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McManus: Will it be Clinton? Cuomo? Warren?
Shortly after the 1988 presidential election, pollsters asked Democrats whom they favored to be their party's nominee in 1992. The strongest candidates were Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts and Gov. Mario M. Cuomo of New York. The governor of...
Tags: Democratic Party, Government, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton
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John Wayne to John Adams: Michele Bachmann stands by her (mis)statements
Top of the TicketJohn Wayne was not born in Waterloo and John Quincy Adams was not a founding father - but Michele Bachmann refuses to admit it.... -
Gifts with a Presidents Day Twist: White House pet project
All The RageIt’s one thing to have a First Dog and/or First Cat who signs paw-stamped autographs, makes an occasional television appearance and pens a book or two (a la Millie, President George H.W. Bush's springer spaniel). But it’s something else... -
Does duty call in Libya?
On Independence Day in 1821, then-Secretary of State John Quincy Adams delivered an address on foreign policy to Congress. The question that preoccupied them all at that moment was how to respond to the wave of revolutionary independence movements...Tags: Crimes, Disasters and Accidents, Crime, Law and Justice, U.S. Department of State, Charity
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Full text of the first speech by Senator-elect Scott Brown, Republican of Massachusetts
Top of the TicketFirst Massachusetts Republican senator in decades speaks to his state, and a curious nation.... -
Bare-knuckle politics
At any time other than in the midst of a heated electoral battle, it's hard to imagine that Nancy Pelosi would attract much controversy by opining that the Democratic Party's nominee for president should be the candidate who wins the most votes. The House...Tags: Walter Mondale, Democratic Party, Primaries, Barack Obama, Andrew Jackson
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125 years of Thanksgiving editorials
THANKSGIVING editorials are not unlike dads who say grace only once a year — perfunctory, awkward and occasionally charming. Stack up 125 years' worth from a newspaper with such an outsized role (for good and ill) in the life of a great city, and...Tags: Gaming, Turkey, Democratic Party, World War I (1914-1918), Germany
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'American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House' by John Meacham
American Lion
Andrew Jackson
in the White House
Jon Meacham
Random House: 488 pp., $30
This engaging new book about Andrew Jackson, our first up-from-nowhere president, takes its place on a crowded shelf in the library of national leadership. Jackson...Tags: Dan Walker, Science and Technology, Family, Science, Astronomy
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Past presidents -- an inaugural quiz
Today, Barack Obama will be sworn in as the nation's 44th president in a ceremony filled with tradition. Test your knowledge of ceremonies past. 1. Of whose inaugural speech did wordsmith H.L. Mencken say: "It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it...Tags: William Henry Harrison, James Monroe, Barack Obama, Andrew Johnson, Ricky Martin
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Linked by a Bible
Barack Obama's decision to select the same Bible for his inauguration that Abraham Lincoln used at his first inauguration in 1861 forges an intriguing connection between these two presidents. It's the latest in a series of purposeful associations, from...Tags: Martin Luther King Jr., Bible, Barack Obama, Religious Texts, White House
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A presidential quiz
The 42 men who've been president of the United States share many characteristics besides membership in one of the world's most exclusive clubs. That means, looking at them as a group, we can extract an "average president." The data can't predict who'll...Tags: Woodrow Wilson, Justice System, William Henry Harrison, Michelle Obama, Barack Obama
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Hail to the chiefs, as played by . . .
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterAmericans usually celebrate the likes of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy on President's Day. But rarely are the less stellar commanders in chief ever mentioned, such as William Henry Harrison -- who caught a...Tags: James Knox Polk, Career and Workplace, Robin Williams, William Henry Harrison, Celebrities
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