That's Abraham Lincoln and I at CivicFest, an event in Minneapolis running parallel the the Republican National Convention.Abe, who in reality is a man from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, had not heard the news that Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich had just closed two sites with strong Lincoln ties--Illinois' second capitol building in Vandalia and the site of Lincoln's parents last home near Charleston.
The Chicago Democrat, I explained to Abe, ordered Lincoln's New Salem to go from a seven-day week to just five, as he did with the Old State Capitol building in Springfield, where Barack Obama and Joe Biden recently spoke. Lincoln's old law office--which is across the street from that building, is now open to the public just one day a week. It was open every day.
That did not make Abe happy.
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