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While exploring the story of Walt Disney through the museum’s galleries, visitors can pick up on many themes that recur throughout his lifetime. One of the most prominent of these themes is Walt’s patriotism. In honor of Independence Day, we’ll take a look at this particular theme and how it influenced the Disney films and attractions we love today.

Walt’s patriotism began at a young age, when he began to admire President Abraham Lincoln. When Walt was in the fifth grade, he decided to pay tribute to his hero on Lincoln’s birthday. According to Bob Thomas’ Walt Disney: An American Original, Walt “convert[ed] his father’s derby into a stovepipe hat with cardboard and shoe polish, borrow[ed] his father’s church-deacon coat with swallowtail, add[ed] crepe hair to his chin and a wart to his cheek.” Dressed in this costume, Walt recited the Gettysburg Address for his class. The principal was so impressed by Walt’s performance that he asked Walt to recite the speech for all of the classes, which became an annual ritual that continued until Walt graduated. 

More than 50 years later, Walt was able to bring his childhood hero to life for the 1964-1965 World’s Fair in New York. Walt had planned an attraction for Disneyland called Hall of Presidents, wh

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Look Closer: Middling Moments get the gist Mr. Lincoln

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Abraham Lincoln and Walt Disney

Posted on12/02/2017byJohn G. Testa

Growing up in the 1960’s and 70’s, Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color (and then The Wonderful World of Disney) was a staple every Sunday night on television. Every week we looked forward to Walt Disney himself introduce cartoons, historic features, programs and films, all in color beginning in 1961. Those of us who attended the 1964 New York World’s Fair saw Disney’s influence everywhere. Who could forget seeing the “It’s a Small World” installation in the pavilion hosting the Pepsi salute to UNICEF. Then, of course, there was “Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln,” the lifelike President Abraham Lincoln speaking to the audience. This was Disney’s first such ‘Audio-Animatronic’ figure that would eventually be expanded to a full “Hall of Presidents” at Disney’s theme parks.

So why did Disney select Lincoln as his first lifelike subject? Come to find out, Walt Disney had a lifelong connection to Mr. Lincoln. “Ever since I was a small boy in Illinois,” Disney once stated, “I have had a great personal admiration for Abraham Lincoln.” As a 5^th grader, Walt used cardboard to create a stovepipe hat, his father’s coat and crepe hair to make himself an impressive looking Lincoln as he recited the perfectly memo