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When Abraham Lincoln stood at Gettysburg, in the ceremony for dedicating the grounds for the burial of the thousands of Union soldiers, he pulled out all the Biblical stops — and I do intend the metaphor, which comes from playing the pipe organ, when you pull out all the stops and thus engage all the many ranks of pipes. “We cannot dedicate, we cannot …

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