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...swaggering 29-year-old lieutenant colonel, he swept his 37th Tank Battalion through Normandy, sealing off the peninsula in the eleven days after Dday. In his dramatic breakthrough to relieve Bastogne and his near legendary dash across the Rhine, "Abe" Abrams terrified the enemy as a daring tactician who relied on swift movement and overpowering violence. He believed in the shock value of mass attack combined with an awesome firepower that approached overkill. A captured German document said, somewhat hysterically, that Abrams' forces were totally made up of men who had been born out of wedlock or killed their...
This first in a group of six programs is subtitled Mrs. Lincoln 's Husband, and it comes close to being a situation tragedy: "At Home with Abe and Mary...
...afraid we must ask you to substitute the face of some unknown man where Lenin's face now appears." When Rivera demurred, he was paid $21,000 and dismissed. The mural was finally chipped off the wall and replaced with a more conventional, sepia painting that featured Abe Lincoln and Thomas Edison...
IRVING KRISTOL, U.S. writer, professor and editor (The Public Interest): Abe Lincoln is the prototype-the leader who is uncommon but not beyond emulation by the common man. He's not a Napoleon. This is American democratic politics. You don't want a world conqueror. In latter days John Kennedy had that uncommon-common quality; so did both Roosevelts, T.R. and F.D.R., although they were distinctly below Lincoln...
Other experts disagreed. "I don't think any taxpayer could have gotten the deductions from the facts as they [the committee] found them," said Tax Lawyer Michael Fox of Chicago. New York Accounting Professor Abe Briloff found the pattern of errors in Nixon's returns "so egregious" that he believes that "they were not mere inadvertences but a carefully orchestrated, finely tuned program." San Francisco Attorney William Coblenz, who counts the Hearst family among his clients, believes that "the joint tax committee was, if anything, a little easy on President Nixon. Everyone looks for every reasonable deduction and there...