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Despite his superstitions, John McCain likes to describe himself as "the luckiest man you will ever meet." Most of the time, he is speaking of the past - the fire he narrowly escaped on the U.S.S. Forrestal in 1967 or the the five years of torture and confinement he survived in...
If McCain were to follow his comments to their logical conclusion, he would announce that his Administration will adopt a new approach to gays in the military, more consistent with his own experience on the U.S.S. Forrestal. I suggest he call it Everyone Knows! Who Cares?
With the '80s finally explained, we can return to the question of what really happened at Roswell. According to which experts one chooses to believe: there may have been more than one crash site; the U.S. government may have recovered dead aliens (the number varies) as well as a salvageable...
Big power, big money, big politics will always generate a degree of savagery in Washington. A distraught former Secretary of Defense James Forrestal threw himself to his death in 1949 out a 16th-floor window of the Bethesda Naval Hospital; Robert McFarlane, National Security Adviser to Ronald Reagan, in 1987...
But Foster had not been hospitalized for depression, as Forrestal had, nor was he the focus of criminal proceedings, as McFarlane was. Foster's death illuminates how Washington rituals have become wretched soap operas played out on a media stage where people, with all their frailties, are mercilessly dissected more...