Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just addressed a G.O.P. fund-raising dinner, a presidential motorcade of seven cars headed fast for Bradley International Airport. The procession was led by four Connecticut state police cruisers, none sounding sirens or flashing emergency lights. Worse, the cars were spaced so far apart that the President's Lincoln limousine was about five seconds behind the cruisers when it approached an intersection just three blocks from the civic center...
Among presidential autographs, those most in demand are by Lincoln, Washington and John F. Kennedy. Almost any signed Lincoln document is worth at least $2,000; Abe's reply to a girl who had urged him to grow whiskers - "Do you not think people would call it a silly affection [sic] if I were to begin now?"_sold for $20,000. A 1785 letter from Washington in which he refused "pecuniary reward" for his services to the young country fetched $37,000 in 1973, an alltime record for a presidential letter. The highest price ever bid for a letter...
...signature. A memorable excerpt from J.F.K.'s inaugural address ("Ask not what your country can do for you . . ."), handwritten and signed by the President on White House stationery, sold for $11,000 in 1971, the highest price paid for a document signed by any U.S. President since Lincoln...
THWACK! THUD! Tom Lincoln, a senior fullback, saw McInally kicking and asked what was going...
...Lincoln delivered news about mutual friends--graduates, people with jobs, people at medical school. McInally was hungry for details, maybe because he now lives in a midwestern boondock through which few Harvard paths cross. Cincinnati is not New York or Washington, and if not for his roommate John Keogh, who works in Cincinnati for Procter and Gamble and once played second-string tackle, McInally would almost be starved for familiar faces...