The feud between the president and ex-speaker intensifies in the waning days of his presidency.

The federal holiday is “a day for us to remember that we are all one people,” keynote speaker Michele Norris, a Minnesota native, said.

“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.” -- Abraham Lincoln, March 4, 1865.