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That question? Which figure from history would you most like to meet?
Him.
I wouldn't take up much of his time. I'd just like to shake his hand and say thank you. Maybe, maybe, if he didn’t my asking, hear him tell one of his favorite jokes.
Saw the movie today.
Now I feel like I have. Met him.
And lost him.
It was a terrific joke, though.
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I hope you had the chance to hear the This American Life's piece yesterday on the Dakota War in Minnesota, which resulted in the hanging, on Lincoln's orders, of 38 Native-Americans. It's really possible that Lincoln's greatest perception is cut into the granite of the Lincoln Memorial, wherein he muses on the curse laid on generations to come. He got a lot of things right. He also, in a sense, brought General Sherman to the Great Plains.
Posted by: Bill Hicks | Sunday, November 25, 2012 at 10:09 AM
You didnt mention that Lincoln actually pared down the orginal list of those to be hanged.
Posted by: DWhite | Monday, November 26, 2012 at 11:22 AM