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"I was able to sit at Lincoln's side and see how he thought and how he acted, and how he felt about what was going on around him. I felt the pressures that were on him. You can see what people were writing to him, how they were nudging him"
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David Herbert Donald
between October 1, 1920 and May 17, 2009. He/she was a famous
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