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Tough Tarbell Trivia
08-13-2021, 07:17 AM,
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Great guess Roger, but that's not correct.

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Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom.
--Ida M. Tarbell

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08-13-2021, 07:54 AM,
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
The Wilma Frances Minor letters ?
So when is this "Old Enough To Know Better" supposed to kick in?
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08-13-2021, 12:58 PM,
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Another good guess, Gene, but that isn't it.

First clue. Tarbell said this in 1907.

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Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom.
--Ida M. Tarbell

I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent.
--Carl Sandburg
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08-13-2021, 01:22 PM,
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Rob, can you say if the response you are asking about took place during Lincoln's Illinois' years?
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08-13-2021, 02:10 PM,
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Roger,

It took place during the presidential years.

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Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom.
--Ida M. Tarbell

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--Carl Sandburg
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08-13-2021, 03:36 PM,
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Wild guess...the fact that Lincoln was actually quite seriously ill after the Gettysburg Address...much more so than the public knew.
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08-13-2021, 03:41 PM,
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Sorry Roger, but that's not it.

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Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom.
--Ida M. Tarbell

I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent.
--Carl Sandburg
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08-13-2021, 06:56 PM,
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
The incident with Gen. McLennan when Lincoln called at the McLennan home but the General chose not to see him?
“The honest man, tho' e'er sae poor,
Is king o' men for a' that” Robert Burns
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08-13-2021, 07:43 PM,
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Good try Mike, but that's not it.

Next clue: What Tarbell thought had happened actually hadn't. She was reacting to something else that someone said.

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Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom.
--Ida M. Tarbell

I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent.
--Carl Sandburg
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08-13-2021, 11:30 PM,
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Does it relate to Mary Lincoln?
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08-14-2021, 05:05 AM,
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
That Lincoln did not appear in person before The Committee on the Conduct of the War in order to defend Mary's loyalty to the Union?
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08-14-2021, 07:00 AM,
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
Mike, it doesn't have anything to do with Mary.

Sorry Roger, it isn't that.

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Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom.
--Ida M. Tarbell

I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent.
--Carl Sandburg
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08-14-2021, 07:46 AM,
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Did it relate to how Jefferson Davis was to be treated after the war?
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08-14-2021, 08:22 PM,
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Sorry Mike, but no.

Next clue. Tarbell said she was familiar with the main part of this story, but not the part that she was asked to comment on.

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Abraham Lincoln is the only man, dead or alive, with whom I could have spent five years without one hour of boredom.
--Ida M. Tarbell

I want the respect of intelligent men, but I will choose for myself the intelligent.
--Carl Sandburg
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08-15-2021, 04:58 AM,
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RE: Tough Tarbell Trivia
The idea that Lincoln may have supported colonization later in his Presidency than commonly thought?
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