Word: lincolns
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Cabinet Room. "I love this painting," he said moments later, unspooling the history of a Norman Rockwell that hangs next to the Oval Office door. In the Roosevelt Room, he told how FDR used the space to house his aquariums. Down the hall he expounded on a print showing Lincoln at the first reading of the Emancipation Proclamation. Throughout, he was a manic bundle of energy. Near the end of the tour, Glade Curtis, an obstetrician, had to laugh. "Karl was always really into politics and history," Curtis said. "And he was always a nerd...
...Players: Mark Brunell, Corey Dillon, Chris Chandler, Lincoln Kennedy, Mark Bruener, Brock Huard...
Goodwin continued the merriment, speaking of her upcoming book on Abraham Lincoln and her choice to focus on his political rather than his military leadership...
...wonderful thing about having all these men in the field [of Lincoln and Civil War history]-they're all drawn like a laser to those stupid battles," she quipped to much laughter and applause...
...Inside the territory destined to be known as the Beltway, many observers, Dowds of their day, greeted Lincoln as a knuckle-dragging simpleton from the backwoods. Descendants of such commentators viewed Truman as a dangerous mediocrity, an ex-haberdasher and party hack from the Kansas City machine. Commentary in our own time is liable to fall into the same supercilious perspective. We are all guilty, from time to time, of stupid judgments about leaders, because the outcomes are not known...