John F Kennedy

Caro Is Right About LBJ: I Know, I Was There

Newton N. Minow | Posted 05.22.2012

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Newton N. Minow

Simply put, the LBJ I knew hungered for power, and knew he knew how to use it. The Kennedy I knew grudgingly but genuinely admired LBJ's ability. Robert Caro's book reminded me of a sad conversation I had with LBJ during the time he was languishing in the vice presidency.

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Former Kennedy, Johnson Aide Dies

AP | BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI | Posted 05.10.2012

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TRENTON, N.J. — While researching his epic series on Lyndon Johnson, Robert Caro found himself again and again calling upon Nicholas deB. Katzen...

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2012 or 1963?

Deborah J. Vagins | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Women's Rights, Wage Gap, Paycheck Fairness Act, Equal Pay, John F. Kennedy, ACLU's Liberty Watch Women's Rights Scorecard, Aclu, Equal Pay Act, Women News
Deborah J. Vagins

I find it surprising that, in 2012, presidential candidates and pundits are debating issues so central -- and so seemingly settled -- to women's equality.

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NASA Simply Stopped Being a Priority

Howard Steven Friedman | Posted 04.30.2012

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Howard Steven Friedman

Will we look back and ask ourselves whether the decision to abandon space was a wise decision? Or will historians look back and identify this decision as a textbook example of when America sacrificed long-term strategic goals for short-term interests.

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Robert Caro On His New Lyndon Johnson Volume

AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 04.30.2012

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NEW YORK — Robert Caro receives the most interesting mail. "I get letters, constantly, saying, `I see your book's coming. I hope you're going t...

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In the Age of Obama, the Eagle Has Fallen

Ken Blackwell | Posted 04.24.2012

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Ken Blackwell

The American Apollo program was one of the greatest events in all of human history. By turning our backs on JFK's achievement, we have consented to national humiliation and national decline.

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Christina Wilkie

CIA Murdered JFK Mistress, New Book Claims

HuffingtonPost.com | Christina Wilkie | Posted 04.19.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Conspiracy theorists who question President John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963 have, over the years, become obsessed with another m...

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A Transcendent Man

John Bridgeland | Posted 04.13.2012

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John Bridgeland

Bipartisan outpourings are rare in Washington these days. So when they happen, they should make news. The occasion was the birthday celebration of eight decades of service by Harris Wofford.

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Hello Goodbye: Why the Great Mike Wallace Instantly Forgot His Beatles TV Exclusive

Martin Lewis | Posted 04.08.2012

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Martin Lewis

As we salute the memory of Mike Wallace -- it's a little known fact that among his many notable accomplishments, he was the first American to introduce the Beatles on U.S. TV.

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Jackie O's Chilling Reaction To JFK's Assassination

Zoë Triska | Posted 04.05.2012

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In Clint Hill's new book, 'Mrs. Kennedy and Me: An Intimate Memoir,' Hill reveals gruesome details of the day John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Th...

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Jon Ward

Rick Santorum Again Criticizes Kennedy's Separation Of Church And State Speech

HuffingtonPost.com | Jon Ward | Posted 03.30.2012

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WASHINGTON -- On Friday, as Mitt Romney continued to consolidate establishment support for his presidential candidacy within the Republican Party, get...

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Mad Men (Finally) Returns: Worth the Wait?

William Bradley | Posted 05.27.2012

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William Bradley

Fortunately, Woodstock is still a long ways off. And the Summer of Love is, too (along with San Francisco), though it's just over a year away in the Mad Men universe. But the rumblings of change -- in this case racial change and generational change -- are getting much louder.

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Poverty in America 50 Years After Michael Harrington's The Other America

Peter Dreier | Posted 05.25.2012

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Peter Dreier

Today, Harrington is almost a forgotten figure. Contemporary historians and sociologists still cite Harrington in their studies of poverty, but few Americans under 50, including most activists with unions, community organizers and civil rights groups, have heard of him.

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The Real Game Change: Palinism's Rise, Moderate Republicanism's Eclipse

William Bradley | Posted 05.23.2012

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William Bradley

The term "game change," like so many sports-oriented terms in politics, is decidedly over-used. But the events depicted in the Game Change film really do constitute just that, though not in the way that my friend Steve Schmidt intended it.

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C-SPAN Is America

Brent Budowsky | Posted 05.21.2012

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Brent Budowsky

While our politics have become a shouting match of pander and slander, name-calling and talking points, celebrity media and instant misanalysis, C-SPAN shines as an exemplar of what a free press in a free nation should be.

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Anti-J.F.K. Memorabilia On 'Storage Wars: Texas'

Posted 03.21.2012

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On "Storage Wars: Texas" (Tues., 10 p.m. ET on A&E) Lesa Lewis discovered a piece of potentially valuable memorabilia related to President Kennedy's a...

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Fidel Castro Had Prior Knowledge Of JFK Assassination, New Book Claims

The Huffington Post | Leigh Owens | Posted 03.19.2012

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A new book by a former CIA analyst provides evidence that Cuban dictator Fidel Castro may have had prior knowledge of President John F. Kennedy’s as...

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Fighting for Consumer Rights, Fifty Years After Kennedy's Call

Jim Guest | Posted 05.15.2012

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Jim Guest

Today marks the 50th anniversary of a watershed moment in the consumer movement -- the recognition by a president that consumers deserved their own set of rights.

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Is That All There Is? Rugged Indvidualism

Dimitri Hamlin | Posted 05.14.2012

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Dimitri Hamlin

It's a good thing that, when push comes to shove, we're really not rugged individualists. I'm thinking that it's almost time for us to accept who we are.

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50 Years Ago This Week, JFK Ushered in Modern Consumer Protection Era

Ed Mierzwinski | Posted 05.13.2012

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Ed Mierzwinski

As President Kennedy said fifty years ago, consumer protection "is not a game." While we haven't yet achieved all of President Kennedy's ambitious agenda "to make certain that our Nation's economy fairly and adequately serves consumers' interests," it's a cause worth fighting for.

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THE UNPERSUADED: Who Still Listens To A President?

newyorker.com | Ezra Klein | Posted 03.12.2012

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Richard Neustadt, who died in 2003, was the most influential scholar of the American Presidency. He was a founder of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Gov...

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That's the Ticket: From Bush to Biden, Vice Presidents Are No Longer Figureheads

Stewart J. Lawrence | Posted 05.08.2012

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Stewart J. Lawrence

With the assassination of JFK, the resignation of Nixon, the near-assassination of Reagan and the impeachment of Clinton, the question of presidential "succession" looms larger than ever. And as a result, voters and the national media are scrutinizing VP qualifications like never before.

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Rick Santorum and John F. Kennedy

Abner S. Greene | Posted 05.08.2012

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Abner S. Greene

While religious freedom sometimes permits a role for religion in politics, other times it requires the opposite, a lawmaking process based in secular justifications, without formal church involvement.

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Chris Matthews -- A Softball Review of the JFK Book

Mike Smith | Posted 05.06.2012

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Mike Smith

Chris Matthews cut his teeth in politics for six years working for House Speaker Tip O'Neill who was famously quoted as saying, "All Politics is Local." Thus his book Jack Kennedy: Elusive Hero is a political playbook.

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Impossible Missions and 50 Years of Bond

William Bradley | Posted 05.06.2012

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William Bradley

As the latest Mission Impossible film, a surprise mega-hit, prepares to ease its way out of North American theaters and the newest James Bond continues in production, it's a good reminder of the vitality of the spy film genre in this 50th anniversary year of the Bond film franchise.

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