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...Cabinet members to challenge the Pentagon boss publicly on defense spending, insisting that the military must take part in the deficit-reduction drive. Perhaps even more significant, Shultz and Regan are personal friends and their two wives enjoy socializing together. The Shultzes stayed at the Regans' Mount Vernon home when the Secretary of State first replaced Alexander Haig. While Regan insists that he would not try to persuade the President to cut his defense requests, the Pentagon budget is certain to become a political football once the deficit debate heats up in Congress. And Weinberger could have a tougher time...
...faces on Mount Rushmore, but Benjamin Franklin has a position in American mythology that could hardly be loftier. Canny diplomat and dispenser of moral apothegms, scientist and pioneer in electrical experiment and theory, Franklin is everyone's favorite patriot, the kindly uncle of the American Revolution. There was, however, a dark side to the familiar beaming countenance, an aspect that might have come from one of Freud's case histories of an overheated family crucible. This provocative and enlightening account overturns the legend by examining William, Benjamin's only son, born out of wedlock in 1731. Once his father...
...necked legalist could never meet on common ground. More important, both men shared "the single-minded Franklin drive to prevail no matter what the cost." The cost was prohibitive. Perhaps it is just as well that Benjamin is not beside George Washington and Abraham Lincoln on the slopes of Mount Rushmore, after...
Under the auspices of the Interior Department, government workers erect a large nativity scene on the Mall near the Washington Monument. Burford is revealed to have taken several key church leaders to lunch prior to the decision to mount the display...
Dartmouth, which trailed for most of the contest, finally captured the lead midway through the second half. The hosts stretched their lead as far as seven points before Harvard could mount a comeback...