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Lincoln's 200th birthday coincides with Obama inauguration
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Washington - In an ironic twist, the US will be celebrating the 200th birthday of president Abe Lincoln - the US leader who ended slavery - just weeks after the inauguration of its first black president, Barack Obama. Thus, it's hardly surprising that the theme of Obama's January 20 historic inauguration will be dominated by Lincoln, a president who also took office as the nation faced huge challenges.
The announcement was made Wednesday, just a day after Obama's election felled the final racial barrier for non-whites in the US. Senator Dianne Feinstein, chairman of the joint congressional committee on the inauguration, said the theme of the ground-breaking event would be "A New Birth of Freedom."
The words are taken from Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, the eloquent commemoration for the dead after the 1863 civil war battle of Gettysburg, the most northern point of the Confederate invasion.
Obama summoned Lincoln's ideals in his victory speech Tuesday night in Grant Park, Chicago, recalling that Lincoln was a Republican who worked to heal a country divided by the passions of the war, and insisting that "our union can be perfected."
[link to www.earthtimes.org]
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