Excerpt from Ceremonies and Reenactment of the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Second Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln: 1865 1965; On the East Front of the Capitol of the United States, March 4, 1965

Lincoln second inaugural on the steps of the Capitol of the United States, March 4th, 1965, proved, more than anything else, a trib ute to the intellectual and emotional, the al most religious hold, that American history has upon the American people. The nearly identical exercises four years before, and on the same spot, commemorating the first Lin coln inauguration was, the Joint Committee on Arrangements said then in its report, the greatest epic of its kind in the annals of the Capitol Of the United States.

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