President Harding spoke of Lincoln as a "natural human being with the frailties mixed with the virtues of humanity." And Chief Justice Taft spoke of Lincoln's "Christ-like character."
Saturday, May 31, 2008
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If only I could have blogged in the century before blogging! I will imperfectly satisfy my longing by using a random number generator to pick the year and the NYT archive to scan the news stories for today's date in that year.
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2 comments:
Interesting to remember someone for their frailty. (Emily Dickinson also comes to mind.) Not a widely appreciated virtue in American grown-ups.
Noone even remotely Lincolnesque could ever be elected again.
Was Taft making a dig at Harding's sins, and was Harding making a Clintonian spin that the other Presidents had frailties?
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