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When this U.S. president suspended habeas corpus, some critical reporters went to jail |
Abraham Lincoln
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$2,000 |
DJ |
POLITICAL ASYLUM |
2008-04-11 |
#5440 |
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Two days after Fort Sumter fell, this president called for 75,000 men for the army & got more than he could equip |
Abraham Lincoln
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$800 |
DJ |
DESPERATE WHITE HOUSE |
2006-11-13 |
#5101 |
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Ax-wielding Chief Executive depictedhereashemight have looked in 1833 |
Abraham Lincoln
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$200 |
J |
BEFORE THE WHITE HOUSE |
2002-04-02 |
#4057 |
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Salmon Chase, Edwin Stanton, William Seward |
Abraham Lincoln
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$600 |
DJ |
IN MY CABINET |
2001-01-09 |
#3767 |
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Last name of Evelyn, JFK's personal secretary |
Lincoln
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$500 |
J |
WHITE HOUSE WOMEN |
2000-12-06 |
#3743 |
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He served in the Illinois legislature as a Whig before becoming the first Republican president |
Abraham Lincoln
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$200 |
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GOVERNMENT & POLITICS |
1996-03-01 |
#2655 |
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At his first inauguration on March 4, 1861, he said the issue of civil war was not in his hands |
Abraham Lincoln
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$200 |
DJ |
POLITICS |
1995-11-15 |
#2578 |
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There's a sitting room named for this president too; it's next to the famous bedroom |
Lincoln
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$200 |
J |
THE WHITE HOUSE |
1991-01-24 |
#1479 |
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He was the first living president to appear on U.S. paper money--on a $10 demand note authorized in 1861 |
Abraham Lincoln
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$100 |
J |
GOVERNMENT & POLITICS |
1989-11-14 |
#1197 |
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The "Union Party" was a coalition that successfully elected him president in 1864 |
Lincoln
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$200 |
DJ |
POLITICS |
1987-02-13 |
#570 |
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"Don't swap horses crossing a stream" was his re-election slogan in 1864 |
Lincoln
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$100 |
J |
POLITICAL TRIVIA |
1985-12-17 |
#332 |
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Hannibal Hamlin, first Republican Vice-President, served under him |
Lincoln
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$200 |
DJ |
REPUBLICANS |
1985-03-13 |
#133 |