Word: lincolns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first U.S. President to be assassinated was Abraham Lincoln -- or was it Zachary Taylor? Last week the coroner in Louisville exhumed the body of the 12th President, who died on July 9, 1850, five days after consuming a large amount of iced cherries and milk at a sweltering Independence Day celebration at the Washington Monument. Back then, Taylor's sudden death was attributed to gastroenteritis. But Clara Rising, a Florida writer who is researching a book about Taylor, believes he may have been murdered...
Beschloss's account, drawing heavily on previously unavailable secret messages between the two leaders, includes fascinating tidbits about the major actors: J.F.K. once boasted that he was "the first man to have sex with someone other than his spouse inside the Lincoln Bedroom"; Khrushchev, after having made life miserable for Kennedy, broke down and wept openly upon hearing of the President's assassination...
...While Turner sits in prison, one of his disciples, best-selling author Givens, is prospering in Orlando. Givens bought a lakefront spread outside the city and decorated his driveway with a white Rolls-Royce, a white BMW convertible, a white stretch Lincoln limo and a white Excalibur convertible. Givens married the former Miss Sexy Orlando, and is getting rich through his books (along with Wealth Without Risk, there is the newly released Financial Self-Defense) and financial-advice club by spreading something akin to the Disney spirit. "Life should be lived like a movie" is one of his favorite mottoes...
DURING THE CIVIL WAR, Abraham Lincoln called political cartoonist Thomas Nast "our best recruiting sergeant." According to Lincoln, Nast's cartoons "have never failed to arouse enthusiasm and patriotism, and have always seemed to come just when those articles were getting scarce." But when pundits examine the Fourth Estate's impact upon American politics, they routinely ignore the importance of the cartoon...
...presuming to take over. Or so it always seems. The vice presidency almost by definition enforces an expectation of the second rate: the man is inherently a loser (he was not the President, after all) or at best a Sancho Panza. In the case of Andrew Johnson following Abraham Lincoln, the fear of mediocrity was fulfilled. When Franklin Roosevelt died, a god of the era gave place, it seemed, to democracy's least common denominator, a barking, weightless little haberdasher from Independence...