Ted Widmer, former director of the Starr Center, former Clinton speech writer, provides one of his best columns today in the New York Times' Disunion series, "The Foot Comes Down."
Disunion presents the chronological, daily account of the events 150 years ago, that lead up to the bloody atonement we know as the American Civil War. Today, Lincoln is winding up his inaugural railroad journey from Illinois to Washington D.C. He's left New York, is now in New Jersey, and will conclude in Philadelphia, on Washington's birthday.
The Patrick Henry House, where we are in residence this year, property of Washington College, is filled with images of President Washington. The library shelves in the House include his papers, as well as those of many of the other significant Founders and Framers. The book we're here writing is about how we got from colonial times to the American Civil War. In a very real sense Washington and Lincoln are the pole stars, beacons, forward and behind, to our ponderings upon our national history.
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