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The Lincolns: a scrapbook look at Abraham and Mary
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He was born in a log cabin and covered with a bearskin for warmth.

She was brought up with piano lessons, Persian rugs, and slaves to wait on her.

He ws the first president to have his face put on a coin and the first to inspire a presidential joke book. He let his sons keep pet goats in the White House, and hid the Emancipation Proclamation in his desk for three months before releasing it to the press.

She was the first president's wife to be called the First Lady, had Congress pass a bill to pay for her redecoration of the White House, and personally handed out food and clothing to Washington's camps of ex-slaves.