Entries from January 2008
Stephen Berry looks at President Lincoln’s in-laws in ‘House of Abraham’
HISTORY: Intriguing book paints the president as a humane man dogged by a troubled family
12:00 AM CST on Sunday, December 23, 2007
By KASEY S. PIPES / Special Contributor to The Dallas Morning News
books@dallasnews.com Beginning with Walt Whitman, writers immortalized Abraham Lincoln until […]
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March 26, 2007
Ike: The Forgotten Conservative
By Kasey Pipes Realclearpolitics.com
“His conservatism was fixed and rigid and any evil defacing the nation had to be extracted bit by bit with a tweezer because the surgeon’s knife was an instrument too radical to touch this best of all societies.”
So wrote Dr. Martin Luther King years […]
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Eisenhower was key desegregation figure
By: Kasey S. Pipes Politico
September 19, 2007 07:44 AM EST
Next week in Little Rock, Ark., former President Bill Clinton and several presidential candidates will commemorate perhaps America’s most important civil rights battle — the desegregation of Central High School.Fifty years ago, Democratic Gov. Orval Faubus defied the federal […]
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