Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Near midnight, after about two hours in the Lincoln Room, Nixon started escorting me to the elevator. He stopped at the door of the Lincoln Bedroom and suggested that he and I pray there together. There was no good way to put a period to such a tempestuous career. I am not sure that this was not as meaningful as any and more appropriate than most...
After about half an hour in the Lincoln Bedroom I returned to my White House office. Soon Nixon called. I must not remember our encounter that evening as a sign of weakness, he said. How strange is the illusion by which men sustain themselves! This evening when he had bared his soul I saw a man of tenacity and resilience. And so I told the stricken President that if I ever spoke of the evening, it would be with respect. He had honored me by sharing with me his last free night in the White House. He had conducted himself...
...days on the Washington Mall for the Viet Nam Veterans Memorial. Fifty men who fought in the war will each turn a spade of earth on a spot of hallowed ground 75 yards from Constitution Avenue. The site is by design beneath the gaze of Abraham Lincoln, who held the Union together, and in the morning shadow of the Washington Monument, commemorating the man who guided the Revolution. It is ground where the Viet Nam protesters marched and tented ("It is our turn on the Mall," says Scruggs) and the place where the haunted Richard Nixon prowled in his dawn...
According to an informal newspaper poll, 85% of the region's 98,000 residents may favor an official switch of allegiance. They feel their chunk of Nebraska is misunderstood or ignored by the government in the state's capital back east in Lincoln. The rawboned ranching life in the panhandle, they argue, is kindred to the wild West of Wyoming...
...Story, Gypsy and Fiddler on the Roof. Yet his first love has always been ballet, and during a career stretching back to 1944, he has created such modern classics as the footloose Fancy Free, the silent Moves and a brilliant gloss on Afternoon of a Faun. Last week at Lincoln Center, in a meeting of two kindred spirits, Robbins came face to face with Gershwin's biggest, most problematic instrumental work, unveiling The Gershwin Concerto, based on the Concerto...