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Dec. '09 Obama Poll Watch -- Below Fifty, But Stabilizing

Chris Weigant | Posted 01.04.2010 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

It's time once again for Obama Poll Watch -- our monthly look back at Obama's approval ratings for the previous month.

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Tiger Tiger, Burning Trust

Charles H. Green | Posted 12.21.2009 | Business

Read More: Trust, Integrity, Tiger Woods, Tag Heuer Tiger Woods, Watergate, Tiger Woods Accenture, Accenture, Tag Heuer, Business News
Charles H. Green

A sex scandal? To be sure. A public relations debacle? You betcha. But what does it tell us about trust?

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Nixon Tape Gap: Watergate Mystery Under Review

AP | CALVIN WOODWARD | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — The National Archives is bringing together investigators to search for scribbled secrets from the first days of the Watergate scand...

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That Something Is Published Does Not Make It True

Judith M. Bardwick | Posted 11.20.2009 | Media

Read More: Watergate, Jack Cashill, Richard Nixon, Joan Swirsky, 911, Barack Obama, Bill Ayers, Media News
Judith M. Bardwick

I'm not on anyone's list to receive emails or blogs or even solicitations for money from extremely right wing, politically conservative organizations ...

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How Confident are Boomer Consumers?

Carol Orsborn | Posted 10.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Watergate, Boomers, Jfk, Wall Street, Boomer Generation, Camelot, Living News
Carol Orsborn

In light of the deteriorating Consumer Confidence Index, Wall Street should worry less about Boomers' level of consumer confidence and more about our degree of consumer denial.

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Remembering Jack Nelson

Murray Fromson | Posted 10.22.2009 | Media

Read More: Selma, Otis Chandler, Chandler Family, Jack Nelson, Los Angeles, Civil Rights Movement, Watergate, Richard Nixon, John Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, Media News
Murray Fromson

On March 7, 1965, Jack and I met for the first time, on the Edmund Pettus Bridge on the outskirts of Selma, Alabama, he reporting for the Times and I for CBS News.

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The Vicious Cycle of Partisanship

Joan E. Dowlin | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

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Joan E. Dowlin

Some have said that the two party system is what makes us strong. They say it helps create a balance of power with one side keeping tabs on the other...

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Whistleblowers: An Interview with Daniel Ellsberg and John Dean

Ann Beeson | Posted 11.14.2009 | New York

Read More: Pentagon Papers, Church Committee, Watergate, Holder, Richard Nixon, John Dean, Film-Forum, Daniel Ellsburg, Vietnam, Torture Prosecutions, Torture, New York News
Ann Beeson

Daniel Ellsberg and John Dean discuss the Pentagon Papers 30 years later, Eric Holder, torture prosecutions, and whether public opinion matters.

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Robinson: Obama Should Just Ignore "Spoiled First Graders" In GOP

Washington Post | Eugene Robinson | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Watergate, Louie Gohmert, Richard Nixon, George W. Bush, President Obama, Blue Dogs, Obama Health Care Speech, Bipartisanship, Lyndon Johnson, House Republicans, Eric Cantor, Politics News

Anyone who watched Wednesday night as President Obama explained his health-care reform proposals to Congress saw a chief executive making what sounded...

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Van Jones May Be Better Off on the Outside

Byron Williams | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Vietnam War, Van Jones, Watergate, Martin Luther King, Van Jones Resigns, Politics News
Byron Williams

Van Jones' transition from outside activist to inside political player wasn't as easy as it may appear. As an activist, the First Amendment protects Jones, but inside-the-Beltway politics is played by different rules.

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McCain Admits Bush Administration Violated International Law

Washington Independent | Daphne Eviatar | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, Bill Clinton, John McCain, Watergate, Cia, Richard Nixon, International Law, Enhanced Interrogations, Congressional Investigation, Barack Obama, President Reagan, Al Qaeda, Politics News

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said on "Face the Nation" Sunday that -- like most Republicans and even some Democrats, including some in the president's c...

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Ted Kennedy: A Whole Human Being

Beth Arnold | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Yin and Yang, Senator John L. McClellan, Capitol Hill, Watergate, Vietnam War, Ted Kennedy, Senator Edward. M. Kennedy, Bill Clinton, Mike Huckabee, Massachusetts, United States, Senate, Politics News
Beth Arnold

I discovered that I'd misjudged Ted Kennedy. I hope that now I would have the wisdom to confer more compassion on any and all in tragic circumstances.

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On the Death of Ted Kennedy

Tom Hayden | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

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Tom Hayden

The president will miss Ted Kennedy's wisdom amidst all the current preening and chattering in the newest ranks of the best and the brightest.

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Is This the End of Democracy?

Jim Selman | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Extremists, Kennedys, Democracy, Martin Luther King, September 11th, Barack Obama, Lebanon, Watergate, Health Care Debate, Liberals, John F. Kennedy Junior Assassination, Cold War, Soul of Democracy, Vietnam Loss of American Innocence, Of the People by the People for the People, Pledge of Allegiance, Islamic Extremism, Conservatives, Vietnam, Martin Luther King Assassination, Right-Wing Extremism, Extremism, Politics News
Jim Selman

Is there still time to recover and restore American Democracy to its bare essentials -- a government "of the people, by the people and for the people"? I don't know. Today we are on the brink.

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Sotomayor, Obama, and the Looming Republican Race Problem

William Bradley | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics

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William Bradley

The "Manchurian Candidate" fantasy is alive and well in Republican ranks. And is it a long-term problem that they are largely opposed to the first black president and first brown Supreme Court justice?...You bet.

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Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

Jim Selman | Posted 09.10.2009 | Living

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Jim Selman

We somehow looked beyond color, religion, education, class, income and all the other things we've used to separate us from each other.

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CSI Watergate: Are We about to Crack the Nixon Tape Mystery?

Clara Jeffery and Monika Bauerlein | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: National Archives, Watergate, Nixon, Mother Jones, Nixon Tapes, H.R. Haldeman, National Archives Nixon Tapes, Politics News
Clara Jeffery and Monika Bauerlein

What was said during the 18 1/2-minute gap in Nixon's Watergate tapes?

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"CSI-ish" Technology Could Unveil The Lost 18 1/2 Minutes From Nixon's Watergate Tapes

Mother Jones | —Adam Matthews | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics

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ON JUNE 20, 1972, President Richard Nixon and his chief of staff, H.R. "Bob" Haldeman, met in Nixon's hideaway office at the Old Executive Office Buil...

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Walter Cronkite and the Player Piano

Karen Ocamb | Posted 08.20.2009 | Media

Read More: Richard Nixon, Vietnam, Morton Dean, Ellen Degeneres, Walter Cronkite, Karen Ocamb, Roger Mudd, Watergate, Bob Schieffer, Lyndon Johnson, Dan Rather, Charles Kuralt, Bill Moyers, Media News
Karen Ocamb

Cronkite was so important because he was about the only person in this intensely divided America that both sides could trust. He was our no-frills common bond.

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Watergate Hotel May Be Auctioned Off Next Week

AP | Posted 08.16.2009 | Style

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WASHINGTON — The Watergate Hotel made famous by a presidential scandal is expected to be on the auction block next week. Alex Cooper Auctioneer...

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UFOs and "Official Stories:" Why Do We Believe?

Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 07.31.2009 | Living

Read More: Conspiracy Theories, Watergate, Advertising, Roswell-New Mexico, Aliens, Ufos, Air Force, Living News
Kenneth C. Davis

It is much easier to believe a simplistic and often appealing narrative. People are gullible. The world of advertising is built around that truism.

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Tricky Dicks

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mark Sanford, Watergate, Sanford Affair, Richard Nixon, Politics News
Jayne Lyn Stahl

Too bad Richard Nixon didn't have a mistress in Argentina, but he would have had to invade it first. In fact, anything outside his liquor cabinet was ...

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E. Howard Hunt's FBI File Released

AP | JESSICA GRESKO | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics

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MIAMI — Watergate break-in planner E. Howard Hunt sought a presidential pardon by saying he thought the infamous burglary had "executive authori...

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Bob Woodward: NYT's Watergate Tip Irrelevant Since They Didn't Do Reporting

Editor & Publisher | Posted 06.26.2009 | Media

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Watergate legend Bob Woodward says Monday's revelation by The New York Times that two of its journalists had a tip on the Watergate scandal that he an...

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Robert Smith And Robert Phelps, Ex-NYT Journalists, Say They Heard of Watergate First

New York Times | RICHARD PÉREZ | Posted 06.24.2009 | Media

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The Watergate break-in eventually forced a presidential resignation and turned two Washington Post reporters into pop-culture heroes. But almost 37 ye...

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