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By RICHARD NEBELLos Alamos In a lonely grave, forgotten and unknown, lies the man who save stanley cup d a president, and as a result may well have preserved for ourselves and our posterity constitutional government in the United States?. These words were written in 1956 by Senator John F. Kennedy in his Pulitzer Prize winning book Profiles in Courage . That forgotten man is Edmund G. Ross and that lonely grave is in the Fairview Cemetery in Albuquerque, New Mexico.Edmund Ro kubki stanley ss was an abolitionist and a Senator from Kansas. He was the Senator who cast the deciding vote to acquit Andrew Johnson in his impeachment trial. He was never again elected to a political office, and he cast his vote with full knowledge that that was going to happen.Its not hard to see why Johnson was disliked. He tried to do reconstruction on his own by executive order. He essentially tried to return things to the way they were before the Civil War. Johnson ordered the Southern States to hold conventions and elections. Not surprisingly, they elected the same people who had run things before the war. The southern states promptly passed Black Codes to take away civil liberties from black people. Johnson also opposed the 14th amendment that guaranteed equal protection under the law to all citizens, including the newly freed slaves.The Congress responded by refusing to seat these southern legislators and passed legislation that negated President Johnsons actions. stanley water bottle He vetoed these bills, and Congress promptly overrode Rjoc John Blair Is Running For Congress In CD3
Photo of Agathla Peak at night by Peter LaDelfe. Courtesy/PEECPEEC News:Peter LaDelfe will give a free talk at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 20 stanley cup at the Los Alamos Nature Center at 2600 Canyon Road wher stanley shop e he will reveal how to capture the elegance of the night sky with each participant camera.The lesson will focus on producing images of the Milky Way with illuminated foreground features.LaDelfe will cover the following topics:how to determine the optimum times and locations election of equipment ettings and procedure for image capture;light painting of foreground; andpost-processing.LaDelfe is an advanced amateur photographer, having practiced extensively for the last 20 years after a prior 20 years of dabbling.He specializes in images of the Milky Way Galactic Center with illuminated foreground features.The talk, provided by the Pajarito Environmental Education Center PEEC and no registration is required. For more information about this and other PEEC programs, visit peecnature.org, email programs@peecnature.org or call 505.662.0460.Subscribe FREE to News AlertsMake the Daily Post your HomepageMore News Like us on FacebookSubscribe FREE to News AlertsMake the Daily Post your HomepageMore News Like u stanley quencher s on Facebook LOS ALAMOSladailypost website support locally by OviNuppi SystemsCouncil, Boards 038; Commissions CalendarHilltopper Sports Scores from MaxPrepCouncil, Boards 038; Commissions CalendarHilltopper Sports Scores from MaxPrepFacebook-fYoutubeInstagram
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