Lincoln To Thai King: Thanks But No Thanks For The Elephants

BANGKOK (AP) — Elephants are Thailand's national animal, so it's only natural that King Mongkut in 1861 offered to send a pair to the United States as a gift of a friendship that has endured 200 years.

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