It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract.

It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.īut, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate-we can not consecrate-we can not hallow-this ground.

We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. We are met on a great battle field of that war. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. Laura Bush, the White House completed refurbishing the Lincoln Bedroom and adjoining sitting room in 2005.Īddress delivered at the dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg.įour score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Truman directed that Lincoln-era bedroom furnishings be placed there. The room, which had been President Lincoln’s office and cabinet room, has been called the Lincoln Bedroom since 1945 when President Harry S. 4, 2009 at the National Museum of American History) is normally kept on view in the newly restored Lincoln Bedroom on the second floor of the White House. The White House copy on display in the Albert H.

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