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...painting him as hard-right, Bush is going green with trips to Sequoia National Park last week and the Florida Everglades this week. Speeches are being salted with soothing "compassion-speak." Moderate Senate Republicans are being watched like Cuban athletes on tour. Bush has invited Rhode Island's Lincoln Chafee to a private dinner and phoned Chafee's colleague Maine's Olympia Snowe to congratulate her on the child-credit increase she got into the tax bill. (Never mind that he opposed her provision before...
...midst of the Civil War, the South announced that any black man captured in a Federal uniform, fighting for the Union, would be put to death. Abraham Lincoln's response was harsh: For every Federal soldier executed, he said, a Confederate soldier would be put to death...
...Lincoln's anger subsided, and he repealed the policy...
...WHAT SHE LIKES TO READ I like to read a lot of biography; I read mainly fiction and biography. I just finished "Henry and Clara" by Thomas Mallon, which is a historical fiction about the couple who were in the box at Ford's Theatre with Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd...
...Current plans place the memorial, an imposing (detractors say fascistic) design by Austrian architect Friedrich St. Florian, smack dab in the middle of the Mall, between the towering Washington Monument and the stately Lincoln memorial (site of Martin Luther King?s "I Have a Dream" speech). Opponents call it an outrageous defacement of a national space, while defendants consider the prominent placement a fitting testimony to the monument?s importance...