(01-05-2013, 12:28 PM)Jim Garrett Wrote: Wow Bill. Would you say that a part of Lincoln being such a masterful politician was he was so universally underestimated in the beginning? You are 100% correctthat AL was not opposed to changing positions of a matter. As an Illinois parie lawyer, he argued both sides of the slavery issue.....and if I remember successfully.
Jim,
What do you mean "argued both sides of the slavery issue?"
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Rob
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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