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THE) LINCOLN MEMORIAL IN CHERRY-BLOSSOM SLASON 



" 'Lincoln, of all Americans next to Washington, deserves this place of honor. He was 

 of the immortals.' " [Text s pages 197-204, extracted from the address of the Honorable 

 William Howard Taft, Chief Justice of the United States and Chairman of the Lincoln 

 Memorial Commission, in presenting the Memorial to the President of the United States, 

 May 30, 1922.] 



