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Abraham Lincoln died shortly after 7 a.m. on April 15, 1865. "Now he belongs to the ages," Edwin Stanton, Lincoln's Secretary of War, said at the President's deathbed. It was a prescient thought, because it suggested not only the long cultural presence ahead for Lincoln but also the fact that generations would possess...
...improvements, and we know from the manuscript that his chief contribution--a more conciliatory ending--was brilliantly rewritten by Lincoln. The Secretary of the Treasury, Salmon P. Chase, was sometimes thought to be responsible for Lincoln's best work, and occasionally it was credited to the Secretary of War, Edwin M. Stanton. But when approached with such a suggestion by a friend, Stanton told him bluntly, "Lincoln wrote it--every word of it. And he is capable of more than that...
...fester and brooded over perceived slights, he argued that "no man resolved to make the most of himself has time to waste on personal contention." So rare in a politician, this attitude allowed him to form friendships and alliances with those who had previously opposed him. In the 1850s, Edwin Stanton had humiliated him when they were partners in a law case, referring to him as a "long-armed ape," refusing to deal with him as an equal, deliberately shunning him at a hotel, never even opening the brief he had painstakingly prepared. Yet, when the time came for Lincoln...
...appointed with two single-story houses and signs in the driveway to scare away trespassers, has a market value of almost $1 million. The Marcoses may have left some of their splendor, but the love of splendor has not, it seems, left the Marcoses. --By Pico Iyer. Reported by Edwin M. Reingold and Nelly Sindayen/Manila
...Senate Democratic Leader Robert Byrd and four other Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee asked Attorney General Edwin Meese to appoint an independent counsel to investigate Deaver's discussions with former colleagues on matters including South Korean trade, tax breaks for Puerto Rico and continued support for Rockwell International's B-l bomber. Within 90 days, Meese must either ask a panel of three Washington judges to name the counsel or explain why he has not done so. Such an explanation could be ticklish, given the close association between Meese and Deaver. During Ronald Reagan's first term, they constituted...