1. 160 years ago today at Cooper Union in Manhattan, Abraham Lincoln made the speech that would do more than anything else to propel him to the Republican nomination three months later.
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8. If you're so inclined, you can watch Sam Waterston deliver the whole speech.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQ2De8VcSLw …
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Robert Todd Lincoln was there with a Harvard classmate. When Abraham Lincoln stood up to speak, the classmate saw a country lawyer in his first big-city suit and was sure that Robert would be humiliated. When the speech was over he knew he was in the presence of greatness.
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