Word: lincolnisms
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...Manila three days after the election, Clinton was already deep into the very Clintonesque process of mulling things over. Sitting with his aides on the floor of Air Force One's conference room, he reviewed the political dilemmas of earlier Presidents, from Lincoln onward, pondering, as a senior official put it, "how they were perceived, and how they conceived their presidencies...
...want an Oldsmobile or Lincoln, either that or a van. It's either style or space," Evans said. "We really tried to rent. We went to this place Eddie's Big cars, but even big Eddie wouldn't rent...
...Lincoln Almond...
...Another time a Speaker of the House was voted out of office was in 1860, when William Pennington lost his re-election bid; at the same time, however, a member of the same party, Abraham Lincoln, was elevated to the presidency. A caveat: Lincoln's nickname wasn't "Slick...
McGuire defended America's proud tradition of bigotry that dates back past Lincoln and Jefferson to Socrates. But despite the rancorous debate, McGuire did not lose his sense of humor. When asked how the moral Brent felt that one of his heroes, Socrates, was a bi-sexual, he replied, "Yeah...