Seven Score and 10 Years Ago...

Yesterday marked the 150th anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln's historic visit to the Government Printing Office, in Washington, D.C. According to an 1863 account in the "Daily National Republican," GPO employees "tastefully decorated" the agency with American flags for the President's visit, and greeted the Great Emancipator with a rousing chorus of "Rally Round the Flag," sung by the Printing House Opera Troupe (which, sadly, no longer brightens the halls of GPO with song).