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From the Archives, Presidents' Day Edition: Writer Garry Wills on Lincoln and the Gettysburg Address.

Writer Garry Wills. He's analyzed the Gettysburg Address in the book "Lincoln At Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America." He says that speaking for only three minutes that day, Lincoln changed the history of American political thought. Wills is a presidential historian and and political scientist. He's written other books on Nixon, Reagan and Kennedy, and John Wayne. (REBROADCAST from 7/7/92)

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