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Reagan wasn't the first pol to reverse himself when a new office brought with it a new worldview. When James Madison was a Congressman, he argued for a stronger Federal Government and took a lead role in creating one as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention. But in 1798, as a leader of the fight against the war measures of President John Adams, he became an advocate of states' rights, urging his native Virginia and its fellow states to resist "dangerous" exercises of federal power. In 1815, when Madison was President, he had to fend off a threat...
...stood for something other than Terrell Owens, what would it stand for? Madison Welch, ARLINGTON...
...talk, the former New York City mayor can hardly tell the two places apart. Ducking into Longhorn Saddlery and Western Wear in Fort Dodge to pick up some cowboy shirts for himself (extra large) and his designer-loving missus (small), Giuliani noted, "They had bull riding this year in Madison Square Garden." At a town-hall forum held at Northern Iowa Area Community College (NIACC), he marveled, "There's a city in New York called Nyack! Spelled differently..." Upon learning that composer Meredith Willson grew up in Mason City, Giuliani immediately made the connection: "The Music Man was on Broadway...
...With reporting by Madison Gray...
With the widower Jefferson setting such an unpropitious social tone, the wife of his Secretary of State established an alternate "court" that she presided over for close to a half-century. Dolley Madison was the first to assume the role of what came to be dubbed "the Washington hostess," and she provided the model for the rest to follow. Dolley's dinners--used at first to promote her husband's career and then to solidify her own--delighted the politicians, and she made every guest feel like the most important person there. Living well into the middle of the 19th...