He was a self-educated man, born to a poor family on the western frontier. He served a single term in the US House of Representatives, then failed in two attempts at a seat in the senate. When he became the 16th president of the United States, he filled his cabinet with men who had opposed his election saying, “I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.” He led his country through its worst military, constitutional and moral crisis. He was killed only weeks into his second term in office. Abraham Lincoln remains the most beloved of American presidents. Many of us can still recite the Gettysburg Address we memorized in grade school, but my favorite Lincoln quote is: “All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother.” This block, called Lincoln's Platform, was a good use for several tiny blue scraps.
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