Word: lincolner
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...Virginia Theological Seminary, invites you to try hers. "Epiphany is a downtown Episcopal church with a congregation that is fifty-fifty white and black," she says, "and it has a full spectrum of social class diversity as well as a long history in Washington." Indeed, several members of Lincoln's Cabinet belonged to Epiphany, and it was also very active in supporting the civil rights movement in the 1960s. "It would be an interesting choice that appears to resonate with the new First Family's politics and theology," says Bass. "Plus, my 11-year-old daughter wants Malia...
...protocol but personal challenges: How's the food? Where's the gym? How do you raise two daughters under bright lights, stay fit and strong and sane while managing a job that can eat you alive? This too is a presidential tradition. Outgoing President James Buchanan advised Abe Lincoln that water from the right-hand well was better than from the left, and he shared the secrets of the pantry. During John F. Kennedy's visit the day before his Inauguration, Dwight Eisenhower demonstrated the panic button, instantly summoning an evacuation helicopter to the White House lawn. Fatefully, Lyndon Johnson...
...proof vest and packed his stun gun, just in case the director and cast had decided to take their production too seriously.Stewart N. Kramer ’12RR: Who do you play in “Assassins”?SNK: John Wilkes Booth.RR: What do you think of President Lincoln?SNK: He was great as President. You don’t get Presidents like that anymore, although hopefully we will now.RR: Your character was both an assassin and an actor. Do you think you could combine those roles?SNK: I don’t think I’d want...
...chopping down more cherry trees than he could possibly help. But somewhere along the line, Americans began expecting their Presidents to do more than just govern. They also had to make us laugh. As long as there have been Republican presidents, they’ve been kind of funny. Lincoln was a veritable wellspring of quips and anecdotes; Taft at least looked jolly; Reagan was a laugh-a-minute, from Star Wars missile defense systems to his side-splitting trickle-down economics. Democrats, by contrast, have been a soberer lot. Wilson? Roosevelt? Gore? As the “Green...
...first black U.S. President. For many blacks, and certainly for much of the country and world, Obama's victory is an extraordinary step toward the redemption of America's original 400-year-old sin. It is astonishing not least for its quickness, coming just 145 years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation effectively ending slavery and four decades after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. And it is even more astonishing for its decisiveness - Obama carried Virginia, once the home of the Confederacy, a place whose laws just five decades ago would have made the interracial union...