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February 13, 2009

Obama Marks Abraham Lincoln’s Birthday
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Ceremonies were held across the nation Thursday to mark the 200th
anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth. At a ceremony in Washington,
President Barack Obama praised the nation’s sixteenth president as a
visionary of great courage.

President Obama: “As we mark the bicentennial of our sixteenth
president’s birth, I cannot claim to know as much about his life and
works as many who are also speaking today, but I can say that I feel a
special gratitude to this singular figure who, in so many ways, made my
own story possible and, in so many ways, made America’s story possible.”



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