[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 29 (Thursday, February 12, 2009)]
[House]
[Pages H1253-H1254]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      LINCOLN MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY

  (Mr. DUNCAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DUNCAN. Madam Speaker, on the 200th birthday of our great 
President, Abraham Lincoln, I rise to pay tribute to his 
accomplishments. But primarily I want to tell my colleagues and others 
about Tennessee's great Lincoln Memorial University.
  General Howard, President Lincoln's main military adviser, said the 
President told him that the people of east Tennessee had been loyal to 
the Union, and he wanted to form a school for them. Remembering 
Lincoln's words, General Howard formed LMU in 1897. Today, the 
university is reaching new heights. It has the Nation's newest medical 
school, and it is in the process of forming a new law school. Its main 
campus is in a beautiful setting in Harrogate, Tennessee, but it has 
very large

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nursing and graduate education programs in Knoxville, which will also 
be the home for the law school.
  Under the great leadership of President Nancy Moody, Vice President 
Cindy Witt and Board Chairman Pete DeBusk, the university has its 
highest enrollment ever. The main mission of the school is to educate 
the young people of Appalachia, 97 percent of whom receive financial 
aid.
  Lincoln Memorial University, Madam Speaker, also has an outstanding 
Lincoln Museum and continues to be in every way a fitting tribute to a 
great President.

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