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Fox & Friends Interview of Author Lewis E. Lehrman
Saturday, July 5, 8:50am
Clayton Morris and Ainsley Earhardt co-hosts of Fox and Friends discuss Lincoln at Peoria: The Turning Point with author Lewis E. Lehrman.
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History Unfiltered
Humanities, July/August 2008 | Volume 29, Number 4
A conversation with Lewis Lehrman
Arriving by train in Washington, D.C., Lewis Lehrman wore a soft old brown hat and carried one piece of luggage, a canvas duffel bag that he’s owned for so long that several times his wife has sent it back to the manufacturer to have the handles replaced. For lunch he wanted to go somewhere simple, for a sandwich, though several of the District’s finest restaurants were but a few steps away. He does not talk much about Rite Aid, Morgan Stanley, or his current investment business, but lights up at the mention of Abraham Lincoln, about whom he has just written a book, Lincoln at Peoria. “You can tell a patriot by how he refers to George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Washington preferred to be called General Washington and Lincoln, Mr. Lincoln. Even Mrs. Lincoln called him that, but also sometimes simply Lincoln. But never, ever Abe.”
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