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Joe Biden: Bush home-free of charges
The Swampby Mark Silva BLOOMINGTON, Minn. -- President Gerald Ford pardoned President Richard Nixon. Does an Obama-Biden administration have something else in mind for members of the Bush administration who have refused to cooperate with congressional...Tags: Executive Branch, Richard Nixon, Barack Obama, Government, Joe Biden
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On this day in history
On Sept. 5, 1698, Russia's Peter the Great imposed a tax on beards. In 1774 the first Continental Congress assembled in Philadelphia. In 1836 Sam Houston was elected president of the Republic of Texas. In 1914 the First Battle of the Marne began...Tags: The White House, Guerrilla Activity, Olympic Games, Hamid Karzai, National Government
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At RNC, celebratory mood finally takes hold
The Associated PressThe party that postponed its party on account of another region's bad weather got back to the business of celebrating itself today. Politics finally broke out on the floor of the Republican National Convention, and for many delegates it was high time....Tags: Xcel Energy Incorporated, Mike Duncan, NBC, National Government, Religious Leaders
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The 'assistant president'
Today's question: The Constitution doesn't define the vice president's role beyond a handful of government tasks. What should be the role of the vice president? Previously, Edwards and Lichtman discussed how history might treat Dick Cheney and digested...Tags: Theodore Roosevelt, The White House, Heads of State, History, John Adams
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THE POWERFUL VETERANS
Lyndon Johnson Chosen by John Kennedy to be his running mate in 1960 His career: The Texan was Senate majority leader when he was chosen as the vice presidential candidate; he became president after Kennedy's assassination in 1963. Notable because:...Tags: George H.W. Bush, Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy, National Government, George Bush
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Connecticut Online: Excerpts From State Blogs
CONNECTICUT COMMENTARY www.donpesci.blogspot.com I Picked Palin We don't know yet whether Sen. John McCain's choice of Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin will jump-start the Republican Party's sagging fortunes, but the choice and the resulting hubbub...Tags: Richard Nixon, Heads of State, Diplomacy, Parties and Movements, Barack Obama
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As Reagan Era Closes, Republicans Lack Shared Identity
McClatchy NewspapersThey'll praise him, invoke his legacy and summon his blessing on their quest to hold the White House. But as Republicans gather at their national convention in St. Paul, Minn., to nominate Sen. John McCain, they face the prospect that the era of Ronald...Tags: The White House, Richard Nixon, Diplomacy, National Government, Political Candidates
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Ready or not, Labor Day opens Va. politics season
AP Political WriterRepublican Jim Gilmore got right to the point, taking less than five minutes at a rally Monday to brand Democrat Mark Warner a debate-dodging tax-raiser who can't tell the truth. Then Warner, the heavy favorite in the race to replace retiring Republican...Tags: U.S. Elections, The White House, Bobby Scott, Barack Obama, Festive Event
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The talk of the Party
SPEECHES The power of words 2004 Then-Sen. Zell Miller of Georgia blasts fellow Democrat John Kerry's rejection of the defense spending bill after the start of the Iraq war. Keynoting the GOP convention, Miller accuses him of aiming to arm the military...Tags: The White House, Richard Nixon, Primaries, National Government, Political Candidates
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Sleeping With The Stars
Clock Is Ticking On Sale Of '24' Star's Loft Is actor Kiefer Sutherland leaving Los Angeles, or merely moving on from his warehouse loft in the trendy Silver Lake section of Los Angeles for greener, less urban pastures? Sutherland, 41, who plays the...Tags: Studios, Super Bowl, Michael Strahan, Real Estate Buyers, Rivers
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We think: Ted Kennedy adds a chapter to Profiles in Courage
Millions didn't watch the Democrats in Denver on Monday for the same reason they intended not to watch them the rest of the week. Party conventions today are sanitized, focus-group tested and scripted. They lack the suspense of Gerald Ford edging...Tags: Values, Emergency Planning, Diseases, Edward M. Kennedy, Abe Ribicoff
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Maynard W. Lowery
Maynard Winslow Lowery, a third-generation Tilghman Island boat builder who was renowned for the Cape Cod catboats and other vessels he built in a ramshackle Quonset hut overlooking Knapps Narrows for nearly 60 years, was killed Monday with his sister....Tags: Tilghman Island, Heads of State, Richard Nixon, Family, St. Michaels
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