TODAY IS
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2018
Trump’s 667th Day In Office
More Little Known Nor Long Remembered
At this afternoon’s meeting of the Conservative Agenda, Political Insiders were asking Beloved Whistleblower Publisher Charles Foster Kane why there isn’t more news coverage today about November 19, 1863. That’s when Abraham Lincoln delivered his Gettysburg Address, after 50,000 soldiers had been killed or wounded in a three-day battle. “Lincoln was a Republican saving the nation,” Kane explained. “You don’t need any more explanation than that.”
What a great speech! It was only two-minutes long, but it’s considered one of the most powerful speeches ever. That speech touched upon the ideals of the Declaration of Independence and the constitutional rights of all men. The speech was the first step to try and re-unite the country that was torn by the Civil War.
“Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us –
that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and
that government OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE, shall not perish from the earth.”
No wonder Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address is always included on any list of the Top Ten Presidential Speeches, along with Kennedy’s Cuban Missile Crisis Speech, Nixon’s Resignation Speech, Reagan’s Berlin Wall Speech, Washington’s Farewell Address, Roosevelt’s Pearl Harbor Speech, Wilson’s Speech Declaring War on Germany, Eisenhower’s Farewell Address, Lyndon Johnson’s We Shall Overcome Speech, and Carter’s Crisis of Confidence Speech.
Whistleblower Presidential Historian Dorian Grady said, “And just think, Lincoln delivered his Gettysburg Address without a teleprompter!“ and rump Supporters wanted to hear that speech Candidate Trump’s Gettysburg Speech in October 2016 that included his plans for his first 100 days.
And maybe just for fun, we should compare Trump’s Gettysburg Speech with Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, which might give people something scholarly to argue about this year at their Dysfunctional Family Thanksgiving Dinners.
