Well, let's start off with Ronald Reagan and Alan Keyes:Whoever would understand in his heart the meaning of America will find it in the life of Abraham Lincoln... -- Ronald Reagan , first inaugural address, January 20, 1981 A hundred and twenty years ago the greatest of all our Presidents delivered his second State of the Union Message in this chamber. "We cannot escape history," Abraham Lincoln warned. "We of this Congress and this Administration will be re membered in spite of ourselves." The "trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest...