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...desire was always to fulfill my responsibility until my last breath." With that, Fidel Castro suggested that he had wanted to hang on to power until the very end. But the central message of the letter published early Tuesday morning on the website of Granma, Cuba's official newspaper, was that poor health was forcing him formally to relinquish power. "To my close compatriots ... I say that I will not aspire to nor accept - I repeat, I will not aspire to nor accept - the office of President of the Council of State or Commander in Chief," he wrote. His resignation...
...cling to power," which analysts like Latell called his de facto resignation. In his statement today, released in the wee hours of the morning to the government mouthpiece, Granma, Fidel acknowledged his deteriorating health and announced that while his "desire was always to complete my duty until my last breath...I will not aspire to nor accept - I repeat - I will not aspire to nor accept the office of President of the Council of State and Commander in Chief...
...deride a centrist Republican and veteran for his rejection of your outlandish brand of conservatism but in the same breath you trivialize and mock the heroes who bravely fought against the tide of Nazism, something the “true conservative” you seek would never do. Of course, every argument can be reduced to comparisons with Hitler; most people just have the integrity and good sense not to do so. I would imagine that the Nazis enjoyed hunting, but I have not yet heard even the most dyed-in-the-wool liberals use this fact as an argument...
...This estimable position, apparently, doesn’t secure one against the relentless trawler called YouTube: those easy, embarrassing mistakes—calling someone a ‘major league asshole’ under your breath, getting drunk at a wedding, flipping off a camera—can and will be dredged up for mass consumption (in these three cases, just because you’re the 43rd President of the United States...
...book The Bigger Picture: 30 Years of Portraits. In 1992 she was granted what would be eight years of behind-the-scenes access to the Clintons. That's how she famously captured Hillary Clinton's examination of Chelsea's outfit on Inauguration Day in 1997 and Bill's deep breath before accepting the nomination for President the second time. Walker resumed that close connection for the six day s leading up to Super Tuesday, when she was given unusual access to Hillary Clinton on the campaign trail--snapping her during moments of silence before rallies and private conversations backstage. Walker...