Word: lincolnization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TWENTY DAYS, by Dorothy Meserve Kunhardt and Philip B. Kunhardt Jr. With 300 photographs from the famed Meserve collection and a lively text, a mother-and-son team gives new perspectives to the 20-day period in April and May 1865, from the time Abraham Lincoln fell mortally wounded to the time his body was laid to rest at Springfield...
...benefit by 27 spotlights. Johnson used a huge new electronic lectern with hidden microphones and retractable prompter screens that newsmen dubbed "Mother." (One correspondent asked if it could cook Lyndon's breakfast.) When Weaver had been duly anointed, Johnson produced a surprise by announcing that Lincoln Gordon, 52, U.S. Ambassador to Brazil since 1961, would succeed Peace Corps Director Vaughn as Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs...
...Five years ago," Freeman told a farm group in Lincoln, Neb., last month, "I was just beginning to learn what a Secretary of Agriculture does to earn the title." What does he do? "He sur vives." To which McNamara, Rusk and Udall would probably agree...
This is Baltimore-born Louis Glanzman's first cover for TIME. A self-taught artist and World War II veteran (Air Force) who now lives on Long Island, he is equally known as a magazine illustrator (LIFE, Saturday Evening Post, National Geographic) and a portraitist. His likeness of Lincoln hangs in Washington's Ford Theater, where the President was fatally shot...
...anxiously expected Charles Francis Jr. to baa. Instead of settling down to the law after he left Harvard, 26-year-old Charles went dashing off to the Civil War, rose to the rank of brevet brigadier general. Since no other Adams had ever been a soldier, Charles Francis Sr., Lincoln's Minister to the Court of St. James's, concluded that there was a defect in his son's character. More over, on his return from the war, Charles did not immerse himself in cultural affairs, as his more renowned brother Henry did. Nor did he show...