No Stepford wife, Mary Lincoln once loudly declared after husband's oration, "The worst speech I ever listened to!"pic.twitter.com/ytsC2VERz3
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@BeschlossDC Douglas was considered better orator at the time. But can't hard recall a thing he said today. Abe's words in stone.
@nprscottsimon As at Gettysburg, when Lincoln with 246 words one-upped the previous speaker, Edward Everett, who clocked in at two hours.
@BeschlossDC If I'm tempted to kvetch I get 2 1/2 mins for essay, I tell myself, "Lincoln used 246 words. You need more?"
@nprscottsimon Good advice for us all.
@BeschlossDC @nprscottsimon another pretty good writer once said "brevity is the soul of wit"...words to live by
@BeschlossDC My late stepfather, Lincoln bookseller, thought Mary married Abe because he made her laugh (unlike Douglas).
@nprscottsimon Referring to Ralph Newman, eminent Lincoln scholar. I think he was right, altho sadly she laughed less with passage of time.
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