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...early February 1977, Lee dined in Washington with Georgian Richard Hardin, a special assistant at the White House. Lee told Hardin about the "large sum of money" he had been offered to set up the meeting with Jordan. But Hardin, as he recalls it, told Lee that the advance would be improper. In fact, Lee now says that Hardin persuaded him not to pursue the matter further...
...newsmen chose to protect their sources rather than respond in person to charges they dismissed as meritless. But the prosecutor used the trial to blast the "bourgeois" press for pouring "barrels of black paint on a foreign country." And the dissident in question, convicted Georgian Nationalist Zviad Gamsakhurdia, duly appeared in court, accompanied by two guards, viewed the film of his confession, and pronounced it undoctored...
...wish that Jackson had been here," he said quietly as he listened to Historian Shelby Foote talk of "that terrible, terrible day" at Gettysburg. "Ewell would have done better if Jackson had been here. Lee should have listened to the Georgians that day." The Georgian Longstreet had strongly urged Lee not to fight the Battle of Gettysburg...
Carter asked the park officials to put a marker where Georgian Ambrose Wright had breached the Union line on the second day of Gettysburg. Then he stopped down below to see the monument to the Georgians, put up on the spot where they assembled. "When duty called, we came, when country called, we died," it read. So sad and sobering, mused Carter, yet men so brave...
...Antietam stirred up the hives of bees kept by the farmers. One Pennsylvania regiment had 127 bee stings. The President leaned on the bridge over Antietam Creek where General Burnside with four divisions had been stalled for hours by Robert Toombs with a few hundred of those beloved Georgian sharpshooters...