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...been true throughout American history that when the bullets fly, civil liberties are among the first casualties. During the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln suspended the right of habeas corpus, the constitutionally enshrined procedure by which a defendant can challenge a wrongful conviction. In World War II, Franklin Roosevelt interned 120,000 Japanese Americans and tried accused German saboteurs in military courts. The Bush Administration is leaning on these historical precedents in saying the traditional balance between security and freedom needs to shift, at least in the short term. "We're an open society," President Bush declared last week...
During the 1930s, many American architects were heavily influenced by European designs, especially those of the Bauhaus movement. Domestic architecture reflected this influence, and the flat, linear houses of Frank Lloyd Wright, notably Fallingwater in Mill Run, Pa., and Walter Gropius’ residence in Lincoln, Mass. are perhaps the best examples of this style. Both houses were built contemporaneously with Windshield, and the three houses use much of the same structural vocabulary, due in part to the fact that Neutra, an Austrian emigré, worked under Wright during the 1920s...
...Leamer does provide a deeper look at what made Robert and Ted Kennedy tick, going beyond the overemphasis on John Kennedy that is all too frequent in Kennedy family histories. Thanks to access to new information, including papers secretly stored by President Kennedy’s secretary Evelyn Lincoln, Leamer is refreshingly honest about the family’s failures as well as their successes. Looking forward to Volume...
...matriculating at Harvard, but at Phillips he attended MOSP (please, the “s” is silent) —the Mathematical Olympiad Summer Program hosted by the U.S. Math Team (“as important as Olympic athletes”) at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. “We did math about 40 hours a week,” he states proudly...
Contrast Washington and Lincoln with two failed Presidents. Lincoln's successor, Andrew Johnson, became President because of one man's bullet rather than all men's ballots. Yet he unilaterally undid several Lincoln policies, flouting federal law in the process. Unlike Lincoln, who built bridges to leading war Democrats, Johnson demonized his critics. So did Nixon a century later. Equating criticism of the Vietnam War with disloyalty, Nixon hit the opposition party with illegal surveillance and electoral dirty tricks...