Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...still-gathering clouds of Watergate seemed to be never too far from the President's mind even as he plunged into a round of activities. He astonished a small crowd assembled at the Lincoln Memorial to commemorate Lincoln's 165th birthday by appearing there without notice to speak (see The Presidency/Hugh Sidey, page...
Historian David Donald once wrote a delightful essay called "Getting Right with Lincoln." It told, among other things, how Presidents in trouble over the last hundred years discovered a remarkable kinship to our greatest President...
Herbert Hoover, for instance, in 1932 journeyed to Springfield, Ill. As if it were the dark days of 1864, Hoover borrowed Lincoln's words for the war and declared that victory over the Depression was just a matter of fighting it out on "this line" -if it took all summer. Franklin Roosevelt suggested that Lincoln was a father of the New Deal. Lyndon Johnson ran into Lincoln's sympathetic ghost stalking the White House every time L.B.J.'s popularity dropped in the Gallup poll...
Richard Nixon has raised "getting right with Lincoln" to new heights. Last week he went down to the Memorial on Lincoln's Birthday and drew the Lincoln mantle round his shoulders. "It is quite clear," said Nixon, "that no President in history has been more vilified or was more vilified during the time he was President than Lincoln ... Lincoln had that great strength of character never to display [hurt], always to stand tall and strong and firm no matter how harsh or unfair the criticism might...
This third trouncing in four matches has neither daunted the team as a whole, nor disappointed coach Betty Lincoln '53. Lincoln sees the immediate problem to be one of insufficient practice and experience...