Is Obama the Next Lincoln?

By CBS

January 21, 2009

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This clip from the CBS Evening News features Douglas Brinkley, a history professor at Rice University, and Harold Holzer, the author of Lincoln: President-Elect, discussing the similarities between Abraham Lincoln and Barack Obama. Both are different men in very different eras but, Brinkley points out, "as long as Obama can be mentioned in the same breath with Lincoln... he's doing well on the public relations front."

--Corbin Hiar

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