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State Sen. Burt Cohen, a Democrat, initiated the campaign for the plaque to honor New Hampshire men who volunteered to fight Franco in the Spanish Civil War over 60 years ago. In 1937, sponsored by the Communist Party, a dozen residents of New Hampshire joined the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. They crossed the Pyrenees by foot, sacrificing food, limbs, and sometimes their lives so the Spanish Republic might survive Franco's military coup. England, France and the United States refused to aid the legitimate democratic republic, while Germany and Italy generously donated modern guns, tanks and bombs to the fascist side...
This conflicting perception of the Brigade is not new. Since their return from Spain in 1938, some considered members of the Lincoln Brigade American heroes; others, like the State Department and some members of the Catholic Church, classified them as dangerous Bolshevik traitors. During the 1940s, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) officers interrogated them in their homes and harassed their family members. Many vets had difficulty holding down jobs because FBI agents would convince their bosses to fire the "communist agitators...
...enthusiastically enlisted to fight in the American army against Hitler and the Axis. Still mourning the Spanish Republic's defeat, they yearned for democracy's victory over fascism, for the chance to participate in the triumph of good over evil. An unwritten policy of the U.S. Army barred the Lincoln vets from the front lines; like blacks during the war, the Brigaders, despite their combat experience, were relegated to demeaning tasks far from battlefields. In the 1950s, communist witch-hunters imprisoned and fined veterans of the Brigade because of their present or former affiliation to the Communist Party...
...Bush's tax cuts. A small handful of Republicans could defect and the President will need to peel off an equal number of Democrats to ensure passage of his program. Last week, after delivering his big budget address to Congress, he swept into Arkansas and Georgia, where Democrats Blanche Lincoln and Max Cleland felt the love. This week Bush will swing through Louisiana and North Dakota, two more states he won handily--and where Democratic Senators hang on to their jobs by hewing to local opinion. Even Tom Daschle, the Senate minority leader, whose job is to rally the opposition...
...Greenspan liked the idea as an insurance policy against an unexpected and prolonged economic downturn, which is exactly how the 11 moderates who just made Bush's list - Republicans Lincoln Chafee, Susan Collins, Jim Jeffords, Olympia Snowe and Arlen Specter, plus Democrats Bob Torricelli, Evan Bayh, Thomas Carper, Dianne Feinstein, Mary Landrieu and Debbie Stabenow - have seized on it. If the projections go sour, they reason, a tax cut on autopilot could cut into debt reduction and shove the federal government back...