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Excerpt from Proceedings at the Twenty-Seventh Annual Lincoln Dinner of the Republican Club of the City of New York, in Commemoration of the Birth of Abraham Lincoln: Waldorf-Astoria, Wednesday, February Twelfth, Nineteen Hundred and Thirteen; Members and Guests
The Toastmaster (hon. J. Van Vechten Olcott, Pres ident of the Club) The first duty of a toastmaster on an occasion of this kind and the greatest pleasure of a President of The Republican Club of the City of New York is to offer the toast to the President of the United States. In this case the toastmaster offers it not only to him in his official capacity, but as a toast to the most gracious winner and the best loser that any of us have ever known. (applause) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
