Hazards in a half century of presidential debates

Weary and recovering from illness, Richard Nixon looked so bad in his TV debate with John Kennedy that his mom called afterward to see if he was all right. Forty years later, Al Gore loudly sighed, shrugged in exasperation and got in George W. Bush's face in a display of pique and impatience.

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Even Presidents Get Bad Grades in School

Any kid can grow up to be president. Just look at their report cards. Lyndon Johnson got a D in his third-grade grammar class. John Kennedy scored a 55 in eighth-grade Latin. George H.W. Bush's high school transcript shows marks in the 60s and 70s for many classes.

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The CIA continues to sit on some materials about Lee Harvey Oswald's connection with Cuba raising suspicions -- maybe unwarranted -- that there's more to the Kennedy assassination than we've ever been told.  The New York Times reports that even non-conspiracy researchers  …

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The Last Brother- Ted Kennedy

The death of Senator Teddy Kennedy was not a surprise. Many of us knew he had an uphill battle to fight against a very aggressive brain tumor. The passing of Ted Kennedy has brought on much reflection not just about Ted Kennedy, but about the family of service; the Kennedy's.

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US broadcaster Dr Hesham Tillawi: "No doubt in my mind that JFK, RFK efforts to force the American Zionist Council to register as an agent of a foreign country was the reason for the killing of both JFK and RFK."

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Herbert Philbrick, a Boston advertising executive who infiltrated the U.S. Communist Party on behalf of the FBI in the 1940s, wrote a bestselling book on the life of a double agent, "I Led Three Lives: Citizen, 'Communist', Counterspy" (1952).

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Presidents In Comic Books

Well, we all know about President Obama's recent appearance in an issue of Amazing Spider-Man, and the topic intrested me a lot and I found out that this is hardly a new phenomon..

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Martin Luther King Jr. has now been dead longer than he lived. But what an extraordinary life it was.

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As a longtime admirer of Sen. Ted Kennedy, I am embarrassed.

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III. The Living of My Days: the Civil Rights Movement

Late 1940s. small town Central Texas Seven or eight years old, I would sit under the ironing-board where "Ka-Ka" pressed shirts while we listened to the radio: "Young Widder Brown", "Lorenzo Jones", "One Man's Family".

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History Made!

Tuesday, history was made in the United States of America.

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Centenarians recall meeting presidents Coolidge, Kennedy and Eisenhower.

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Probably one of the best responses to President Bush's outrageous "appeasement" speech in the Israeli Knesset, and John McCain and Joe Lieberman's support of that speech, was made on a cold snowy day in 1961.

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Yesterday in Montgomery County I probably had six women tell me that they had changed their registration from Republican to Democrat to be able to vote for me,

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WASHINGTON — The morning after Senator Barack Obama shook the Clinton campaign by winning five states in one weekend, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's new campaign manager — Maggie Williams, who had taken over in a shake-up the night before — assembled the curious if demo …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Hillary and Bill Clinton are again teaming up on Barack Obama -- this time saying the first-term U.S.

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Write A Letter For Obama (Urgent)

I urge Obama supporters to write to both CNN and MSNBC and complain that they could be influencing the voters at polls still open in the state. E-mail MSNBC: letters@msnbc.com E-mail CNN:

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrat Hillary Clinton narrowly trails rival Barack Obama in Texas and the two are virtually tied in Ohio ahead of critical contests that could decide the fate of her presidential bid, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Houston Chronicle poll released on Sunda …

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HOUSTON (Reuters) - Barack Obama holds a slight lead on Hillary Clinton in Texas and has almost pulled even in Ohio before contests that could decide their Democratic presidential battle, according to a Reuters/C-SPAN/Houston Chronicle poll released on Friday. ADVERTISEMENT

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• A debunked chain e-mail circulating widely on the Internet suggests he is hiding his Islamic roots. It says he was sworn into the Senate on the Quran and turns his back on the flag during the Pledge of Allegiance.

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WASHINGTON - Civil rights leader John Lewis dropped his support for Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential bid Wednesday in favor of Barack Obama.

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CINCINNATI, Ohio (Reuters) - With a week to go before Ohio's pivotal nominating contest, Hillary Clinton was fighting to hold onto a dwindling lead as rival Barack Obama worked to undercut her support, particularly among working class voters.

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The Republicans' Revenge For Ross Perot

It is widely known that Ross Perot cost George H. Bush a second term in the White House. The small man with the big ears and even bigger pocketbook siphoned votes from Bush 41 at a dizzying pace.

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Obama-spiracy? Candidate Gets Light Security In Dallas

This is the link to a story exposing how the Secret Service downgraded Barack Obama's protection.

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Police Officer Dies Protecting Hillary Clinton

Video coverage explaining the tragic events leading to the police officer's death.

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"Not Change You Can Believe In, But Change You Can Xerox." - Hillary Clinton

The headline is easily the worst line that Hillary Clinton has uttered in any single debate or campaign speech yet. She was heavily booed for it. However, I believe that it will trouble her into the future helping to poison the well in these last days before March 4.

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Barack Obama has brought old-fashioned oratory back to American politics.

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