4. ABRAHAM LINCOLN was a very admired president, but not above playing politics. Worried about losing the 1864 election, he arranged for soldiers who were unfit for immediate duty to leave their units and return to their home states to vote.
5. NEWT GINGRICH was born Newton Leroy McPherson to a 16-year-old mother and 19-year-old father. Their marriage broke up in three days.
6. One of the biggest Republicans ever was Col. ROBERT McCORMICK, publisher of the Chicago Tribune. he was so anti-Democrat that when the other party won a political battle in Rhode Island, he ordered that state's star to be cut out of the American flag that flew by the Tribune Tower.
Bur, an employee pointed out that mutilating the flag was a crime punishable by a fine and jail time.
The Colonel relented.
Four More to Go. --Cooter
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