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I am pleased to be here, in this place on this day: in Richmond, on Lincoln’s 200th birthday. And I am pleased to speak in this program that examines leadership, about this greatest of American leaders. Our theme tonight is Lincoln’s magnanimity. But before I expand on that theme I have two introductory digressions. The first introductory digression has to do with two interwoven current events: the 200th birthday of the president who brought a new birth of freedom; and the beginning of a presidency that is one dramatic fruit of that newly born freedom.
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Notes
Roy P. Basler, ed., Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings (New York: De Capo Press, 2001), p. 588.
Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2005).
See William Lee Miller, President Lincoln: The Duty of a Statesman (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008).
See William Lee Miller, Lincoln’s Virtues: An Ethical Biography (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002).
John G. Nicolay and John Hay, Abraham Lincoln: A History, vol. 6 (New York: The Century Company, 1890), p. 330.
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Miller, W.L. (2010). The Magnanimity of Abraham Lincoln: “What I Deal with Is Too Vast for Malicious Dealing”. In: Goethals, G.R., McDowell, G.L. (eds) Lincoln’s Legacy of Leadership. Jepson Studies in Leadership. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230104563_5
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