Walkabout The World - A Disney Podcast - Great Moments With Mr Lincoln At Disneyland With Host Michelle

Episode Date: February 18, 2024

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Hello, travelers, and welcome back to Walk About the World. I am your host, Michelle, and tonight I thought we'd check out Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln. It's a salute to all presidents, but mostly Lincoln. That's not entirely true, but you know I had to get the Muppets in there somehow. So, Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln. Take it, Walt. Ever since I was a youngster, I've had a great personal admiration for Abraham Lincoln. So when we decided to bring to Disneyland's visitors some great moments in Mr. Lincoln's life, we began an exhaustive research. We wanted to bring to the people today the inspiring words of the man

who held this nation together during its moment of greatest crisis, the Civil War. To start with, we were fortunate in being able to secure this life mask of the 16th president. How do we get this blame? This is actually a copy of an original life mask by the sculptor Leonard Volk. Before Lincoln was president? Before Lincoln was president. Before he had a beard? That's right. During our exhausting research into Lincoln's life, we studied his mannerisms, his gestures, and even his voice characteristics to create a faithful likeness of this

honored man. The final result is so lifelike that you might find it hard to believe. Now let's go into the opera house and listen carefully to the words of Mr. Lincoln, spoken by him a century ago, but which still apply today to free men everywhere. If you would now please pass through the doors leading to our theater.

We welcome you to Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln. Ladies and gentlemen, we welcome you to Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln. Oh, beautiful for spacious skies, for ambler ways of grain For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain America! America! God shed his grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood

From sea to shining sea This was the American dream, the prayer for the future. But that golden goal was not to be had without cost. The American way was not gained in a day. It was born in adversity, forged out of conflict, perfected and proven only after long experience and trial. In all of history, no man was dedicated to this dream more than the 16th president of these United States, Abraham Lincoln. Here in his own words is what he once wrote about himself. For at that time, very few people outside Illinois knew very much about this man from the prairie.

I was born February 12, 1809, in Hardin County, Kentucky. My father removed from Kentucky to what is now Spencer County, Indiana, in my eighth year. It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up. I was large for my age and had an axe put into my hands at once, and from that to my 23rd year was almost constantly handling that most useful instrument. I think that the aggregate of all my schooling did not amount to one year. At 21 I came to Illinois. I thought of trying to study law. I rather thought I could not succeed at that without better education. I borrowed some law books, took them home, and went at it in good earnest.

In 1854, the law profession had almost superseded the thought of politics in my mind when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me as I had never been before. What I have done since then is pretty well known. If any personal description of me is thought desirable, it may be said I am in height, six feet four inches nearly, lean in flesh, weighing on an average of 180 pounds, dark complexion, with coarse black hair and gray eyes, and no other marks or brands recollected. Yours very truly, A. Lincoln.

Abraham Lincoln became president faced with the terrible threat of civil war. A thing he dreaded, yet a calamity he was prepared to meet if he must. Without you, the Constitution is only a piece of paper. I know there is a God, and that he hates injustice and slavery. I see the storm coming. I know his hand is in it. If he has a place and work for me, and I think he has, I believe I'm ready.

And with God's help, I shall he has. I believe I'm ready. And with God's help, I shall not fail. April 12, 1861. Fort Sumter. The cannon spoke for war. Civil war. Violent. Devastating.

Now had come the reckoning. The supreme test that would decide whether a republic founded on liberty could survive the terrible strife of men's passions. Two brothers on their way Two brothers on their way Two brothers on their way, two brothers on their way, one more blue and one more gray. One more blue and one more gray, as they marched along their way, the fife and drum began to play All on a beautiful morning One was gentle, one was kind One was gentle, one was kind One came home, one was gentle, one was kind.

One came home, one stayed behind. A cannonball don't pay no mind. A cannonball don't pay no mind. If you're gentle or if you're kind. It don't think of the folks behind Hold on a beautiful morning

Hold on a beautiful morning Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. Ten brief sentences.

So simple, so direct. Abraham Lincoln had not expected his words to live beyond their temporary moment. But time and history would dictate otherwise. And so today, his Gettysburg Address is immortal, a rich and treasured part of our country's heritage. We pay tribute here, not to a man who lived a century ago, but to an individual who lives today in the hearts of all freedom-loving people. His prophetic words are as valid for our time as they were for his.

And now, the skills of the sculptor and the talents of the artist will let us relive great moments with Mr. Lincoln. The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty. And the American people just now are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word, we do not all mean the same thing. What constitutes the bulwark of our liberty and independence. It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea coasts. These are not our reliance against tyranny.

Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms. Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit, which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit, and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors. At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it? Shall we expect some

transatlantic military giant to step the ocean and crush us with a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe, Asia, and the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reaches, it must spring from amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we ourselves must be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men, we must live through all times or die by suicide. Neither will us be slandered from our duty

by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by the menaces of destruction to the government, nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes right. And in that faith, let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it. The Lord is with on. Glory, glory, hallelujah. Glory, glory, hallelujah.

Glory, glory, hallelujah. His truth is marching on! Glory, glory, hallelujah His truth is marching on Amen Amen America America, spread your golden wings Send our freedom's wind across the sky Great bird Wasn't that inspiring? I mean, there is the really depressing Two Brothers song,

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