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3/7/2005 GOP senator Graham rankles some over comments on Lincoln By John Byrne | RAW STORY Editor Senator Lindsey Graham has ignited a new furor in Washington over comments he made over the weekend referring to his state’s difficulty in “getting over” President Abraham Lincoln, with apparent reference to Lincoln’s role in the civil war and the freeing of American slaves, RAW STORY has learned. “We don’t do Lincoln Day Dinners in South Carolina,” Senator Graham told a Lincoln Day gathering in Tennessee Saturday. “It’s nothing personal, but it takes awhile to get over things.” According to a Knoxville News...

On December 6, 2004 the Executive Committee of the Harris County Republican Party (Houston, Texas) voted on and unanimously adopted a resolution formally changing its annual fundraising dinner, formerly known as "Lincoln Day," to "Ronald Reagan Day" in honor of the late president's passing last June. Harris County is one of several dozen GOP organizations nationwide who have done this lately as a way of honoring Reagan. The resolution's text is very strong and unapologetic in its commendation of Ronald Reagan and also condemns the leftist scum who opposed him. LINK TO THE RESOLUTION TEXT That resolution read, in part,...

AUSTIN - The Harris County Republican Party, along with some other county parties in Texas, is laying aside the traditional Lincoln Day Dinner this year to hold a Reagan Day Dinner in honor of former President Reagan, who died last year. For decades, a dinner honoring President Lincoln has been a midwinter feature of local Republican parties across the United States. In the late 1990s, some local parties started calling their fund-raising soirees the Lincoln/Reagan Day Dinner. The trend has accelerated since Reagan's death last year, and some Texas counties have changed the names of their events next month to...