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Published 2/12/2009 by CNN Associate Producer Martina Stewart at CNN Political Ticker

WASHINGTON (CNN) — From Capitol Hill to Springfield, Illinois, President Obama and Congress paid tribute Thursday to Abraham Lincoln on the bicentennial of his birth. "It is an honor to be here: a place where Lincoln served, was inaugurated, and where the nation he saved bid him a last farewell," Obama said at the Capitol on [...] (link)

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