Blagojevich Downfall

Blago Bracketted

Shawn Healy | Posted 09.03.2009 | Chicago

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Obama's straight and narrow contrasts with Blagojevich's down and dirty, and it is no wonder that one man sits in the White House while the other awaits a federal home of a different variety.

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Blagojevich's Best College Buddy Wonders Where It Went Wrong

Mens Journal | Bill Powell | Posted 03.08.2009 | Chicago

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I used to go yo-hoing with the most disgraced politician in America. After a night carousing in Chicago, when we were both undergrads at Northwestern ...

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Blago on One of His Favorite Presidents: Richard Nixon

Carol Felsenthal | Posted 02.09.2009 | Chicago

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It's fitting that Rod Blagojevich was impeached on what would have been the 96th birthday of Richard Nixon, one of his favorite presidents.

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Blagojevich Arrest: Obama Intervention Hastened Gov's Downfall

The New York Times | MIKE McINTIRE and JEFF ZELENY | Posted 01.09.2009 | Chicago

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In a sequence of events that neatly captures the contradictions of Barack Obama's rise through Illinois politics, a phone call he made three months ag...