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10 Things You Didn't Know about Abraham Lincoln - YOU DON'T KNOW ABE!
Abraham Lincoln was our 16th president. He served from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He led the United States through the Civil War and paved the way for ending slavery. Here are 10 things you may not have known about him.
1. Lincoln didn’t have a middle name. He was named after his grandfather, Captain Abraham Lincoln, who served in the American Revolutionary War.
2. Although his parents were Baptists, Lincoln never belonged to an organized church.
3. Lincoln was a wrestler. At 6 feet 4 inches tall, he was well known for his wrestling skills and had only one recorded defeat.
4. Lincoln practiced law without a degree. His fees were usually in the $5 to $20 range.
5. Lincoln said that women should have the right to vote in an 1836 letter (84 years before it was law).
6. Lincoln established Thanksgiving as a national holiday on the fourth Thursday of every November.
7. One of Lincoln’s cats once ate at the White House dinner table. His two cats were named Tabby and Dixie.
8. Lincoln’s mother was killed by poison due to drinking tainted milk from a cow that had ingested white snakeroot.
9. Lincoln was estranged from his father. When his father died, Lincoln did not attend his funeral.
10. Lincoln battled depression. His life was full of heartbreak. Only one of his four sons lived past his teenage years.
11. In 1876, a gang of counterfeiters unsuccessfully attempted to steal Lincoln’s body. In 1901, Robert Todd Lincoln orders that his father be buried under several tons of concrete to insure the body will not be disturbed again.
During World War II, American Artists were hard at work creating propaganda for the U.S. war effort. Here's a collection of some of their amazing work. The posters included some of the following subjects: recruitment, women working, labor, nursing, rationing, war bonds, the Nazi enemy and not giving away information that could get our soldiers killed. This video is dedicated to all of the men and women who sacrificed for our freedom on and off of the battlefield. We will never forget.
Inaugural Address of President John F. Kennedy
Washington, D.C.
January 20, 1961
Vice President Johnson, Mr. Speaker, Mr. Chief Justice, President Eisenhower, Vice President Nixon, President Truman, Reverend Clergy, fellow citizens:
We observe today not a victory of party but a celebration of freedom--symbolizing an end as well as a beginning--signifying renewal as well as change. For I have sworn before you and Almighty God the same solemn oath our forebears prescribed nearly a century and three-quarters ago.
The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe--the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God.
We dare not forget today that we are the heirs of that first revolution. Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans--born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage--and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world.
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
This much we pledge--and more.
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