Word: lincoln
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...economics, in foreign policy, in some social programs. He has undone important accomplishments not only of me and other Democratic Presidents but of his Republican predecessors. Reagan and James Watt, his Interior Secretary, have tried to undo much of the progress made in environmental quality dating from Abraham Lincoln to Richard Nixon. It is grievously damaging. The budget deficits that Reagan will accumulate in four years, while claiming to be a fiscal conservative, exceed the total deficits of all the peacetime years
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...King remains little more than a legend. Killed while we were still too young to be aware of him, he now symbolizes a more turbulent, idealistic time a movement now seemingly defunct and a group who rose up defiantly to demand its freedom. We see him standing before the Lincoln Memorial an Old Testament prophet in the guise of a Baptist preacher both admonishing a nation for its transgressions and exhorting it to live up to a vision of brotherhood and equality. But while the image of King as a modern day Moses has become fixed the human being behind...
...real question, however, is whether blacks have not written off Reagan and become hopelessly alienated from the "party of Lincoln," which enjoyed a virtual monopoly on black support until the New Deal. Today only 8% of blacks identify themselves as Republicans, compared with 81% who consider themselves Democrats. There are so few black Republicans, says Washington Businessman Connie Mack Higgins, a Lifelong member of the G.O.P, that "it's almost Like being addicted. You suffer not only the slings and arrows of your enemies but of your friends and neighbors and all of those who think...
Indeed, there is a small but militant cadre of black intellectuals who have embraced conservative ideas with the ardor of a William F. Buckley. These right-wing blacks have set up a number of think tanks, Like Public Relations Consultant J.A. Parker's Lincoln Institute for Research and Education in Washington. They have also established the New Coalition for Economic and Social Change, a 300-member, California-based group of inteLlectuaLs, businessmen and politicians closely linked to the conservative Heritage Foundation. Says New Coalition's president Clarence Pendleton, who is also chairman of the U.S. Commission on Civil...