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A widely circulated rumor is that after the speech, Lincoln turned to his valet, Ward Hill Lamon, and commented that his speech was like a plow, "It must not be plowed." comb'. According to Gary Wells, this claim has no basis in fact and is largely based on Ramone's unreliable memory. According to Wells, "(Lincoln) had achieved what he wanted to achieve (at Gettysburg)."

Another persistent rumor is that Lincoln finished his speech on the train ride from Washington to Gettysburg and wrote it on the back of an envelope. This is an additional story based on the circulation of multiple manuscripts and reports of Lincoln's final draft while he was a guest at the house of David Wells.

In addition, there are rumors that the funeral committee at Gettysburg expected Lincoln to speak longer than the Gettysburg Address. In fact, everyone there knew (or should know) that the president's role on that day was really secondary. The only known photograph of Lincoln taken at Gettysburg was taken by master photographer David Bachrach and was archived by the National Archives and Records Administration in 1952. Recognized in Mathew Brady's collection of photographic negatives at NARA. Because Lincoln's speech was brief and it was necessary to prevent multiple photos from being taken during the speech, the president and other dignitaries sat for several hours while the remainder of the ceremony was carried out.

Copies of each lecture in the Library of Congress are packaged in specially designed, temperature-controlled, argon-sealed containers. To protect the file from oxidation and continued denaturation. In 1919, Sun Wen translated in "The Three Principles of the People": "Lincoln said: "For the people, to govern for the people, to enjoy for the people", this is the government of the people. With such a government, And the people are the true masters of a country.” In June 1921, when Sun Wen delivered a speech on “The Specific Methods of the Three People’s Principles,” he said, “There is no appropriate translation of this sentence in Chinese, so my brothers translated it as: the people own it. , Government by the people, for the people. Of the people means government by the people, and for the people means for the people. The doctrine of the people, by the people, and for the people is the doctrine of nation, democracy, and people’s livelihood advocated by our brothers!”

When Xu Daolin translated this speech into Chinese, he translated "of the people, by the people, for the people" into "of the people, by the people, for the people", which should be based on Sun Wen's Chinese translation. Come. He also added an explanation to the title: "He discusses the true meaning of democratic politics, using three prepositions to explain the remaining meaning, which is especially a stroke of genius. Others have said thousands of words just for words." However, Qian Gechuan once wrote about it in his book "Detailed Explanation of English Difficulties" This kind of Chinese translation raises questions. ---The Gettysburg Address in Popular Culture

The Gettysburg Address continues to appear in American popular culture, and its importance in American history has been repeatedly emphasized. Its outstanding status is not only reflected in the stone-built south wall of the inner sanctum of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.; the Gettysburg Address also frequently appears in popular cultural products, indicating that contemporary audiences are quite familiar with these words and phrases.

Examples include Meredith Willson's 1957 musical The Music Man, in which the mayor of Riverside Town consistently begins with 'Eighty...' ( Four score...) begins, and then is interrupted until it is his turn to begin again with the same line. The 1967 musical "Hair" had a song called "Abie Baby/Fourscore," which dealt with Lincoln's assassination and presented the Gettysburg Address in a satirical way. In the 1989 movie Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Abraham Lincoln is kidnapped from the past by the time-traveling protagonists and delivers this speech to the students of San Dimas High School: 'Eighty seven minutes ago. ’ In the 1999 movie Dick, the characters playing Bessie and Irene said: ‘Eighty and seven years ago our forefather did something I didn’t know about. ’ This is an example of how Lincoln’s actual phrase ‘our fathers’ is often misused.