Word: lincoln
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...said the pair "lies" with "such ease, it's troubling," Clinton's campaign attacked Obama for allowing his supporters to practice the sort of "slash and burn" politics the Illinois Senator preaches against. Obama's campaign responded by attacking the Clintons for letting Geffen stay in the Lincoln Bedroom after he raised millions of dollars for Clinton's reelection, and blasted one of Clinton's supporters, black South Carolina state senator Robert Ford, who has repeatedly suggested that having Obama at the top of the ticket would doom Democratic candidates all down the ballot, because he is black...
...Enigmas” is a giant photograph of Abraham Lincoln’s craggy face staring out from the cover. But in spite of the photograph’s prominence, the key word in the title of Alan Trachtenberg’s new book is not “Lincoln,” but “enigmas.”Honest Abe figures only slightly in one of the book’s essays, and even then it is not so much Abraham Lincoln as the photographs of him that interest the author. This fascination is typical for Trachtenberg...
Favorite childhood toy: Lincoln Logs...
...Lincoln organized the forces arrayed against slavery, he was heard to say: "Of strange, discordant, and even hostile elements, we gathered from the four winds, and formed and fought to battle through...
...That's what Abraham Lincoln understood. He had his doubts. He had his defeats. He had his setbacks. But through his will and his words, he moved a nation and helped free a people. It is because of the millions who rallied to his cause that we are no longer divided, North and South, slave and free. It is because men and women of every race, from every walk of life, continued to march for freedom long after Lincoln was laid to rest, that today we have the chance to face the challenges of this millennium together, as one people...