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too.”
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the same thing myself.”
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refreshing change from the
Nixon years.
Thanks
for your comment.”
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didn't see "The
Dangling
Conversation" on
eith…”
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going to be something of
an
enigma.
I agree
that Nixon was…”
September 19, 2011 03:10PM
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The day that Jimmy Carter was elected president is a day that is vividly imprinted in my memory — for a couple of reasons.
My father's mother died that day, and my father went to Dallas ahead of the rest of the family to work on the funeral arrangements. My mother, my…
Death is unavoidable. What is uncertain is when each of
us will die.
Sometimes, given the way an individual lived his or her
life, the timing of death may be seen as ironic. So it is, I think,
with the death of
Charles Percy, a former Republican senator from Illinois.
If you are… Read full post »
That was a different time. Today, the murder of an unknown yet attractive girl anywhere would attract dozens of came…
"Campaigning in last year's midterm elections, Obama argued over and over again that Republicans had driven the economy into a ditch; from now going forward, the question will be why he hasn't towed it out."
Karen Tumulty
Washington Post
Aug. 5, 2011
It was almost predictable —…
It was on this day 35 years ago that a sixth–grade girl from a small town in my home county vanished in broad daylight. Her body was found a few days later. She had been raped,…
On this day in 1981, the president of the United States was shot by a would–be assassin — a (thankfully) rare occurrence as it is, but this time was unique in American history.
This president lived to tell the tale.
That president, Ronald Reagan, wasn't the first to be
the targe… 
When I think of Sarge Shriver, I remember the summer of
1972, when Tom Eagleton was forced from the Democratic ticket
because he had been treated for depression.I wasn't very old that summer, and many of the det/…
With Barack Obama, what you see isn't always what you get.
That's the thought that went through my mind as the president
neared the end of his speech at tonight's memorial service for the
victims of the Arizona shooting on Saturday.
His performance reinforced the impression I have long had of him.
This… Read full post »
It is only natural, I guess, that a lot of people —
whether they are qualified to do so — are trying to pinpoint
a reason for Saturday's shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, a
judge and more than a dozen other people in Tucson, Ariz.
Because the congresswoman is a Democrat —… Read full post »
"As to the history of the revolution, my ideas may be peculiar, perhaps singular. What do we mean by the revolution? The war? That was no part of the revolution; it was only an effect and consequence of it. The revolution was in the minds of the… Read full post »
In 1917, Woodrow Wilson was president.
He famously kept America out of World War I in his first term, but
he failed to keep it out of the war after his second term
began.
That was the world into which Robert Byrd was born in
November 1917 — nearly six months after John… Read full post »
Some people have suggested that 2010 will be an anti–incumbent year, although there hasn't really been much evidence of this in the primaries — as cable TV's Rachel Maddow pointed out recently.
But politica…
"You cannot be president of the United States if you don't have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial and the Civil War and all that stuff. You can't be. And we are blessed. So don't feel sorry for — don't cry for me, Argentina.… Read full post »
Barack Obama plans to address the nation tomorrow night about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
The speech is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. (Central), after Obama returns from a two–day visit to Alabama, Mississippi and Florida, the president's fourth trip to the region since…
They held their primaries in Alabama this week, and I'm a little
bewildered.
A black man named Artur Davis, who has represented west
Alabama's Seventh District in the U.S. House since 2003, ran for
governor and was
handily beaten by the state's agriculture commissioner, a white
man named Ron S… Read full post »
In my lifetime, I have literally witnessed the transformation of the world, a transformation that has been so profound, so all–encompassing, and, yet, at the same time, so subtle that it often seems that changes that took years to emerge happened overnight.
Sometimes major shifts in th/…
In 2009, Barack Obama made numerous, very public attempts to
reach across the aisle and enlist the support of Republicans for
his initiatives. His attempts at appeasement were fruitless.
At the very least, I think we are seeing that, even if Obama and
the Democrats are successful in holding slim major… Read full post »
Maybe my mind processes things in ways that others do not.
A few years ago, I heard arguments…
On this day 63 years ago, 21 Nazi leaders were found guilty of and sentenced for crimes against humanity.
In the years to come, the public wearied of the Nuremberg trials. It was the first tribunal, the one whose verdict was handed down on this day in 1946, that dealt/…
Personally, I don't expect much to get excited about on Friday. I was just reading…
In my life, I have had a variety of jobs and a variety of titles. But, no matter what kind of work I happened to be doing or what my title happened to be, I always considered myself a journalist.
Journalism was my major in college and graduate school. For/…
In that article, I referred to Barack Obama as a "polarizing president" — primarily as a transitional device —…
He goes on to say that "cheery news is scarce." To which many long–term unemployed peop…
And I am more convinced than ever that the Obama administration and the Democrats in Congress made a fatal mistake by not making job creation a priority.
The midterm elections are about 14 months away, but…
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