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MaroonNation

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To establish the Lincoln Presidential Library at tMississippi State University?

Now all the people in Oxford still living the Civil War won't have far to drive to research it.








ADU, QBU and now PLU!
 
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MaroonNation

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Evidently the guy who donated it was the same one responsible for the US Grant Pres Library. He is also the preeminent scholar on all things Lincoln and had published several books on him. He has also given State a $500,000 endowment towards preservation and display of the archives so sounds like we have another one. He will also continue collecting Lincoln's work and divert it to Starkville. Pretty cool for a guy from Rhode Island. He's also a retired judge. Yancy reporting he will be named in a lawsuit soon.
 
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stateguy

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Why is he giving this stuff to State? I scanned the article (didn't read every word) so maybe I missed it. But he didn't graduate from State, nor his wife. So what's the connection? He just hate ole miss and wants State to have a library they can't match? I'm fine with that

And did like the last line of the article
"MSU is Mississippi’s leading university, available online at www.msstate.edu."
 
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patdog

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Not sure how we established that connection, but he has been very good to MSU over the years.
 
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I don't remember the details, but I think he made a connection with a professor, and trusted him to take care of the Grant collection.
 
bulldognation

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A likely cover story. We all know Dan negotiated channeling it through MSU to get SA#39 to play for the bulldogs. Oh and I bet he threw in some sweet Lincoln jerseys as well.
 
DudyDog

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Williams served as well on both the national U.S. Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission (appointed by then-Mississippi Senator Trent Lott in his role as Senate Majority Leader)...

...obviously got us mixed up with OM, thinking he was repaying Lott all this time. Mullen did it again! Using his Northeast connections to confuse them I'm sure.
 
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Makes sense, Starkville is one of the rare southern cities that has a Lincoln Street.
 
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Junction John

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Lincolniana... Now that's a word you don't see everyday.

This is very cool. US Grant Presidential Library, and now this Lincoln collection. Could we be any farther on the other end of the spectrum from people still clinging to "Dixie" and "The South Will Rise Again" mantras? The People's University, indeed.
 
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PineGroveBully

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This is freaky

What do you get when you add a Lincoln to a Grant? 55
how many douches are considered a lot? 20
Dead Indians say Touché
 
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PineGroveBully

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We're lucky both of these weren't wanted at the Harvard of the south.

Thankfully every time Col Reb hears the words Lincoln or Grant he blows a top, gets rip roaring drunk and turns into a bear
 
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