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...SPANISH CONSIDER the members of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade heroes, whereas many Americans have no idea who they are or what they represent. The Good Fight reveals the personal side of their story, triumphantly bringing to life an important piece of history that was left out of the textbooks. When some Harvard alumni found out about the locally produced documentary, they arranged for two previews to be shown at Gutman Library for educators as well as the press...
...rather those filthy moneymongers forced him to. Finally, sick of prostituting himself and his country, he resolved to stop being their puppet. As a result, they organized the Watergate scandal to boot him out of office. Nixon reveals all sorts of other things too--his dreams of being Abraham Lincoln, his childhood insecurities, his hatred of Kennedy. And when he's really raving, he spouts obscenities at the portrait of Kissinger on the wall, sings ditties at the piano, and cries to his dead mother for forgiveness...
...REAGAN loses his reelection bid, it should in part be because millions of Americans, regardless of ideology or party, are embarrassed that their leader is so consistently stupid, misinformed, or dishonest. The library will be built in 1985, and in front will be a statue of Abraham Lincoln engraved with the first Republican President's pertinent insight: "You can fool some of the people some of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time." If, as most pundits predict, Reagan does win four more...
...killing 241 U.S. servicemen (see following story). Republican Congressman Larry Hopkins, one of the authors of a report by a House subcommittee, went beyond the security question to criticize the "peacekeeping" role of the Marines. Said he: "The people in the Mideast have been fighting since the days of Abraham. Asking our Marines to stop the fighting there is like trying to change the course of Niagara Falls with a bucket." Hopkins said that General John Vessey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, had testified before his committee that all five chiefs oppose the current use of the Marines...
...long ago is it?-80-odd years." Those were Abraham Lincoln's words, spoken to a crowd gathered around the White House on a July evening in 1863, just after the crucial Union victory at Gettysburg. He would use the same thought, transformed into the rather more memorable "Four score and seven years ago" to open his address dedicating the cemetery at Gettysburg the following November. This engaging anecdote is just one of the many historical delights in A New Birth of Freedom: Lincoln at Gettysburg by Philip B. Kunhardt Jr. (Little, Brown; 263 pages; $22.50). Kunhardt...