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...less than David Frost, was a TV personality. Every U.S. president from John Kennedy on has had to be one: the nation's talk-show host, defining its agenda and character. (Franklin D. Roosevelt created the same niche on radio with his Fireside Chats.) TV stardom is a matter of connecting with the masses by peddling an agreeable personality. That's a challenge for which the brainy, devious Nixon was ill-suited...
...getting the goods. When he lays out the three declarations of guilt he wants Nixon to make on Watergate, he concludes, "And I think unless you say it, you're gonna be haunted for the rest of your life." His tone is not threatening or maudlin, just the matter-of-fact prediction of someone who, in a conversation with a former U.S. president, is totally in command...
...come home again.”Through Sean Penn’s stunning performance, Harvey Milk and his ideals and actions inspire us all never to give up hope, and to stand for the equal rights of all human beings. As he says: “No matter how hard you try, you cannot erase the words from the Declaration of Independence... This is what America is, take it or leave...
Chambliss, Saxby •victory of in run-off election despite apparent groping of pubescent granddaughter's breast by in TV ad is weirdly spun by Republicans as not the predictable result it always was in Georgia, for God's sake - no matter how much the Democrats really, really wanted 60 Senate seats - but proof of the country's repudiation of Obama...
...make about our kids affect my relationship with my mother-in-law? "If you have children," she says, "I'll be blaming you for all their problems, not my son." She's only kidding. But for some women, that's one mother-in-law joke that's no laughing matter...