Roger Small
Claremont
To the editor,
At the Gettyburg battlefield, where 150,000 Americans died fighting one another July 1, 2, 3, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln gave the most memorable speech by a president, 150 years ago. Lincoln had less than two years of formal education.
He wrote the speech on a piece of paper in the train ride from Washington, D.C. It lasted 14 minutes.
Today, politicians hire speech writers with extensive, expensive college degrees. The politicians read these long, long discourses that no one remembers.
In 50 years I’ve not heard one of our leaders make a statement that came close to matching Lincoln’s Gettysburg address.
Roger Small
Claremont
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