Comments on: Getting Right with Lincoln – Part I

By: Lincoln Stuff « Bull Runnings

Lincoln Stuff « Bull Runnings — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 01:47:50 +0000

[...] 9 03 2009 I left a comment on this post on Civil War Memory, which prompted a comment on this post here, and as a result I’ve found another Lincoln blog called The Abraham Lincoln Observer. [...]

By: Harry Smeltzer

Harry Smeltzer — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:33:45 +0000

I stand corrected, Mike, though I wonder how many folks would know of the term had not Donald written the article. I have another entry in the Getting Right with Lincoln “series” coming up. Soon. I hope.

Thanks for stopping by. Come back often!

By: The Abraham Lincoln Observer

The Abraham Lincoln Observer — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 00:22:37 +0000

Actually, if you read all the way to the end of Donald’s article, he quotes then-Congressman Everett Dirksen as saying that the first task of a politician is “to get right with … Lincoln.” Dirksen, a central Illinoisan who later became Senate Republican leader, worked closely with President Lyndon Johnson on some of the groundbreaking civil rights legislation of the 1960s, so perhaps it’s fair to say Ev got right with Abe on a philosophical, as well as political, level. But at any rate, it does seem clear that Dirksen, not Donald, deserves credit for coining the phrase “getting right with Lincoln.”

My apologies for the belated quibble. You’re absolutely right, of course, on your main point.

By: Brian Dirck on Goodwin’s Lincoln « Bull Runnings

Brian Dirck on Goodwin’s Lincoln « Bull Runnings — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:37:18 +0000

[...] plug for Russell McClintock’s Lincoln and the Decision for War (I wrote a little about it here). It’s the best examination of the days between AL’s election and the firing on Ft. [...]