“I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has.”
About This Quote
The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume VII, Speech to One Hundred Sixty-sixth Ohio Regiment (August 22, 1864), p. 512.
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