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...group of Senators demanded that Lincoln reshape his Cabinet to their specifications to assure greater harmony. "Mr. Lincoln had no intention of doing this," the President drawled. "He had told a friend that all of the responsibilities of the Administration 'belong to that unhappy wretch called Abraham Lincoln,' and as he tried to meet those responsibilities, the last thing he needed or wanted was a contrived or enforced harmony...
TWENTY DAYS, by Dorothy Meserve Kunhardt and Philip B. Kunhardt Jr. With 300 photographs from the famed Meserve collection and a lively text, a mother-and-son team gives new perspectives to the 20-day period in April and May 1865, from the time Abraham Lincoln fell mortally wounded to the time his body was laid to rest at Springfield...
...Moorhead, national president of the P.T.A., called the idea "outrageous." Iowa Governor Harold E. Hughes, who freely admits to an alcoholic past, said he was "1,000% against the idea. Children should be taught the dangers of alcohol but not how to use it," he said. New York Psychiatrist Abraham Perlstein, who has studied the problem of drinking by juveniles, offered another perspective. Teaching children how to drink, he argued, would neither increase nor decrease alcoholism; it would merely prove ineffective. In Perlstein's view, emotional disturbance, not alcohol itself, is what creates alcoholics...
TWENTY DAYS, by Dorothy Meserve Kunhardt and Philip B. Kunhardt Jr. Illustrated with 300 photographs from the famed Meserve collection accompanied by a lively text, this superb big book has found new sources and new perspectives to describe the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, covers the period from the slaying until his body was laid to rest in Springfield...
...assassination of Abraham Lincoln is one chapter in history that most Americans feel they know by heart. Yet, though it hardly seems possible, this superb big book has found new sources and new perspectives which take on special import in the wake of the assassination in Dallas...