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All three newscasts closed with a tribute to the Great Emancipator on the 200th anniversary of his birth. This year the USMint is coining four new Lincoln pennies. On CBS, the Early Show's Jeff Glor checked out an exhibit at New York City's Federal Hall. NBC's Lee Cowan was in Springfield, where Abraham Lincoln's museum is "the most visited Presidential library in the entire country." ABC anchor Charles Gibson covered the "teaching moment" of students performing a simultaneous nationwide reading of the 272-word, ten sentence Gettysburg Address. Lincoln's political opponents accused him of being two-faced, Gibson recalled. "Not the handsomest of men," the railsplitter replied: "If I were two-faced do you think I would be wearing this one?"
Andrew Tyndall 2/14/09 4:52:13 pm

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