Word: lincolnisms
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...sight that strikes fear in any Florida politician, especially elected Dade County judges like Lawrence King, the board's chairman: angry Cuban voters. They marched on the Clark Center after a conservative radio station, Radio Mambí, broadcast interviews with two Cuban-American GOP members of Congress, Lincoln Diaz-Balart and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, who decried the board's moves. For Miami's Cubans, almost 80 percent of whom voted for Bush, this election is mostly about avenging Elian Gonzalez. One of Judge King's paid political consultants is Armando Gutierrez, the man who distributed the Orwellian videotape of Elian...
...Abraham Lincoln, faced with the breakup of the Republic, suspended habeas corpus. What could the Florida Supreme Court do, when confronting a similar threat, except to tell the vote counters to keep on counting, and to count until they had found sufficient votes to cause Barbra and the rest to unpack their bags and redirect their drivers from the international terminal at LAX to Bel-Air for lunch...
...quarter-century after Lincoln's death, the innocent but mindless inside maneuverings of Caroline Harrison, wife of Benjamin, would jeopardize the White House with an element war could not: grandeur. She loved the White House but wanted more space. She rallied Cabinet officers and engineers to produce a plan for massive buildings attached to the existing White House and an enclosed quadrangle in the French Neoclassical mode. She had public and official support but not that of House Speaker Thomas B. Reed. Miffed by a postal appointment, he refused to let the authorization bill come to the floor. All that...
There is a story that Woodrow Wilson was working on neutrality papers in the Oval Office when he heard what he thought was a housefly and jumped up to get a swatter. Wilson then looked out the window and saw a biplane zooming down on the White House, with Lincoln Beachey perched at the controls. Beachey, then considered the best pilot in America, buzzed the White House again and again and flew stunts around the Washington Monument, to the awe of Wilson. Today the airspace above the White House is designated P-56 by the FAA--the P standing...
...instead to exploit Clinton's weakness in the suburbs and among Jews. He flubbed the first debate when he invaded her personal space, shouting at her to sign a paper forswearing soft money. She would eventually agree, and he was never able to get much juice out of the Lincoln Bedroom afterward. In the final days of the campaign, Lazio accused Clinton of supporting terrorism because she had accepted a donation from an Arab American who had praised Hizballah. Clinton returned the money, no one believed she was soft on bin Laden, and the charge backfired...