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...could go back in time and interview any previous politician, who would it be and why? -Andy LeksanI would really like to interview Abraham Lincoln. In fact, in the Abraham Lincoln Library in Springfield, I do this virtual interview with Lincoln and his opponents in a presidential election which they show to visitors. But Lincoln, I really would like to ask him about the issues of the Union, preserving the Union, slavery, how he was able to handle his political opponents. I mean, one of his opponents actually referred to him as monkey, and put them in the Cabinet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Tim Russert | 2/14/2008 | See Source »

...Each branch of Democrats Abroad made its own unique voting arrangements. In Vienna, which was celebrating its annual Fasching carnival with traditional masked revelries, an "Abraham Lincoln" voted alongside a "Hillary Clinton" and a cowgirl. Voters in New Delhi were given donkey-shaped cookies. London, home to 200,000 Americans, staged the most ambitious event - a Feb. 5 primary with caucus-like elements such as a public show of support for the two candidates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Global Primary Starts Too | 2/5/2008 | See Source »

When Bennet Cerf, co-founder of Random House, was asked to describe the ideal best seller, he supposedly suggested the title Lincoln's Doctor's Dog. Pitches itself, doesn't it? There have been more books about Abraham Lincoln than any other American; this month brings us William Lee Miller's President Lincoln (Knopf; 497 pages), Allen C. Guelzo's Lincoln and Douglas (Simon & Schuster; 384 pages) and Did Lincoln Own Slaves? (Pantheon; 311 pages) by Gerald J. Prokopowicz, among others. That Lincoln is a suitable subject for scholarly work nobody would deny, but the volume of it suggests something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Lincoln Compulsion | 1/31/2008 | See Source »

...have been sold in the last three years alone. There was also a traveling ice show, a France theme park called Big Bang Schtroumpf (as well as Smurf attractions cropping up in five U.S. and Canadian theme parks), and the smash hit The Smurf Song by Dutch singer Father Abraham reached No. 1 in 16 countries back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Smurfs Are Off to Conquer the World — Again | 1/14/2008 | See Source »

When Musharraf took power in his 1999 coup, he quoted Abraham Lincoln, saying sometimes you need to amputate a limb to save a life. On the day he imposed emergency rule, he repeated the reference to justify his actions. The only problem is, amputated limbs don't grow back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exit Wound. | 11/29/2007 | See Source »

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