Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...know, Will Rogers says that we haven't had a real President since Abraham Lincoln, just Vice-Presidents; well of course, Harding was a guy who'd stand up for his rights and do what he wanted, but he had this food-taster, he wanted to make sure his food taster went along with him wherever he went, until he went off to Alaska without his food-taster and he came back dead.... You must remember: nothing just happens, everything is planned...
...interview at the Boston Common, Vellucci said that Cambridge owns thousands of acres of reservoirs and surrounding land in Lincoln, Weston, and Waltham. "We could make nice bike paths and picnic tables there," he suggested...
President Lincoln attempted to suspend the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus by executive order during the first two years of the Civil War. When that was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, the Congress expressly authorized him to suspend it, with safeguards, for the duration...
Bayh insists that runoffs would be a rarity. He points out that only one President failed to carry at least 40% of the popular vote (Abraham Lincoln won in 1860 with 39.79%). A greater danger, Bayh maintains, is that a third-party candidate like George Wallace could win enough electoral votes to deny either major-party candidate the required majority of 270 electoral votes. Then Wallace could make a deal to turn over his electors to whichever front runner made the most concessions. That, or the choice of a President, would be left to the House of Representatives, where...
...Most spectacularly in the James Bond movie Goldfinger, when a Lincoln with a dead gangster in it was reduced to a 4-ft. by 4½-ft. block of scrap metal...