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...onto a ship, and sailed 15,000 miles around the tip of South America (it was too big to use the Panama Canal), arriving in Pearl Harbor in January 2006. Its ultimate destination is the more challenging waters of Adak, a farflung outpost in Alaska's Aleutian island chain, famous for terrible weather and 100-foot waves. The MDA claims the SBX is powerful enough to spot a flying baseball in San Francisco from New York, and more importantly, to tell the difference between a real missile heading for America and a decoy...
Karl Rove is the most famous, and infamous, political strategist in American history. There was a time when his range seemed so vast, his influence over every aspect of the George W. Bush Administration so complete, that Democrats and Republicans alike simply assumed that the hidden hand of Rove was behind everything that happened in American politics - whether good or bad for the President, the Republican Party or the conservative movement. I remember walking alongside him in the Four Seasons hotel in Austin on the night Bush secured the G.O.P. nomination in March 2000. As Rove marched by, a supporter...
...time in history, Republicans picked up seats in both the House and the Senate in the first mid-term of a presidency. Two years later, Bush won reelection - and this time, the popular vote - and still more gains for the G.O.P. in Congress, another historic accomplishment. James Carville, another famous political consultant, wrote in TIME that year that Rove's ability to win Bush a second term was "the signature political achievement of my lifetime." Rove was indeed King - oracle to Republicans of all persuasions, feared autocratic malevolence to all Democrats...
...regularly for the next year, giving them their first sustained TV exposure and a major boost to their careers. Pryor was a particular favorite. "Our own little Richie Pryor," Griffin would announce as he brought on the gangly, wide-eyed kid from Peoria, who did physical bits and a famous imitation of a children's production of Rumpelstiltskin on Griffin's show, before he developed his more raw and racially provocative style. A few years later Griffin took his nephew to see Pryor on stage for the first time, at a theater in Baltimore. He was shocked to hear...
...could a pastor go without becoming part of the political game? Graham was the most famous preacher on earth. Simply by standing next to Presidents, he conferred a blessing both on them and on their policies. Every one of them was aware of this, in ways that Graham sometimes was not. Was it crossing a line when he invited presidential candidates to his crusades or sent along suggestions for their speeches at National Prayer Breakfasts? What about when he lobbied lawmakers on behalf of a poverty bill or an arms deal, or consulted with candidates on their campaign...