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CDIED. SARAH MCCLENDON, 92, tenacious White House reporter; of pneumonia; in Washington. A single mother who wrote for small Texas papers, McClendon has pestered every President since Franklin D. Roosevelt. In the 1990s, she still rose at 4:30 a.m. to check the White House information line for overnight updates...
...DIED. SARAH MCCLENDON, 92, veteran White House correspondent who battled discrimination and condescension in a male-dominated press corps and who covered every President since Franklin D. Roosevelt; in Washington. In a statement made last week, former President Bill Clinton said: "I hope St. Peter is prepared for the kinds of questions that nearly a dozen presidents had to face...
...with the state senate, which was controlled by the G.O.P. It was his first engagement with the Republican Party. His father, a career federal bureaucrat with the Soil Conservation Service, and mother, a homemaker, were staunch Democrats who were proud their son shared a birthday with Franklin Delano Roosevelt. But Cheney would never leave the embrace of the G.O.P. When he was a Republican Congressman, his father would kid him that "you can't take my vote for granted...
DIED. ARVELL SHAW, 79, longtime bassist for Louis Armstrong who said his job was a mission ordained by God; of a heart attack; in Roosevelt, N.Y. Armstrong, on a stint in Shaw's native St. Louis, Mo., in 1945, needed someone to fill in for his regular bassist, whose wife had just given birth. Shaw took the gig, which lasted 25 years...
...While Roosevelt was probably one of The Crimson’s best presidents ever, having created the Tennessee Valley Authority and all, it’s nice to know that The Crimson has changed considerably in the past 100 years (for one thing, there’s no smoking during presidential deliberations), and continues to change at what seems like an accelerating rate. Technology guru Matt MacInnis ’02 was our first (extremely) openly gay president in 128 years. Hatchet-man extraordinaire Imtiyaz H. “Don’t tell anyone my middle name is Hussain...