It is much less difficult now than in Lincoln's day to see that on both sides sovereign Americans had given their lives in the Civil War to maintain the balance between the powers they had delegated to the States and to their Union.

The lives so many of them gave, to forestall what they believed would be a fatal encroachment by the Union on the powers reserved to their states have continued ever since to safeguard all Americans against freedom's other foe.

The second specific comment was the report of Eisenhower's Commission on National Goals, titled Goals For Americans.

Morgan was ordered to attack the enemy, who had meantime moved to Edge Hill on the left of the Americans.

The contents were highly embarrassing to American spokesmen, who were on hand to promise Latin Americans a 20 billion dollar foreign aid millennium.

If the would-be joiner asks these questions he is not likely to be duped by extremists who are seeking to capitalize on the confusions and the patriotic apprehensions of Americans in a troubled time.

In that decade the partisan zeal to defend Mr. Hoover, and the party's failure to anticipate or cope with the depression, caused a great majority of Americans to see the Republican party as cold and lacking in any sympathy for the problems of human beings caught up in the distress and suffering brought on by the economic crash.

Almost every official who reflects on it thinks this movement of Americans to canvas dwellings opens one of the most promising of all outdoor markets.

You read various guesses on how many Americans are camping.

Then, too, European drivers have reputations for being somewhat crazy on the road and some Americans are not particularly keen on getting mixed up with them.

Rather, it is typical of the thousands of quacks who use phony therapeutic devices to fatten themselves on the miseries of hundreds of thousands of Americans by robbing them of millions of dollars and luring them away from legitimate, ethical medical treatment of serious diseases.

I have often searched for a graphic way of impressing our superiority on those Americans who have doubts, and I think Mr. Jameson Campaigne has done it well in his new book American Might And Soviet Myth.

-- President Kennedy today proposed a mammoth new medical care program whereby social security taxes on 70 million American workers would be raised to pay the hospital and some other medical bills of 14.2 million Americans over 65 who are covered by social security or railroad retirement programs.

Martin called for patience on the part of Americans.

By mid-June, millions of Americans will take to the road on vacation trips up and down and back and forth across this vast and lovely land.

The Department of Agriculture averaged out U.S. food consumption last year at 1,488 lbs. per person, which, allowing for the 17 million Americans that John Kennedy said go to bed hungry every night, means that certain gluttons on the upper end must somehow down 8 lbs. or more a day.

Each year, reports the American Medical Association, ten million Americans spend $900 million on vitamins, tonics and other food supplements.

He would not be like the `` rich Americans '' who lived in white-columned houses on the other side of the park.

* Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, U. S. law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability

It affords similar protections against discrimination to Americans with disabilities as the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which made discrimination based on race, religion, sex, national origin, and other characteristics illegal.

Speech cards used by President George H. W. Bush at the signing ceremony of the Americans with Disabilities Act ( ADA ) on July 26, 1990.

Nonetheless, as Frank Bowe predicted when he testified as the lead witness on Title III in the Senate hearings leading up to enactment, the fact that Title III calls for accessibility in, and alterations to, thousands of stores, restaurants, hotels, etc., in thousands of communities across the U. S. means that this Title probably has had more effect on the lives of more Americans with disabilities than any other ADA title.

First conceived during the Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower as a three-man spacecraft to follow the one-man Project Mercury which put the first Americans in space, Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal of " landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth " by the end of the 1960s, which he proposed in a May 25, 1961 address to Congress.

People of Latin American origin, a number of early Filipino settlers ( notably in Saint Malo, Louisiana ), known as " Manilamen ," from the annual cross-Pacific Galleon or Manila Galleon trade with neighboring Acapulco, Mexico, descendants of African American slaves, and some Cuban Americans have also settled along the Gulf Coast and, in some cases, intermarried into Cajun families.

The Province of Manila remained in existence until 1901, when its territory was subdivided by the Americans.

When Manila was liberated, the Americans and the Filipinos were again able to wrest control of the airport from the Japanese.

At the first session on October 1, the Spanish demanded that before the talks get underway the city of Manila, which had been captured by the Americans a few hours after the signing of the peace protocol in Washington, be returned to Spanish authority.

When Aglipay returned to Manila and discovered that the Americans had attacked, he joined the revolution.

After eruption of the 1899 Battle of Manila on February 4 between Filipino and U. S. forces, Aguinaldo immediately ordered, " hat peace and friendly relations with the Americans be broken and that the latter be treated as enemies ".

At first, Americans had an edge over their British competitors in Manila, for they offered good prices for Philippine exports like hemp, sugar, and tobacco.

Alarmed by the domination of British and Americans in the economy of Manila, Spanish diplomat to Asia Sinibaldo de Mas was sent by Madrid in 1842 to conduct an economic survey of the Philippines and submit recommendations.

Spain had learned of Augustín's intentions to surrender Manila to the Americans, which had been the reason why he had been replaced by Jaudenes.

The city fell to the Americans on August 13 during the Battle of Manila, and Merritt became the military governor of the Philippines.

But on August 13, 1898, it was the Americans who captured Manila.

The Battle of Manila, the first and largest battle fought during the Philippine – American War, was fought on February 4 and 5, 1899, between 12, 000 Americans and 15, 000 Filipinos.

That same night, a Filipino captain in Manila wired him in Malolos, stating that the Americans had started the hostilities.

However, some small units of Philippine soldiers who had not been part of the force that was routed, skirmished with the Americans for several days on the outskirts of Manila before being driven out.

They were also responsible for the Manila massacre during the Allied invasion of the Philippines in February 1945, where 10, 000 SNLF troops under the command of Vice Admiral Sanji Iwabuchi disobeyed orders and stayed behind to fight the Americans.

The victory of the Americans led by Commodore Dewey at the Battle of Manila Bay in 1898 marked the end of the Spanish era in the Philippine Islands.

The Americans followed the Spaniards to Batanes after the Spanish naval defeat at Manila Bay.

They established a Philippine Republic under the presidency of Emilio Aguinaldo, but due to the intervention of the American-Cuban War, the Americans who happened to anchor in Manila Bay under Commodore Dewey, took advantage of the Philippine Army under General Juan Luna.

During the Japanese occupation Ateneo de Manila was closed down by the Japanese for the reason that it was run by Americans.

The Manila Times reported that in August 4, 1901, two principales from the town of México were buried alive for collaborating with the Americans.

During the American occupation in the early 20th century, Baguio, located in northern Luzon and developed by the Americans for its cool climate became the summer capital of the Philippines, an alternative to the de facto capital Manila.

In the month-long battle, the Americans and Japanese inflicted worse destruction on Manila than the German Luftwaffe had exacted upon London, which resulted in the destruction of the city and in a death toll comparable to that of the Tokyo firebombing or the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

Luna was one of the first to see action in Manila on August 13, 1898, when the Americans landed troops in Intramuros.

But Aguinaldo, heeding the advice of General Merritt and Commodore ( later Admiral ) George Dewey, whose fleet had moored in Manila Bay, sent Luna to the trenches where he ordered his troops to fire on the Americans.