Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day President Hoover inspected his wrecked office, chopped to ruins by firemen seeking flames within partitions. Promptly he ordered the building reconstructed, moved his office for two days into the Lincoln study on the second floor of the White House where for the first time in a generation a Cabinet meeting was held. For the 60 days required for repairs, the President will work in General Pershing's headquarters...
President Hoover at the Gridiron Club dinner last month heard the shade of Historian John Fiske reveal "the truth" about Lincoln's attitude toward slavery. Fiske quoted Lincoln as saying: "The great issue of slavery must be met. We are engaged in a noble experiment. . . . I am appointing a commission to go into the whole labor situation, including slavery, which will report sometime, somewhere, somehow...
...presume you all know who I am. I am humble Abraham Lincoln. My politics are short and sweet, like the old lady's dance. . . . If elected I shall be thankful; if not all will be the same...
When Abraham Lincoln was first named for the legislature in 1832 he said...