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...Abraham Lincoln went to the theater one night in 1865, and Andrew Johnson became President the next morning. Because Johnson hadn't been elected to office, Congress became very angry whenever he vetoed a bill - who did he think he was, anyway? - and in 1867 the House Judiciary Committee drew up a long list of complaints about him and recommended that he be impeached. The vote never passed and was shelved until 1868, when Johnon fired a political rival, Secretary of War Edwin Stanton - in violation of the Tenure of Office Act, which said that the President couldn't remove...
...feel I can quite accept this award, not quite yet. I don't feel I have earned it." - choking back tears as he refused to accept the Abraham Lincoln Award from the Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence in October. Duncan said he didn't deserve the award because rate of gun killings in Chicago public schools was then two per week, Chicago Sun Times...
...terrorist attacks on Palestinian mosques or other facilities. Israeli security officials told TIME of their fear that the current confrontation could prompt some militants to try to emulate Baruch Goldstein, the settler lionized by extremists for his massacre of 29 Muslims in a shooting spree at the tomb of Abraham...
...Biggs, Abraham •excessive intake of drugs by leads to death of, live on the Internet...
...With his graduate student, Abraham J. Miller-Rushing, Primack stumbled upon Thoreau’s observations of changes in plant flowering times and species occurrences over time...