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...Except it's not working. All the home-state visits from Bush and back-room offers from Dick Cheney couldn't keep Republican moderates like Jim Jeffords and Lincoln Chafee to the party line on that $1.6 trillion tax cut, and in the end centrist Democrats like John Breaux felt little need to consider crossing over to the White House's way of thinking. The centrists called the compromise, and Tom Daschle, merely by slicing off 25 percent, was able to claim a victory...
...Cabinet Room. "I love this painting," he said moments later, unspooling the history of a Norman Rockwell that hangs next to the Oval Office door. In the Roosevelt Room, he told how FDR used the space to house his aquariums. Down the hall he expounded on a print showing Lincoln at the first reading of the Emancipation Proclamation. Throughout, he was a manic bundle of energy. Near the end of the tour, Glade Curtis, an obstetrician, had to laugh. "Karl was always really into politics and history," Curtis said. "And he was always a nerd...
...Players: Mark Brunell, Corey Dillon, Chris Chandler, Lincoln Kennedy, Mark Bruener, Brock Huard...
Goodwin continued the merriment, speaking of her upcoming book on Abraham Lincoln and her choice to focus on his political rather than his military leadership...
...wonderful thing about having all these men in the field [of Lincoln and Civil War history]-they're all drawn like a laser to those stupid battles," she quipped to much laughter and applause...