Word: lincolnitis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more noisy, brawling and partisan than the much maligned journalism of today. As a California judge noted in his opinion in a 1979 libel case, George Washington was called a murderer, Thomas Jefferson a blackguard and a knave, Henry Clay a pimp, Andrew Johnson and Ulysses Grant drunkards. Abraham Lincoln was termed a half-witted usurper, a baboon, a gorilla and a ghoul. Yet none of the nation's early leaders even attempted to sue, although some may have shared Benjamin Franklin's professed desire to balance "the liberty of the press" with "the liberty of the cudgel...
...morning in February, the dapper President Chester Arthur, according to a contemporary account, "laid his silk hat at his side, slowly removed his heavy doeskin gloves and deposited them in it, held his eyeglasses on his nose" and read the official dedication. Mathew Brady, the famous photographer of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War, who had also photographed the monument's construction, was on hand to record the finish. He snapped a picture of the dedication ceremony from the top of a nearby building...
Jeane Kirkpatrick left her mark on foreign policy. Something more. She served with the political enemy--the Republicans. She flourished as a remnant of a tradition that has seen this nation through hard times before. Abraham Lincoln labored to get Democrats in his power circle to conduct the Civil War. Harry Truman brought notable Republicans into his Government because they were the best candidates for the jobs and he understood he had to be President of all America. A curse of these times is rank, vengeful partisanship, practiced too often by the President and returned in kind by Democrat Thomas...
...Reagan, intimidated by deficit concerns, feels more limited than his predecessors in the Oval Office. Thomas Jefferson instantly accepted a deal to buy the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million, money the new nation did not have. Jefferson was convinced that Americans would pay, and they did. Abraham Lincoln at first hoped the Civil War might take a few million dollars and a few weeks to win. But after four years he had the world's biggest army and a conflict that cost a million dollars a day. Franklin Roosevelt plunged the nation billions of dollars into debt...
...Rivera himself spends most of the tune in the upper register of his alto, getting a soprano-like sound from it. His raw and driving post-bop sound combines with Roditi's bright, powerful trumpet as well as Portinho's samba beat and bassist Lincoln Goines, who is another Tania Maria veteran, uses his instrument to duplicate the sound of the surdo drum, the heart and soul of the samba...