The many faces of Abraham Lincoln

The brooding introspective Lincoln certainly knew how to make a point through his humorous stories. He once told of an inn-keeper who boasted that nobody had ever died in his establishment and when asked how he had managed that answered that when a resident seemed to be near death he put him out on the street. It is understandable if this aspect of Lincoln, the president of the Civil War and the assassinated one, is not reflected in the sculpture.