Lincoln's Birthday
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February 12, a legal holiday in some states of the U.S., in honor of the birth of Abraham Lincoln.
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It has arrived: on Sunday, Lincoln’s Birthday, the last stage in the theater’s expansion will be unveiled as part of a public open house.
From New York Times • Feb. 10, 2012
“First they replaced Lincoln’s Birthday with Presidents’ Day, and now this,” said Harold Holzer, a Lincoln scholar.
From New York Times • Feb. 13, 2010
On Lincoln's Birthday, traditionally an occasion for Republican speechmaking, President Kennedy held the center of the stage with an 800-guest White House reception and buffet dinner to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation.
From Time Magazine Archive
That night, Will White sat with 800 others in the new Statler Hotel as Franklin Roosevelt made his Lincoln's Birthday speech.
From Time Magazine Archive
In its inspirational value to youth Lincoln's Birthday stands among the most important of our American holidays.
From Our American Holidays: Lincoln's Birthday A Comprehensive View of Lincoln as Given in the Most Noteworthy Essays, Orations and Poems, in Fiction and in Lincoln's Own Writings by Schauffler, Robert Haven
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