在进入美国住宅与城市发展部前，他在位于马萨诸塞州剑桥市的林肯土地政策研究所工作。

Prior to joining HUD, he was research fellow at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Mr.

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站在个人的立场上，林肯厌恨奴隶制，作为一个共和党人，把奴隶制逐出美国土地，他冀望于把这一举措变为将奴隶制度“彻底消灭之过程”的第一步。

As an individual, Lincoln hated slavery. As a Republican, he wished to exclude it from the territories as the first step to putting the institution “in the course of ultimate extinction.

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“我们已开始贡献出那片土地的一部分，作为那些在这里献出了生命的人们的一片安息之地…这完全正当而合适，我们应该这么做”(亚伯拉罕·林肯)。

"We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives... It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this" (Abraham Lincoln).

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