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...corrupt? The candidate hides his or her real views while trying to please diverse constituencies? All that has been true of our politics from the beginning, and never more true than in the case of the man who is more revered than any of our other Presidents. Abraham Lincoln was calculating and equivocal on the issue of slavery. He was nominated by one of the most corrupt conventions ever held. And he hid his views so carefully that he issued not a single statement, gave not a single speech, between his nomination and the 1860 election. He was a good...
...misses the point to say that Murphy Brown is not a real character. Fiction is real enough in its powers. When Abraham Lincoln met Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, he said, "So this is the little lady who made this big war." That, at least, is the legend. Little Eva perhaps belongs to a higher order of symbolism than Murphy Brown's baby, but the simple principle, the power of stories, remains the same...
...methods gained notoriety over the past year as scientists sought to answer lingering questions about two U.S. Presidents. Researchers dug up the remains of Zachary Taylor to see whether he was poisoned; they determined that he wasn't. Another investigator wanted to study DNA from the autopsy remains of Abraham Lincoln to find out whether he had Marfan syndrome, an inherited disease that causes victims to be taller than average and have long arms, fingers and toes. After a lengthy debate, an expert panel concluded that the study should be postponed until researchers know more about the gene that causes...
...Abraham Lincoln holographs appearing on the auction block these days are likely to be routine memos from the 16th President -- a postmaster's appointment or some such. Much rarer is a Lincoln paper in his own hand on a key political issue. Sotheby's in New York City announced that in December it will auction off just such a document -- a draft of the pivotal "house divided" speech of 1858. A portion of the text is inscribed across a 12-in. by 7-in. sheet of paper that had been hanging on a wall in the home of a descendant...
HOUSTON--The first page of the 1992 Republican Platform is a translucent sheet with a portrait of Abraham Lincoln and quotations stating traditional GOP positions...