The group attends a gathering for the Lincoln Forum. The Lincoln Forum seeks to enhance the understanding and preserve the memory of both Lincoln and the Civil War. Sokup and Buss are historic interpreters. Medford and Simon are historians.
Edmund Morris stands in front of a painted profile of President Ronald Reagan which hangs on the wall of his Capitol Hill townhouse. The painting is by Tom Bostelle. Morris wrote Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan.
Robert Bartley, author of Seven Fat Years: And How to Do It Again, in his Wall Street Journal office on Liberty Street in New York's financial district. He was the editorial page editor of the paper from 1972 to 2002.
Feminist activist Betty Friedan in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol. Behind her is a 26,000-pound sculpture of Susan B. Anthony, Lucretia Mott, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, all three leaders in the woman's movement. Following an act of Congress, the statue was moved from the Capitol's Crypt to the Rotunda in May 1997.
Edward Epstein in his Upper West Side apartment in Manhattan. Behind him is a portrait of Mr. Epstein painted in 1977 by Byron Dobell. Mr. Epstein is holding tapes of Armand Hammer's phone conversations.
Monica Crowley at the former Nixon home in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey. President Nixon lived here for ten years. Ms. Crowley's second book on Nixon was published in 1998.
Blanche Wiesen Cook with the statue of Eleanor Roosevelt which stands in Riverside Park in New York City. The sculpture was crafted by Penelope Jencks and was dedicated by Hillary Clinton on October 5, 1996.
Robert Merry stands in the living room of Joseph Alsop's former Georgetown house. Here the Alsops entertained journalists, presidents, and many other Washington notables.
Carol Reardon, a Civil War author and professor at Penn State, sits on the wall that Confederate soldiers unsuccessfully attempted to take in Pickett's Charge during the Battle of Gettysburg in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
