Thought for the Day

 I have reached this city of Washington under circumstances

 considerably differing from those under which

 any other man has ever reached it.

~ Abraham Lincoln

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Quoted from Abraham Lincoln, Response to a Serenade, February 28,  1861 (Epigraph, Ted Widmer, Lincoln on the Verge: Thirteen Days to Washington (Simon & Schuster, 2020)

Abraham Lincoln Papers, Manuscripts Division, Library of Congress (www.loc.gov/exhibits/lincoln/interactive/journey-of-the-president-elect/feb11/artifact_524_html)

Abraham Lincoln, The White House Presidents