Who is this person?

[RJNorton]

Thank you, Eva - love the prize!

[Eva Elisabeth]

Maybe this will not challenge you - who is this gentleman?
   

[RJNorton]

Since I think you posted that David Herbert Donald is your favorite Lincoln author I will say him.

P.S. He is one of my favorites, too.

[Gene C]

Kind of looks like Wally Cox

[LincolnToddFan]

I will say it's either James Randall or David Herbert Donald.

Can I do that? Take two whacks at it in one answer?

[Eva Elisabeth]

Yes, Toia, that's fine - thanks for guessing! And one of the two guesses is correct - very smart indeed, Roger!!! It's David Donald! I couldn't resist not to wait...and hoped the old picture would make it a little more difficult! Donald is not only my favorite author, I saw him in some interviews and found him a very nice and kind character.

Here's an interview in which Jackie Kennedy recalled a meeting with Donald when he held a speech at the White House in 1962. Please scroll down to "JACQUELINE KENNEDY, HISTORIC CONVERSATIONS: THE SIXTH CONVERSATION III, March 23, 2012":
http://jfkplusfifty.wordpress.com/?s=don...mit=Search

The prize is all my best wishes for a good weekend!

[LincolnToddFan]

That's fantastic, Eva...thank you! I have that book as well as the CD's.

I remember reading in Seymour Hersh's "The Dark Side of Camelot" about Herbert Donald's Lincoln lecture at the Kennedy White House. And I remember that he did not seem very impressed with JFK at the time...at all.

Jacqueline Kennedy had a sort of historical crush on AL, once stating that while she admired Thomas Jefferson.."Lincoln is the one I love". She said the she liked to go to the Lincoln Bedroom and have "little conversations" with him, and that she found great comfort in the fact that his spirit was so strongly felt in the White House. Laura Bush made the same remark in a TV interview(that AL's spirit is still most strongly felt in the WH)

[Eva Elisabeth]

I so much would have loved to tour the White House - but that' s almost impossible for a common foreigner...

[LincolnToddFan]

Eva,

Not true. I think they are still conducting WH tours aren't they?

I made the tour as an eight year old and I was awed by the beauty of the place. It was 1968 and had undergone the famous Kennedy restoration. I remember it as a very elegant, majestic place. I also remember feeling very disappointed that we could not see the Lincoln Bedroom as it is in the upstairs private quarters.

But I would love to see it again as an adult!

[Eva Elisabeth]

Since 9/11 as a foreigner you can only tour the WH upon negotiations by the ambassador of your country and a resulting personal invitation.

[LincolnToddFan]

OMG...Eva E. I had no idea-I am so sorry!

I also read somewhere that the streets in front of the WH are no longer accessible to the public like back in the day.

Damn despicable terrorists!!!

[Eva Elisabeth]

I don't recall what the procedure exactly was, but it's way easier for US citizens.

(08-08-2014 07:50 PM)LincolnToddFan Wrote:  I also read somewhere that the streets in front of the WH are no longer accessible to the public like back in the day.

They were at least in March:
       

[LincolnToddFan]

Beautiful....for some reason I remember reading that they were blocked off during the Clinton Administration to ward off a terrorist attack!

[Eva Elisabeth]

Who is this gentleman?
   

[RJNorton]

A younger photo of Ninian Edwards than the one normally seen in books?