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When Douglass and Lincoln met for the third time, in March 1865, the mood was celebratory and they considered each other friends. Douglass came to Washington to attend Lincoln's second Inauguration. The war was almost over; some 179,000 blacks were in uniform, marching triumphantly through the South; and the recently passed 13th Amendment abolished slavery throughout...
...January 1989 and a doddering, pajama-clad Ronald Reagan is balking at leaving the White House to attend his successor's inauguration: it is too cold outside. So begins The White House Mess, a just-published satire that has titillated Washington by lampooning the self-serving banalities of political memoirs. This capital à clef was written by onetime White House Intimate Christopher Buckley, 33, former speechwriter for Vice President George Bush, as well as the son of Conservative Columnist William F. Buckley, an old friend of the Reagans'. The novel, however, "doesn't seem to have hurt any feelings," admits...
...about the future of the world," he told a press conference last week. The new Prime Minister insists that he will be a persistent critic of the arms race and a strong supporter of the Third World. For starters, Carlsson will travel to the Soviet Union in April to attend already scheduled meetings with Communist Party Leader Mikhail Gorbachev...
...until 1967 that Queen Elizabeth II ended the couple's ostracism by inviting them to attend a ceremony in London commemorating the duke's mother, Queen Mary. Elizabeth paid the couple a visit in Paris in 1972 during her uncle's final illness. When he died shortly after, the duchess returned to England for the funeral and, at the Queen's invitation, stayed at Buckingham Palace...
Despite the preparations he still must attend to, Reagan is willing to ruminate about his sense of the importance of the Iceland meeting, about how two men in a strange and distant room can shatter the world or heal it. "When I sat down with Gorbachev in Geneva, I told him that here were two individuals in a room who either could provide peace for the world or could bring about World War III," says Reagan, his voice taking on a tone of urgency. "We needed to work to eliminate the mistrust between us and then the armaments that could...