Happy Birthday, Honest Abe

There's no presidential race in 2009

 

We live around the corner from Cooper Union. Since I bore our out-of-town visitors with the story of Lincoln's 1860 speech there whenever we walk them past the place, I'll bore you all with it, too. If only second hand:

http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/speeches/cooper.htm

http://www.historynow.org/12_2005/historian2.html

 

Good stuff - As the story went in Private Ryan - George Marshall kept a copy of that letter on his desk during WW II

 

I'm still going to vote for him.

 

It's not going to get you any girls.

 

Like I'm worried about that. Abe's my boy. We'll party enough when I'm dead that I won't worry about the missed opportunities.

 

Stephen A. Douglas was a babe magnet.

 

Actually, I don't think Mrs. Bixby lost all five. She lost two and maybe three, which is no doubt terrible, but I think one of her sons deserted and the other was discharged.

 

What government employees do you know who get the day off? Next Monday yes, today, no.

 

I wonder what this country would have been like if he didn't go to the play that night.

 

In some circles there was talk that Abe might have been a candidate to live in the West Village.

 

I always wonder how they make that determination almost 150 years after the guy has been dead...