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Title: St. Nicholas (serial)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: (New York : Scribner & Co.)
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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s his conclusions witha promptness that must have been perfected onlyby long training. The enthusiasm of this Con-gressman may have led him to speak in strongterms, and yet this again would be following to adegree the example of the President. Strength isthe keynote of his make-up,—strength and ability 198 A DAYS WORK WITH THE PRESIDENT (Jan., to apply that strength at the most effective time It is then that the visitor gets his first glance and spot. It is the Anglo-Saxon of the man. at the inner executive office, with its massive Dr. Lyman Abbott of New York said of Presi- desk, its dark-green hangings, and a single por- dent Roosevelt: In 1200 he would have been a trait over the mantel facing the Presidents seat crusader, in 1700 a colonist, in 1800 a pioneer. —Abraham Lincoln. That room was not built In 1900, or a few years after, we see where his when Lincoln filled the executive chair, but you extraordinary energy has placed him. can imagine that back in the main part of the
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