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...first inaugural address, Abraham Lincoln spoke to a nation darkened by the breaking storm of the Civil War. He closed, "The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature." In those days, long before the advent of mass education, Lincoln had no doubt that Americans maintained a communal memory of their history...
Many Americans are asking: Where are the Abraham Lincolns of today? No doubt, we could sure use someone like him. But let's not forget that for Lincoln had a racist, pro-slavery vice president by the name of Andrew Johnson, who was also later impeached as President...
...thing to engage in a private affair between consenting adults. It is another to have a 22-year-old intern performing oral sex on the President while he talks by phone to a Congressman about the fate of Americans stationed in Bosnia. It is one thing to turn the Lincoln Bedroom into a campaign ATM machine, another to turn the Oval Office into a hot-sheet motel. It is one thing for the President to invoke the cleansing powers of repentance. It is another to suggest that he deserves to serve out his term so that he can help teach...
...must protect one of the great quirks of being American: the ability to enter the hallowed halls of Congress or the memorials to Washington, Lincoln, Roosevelt or war veterans without hassles, dress codes or security checks and say, "I own a part of this place. It is mine." One might argue that these are just the necessary steps to ensure everyone's safety--whatever distance must come between President and citizen, the rationale would go, is for their mutual benefit. But it seems that America may be losing that irrational, incredible feel of ownership unnecessarily...
...Vanilla Ice's new album --The team that wins the American League wild card --Coverage of the anniversary of Di's death --Film starring Jean-Claude Van Damme as a fashion designer --Y2K --UPN show about Lincoln's butler --More millennium lists --The inevitable Ben Affleck-Gwyneth Paltrow breakup --Dan Quayle's next campaign --The new Olsen twins show --Bo Derek playing the widowed mom of surfer brothers on NBC --Footloose: the Musical...