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Tomorrow marks the 135th running of the Kentucky Derby, celebrated around the world (except maybe in England, where they mean something else entirely when they speak of "the Derby") as the "greatest two minutes in sports."  Having grown up in the Louisville area, I...

  George Washington's first inauguration took place 220 years ago today* on the balcony of the Senate Chamber in Federal Hall in New York City.  His Inaugural Address was delivered to a joint session of Congress in the Senate Chamber. The First Inaugural Address of...

Here is a Bill Safire classic from the New York Times.

Over the weekend I picked up the new DVD of Ron Howard's film Frost/Nixon. As noted last week, this has a number of interesting extras. One of these is a seven-minute short about the Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace, featuring former Library Executive Director...

Roger Morris has an interesting take on RNs character in the latest and last addition of the 100 days blog on the New York Times; a blog that compares President Obama's first 100 days with other modern presidents. In reading Morris's stuff, I've always wondered two...

The lineup for next season's Brinker International Forum series at the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts has been announced. Most of it is not especially out of the ordinary: Condoleeza Rice, Hillary Swank, Lisa Ling (formerly of The View). But the final event, on...

Barry H. Landau, who was Assistant Chief of Protocol in the Ford White House, is a longtime student and historian of the Presidency who, in the last half-century, has met almost every pet kept at the White House. In this Associated Press article (from the Fort Collins...

  20 January 1969: RN and PN in the Inaugural Parade after the swearing in at the Capitol.  H. R. Haldeman noted in his Diary: "Expression on his face was unforgettable, this was his time!  He had arrived, he was in full command, someone said he felt he saw rays...

The headline in the Daily Telegraph was intriguing --- "Are UFO's real?  Famous people who believed" --- and the sub-head was promising --- The former NASA astronaut Edgar Mitchell has claimed that aliens exist and their visits are being covered up by the United...

CNN has finally caught up with Carol D. Leonnig's story in Sunday's WaPo about the egregious porkfest that is the John Murtha Johnstown-Cambria County Airport in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Embedded video from <a href="http://www.cnn.com/video"...