The 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address is fast approaching. Click here for a rundown of events sponsored by the National Park Service in Gettysburg and various other organizations.
President Barack Obama has been invited to speak, but at this point has yet to confirm. We all know of the president’s close identification with our 16th president and for the obvious reasons his presence in Gettysburg should have been confirmed by now.
Why it hasn’t is a mystery to me, but perhaps these trips are scheduled late for security purposes. Given recent anti-NPS rhetoric, it would be nice to see the president side by side with Gettysburg Park officials.
So, do you think the president will travel to Gettysburg next month?
The President will NOT be in attendance: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/obama-attend-gettysburg-address-remembrance-20739966
Thanks. I updated the blog yesterday.
I hope so and think he will.
Don’t know – don’t much care.
I just hope the NPS doesn’t bring back Doris Kearns Goodwin for a speech……..
President Obama will go and deliver a speech subpar to Lincoln’s (really, who could do speechifying better than Ole’ Abe?).
Of course he will be there. What an opportunity!!! He would not miss it for the world.
If folks want him to come, it might be good to organize a campaign to ask him to attend.
Absolutely. It is imperative that The President should speak and Honor Gettysburg and President Lincoln on the 150th Anniversary of his Address.
I think if he asks to come the National Park Service should say “thank you, but no, you barricaded our entrance last month. You are not invited or welcomed.”
The president has already been invited by the National Park Service. Your comment suggests that you have no idea why the NPS was forced to close its doors during the shutdown.
The poll results aren’t in yet, so he is yet to decide.
Pres. Obama will be there on the 150th. How could he not? This is literally a one-time opportunity.
I think he should, and IMO it would be a major mis-step—absent a true crisis—to fail to appear.