Being President is like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridde…

Abraham Lincoln
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Being President is like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail... A man in the crowd asked how he liked it, and his reply was that if it wasn't for the honor of the thing, he would much rather walk. ✨ Martin D. Tullai, Abraham Lincoln (1998). Speaking of Abraham Lincoln
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