ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S BOOTS
Lord Howard of Penrith recalls in his reminiscences a delightful story about Lord Lyons and Abraham Lincoln. During the American Civil War President Lincoln asked the Ambassador to go down to see him at the front. They stayed at a small country shanty, and when Lord Lyons got up in the
morning he found Lincoln busy polishing his hoots at the front door. The Ambassador was horrified, and said; “ Mr President, do you think it right that the President of the United States should polish his own boots?’’ Abraham Lincoln looked up with a twinkle in his eye and said: “Mr Minister, if he doesn’t polish his own hoots whose boots should he polish?”
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Evening Star, Issue 22327, 1 May 1936, Page 3
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117ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S BOOTS Evening Star, Issue 22327, 1 May 1936, Page 3
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