"But having said all of that, that still……" — David Herbert Donald
"But having said all of that, that still doesn't account for a lot of the increase in popularity which stems, I think, from Lincoln's personal characteristics."
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The more I have studied Lincoln, the more I have followed his thought processes, the more I am convinced that…
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In Lincoln's day a President's religion was a very private affair. There were no public prayer meetings, no attempts to…
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Lincoln was not a good impromptu speaker; he was at his best when he could read from a carefully prepared…
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Here is Theodore Roosevelt with all his faults and with all his strengths—the devoted family man, the passionate game hunter,…
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I love mysteries, and I read them every night before I go to bed.
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Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story.
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I was able to sit at Lincoln's side and see how he thought and how he acted, and how he…
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The big biography of Lincoln necessarily had to do so much with his political career, his ambitions, his accomplishments in…
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I'm not sure Lincoln would fare well if he were a presidential candidate today.
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Well, it seems to me Lincoln, I suppose, is kind of a model of a particular sort of presidency, a…
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At the beginning, Lincoln was so inexperienced he had reverence for military expertise, not realizing that there wasn't any military…
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Lincoln had no such person that he could talk with. Often, as a result, he debated with himself, and he…
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