Word: lincoln
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...wake of Ronald Reagan's State of the Union message. Together, we can embark on a new beginning. The Union must stop growing, lest it begin to rot. Return responsibility to the grass roots and in the process root out the weeds. Invoking leaders as varied as Churchill, Lincoln, FDR and JFK, the president struck many poses. Four spring immediately to mind...
...tenth year at Harvard and his fifth as both men's and women's coach, Walker has guided what he describes as an "evolution" in Harvard diving. Nationally recognized, Walker has coached several U.S. international teams, and at the University of Minnesota he helped Craig Lincoln win a bronze medal in the 1972 Munich Games...
Reagan's most enjoyable moment last year may have been on the Fourth of July. Standing with friends on the Truman Balcony, he watched fireworks burst over the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial. "He was ecstatic," claims one pal. Says another: "He is a ceremony freak...
...when those hill people in 1861 seceded from Virginia, herself seceded from the Union of Abraham Lincoln, William Bell would be offered a commission by the Restored Government of Virginia, by his own governor Francis Boreman and the legislature that met at Wheeling, despite the eye he had lost in a fight that followed a poker game in Martinsburg, because it was acknowledged that William Bell knew every backroad and trail in the state. A commission he would turn down, because unlike most of the people of the new state caught in the grip of the third Great Awakening William...
After his career at Harvard, Duehay went to Tufts, where he was director of the Lincoln Filene Center for Citizenship and Public Affairs. He retired from that post more than a year ago so he could be a "full-time mayor...