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Jonathan Movroydis previously noted a The Los Angeles Times story quoting an Edward Kennedy yarn about the 1960 election: "And, believe me, I knew the odds. I was so certain of Jack's victory that I placed a Las Vegas bet on it. My winnings could have given me enough...

Yesterday, Bob Greene - the veteran journalist, not Oprah's trainer - wrote a column for CNN.com about the nation's winter of partisan discontent. (Well, yes, it is September, but the air did get perceptively colder this morning.) For decades, Greene's column at the...

From the earliest days of RN’s administration he was plagued with leaks of highly classified material that ended up in the media. RN condemned the leaks as undermining his ability to end the war and conduct the nation’s foreign policy. The anti-war establishment...

Jonathan Karp, the editor of Senator Edward Kennedy’s posthumously published memoir True Compass, was a guest on C-Span’s Washington Journal the other morning. He discussed the Senator’s version of the disastrous 1979 CBS interview with Roger Mudd.  The two men sat...

On 21 September 1972, RN announced the establishment of an Advisory Committee on the Economic Role of Women within the President's Council of Economic Advisers.   He wrote: Women are playing an increasingly important role in the economy of our Nation. We in this...

Today, Irving Kristol died at the age of 89 in Arlington, Virginia. The New York Times obituary calls him the "Godfather of Conservatism;" the Washington Post's obit is headlined "Architect of Neoconservatism." Either way, there is no disputing that Kristol was the...

Jack Kightlinger, the US Army Signal Corps photographer who was assigned to the White House in 1967 and visually chronicled five presidencies from Lyndon Johnson's to Ronald Reagan's, tragically died on Monday when the car in which he and his wife were traveling was...

There must be something in the water over at the Daily Beast where posts sympathetic to RN (albeit unintended and/or inadvertent) have now appeared twice in three days. First it was Chris Matthews’ admiring exposition of the role Edward Kennedy and a panoply of...

On 16 September 1969, RN announced his first major withdrawal of troops from Vietnam. After careful consideration with my senior civilian and military advisers and in full consultation with the Government of Vietnam, I have decided to reduce the authorized troop...

Manu Raju reports in Politico on the "Revolving door for health care aides": Some of the most influential aides in the closed-door Senate Finance Committee negotiations over health care reform have ties to interests that would be directly affected by the legislation....