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March 8, 2005
An Unpopular President
e's probably been the most criticized President ever.
A large portion of the American public hated him.
He got us into a war that was regarded as unnecessary by members of both political parties.
He was re-elected to everyone's surprise, continuing the war, which divided the country more than any time in history.
Yet, he is now one of the most popular Presidents ever.
Of course, I am talking about Abraham Lincoln.
*** "If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference." The Inner Life of Abraham Lincoln: Six Months at the White House by Francis B. Carpenter (University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1995), pp. 258-259.
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