200 years old today. God bless this stove pipe hatted married to a loonie crusader for freedom! he gave us us grant. he gave us the emancipation proclamation! most importanly, he gave us the day off on monday. and man, could he put out a sexy daguerreotype.

lincoln or "kramer" from seinfeld? you be the judge!

I do believe that photo had a little "doctorin"

Ohhhhh

maybe not.....

Happy Happy Birthday !!!!

On the "Lincoln Ghost"....

President Theodore Roosevelt, Herbert Hoover and Harry Truman have all claimed to have heard unexplained rappings on their bedroom doors. What made them think it was Lincoln is unknown.

Calvin Coolidge's wife reported seeing on several occasions the ghost of Lincoln standing with his hands clasped behind his back, at a window in the Oval Office, staring out in deep contemplation toward the bloody battlefields across the Potomac. Carl Sandburg, Lincoln's biographer, said he did not see the ghost but "strongly felt his presence" when he stood at this same window during a tour of the White House.

Lincoln's ghost made many apparitions during the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration. Roosevelt was (coincidentally like Lincoln) president during war time.

Eleanor Roosevelt never claimed to have seen Lincoln's spirit, but sometimes spoke of the sense of someone watching her as she worked in the former Lincoln bedroom, which she used as a study. One of her maids claimed to have seen the ghost sitting on a bed and pulling off his shoes. While Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands spent a night in the White House she was awakened by a knock on the bedroom door. When she answered it, she saw Lincoln's ghost staring at her from the hallway. The queen recalled that she fainted upon seeing the ghost. When she woke up lying on the floor of her room, the ghost had gone.

Winston Churchill also claimed to have seen the ghost while spending a night in the White House during World War II. After taking a bath he walked naked into the adjoining bedroom. There he saw Lincoln standing by the fireplace in the room. Churchill remarked wittingly: "Good evening, Mr. President. You seem to have me at a disadvantage." Lincoln smiled softly and disappeared.

Since the Truman administration there haven't been many sightings. Some theorize that this is due to the extensive remodeling that was done to the White House during the Truman years.

Maureen Reagan, daughter of Ronald Reagan and her husband claimed to have seen the ghost several times in the Lincoln bedroom. She described the ghost as "a transparent figure" (prompting a Democratic senator to remark, "Sounds more to me like she's been in the Cabinet Room.") Reagan's dog reportedly refused to enter the Lincoln bedroom and often stood outside the room barking.

Lyndon B. Johnson is supposed to have spoken with the ghost of Mr. Lincoln. Johnson, standing in the second floor room that had been Lincoln's office (Lincoln had used the Oval Office as a library), asked "You had a war, you had a Civil Rights movement, you had protesters and critics, what can I do?" And the story goes, the response was "Don't go to the theater."

Dude don't look a day over 199 :funny

I'm currently reading Lincoln:  President-Elect by Harold Holzer.  Good stuff.  Man, if you think Barack had some haters against him, you should read the stuff some people were saying about Old Abe.  I haven't gotten to Team of Rivals yet.  The Lincoln Bicentennial seems to be another of those historical link-ups with the Obama presidency, along with nomination on the 45th anniversary of the "I Have a Dream" speech and inauguration the day after MLK Day.

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me too, and at the same pace..lol
i started a few months ago, and i start about midnight, so i fall asleep within a few pages...
but a book like this is so epic, there is no hurry...
another on of interest: lincoln's meloncholy, an essay into how lincoln's his struglle with depression impacted his presidency...
he was fascinating man.

Me and Abe tag teamed Paris one night.