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Column: Bush influences his legacy through library
Presidential libraries, like the one about to open in Dallas honoring George W. Bush, serve two main purposes: Providing a treasure trove of documents that allows historians to study a distinct period of history and giving a chief executive an opportunity...Tags: Barack Obama, White House, Hurricane Katrina (2005), Unrest, Conflicts and War, September 11, 2001 Attacks
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Back Story: Presidents say the darnedest things
Paul Dickson, a Garrett Park resident, loves the origins of words and is a compiler of word books and dictionaries. So imagine my delight and pleasure when my friend, Mary Garson, who is also fascinated with etymology, gave me a copy of Dickson's...
Tags: State of the Union Address, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, White House, Theodore Roosevelt, U.S. Senate
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Amphitheatre to close, make room for Harry Potter attraction
First they put a lid on it, and now they're pulling the plug. Universal City's Gibson Amphitheatre, a fixture on the Southern California live music scene for more than 40 years, will close in September and be demolished to make room for the new...Tags: Kanye West, White House, Celia Cruz, Donna Summer, Universal Studios Orlando
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Study up for this quiz on presidential libraries
President George W. Bush’s presidential library, built on the campus of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, will host its invitation-only dedication Thursday. Former presidents have long donated their records and documents to libraries built to...
Tags: Culture, Barack Obama, ABC (tv network), Ceremonies, The Washington Post
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Former President Clinton to deliver UCF graduation speech next week
Sentinel School ZoneFormer President Bill Clinton will deliver the speech at one of UCF's five graduation ceremonies next week, the university announced this afternoon. You have to have a ticket, though, to attend. Each graduating student has five tickets to give out to...Tags: Bill Clinton, Graduation, Colleges and Universities, Education, Arizona State University
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Review: 'All the President's Men Revisited' looks back in wonder
"All the President's Men Revisited," which premieres Sunday on Discovery Channel, returns us to those thrilling days of yesteryear when everyone read newspapers and the legislative and judicial branches of the U.S. government were capable of acting out of...Tags: White House, All the President's Men (movie), Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein, Movies
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CNN Films acquires SXSW doc 'Our Nixon' to air on the network in August
Richard Nixon is hot again. Fresh on the heels of Discovery Channel's critically acclaimed documentary "All the Presidents Men Revisited," about the scandal that brought down President Nixon and the movie it inspired, CNN Films and Cinedigm have...Tags: White House, Page One: Inside the New York Times (movie), Film Festivals, Roger Ebert, CNN (tv network)
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The ex-presidents club
As former President George W. Bush, joined by President Obama and three living former presidents, dedicates his library this week in Dallas, it's important to remember that presidential libraries are relatively new. In 1941, while he was still in office,...
Tags: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, White House, Barack Obama, Dracunculiasis , Government
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Goldberg: What 'the Iron Lady' forged
In 1975, when asked to explain why Margaret Thatcher was poised to take over the Tory Party, the irascible British satirist Malcolm Muggeridge replied that it was all due to television and the fact that the telegenic Thatcher had a "certain imbecile...Tags: Culture, Social Sciences, Political Systems, Elections, Politics
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McManus: A tax everyone can love
The chairmen of Congress' primary tax committees, Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and Rep. Dave Camp (R-Mich.), have launched a bipartisan effort to reform our messy, inefficient federal tax law. They've agreed to look for ways to lower tax rates on both...
Tags: Bob Inglis, Barack Obama, White House, Highway Transportation, Services and Shopping
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Margaret Thatcher: The politician British pop music loved to hate
Margaret Thatcher, the so-called Iron Lady, was one of God's gifts to music. In the history of popular music, there probably never has been a head of state more reviled in song than the former Conservative Party British prime minister, who died today at...Tags: Government, Academy of Country Music Awards, The Clash (music group), Entertainment Events, Politics
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The Twist: The swivel that shook the world
It's been just over 50 years since a new dance craze called the Twist swept the nation. Though tame as near-beer by today's standards, the dance so upset the guardians of public morality that Dick Clark ordered the cameras turned away when teens on...
Tags: Culture, Dance, Dick Clark, Feminism, Entertainment Events
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