Inside the memorial, a statue “of heroic size … will occupy the place of honor,” he wrote in 1912. One of the interior walls would display the carved words of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address.

the top Democrat on the Appropriations subcommittee for the Interior Department and the environment. “Instead, President Trump chose to sit inside the Lincoln Memorial — a solemn and hallowed ...

The $2.85 million project will replace the roof over the Lincoln Memorial ... upper and lower roofs of the memorial are failing, allowing water to stain the interior walls of the structure.

The statue of Lincoln inside the memorial was assembled and completed ... Pool was completed in the following few years, and interior lighting was added after the dedication as well.

one for each of the 36 states in the Union when Lincoln was President. The inside of the Memorial interior is divided into three chambers. In the south chamber is a carver inscription of Lincoln ...