January 16, 2007


All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
Ernest Hemingway



If you
Don't know
Whose signs
These are
You can't have
Driven very far
Burma Shave
1942


I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
Clarence Darrow





ABRAHAM LINCOLN
  • Aug 8, 1863 - Writes a letter to his wife regarding Tad's lost goat.
  • Aug 10, 1863 - The president meets with abolitionist Frederick Douglass who pushes for full equality for Union 'Negro troops.'
  • Sept 19/20, 1863 - Union defeat at Chickamauga in Georgia leaves Chattanooga in Tennessee under Confederate siege. The president appoints Gen. Grant to command all operations in the western theater.
  • Oct 3, 1863 - Issues a Proclamation of Thanksgiving.
  • Nov 19, 1863 - President Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at a ceremony dedicating the Battlefield as a national cemetery. Lincoln among the crowd at Gettysburg - Nov 19, 1863

    Page one of the Gettysburg Address in Lincoln's Handwriting
    Page two of the Gettysburg Address in Lincoln's Handwriting

  • Dec 8, 1863 - The president issues a Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction for restoration of the Union.

    • A Brady portrait - Jan, 1864 Feb, 1864 - Portrait used as basis for the Five Dollar Bill The President and son Thomas (Tad) - Feb, 1864
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  • On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.
    Adlai E. Stevenson



    • PRESIDENTIAL TRIVIA
    Franklin D Roosevelt There was an assassination attempt on Roosevelt in February, 1933. Roosevelt was unharmed, but Anton Cermak, mayor of Chicago, was killed.
    Franklin D Roosevelt 1933-1945



    My voice is tender, my waist is slender and I'm often invited to play. Yet wherever I go I must take my bow or else I have nothing to say. What am I?



    Nothing agrees with me. If I drink coffee, it gives me dyspepsia; if I drink wine, it gives me the gout; if I go to church, it gives me dysentery.
    - Letter to Henry H. Rogers, 8/7/1905



    Good wives and good plantations are made by good husbands.
    1736


    In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men the great difficulty lies in this: You must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.
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