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Updated on 10/22/12 at 2:02 pm:

I've been contacted by "info@lincoln1864.com", who sent me this email this morning:

Dear Ms. Dries,

It has come to my attention that your publication -- an obscure journal with a peculiar moniker -- has published a rendering of Mr. Lincoln's campaign.

On behalf of the president, I express my gratitude for your taking interest in our matters. However, as I am unable to acquire a copy of your publication--not even Hamilton Papers & Drugs carries it--I am unaware of the content of your piece.

If you the time, would you forward along a back issue in which the article appears? We in the headquarters are on pins and needles to read it. You may post a copy to:

Lincoln for the Union

413 South Eighth Street

Springfield, Illinois 62701

Should you consider the publication of an additional piece on our affairs, do not hesitate in contacting yours truly.

For the Union,

A.M. Chauncey

Deputy Campaign Superintendent

Lincoln for the Union

The address listed is the address for the Lincoln Home National Historic Site. As far as I can tell, A.M. Chauncey was not actually a person that Lincoln palled around with. Since I fear that snail mail might take a little too long (and end up in the wrong hands), I've emailed them this piece.

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Good morning!

Welcome to this edition of the Morning Drive Podcast!

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Bill Clinton is no longer the President of the United States, but he is still using the bully pulpit aspect of the office to orchestrate real change in the world.

For the last seven years Mr. Clinton’s day job has been as head of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI). Richard Stengel, managing editor of Time, refers to Mr. Clinton as “global philanthropist in chief.” CGI has secured almost $70 billion to address some of the world’s most complex and continuous problems: HIV/AIDS, climate change, poverty, children’s health, food production, women’s rights and conflict resolution. In Mr. Clinton’s own words, “ I started the CGI in 2005 to help turn good intentions into real actions and results.” The model CGI uses to affect change is not to raise money per se, but rather to bring world leaders together so that they can share information, examine collective problems, make plans and then agree on “effective and measurable commitments to action.”

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President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama announced Monday afternoon that they were voting early in the 2012 Presidential Election and, in the case of the First Lady, early and absentee.

According to a statement released by the Obama campaign the pair "are making history by voting early in person and by mail in order to promote the ease, convenience, and importance of voting."

The First Lady sent out this tweet Monday afternoon:

She then sent a photo of herself with her absentee ballot:

But the President won't be missing out on the typical photo opportunity voting on election day provides candidates election day; he retweeted the First Lady, and noted that he would be voting in Chicago on October 25:

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Lincoln Park Zoo opens at 7 a.m.

By then, most of its animals have snorted, stretched, wiggled, flapped and, without benefit of any coffee, otherwise roused themselves for another day of exhibiting their easy wonder.

Kevin Bell, my guest later in the show, does have coffee in the morning: One cup; he needs it. He gets to the zoo at 6 a.m.., something he has done almost every day for nearly four decades, ever since he was 23 and came here from New York to become curator of birds—the youngest curator in the zoo's history.

Birds were the zoo’s first animals. They arrived in 1868, a pair of mute swans that were a gift from New York City's Central Park. They came by train; it took two days.

Many things have changed at the zoo during the last 144 years, but one wonderful thing has not: It's free, one of only three major U.S. zoos (the others are in Washington, D.C., and St.

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