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...only virtue holding him back from pursuing an autobiographical project: “I haven’t figured out the genius of organizing it yet,” Gomes said, adding that 67 years have afforded him a bevy of experiences—swearing in Presidents Ronald W. Reagan and George H.W. Bush, no less—that would intensify the challenge of documenting his life...
Miami Beach City Commissioner Jerry Libbin seems to hope so, as he declared Jan. 20 “Harry Parker Day” in the city to thank Harvard’s heavyweight head coach for bringing his (and Radcliffe’s) crews to the Ronald W. Shane Center for a winter training trip...
Back in January 2008, while meeting with the editorial board of the Reno Gazette-Journal before the Democratic Nevada caucuses, Barack Obama offered some approving commentary on the legacy and influence of the 40th President. Ronald Reagan, he said, "changed the trajectory of America in a way that, you know, Richard Nixon did not and in a way that Bill Clinton did not." Not surprisingly, Obama's remark riled both Hillary Clinton and her husband, who viewed it as demeaning to the achievements of the Clinton Administration as well as a cheap tactic to win favor with some...
...terrorism: it made a point of never botching an attack, bombing or kidnapping. So when Hizballah said it was not going to stop until it drove the West out of Lebanon, that threat carried a lot of weight. And the credibility of Hizballah's threat convinced U.S. President Ronald Reagan that Lebanon was lost, which prompted him to withdraw the Marines who were stationed there. In the Middle East, this is not stale history; and it's a history that bin Laden certainly hasn't forgotten. (See pictures of the life of Osama bin Laden...
...This is not a black holiday; it is a people's holiday," said Coretta Scott King after President Ronald Reagan signed the King Holiday Bill into law on Nov. 2, 1983. But in the complicated history of Martin Luther King, Jr Day, it has only recently been a holiday for all the people, all the time...