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...most famous chambers because of the deliberations of war and peace in the past half-century. The East Room and the State Dining Room have always been halls for mingling, feeding and entertaining hundreds of people. Ulysses S. Grant, summoned to Washington to command Union armies, arrived when Abraham Lincoln was in the midst of an evening reception. Grant stood on a sofa in the East Room so that the worshipful guests could see him and he could speak to them. Mikhail Gorbachev, the last communist leader of the Soviet Union, ate in the State Dining Room with George Bush...
...most intense era for the White House came in the Civil War. "That's when it really got its soul," says historian Seale. And that soul has the face of Abraham Lincoln. The President stalked the building during the Civil War, often feeling like a prisoner of the war. His speeches and declarations were the glue for the riven nation. And with armies clashing nearby, and with the news updated hourly by telegraph, the White House became the national nerve center...
Democrats looking to pick off Senate seats tagged that of Spencer Abraham, a first-termer and Michigan's first G.O.P. Senator in more than 20 years, as their easiest target. The contest turned out to be a squeaker, but two-term Congresswoman Debbie Stabenow finally delivered. Though outspent by nearly 2 to 1, the bubbly Stabenow outshone her often lusterless opponent on the campaign trail and in the debates. Stabenow, 50, who had previously served in the state legislature for 16 years, starting at age 28, campaigned most vigorously on prescription-drug benefits for the elderly. For months, the Abraham...
...terms of the elevation of individual expression, and the service of the individual expression to a group experience. Movies are always based on that. There's an irreverence for material, but a reverence for quick wits and thinking. There is the whole question of the sophisticated country boy. Abraham Lincoln was an example. This guy off of a farm somewhere delivered the Gettysburg Address. These archetypes exist in our way of looking at things. Jazz is about a process of putting things together. There's no right or wrong in it, it's just a way of doing things...
...many years, Harvard has dominated squash in this country," Abraham said. "We hope to uphold this tradition and win the Nationals...