Word: donalds
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...have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me." Lincoln was often extremely modest, but this remark was the result of more than humility. Lincoln, particularly as the Civil War stretched into its fourth year, was painfully aware of how much was beyond his control. David Herbert Donald in his biography Lincoln carefully examines the life of Abraham Lincoln from his birth in rural Kentucky through his death...
...preface to Lincoln, Donald, Harvard's Charles Warren Professor Emeritus of American history and American civilization, describes a meeting he had with President John F. Kennedy '40. The year was 1962, and Donald had just delivered a talk on Abraham Lincoln in the White House. Donald recalls that President Kennedy, "thinking no doubt of how his own administration would look in the backward glance of history," told him that "No one has a right to grade a President -- who has not sat in his chair, examined the mail and information that came across his desk and learned why he made...
These words made a lasting impression of Donald. In his biography of Lincoln, Donald recreates the events of Lincoln's life using Lincoln's own letters and papers, including newly discovered records of Lincoln's legal practice. Donald also quotes Lincoln extensively from letters and articles written by people who saw and talked with Lincoln. The Lincoln that emerges from Donald's careful reconstruction is a charismatic, clever, hard working and always pragmatic leader...
...think we're seeing conservatism becoming more respectable in Cambridge," said Donald L.K. Trumbull, chair of the Cambridge Republican Committee...
...didn't take a census. I just looked, and they weren't there. --Donald Hudson Pfarrer '56 Cambridge