The Gettysburg Address
       AutoSummarize is no friend of the sound bite. When run on President John Kennedy's Inaugural Address, AutoSummarize ignores the famous "Ask not" section until it is set at 90 percent. But the catch phrases in Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address survive the industrial-strength reducing power of Word 97.

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       Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract.

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       Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.

The Unabridged Gettysburg Address

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