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Abraham Lincoln – a President of the people and for the people

Abraham Lincoln – a President of the people and for the people

Walt Whitman had said, “I would be much pleased to see some heroic, shrewd, fully-informed, healthy-bodied, middle-aged, beard-faced American blacksmith or boatman come down from the West across the Alleghanies, and walk into the Presidency, dressed in a clean suit of working attire, and with the tan all over his face, breast, and arms; I would certainly vote for that sort of man, …” Four years later Abraham Lincoln, a healthy-bodied, middle-aged, beard-faced boatman from the West, was on his way to the White House. Read more.

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