Kendall you can't win for losin'. It's the 200th anniversary of Abe Lincoln's birth (within a couple of hours of St. Chuck)and you now only foul that up, you call him the most popular presidents, which is rather less than the truth. While he was alive he went through periods of being least popular, and there are still many alive today who term him a war criminal, as did his assassin.

For my money, Lincoln looms as large as any human can. He brought courage together with temperateness, humility with stridency, great intelligence with plain-spokeness. There would be no United States without him. He is one of the all time great human beings irrespective of nationality.

If the United States has ever to justify its purpose through its people, Abe would suffice.