Word: fatherness
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...with little idea of how to manage a career while nurturing a new baby. Some friends, and even my own mother, questioned my choices - including my decision to resume heading off on far-flung assignments when my son was three months old, leaving him with his more-than-capable father. Yet the choice was mine - as it is for many friends and millions of other women who raise their children full-time at home. I never considered any other: not only did I need an income, but I find my career as compelling as mothering...
While most presidential oaths have been administered by the Chief Justice--Roger Taney swore in seven Commanders in Chief, a record--it's not required. Calvin Coolidge's father, a notary public, presided over one of his son's two oaths, in 1923. Presidents can choose to affirm instead of swear (although only one has: the devout Franklin Pierce). And most have added "So help me God" at the end, as George Washington is believed to have done, though historians now dispute it. Several Presidents, including George W. Bush, were sworn in on the Washington Bible, a 10-lb. volume...
Exposed to politics at a young age—her father was a civil rights adviser to President Lyndon B. Johnson—Alexander has used her prowess with words to write about race, class, and gender...
Alexander highlighted Obama’s similar ability to wrangle with words, saying that his book “Dreams of My Father,” which she has taught in a class at Yale, was a “real” book and extraordinary American narrative...
...Kenneth Richardson II of Owings, Md., Barack Obama's election-night victory was not the end but the beginning. "We can't let this go," the 58-year-old father of three remembers thinking. "People feel invested. They feel they can actually do something." So he did. A couple of weeks after the confetti settled, he posted an alert on MyBarackObama.com proposing a new activist group in Calvert County, a rural exurb of Washington where the rolling farmland is dotted by weathered barns and crab shacks. Complete strangers signed up. A retired Air Force pilot, Phil Pfanschmidt, and his wife...