One soldier told of guarding the president's house on a day when Lincoln was sitting on the porch with his young son Tad.

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The soldiers closely guarding the president were not Congolese but Zimbabweans and Angolans.

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"The fox is guarding the henhouse, " says Karen Hudson, president of Families Against Rural Messes, an Elmwood, Ill. group that does battle with industrial-size pigsties and chicken coops.

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When I'm president, there will be no more foxes guarding the henhouse.

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