Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first morning of the Washington protest, TIME Correspondent, Robert Anson, was covering a group of demonstrators near the Lincoln Memorial, and was swept up in the ensuing "bust" (the charges against him were later dropped). Along with others, he was taken to the makeshift jail that was soon cheerfully labeled "Woodstockade." His report...
...even his temper emerges as a very special righteous indignation, a rare quality in the gray of Washington's current power holders. Ed Muskie, the Polish immigrant tailor's son, is a true believer. That scarecrow frame, craggy face and gravelly voice make everybody think of Abraham Lincoln, and that is of huge appeal in this aimless age. But occasionally, there is the disquieting sensation that somehow he is trying too hard to be "Honest Abe," trying too much to reason with every voice that is raised against...
...heart, only the lost children of the ACLU) still fondly imagine that under crisis conditions the Constitution continues to define and limit acceptable law enforcement procedures. They believe that the Bill of Rights-at least on paper-can somehow forbid the police state. In fact, ever since Abraham Lincoln saddled the country with martial law in 1861, the courts have set precious few constitutional limits on riot control and have dumbly excused almost all the emergency powers of government...
...again, why bother with statutes, anyway? Since the Constitution conveniently passes over the subject of martial law, the President can indeed claim considerable authority inherent in his office as commander-in-chief. Not only can he call out federal troops at will, but he can also expropriate civilian property. Lincoln himself almost supplanted the courts during the Civil War. Nor have the courts been eager to second-guess these emergency, uses of executive authority. Even ex parte Milligan, the famous Court decision which rebuked Lincoln for suspending habeas corpus, depended on the finding that no overt violence occurred in that...
Before the meet, head manager Ed Lincoln presented McCurdy with "the cigar created for Winston Churchill, master strategist and statesman, in honor of his defeat of a most potent military force." Lincoln said after the victory the McCurdy squad "overcame an equally potent military force at Harvard Stadium...