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Podcast: RockneCAST
Episode: Abe and Ed at Gettysburg (Episode #86, 19 Feb. 2022)
Description: Happy President's Day! This my second episode relating to the awesomeness of Abe Lincoln.
We'll cover two addresses at Gettysburg, the famous one by Abe, and the long winded version Edward Everett, the featured speaker, who is typically glossed over as the long winded two hour speech prior to Lincoln's speech.
Here I give Everett his due. Yes, he was a little bit of a windbag, but there's some good stuff in the speech too. It's kind of a little history lesson on Greece, England, Germany, Rome, a description of Gettysburg itself, the reasons for th...