Lincoln, President Abraham

James Barber, White House Security An Examination of the Dilemmas that Confronted Presidents Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy. (New Yorlc Little House Press, 1995) p.213. 

Another idea came from a geologist of some renown, Forrest Shephard, whose scheme (never carried out) was presented in a letter to President Abraham Lincoln. Shephard recommended that clouds of hydrochloric acid be generated to harass Confederate troops ... 

Phillips (1992) describes President Abraham Lincoln as a visionary. Lincoln-based principles about vision include the following, quoted directly from the book ... 

Suddenly there is a scream from within the White House. You race through the East Room and then through the Red Room. You dash past paintings of Abraham Lincoln, Zachary Taylor, and John F. Kennedy. Finally, arriving at the State Dining Room, you find the president. He is surrounded by blobs, obviously one or more creatures from the fourth dimension. 

First, all the answer choices are actual presidents. None of the answer choices is obviously wrong. Unless you know exactly which president was the fourteenth, the answer choices don t give you any hints. As a result, you may pick George Washington or Abraham Lincoln because they are two of the best-known presidents. This is exactly what the test writers would want you to do They included George Washington and Abraham Lincoln because they want you to see a familiar name and assume it s the correct answer. 

But what if you know that George Washington was the first president and Abraham Lincoln was the sixteenth president The question gets even trickier because the other two incorrect answer choices are James Buchanan, the thirteenth president, and Millard Fillmore, the fifteenth president. In other words, unless you happen to know that Franklin Pierce was the fourteenth president, it would be very difficult to figure out he is the correct answer based solely on the answer choices. 

Excerpt from the Gettysburg address by Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States. 

A Paraphrase of a Quote Attributed to Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States, 1809-1865. The Actual Quote You Can Fool Some of the People All of the Time, and All of the People Some of the Time, but You Cannot Fool All the People All the Time. ... 

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