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parallels between Obama and Lincoln
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1-18-2009 5:28 AM
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a great line - Matthew Brady, posing Lincoln for a photograph in New York just before his famed Cooper Union speech in 1860, suggested fixing his collar. Lincoln replied, to the amusement of both men, “I see you want to shorten my neck.”
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