Word: lincoln
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...pick up conversations in the Oval Office and in the Cabinet Room. Kennedy's phone calls were recorded separately on Dictabelts. The President could activate either system by pushing a switch in his office that would turn on a red light at the desk of his secretary, Evelyn Lincoln. She would then throw the appropriate switch to start the recording devices. "It was for history," Lincoln explained to TIME. "It was for the memoirs the President intended to write after he left office. He wanted an accurate record. We saved everything. I even saved his doodles...
...from an oak tree that George Washington planted at Mount Vernon; President Eisenhower's red pajamas with five stars on the lapels; Jimmy Durante's fedora and Henry Clay's boater; Teddy Roosevelt's Teddy bear; Mrs. Grover Cleveland's wedding-cake box; Abe Lincoln's frock coat; the chairs from the Kennedy-Nixon debate; Hubert Humphrey campaign cookies; Tom Seaver's college baseball uniform; waxed flowers from President Garfield's funeral; L.B.J FOR PRESIDENT lollipops in the shape of Texas; a swatch of material from the Red Baron's plane...
...which is what the address basically was. With a showman's instinct, he evoked the heroic spirit of Leonard Skutnik, who dived into the Potomac last month to rescue a drowning plane crash victim (see box), and stirring speeches to Congress by Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. Only when he touched on foreign policy did he shift about nervously, as if on unsure terrain...
Reagan presented his plan to restructure America's federal system with emotion and drama, lowering his voice at the end to recall Lincoln's words that the "trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation."* But the long-term initiative will do nothing to alleviate the budget deficits looming in the short term. Reagan plans to submit to Congress next week a status report on fiscal 1982 spending with a bottom line close to $96 billion in the red and a fiscal 1983 budget with an equally dizzying debt...
...driven a wedge between classes and races and regions and nations. When he speaks of "the nation," he clearly refers to but a fraction of America--those who stand to gain lucratively from tax breaks, both personal and business. It is ironic that Reagan chose to quote Lincoln's words to Congress on Tuesday. As Lincoln no doubt realized and as Reagan cannot understand, the "history" so "inescapable" has largely been the path toward removing oppressive, less-fortunate features of the original American compact. And now, hiding behind a wall of abstract platitudes, Reagan intends to dismantle the precious safeguards...