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R.I.P., Barney: How 'Barney Cam' made George W. Bush's dog a Web star
"Mr. Orr, this is the White House operator." As a White House spokesman, I received phone calls like this all the time. But this was the first time the president's secretary had ordered me to report to the Oval Office immediately. Before 7 a.m. on a...
Tags: Government, Hospitals and Clinics, Barack Obama, CNN (tv network), YouTube
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Lessons from a five-star president
As President Obama contemplates his second term, he has been talking to historians about another two-term president, Dwight D. Eisenhower. We think of Ike as a great military man, but as president he used his understanding of the military to rein it in....
Tags: Barack Obama, Entertainment, Wars and Interventions, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Television
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California ban on gay conversion therapy put on hold
L.A. NOWA new state law intended to prevent therapists from trying to change a minor's sexual orientation was put on hold Friday by a federal appeals court panel. The law would subject psychologists, psychiatrists and other mental health professionals to... -
2012 Black List: The top 10 unproduced scripts in Hollywood
This year's Black List, a ranking of hot screenplays that have not yet finished principal photography, honors scripts about the NFL draft, the early life of Dr. Seuss, and a 40-year search for three siblings taken from an Australian beach. The list is...
Tags: U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary, Central Intelligence Agency, Entertainment, NFL Draft, Buffalo Bills
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Ray Briem dies at 82; all-night radio host in L.A.
Ray Briem, the longtime KABC-AM talk show host who ruled all-night radio for nearly three decades with his phone calls to the famous and the quirky and his opinionated banter slamming liberals, championing conservative causes and extolling the big-band...
Tags: Radio, Glenn Beck, Entertainment, Science and Technology, Rush Limbaugh
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The many what-if's of Richard Nixon
A century ago on Jan. 9, Richard Nixon was born in a Southern California agricultural subdivision dubbed Yorba Linda, in a 900-square-foot mail-order house assembled by his father. The centennial of America's 37th president won't be met with much...
Tags: Government, John F. Kennedy, U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary, FBI, World War II (1939-1945)
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The Sunday Conversation: Caroline Kennedy
Caroline Kennedy, the only living child of JFK and Jacqueline Kennedy, wrote the foreword to "Listening In: The Secret White House Recordings of John F. Kennedy." The new book consists of a curated collection of taped conversations in the holdings of...
Tags: John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Barack Obama, Civil Rights, The Washington Post
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Letters: Nixon's shameful legacy
Re "The many what-if's of Richard Nixon," Opinion, Jan. 6 The mental gymnastics of what might have been pertaining to the life and career of Richard Nixon are certainly debatable. But what happened because of Watergate is not. Because of the president's...Tags: U.S. Congress
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Pre-inaugural books on civics for history geeks
You’re not necessarily a history geek if you shed a tear during Steven Spielberg’s excellent biopic “Lincoln,” which relates the struggle to pass the 13th Amendment to the Constitution and forever outlaw slavery. However, you are...
Tags: Steven Spielberg, Barack Obama, Rick Moody, Ronald Reagan, Bernard Madoff
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Jack Brooks dies at 89; longtime Democratic Texas congressman
Jack Brooks hounded government bureaucrats, drafted articles of impeachment against President Nixon and was a strong supporter of civil rights in a congressional career that spanned four decades. But the Texas politician was perhaps best known for his...
Tags: John F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Civil Rights
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PASSINGS: James D. Hodgson, Patrick Moore
James D. Hodgson Former secretary of Labor James D. Hodgson, 96, who as secretary of Labor in the early 1970s helped shepherd the Occupational Safety and Health Act into law, died Nov. 28 at his Malibu home, his family announced. The cause was...
Tags: Gerald Ford, Work Relations, Entertainment, Obituaries, Television
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Letters: The Republicans' small tent
Re "Not a club for Christians," Opinion, Dec. 11 I applaud Jonah Goldberg for questioning the GOP's approach to non-Christians and other minorities. It is a positive development that he recognizes the exclusion so many feel from the GOP. But while the...Tags: Parties and Movements, Religion and Belief, Tea Party Movement, Republican Party, Social Issues
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