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I love mysteries, and I read them every night before I go to bed.
David Herbert Donald / Historian
Bed
Book
Every Night
Night
Reading
Love Night Go
Mysteries
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If you think about it, the historian's task is like that of the detective.
David Herbert Donald / Historian
Detectives
Historian
Tasks
Thinking
Detective
Task
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I'm not sure Lincoln would fare well if he were a presidential candidate today.
David Herbert Donald / Historian
Not Sure
Presidential
Today
Candidate
Fare
Lincoln
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Maybe I will write a memoir, perhaps I'll do some essays, or maybe I will write a mystery story.
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Essays
Memoir
Mystery
Stories
Writing
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But having said all of that, that still doesn't account for a lot of the increase in popularity which stems, I think, from Lincoln's personal characteristics.
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Characteristics
Account
Lincoln
Stems
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I think, with the gay liberation movement has had need for heroes and heroines, and it would be rather nice to have Abraham Lincoln as your poster boy, wouldn't it?
David Herbert Donald / Historian
Abraham
Heroines
Liberation
Movement
Heroes
Lincoln
Poster
Poster Boy
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Well, it seems to me Lincoln, I suppose, is kind of a model of a particular sort of presidency, a presidency that first of all is elected by a minority of the votes.
David Herbert Donald / Historian
Firsts
Minorities
Presidency
Vote
Elected
First Of All
Model
Suppose
Lincoln
Minority
Votes
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Lincoln was not a good impromptu speaker; he was at his best when he could read from a carefully prepared manuscript, though maybe a teleprompter could have helped that!
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Manuscripts
Prepared
Speakers
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The more I have studied Lincoln, the more I have followed his thought processes, the more I am convinced that he understood leadership better than any other American president.
David Herbert Donald / Historian
Leadership
American President
Convinced
President
Process
Understood
Studied
Followed
Lincoln
Processes
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And, finally, Lincoln was not a good impromptu speaker; he was at his best when he could read from a carefully prepared manuscript. Though maybe a teleprompter could have helped that!
David Herbert Donald / Historian
Prepared
Carefully
Finally
Helped
Impromptu
Lincoln
Manuscript
Speaker
Teleprompter
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What I thought we ought to try to do in a book like this is to focus closely on Lincoln, himself, to see what he knew, how he knew it, how he came to make the decisions that he did, and how he implemented them.
David Herbert Donald / Historian
Ought
Decisions
Closely
Implemented
Lincoln
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In Lincoln's day a President's religion was a very private affair. There were no public prayer meetings, no attempts to woo the Religious Right. Few of Lincoln's countrymen knew anything at all of his religious beliefs.
David Herbert Donald / Historian
Affair
Countrymen
Meetings
Prayer
President
Religious
Attempts
Beliefs
Lincoln
Private
Religious Beliefs
Woo
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But I have tried to go over it very carefully, not merely what the evidence is, but with psychoanalysts and psychologists, and I think we're just about all agreed that Lincoln and Speed did not have a homosexual relationship.
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Evidence
Homosexual
Over It
Speed
Agreed
Carefully
Lincoln
Merely
Psychologists
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Lincoln had no such person that he could talk with. Often, as a result, he debated with himself, and he would draw up a kind of list of the pros and cons of an argument, and carefully figure them out, and he might test them in public.
David Herbert Donald / Historian
Lists
Might
Tests
Carefully
Cons
Debated
Draw
Figure
Himself
Lincoln
Pros
Result
Test
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I was able to sit at Lincoln's side and see how he thought and how he acted, and how he felt about what was going on around him. I felt the pressures that were on him. You can see what people were writing to him, how they were nudging him.
David Herbert Donald / Historian
Able
People
Writing
Acted
Lincoln
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Here is Theodore Roosevelt with all his faults and with all his strengths - the devoted family man, the passionate game hunter, the astute politician, the frustrated warrior. This is a deeply moving account of the last years of a very great man.
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Men
Moving
Warrior
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The big biography of Lincoln necessarily had to do so much with his political career, his ambitions, his accomplishments in public, with less time to spend on his private life, his inner life, and I thought this might be a way of getting at that.
David Herbert Donald / Historian
Accomplishment
Ambition
Careers
Inner Life
Private Life
Life Time Political
Accomplishments
Biography
Inner
Less Time
Lincoln
Necessarily
Political Career
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At the beginning, Lincoln was so inexperienced he had reverence for military expertise, not realizing that there wasn't any military expertise, that the most anybody had commanded up to that point had been somebody, some troops in the Mexican War, and it had been years ago.
David Herbert Donald / Historian
War
Expertise
Mexican
Military
Realizing
Reverence
Troops
Years
Years Ago
Beginning
Inexperienced
Lincoln
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