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Hendrik Hertzberg looks at the allusions to Lincoln, Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr. in President Obama’s second inaugural speech: http://nyr.kr/WkhLWs
Photograph of Lincoln’s second Inaugural Address by Alexander Gardner/Courtesy Library of Congress.