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Garfield is one of the most intelligent president s we have ever had. He is up there in the top half dozen and when we go through his life, by the end of the middle of it, and youre going to say no, that cant be. He cant be that good in that field. Its just not possible, and then well find something else, and youre going to no. He is just incredibly bright, and the hope for his presidency was enormous, and were going to discuss an absolutely brilliant human being. I was chatting with a friend before, and he asked me if i thought garfield was the most intelligent. I dont know how you test Something Like that, and its not as if you give president s iq tests. Its a lot easier with things that are easy to measure, tall ask short. We all know that madison was our shortest president , lincoln was our tallest president because thats easy. I dont know how you know who the most intelligent. Certainly the two adams, jefferson, madison and < ....
Now. But i want to focus on then. And see if we can get some insight into lincoln and his times and this, as guy said, this hot topic. Let me start with december 6, 1864. Thats just a month after his reelection as president. And its the day that Abraham Lincoln sent his fourth and as fate would have it, his final annual message to congress. The equivalent, as you know of todays state of the union messages, except by the tradition of the lincoln era, they are not orated in person. They were sent Via White House staff and read by a clerk. Maybe with feeling. Probably not. Certainly not the way lincoln himself would have read it. So we can only imagine how the document was received by a body that would ultimately just take a reading copy and study it more closely. I would think that one passage, particularly, caught the listeners attention that day. And keep in mind as we set ....