This is the 150th anniversary of Lincoln delivering the Gettysburg Address. I get chills every time I read it. The precision of the language summarizing the American experiment is exhilarating. Lincoln said more in 3 minutes than today's politicians could say in 3 hours. As Mark Twain said, few people get saved after the first 20 minutes of the sermon. Eric Foner, our best contemporary Lincoln scholar, will be in town Thursday night and I plan to attend his talk on Lincoln's legacy. I wish I could walk in wearing a stovepipe hat.
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