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...perhaps not the line of work for which Kerrey was best suited. He could never have been as good a President as he is a writer. Kerrey's memoir of his early life, When I Was a Young Man (Harcourt; 270 pages), covers the period from his birth in Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1943 to his return there at the end of 1969. He came home with a prosthesis on his right leg, which had been shattered in a fire fight in Vietnam. When I Was a Young Man is an astonishing, wonderful book. It has a few false notes; there...
...Does the Parks Service really need to photograph every single visitor to the Lincoln Memorial?” Moynihan asked...
...example of the shifting standards applied to public addresses, he mentioned former University President Edward Everett, who Schama said spoke for two hours before Abraham Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address...
...Lincoln says about 10 years after the incident he ran into one of the men on a bus going to the airport...
...said, ‘I’m sorry’,” Lincoln says. “We let it go. It was weird...