What is your best one-word description of President Abraham Lincoln's character?

[David Lockmiller]

(10-06-2023 12:28 PM)Rob Wick Wrote:  Ah David you are a funny one, even if you don't watch The Simpsons.

As for making me smarter, I have one major request. How about writing something that makes sense.

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Rob

Rob, you wrote in your post #26:

"When I was in college, I took a special topics course on the life of Lincoln. Held like a seminar where each person took a topic and wrote a paper on it. I was given the topic of Lincoln and his cabinet. One of the quotes I remember from Burton Hendrick's book Lincoln's War Cabinet (which I honestly think is better than Team of Rivals; sorry, David) was . . . ."

In the next paragraph of post #26, you wrote:

"To look at Lincoln as "human" requires us to accept that for every virtue Lincoln had, he also had numerous vices and frailties."

Do you recall any quotes that you used in your college paper, that came directly from Burton Hendrick's book Lincoln's War Cabinet, in which Burton Hendrick discusses some of President Abraham Lincoln's "numerous vices and frailties"?