Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln appointed the following Justices to the Supreme Court of the United States:. I try to live by the laws, but it seems like I'm being set up." Full Story (http://www.fmqb.com/Article.asp?id=77069).
. I'm a pretty honest guy. Lincoln and the Hall of Presidents. I'm very, very clear on that. The American Disney theme parks feature an Audio-Animatronics Abraham Lincoln in the show Great Moments with Mr. FMQB.com (http://www.fmqb.com) quoted Stern as saying about his current employer, "They're holding me to the contract and I'm afraid to break the contract, because I don't want to ever do anything illegal or wrong.

Famous director Steven Spielberg is currently planning a movie on Abraham Lincoln with Liam Neeson in the leading role. House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner Jr.'s recommendation. The ballistic missile submarine Abraham Lincoln (SSBN-602) and the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) were named in his honor. On April 6, 2005, Stern pleaded on-air for Infinity Broadcasting to let him out of his contract, citing the reason of possible prosecution as per U.S. There are also at least two statues of Lincoln in England, one in London and another in Manchester . Like I'm going to pay 'em,", which he publicly stated on his show. Juárez and Lincoln exchanged friendly letters, and Mexico remembers Lincoln's opposition to the Mexican-American War. Stern's response was, "Keep sending me bills.

The USA received a statue of Benito Juárez in exchange, which is in Washington, DC. In one incident, Farid Suleman of Citadel broadcasting has gone so far as to have billed Stern $200,000 for the plugs he's given Sirius on his show. A gift from the United States, dedicated in 1966 by President Lyndon B. Johnson, it is a 13 foot high bronze statue in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua. His impending move to Sirius has resulted in some radio stations censoring him every time he mentions the words "Sirius" or "satellite radio". The statue of Lincoln that is furthest south is outside the USA – in Mexico. Stern even held a rally in New York where he gave out coupons for free or discounted Sirius equipment. The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum is also in Springfield. This move has been met with much controversy, as Stern has been talking about his move to Sirius on his show, even telling listeners how to purchase Sirius equipment and subscriptions.

Lincoln's birthplace and family home are national historic memorials: Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site in Hodgenville, KY and Lincoln Home National Historic Site in Springfield, Ill. In addition, the deal would also enable Stern to program two additional Sirius channels, one of which would be available at an extra charge to subscribers. February 12 is still observed as a separate legal holiday in many states, including Illinois. On October 6, 2004, Stern announced on his show that he has signed a five year, $500 million deal with the satellite radio service Sirius. The deal, which takes effect on January 1, 2006, would enable Stern to broadcast his show without, as of present, the content restrictions imposed by the FCC. On February 12, 1892 Abraham Lincoln's birthday was declared to be a federal holiday in the United States, though in 1971 it was combined with Washington's birthday in the form of President's Day. Stern said "Bush being born again is the source of Bush forcing his morals on this country, he's ruining America." Stern also said that "Bush needs to stop talking to Jesus.". Lincoln's Tomb, Lincoln's Home in Springfield, New Salem, Illinois (a reconstruction of Lincoln's early adult hometown), Ford's Theater and Petersen House are all preserved as museums, the nickname for the state of Illinois is "Land of Lincoln" named after him. Incidentally, President Bush's religious beliefs were one of the reasons Stern became so opposed to him.

$5 bill and the 1 cent coin (Illinois is the primary opponent to the removal of the penny from circulation); and as part of the Mount Rushmore National Memorial. At one point Stern actually said that "Mel Gibson makes Hitler look like Gandhi". Over the years Lincoln has been memorialized in many city names, notably the capital of Nebraska; with the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC (illustrated, right); on the U.S. He called the film a "kook festival for a robotic freak audience" and even linked his radio suspension to the film, claiming that it was causing a "religious frenzy" and that anyone who goes to see the movie is "stupid and ignorant". Many American organizations of all purposes and agendas continue to cite his name and image, with interests ranging from the gay rights group Log Cabin Republicans to the insurance corporation Lincoln Financial. Throughout the Spring of 2004, Stern was a very vocal and staunch critic of Mel Gibson and his religious epic, The Passion of the Christ. Today he is perhaps America's second most famous and beloved President after George Washington. Among contemporary admirers, Lincoln is usually seen as a figure who personifies classical values of honesty, integrity, as well as respect for individual and minority rights, and human freedom in general. Here, as is often typical with Stern, his return was greeted with controversy as the Miami Dolphins threatened to revoke their broadcast deal with the station in question if the station did not fire him.

Lincoln's death made the President a martyr to many. In late August, he returned to a fifth market, Miami, on an independent station. Many medical experts now suspect that Lincoln may have suffered from congestive heart failure and Marfan Syndrome, both of which can be fatal. However, on July 19, Stern returned to four of the six markets Clear Channel booted him off of, and added five new ones to the roster — this time on Infinity-owned stations. See Abraham Lincoln's Burial and Exhumation. On April 8, 2004, Clear Channel Communications announced it would "permanently terminate" its relationship with the shock jock [2] (http://clearchannel.com/Corporate/PressReleases/2004/20040408_Stern.pdf) after being fined $500,000 by the FCC. To prevent continued attempts to steal Lincoln's body and hold it for ransom, Robert Todd Lincoln had Lincoln exhumed and reinterred in concrete several feet thick on September 26, 1901. Stern has consistently claimed the move is an attempt by Jay Leno to steal ideas from Howard's show.

He was buried in Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield, where a 177 foot (54 m) tall granite tomb surmounted with several bronze statues of Lincoln was constructed by 1874. On February 27 of 2004, long-time Stern show regular John Melendez left the show to become the on-air announcer for The Tonight Show. The nation mourned a man whom many viewed as the savior of the United States. She won and kept her promise, although one of her successors, Democrat Jim McGreevey, later claimed impropriety by Whitman and revoked the "honor.". Lincoln's body was carried by train in a grand funeral procession through several states on its way back to Illinois. In an on-air stunt, Stern promised then-gubernatorial candidate Christine Todd Whitman of New Jersey that he would endorse her candidacy if she promised to name a rest stop on the New Jersey Turnpike after him if she were elected. Booth himself was shot when discovered holed up in a barn (the barn itself collapsed in the 1930s and the site is now the median of a state highway in Virginia). This is only the latest in a long string of political endorsements Stern has made, having earlier supported former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani, among others.

The fairness of the convictions, particularly of Mary Surratt, have been called into question, and there are doubts as to the exact degree of her involvement, if any. presidential campaign, and urged his listeners to vote for him. John Surratt, tried later by a civilian court, was acquitted. troops into Iraq, he turned against him, as he did Bill Clinton, because neither, as he has put it, got "the FCC off my back." He endorsed John Kerry in the 2004 U.S. Edward Spangler (aka Edman aka Ned) was sentenced to six years imprisonment. It should be noted that Stern was one of the few celebrities who publicly supported Bush sending U.S. Samuel Mudd). Bush, [1] (http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/business/20040408-1342-fcc-howardstern.html).

Four people were tried by military tribunal and hanged for the assassination plot (David Herold, George Atzerodt, Lewis Powell (aka Lewis Payne), and Mary Surratt, the first woman ever executed by the United States government.) Three people were sentenced to life imprisonment (Michael O'Laughlin, Samuel Arnold, and Dr. Because Clear Channel and some of its executives have donated over $200,000 (http://www.opensecrets.org/softmoney/softcomp2.asp?txtName=Clear+Channel+Communications&txtUltOrg=y&txtSort=name&txtCycle=2002) to the Republican Party, Stern claims the company was trying to penalize him for his harsh criticisms of President George W. Several of the conspirators were eventually captured. This is considered to be part of a wide-ranging backlash against obscenity triggered by the Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy. Seward was badly injured by an assailant). Clear Channel president John Hogan said, "Clear Channel drew a line in the sand today with regard to protecting our listeners from indecent content, and Howard Stern's show blew right through it...it was vulgar, offensive and insulting, not just to women and African-Americans but to anyone with a sense of common decency." The move came only a day after Clear Channel fired Bubba the Love Sponge for similar reasons. Booth and several other conspirators had planned to kill a number of other government officials at the same time, but for various reasons Lincoln's was the only assassination actually carried out (although Secretary of State William H. The show in question featured Rick Salomon, whose claims to fame include a publicly released home video showing him having sex with Paris Hilton. During this broadcast Stern held, would could be considered, a sexually-provocative and racially insensitive interview with Soloman, asking him graphic questions about anal sex and making light of a caller's use of the word "nigger".

Upon seeing him die, Secretary of War Edwin Stanton lamented "Now he belongs to the ages.". On February 25, 2004, Clear Channel Communications "indefinitely suspended" him from six markets because of alleged indecency involving sexual and racist dialogue during his show. Abraham Lincoln was officially pronounced dead at 7:22 AM the next morning, April 15, 1865 (Easter Saturday). Stern, his supporters note, has not gone out of his way to offend the general public in this manner. Booth managed to limp to his horse and escape, and the mortally wounded President was taken to a house across the street, now called the Petersen House, where he lay in a coma for some time before he quietly expired. In 2002 fellow Infinity Broadcasting Corporation jocks Opie and Anthony had their nationally syndicated WNEW-FM "extreme talk" show cancelled after they encouraged a couple to engage in sexual intercourse at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City, then airing a running commentary of the act on their show. He shouted "Sic semper tyrannis!" (Latin: "Thus always to tyrants," and Virginia's state motto; some accounts say he added "The South is avenged!") and jumped from the balcony to the stage below. (He informed listeners early in 2004 that the ABC television network was in talks with him to produce an interview special.) His popularity has given rise to a number of imitation "shock jocks" who attempt to outdo Stern in terms of offensiveness and rudeness, but these imitators have found themselves with more troubles to worry about than listener ratings.

As Lincoln sat in his state box in the balcony, John Wilkes Booth, a well-known actor and Southern sympathizer from Maryland, crept up behind the President and aimed a single-shot, round-slug .44 caliber Deringer at his head, firing at point-blank range. Despite the provocative content of Stern's show—or perhaps because of it—many listeners and critics consider Stern to be a talented on-air personality and formidable interviewer. Without his bodyguard Ward Hill Lamon, to whom he related his famous dream of his own assassination, the Lincolns left to attend a play at Ford's Theater. The play was Our American Cousin, a musical comedy by the British writer Tom Taylor (1817-1880). Stern was a producer for the TV series Son of the Beach. The President's eldest son, Robert Todd Lincoln, also turned down the invitation. In 2002, Stern's production company Howard Stern Productions acquired the rights to the 1982 movie Porky's and the 1979 movie Rock 'n' Roll High School. Grant declined (Grant's wife, Julia Dent Grant, is said to have strongly disliked Mary Todd Lincoln). This reinforced his long-held belief that there is a bias against him in the mainstream media.

During their last meeting, on April 14, 1865 (Good Friday), Lincoln invited Grant to a social engagement that evening. He had been on the air the whole time without any positive reaction. The two men planned matters of reconstruction, and it was evident to all that they held each other in high regard. As other comedy performers like David Letterman and Jon Stewart later returned to the air, many with emotionally-charged monologues, Stern was furious at the glowing response they received in the press. Grant as the war drew to a close. The show had a somewhat subdued tone, with many listeners calling in to share their own stories of survival or personal loss. Ulysses S. Stern and the rest of the cast/crew continued to broadcast over the subsequent days following the disaster.

Gen. Mr. Lincoln had met frequently with Lt. Armstrong was the notable exception, as he left the city immediately and refused to return for several days. Of course, Lincoln would not survive to see the surrender of all Confederate forces; just days after Lee surrendered, Lincoln was assassinated. Crew member K.C. Weeks later Johnston would defy Jefferson Davis and surrender his forces to Sherman. His live reporting was the first news of the incident for many East Coast residents.

This left only Joseph Johnston's forces in the East to deal with. Howard Stern was on the air in his New York City studio during the September 11, 2001 attacks and stayed on the air with his cast/crew while many other broadcasters fled the city. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House in Virginia. After auditioning himself, it was eventually announced that comedian Artie Lange was the permanent replacement. On April 9, 1865, Confederate General Robert E. Over the next several months, various comedians auditioned in the "Jackie Chair" for the job. He was greeted at the city as a conquering hero by freed slaves, whose sentiments were epitomized by one admirer's quote, "I know I am free for I have seen the face of Father Abraham and have felt him.". It was officially announced on March 5, 2001 that longtime show regular Jackie "The Jokeman" Martling had left the radio show after failed contract negotiations.

When Richmond, the Confederate capital, was at long last captured, Lincoln went there to make a public gesture of sitting at Jefferson Davis's own desk, symbolically saying to the nation that the President of the United States held authority over the entire land. The number of commercials aired during his radio show has greatly increased from the 1980s to the present. David Dixon Porter in an 1865 meeting on the steamer River Queen. Both stations cancelled Stern's show in 2000 after frequent listener complaints to the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council and the CRTC; for most of the time that the stations did air Stern's program, they were required to monitor the show for offensive content through the use of broadcast delays. Sherman and Adm. Also in 1997, Stern's show aired for the first time in Canada, appearing on CILQ in Toronto and CHOM in Montreal. William T. Stern did not apologize for his words but instead argued that his comments were an attempt to figure out what was wrong with the two attackers.

Grant (a future president), Gen. His April 21, 1999 show drew angry criticism and official "censure" from the Colorado State Legislature for his comment regarding the motives of the two male students who murdered 12 classmates and one teacher in the Columbine High School massacre in Colorado:. "Let 'em up easy," he told his assembled military leaders Gen. Ulysses S. On January 15, 1998 Lance Carvin, who had been stalking Stern, was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for threatening to kill Stern and his family. Republicans in Congress retaliated by refusing to seat representatives elected from Louisiana, Arkansas, and Tennessee during the war under Lincoln's generous terms. Being a personality that most people either love or hate, he has had his share of stalkers and death threats. One of Lincoln's few vetoes during his term was of the Wade-Davis bill, an effort by congressional Republicans to impose harsher Reconstruction terms on the Confederate areas. As of 2005, this project has not even begun pre-production.

This irritated congressional Republicans, who urged a more stringent Reconstruction policy. He had also announced plans for a film provisionally titled The Adventures of Fartman based on a character created for his appearance at the MTV Video/Music Awards. He was determined to take a course that would not permanently alienate the former Confederate states, and throughout the war Lincoln urged speedy elections under generous terms in areas behind Union lines. The movie did moderately well at box offices and in video release, garnering a total of over $60 million. The reconstruction of the Union weighed heavy on the President's mind throughout the war effort. In 1997, Stern's autobiographical book, Private Parts, was adapted to film. General Grant was facing severe criticism for his conduct of the bloody Overland Campaign that summer and the seemingly endless Siege of Petersburg. However, the Union capture of the key railroad center of Atlanta by William Tecumseh Sherman's forces in September changed the situation dramatically and Lincoln was reelected. He also made comments that were considered racist by many people, such as "Alvin and the Chipmunks have more soul", and "Spanish people have the worst taste in music...they have no depth." After pressure from his radio station, Stern gave an on-air apology a week later in Spanish.

Lincoln ran under the Union party banner, composed of War Democrats and Republicans. In March of 1995, one day before the funeral of slain Tejano singer Selena Quintanilla, Stern played the sounds of gunshots in the background over some of her music. The long war and the issue of emancipation appeared to be severely hampering his prospects and an electoral defeat appeared likely against the Democratic nominee and former general, George McClellan. He subsequently withdrew his candidacy because he did not want to comply with the financial disclosure requirements for candidates. President to face a presidential election during a civil war (in 1864). Although he legally qualified for the office and campaigned for a time after his nomination, many viewed the run for office as nothing more than a publicity stunt. Lincoln was the only U.S. In 1994, Stern embarked on a political campaign for Governor of New York, formally announcing his candidacy under the Libertarian Party ticket.

Some scholars have argued that Lincoln's political arrests extended to the highest levels of the government including an attempted warrant for Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney, though the allegation remains unresolved and controversial (see the Taney Arrest Warrant controversy). In 1992, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) fined Infinity Broadcasting $600,000 after Stern discussed masturbating to a picture of Aunt Jemima. During the Civil War, Lincoln exercised powers no previous president had wielded; he proclaimed a blockade, suspended the writ of habeas corpus, spent money without congressional authorization, and frequently imprisoned accused Southern spies and sympathizers without trial. The stations are not allowed to stream the show over the internet. In these speeches, Lincoln articulated better than any of his contemporaries the rationale behind the Union effort. (27 owned by Infinity Broadcasting), down from Stern's peak syndication of 62 stations. While the featured speaker, orator Edward Everett, spoke for two hours, Lincoln's few choice words resonated across the nation and across history, defying Lincoln's own prediction that "The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here." Lincoln's second inaugural address is also greatly admired and often quoted. As of November 2004, the show, typically airing in the morning, is syndicated on 45 radio stations all across the U.S.

Despite his meager education and “backwoods” upbringing, Lincoln possessed an extraordinary command of the English language, as evidenced by the Gettysburg Address, a speech dedicating a cemetery of Union soldiers from the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863. Fines have occasionally been issued against radio stations airing his show, generally for violating FCC requirements regarding content. Still, the parent conglomerate that hosts Stern's show, Infinity Broadcasting (a subsidiary of Viacom), seems to consider these fines a necessary price to pay in order to support Stern's continuing popularity. Lincoln was more successful in giving the war meaning to Northern civilians through his oratorical skills. His show is frequently the subject of complaints by various listeners who find his deliveries offensive - something he deliberately encourages. Early's raid into Washington, D.C., in 1864, Lincoln had to be told to duck his head to avoid being shot observing the scenes of battle. Stern believes he represents the future of America, where, in keeping with a longstanding trend, public moral standards will continue to loosen. He frequently visited battle sites and seemed fascinated by watching scenes of war. During Jubal A. Stern referred to himself as the "King Of All Media," a parody of Michael Jackson's claiming of the title "King of Pop." To his subjects this title is true, as they have been loyal consumers of The King's books, pay-per-view events and movies.

He spent hours at the War Department telegraph office, reading dispatches from his generals through many a night. Wack Pack members are able to parlay their exposure on Stern's show into personal appearances at clubs and even the occasional movie. Lincoln, perhaps reflecting his lack of military experience, developed a keen curiosity with military campaigning during the war. Stern has also shown the ability to take society's misfits and turn them into celebrities through The Wack Pack. Eventually, he found in Grant a man who shared his vision of the war and was able to bring that vision into reality with his relentless pursuit of coordinated offensives in multiple theaters of war. Stern's lawyer alleged, "It's our view that the real reason they've [fired Stern] is they would like to get new DC-101 deejays 'GreaseMan' and 'Adam Smasher' on the air as soon as possible, and hope the audience forgets about Howard, and that's a perfectly rational business judgment.". However, he had little success in his efforts to motivate his generals to adopt his strategies. That June 29, Stern was fired from DC-101 radio after being suspended for criticizing his station management and two other radio stations.

Lincoln had a star-crossed record as a military leader, possessing a keen understanding of strategic points (such as the Mississippi River and the fortress city of Vicksburg) and the importance of defeating the enemy's army, rather than simply capturing cities. He was making light of the crash of Air Florida Flight 90 one day earlier, on January 13, 1982, which had killed 78 persons (both onboard the airplane and in vehicles stopped in traffic on the bridge). The damage in Sherman's March to the Sea through Georgia totaled in excess of 100 million dollars. in which Stern called Air Florida Airlines and asked what the fare was for a one-way ticket from Washington National Airport to the 14th Street Bridge (on the Potomac River less than 1 mile from the airport). This allowed Generals William Tecumseh Sherman and Philip Sheridan to destroy factories, farms, and cities in the Shenandoah Valley, Georgia, and South Carolina. Another notable episode was on WWDC-FM (DC101 Radio) in Washington D.C. Lincoln authorized Grant to used a scorched earth approach to destroy the South's morale and economic ability to continue the war. He made deep buzzing noises into his microphone, and had her sit on a speaker with the volume turned up until she reached an on-the-air orgasm.

Lee in the Siege of Petersburg and result in the Union taking Richmond and bringing the war to a close in the spring of 1865. In one typical example of his radio show, he persuaded a female caller to have phone sex with him on the air. Grant's aggressive campaign would eventually bottle up Robert E. Stern has been dating model Beth Ostrosky since early 2000. He fights." Grant waged his bloody Overland Campaign in 1864, using a strategy of a war of attrition, characterized by high Union losses at battles such as the Wilderness and Cold Harbor, but by proportionately higher losses in the Confederate army. The couple's divorce proceeding resulted in a settlement, and Alison remarried in 2001 to David Lobosco. Earlier, reacting to criticism of Grant, Lincoln was quoted as saying, "I cannot spare this man. In October of 1999, Stern announced that Alison was divorcing him, due to the fact that he is a workaholic.

Grant, who was disfavored by Republican hardliners because he had been a Democrat, but who had a solid string of victories in the Western Theater, including Vicksburg and Chattanooga. On June 4, 1978, Stern married his college sweetheart, Alison Berns, at Temple Ohabei Shalom in Brookline, Massachusetts; they have three daughters. After the Union victory at Gettysburg and months of inactivity for the Army of the Potomac, Lincoln made the fateful decision to appoint a new army commander: General Ulysses S. His Hebrew name is Tzvi; his paternal grandparents, Froim and Anna (Gallar) Stern, and maternal grandparents, Sol and Esther (Reich) Schiffman, were Jews from Austria-Hungary who emigrated to America at about the same time. After Burnside was embarrassingly routed at Fredericksburg, Joseph Hooker assumed command, but was routed at Chancellorsville in May of 1863 and also relieved of command. Although both his parents are Jewish, Stern claims on his show to be "a half-Jew". Lincoln relieved McClellan of command shortly after the 1862 midterm elections and appointed Republican Ambrose Burnside to head the Army of the Potomac, who promised to follow through on Lincoln's strategic vision for an aggressive offensive against Lee and Richmond. Stern's show was syndicated nationwide in the 1990s by Infinity Broadcasting.

It was the Union victory in that battle that allowed Lincoln to release his Emancipation Proclamation. Stern and his crew were fired from NBC in 1985 in response to a particularly outrageous sketch — "Bestiality Dial-A-Date" — and returned to the FM band by joining local rival station WXRK, premiering on November 18, 1985 and returning permanently to morning drive in February 1986. Lee's invasion of Maryland, Lincoln restored McClellan to command of all forces around Washington in time for the Battle of Antietam in September of 1862. Stern would appear on Letterman's show many times thereafter. Panicked by Confederate General Robert E. Stern's guest appearance on Late Night with David Letterman on June 19, 1984, launched Stern into the national spotlight and gave his radio show unprecedented exposure. However, Pope was soundly defeated at the Second Battle of Bull Run during the summer of 1862, forcing the Army of the Potomac back into the defenses of Washington for a second time, leading to Pope's being sent west to fight against the American Indians. Also working at NBC was David Letterman, who became a fan of Stern's radio show.

Pope complied with Lincoln's strategic desire for the Union to move towards Richmond from the north, thus guarding Washington, D.C. He migrated to FM radio stations in Detroit, Michigan and Washington, D.C., and returned to New York in 1982 to work at NBC's flagship AM radio station WNBC-AM. McClellan's letter incensed Radical Republicans, who successfully pressured Lincoln to appoint fellow Republican John Pope as head of the new Army of Virginia. He discovered a talent for Lenny Bruce-type comedy, and developed a wide-ranging confrontational style. McClellan, a lifelong Democrat who was temperamentally conservative, was relieved as general-in-chief after releasing his Harrison's Landing Letter, where he offered unsolicited political advice to Lincoln urging caution in the war effort. After graduation, he worked as a disc jockey for an obscure station in Westchester County, New York playing rock music. Lincoln insisted on holding some of McClellan's troops to defend the capital, a decision McClellan blamed for the ultimate failure of his Peninsula Campaign. Stern received his Bachelor's degree in 1976 from Boston University, where he had worked as a volunteer at the college radio station.

McClellan's delay irritated Lincoln, as did McClellan's insistence that no troops were needed to defend Washington, D.C. His television shows include: "The Howard Stern Show" (1990-) and "The Howard Stern Radio Show" (1998-2001). McClellan took several months to plan and execute his Peninsula Campaign, which involved capturing Richmond by moving the Army of the Potomac by boat to the peninsula between the James and York Rivers. He is both the highest-paid radio personality in the United States, and the most fined personality in radio broadcast history—facts, as his fans know, he takes pride in. McClellan, a youthful West Point graduate and railroad executive called back to military service, took a more cautious approach. Some of his commentaries are perceived by many to include bigoted remarks about various religious and ethnic groups. Lincoln's strategic priorities were two-fold: First, to ensure that Washington, D.C., was well-defended; and second, to conduct an aggressive war effort in hopes of ending the war quickly and appeasing the Northern public and press, who pushed for an offensive war. The self-proclaimed "King of All Media" has been dubbed a shock jock for his highly controversial use of scatological and sexual humor.

Lincoln wished to take an active part in planning the war strategy despite his inexperience in military affairs. Howard Allan Stern (born January 12, 1954 in Roosevelt, New York) is an American radio personality. McClellan, who became general-in-chief of all the Union armies in the wake of the embarrassing Union defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run and after the retirement of Winfield Scott in late 1861. Tiny Tim (deceased). Lincoln had a contentious relationship with General George B. The Ramones (most members deceased). The war was a source of constant frustration for the president, and it occupied nearly all of his time. Ted the Janitor (deceased).

Lincoln's response was, "I could not afford to hang men for votes.". Sam Kinison (deceased). Reaction in Minnesota was so strong concerning Lincoln's leniency toward the Native Americans that Republicans lost their political strength in the state in 1864. Richard Simmons (angry - refuses to appear). Lincoln was strongly chastised for this action in Minnesota and throughout his administration because many felt that all 303 Native Americans should have been executed. Hank, The Angry, Drunken Dwarf (died September 4, 2001). Of these, Lincoln only affirmed 39 men for execution (one was later reprieved). Crackhead Bob (angry - refuses to appear).

After the "Sioux Uprising" of August 1862 in Minnesota, Lincoln was presented with 303 death warrants for convicted Santee Dakota who had taken part. KC Armstrong (left mid to late 2004). The Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act, also signed by Lincoln in 1862, provided government grants for agricultural universities throughout the American states. Such universities -- often founded in Homesteading states -- provided education and know-how for masses of local Homesteaders. They helped found the concept of scientific Agriculture and, perhaps more importantly, helped democratize American education. Like the Homestead Act, Lincoln had little to do with this act's framing or passage in Congress. Stuttering John (left March 2004). Many were more than willing to take up this challenge. Jackie Martling (left March 2001). The land had then to be lived upon, built up, and improved, for a period of no less than 5 years. Billy West.

Any male over 21 could obtain a Homestead tract of 160 acres (647,000 m˛) simply by filing a claim and paying a processing fee of $18. Yucko the Clown. Considered by some to be the most important piece of legislation in American history, the Act made available millions of acres of government-held land in the midwest for purchase at very low cost. Wendy the Retard. Perhaps Lincoln's most important contribution as President, outside of his military leadership as Commander-in-Chief, was his signing of the Homestead Act in 1862, though Lincoln had little do with the drafting of the act or its passage in Congress. Vinny Favale. Politically, the Emancipation Proclamation did much to help the Northern cause; Lincoln's strong abolitionist stand finally convinced Britain and other foreign countries that they could not support the South. Sal the Stockbroker.

He later said: "I never, in my life, felt more certain that I was doing right, than I do in signing this paper." The proclamation made abolishing slavery in the rebel states an official war goal and it became the impetus for the enactment of the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution which abolished slavery. Pamela Anderson. Lincoln signed the Proclamation as a wartime measure, insisting that only the outbreak of war gave constitutional power to the President to free slaves in states where it already existed. Mike Walker. The proclamation initially freed only a few escaped slaves, but it also did free slaves in areas of the Confederacy as those areas came under control of Union forces. King of All Blacks. However, territories and states that still allowed slavery but were under Union control were exempt from the emancipation. John the Stutterer.

Lincoln is often credited with freeing enslaved African-Americans with the Emancipation Proclamation. Joey Boots. Hodges[4] (http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/speeches/hodges.htm) See: Abraham Lincoln on slavery. Jimmy Kimmel. Lincoln addresses the issue of his consistency (or lack thereof) between his earlier position and his later position of emancipation in an 1864 letter to Albert G. Jessica Hahn. However, Lincoln maintained that the federal government did not possess the constitutional power to bar slavery in states where it already existed, and he supported colonization, believing that freed black slaves were too different to live in the same society as white Americans. Jeff The Drunk.

He believed that the Declaration of Independence's statement that "all men are created equal" should apply also to black slaves, and that slavery was a profound evil which should not spread to the Territories. High Pitch Eric. Though Lincoln is well known for ending slavery in the USA and he personally opposed slavery as a moral evil, Lincoln's views of his own Constitutional powers on the subject of slavery are more complicated. Gilbert Gottfried. In response, four more slave states seceded by May 1861, and splinter factions from Missouri and Kentucky joined the Confederacy by December. Gary The Retard. After Union troops at Fort Sumter were fired on and forced to surrender in April, Lincoln called for more troops from each remaining state to recapture forts, protect the capital, and preserve the Union. Eric the Midget.

Despite support for this compromise among moderate Republicans and across the nation, Lincoln declared that were the Crittenden Compromise accepted, it "would amount to a perpetual covenant of war against every people, tribe, and state owning a foot of land between here and Tierra del Fuego." Lincoln also spurned requests to appoint a Southerner to his cabinet (Sam Houston being a prominent suggestion). Elliot Offen. Lincoln, however, adamantly opposed the Crittenden Compromise, which would have permitted slavery in the territories, renewing the boundary set by the Missouri Compromise and extending it to California. Elephant Boy. This proposed amendment would have explicitly protected slavery in those states in which it already existed, and had already passed both houses. Daniel Carver. Also in his Inaugural Address, Lincoln supported the proposed Corwin amendment to the constitution, of which he was a driving force. Crazy Cabbie.

He asked rhetorically that even were the Constitution construed as a simple contract, would it not require the agreement of all parties to rescind it?. Chaunce Hayden. In his First Inaugural Address, Lincoln declared, "I hold that in contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution the Union of these States is perpetual. Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all national governments", arguing further that the purpose of the Constitution was "to form a more perfect union" than the Articles of Confederation which were explicitly perpetual, and thus the Constitution too was perpetual. Captain Janks. At Lincoln's inauguration on March 4, 1861, the Turners formed Lincoln's bodyguard; and a sizable garrison of federal troops was also present, ready to protect the president and the capital from rebel invasion. Bong Hit Eric. Southerners ridiculed Lincoln for this subterfuge, but the efforts at security may have been prudent. Beetlejuice the Dwarf.

President-elect Lincoln survived an assassination attempt in Baltimore, Maryland, and on February 23, 1861 arrived secretly in disguise to Washington, DC. Dominic Barbara. Even before Lincoln's election, leaders in the South made it clear that their States would leave the Union in response to a Lincoln victory. A total of seven states seceded before Lincoln took office, forming the Confederate States of America. Ralph Cirella. Lincoln won entirely on the strength of his support in the North: he was not even on the ballot in nine states in the South — and won only 2 of 996 counties in the entire South. Adam Carolla. Lincoln was the first Republican president. Sal Calabro.

On November 6, 1860, Lincoln was elected as the 16th President of the United States, beating Douglas and two other major candidates. Dr. During the campaign, Lincoln was dubbed "The Rail Splitter" by Republicans to emphasize Lincoln's humility and humble origins, though in fact Lincoln was quite wealthy at the time due to his successful law practice. Tom Chiusano, WXRK Station General Manager. Seward), and because several other contenders had enemies within the party. Scott Salem, Scott the Engineer. Lincoln was chosen as the Republican candidate because his views on slavery were seen as more moderate, because of his Western origins (in contrast to his main rival for the nomination, the New Yorker William H. Scott DePace, "E" show producer.

Though Douglas was eventually reelected by the Illinois legislature (this was before the 17th Amendment), Lincoln's eloquence during the campaign transformed him into a national political star. Sal the Stockbroker. During the debates, Lincoln forced Douglas to propose his Freeport Doctrine, which lost him further support among slave-holders and may have forced the eventual dissolution of the Democratic Party. Ronnie Mund. During his unsuccessful 1858 campaign for the Senate, Lincoln debated Douglas in a series of events which became a national discussion on the issues that were about to split the nation in two. Robin Quivers. Lincoln was viewed as a heavy underdog against the popular Douglas. Richard Christy.

Accepting the Republican nomination for the Senate in 1858, Lincoln delivered a famous speech [3] (http://www.nationalcenter.org/HouseDivided.html) in which he stated, "A house divided against itself cannot stand." (This statement is spoken by Jesus in Matthew 12:25.) The speech created a lasting image of the danger of disunion due to slavery. Ralph Cirella. Many eastern Republicans had urged the nomination of Douglas for the United States Senate in 1858, since he was a Northern leader who had led the opposition to the Buchanan administration's push for the Lecompton Constitution which would have admitted Kansas as a slave state. Gary Dell'Abate (aka Baba Booey). Douglas, proposing popular sovereignty as the solution to the slavery impasse, had sponsored the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. Fred Norris (aka Eric Norris). Democrat Stephen A. Benjy Bronk.

It was a speech against Kansas-Nebraska, on October 16, 1854 in Peoria, that caused Lincoln to stand out among the other free-soil orators of the day. Artie Lange. The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, which expressly repealed the limits on slavery's spread that had been part of the Missouri Compromise of 1820, helped draw Lincoln back into electoral politics. The Howard Stern Radio Show (syndicated): 1998-2001. Based on this evidence, Armstrong was acquitted. E! Cable Show: 1994-Present. Lincoln produced a Farmer's Almanac to show that the moon on that date was at a low angle and could not have produced enough lumination for the witness to see anything clearly. WWOR Show: 69 Episodes - July 14, 1990 - Aug 1, 1992.

The case is famous for when Lincoln used judicial notice, a rare tactic at that time, to show an eyewitness perjured himself on the stand claiming he witnessed the crime in the moonlight. In addition, Lincoln worked in at least one criminal trial in 1857 when he defended William "Duff" Armstrong pro bono who was on trial for the murder of James Preston Metzker. In January 1856, the Illinois Supreme Court delivered its opinion upholding the tax exemption, accepting Lincoln's arguments. McLean County argued that the state had no authority to grant such an exemption, and it sought to impose taxes on the railroad notwithstanding.

Another important example of Lincoln's skills as a railroad lawyer was a lawsuit over a tax exemption that the state granted to the Illinois Central Railroad. He won this case, and the decision by the Illinois Supreme Court was eventually cited by several other courts throughout the United States. Barret for his delinquent payment. Lincoln argued that as a matter of law a corporation is not bound by its original charter when that charter can be amended in the public interest, that the newer proposed Alton & Sangamon route was superior and less expensive, and that accordingly the corporation had a right to sue Mr.

Barret had refused to pay the balance on his pledge to that corporation on the ground that it had changed its originally planned route. Barret. Lincoln represented the Alton & Sangamon Railroad, for example, in an 1851 dispute with one of its shareholders, James A. In 1849, he received a patent related to buoying vessels.

By the mid-1850s, Lincoln had acquired prominence in Illinois legal circles, especially through his involvement in litigation involving competing transportation interests — both the river barges and the railroads. He declined, returning instead to Springfield, Illinois where, although remaining active in Whig Party affairs in the state, he turned most of his energies to making a living at the bar. When his term ended, the incoming Taylor administration offered him the governorship of the Oregon Territory. Lincoln was a key early supporter of Zachary Taylor's candidacy for the 1848 Whig Presidential nomination.

He used his office as an opportunity to speak out against the war with Mexico, which he attributed to President Polk's desire for "military glory — that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood.". As a freshman House member, Lincoln was not a particularly powerful or influential figure in Congress. A staunch Whig, Lincoln often referred to Whig leader Henry Clay as his political idol. In 1846 Lincoln was elected to one term in the House of Representatives as a member of the United States Whig Party.

[2] (http://members.aol.com/beaufait/biography/geneology.htm). Neither Robert Beckwith nor Mary Beckwith had any children, so Abraham Lincoln's bloodline ended when Robert Beckwith (Lincoln's great-grandson) died on December 24, 1985. Of Robert's three children, only Jessie Lincoln had any children (2 - Mary Lincoln Beckwith and Robert Todd Lincoln Beckwith). Only Robert survived into adulthood.

President Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln had four sons. On November 4, 1842, Lincoln married Mary Todd. Following Lincoln's assassination, Herndon began collecting stories about Lincoln from those who knew him in central Illinois, eventually publishing a book, Herndon's Lincoln. In 1856, both men joined the fledgling Republican Party.

In 1841, Lincoln entered law practice with William Herndon, a fellow member of the Whig Party. A recent biography has suggested the controversial theory that their relationship may also have been sexual: See The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln.. Abraham Lincoln shared a bed with Joshua Fry Speed from 1837 to 1841 in Springfield. In 1837 he made his first protest against slavery in the Illinois House, stating that the institution was "founded on both injustice and bad policy." [1] (http://www.hti.umich.edu/l/lincoln/).

Lincoln served four successive terms in the Illinois House of Representatives, as a representative from Sangamon County, beginning in 1834. He became one of the most highly respected and successful lawyers in the state of Illinois, and became steadily more prosperous. Logan. Finally, after coming across the second volume of Sir William Blackstone's four-volume Commentaries on the Laws of England, he taught himself the law, and was admitted to the Illinois Bar in 1837. That same year, he moved to Springfield, Illinois and began to practice law with Stephen T.

He later tried his hand at several business and political ventures, and failed at them all. He served as a captain in a company of the Illinois militia drawn from New Salem during the Black Hawk War, writing after being elected by his peers that he had not had "any such success in life which gave him so much satisfaction.". The centerpiece of his platform was the undertaking of navigational improvements on the Sangamon in the hopes of attracting steamboat traffic to the river, which would allow sparsely populated, poor areas along and near the river to grow and prosper. Lincoln began his political career in 1832 at the age of 23 with a campaign for the Illinois General Assembly.

While in New Orleans he may have witnessed a slave auction that left an indelible impression on him for the rest of his life. Later that year, hired by New Salem businessman Denton Offutt and accompanied by friends, he took goods from New Salem to New Orleans via flatboat on the Sangamon, Illinois and Mississippi rivers. When his father relocated the family to a nearby site the following year, the 22-year-old Lincoln struck out on his own, canoeing down the Sangamon to homestead on his own in Sangamon County, Illinois (now in Menard County), in the village of New Salem. The following winter was especially brutal, and the family nearly moved back to Indiana.

In 1830, after economic and land-title difficulties in Indiana, the family settled on government land along the Sangamon River on a site selected by Lincoln's father in Macon County, Illinois, near the present city of Decatur. When Abraham Lincoln was seven years old, he and his parents moved to Spencer County, Indiana, "partly on account of slavery" and partly because of economic difficulty in Kentucky. Lincoln's parents were largely uneducated. Lincoln was named after his deceased grandfather, Abraham Lincoln, who was killed by Native Americans.

Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, in a one-room log cabin on a farm in Hardin County, Kentucky (now in LaRue Co., in Nolin Creek, three miles (5 km) south of Hodgenville), to Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks. He is usually ranked as one of the greatest presidents, though is criticized by some for overstepping the traditional bounds of executive power. His assassination, shortly after the end of the Civil War, made him a martyr to millions of Americans. However, he is most famous for his role in ending slavery in the United States with the enactment of the Emancipation Proclamation as a pragmatic war measure which would set the stage for the complete abolition of the institution.

He also encouraged efforts to expand white settlement in western North America, signing the Homestead Act (1862). Department of Agriculture (though not as a Cabinet-level department), revived national banking and banks, and admitted West Virginia and Nevada as states. Lincoln was also the president who declared Thanksgiving as a national holiday, established the U.S. The most important may have been setting the precedent for greater centralization of powers in the federal government and a weakening of the powers of the individual state governments, although this is disputed as the federal government reverted to its customary weakness after Reconstruction and the modern administrative state would only emerge with the New Deal some 70 years later.

political and social institutions. Lincoln had a lasting influence on U.S. He personally directed the war effort, which ultimately led the Union forces to victory over the seceding Confederacy. His leadership qualities were evident in his diplomatic handling of the border slave states at the beginning of the fighting, in his defeat of a congressional attempt to reorganize his cabinet in 1862, in his many speeches and writings which helped mobilize and inspire the North, and in his defusing of the peace issue in the 1864 presidential campaign. Lincoln was an adept politician who emerged as a wartime leader skilled at balancing competing considerations and at getting rival groups to work together toward a common goal.

These events soon led to the American Civil War. forts and other properties within their boundaries. Before his inauguration in March of 1861, seven Southern slave states seceded¹ from the United States, formed the Confederate States of America, and took control of U.S. Lincoln staunchly opposed the expansion of slavery into federal territories, and his victory in the 1860 presidential election further polarized the nation.

Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865), sometimes called Abe Lincoln and nicknamed Honest Abe, the Rail Splitter, and the Great Emancipator, was the 16th (1861–1865) President of the United States, and the first president from the Republican Party. The Real Lincoln by Thomas DiLorenzo ISBN 0761526463. Abraham Lincoln's DNA and other adventures in genetics by Philip Reilly (2000) ISBN 0879695803. Tripp ISBN 0743266390.

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