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Cuba Standard.com
March 3, 2018
Vicki Huddleston, a career diplomat who was head of the U.S. Interests Section in Havana under Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, just published a book about ... A hardline faction associated with Fidel Castro, who denigrated the opening before his death in November 2016, would have motive, means, andÃâà...
The Daily Banter
March 3, 2018
Glenn Greenwald, for example, developed a wide readership when attacking George W. Bush and the Iraq War, but with the coming of the Obama Administration, he began to relentlessly attack the center-left for not being sufficiently ideologically pure. Now he's a regular on Fox News, where he dismissesÃâà...
Washington City Paper (blog)
March 2, 2018
With exception to Lincoln, none have been painted head to toe while seated: Even Robert Anderson cut off George W. Bush just below the ankles. ... It's reminiscent of the man who met with survivors of Hurricane Sandy and Sandy Hook: a president who would attempt to take personal experience to affectÃâà...
The Hill
February 28, 2018
In the wake of the death of Rev. ... At the time, Little Rock schools were closed in a last attempt to stop racial integration. ... In 1985 a 39 year-old George W. Bush recalled that his father, then Vice President George H.W. Bush, organized a dinner meeting with Billy Graham and dozens of Bush familyÃâà...
New York Times
February 22, 2018
(Mr. Reagan, who had recently survived an assassination attempt, called in from his hospital bed.) And the White ... Washington journalists are a notoriously tough crowd; witness the stony silence that met Stephen Colbert after his blistering 2006 monologue about George W. Bush. The comedian LarryÃâà...
Mississippi Today
February 22, 2018
After the library closed, Motley was excited to tell his grandfather about the encounter with who he eventually realized was George Wallace, the segregationist then-Alabama governor who survived an assassination attempt during a failed presidential campaign. Motley's grandfather, whom he called Daddy,Ãâà...
WRAL.com
February 21, 2018
He flew to Washington, D.C., in 1981 after an assassination attempt to comfort and pray with Nancy Reagan and do anything he could for the president. ... George W. Bush: Bush credits a 1985 visit by Graham to his family's home in Maine with turning his life around and reinvigorating his Christian faith.
New York Times
February 20, 2018
Presidents from Lyndon Johnson to George W. Bush spoke bluntly about approval as a means to an end. ... president's approval ratings could be explained by either the performance of the national economy or by big events like international crises, assassination attempts and scandals — factors over whichÃâà...
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