[nolu chan]

[ftD] It was the South's arrogrance that made Lincoln the great President that he was.

It was John Wilkes Booth that made Lincoln "great."

It is difficult to find anyone who knew Lincoln saying much of anything good about him while he was still alive. Try his generals and cabinet members for example.

It was after he died that he became St. Abe.

[fortheDeclaration]

No, I think knocking the tar out of the South would have been enough to make him a great President.

The murder made him one of our greatest Presidents.