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...California middle school today to teach eighth-graders -- and, presumably, Bob Dole -- a history lesson. "It's very important that, at your age, you understand things about the history of our country and you understand what the time you're living in is all about," Clinton told children at Abraham Lincoln Middle School in Selma. To others who would listen, he added: "Education is not supposed to be a partisan political football, and it should not be when Congress returns." TIME's Michael Duffy says presidents have often used Labor Day weekend to clarify their legislative priorities...
Michigan Senator Spencer Abraham proposes to privatize the national endowments. He would put the responsibility for their funding in the hands of those best able to judge and appreciate artistic endeavor, namely the arts community itself. Senator Abraham challenges the same entertainers who visited Washington this year, lobbying for increased NEA funding, to produce a series of benefit concerts and records while utilizing traditional fund-raising approaches to fund a privatized endowment...
Leonardo da Vinci stood on one end of the stage, Mickey Mantle on the other. The Mick seemed a little out of place in the company of Da Vinci, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Laura Ingalls Wilder and Mahatma Gandhi, but this was my son's third-grade class biography project, titled Who Am I?, and an understanding teacher had allowed him to portray his favorite baseball player, a preference passed down like DNA from both his mother and his father. "I was born in Spavinaw, Oklahoma, in 1931," said this child born in New York City...
...this atmosphere that I was educated and learned to love America. I learned about the basic and incredibly stereotypical things associated with American history: the Constitution, the pledge of allegiance and inalienable human rights. Gradually, I started to learn more than just the history of our great leaders: Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., John F. Kennedy '40 and George Washington. I began to learn the values that drove these people and motivated them; I started to learn about things that I could believe in. I don't ever remember being taught a partisan view of these individuals, although they...
...this year, the Republican National Committee has already received more such funds than in all of 1993. The biggest single payoff will come next month at a dinner benefiting both the House and Senate campaign committees. Senators ranging from New York's Alfonse D'Amato to Michigan's Spence Abraham have been personally dunning CEOs. But the hard sell is not necessary. The PAC of the big-time lobbying law firm Verner Liipfert, for one, has already decided to give at least 60% of its money to Republicans; it used to give 70% to Democrats. And Congressman Deal has been...