This Abe found here: http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/02/16/opinion/20090216_LINCOLNS_index.html
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I thought this slide show of Lincoln Presenters meshed nicely with ARCHIVE’s video about William Peck. The image of the white-bearded Lincoln particularly struck me–Lincoln as he never was… It’s strange to consider what might have happened if Lincoln hadn’t been shot and had become (literally) the elder statesman. I doubt he’d be so famous or popular today, not after he would have had to deal with the mess of Reconstruction. Better to go out in a blaze of glory.
Word cloud, generated by wordle.net from the text of Abraham Lincoln's February 22, 1861 speech in f ...
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