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Week Ending Friday, February 16, 2007
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Remarks at a Dinner in Honor of the Ford’s Theatre Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Celebration,
February 11, 2007
Good evening, and welcome. Laura and I are delighted to have you here as we celebrate the 198th birthday of Abraham Lincoln. And we’re really glad you’re here.
We thank Ford’s Theatre for helping us honor this great American President. We thank David Herbert Donald and Doris Kearns Goodwin for scholarship that has given us a deeper appreciation of Lincoln’s life and purpose. We welcome all the Lincoln scholars who are here.
We are here tonight to remember the life, the incredible life and the great sacrifice of the man who saved our Union. We remember Abraham Lincoln’s eloquence, his wisdom, his unshakeable faith in the enduring truth that we’re all created equal. He worked to renew the promise of America’s founding and to build a more perfect union for all Americans.
As we approach the bicentennial of President Lincoln’s birth, his words and principles continue to guide our Nation. We look to his example for courage and to find the better angels of our nature. His legacy is the birthright of all Americans, and tonight we honor those who helped pass the story of his life from generation to generation.
In this story of this good and decent man, we really find the best of America. And so tonight I would like to offer a toast to our 16th President, Abraham Lincoln, and to our blessed country.
Note: The President spoke at 7:40 p.m. in the State Dining Room at the White House. In his remarks, he referred to David Herbert Donald and Doris Kearns Goodwin, members, Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission Advisory Committee. The transcript was released by the Office of the Press Secretary on February 12.
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Chicago: George W. Bush, "Remarks at a Dinner in Honor of the Ford’s Theatre Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Celebration, February 11, 2007," Week Ending Friday, February 16, 2007 in United States. Executive Office of the President, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, Week Ending Friday, February 16, 2007 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2007), 43:144 Original Sources, accessed September 30, 2023, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=U98QQGIJSGZ9HRH.
MLA: Bush, George W. "Remarks at a Dinner in Honor of the Ford’s Theatre Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Celebration, February 11, 2007." Week Ending Friday, February 16, 2007, in United States. Executive Office of the President, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, Week Ending Friday, February 16, 2007 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2007), 43:144, Original Sources. 30 Sep. 2023. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=U98QQGIJSGZ9HRH.
Harvard: Bush, GW, 'Remarks at a Dinner in Honor of the Ford’s Theatre Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Celebration, February 11, 2007' in Week Ending Friday, February 16, 2007. cited in , United States. Executive Office of the President, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, Week Ending Friday, February 16, 2007 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2007), 43:144. Original Sources, retrieved 30 September 2023, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=U98QQGIJSGZ9HRH.
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