06/25/1947
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"In 1865 no man alive could have succeeded Abraham Lincoln without being subject to unfavorable comparisons."
"This is an occasion to which I have looked forward for a long time."
"And this is the thing that these three men, different as they were in origin and in temperament, held in common."
"Jackson, Polk, and Johnson are gone. Yet they are forever a part of North Carolina."