birthday another nineteen vols oh well that's the daily gettysburg address and the lincoln presidential library foundation you will in asean spirit of that address i have certainly not a poet but i figured i could put together two hundred seventy two words the exact number of words in the gettysburg address i when i sat down to write it i think you can ask me a couple of questions about it i thought about the direction of the country which is where we started this conversation and i don't see the trajectory moving forward where you think long term would think about today i think he would look around and say this is not what i envisioned for the greatness of america i think. we revere mediocrity but he would also see a black president he would see black outlines of the university of alabama well the question about that's wonderful had a black president is wonderful the question is was it the right black president it's the same thing about a woman you know i think that. would have been great to have a woman as president of the united states absolutely only if it was the right woman . so i i think that to sa