In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation formally freeing all slaves in the Confederate States.
In 1863, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation designating the last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day.
Obama infused his speech with references to two assassinated American icons -- President Abraham Lincoln and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
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In 1865, John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, died in a shoot-out with federal troops 11 days after Lincoln's death.
The act was introduced by Congressman Justin S. Morrill from Vermont and was signed into law on July 2, 1862 by President Abraham Lincoln.
In 1863, the Emancipation Proclamation was issued by President Abraham Lincoln, adding momentum to signal the beginning of the end of slavery in America.
President Abraham Lincoln took a dim view of those who, during wartime, acted in ways that damaged the morale of the American people and undermined the military.
As he was sworn in, Mr Obama placed his left hand on bibles owned by legendary American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr and President Abraham Lincoln.
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He repeated those words at Monday's public inauguration, placing his left hand on Bibles owned by legendary American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr and President Abraham Lincoln.
He pointed out it was a freed slave, Phillip Reed, who helped to cast the bronze statue, which was placed there December 2, 1863, not even a year after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
As he took to the podium at Saturday's rally, Biden invoked the 16th U.S. president, Abraham Lincoln, who was from Illinois.
It was the first Republican President, Abraham Lincoln, who said the role of government is to do for the people what they cannot do better for themselves.
In 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected president of the United States.
The first U.S. president to push for guest workers was Abraham Lincoln.
But the point is, is that Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican President, I think had it right.
These presidents subscribe to the governing philosophy of a president who towers above all others historically, such as Abraham Lincoln, and then apply that philosophy from another time to new and different circumstances.
Abraham Lincoln, the only U.S. president to hold a patent, grew up in the same part of Indiana in which Bowman farms his soybeans.
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But, President George W. Bush said on the flight deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln, Iraq was just one battle in a war that stretches around the world.
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Wyeth of Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural - an event remembered for the 16th president's solemn address.
It was May 1, 2003 when President George W. Bush made his dramatic landing on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln, arriving in the passenger seat of a Lockheed S-3 Viking fighter jet.
But the other two references -- to Franklin Roosevelt by name and to Abraham Lincoln by quotation -- started me thinking, and worrying, about how our president sees himself in relation to the other 42 men that have held his job. (Grover Cleveland was president twice in nonconsecutive terms).
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