Among his subjects were Abraham Lincoln, John Quincy Adams, Walt Whitman and Edgar Allen Poe.

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Whitman: John is a dear and good friend.

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The CEOs named by Jackson, who included John Chambers of Cisco, Meg Whitman (for her tenure at eBay), Steve Ballmer of Microsoft, Michael Eisner of Disney, Sandy Weill of Citigroup, and Carol Bartz of Yahoo, do not need me to defend them.

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