CAMILLE BOHANNON

    
    
    
President Richard M. Nixon told an Associated Press managing editors
meeting  in Orlando, FL, "people have got to know whether or not their
president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook."     

CAMILLE BOHANNON

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated in Washington, DC. on this day in 1982, after a march to its site by thousands
of Vietnam War veterans. About two years later the Three
Soldiers statue was dedicated.

TIM MAGUIRE

On this day in 1940, the middle section of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington state collapsed during a 42 mph windstorm. The suspension
bridge had opened to traffic on July 1, 1940. The collapse had lasting 
effects on science and engineering.

William Franklin Graham Jr. (November 7, 1918 – February 21, 2018)

Billy Graham was an American evangelist, a prominent evangelical Christian
figure, and an ordained Southern Baptist minister who became well-known internationally in the late 1940s. One of his biographers has placed him
"among the most influential Christian leaders" of the 20th century.

On  this day in 1860, Abraham Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the
United States over a deeply divided Democratic Party, becoming the first Republican to win the presidency. Lincoln received only 40 percent of the
popular vote but handily defeated the three other candidates: Southern
Democrat John C. Breckinridge, Constitutional Union candidate John Bell,
and Northern Democrat Stephen Douglas, a U.S. senator for Illinois.

Lincoln, a Kentucky-born lawyer and former Whig representative to
Congress, first gained national stature during his campaign against
Stephen Douglas of Illinois for a U.S. Senate seat in 1858.

1860 Election Facts:

• Welcome: Minnesota and Oregon become states during this
  election cycle
• Original 13 States control fewer than 50% of total Electoral
  Votes for first time
• Lincoln received only about 40% of the popular vote in a
  divided nation on the brink of Civil War
• New Jersey: Douglas won the popular vote on a Fusion
  slate comprised of 3 of his electors and 2 each for
  Breckinridge and Bell. Apparently – the history is a bit
  murky – some voters received a ballot with seven Douglas
  electors, taking votes from the Breckinridge/Bell electors.
  Bottom line – the 3 Douglas electors on the Fusion slate
  received the most votes, while the most votes for the four
  remaining spots went to Lincoln’s electors.
• Issues of the Day: Slavery (Dred Scott decision, Secession)