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invitation was meant to be demeaning or, as Bass puts it, “a reflection of the protocol of the time.” a. In her analysis of the Gettysburg Address, Cynthia Bass says that Lincoln was asked ‘to deliver “a few appropriate remarks,”’ but historians do not agree on whether this invitation was meant to be demeaning or, as Bass puts it, ‘a reflection of the protocol of the time.’ ................
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