I expect the latter to wear as well as—perhaps better than—any thing I have produced...."

^ While the book Rating The Presidents: A Ranking of U.S. Leaders, From the Great and Honorable to the Dishonest and Incompetent acknowledges that polls have rated Lincoln among the top presidents since 1948, the authors find him to be among the two best presidents, along with Franklin Delano Roosevelt.[359]

References

^ Carpenter, Francis B. (1866). Six Months in the White House: The Story of a Picture. Hurd and Houghton. p. 217.

^ Donald 1996, pp. 20–22.

^ Warren 2017, p. 3–4.

^ Harrison 1935, p. 276.

^ Warren 2017, p. 4.

^ Jump up to: a b Donald 1996, p. 21.

^ Wilson et al. 1998, pp. 35–36.

^ Bartelt 2008, p. 79.

^ Warren 2017, p. 9.

^ Warren 2017, p. 9–10.

^ Sandburg 1926, p. 20.

^ Warren 2017, p. 13.

^ Warren 2017, p. 26.

^ Warren 2017, p. 16, 43.

^ Bartelt 2008, pp. 3, 5, 16.

^ Sandburg 1926, p. 20; Donald 1996, pp. 23–24.

^ Bartelt 2008, pp. 34, 156.

^ Donald 1996, p. 22–24.

^ Bartelt 2008, pp. 24, 104.

^ Bartelt 2008, pp. 22–23, 77.

