In his eulogy for Lincoln on June 1, 1865, Senator Charles Summer called Lincoln's Gettysburg Address a "monumental act", and said that Lincoln was wrong in thinking that "the world will little note, nor long remember what we say here." ... The first draft was written in Washington, and revised in Gettysburg the night before the dedication, at the home of David Wills. ...

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As Grant Wood became more open to people, he stated a note to a group of parents in the 1930s that came from his pathological shyness that had fueled his earlier life. His note read: "I was as bashful a child as ever lived. ... This note was lead to the famous painting, American Gothic (Evans, page 20). ... On the night of February 12, 1942, just two hours shy of his fifty-first birthday, Wood was laid to rest. ...

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As Grant Wood became more open to people, he stated a note to a group of parents in the 1930s that came from his pathological shyness that had fueled his earlier life. His note read: "I was as bashful a child as ever lived. ... This note was lead to the famous painting, American Gothic (Evans, page 20). ... On the night of February 12, 1942, just two hours shy of his fifty-first birthday, Wood was laid to rest. ...

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"That's why, increasingly, news consumers -- especially younger ones -- are getting their politics from late-night comedy programs such as Letterman, Leno, Politically Incorrect, The Daily Show, and Saturday Night Live."" ... With this entire issue aside, we must make a note to ourselves to understand their tactics to get our votes and either chose to let them have our votes or to protect ourselves from their power of persuasion. ...

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FDR gathered with "famous people who came to see him at all hours of the day and night." ... Eleanor phoned FDR that same night and allowed Mr. ... She insisted on running the "White House elevator herself, and would sometimes take visitors on tours of the White House. (56) She stated that the reason why she would feel the responsibility was hers was because "[her] feeling about the White House is that it belongs to the people, their taxes support it [ ] they should be made to feel welcome here." (56) As President Roosevelt created laws that helped people and promoted jobs, Eleanor's ...

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According to the Portable Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson expressed in the "Notes on the State of Virginia" his observations of blacks or African-Americans as being "inferior to the whites in both the body and mind" (pg. 192-193), and that "nature has been less bountiful to them in the endowments of the head" (pg. 191). ... Jefferson was awakened like a "fire-bell in the night" by the news of the idea of the "Missouri question." ...

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The State Department human rights report of 2000 notes that "Cairo's use of military courts - created in 1992 to counter a wave of terrorist violence - had "deprived hundreds of civilian defendants of their constitutional right to be tried by a civilian judge"" (King, A2). ... This isn't something you decide over night, as Bush did. ...

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In 1895 Secretary of State Olney wrote a note to the British Prime Minister in which he reasserted the Monroe Doctrine and claimed that no European power had the right to interfere in "American" affairs. ...

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Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994), 37th president of the United States In assessing what is good in a president, one must look at that president's ability to properly govern its citizens and country and in the manner in which he does it. Richard Milhouse Nixon had it within his grasp to be the greatest post-World War II president, he was extremely intelligent, had a driving ambition, and was a political consummate. However, Nixon's coercive traits and dubious political tactics leave little faith in his legitimacy. In many respects Richard Nixon was a good president, and undoubtedly h...

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