i thought about it when making a St Louis to Chicago trip a few years ago, but woulda had to get off the train
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 23 August 2018 19:35 (five years ago) link
wasn't quite sure where to post this, but this is an interesting piece by greil marcus, from 1973, on nixon's apparent identification with lincoln:
https://greilmarcus.net/2019/08/11/lincoln-and-nixon-historys-strange-bedfellows-2-11-73/
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 12 August 2019 18:12 (four years ago) link
Lincoln had a secretary named Kennedy. JFK has a secretary named Lincoln. Nixon had a secretary named Rosemary Woods.
― A is for (Aimless), Monday, 12 August 2019 18:27 (four years ago) link
Isn't it goodRosemary Woods
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 12 August 2019 18:35 (four years ago) link
people change, statues don't
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 27 June 2020 22:24 (three years ago) link
One year later, President Lincoln invited Frederick Douglass back to the White House. On August 19, 1864 Douglass and Lincoln were together again. The President was facing re-election soon and told Douglass he did not expect to win. If he lost, there would be a new President. With this in mind, Lincoln wanted Douglass to help with a special mission. Secretly, a revolution was afoot. Since the Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln hoped for a mass exodus of enslaved individuals out of the states in rebellion. This had not happened on the scale he hoped. Now, Lincoln asked Douglass to lead a network of folks into the rebellious states to help every last soul possible escape enslavement. In language that must have reminded Douglass of his conversations years before with John Brown, the President of the United States was tasking him to help save thousands of lives, if not more. Douglass was asked to help destroy what remained of slavery. As a biographer observed, “Over night, Frederick Douglass went from frustrated outsider and fierce critic to special presidential advisor and organizer of a radical military mission.” After their meeting, Lincoln won re-election and this mission was unnecessary, but “for those hours at least the former slave from the Tuckahoe and the Indiana dirt farmer’s son were making a revolution together.” Though it never happened, it was now clear to Frederick Douglass that President Lincoln realized what was at heart of this war: the millions enslaved.
― brisk money (lukas), Tuesday, 5 April 2022 22:51 (two years ago) link