THE NEW SHADOW AMICUSVERITAS

POLITICAL ANIMALS--President Abraham Lincoln--Some of the things people don't know about Lincoln

***Selected by Joseph Medill--Canadian immigrant who published the CHICAGO TRIBUNE

***How Lincoln was selected at the Republican Convention at the Chicago Convention

***Lincoln enacted an income tax to finance the Civil War

***Lincoln is accused of being a closeted gay/homosexual because he shared a bed with Josauh Speed, his law partner

***Lincoln wa a railroad lawyer

***Lincoln's manipulated the transfer of the Illinois state capitol from Vandalia to Springfield Illinois

***Lincoln's favorite Opera Verdi's Assasination Opera A Masked Ball

Liberals and latterday progressives  leery of Hillary Clinton's presidential ambitions

Other Births -Deaths & Events relevant to US(a) MAYOR HAROLD Washington First Black Mayor of Chicago

Monte Wooley  Gay Friend of Cole Porter & Linda Lee Thomas(lesbian)

Mayor George Christopher--Candlestick Park---Lured the New giantss to San Francisco instead of Los Angeles

President William Howard Taft threw out the first baseball at a baseball game