Lincoln Dinner

I didn't know that.

Also, how low rent is that, by the way? Like, you turn the Lincoln Day Dinner into the F- fr- uh, the Douglas Debs Dinner.

[laughs]

These people are just such nerds.

That is, that is a, a very loser thing.

I had no clue that's what it wa- 'Cause I remember I've gone to many a Lincoln Day Dinner, and that's-

Yeah

... an extremely normal event.

But to be able to exist in this space, we have to have a presence.

And just like what I said at the Lincoln Day dinner over in Delta, it's Delta County Republicans.

I was there on the night of the 22nd.

And I was the only one in the room.

I will be a very old man.

We'll be doing a Lincoln Day dinner, okay, in Tallahassee.

We'll both get in our walkers and get on the stage, or maybe you'll be pushing me in a wheelchair, and I'll introduce you as the man who got the January 6th pardons through.

That's how I'm going to introduce you.

Were you friends with Monet or friendly with her before you became a candidate?

Yeah, we've always, if I saw her in the hall at the Capitol or if she was at the same event I was at, even at all the Lincoln Day Dinners, you

know,

I'd make sure to say hello and be very cordial to her.

Costume.

County Lincoln Day Dinner.

On the small plane

he was in.

but the memory of lincoln even now so many years after his piteous death stirs the tenderest love of the nation thrills it with a sense of intimate relationship to his greatness and awakens a personal affection in the average american's breast not a mere political enthusiasm but a peculiarly heartfelt sentiment that has no parallel in human history if it be true that the nation has at once become old that it has grown sinister and corrupt that it cringes before material success stands in awe of multimillionaires and prostrates itself before money why is it that we love lincoln if in the pride of wealth and strength we have forgotten our early republican ideals of simple justice and manhood how is it that the movement to commemorate the birth of this lowly clumsy backwoodsman and frontier lawyer turned president a movement begun in the rich cities of new york and chicago instantly spread to the remotest villages and all that seemed ugly and haggard with all that seemed brave and fair and true swarmed together heart naked to make that twelfth day of february an unforgettable event Arches and statues, flower-strewn streets with endless processions, moving ceremonies in thousands of schools and colleges, multitudes kneeling in churches, other multitudes listening to orators, warships and fortresses roaring out salutes.

Yet these were the mere externals of Lincoln Day.

The average American does not shout when he hears Lincoln's name.

even the political demagogue the stock gambler the captain of industry i the sorriest scarecrow of a yellow journalist is likely to grow silent and reverential when the word is spoken with all our national levity we do not jest about lincoln with all our political divisions every party to-day reveres his memory and claims his spirit it is sober truth to say that he struck the noblest highest holiest note in the inmost native soul of the american people there is nothing so arrogant or sodden and sordid in the new paganism which has set its altars in wall street but will in some sense uncover and kneel at the sound of his name OUR FLEET IN ITS VOYAGE AROUND THE WORLD FOUND NO RECORD OF SUCH A MAN IN ANY OF THE LANDS OF ITS VISITATIONS.

Just strictly traveling the Northeast, going to events.

You know, we hit every parade, county fair, central committee meeting, Lincoln Day events.

And, you know, the vast majority of those counties were having those county fairs.

Not all of them had county fairs, but I think nine or ten of those counties out of the 14, they all had.

He told the public, quote, God was watching over us tonight, referring back to the incident.

He was heading home from the La Crosse County Lincoln Day dinner when the plane that he was in lost power as it was approaching a downtown airport, forcing the pilot into an emergency landing on the water on a nearby lake.

After they called 911, the aircraft actually, Dan, started to sink into the water.

Tiffany and the pilot had to swim to a shallow area and then wait there for rescue.