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...close reading of the Old Testament reveals that Adam, Solomon and many other major Biblical characters were ancestors of the African people, the Rev. Dwight McKissic said to a gathering of more than 25 people at Boylston Hall last night...
...Bush's loss means that all bets are off for the Republicans. The party will wrench itself through a purging and soul-searching process the like of which hasn't been since the Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 years in the White House. (A process that finally gave the GOP Dwight D. Eisenhower, a popular improvement over Herbert C. Hoover of immense proportions.) The outcome of this process is anyone's guess...
Cooper replied that he was a registered Democrat in Connecticut. And Burns--who had served as a counselor to Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard M. Nixon--confessed that he, too, was a Democrat...
...attack on politicians is misguided when it focuses on the political operator's hedging or hesitating ways. George Washington stalled and twisted to wrest compromise from his Secretaries of State (Jefferson) and the Treasury (Hamilton). Franklin Roosevelt saved capitalism under a cover of anticapitalist rhetoric. Dwight Eisenhower, under a bland exterior, conducted what historian Fred Greenstein calls a hidden-hand presidency. Other Presidents -- from Woodrow Wilson to Jimmy Carter -- were unsuccessful because they were not politicians, were not sufficiently able to bend themselves in order to bend others...
Within the memory of many who will choose between Bush and Clinton, official lying once stunned the nation. In 1960, after Dwight Eisenhower wrongly swore that a U.S. reconnaissance plane had strayed inadvertently over the Soviet Union, the country was shocked. Many had naively assumed that an unwritten code forbade their leaders to lie to them. Within 15 years Vietnam and Watergate had inured the nation to official lying. In 1976, 69% of respondents agreed in a national poll that "over the past 10 years, this country's leaders have consistently lied to the people." Today there is an almost...