14 Little-known Ways Abraham Lincoln Was A Hustler

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    14 little-known ways Abraham Lincoln was basically a "hustler".

    Lincoln did embody that basic principle: that there’s no time to wait on anyone else to do stuff for you and that if you want to get ahead, you have to do it yourself.

    12. When General McClellan failed to do literally everything the president asked him to do, instead of stewing in Washington, Lincoln traipsed down to Antietam and decided to just fire him (and take the best photo ever—look how much taller he is than everyone else!).
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    He was a most remarkable man in many ways.

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    11. He was the first person to use all sorts of presidential powers that had never been used before and did not care much that it pissed off pretty much everyone.
    He took on expansive wartime powers, instituted blockades, suspended the writ of habeas corpus, imprisoned Confederate sympathizers (both proven and suspected). A lot of people were (and still are) upset about the way he responded, but Lincoln was pretty much like “IDGAF” and did what he had to do.
     
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    Abe Lincoln ran for president in 1860 as the “Rail Splitter” candidate. "An analysis of the initials inlayed into (this) mallet shows they are very similar to those on a splitting wedge authenticated as belonging to Lincoln, which is now on display in the Smithsonian Institution. The inlaying technique is identical to that on a cabinet known to have been made by Lincoln. It was a skill he learned from his father who was a highly skilled cabinetmaker. ... And proof enough for (the) Indiana State Museum Curator." (January, 2017)

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    "With Mallets, toward none.....";)
     
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    Not sure this fits here... :(

    The curriculum at the college I attended required everyone to take an introductory course in writing.:eek: The only textbook our professor required was a tiny little paperback book, The Elements of Style, by Strunk and White. I still have it. There was a paragraph about The Gettysburg Address in Chapter 5. It needs a couple of introductory lines.

    14. Avoid Fancy Words

    "Avoid the elaborate, the pretentious, the coy, and the cute. Do not be tempted by a twenty-dollar word when there is a ten-center handy, ready and able.

    "If you admire fancy words, if every sky is beauteous, every blonde curvaceous, every intelligent child prodigious, if you are tickled by discombobulate, you will have a bad time with
    (#14). What is wrong, you ask, with beauteous? No one knows, for sure. There is nothing wrong, really, with any word — all are good, but some are better than others. A matter of ear, a matter of reading the books that sharpen the ear.

    "... The line between the fancy and the plain, between the atrocious and the felicitous, is sometimes alarmingly fine. The opening phrase of the Gettysburg address is close to the line, at least by our standards today, and Mr. Lincoln, knowingly or unknowingly, was flirting with disaster when he wrote "Four score and seven years ago." The President could have got into his sentence with plain "Eighty-seven" — a saving of two words and less of a strain on the listeners' powers of multiplication. But Lincoln's ear must have told him to go ahead with four score and seven. By doing so, he achieved cadence while skirting the edge of fanciness. Suppose he had blundered over the line and written, "In the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and seventy-six." His speech would have sustained a heavy blow. Or suppose he had settled for "Eighty-seven." In that case he would have got into his introductory sentence too quickly; the timing would have been bad. ..."
     
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    Lincoln's Cabinet
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    “Abraham Lincoln was a man of steel nerves, clear mental grasp, stanch convictions, and adamantine will, though withal a man of the gentlest and kindest character; and his forbearance and patience were almost infinite” Anthony Gross in his introduction of Lincoln’s Own Stories

    (I read somewhere, to the effect that he was strong like a steel wire, resilient, yet not breaking.)
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    This is an interesting letter to the editor of the Boston Morning Journal, by E.K., dated April 17, 1865. Could not find a clearer image, or who E.K. was.

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    From a wall of the Newseum, Washington, D.C.

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    Abraham Lincoln Portrait by Debra Hurd
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    Probably the oldest known photograph of Lincoln. In his late 30's as a member of the House of Representatives, the photo was taken by one of his law students, around 1846.

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    "With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations." - Abraham Lincoln
     
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    Lincoln, the wrestler.
    In 1992, Abe Lincoln was given an award (posthumously, of course) by the Wrestling Hall of Fame for his record of 300 matches and only one loss.
    A hustler par excellence..........
     
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