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The two tortured political marriages of Richard Nixon
Just as they say that the poor are always with is, so it is with Richard Nixon, arguably the most tormented American president, who comes back to us in the new book "Ike and Dick" (appropriately subtitled "Portrait of a Strange Political Marriage"). The...
Tags: Book, U.S. Senate, Family, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Vietnam War (1955-1975)
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Security vs. privacy
The latest open debate over security and privacy is a welcome pivot from the irksome father-knows-best attitude that has prevailed too long regarding the government's contention of superior judgment in the realm of national security. As with most...
Tags: Jules Witcover, American Civil Liberties Union, National Government, Barack Obama, FBI
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Obama-Xi summit shows the danger of personal diplomacy
Since President Richard Nixon's visit to China in February 1972, American presidents have hoped that building personal rapport with Chinese leaders would strengthen bilateral ties and win political points at home. While Nixon's trip was a diplomatic...
Tags: Xi Jinping, Beijing (China), Barack Obama, Liu Xiaobo, Timothy Geithner
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Health care act will spur competition among insurers
I work for a mid-size firm Baltimore, and our health insurance costs will rise only modestly in 2013. However, in talking to friends at local companies, their health insurers are raising rates exorbitantly in anticipation of the state health exchanges...Tags: Mitt Romney, U.S. Congress, Health Insurance, Insurance, Health Insurance Cost
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Snooping, past and present
For us aging Vietnam War protesters, the secret domestic surveillance revealed by Edward Snowden, a young former CIA contractor, is like a bad flashback. In 1968, Lyndon Johnson demanded that something be done to curb the demonstrations that were...
Tags: The New York Times, Central Intelligence Agency, NBC (tv network), Gerald Ford, National Government
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GOP may waste its opportunity
Regarding the recent Obama administration scandals, The Sun editorial makes a correct analysis that Republican "overreaching," "hyperbolic comparison to Watergate," "calls for a special prosecutor," and "talk about impeachment" of President Barack Obama...
Tags: Bill Clinton, Havre de Grace, Barack Obama
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The triumph of progressivism: Graduation 2013 and 1968
Many of you soon-to-be college graduates are determined to make the world a better place. Some of you are choosing careers in public service or joining nonprofits or volunteering in your communities. But many of you are cynical about politics. You see...
Tags: Same-Sex Marriage, Bank of America Corp., Colleges and Universities, Philosophy, Martin Luther King Jr.
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Boxing Obama in
Greater than the risk of being accused of criminality in the three scandals now gripping the Obama administration is the peril that the president's substantive agenda is being hopelessly knocked off track. The liberal Illinois senator who entered the...
Tags: U.S. Senate, Justice System, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Executive Branch
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Scandals put presidential credibility on the line
When the storm of administration scandals first hit President Barack Obama, he offered a good impersonation of Claude Raines in "Casablanca," expressing shock that gambling was going on in Rick's saloon. His verbal outrage at the snooping of the IRS and...
Tags: Carney (music group), Jay Carney, Taxation, Jules Witcover, Freedom of the Press
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The most famous umbrella since Neville Chamberlain went to Munich
The Baltimore SunThe public appetite for trivial distraction has always extended to our chief executives. I remember the minor uproar when Lyndon Johnson lifted a beagle by the ears. There was extensive commentary on Richard Nixon's taste for cottage cheese and ketchup....Tags: Dwayne Johnson, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, Sandra Day O'Connor, Barack Obama
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Taxing the tea party
Loyal readers of this page are likely aware that we have not been great supporters of the tea party movement. Too often, we have found those anti-tax crusaders who call themselves tea party patriots are simply rebranded John Birch Society members of an...
Tags: Republican Party, Susan Collins, Darrell E Issa, U.S. Congress, Taxation
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Save public input to help save the environment
When first proposed about a decade ago, it seemed like a promising means to revive the Chesapeake Bay's devastated oyster crop: Bring in Chinese oysters, which are impervious to the diseases killing the native stock and also grow faster. If successful,...
Tags: Oysters, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army, Barbara Boxer, National Government
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