
Cartoon:

Individual liberty anywhere is a threat to the Progressive-Collectivist Cause everywhere.
U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth (1865)
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President Barack Obama gives a big speech on his NewProg economic policies at Georgetown University (2009)
b: François Duvalier (1907), Marvin Miller (1917); d: Hubert Bland (1914)