Abraham Lincoln, my favorite US President, would have been 199 years old today. If I had lived in the late 1850s and early 1860s, I might have been a Republican. Somehow, the two parties have switched many of their stands over the years. The Wigwam was the site of the 1860 Republican convention. The image is from the Library of Congress' wonderful American Memory site: http://memory.loc.gov/
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