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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: Movies, White House, Bob Woodward, Carl Bernstein, The Washington Post
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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: Movies, Roger Ebert, White House, Page One: Inside the New York Times (movie), Satellite and Cable Service
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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: George W. Bush, Arts and Culture, Jimmy Carter, White House, Ronald Reagan
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Jerry Brown's first day in Shanghai is heavy on ceremony
SHANGHAI, China -- Gov. Jerry Brown officially launched California's new trade and investment office here Friday, the first such office to open since the state shuttered a dozen outposts around the globe a decade ago. To celebrate the opening, and...
Tags: China, Music, Government, Executive Branch, Shanghai (China)
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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: George W. Bush, U.S. Congress, Environmental Issues, Services and Shopping, Tea Party Movement
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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: Google Inc., Culture, Arts and Culture, Ronald Reagan, Parties and Movements
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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: Entertainment Events, Culture, Arts and Culture, Music, Truman Capote
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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: Entertainment Events, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., White House, Washington, DC, U.S. Senate
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Bernadette Wagner: Any month is a good one to volunteer
April is the National Month for 24 different causes, all of which hope to raise awareness about their cause. I don’t care what anybody says, National Volunteer Month is by far more glamorous than National Soy Foods Month and not quite as nutty...Tags: Charity, American Red Cross, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Physical Fitness and Exercise
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A warm embrace of Margaret Whiting
In her prolific career, singer Margaret Whiting recorded 500 songs, including such signature hits as "It Might as Well Be Spring," "That Old Black Magic" and "Baby It's Cold Outside." Along with such legends as Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald, Whiting...
Tags: The Ed Sullivan Show (tv program), Music, Radio, I Love Lucy (tv program), Margaret Whiting
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Thatcher made history by standing firm
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 Mrs. Thatcher had a "certain...Tags: Arts and Culture, Google Inc., Culture, Parties and Movements, Ronald Reagan
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Letters: Watergate says a lot about Nixon
Re "Dueling over Watergate," Postscript, March 9 Few people touch on the single element of the Watergate scandal that I consider the most serious. Though I doubt that Richard Nixon knew about the break-in beforehand, his White House fostered an...Tags: Theft, Abraham Lincoln
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