Word: lincoln
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There come times in the course of a presidency when events seem to swirl be yond matter reach and influence of the man in the Oval Office, no matter who he is or how strong he may be. Even Abraham Lincoln despaired. "I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me," he wrote, a year before the end of the Civil...
...Holy Blood, Holy Grail, Lincoln, Baigent and Leigh
...humanitarian affairs." In contrast to the friendly demonstrations that had greeted the President in Oklahoma only the week before, thousands of outraged protesters outside the New York Hilton Hotel broke into chants of "Money for jobs, not for war, U.S. out of El Salvador!" Ten blocks away, at the Lincoln Center campus of Fordham University, 300 people, including a few members of the N.C.C.J. who opposed honoring Reagan for humanitarianism, had earlier gathered for an "alternative awards dinner" featuring a mocking menu of cheese (which the Administration is distributing to the poor from Government stockpiles) and ketchup (which the Administration...
Stephen K. Bailey, a professor at the Graduate School of Education and one of the country's most distinguished educators, died of natural causes last week at his home in Lincoln, Mass...
Unusually modest for a politician, Pennsylvania Congressman Marc Lincoln Marks admits that he has had a "very undistinguished" three-term career in the House. A moderate Republican, he had loyally supported Reagan's economic program in what he called "my own best political interests." But as the white-haired lawmaker spent 19 days in the Bethesda National Naval Medical Center undergoing treatment for a chronic back problem, he brooded about his pro-Reagan votes. "I had a gut feeling that I was wrong," he recalls. "I should have paid attention to it. I was as guilty as anyone...