The Gettysburg Address Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
November 19, 1863
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
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A great compilation--thanks for making all of us smarter.
One of the best presidential trivia items I have come across was a list of similarities between the Lincoln and Kennedy assassinations. It was full of things like both had VPs named Johnson ... both assassins has 13 letters in their full names ... Booth shot Lincoln in a theater and hid in a warehouse while Oswald shot Kennedy in a warehouse and hid in a theater ... Lincoln had a personal adviser/secretary named Kennedy while Kennedy had one named Lincoln ... and so on.I wish I could find it now!
And I'm adding a link to you on my site, sorry about the delay in that. Thanks for continuing to stop by.
-- david
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Kennedy was riding in a Lincoln, that's the only one that I remember.
Here is just an odd off-topic fact: Joe Kennedy had an affair with Gloria Swanson, he was also her personal financial advisor (he still owned RKO or had just sold it to RCA). During the affair he gave her many pieces of expensive jewelry. Years later is was discovered that, as her financial advisor, he had charged he had charged her accounts for all the jewelry.
Great facts there. Very cool stuff. I like these kinds of things.
Funny how Taft was the largest prez, and he's the one that started the presidential pitch ceremony.
I think he went to the ballpark for the hot dogs.
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he was likely in fairly good physical shape -- back then men were portly on purpose as it was considered a sign of success -- he might have been a fat athlete like Teddy Roosevelt or Baba Ruth -- don't know, just a possibility -- just something that I was thinking about, since rich guys are now thin (personal trainers, dietitians, health clubs, incessant golfing) and we poor guys are fat (super-sized junk food) -- "I think he went to the ballpark for the hot dogs." is a really funny line!!!
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