Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rohde Lincoln Park, Mich...
...familiar ploy, perhaps, but the culprit was none other than Honest Abe Lincoln, who served one term in the House from 1847 to 1849. And he got away with it. The House Committee on Mileage specified that Congressmen could return home by "the most usual route," thus allowing Lincoln to claim he took the long way home...
...accuser in this case is another Illinois Republican, Rep. Paul Findley, who has just written a book about Lincoln's years in Congress. He discovered the details of Lincoln's padded expense account in muckraking stories written at the time by Horace ("Go West, young man!") Greeley of the New York Tribune. Findley is less than outraged by Honest Abe's exaggerations. He points out that the future President only earned $4 a day for his service in the House...
...John Lincoln Wright. July...
...vice governor of the state-run Saline Water Conversion Corp., $3.5 million. To pick up a $50 million contract for a sugar processing complex in the Ivory Coast, ISC paid Gilchrist Olympic, son of a for mer President of Togo, more than $1 million and gave him a new Lincoln Continental, the SEC says...