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...editorial staff of The Crimson. Glamour quoted a Princeton man describing Bowden as “an Ivy intellectual...but so pretty, it doesn’t matter.” Radcliffe winners in the early ’60s had the chance to meet famous politicians, including Lyndon B. Johnson and John. F. Kennedy ’40. Kennedy’s advice to the girls: “Marry a politician—it’s an interesting life...
Many fabrications used to sell past wars to the American people are now notorious. In 1964, a Navy crew’s panicky suspicion that it had come under fire by a Vietnamese ship was within a few hours spun by President Lyndon B. Johnson into a malicious act of Communist aggression. For his lies, LBJ was rewarded with congressional authorization to escalate our fateful military adventure in Indochina. In 1990, the first President Bush employed bogus accounts of Iraqi soldiers tossing Kuwaiti newborns out of incubators to overcome the public’s unwillingness to wage war against...
...14th century castle whose gardens unfold among the Wicklow Mountains. Renovated and expanded in the 17th century by the English Marshall of Ireland, the castle is a jewel of Georgian formality that has served as movie backdrop for Laurence Olivier's Henry V and Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon. Even if it's raining--and by St. Patrick, it's likely to be--spend some time along the trails winding through the 45-acre castle gardens, the equal of any in Europe. A short stroll can take you to the Japanese garden or the pet cemetery, a lovely if slightly...
Perle's ignorance of Murawiec's talking points matched his unfamiliarity with his briefer's past. Back in the 1980s, Murawiec worked for political extremist and perpetual presidential aspirant Lyndon LaRouche as an editor of LaRouche's magazine, Executive Intelligence Review. By the end of last week, LaRouche was denouncing both his former associate and "suspected Israeli agent Richard Perle" for pushing the U.S. toward war with the Islamic world...
Moynihan is the only person in American history to have cabinet or sub-cabinet positions under four presidents—John F. Kennedy ’40, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Nixon and Gerald R. Ford—an achievement he cites as his proudest accomplishment in a career of public service spanning nearly half-a-century...