One American who grieved for the fallen president was the poet Walt Whitman. Whitman had lived in Washington for most of the war and was a great admirer of Lincoln, whom he felt embodied the American virtues of plain-spokenness, courage, and horse-sense..
DirecTV and the NFL have reached an agreement on Sunday Ticket, giving DirecTV the exclusive right to show every NFL game each week. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed. According to Reuters, citing a source familiar with the agreement, DirecTV will pay the NFL an average of $1.5 billion per year for Sunday Ticket over 8 years.
DirecTV canceled my movie channels, but told me I would have to wait until the end of the football season to cancel NFL Sunday Ticket. I did so, and canceled it ca. March 2011. Low and Behold, however, in my August 2012 statement, I found a charge for a 2012 renewal for NFL Sunday Ticket.