This string of coincidences was too good to let pass.
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worked a full day in my life since then.
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Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.
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Kennedy exactly one hundred years later in 1946.
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Lincoln was elected president in November 1860.
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Kennedy in November 1960.
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Lincoln had a secretary named Kennedy who urged him not to go to
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the theatre.
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Kennedy had a secretary named Lincoln who advised against his going
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to Dallas.
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Booth shot Lincoln in a theatre and ran off into a warehouse.
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Oswald shot Kenned y from a warehouse and ran off into a theatre.
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Lincoln was succeeded by a Southerner named Johnson.
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Kennedy was succeeded by a Southerner named Johnson.
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The first Johnson was born in 1808.
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The second Johnson was born in 1908.
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-- Alistair Cooke, "Letter From America", 26nov2001
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