BiCentennial Interview

“Yes, I had been chosen to Congress then from the wild West, and with hayseed in my hair I went to Massachusetts, the most cultured State in the Union, to take a few lessons in deportment.”
-- Abraham Lincoln to Henry Gardner regarding his 1848 visit there

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President Lincoln was at the Republican National Convention last autumn; a congenial fellow, he spoke about his upcoming birthday, and showed his good humour. Let us all pause to remember the greatest President the nation has ever had.