President Kennedy

Both Sides: Caro on LBJ-BHO, Huff/Matalin on a Gay Week

HuffPost Radio | Posted 05.13.2012

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Huffington/Matalin discuss how the shunned VP found his voice "in the crack of a gunshot." What can Obama learn from a "political genius" who unified the country on rights but divided it over war?

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President Obama Rises Above the Amoral Political Paradigm

Byron Williams | Posted 05.11.2012

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The president's statement certainly qualifies as his "profile in courage" moment. To take on one of the hot-button social issues less than 24 hours after North Carolina voted in opposition of same-sex marriage was indeed courageous.

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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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Mitt Romney And Rick Santorum's Bizarre February Boxing Match

HuffingtonPost.com | Jon Ward | Posted 02.29.2012

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WASHINGTON -- It's a leap year, which means Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum will have to live one more day in February 2012, a month they'd both like to...

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Romney Blasts Santorum For Robocalls, Labels Him An 'Economic Lightweight'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jon Ward | Posted 02.28.2012

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DETROIT -- In a sign of frustration that he is still competing with former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum for the Republican presidential nomination,...

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Grandma, Tell Me About the Time You Slept With the President

Nancy Wurtzel | Posted 04.15.2012

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As I watched Mimi Alford make the media rounds, I couldn't help think about another women who was infatuated with our 35th president. She told me abo...

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On Tour with Jackie Kennedy: Versailles to Vietnam Policy, Part I

Carl Sferrazza Anthony | Posted 08.13.2011

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Fifty years ago, from May 31 to June 16, 1961, a world leader's wife found herself transformed into a world Icon in her own right. By the time she returned home to the U.S., she'd transcended being a mere trend-setter.

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Both Sides Now: Debating Romney and Palin, Global Warming, Edwards and Weiner

HuffPost Radio | Posted 06.05.2011

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Mary Matalin and Ron Reagan discuss why Romney isn't doing better and whether Palin could do any worse. Plus there's strong disagreement over global warming and Germany's nuclear punt.

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'Berlin 1961': The Kennedy Blunders That Brought Us To The Brink Of War (PHOTOS)

Frederick Kempe | Posted 07.16.2011

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It was June of 1961, and the setting was neutral Vienna. This first and last Kennedy-Khrushchev summit would prove to be one of the most explosive and decisive meetings ever of the two most powerful leaders of their time.

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Caroline Kennedy Publishes New Poetry Collection On Marriage And Motherhood

ABC News | Posted 06.05.2011

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The only surviving child of President John F. Kennedy and first lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, Caroline Kennedy has written several books, a...

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Sargent Shriver: Justice and Peace Shall Kiss

Lonna Saunders | Posted 05.25.2011

"Kindness and truth shall meet; justice and peace shall kiss" from Psalm 85 epitomizes for me the life of Robert Sargent Shriver Jr.

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Sarge Changed Our World and Us

John Bridgeland | Posted 05.25.2011

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Most people do not get to meet their heroes. I became friends with mine. Sargent Shriver inspired people around the world to believe in themselves and their capacities to solve tough problems.

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The History Channel Says No to JFK Doc

Robert Greenwald | Posted 05.25.2011

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The History Channel chose to live up to their name, by refusing to air a propaganda miniseries about President Kennedy, staring Greg Kinnear and Katie Holmes.

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Going Indie: From Screenwriter to Publisher

Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 05.25.2011

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For now I am enjoying the freedom -- and rewards -- of being my own publisher. And I am looking forward to the prospect of publishing the next book in my series of thrillers early next year.

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Obama's New Theme: A Sputnik Moment

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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While Obama may indeed be right about America being in serious danger of falling behind on a worldwide scale, this Sputnik moment simply doesn't have a Sputnik. There is no one overarching threat.

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Applause for Chairman Berman's New Foreign Aid Legislation

George Ingram | Posted 05.25.2011

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Berman recently released a working draft of new legislation authorizing U.S. foreign assistance. This is a major step toward building a 21st century approach for promoting development.

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Aid Reform Within Reach: Time for the President to Lead

George Ingram | Posted 05.25.2011

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The United States is falling short in getting the most bang for its development buck. Even our best aid projects often fail to maximize the benefits for either effective development or national interests.

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Could a 'Great Negotiation' End the War in Afghanistan?

Robert Naiman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Negotiations aren't a magic wand. They aren't going to magically transform an existing balance of forces into something completely different. But military force can't do that either.

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"Bomb Power," or How the Atomic Bomb Ended a War, Increased Presidential Power and Eroded the Constitution

Tom Alderman | Posted 05.25.2011

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While the bomb ended World War II, it also started a chain reaction that exploded into America's permanent secret security state -- with emphasis on the word 'permanent.'

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America's Year of Living Dangerously

Bennet Kelley | Posted 05.25.2011

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Since President Obama took office, our political debate has deteriorated from rancorous to poisonous with the recent assassination threats on Twitter, protesters hurling bigotry and attacks on the offices of Congressional Democrats.

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President Kennedy's "How To" Manual

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

President Kennedy did not capitulate to the knee-jerk criticism of the treaty but forged ahead anyway despite its lack of support on Capitol Hill.

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State of the Union: Ask Us, Mr. President

Gary Shapiro | Posted 05.25.2011

Americans are not dumb, but we have been delusional. Now we know the party is ending. This is when great leadership is needed.

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Annals of Unsolved Crime: The Oswald Mystery

Edward Jay Epstein | Posted 05.25.2011

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The endless tangle of bullets, trajectories, wounds, time sequences and inconsistent testimony that has surrounded the JFK assassination will probably never be satisfactorily resolved.

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Lyndon Johnson's Thoughts on Obama's Nobel Peace Prize

Jonathan Leigh Solomon | Posted 05.25.2011

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And so I had to ask myself, if Lyndon were alive today, what he would make of Obama's receiving the Nobel Peace Prize? Knowing Lyndon it would probably be unprintable.

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SLIDESHOW: Kennedy Wisdom In Esquire

Esquire | Posted 05.25.2011

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Marking the end of a 70-year dynasty: wisdom and advice from JFK, RFK, and Ted, much of it recently uncovered, surprising, and as you've rarely heard ...

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