Word: lincolnisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Medic (Mon. 9 p.m., NBC). How the doctors tried to save Abraham Lincoln after he was shot...
...their graves is carved a solemn record of history. The names themselves ring with historic significance : William Howard Taft, the only President to exercise his prerogative as Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces and select Arlington as his burial site; Admiral Robert (North Pole) Peary; Robert Todd Lincoln, James Garfield's Secretary of War, and the only one of Abraham Lincoln's sons to live to manhood ; General Phil Sheridan; Air General Henry ("Hap") Arnold and Admiral Marc ("Turn on the Lights") Mitscher; William Gibbs McAdoo, Woodrow Wilson's World War I Secretary of the Treasury...
...Urgent Problem. During the Civil War, the estate was occupied by Union troops; after the Battle of Bull Run, McDowell's forces retreated to Arlington, where Abraham Lincoln visited the troops. As the war progressed, Washington was turned into an armed camp, its hospitals filled with wounded and dying soldiers. The available cemeteries filled up rapidly, and burial became an urgent problem that weighed heavily upon Major General Montgomery C. Meigs, the Army's Quartermaster General, who was responsible for the military dead. One day, while he was walking in Washington, Meigs encountered Lincoln. The President noted that...
...crossed the Potomac to Arlington. Meigs was impressed by the beauty of the estate and the mansion, but his burial problems and bitterness against Lee suddenly overwhelmed him. Turning to Lincoln, he said: "Lee shall never return to Arlington." A few minutes later, as the two men strolled around the grounds of the estate, they came upon a detail of soldiers carrying the bodies of several of their comrades. Meigs halted the soldiers and asked them where they were going. They were going to the burial ground at Soldiers' Home in Washington. Meigs then turned to an Army captain...
Died. Robert Emmet Sherwood, 59, Pulitzer Prizewinning playwright (Idiot's Delight, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, There Shall Be No Night), historian (Roosevelt and Hopkins), top cinema writer (The Best Years of Our Lives), ghostwriter (1940-45) of some portion of every major Franklin D. Roosevelt speech-of a heart attack; in Manhattan...