"That Was The President And That Was The Man" was written by Phil Ochs right after the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963---not for Abraham Lincoln. He wrote 2 different versions of the song that I recall. Lincoln was mentioned in the song just to show that since memories of Lincoln didn't fade after he was gone, neither would memories of Jon Kennedy. Both of those songs are in my collection I titled Songs Of The Life, Times And Assasination Of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy. The whole collection pretty much is in the Archive Of Folk Culture at the Library of Congress in Wash D.C.

We had a decent thread here some time ago on songs of J.F.K. and I think I posted this song there--among others.

Art Thiemne