Word: lincolnisms
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...centennial bookend: the last Southern black Republican in Congress was North Carolinian George White, who left office in 1901. In the next 100 years, four other black Republicans would go to Congress. But for the most part the G.O.P., which once commanded black support as the party of Lincoln, earned the opposite image as the party on the wrong side of civil rights. With this precedent, it is startling that Glenn stands as a favored G.O.P. son. Two months before the primary, he has raised $360,000, most of it in fund raisers thrown from Los Angeles to New York...
Similarly, in 1860-61 the U.S. was falling to pieces as one state after the other seceded from the union. During this time of crisis, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln said it is the duty of a President to execute the laws and maintain the existing government, and not entertain any proposition of dissolution or dismemberment. Lincoln's commitment to the union of all states was absolute...
Although Milosevic is no Lincoln, he has a keen interest in maintaining the integrity of the borders of his country. Indeed he should feel obligated to keep the nation intact. And the U.S. certainly has an interest in ensuring that the Kosovo situation does not explode into a wider Balkan conflict. JOHN DAVID JOHNSON Heidelberg, Germany...
...outside suppliers. Mercedes engineers everything but the screws from the ground up, one reason it took years to develop its M-Class sport utility vehicle. Scrappy Chrysler could teach it how to develop and roll out in a more timely fashion a superluxurious SUV to compete against the popular Lincoln Navigator...
When pollster John Zogby recently asked people to rate the century's Presidents, F.D.R. led the pack, even though only septuagenarians and their elders can remember him in the White House. Historians and political scientists are unanimous in placing F.D.R. with Washington and Lincoln as our three greatest Presidents...