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Obama's real news: Health care reform NOW
Spin CycleWhile Obama's comments on Blagojevich attracted the early attention, his most important comments may have come in introducing Tom Daschle (left) as his new health-reform czar as well as Secretary of Health and Human Services. You can hear them......Tags: National Government, Politics, Medical Services, Government Health Care, Upper House
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Consumer prices see record drop in Nov.
The Swampby Frank James More concerns today about the dreaded economic possibility of deflation, the phenomenon where prices fall throughout the economy, reducing the power of companies and workers to charge what they need to in order to make ends meet.......Tags: Energy, Ben Bernanke, Economy, Business and Finance, Consumers, Federal Reserve
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Obama: Time 'Person of the Year,' 2008
The Swampby Mark Silva This one probably wasn't too hard to predict. President-elect Barack Obama: "Person of the Year.'' So says Time magazine, with that long history of idetifying that person -- once was a "man'' in the old days of......Tags: National Government, Amazon.com Inc., Jimmy Carter, Government, Henry Kissinger
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Eartha Kitt versus the LBJs
The Swampby Frank James Say what you will about Eartha Kitt, the American original of a performer who died at 81 on Christmas Day, she certainly knew how to disrupt a White House event. One of the best Kitt stories......Tags: National Government, World War II (1939-1945), Politics, Christmas, War Crimes
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Clinton, Reagan, Nixon, LBJ: Farewells
The Swampby Mark Silva As President George W. Bush and his writers place the final touches on 15 minutes of televisied talk that will deliver a farewell to the nation after two tumultuous terms in office, it's worth remembering the most......Tags: National Government, Private Health Care, Nuclear Weapons, Philosophy, Politics
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Bush's farewell: Eight years, 15 minutes
The Swampby Mark Silva At 8:01:30 pm EST this evening -- by the White House's clock -- President Bush will deliver his final address as president from the East Room, a 15-minute-or-so farewell that will encompass eight years of challenges and......Tags: Osama bin Laden, National Government, Barack Obama, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush
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Inaugural crowd: 1 million and what?
The Swampby Noam N. Levey More than 1 million spectators convened on the National Mall to watch Barack Obama take the oath of office Tuesday, but it was unclear if the crowd surpassed the record thought to have been set at......Tags: Gardens and Parks, United States, Teresa Wright, Monuments and Heritage Sites, Tourism and Leisure
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JFK's Great Society?
The Swampby Frank James Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla) was just on C-SPAN where he cited President John F. Kennedy's famous 1961 tax-cut to boost a flagging economy as one reason he believes the current economic stimulus should have included more......Tags: National Government, James Inhofe, John F. Kennedy, Government
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Obama: 'I'm an optimist, not a sap'
The Swamp(Pundits interview President Obama aboard Air Force One. From left to right, E.J. Dionne, Washington Post; Bob Herbert, NY Times; Ron Brownstein, National Journal; the president, Jennifer Psaki, a White House staffer, Kathleen Parker, Washington Post...Tags: National Government, Armed Forces, Politics, Chicago Tribune Columnists, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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Wired nation: Broadband as stimulus
The Swampby Rebecca Cole In Martin County, Ky., a remote corner of Appalachia, it can take hours to reach a distant doctor's office, a simple cholesterol check costing a miner a day's work. "It's a long way from an office building......Tags: Arts and Culture, Google Inc., Alaska, Sales, Health and Medical Professionals
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Robert McNamara: Vietnam war 'wrong'
The Swampby Mark Silva Robert S. McNamara, the former secretary of defense for two presidents who only late in life acknowledged that he and his colleagues were "wrong, terribly wrong'' in the prosecution of the war in Vietnam, passed away today......Tags: National Government, International Economic Institution, Politics, John F. Kennedy, Government
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Cronkite
The TV Zone(AP) Back, gang, to sober news: The death of an old and cherished acquaintance. Sorry for this late post, but due to circumstances beyond my immediate control - I have been away and the good people at Newsday.com are......Tags: National Government, Johnny Carson, Ted Turner, NBC (tv network), David Brinkley
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