Lincoln Birthday Event

[David Lockmiller]

Happy Birthday, Abraham Lincoln!

He lives on in spirit. Did you know?

1. The Abraham Lincoln Battalion, a volunteer effort to fight fascism in the Spanish Civil War in the mid-1930s, was the first racially integrated U.S. military force.
   
2. His famous definition of democracy — “government of the people, by the people, for the people” — was invoked in the first Czechoslovak Republic after World War I, in Hungary in 1956, in Iran in 1979, and at Tiananmen Square in China in 1989.
   
3. After World War II, he was an inspiration for many decolonization movements in Africa and Asia. Jawaharlal Nehru, considered the architect of modern India, even owned a bronze cast of Lincoln’s hand.
   

All of these items reported in my "Today's Briefing" from the New York Times.

President Abraham Lincoln sat for a portrait in 1865, the week before his 56th birthday and two months before his assassination. CreditAlexander Gardner/Library of Congress