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That's not an objection anyone remembers Republicans making when both Bush I and Ronald Reagan delivered their direct-to-the-classroom talks in the 1980s and '90s. But if there is one conservative criticism that even liberals can relate to, it's that the speech seems part of this President's overexposure. "Every time you turn around, there he is, there he is, there he is," Dean grouses. And lately, at least, every time Obama turns around, he seems to give conservatives an opening to pounce on him. Which is why many Democrats as well as Republicans suggest...
...Flynn and George Burns and his wife Gracie Allen. Humphrey Bogart and "America's Sweetheart" Mary Pickford are yards away from each other in the same walled (and locked) garden. Around the grounds are chapels - replicas of famous European churches - such as the "Wee Kirk o' the Heather" (Ronald Reagan tied the knot with Jane Wyman there in 1940). In other locations there are replicas of Michelangelo's David and La Pieta. A massive stained-glass version of one of Jackson's favorite works of Renaissance art, Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper, is the artistic highlight...
It’s been a long, hot summer. The country’s greatest period of change since the Reagan administration has begun with violent, agitated overtones...
...Democratic leader under Reagan, Kennedy helped pass sanctions against apartheid South Africa as an override to Reagan’s veto, and clashed openly with Reagan over weapons development and support for the Contras. Kennedy also grew to be a staunch supporter of gay and women’s rights, and his opposition to Reagan’s Supreme Court candidate Robert Bork, a constitutional originalist who hoped to overturn Roe v. Wade, is credited with preventing Bork’s nomination. On the Senate floor, Kennedy furiously alleged that “Bork’s America...
...Well, I think it did work." Well enough that by the fall of 1982, he had a better than 3-to-1 lead over Walter Mondale for the '84 Democratic nomination. But within weeks, he announced that he wasn't running - in part, I believe, because he sensed that Reagan was stronger than he seemed and, more decisively, because his children strongly objected to another race. The next time - 1988 would be his best chance, I told him, because his opponent would be the first George Bush - he dropped out almost three years before the election. He was convinced that...