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A century ago, as lawmakers and architects mulled where to put a new memorial to the late President Abraham Lincoln, one location stood apart: the western edge of the National Mall, on what was then the marshy mudflats of the Potomac River.
The site stands on the same axis as the U.S. Capitol and Washington Monument, forming a straight line between the government, the president who founded it and the president credited with saving it. And it is directly across the river from Virginia’s Arlington House, the former home of Confederate Gen. Robert
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