origami crane to get through that for fourth grade class. And so it was a complete and utter disaster. She finally gave up and turned us loose for recess. I got a look at this book this.

It was a book by carbon and had all of these things in it that I thought that I had invented just done way better. It was like the smart way to do it.

You know, reversals and sinkholes and all the snow this world of ideas and techniques and tools kind of opened up son started making plans with me planes for another 10 years, using all these kinds of techniques about the time that I had a really solid collection of really good about couple dozen of these plans at that point. I'm starting to think that maybe the world record would be something to go after, but I hadn't had seriously considered finding a venue and do all the things necessary to do it and it's it's kind of a big cumbersome undertaking. And so it would really be like another 25 years before I really, seriously, was looking at Yahoo selling more books. How can I make my book somewhere. How do I get you on the how do I get to the top how to get to get a league for this thing and it turned out that the world record was kind of your weight and this is what this was the waiver to really prove that your stuff is the best get people to pay attention. I had all this hubris and I was pretty sure that all you need to do is find a guy could throw really hard is when you're I can throw okay Bruce, you know hundred feet but to really throw hard to break the world record, I knew I was so finding somebody that could throw hard and watching them throw my planes.

The planes pretty much just destroyed themselves with a really hard throw it so that was a very humbling experience watching what you thought was a great paper airplane really get the stuffing from this is a different thing that I thought this is more difficult to assume that if you just find something to throw hard.

That's going to be a task that's the real test with the first guy that I worked with had such a giant hands that you can really tell how he was holding the plan, you know, he was grabbed and thrown a really hard claimant left and right. He was kind of you holding it too hard and kind of crunching a little bit on the grip.

So this get this was really tell what he was doing. The second guy who was a college guy I think he still a coach for SF city College. He has such an explosive snappy throw that he was actually ripping the plane and quarterbacks start with the ball point of the opposite direction, throw, and then they spin and twist the wrist of an explosive really quick moment and so this guy had such a snappy throw. He was turned planes.

It happened so that I'm just like somebody else and so then I found Joe guy who ended up being pretty much the perfect person to work with paper points because he changed his throw.

Once for his sports so he went from being a baseball pitcher to a football quarterback and in doing so, he changed his throwing mechanics to match the sports show. Not like these of the others guys were going. I first really hard and I'm just a quick call Joe approached it from how to weigh throw the paper airplane.

This is how I throw a baseball hard. This is how I throw football hard, which will paper airplane hard and so is had this whole different kind of top-down idea that the other guys just didn't have and so worked on watching moving his elbow down level I and then worked on smooth acceleration because paper planes don't like going 90 mph and they really don't like going from 0 to 90 fast and so is the two big keys, the Joe work done launch angle and release and… That's accelerated smoothly as we can to get this back to me to go so the old world record paper airplane distance was 207 feet and 4 inches. That recordholder held that record for a little less than 10 years 9 1/2 years which is almost up. I think now that I think about it as long as I felt the record at this point Joe and I felt record Stephen Krieger and the two guys before him had both used a very particular kind of plain. You can think of more like a javelin.

Think of it like a ballistic dart duckling would get thrown at 45° angle. It didn't matter what I say race right side up or upside down on the flight really didn't fly so much as just travel in a straight line actually tried to throw that kind of plain admin joke really couldn't throw a projectile that for so a lot gets made of the idea that I used to throw her in the people say you write in a ringer, and there is no wonder you could break your will record Stephen had a really good arm and he did it when he was 15 and I think you have more cartilage and you're going to be with throw stuff to his arms a little more flexible. Joe told me a couple times a done it when I was 15 I probably could have thrown the project out, but he couldn't. At the age of 25 or 26. He couldn't throw a projectile that distance. So we change the chemical into a glider that ended up being really great decision, but it makes it makes it so much more difficult to control down range and so it became this real challenge of accuracy and precision with which Joe could throw the plane and then the center of accuracy and precision with adjusting this glider different things at different really dialed this thing and you're listening to John Collins tell a story of how he came to break the Guinness world record for the farthest flight by paper aircraft and I love this about Americans.

We love our hobbies. We love our pastimes and we love just well set records going faster and trying all kinds of things from the Wright brothers John Collins light fascinates when we come back story of the paper airplane here on our Americans. Medicare coverage decisions for next year. 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.

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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 as that's cause this big pile of dirty clothes. All three clear maggot packs purchase all three clear maggot packs today and conquer any laundry load for all fabric types we continue down stories and we been listening to John Collins Guinness world record holder for this might paper aircraft 226 feet and 10 inches. By the way the old record of 207'4" been held for 10 years and he shattered it, not even close. Back to John on how he obtained this amazing feat. Guinness was a really specific about everything like paper size, paper thickness, you can use a little tiny piece of tape 25 x 30 mm, you can cut that it was me like ended up getting into 16 pieces putting it all of the plane. They weren't specific about whether or not you personally have the designer had to throw the plane. There was nothing in there about that and predictably the old world recordholder did not like that idea which led to a bit of a kerfuffle. He complained enough that we wound up on the cover, the Wall Street Journal, he was not happy with this idea of a designer thrower seemed like the school opens up a little bit got a great idea for people airplane but don't have a terrific there's no reason you should be locked out of this competition. If they thought it brought in the idea and really happy to see paper airplane fly across the distance goal as opposed to just crash into that was really thrilling and if you watch the old record plan takes about three seconds to the distance. My claim is you want to climb rocks with the top and the layers and really rising. There's some drama just like his again a crash is again a stay on course 69 second so there's definitely time to think about it. This thing is rocketing down course so they like all of that.

They liked the idea that it was a designer thrower team.

They like the idea that was a glider instead of a dart and so I think no Guinness love this. This new approach wasn't a traditional approach by any means was totally different.

It was unique and the unique things about the claim. Dynamically this is one of what I can say it's the most sophisticated paper I've ever even though it's just really simple folding building technique I guide to chapel this point in 10 minutes, but adjusting it to get will record distance is complicated and fascinating. It turned out that around the same time, NASA was doing experiments that would verify my suppositions about airflow and speed the size wing so it ended up in a weird way, getting verified all my all of the things that I was thinking and dreaming up the wrapping on the wing of the plant being real. I wasn't suggesting never never land. We had good experimental evidence to back up what I was thinking, but is really cool to have all that verified by looking getting will record was about a three year journey for me and Joe was there. My thrower was there for the last 18 months of that, so he was there for a little bit over half of the three year deal first glider that I folded ended up being the correct folding solutions a lot of other just just just the folding solution.

The very first one of the box was correct. The problem is you don't still have to do all the testing stations all accommodations, all the testing you can't know that's the right solution until you try all the other solutions so feels like it should be a lucky thing is it everything else.

It didn't it didn't cut down on the amount of work stop.

We had made an unsuccessful attempt August 2011.

In this and the record was set in February 2012 so coming off that that August defeat my wife and other people were saying you just take a break. Just think about it. Try something out you were kind of cautioning you don't don't do this to quickly because you know it's not just me failing for myself. It's like you. You drag all your friends out there and you know they go through the heartache of watching you try your best and just not quite get there and so anyway will record day at McClellan airfield was a whole different beast. Starting in January once matter fact in this new hanger. We didn't have a practice session will be didn't break the world record for you and try to get 10 tries and and I just have to break it on one of those throws we were doing three or 10 times very consistently.

Once we really want.

I really figure out what's going on with the drama wasn't whether we were gonna break the record the drama for us was like how much we get a break. It but given all that you still have to do it that day with with the press there. You know with the video cameras rolling with a guy that you hired to do measuring because anything beyond 200 feet is not considered calibrated with metal or cloth tape so you have to surveyor the higher severity to a laser transit shot.you got three camera guys you hired that hope we get this thing recorded in one take is Guinness wants you to one unedited take this thing so you have great camera guys. You gotta have media coverage get. I have a surveyor you gotta have judges that are qualified to do it and then you want to have friends and family celebration so all of that pressure is you no matter what kind of looming over the situation so we take probably two throws earlier than we should have throws one into kind of probably pulled the trigger throw three is very good intro for we break the record and that you can listen to the video you have to watch that you can listen to the video and know that Joe releases it right away. I can tell it's going exactly worship that's good. It flies up and goes over the top of that are in exactly the same way that has broken will record before and then starts its downhill run. The crowd start to get excited. Is that plane starts to make a downhill run for the finish line. It lifts up with the last 30 to go. Just goes flying across those rope lights that start writing up a flashing in the crowd goes nuts that he can get fired. We've done it before. Totally assist us with the crowd goes nuts. It's everything you would want world record just it's it's a perfect moment. It's something I'm incredibly proud of it took a lot of work in a different sort than anticipated.

Going in the end of the day, paper airplane will record that this and save the world but he lives or dies. Nobody gets rich and if it goes the poor house. It's just this kind of goofy fun thing. But even modest record will record idea attracts a certain amount of energy in a certain way certain feelings that can't really get any other way. So I would rather listening wonder, hey, you know, I'm pretty good at this. I try to should I go big or go home sick opening your you know what it feels like to go. You learn so much about yourself. You learn so much about your friends. It's an important life moment whether or not you get it done. Doesn't matter just decided to go big on some things this opportunity for the last five years to be paper airplane guy. I throw paper airplanes reliving nobody on the planet has a better gig and I've got even when I had a good job that I really like I didn't like it as much is this.

It's just an incredible opportunity to meet you young kids want to learn a little something about paper airplanes and are curious about the science and you're dealing with all these magical forces really invisible stuff you can't see your dealing with gravity are dealing with air thrusting Dragon he can't see any of these, the stuff so can I have to just take unbelief in the so look at it is my job to sort of reveal the solid underpinning of all these kinds of ideas and and show them how it all works to create something applies.

What a gift to get to be able to do that to be able to do this thing. I've been fascinated with the idea of something flying since I was just trying to watch insects and birds and size airplanes.

All these things blindly use different ways to do it and get to pass along that passion that you know that fascination. I never lost track of the idea of how wondrous it is that things will they managed to do it and then get the idea that you could take probably the most modest resources on the planet just a sheet of paper and turn it into a flying that's totally in the idea you could transmit that knowledge to somebody else that they could then do it in and figure out how to make a different when they can invent their own step to me. I love that moment when is that I work with in the past. Send me a picture of the plane that can do this really cool thing. It becomes this magic object not only flies but it came from them. Some part of them is now in this object and it has joined this magic will the flight as well so I get that's what I get to know how you get a better job that is pretty good and great work is always by our creative team storytelling team that's faith in Robbie and Madison working on that piece and a special thanks to John Collins for sharing his passion and his story the paper airplane guy.com is where you can find them. I love the way you describe. Throw for he's just back there in 2012 in the record.

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