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On the evening of Friday, April 12, word of the attack on Fort Sumter reached Washington, where Lincoln calmly remarked that “he did not expect it so soon,” for he had anticipated that the secessionists would wait until the arrival of Gustavus Fox’s fleet. When a congressional delegation asked his reaction to the news, he replied laconically: “I do not like it.” That day Lincoln met twice with the future commissioner of public buildings, Benjamin Brown French, who told his son that the president “is as firm as a rock, & means to show the world that there is a United States of America left yet.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln∶ A Life ▫𓂃
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Four days later, I got a little package with this laconic return address: DEAN/GEN DELIV/TR-90 (DARK SCORE). I opened it and shook out twenty photographs which had been taken with one of those little cameras you use once and then throw away.
Source: Bag of Bones ▫𓂃
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At last month’s Dallas “convention,” a video told the Republican congregation this: “On June 14, 1946, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, ‘I need a caretaker.’” So, “God gave us Trump.” God’s caretaker constantly gives us an illuminating contrast with President John F. Kennedy, whose name on Washington’s performing arts center stirs Trump’s envy. Kennedy, when praised for his heroic leadership of his crew adrift in South Pacific waters after combat, was laconic: “It was involuntary. They sank my boat.” People who prefer Trump’s manner, and people who do not, know how to vote.
Source: The Washington Post ▢𓏺: Opinion | Republican midterm carnage nears. Spare Susan Collins and Mike Rogers. - The Washington Post
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