On May 30, 1922, The Lincoln Memorial was dedicated. It was 57 years after Lincoln died.
According to news reports, about 50,000 people attended the ceremonies, including Civil War veterans and Robert Todd Lincoln, the president's only surviving son. Robert was their oldest child (1843) and the only one to live to adulthood.
President Warren Harding, former President William Howard Taft, and Dr. Robert Moton, principal of the Tuskegee Institute, delivered the keynote address.
The Memorial is one of the top historical landmarks of Washington, DC.
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