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President to president
"You will be our president when you read this note," George Herbert Walker Bush wrote to Bill Clinton, the man who defeated him in the 1992 campaign, denying Mr. Bush the provisional vindication that reelection provides until history has its chance to...
Tags: Time (magazine), The New York Times, Bill Clinton, Lyndon B. Johnson, Los Angeles Times
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Baltimore native played key role in Johnson's swearing-in
Kenneth O'Donnell, aide to President John F. Kennedy, stepped into a small cubicle at Parkland Hospital, where Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson nervously waited with his wife and several aides to learn the condition of the president. Kennedy had...Tags: Lawyers, U.S. House of Representatives, Trials, Colleges and Universities, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
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Bush's pithy endorsement of Romney
Former President George W. Bush uttered his endorsement for president the other day as an elevator door was closing on him. To a question shouted by a reporter, he was said to have answered, simply, "I'm for Mitt Romney," and that was it. It was sort...
Tags: Ronald Reagan, Georgetown, Mitt Romney, Bill Clinton, Joe Biden
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Religion and politics, but no fireworks
Unless you want a fight to break out at a cocktail party or a family reunion, conventional wisdom has it, don't talk religion or politics. I did both in this space last Monday, and then I crawled in a bunker and waited for the fireworks to begin. "Be...Tags: Rick Santorum, Breads, Vatican City, Nottingham, Roman Catholicism
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May: Save The Day
May 5 Tour de Cure: 10-, 22-, 32- and 63-mile bike rides raise money to fight diabetes. 410-265-0075 x4675 or atighe@diabetes.org 5 Camp Day 2012: Family fun at Centennial Park. Expo of area camps. 10 a.m.- 2 p.m. Contact Dawn Thomas as 410-313-4623...Tags: Louis Williams, Ellicott City, Georgetown, Opera (genre), Washington, DC
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City Hall resignations spark concern
With a half-dozen key resignations at Baltimore City Hall, some political observers say they're concerned about the recent loss of institutional knowledge in Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's administration.
Since the fall, the city's budget director,...Tags: William H. Cole IV, Baltimore Development Corporation, Mary Pat Clarke, Local Government, Frederick H. Bealefeld, III
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Questions persist for Derby contender Union Rags, and for his handlers
Michael Matz and his assistants are tired of the question — most trainers and riders are by this point in the week before the country's most talked-about horse race — and give mostly a perfunctory answer. "He's just a really nice horse,"...
Tags: United Air Lines, Churchill Downs, White House, Barbaro, Equestrian
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The curse of Mitt's millions
Although Mitt Romneyis now on the brink of nomination as the 2012 Republican presidential standard-bearer, the question remains as to why so much doubt lingers about him. A central concern seems to be that he's just too rich to understand the problems...
Tags: Occupy Wall Street, Executive Branch, Republican Party, Mitt Romney, Thomas Jefferson
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What now for Republicans?
Rick Santorum deserves credit for his impressive primary victories in Mississippi and Alabama. Newt Gingrich led us to believe he would win both states. He didn't, but he has vowed to fight on as the "real" conservative candidate, as opposed to Mitt...
Tags: Parties and Movements, Rick Santorum, U.S. Postal Service, Tampa, Republican National Conventions
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50 years ago: Bootleg whiskey-making operation in Abingdon broken up
As taken from the pages of The Aegis dated Thursday, March 29, 1962: Twenty-one hundred gallons of mash, dozens of empty 100-pound sugar bags and an undisclosed amount of moonshine whiskey were confiscated by officials in a raid on a farm near Abingdon....Tags: Bel Air (Allegany, Maryland), Prosecution, Baltimore County, Organized Crime, Harford County
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Who's right about church and state, Kennedy or Santorum?
Much has been written and said recently about the First Amendment and freedom of religion in the context of the current political atmosphere. Many of the most provocative comments have been about contraception, abortion rights and health insurance. Some...Tags: Lawyers, Civil Rights, Health Insurance, Judges, Employment Opportunities
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50th anniversary of John Glenn's Friendship 7 flight
Maryland WeatherFrom the Sun's print edition:Baltimore Sun librarian Paul McCardell offers this post: "Godspeed, John Glenn." Fellow astronaut Scott Carpenter spoke those words 50 years ago on Feb. 20, 1962, during the launch of Mercury spacecraft "Friendship 7." On bo.....Tags: Space Programs, United States Naval Academy, Washington, DC
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