Summary
On 16 Aug 2022, Liz Cheney delivered her concession speech in Jackson, Wyoming to a gathering of friends and supporters.
By 17 Aug 2022, visitors to the CheneyForWyoming.com website were being forwarded to the GreatTask.com website with an opportunity to signup. More information is below.
This post has been created as a resource and reference guide related to The Great Task initiative. Additional related materials will be added as they become available. The information here is part of a broader collection of information on civics and politics.
Resources
Great Task Logo
The logo for Great Task initially had the phrase “The Great Task” and that has been changed to “Our Great Task” as shown below.
New Logo
Old Logo
Meaning
“The Great Task” is a reference to the concluding words of Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, provided below, leading up to the declaration that “government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” Lincoln’s speech was against the backdrop of the civil war.
The Gettysburg Address
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Abraham Lincoln
November 19, 1863
Videos
Below are the four videos initially posted to The Great Task channel on YouTube. Dates provided reflect the date posted for these videos.
“Now The Real Work Begins” (17 Aug 2022)
Liz Cheney Delivers Remarks At Loeb School First Amendment Event In New Hampshire (18 Aug 2022)
Cheney Delivers Remarks At Reagan Presidential Library Time For Choosing Speaker Series (18 Aug 2022)
Quote from talk: “One of my Democratic colleagues said to me recently that he looked forward to the day when he and I can disagree again.” (15m 17s)
Liz Cheney on the TODAY Show (Aired 17 Aug 2022, Posted 18 Aug 2022)
Photo Credit: The featured image for this page is from Pixabay. [Source]
Document History
- 18 Aug 2022 — Original document created and posted.
- 19 May 2024 — Title of page changed from “The Great Task” to “Great Task” to reflect the updated branding.