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...What Makes a President? In "Medals Don't Make A President," Charles Krauthammer argued against the apparent Democratic logic that a decorated military man is capable of wise leadership as President [Feb. 23]. The biggest mistake made in Vietnam was to continue the war as President Lyndon B. Johnson did. But Kerry's calling the Vietnam War "Nixon's war" can be justified. Richard Nixon was a cold warrior. He didn't want to lose in Vietnam, and he ordered the secret bombings of Laos and Cambodia. Wong Chun Han Singapore...
...less than 30 seconds later—before the rink announcer finished saying Crosty’s name—the Crimson drew back to within one. Sophomore Charlie Johnson threw a point shot on net that Pettit flipped into the air and (barely) over the line...
Unlike other famous war criminals, McNamara has never tried to deny that he knew about the carnage that was happening under his watch. In a 1967 memo to President Lyndon B. Johnson, he betrayed his discomfiture with his own policy recommendations when he said “there may be a limit beyond which…much of the world may not permit us to go.” With chilling understatement, he continued: “The picture of the world’s greatest superpower killing or seriously injuring 1,000 noncombatants a week, while trying to pound...
...Genny and I are just trying to get into the swing of things,” Johnson said...
Sometimes the best investing advice is to do nothing. Says Theodore Aronson, a fund manager at Aronson+Johnson+Ortiz in Philadelphia: "We elect to ignore the election cycle." Instead of trying to predict what the next President will do to the market, just make sure you have a diversified portfolio of stocks and bonds...