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"The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know." –Harry S Truman

Showing posts with label LBJ. Show all posts
Showing posts with label LBJ. Show all posts
Saturday, July 18, 2009

Cronkite

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For the oldest of us, the Evening News died yesterday, the "most trusted man in America" who came into our living rooms every week...
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Monday, July 06, 2009

Death of the Best and Brightest

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Robert S. McNamara , who died today at 93, was the exemplar of American know-how gone awry in a world too complicated for the practical mind...
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Monday, December 29, 2008

Lowballing Bush Memoirs

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Laura Bush was on Fox News yesterday, probably the last in a round of appearances to drum up interest in her memoirs. For some reason, publ...
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Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Topless Summit

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Photographic proof that the Cold War is finally over comes today in images of Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin naked to the waist. The subl...
Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Bill Clinton Watch

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Which one will show up, the starry-eyed boy in the photograph reaching out to shake JFK's hand or the LBJ lookalike of later years, all ...
Wednesday, June 04, 2008

RFK: Tears for a Tough Guy

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Forty years ago tonight, hours before Robert Kennedy was killed, I was campaigning as a Eugene McCarthy delegate to the 1968 Democratic conv...
Thursday, February 21, 2008

Hillary Clinton for VP

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Tonight's debate pushed front and center the question of whether the Democratic Party can do what it did in 1960, nominate an inspiring ...
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ROBERT STEIN
editor, publisher, media critic and journalism teacher, is a former Chairman of the American Society of Magazine Editors, and author of “Media Power: Who Is Shaping Your Picture of the World?” Before the war in Iraq, he wrote in The New York Times: “I see a generation gap in the debate over going to war in Iraq. Those of us who fought in World War II know there was no instant or easy glory in being part of 'The Greatest Generation,' just as we knew in the 1990s that stock-market booms don’t last forever. We don’t have all the answers, but we want to spare our children and grandchildren from being slaughtered by politicians with a video-game mentality." This is not meant to extol geezer wisdom but suggest that, even in our age of 24/7 hot flashes, something can be said for perspective. The Web is a wide space for spreading news, but it can also be a deep well of collective memory to help us understand today’s world. In olden days, tribes kept village elders around to remind them with which foot to begin the ritual dance. Start the music.
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