bartleby.com - 11/6/2008
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First Inaugural Address Monday, March 4, 1861 The national upheaval of secession was a grim reality at Abraham Lincoln's inauguration. Jefferson Davis had been inaugurated as the President of the Confederacy two weeks earlier. The former Illinois Congressman had arrived in Washington by a secret ...
bartleby.com - 11/6/2008
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Second Inaugural Address Saturday, March 4, 1865 Weeks
of wet weather preceding Lincoln's second inauguration had caused...
Pennsylvania Avenue to become a sea of mud and standing water. Thousands of spectators stood in thick mud at the Capitol grounds ...
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Abraham Lincoln: Second Inaugural Address. U.S. ...
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... It would be a mistake to ask now whether Obama is our Lincoln or FDR yet - Lincoln was not fully Lincoln, in the sense we think of him at his inauguration. Read the First Inaugural Address and then ...
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... had the courage to risk something, to venture into difficult territory and choose a man they believe has what is needed. Manifestly, that is true today. And the second is that the responsibilities and courage demanded by events has often harrowed the presidents facing vast crises into men of more than ordinary greatness. It would be a mistake to ask now whether Obama is our Lincoln or FDR yet - Lincoln was not fully Lincoln, in the sense we think of him at his inauguration. Read the First Inaugural Address and then ...
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