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...more noisy, brawling and partisan than the much maligned journalism of today. As a California judge noted in his opinion in a 1979 libel case, George Washington was called a murderer, Thomas Jefferson a blackguard and a knave, Henry Clay a pimp, Andrew Johnson and Ulysses Grant drunkards. Abraham Lincoln was termed a half-witted usurper, a baboon, a gorilla and a ghoul. Yet none of the nation's early leaders even attempted to sue, although some may have shared Benjamin Franklin's professed desire to balance "the liberty of the press" with "the liberty of the cudgel...
...Saturday morning in February, the dapper President Chester Arthur, according to a contemporary account, "laid his silk hat at his side, slowly removed his heavy doeskin gloves and deposited them in it, held his eyeglasses on his nose" and read the official dedication. Mathew Brady, the famous photographer of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War, who had also photographed the monument's construction, was on hand to record the finish. He snapped a picture of the dedication ceremony from the top of a nearby building...
Jeane Kirkpatrick left her mark on foreign policy. Something more. She served with the political enemy--the Republicans. She flourished as a remnant of a tradition that has seen this nation through hard times before. Abraham Lincoln labored to get Democrats in his power circle to conduct the Civil War. Harry Truman brought notable Republicans into his Government because they were the best candidates for the jobs and he understood he had to be President of all America. A curse of these times is rank, vengeful partisanship, practiced too often by the President and returned in kind by Democrat Thomas...
However, the real apex of the night was certainly his last scene to "Rocka My Soul in the Bostom of Abraham." The entire company creates a feverish excitement as the music builds on the picture of mesmerizing dancers. Yellow skirts fly and bodies sway to this extraordinarily contagious music. The entire company danced in this piece that displayed amazing talent as well as a genuines excitement...
...reason both sides were able to claim victory was that, in an unusual procedure, Federal Judge Abraham Sofaer had asked the jury to disclose its partial findings step by step instead of deciding all elements of the case before announcing a verdict. On their third day of deliberations, the jurors said that they interpreted the disputed paragraph, which reported on discussions Sharon had held with Lebanese Christian Phalangists before the massacre, as having a defamatory meaning. Two days later they announced their conclusion that the contested passage was false. In deciding last week for TIME on "actual malice," the third...