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Today is the Anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. It might do us all well to take a moment to re-read it and reflect on it's meaning to us then and how it applies today. Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation: conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war. . .testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated. . . can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of ...

Fifty years had passed since the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1st- 3rd, 1863.

Perhaps Reagan's finest speech when he discussed a "trust me" government that we once again find ourselves encountering today: "...I will not stand by and watch this great country destroy itself under mediocre leadership that drifts from one crisis to the next, eroding our national will and purpose. We have come together here because the American people deserve better from those to whom they entrust our nation's highest offices, and we stand united in our resolve to do something about it. We need rebirth of the American tradition of leadership at every level of government and in private life as...