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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: Theodore Roosevelt, Politics, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Elections
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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: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Mojo Tour (2010), AEG, Ana Gabriel, Kanye West, Staples Center
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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: Ceremonies, Libraries, Jimmy Carter, Barack Obama, Southern Methodist University
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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: Colleges and Universities, Arizona State University, Graduation, Bill Clinton, Education
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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: Carl Bernstein, All the President's Men (movie), The Washington Post, White House, Entertainment
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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: Page One: Inside the New York Times (movie), SXSW Music and Media Conference & Festival, Roger Ebert, CNN (tv network), Film Festivals
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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: Politics, Libraries, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Government, Jimmy Carter
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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: Music, Politics, United Kingdom, England, Entertainment Events
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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: Republican Party, John Boehner, Elections, Energy Saving, White House
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What FDR said about Jews in private
In May 1943, President Franklin Roosevelt met with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill at the White House. It was 17 months after Pearl Harbor and a little more than a year before D-Day. The two Allied leaders reviewed the war effort to date and...Tags: Politics, Nazi Party, World War II (1939-1945), Germany, Religion and Belief
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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: Music, Dick Clark, Truman Capote, Entertainment Events, Feminism
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New focus on scandal in 'All the President's Men Revisited'
Robert Redford never planned to play Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward in "All the President's Men," the Oscar-winning 1976 adaptation of Woodward and Carl Bernstein's account of their investigation of the 1972 Watergate break-in and the cloak-and-...
Tags: Politics, Carl Bernstein, Entertainment Events, All the President's Men (movie), White House
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