platform was civil service reform,and increasingly the Adams familyshowed interest in reforms whichwould get good men rather thanparty hacks into office. The reformserved an urgent family need —some would say almost a psycholog-ical need — among Charles Fran-cis Adamss children. As the prospects… … LINCOLN LORE and demagogues to office sharpened. Henry learned earlythat Truth in politics might be ignored as a delusion. Thepolitical process seemed to favor men whose energies werethe greater, the less they wasted on thought; men who sprangfrom the soil to power;. . . more or less dull in…
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 · Clothing and dress
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