Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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PETER RATCLIFFE Lincoln...
After three days in the state, some Nebraskans were comparing him to Lincoln, and Kefauver was ready with a prediction: "I think we can win." Reporters who followed both candidates through low-pressure, anti-Truman Nebraska were inclined to agree...
...their staunch friend and a worthy foe of the Communists. He had led Ceylon's 7,000,000 people to independence without bloodshed, and he became the new dominion's first Prime Minister. Working to end corruption and diminish poverty, he became known as "the Abraham Lincoln of the East...
...President reveals that Truman has a highly developed sense of his own place in history, and that this this supplies him with an effective shield against the barbs of his opponents. "Lincoln, of course, was thoroughly misrepresented and it took fifty years to get at the truth," Truman says. "So I don't let these things bother me for the simple reason I know that I am trying to do the right thing and eventually the facts will come...
Jack Avis, John Atherton, Bill Bliss, Link Boyden, Ed Brainard, Larry Brownell, Warren Clark, Clem Despard, Phil DuBois, Dugald Fletcher, Bill Geertsema, George Gifford, Monty Goodale, Tom Hagoort, Lee Henderson, Charley Higginson, Frank Huntington, Ben Jeffries, George Kinnel, Lefty Leftkowitz, and Steve Lincoln...