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Reporter's Notebook: American exceptionalism and confronting slavery's horrors

Name: Reporter's Notebook: American exceptionalism and confronting slavery's horrors
Uploaded: 2025-08-20T19:26:00-0400
Duration: 1 min 59 s
Description: An 1862 letter to President Abraham Lincoln offers a reminder that greatness comes from confronting, not avoiding, uncomfortable truths about America's past. "CBS Evening News" co-anchor John Dickerson explains.

An 1862 letter to President Abraham Lincoln offers a reminder that greatness comes from confronting, not avoiding, uncomfortable truths about America's past. "CBS Evening News" co-anchor John Dickerson explains.