Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Like President Truman and President Lincoln before him, I found on my desk, where the buck stops, the urgent problem of how to bind up the nation's wounds. And I intend to do that...
Nixon rose early Thursday, going by himself to the Lincoln Sitting Room to ponder and plan his day. He met later with his chief of staff, General Alexander Haig, and at 11 a.m. he called in his successor, Gerald Ford, for a private talk that lasted an hour and ten minutes. "The President asked the Vice President to come over this morning for a private meeting," Deputy Press Secretary Gerald Warren announced to newsmen shortly before the two sat down together. "And that is all the information I have at this moment." It was information enough, however, to alert reporters...
...responsibility, and the courts maintained their independence. It was an attempt to cripple the political processes of our democracy and of our party system, but these recovered and proved themselves resilient and tenacious. It was an attempt to deceive the people through secrecy and fraud, but in the end Lincoln's aphorism about fooling all the people all the time was vindicated...
When Bull finds the right conversation he stops the machine. Then everything is taken into the President-the Sony with its defunct erasure button, the reels in place ready to go. The President does his listening either in the Lincoln Sitting Room, which is on the second floor of the mansion in the southeast corner, or in his E.O.B. office. Both places are secluded and relatively quiet. Yet the sounds of Washington still intrude, and earphones are provided to assure the highest quality listening. When Nixon is in the Lincoln Sitting Room, the Sony is placed on the small desk...
...curious gliding step that seemed to send his feet on ahead of him, Mikhail Baryshnikov skimmed across the stage of Lincoln Center's State Theater and leaped high in the air like an uncoiled spring. The audience gasped as he bounded higher and higher, the perfect picture of a desperate Prince trying to dance all night before the cruel Queen of the Willis and save his soul. When the curtain finally came down on the American Ballet Theater's production of Giselle last week, the Manhattan audience threw flowers at the latest runaway genius from Leningrad...