Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Abraham Lincoln left later Presidents little to say at Gettysburg. President Hoover, whose personal reverence for the 16th President is deep and true, nevertheless fulfilled a promise given Pennsylvania's far-sighted Governor Fisher in California before election by traveling to the battlefield to deliver a Memorial Day address. For the first time a grey-garbed Confederate Veteran (William Haines, 93, cavalryman) sat on the platform with the President...
...nine minutes President Hoover finished reading his address. Its theme: Peace. Its inspirational character: Lincoln. Excerpts...
...Nearly 70 years have passed since Lincoln spoke [here]. Ours is a new day and ours new problems. There are times when these problems loom ominous and their solution difficult. Yet we would be of little courage if in our concerns we had less faith than Lincoln had in his far greater task. . . . If only our leadership had always been tempered by the moderation and calm vision of Lincoln...
...President Hoover ordered identical laurel wreaths placed on the tombs of three of his predecessors: Lincoln's at Springfield, Ill., Roosevelt's at Oyster Bay, N. Y., Wilson's in Washington...
...supporting Smith for President. Perplexity became indignation when he read Dr. Wilson's comment: "I was not so much surprised at this, for I have a distinct recollection that his father was a Presbyterian preacher of the same stripe [who] denounced the Government of the U. S., cannonaded Lincoln and advocated the extension of slavery...