Great Moments in Journalism are submitted by readers, and can be sent to this address. Happy New Year, kids! The polls have closed and, in an unexpectedly tight race, the dude who got plowed by the ghost took home the award for Greatest Moment in Journalism of 2006. He wins an invisible buttplug. After the jump, your first nominee of this new age.


Today's selection comes from a Christmas Day White House Memo by the Times' Sheryl Gay Stolberg. While discussing the difficulties that Commanders-in-Chief experience in just, you know, finding a way to relax, Ms. Stolberg lets slip this brilliant example:

Being commander in chief means learning to cope with stress. Abraham Lincoln went to the theater to relax.

Also, JFK liked to ride around downtown Dallas in open-top cars.

Bush-Watchers Wonder How He Copes With Stress [NYT]