Step 1 : Introduction to the question "5. One day a clerk, head held down, rushed up a dark staircase in Abraham Lincoln's war department, and charged straight into the President, winding him. His profuse apologies draw what response from the President?"
...1. "Off with his head!" 2. "I want this man on the White House football team" 3. "Send this man to the Olympics" 4. "Enough, lad. I wish the entire army would charge like that" Abraham Lincoln was born in 1809 and was assassinated in 1865, after leading his country through one of the most tumultuous times in its history. This great man was mostly self-educated, rising from a poor frontier family to becoming a country lawyer to the leader of the United States of America. This is another indication of the compassion of the man: When once touring the sick ranks of injured soldiers, and seeing the suffering of one soldier in particular, he placed his hand on the young man's head, his eyes filled with tears and he was heard to softly murmur, "Poor lad. Poor lad".
