I suspect that Abraham Lincoln was considered an odd duck by some, but until last Friday’s Monitor, I had never heard him referred to as “a relatively unknown Illinois pelican.”

I also suspect that Mr. Pelchat meant to characterize him as a politician in his piece on freedom and liberty and that something went wrong before the newspaper got to the delivery stage. In any case, it was certainly an amusing miscue.

Robert S. Pingree

Concord

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