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...Jimmy Hoffa in 1971, then received the Teamsters' endorsement a year later. Jimmy Carter pardoned Vietnam draft dodgers on his first full day in office. Ronald Reagan pardoned two FBI officials who had authorized agents to break in to Vietnam protesters' offices. But he resisted calls to pardon Iran-contra defendants Oliver North and John Poindexter...
...Powell is not averse to pressing the emotional buttons that attach to his "noble outsider" appeal, moves that reveal important clues as to how he made his way in the corridors of power. Questioned about his role as a top aide to Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger during the Iran-Contra scandal - in which capacity he'd helped facilitate the CIA's acquisition of a shipment of missiles to be sent to Iran to help secure the release of American hostages in Lebanon - Powell replied, "I was his faithful Indian companion." What's most notable here is less his (legitimate) minimizing...
...last decade? There are too few "Marias" in the world - and far too many achingly dull "divas" like Whitney and Gloria. We need to continue to be surprised and entertained by the young woman who once said, in a moment of joyful outrageousness, "Soy la mejor terapia contra la depresion" ("I am the best therapy for depression...
Appearances have always been important to Daniels. In Reagan's White House, he quietly urged chief of staff Donald Regan to step down because the Iran-contra scandal was on his watch. (Regan stayed, and Daniels left.) Fresh out of Princeton in 1971, Daniels went to work for Lugar, then Indianapolis' mayor. One of his first tasks was arranging a photo op of Lugar filling in a big pothole on a busy downtown street. Arriving early, Daniels discovered that the hole had already been patched. He quickly redug it before the cameras got there. "He understands how images move...
...cultural reference, the Bush reference points were the 1980s: Ronald Reagan and George Sr. at the helm. The end of all that hippy-dippy nonsense. A spirit of purpose and moral fiber. Yes there was that troublesome business of the national debt quadrupling, unemployment soaring and the Iran-Contra scandal. But some people will always nit-pick. What truly mattered was that the very word ?hippy? became an insult. Liberals were in full flight. It was the anti...