Abraham Lincoln
born in 1809 AD; died in 1865 AD (age ~56)
one of the great American presidents
Quotes (About)
No President, in my lifetime at least, had so burdensome and sorrowful an administration as did Herbert Hoover. Only Lincoln had graver problems to deal with. That Hoover should have failed of reelection was inevitable. The remorseless forces, for which he was not in any way responsible, that wiped out in two years two thirds of the fortunes of the United States, wrecked his political fortunes as well.
- Watching The World Go By
- p. 347 (Little, Brown, and Company, 1933)