Paul Dacre, editor of the Daily Mail, recalled in his address at the memorial service a conversation between Rothermere, a believer in reincarnation, and one of the press baron's less successful editors.

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The spirit that guided him was clearly that of his Second Inaugural Address, now inscribed on one wall of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.

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The memorial site features a stone inscribed with words from the president's inaugural address in 1961, a 50-step pathway, hawthorn tree and American Scarlet Oak.

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The loudest cheers of the afternoon rang out first when Mr Obama and his family came down the memorial's steps to the stage, and again when he stepped forward to address the crowds.

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In 1999 she gave a keynote address to a women's conference and in October 1997 gave the Tip O'Neill Memorial lecture at the University of Ulster's Magee campus in Londonderry.

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