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Directly inside the Taneytown Road entrance are the Lincoln Address Memorial and Gettysburg Rostrum, where five U.S. Presidents have spoken.
The Gettysburg Rostrum has been used by six U.S. presidents, not five. The National Park Service lists Hayes, Theodore Roosevelt, Coolidge, Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Eisenhower.
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This sentence understates the number of presidents who spoke from the Gettysburg Rostrum.
The National Park Service page for Gettysburg National Cemetery Entrance says the Rostrum was used by "six United States presidents" and then names them: Rutherford B. Hayes (1878), Theodore Roosevelt (1904), Calvin Coolidge (1928), Herbert Hoover (1930), Franklin D. Roosevelt (1934), and Dwight D. Eisenhower (1955).
Because the official NPS count is six, the claim that five U.S. presidents spoke there is factually incorrect.
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- Gettysburg National Cemetery Entrance (U.S. National Park Service)
The brick speaker's stand ... is known as The Rostrum. Although Lincoln did not speak from this platform, world leaders and other dignitaries, including six United States presidents (Rutherford B. Hayes-1878, Theodore Roosevelt-1904, Calvin Coolidge-1928, Herbert Hoover-1930, Franklin D. Roosevelt-1934, and Dwight D. Eisenhower-1955) have used it during Memorial Day services and other ceremonies.