I think a lot about the fact that everyone said Abe Lincoln was known for being ugly, like even his friends would just straight up say he was horrifying to physically look at, but none of us can see that now because he just "looks like Abe Lincoln"https://twitter.com/JennyENicholson/status/1329995873326022657?s=20 …
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I guess you can sort of see it in the old photos from when he was younger and didn't have a beard The main issue people had with him was he was always underweight, and actually lost weight with age and stress His sunken cheeks were often compared to a skullpic.twitter.com/SaU1m3SpEG
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Replying to @arthur_affect
well but that's what people *thought* - growing up he was known for physical strength, in labor & sport (wrestling, throwing heavy things, &c). on his deathbed visitors commented on his previously-unsuspected robust physique. he was just gangly/awkward
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Yes, all of Lincoln's lanky 6'4" 180 lb (at his heaviest) frame was pure muscle During his presidency he had a young man massage him in bed every night to help him get to sleep, who told curious reporters, "He is the most powerful man I have ever touched"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @HilltopXer
I also love that he wasn't afraid to throw hooks and talk trash while he did it.
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Abraham Lincoln single-handedly defeating Jack Armstrong and the Clary's Grove Boys was, I am told, the Undertaker vs. Shawn Michaels of its time
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Replying to @arthur_affect @HilltopXer
I read that gigantic Sandburg lincoln biography and remember very little except for coming away... really liking the guy. I know there's a case to be made for him just happening to fall on the better side of history as opposed to any true altruism, but the dude had a spine.
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I saw one historian sum it up as saying how oddly inspiring it is that Lincoln now consistently tops the list of most beloved Presidents because, in so many ways, he is surely the strangest person who ever became President
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Replying to @BradMichaelElm1 @HilltopXer
That quote was from long before Trump of course Although I'm not sure Trump is a *strange* person so much as just a bad person
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The circumstances of his life for the past few years have certainly been very strange but aside from that he is in many ways a depressingly ordinary person
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I think the possibility that he is exactly that is the one thing that genuinely horrifies him
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