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Sources: Census Bureau, Population of the United States in 1860; Map Guide to the U.S. Federal Censuses, 1790-1920, by William Thorndale and William Dollarhide; Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research; University of Virginia; estimates on slave imports from The Slave Trade, by Hugh Thomas, 1997 (Simon & Schuster...
...when they were partners in a law case, referring to him as a "long-armed ape," refusing to deal with him as an equal, deliberately shunning him at a hotel, never even opening the brief he had painstakingly prepared. Yet, when the time came for Lincoln to replace Simon Cameron, his first Secretary of War, he appointed Stanton, believing him to be the best man for the all-important post. He recognized that the very qualities that had brought the hotheaded Stanton to treat him badly--his intensity, his bluntness, his determination to succeed--were precisely the qualities he needed...
Goodwin's book on the political genius of Abraham Lincoln is to be published in October by Simon & Schuster
...both terrorist regimes and democratic societies. There may be no moral equivalence between a terrorist attack and a retaliation, but let's at least be honest about it. Both are-and should be called-atrocities. We should let Amnesty International alone. To attack its work is truly immoral. Simon Hytten Rome...
...most grateful to the President," he said. "All charges are now refuted. Nothing remains in doubt." But even as he tried to put the matter behind him, his son Gerhard, 38, stirred up new embarrassment. At a news conference in Washington last week, Gerhard implied that Nazi Hunter Simon Wiesenthal and Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, the current U.N. Secretary-General, had accepted his father's explanation of his wartime record. Both Pérez de Cuéllar and Wiesenthal denied that they had formed a final judgment about the case. Potentially graver damage to the candidate's prospects came...