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AMERICA does not have an official day to observe the birthday of President Abraham Lincoln, but “President’s Day” on the third Monday in February is a US federal holiday set on the calendar because of its close proximity to the birthdays of Lincoln on February 12th and President George Washington on February 22nd. As I reflect on the birth of Lincoln, and as we have just celebrated the birth of Robert Burns, I highlight the depth of feeling Lincoln and the Lincoln family had for the Scottish Bard and Scotland more generally. When President Lincoln was tragically killed in 1865, so many of his personal hopes that he shared with First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln came to an abrupt rest. One of the goals they longed to do following Lincoln’s presidency was travel to Scotland. Lincoln who never left the United States for any foreign journey, often contemplated Scotland and spoke of his goal of travelling there. At the end of the Civil War, Lincoln said to his personal secretary Jo

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