The Gettysburg Address
In Our Time: History
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'I'm Commander in Chief, and This Gives Me the Right to Do That'
Lincoln played the role of hedont be someone, of course, who we we celebrate his words. He wasn't afraid to use executive power and that if that meant short circuiting some of the normal rules, then he was a war president. But the words of the gettysburg address are also so very much a part of the memory culture and the culture,. not just of lincoln, of an earlier era and the greatness. That's something quisthink cremis quite special.
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