[GallopingGhost]

Byrd contrasted the speech with the ``simple dignity'' of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address during the Civil War.

This from a guy that witnessed the Gettysburg Address live.

[fightinJAG]

Actually, the Gettysburg address wasn't all that dignified because it was not well-received at the time it was given and the crowd basically treated Lincoln like a two-bit sideshow. At least that's my recollection of studying the history of the address.