Word: lincoln
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Great Presidents who are still popular on the day they leave office make a very short list. Often it is not until much later that the public retroactively admires men like Lincoln and Truman, who were widely condemned by their contemporaries. The British political scientist Harold Laski had a relaxed theory about the elasticity of the U.S. presidency and the kind of Presidents accordingly to be sought. In times of crisis, as in the wartime presidencies of Lincoln, Wilson and Roosevelt, Presidents uneasily wielded the powers of dictators; authority that had been skillfully diffused throughout Government was concentrated...
President Ford's words comprise the most uncomforting assessment of the State of the Union that the American people have had to hear. Even during the Civil War, President Lincoln each year offered gratitude for the excellent health of the people and for abundant harvests. Even in 1814, when British troops had recently set fire to the city of Washington, President Madison felt that he could anticipate the expulsion of the invaders. Even in 1931, with economic disaster everywhere, Herbert Hoover promised that the value of traditional American virtues would soon prove itself again...
...fate of the institute, the Phillips Research Foundation, Lincoln Open University (which suspended operations Jan. 3) and the Lowthers now depends on audits and investigations by the IRS and the Illinois attorney general. For his part, Sam Gould can only say, "The whole thing is embarrassing...
...once bloody, somehow romantic battlegrounds of history. Buffs dragged their children in Yankee or Rebel caps over the cemetery farm land of Gettysburg, fast growing commercial. Book clubs offered multivolume histories such as Allan Kevins' The Ordeal of the Union and Carl Sandburg's grandiloquent Abraham Lincoln. Catton, with his 13 volumes, became the distinguished popularizer of the Civil War, his work deeply researched and written with a vivid immediacy...
...eyes of his peers, Johnson is to aviation what Wernher von Braun was to rocketry. From the time he took his first flight in a barnstorming Lincoln biplane from a pasture near his boyhood home of Ishpeming, Mich.-the pilot told him to learn to build planes, not fly them-Johnson has lived aviation. After studying aeronautical engineering at the University of Michigan, he landed a job with Lockheed in the Depression year of 1933, largely on the basis of an impressive wind-tunnel analysis he had made of a model of a forthcoming Lockheed plane; the young graduate recommended...