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Rex Scouten dies at 88; longtime White House chief usher
Rex Scouten, whose 48-year career in the White House began with the Trumans and ended with the Clintons, and whose duties included helping first families transition to their oversized new home, died Feb. 20 at a hospital near his home in Fairfax, Va. He...
Tags: Politics, U.S. Secret Service, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Nancy Reagan, U.S. Army
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George Aratani dies at 95; L.A. philanthropist who funded Japanese American causes
George Aratani, a Los Angeles businessman who donated millions of dollars to Japanese American causes, and with his wife endowed the nation’s first academic chair to study the World War II internment of people of Japanese descent and their efforts...
Tags: Culture, Stanford University, Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry, U.S. Army, Tokyo (Japan)
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Letters: Truman and civil rights
Re "Harry Truman, Lincoln's heir," Opinion, Feb. 17 Robert Shogan is correct that President Harry S. Truman did more for the cause of African American rights than his predecessor Franklin D. Roosevelt or his successor Dwight D. Eisenhower. Yet...
Tags: Politics, U.S. Army, Justice and Rights, Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Supreme Court
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Harry Truman, Lincoln's heir
Presidents Day, which falls between the birthdays of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, celebrates the contributions of those presidents. But here's a nomination for another president worth remembering on this long weekend: Harry Truman, the first...
Tags: Politics, Lyndon B. Johnson, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Slavery, Howard University
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Stale ideas, not a drink of water, sank Marco Rubio's speech
It is no wonder Florida Sen. Marco Rubio needed to grab a bottle of water in the middle of delivering the Republican response to President Obama’s State of the Union address. The speech he was given to recite was like a hunk of stale, dry...
Tags: State of the Union Address, Politics, Marco Rubio, Barack Obama, Ronald Reagan
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Earth-like planet just a ‘stroll’ away? Sci-fi knew that all along
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesWe're in no danger of a Crisis on Infinite Earths, but the discovery of an Earth-like planet just 13 light-years ...... -
Jerry Brown celebrates California's successes in speech
PolitiCalGov. Jerry Brown delivered a triumphant State of the State speech on Thursday morning, saying California has once again confounded its critics to become a model for the rest of the nation. “This special destiny never ends. It slows. It...... -
Now that's a wall of books
Circle City Books in Pittsboro, N.C., has just completed an eye-catching mural: a side of a building covered in books. Huge, oversize books, with titles that even this myopic passerby could read. What's on it? Forty-eight titles, some of which are...
Tags: Authors, Maya Angelou, Social Media, History (tv network), William Faulkner
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Letters on letters: The Palestinian side
Several readers responded to Venice resident Gary Dalin's Dec. 5 letter to the editor defending Israel for withholding Palestinian tax revenue. Dalin wrote: "Despite the fact that the charters for the Palestine Liberation Organization and Hamas call for...
Tags: Culture, Judaism, Religion and Belief, Palestine, United Nations
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In 'Restless,' William Boyd spies overlooked World War II chapter
British novelist and screenwriter William Boyd doesn't buy the conventional wisdom that a writer should never adapt his own books. His long list of industry credits includes scripts based on his own work (the miniseries "Any Human Heart"), novels by the...
Tags: Sundance Film Festival, Restless (movie), Sundance Channel (tv network), David Bowie, Joseph Conrad
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Review: Bill Murray shines as FDR in 'Hyde Park on Hudson'
Los Angeles Times Film CriticWhen Ronald Reagan was asked, as he periodically was, whether his experience as an actor had helped him to be an effective president, he'd genially respond that he didn't know how anybody could do the job without having been an actor. He was, Reagan...Tags: Roger Michell, Ronald Reagan, Comedy (genre), England, Samuel West
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Pearl Harbor: U.S. remembers a 'date which will live in infamy'
In just over seven minutes, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave voice to a nation’s outrage, branding Dec. 7 as a “date which will live in infamy” for Japan’s attack on the Pearl Harbor Naval Base. Within an hour, Congress had...
Tags: Barack Obama, Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941), World War II (1939-1945), U.S. Congress
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