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President Abraham Lincoln: Nation
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As recently as 1999, the Lincoln Cottage was in disrepair and threatened by neglect. In 2000, President Clinton designated the site as the President Lincoln & Soldiers' Home National Monument. Since then the site has undergone extensive preservation and is scheduled to open to the public in early 2008. When it reopens to the public next year it will feature an adapted 1905 Beaux Arts style building that incorporates sustainable design in its adaptive reuse as the Visitor Education Center.
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For many years Dr. Zebra reported, as have several others, that Lincoln was color blind. Recently... he reviewed the original evidence behind this assertion, e.g. Thomas Shastid's 1929 article in The Nation, and found it completely worthless. There is no good reason to believe Lincoln had defective color vision.
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In the fall of 1863, Lincoln went to the small Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg to help dedicate the Soldiers' National Cemetery. He gave a two-minute address there to America, the world, and to history:
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