Word: lincoln
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...moral equivalent of war, but President Carter's battle against energy waste seems to be winding up the moral equivalent of Pickett's Charge. Carter's energy bill is not dead yet, but its vital signs are fading. Congress adjourned last week for its ten-day Lincoln's Birthday recess, leaving the measure comatose in a House-Senate conference committee and the nation not much closer to a comprehensive energy program than it was when Carter first unwrapped his plan last April...
February is a month for honoring great lecturers. Earlier this week we celebrated the birthday of Abe Lincoln, a great hit on the lecture circuit in his heyday. No one who heard it ever forgot his Gettysburg Address. "Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth," he said. Well, the thought was a good one, though somewhat optimistic...
This Monday is the birthday of another great orator who was also a lumberjack and, like Lincoln, happened to be president of the United States. It may seem strange at first that presidents are first class speakers but, on second thought, they do talk an awful lot. What's odd is to find two of them who actually said something...
While the debates and speeches will probably not be as exciting as the Lincoln-Douglas Debates, you junkies out there should be able to see some pretty high quality debating by Sunday evening. Sites of specific debates can be found by going to an information desk in the lobby of Emerson...
Indeed, there is some evidence that blacks-who began this century as faithful adherents of the Republican Party, the party of Abraham Lincoln-are more ready than they have been in decades to be courted by the G.O.P. In Louisiana, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney, Robert Livingston, 34, won 30% of the black votes last September to become his district's first Republican Congressman since 1874. The first Republican mayor in the history of Charlotte, N.C., Kenneth Harris, won 41% of the black vote last year. In Virginia, Republican Attorney General J. Marshall Coleman received 25% of the black...