Lincoln's Gettysburg Address

I had two very interesting experiences concerning this address. On February 12, 1998, when I was in Washington D.C. on my Communications with Your Elected Officials project, I recited this address from the front of the Lincoln Memorial, about where Martin Luther King stood. It was early in the morning, and few heard me except the workmen getting ready for the day's festivities. But it was a real thrill. To me, the Mall seems like the natiion's parlor. The other experience: On November 9, 2001 (my 87th birthday), I made a presentatiion at Shepherd's Center, beginning "Four Score and Seven Yeas ago my parents brought forth on this continent a new child . . ." It just happened there had been a cancellation of a program that day, and I substituted.