To: blimfark who wrote (27978 ) 2/18/2007 4:02:53 PM From: 49thMIMOMander Respond to of 34857 Lincoln once said, to his favorite young secretary, that popular quacking is not an absurdity. (he had three,secretaries, at that time in history)inside.c-spanarchives.org :8080/cspan/cspan.csp?command=dprogram&record=550699236 President Abraham Lincoln Strand Book Store New York, New York (United States) ID: 196571 - 02/01/2007 - 1:24 - $29.95 Holzer, Harold Co-Chairman, Lincoln (Abraham) Bicentennial Commission Wheeler, Thomas Partner, Core Capital Partners Authors talked about different aspects of President Abraham Lincoln. Harold Holzer talked about the New York speech "that made Lincoln president." Mr. Holzer, co-chair of the Lincoln Bicentennial Commission, is the author of Lincoln at Cooper Union: The Speech That Made Abraham Lincoln President, published by Simon and Schuster. Tom Wheeler talked about Lincoln as the first "online" president. Mr. Wheeler, a technology entrepeneur, is the author of Mr. Lincoln's T-Mails: the Untold Story of How Abraham Lincoln Used the Telegraph to Win the Civil War, published by Colllins. The book describes how President Lincoln learned to use a new technology to manage a far-flung enterprise. --- sorry, wrong Lincoln, it was this one, the campus of the President Lincoln and Soldiers’ Home National Monument. The English-Speaking Union and the Alumni and Friends of the London School of Economics: ----- Lincoln\'s Other White House National Trust for Historic Preservation Washington, District of Columbia (United States) ID: 195498 - 10/11/2006 - 0:49 - $29.95 Brownstein, Elizabeth Smith Author Elizabeth Smith Brownstein talked about her book, Lincoln's Other White House: The Untold Story of the Man and His Presidency, published by John Wiley and Sons. In the book, she compiled a detailed portrait of President Lincoln's sojourns in the Soldiers' Home, a country residence on the grounds of a veterans' asylum three miles north of the White House, where he and his family spent several months a year from 1862 to 1864. The ‘cottage’ was declared a national monument in 2000. Ms. Brownstein also chronicled President Lincoln's interactions with both the free black household staff and escaped slaves housed in nearby camps. During this event photographs of many of the people and places mentioned were shown. The event took place in the Stanley Chapel Hall of the Armed Forces Retirement Home on the campus of the President Lincoln and Soldiers’ Home National Monument. The English-Speaking Union and the Alumni and Friends of the London School of Economics Washington, D.C. Chapter, also co-sponsored the event. -- I am about, soOn, to reCOver, SLIGHTLY WITTINGLY DERANGED,from that gILDER,gEoRGE . Preparing for the Tolchins..A World Ignited like a cheap battery.. the end of the chimp and the battery-colonialism.. Why no man should be without an AK-47.. Personally, I prefer 81 mm mortars, easy stuff to carry around..amazon.com