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...something similar. After all, candidates are always trying to link themselves to great leaders of the past. Why not cut out the middlemen? Given the pace of scientific progress, plus sufficiently audacious party leaders, the presidential debates of 2044 could feature some pretty impressive lineups. Imagine Abraham Lincoln taking on F.D.R. Or J.F.K. going up against Thomas Jefferson. Or Millard Fillmore vs. Warren Harding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Could A Clone Ever Run For President? | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

Criticizing those who believe "the best government is no government," the author of Lincoln at Gettysburg said powerless leadership is "panicky, arbitrary and random," rather than "confident, fair and just...

Author: By Daniela J. Lamas, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Wills Criticizes Weak Government at IOP | 11/5/1999 | See Source »

Heimert arrived at Harvard as an undergraduate in 1945. He wrote his senior thesis on Abraham Lincoln, a subject he returned to last year in an undergraduate seminar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Heimert Dies at 70 in N.Y. | 11/3/1999 | See Source »

...very good at asking questions--perceptive and profound questions that helped him to get to know you, to know what you think and why you think it," said Joshua R. Carter '98-'01, a student in the Lincoln seminar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Heimert Dies at 70 in N.Y. | 11/3/1999 | See Source »

Brown was first a student of Heimert's in 1993 and maintained a close relationship since then, serving as a teaching fellow for the Lincoln seminar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professor Heimert Dies at 70 in N.Y. | 11/3/1999 | See Source »

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