John Adams was the second president of the United States, serving from seventeen ninety-seven to eighteen-oh-one. The earliest example of presidents sharing a name is the Adams family. This is why Barack Obama is the forty-fourth president but just the forty-third man to serve in the office. He took office in January the following year. Grover Cleveland ran again and won election in eighteen ninety-two. He lost his re-election campaign in eighteen eighty-eight to Benjamin Harrison. Grover Cleveland first served from eighteen eighty-five to eighteen eighty-nine. Well, first of all, the twenty-second and twenty-fourth presidents of the United States were the same person. Is this one person or two presidents who share the same name? And why is the current president, Barack Obama, sometimes compared to the sixteenth president, Abraham Lincoln? The twenty-second and twenty-fourth presidents have the same name. Fekadu Banti is interested in the presidents of the United States. Our listener question this week comes from Ethiopia. She says many people wonder how the country's history would have been different if one gunshot on one evening had not happened. She says people are greatly interested in Abraham Lincoln's death, the first assassination of an American president. Kym Elder is an official at Ford's Theatre Museum. So the coat you see today really doesn't resemble the coat as it originally was when Abraham Lincoln received it from Brooks Brothers." But like many people of the day, it was a practice to snip out little mementos of events, and this particular coat suffered that same fate, in that Alfonso Don would clip pieces away from the coat and give it to people who came to visit and to see the coat. ![]() GLORIA SWIFT: "The Brooks Brothers coat was given to the favorite doorman after Lincoln's death, at the White House, Alphonso Donn, who kept it in his family. Museum curator Gloria Swift explains what happened to that coat after President Lincoln's death. He was wearing a special coat made by Brooks Brothers. You can also see the clothes President Lincoln wore the night he was killed. You can see the gun that John Wilkes Booth used to kill the president. The museum shows objects related to the people who plotted Lincoln's murder. ![]() He especially loved the comedies of William Shakespeare.Ībraham Lincoln was shot and killed at Ford's Theatre while watching a play with his wife in eighteen sixty-five. Visitors learn that President Lincoln's favorite pastime was going to the theater. Because of his disease, Lincoln joked to his doctor: "Good, now at last I have something I can give everyone." At the time, Lincoln was troubled by so many people seeking jobs in the White House. One of the museum's displays tells the story about when the president had a mild case of the infectious disease small pox. Visitors also discover a funny side to Abraham Lincoln who was known for his sense of humor. One headstone says that Lincoln believed the system of slavery was founded on both injustice and bad policy. Headstones in the museum describe his feelings toward slavery. The exhibits include historical objects that explain his presidency, his famous speeches and his life in the White House.Ībraham Lincoln is remembered as the president who ended slavery in the rebel southern states during the Civil War. The museum at Ford's Theatre was created to show Abraham Lincoln's life, and death, in Washington, D.C. Visitors to the museum can learn about President Lincoln's important role in American history. ![]() ![]() The museum not only honors the death of Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president. īut first, we visit the newly re-opened museum in Washington that honors just one former president.įord's Theatre in Washington, D.C, re-opened its museum last week. Īnd answer a question about some American presidents. Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English.
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