Was Nixon the One in 1960? - Washington Free Beacon

Were Americans in 1922 still relitigating the 1860 presidential election? Not, it seems, to judge from the speeches delivered on Memorial Day 100 years ago at the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial. Chief Justice William Howard Taft spoke at length about architecture. Robert Moton, the principal of Tuskegee Institute, spoke at length, and in words that have held up well, of the history of black Americans. But neither mentioned the election that brought Abraham Lincoln to the White House. President Warren Harding came closest when he noted that "57 years ago this people gave from their ranks, sprung from their own fiber, this plain man, holding their common ideals."

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