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JEFFREY BROWN (Newshour): And finally tonight, on this Presidents Day holiday, a fresh take on the legacy of Abraham Lincoln.
Hari toured the new Ford's Theatre Center for Education and Leadership here in Washington, D.C., with historian Richard Norton Smith.
HARI SREENIVASAN (Newshour): Walking into the new theater center is like taking a step back in time to the cobblestone streets of Washington on April 16, 1855, the day after President Abraham Lincoln's death.
Newspaper headlines announcing the president's death cover the walls of the new exhibit, which opened today in a building across the street from Ford's Theatre, where the president was assassinated.
"The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but cannot do at all, or cannot so well do for themselves in their separate and individual capacities.In all that the people can individually do as well for themselves, government ought not to interfere."
- President Abraham Lincoln
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