Photo: The slogan for our age?
On a day when financial markets again reeled, this image seems especially timely: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images President Abraham Lincoln presenter Jim Rubin of Prosperity, West Virginia, addresses the unveiling ceremony for the new 2009 Bicentennial One-Cent coin redesign at the Lincoln Memorial September 22, 2008 in Washington, DC. The coin redesign will highlight four phases ...
On a day when financial markets again reeled, this image seems especially timely:
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
President Abraham Lincoln presenter Jim Rubin of Prosperity, West Virginia, addresses the unveiling ceremony for the new 2009 Bicentennial One-Cent coin redesign at the Lincoln Memorial September 22, 2008 in Washington, DC. The coin redesign will highlight four phases of the 16th president's life: birth in Kentucky, formative years in Indiana, professional life in Illinois and finally Washington.
On a day when financial markets again reeled, this image seems especially timely:
President Abraham Lincoln presenter Jim Rubin of Prosperity, West Virginia, addresses the unveiling ceremony for the new 2009 Bicentennial One-Cent coin redesign at the Lincoln Memorial September 22, 2008 in Washington, DC. The coin redesign will highlight four phases of the 16th president’s life: birth in Kentucky, formative years in Indiana, professional life in Illinois and finally Washington.
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