On January 26, ...

... 1998 (10 years ago today), "With eyes narrowed and one index finger stabbing the air, President Clinton angrily denied today that he had had sexual relations with Monica S. Lewinsky, the former White House intern whose tape-recorded accounts of an affair with him now threaten his Presidency," the New York Times then reported. Bill Clinton said at the internationally reported Washington press conference at which he delivered an "emphatic denial": '''I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.'"
The next day his wife gave a televised interview. As the Times then reported, "Hillary Rodham Clinton charged today that the Whitewater prosecutor's sex-scandal investigation of her husband was part of a 'vast right-wing conspiracy' dedicated to destroying his Presidency. ...Asked how grave the accusations were, she replied, 'If all that were proven true, I think that would be a very serious offense.' But, she said, 'that is not going to be proven true.' She said the suspicions about her husband were baseless, 'part of the unfortunate, mean-spirited give-and-take of American politics right now.'''
On his last full day in office 2 years later, President Clinton, who had survived an impeachment trial before the U.S. Senate, accepted a deal in order to settle the matter; in so doing, he admitted telling falsehoods under oath.
... 1977, the Vatican affirmed its ban on admitting women to the priesthood of the Roman Catholic Church.

CWL--- New For Presidents' Day: Lincoln vs. Douglas & Lincoln vs. Douglas

The Long Pursuit: Abraham Lincoln's Thirty-Year Struggle with Stephen Douglas for the Heart and Soul of America, Roy Morris Jr., Collins Publishing, 272 pages, $24.95.

Roy Morris Jr., is the editor of Military Heritage magazine and the author of four books on the Civil War and post-Civil War eras, including Fraud of the Century: Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel Tilden, and the Stolen Election of 1876, which the Wall Street Journal hailed as "bravely nonconformist and greatly entertaining"; The Better Angel: Walt Whitman in the Civil War, which the New York Times praised as "a thrilling narrative told with empathy and vast learning"; and Ambrose Bierce: Alone in Bad Company, which the Washington Post called "a rousingly good life." Also, Morris has written Sheridan: The Life And Wars Of General Phil Sheridan. Roy Morris lives in Chattanooga, Tennessee. (text, in part, from publisher)

Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates that Defined America, Allen C. Guelzo, Simon and Schuster Publishing, 416 pp., $26.00.
Guelzo, a professor of history at Gettysburg College, is the author of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America, Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President, Lincoln Emancipated: The President And the Politics of Race with Brian R. Dirck, and Lincoln and Freedom: Slavery, Emancipation, and the Thirteenth Amendment with Herman Belz, Joseph R. Fornieri, and James Oliver Horton.

CWL: I've read both Morris' and Guezlo's works. Both are fine writers and researchers. To generalize, Morris' books are written for a broader audience and Guelzo's are written for a more academic audience.