Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cool spring evening had settled over Washington. Most of the city's federal buildings were dark, but chandeliers shone brightly from the National Portrait Gallery. Inside the building in which Walt Whitman once read his poetry to wounded Union troops and Abe Lincoln held his second Inaugural Ball, a black-tie assemblage of guests stood chatting, their voices mingling with the strains of a string quartet...
...Brezhnev's driving. I presented him with a dark blue Lincoln Continental. He got behind the wheel. The head of my Secret Service detail went pale as I climbed in and we took off down one of the narrow roads that run around the perimeter of Camp David. At one point there is a very steep slope with a sign at the top reading, "Slow, Dangerous Curve." Even driving a golf cart down it, I had to use the brakes in order to avoid going off the road. Brezhnev was driving more than 50 miles an hour...
...Indochina, identifying the Parrot's Beak for the Silent Majority to ponder and nod their heads and say yes, yes, Mr. President, cut the tumor out and save our boys? Who can forget the careful arrangement of the set--a flag in one corner and a bust of Lincoln, flanking the original talking head himself...
...that, the much reported praying scene took place, and Nixon gives his recollection: "I told Kissinger that I realized that, like me, he was not one to wear his religion on his sleeve. On an impulse, I told him how every night, when I had finished working in the Lincoln sitting room, I would stop and kneel briefly and, following my mother's Quaker custom, pray silently for a few moments before going to bed. I asked him to pray with me now, and we knelt...
...dancer came upon Lincoln Kirstein, co-founder with George Balanchine of the New York City Ballet, in apparent distress, weeping in an office. When he rushed to help, Kirstein, 71, waved him away. "These are tears of joy," he said. "Baryshnikov is joining our company." At the American Ballet Theater it was the dancers who wept when Mikhail Baryshnikov gathered them together after last Wednesday's performance to say goodbye: "It is now or never. I have to work with Mr. B." For A.B.T. Baryshnikov's leap to Balanchine is a profound loss; "Misha" was their inspiration...