Show Something For Everyone By Bert Boyack U. S. PART I Abraham Lincoln was the President of the United In history books he could be called the favorite of Lincoln had a tender There is a myth that he stepped on a an or call it what you After stepping on the insect he picked up the crushed put it into the palm of his hand and Believe I'm We may well remember his trials and tribulations He was a self educated man You will recall those pictures of Lincoln sprawled out reading his lawyers book by the light of a log fire in the It is not known what the requirements were but it is known that he practiced law in in The story that he had an early love affair with Ann Rutledge is discredited by HISTORY HAS proven that the only woman truly and really loved by Lincoln was Mary whom he She bore Lincoln four Regretfully and pathetically only one son lived to He was Robert Todd Lincoln who turned out to be and wealthy corporation He had his debates with the officious Stephen Douglas This was his first great step in an onward He regarded slavery as and Elected President in 1860 his wise control of the Civil War amounted nearly to a it was a wise concerned LINCOLN'S Cabinet was rotten with small jealousies and internal He managed miraculously to wade through this boil on his this rot of men the smallness and cheapness of men with whom he had to patiently and congenially keep There have been many a short story and told of This is our Lincoln had in his cabinet a certain man who was a continual source of irritation and aggravation to Whatever the policy or plan under consideration there was always a sharp divergence of between the two Lincoln's friends urged him repeatedly to the annoying cabinet without IN EXPLAINING the the President told one of his whimsical years he was passing a field where a farmer was trying to plow with a very old and decrepit I noticed on the flank of the animal a big and I was about to brush it off when the farmer you bother that If it wasn't for that fly this danged old hoss wouldn't move an We have written these well known facts about Lincoln because as President of the United States he was superb in belief and shown in his QUOTE WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four I would say the thank HE HAD A SENSE OF HUMOR After Thomas Jefferson was made Ambassador to he was received by Count de Vergennes who replace To which Jefferson no one can replace TO BE SURE A president can't have outside business Even George Washington had to put the Candy Stores in his Wife's THE LIGHT SIDE OF JOHN ADAMS During their John Adams brought Abigail Smith a letter ordering her to the as many kisses and as many hours of your company after six o'clock as he shall please to demand and charge them to my I he have a good right to draw upon you for the as I have given two or three million at where one has been and of the account between us is immensely in favor of John QUOTES TAKEN FROM LOUIS W. KOENIG The Wealthy of Our F. Believed to be the richest man ever elected At the time he his personal fortune was estimated at more than and he donated his Presidential salary to Herbert By the time he was in his early he was the world's outstanding mining engineer a millionaire with offices in a dozen cities around the world and people on his For his one of the nations wealthiest men a successful land He left an estate valued at over which would be the equivalent of millions Thomas Inherited huge land Though he suffered setbacks in later at the time he ran for the Presidency he lived in manorial style on acres with some The Not So Harry Spent years paying off debt after his haberdashery Once said that if he hadn't been elected to the Senate in he'd have been William Moderately well off till just before he ran for the top Then in notes he'd signed for a friend backfired and went into His friends had to bail him out before the Ulysses S. Though he was getting in pay and allowances as a he'd saved so little he was reluctant to give it up for a temporary as Later wrote his memoirs to get out of A SPARK OF LAUGHTER A reporter once interviewed President Calvin you wish to say anything about was the first the farm the World The reporter turned the said LAST WORD f ff Stevenson was nominated but never elected who can forget his own YU nothing lose but |