It's Monday, February the 19th, 2024. Welcome to the Daily Article podcast. I'm Chris Elkins,

narrating today's daily article written by Denison Forum co-founder and CEO, Dr. Jim Denison.

Does life have a purpose that transcends the happenstance and coincidence of our chaotic world?

If so, how do we find it each day?

In honor of President's Day, let's begin with this coincidence.

In late 1863, Robert Todd Lincoln, the President's oldest child, fell onto the tracks at the Jersey

City Railroad Station.

He was pulled to safety by Edwin Booth,

the older brother of John Wilkes Booth. Here's another coincidence related to President Lincoln.

Wilmer McLean owned the places where the Civil War began with the first battle of bull run

on his Virginia plantation in July 1861 and ended at his Appomattox

courthouse home where General Lee surrendered to General Grant in April of 1865.

And many have noted the striking coincidences between Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy,

among them, both had seven letters in their last names.

They were elected 100 years apart in 1860 and 1960.

Both were assassinated on a Friday in the presence of their wives.

Both assassins were known by three names with 15 letters in each complete name. Oswald shot Kennedy from a warehouse and fled to a

theater. Booth shot Kennedy in a theater and fled to a barn, a kind of warehouse. Both succeeding

vice presidents were Southern Democrats and former senators named Johnson with 13 letters in their names and born 100 years

apart in 1808 and 1908.

Of course, we can find coincidences nearly everywhere if we look hard enough.

Consider that the famed physicist Stephen Hawking died on the birthday of Albert Einstein and Pye Day, March the 14th,

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