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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