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TIL the featured speaker at Gettysburg was Edward Everett, not Lincoln. He gave a 2 hour speech preceding the Gettysburg Address. After, he wrote to Lincoln "I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes."

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